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LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated Onward (2020) in Movies

Sep 20, 2020

Onward (2020)

2020 | Adventure, Animation, Comedy

8.1

(48 Ratings)

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This could have been the whole game, instead just feels like a fetch quest. Gotta say, (sarcasm incoming) really love the idea here to get two once-charming actors who have since had most of their personality sucked dry by the Marvel beast to lend their hardly descript vocal talents to a hardly descript movie of hardly descript characters. Did we just collectively decide against actual voice acting anymore over dry celebrities practically voicing themselves? Ends with a complete cop-out and its breathtaking animation is clouded by either murk or oversaturation seemingly deliberately. Not to mention the character design is ass-ugly. Can't entirely hate it though, not without some charm and handful of okay moments - but whose idea was it to set up this gold mine premise of magic being systematically pushed out of the world by technology for nothing more than simple convenience... and then do fucking nothing with it while setting it in this bland suburbia of normalcy? Potential brilliance in storytelling through an epic, gorgeous video game-esque Disney film is squandered for another antiseptic, indifferent retread of the most basic themes from the company. Not even funny, either. Had more fun with it than I'm probably letting on but I simultaneously loathe what this represents.

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The Proposal (The Wedding Date #2)

Jasmine Guillory

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A fun and flirty novel from New York Times bestseller Jasmine Guillory, author of The Wedding Date,...

The 7th Continent

8.3 (9 Ratings) Rate It

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It's the early 20th century. You have decided to sail back to the newly discovered seventh continent...

The Bridge (Detective Louise Blackwell #6)

Matt Brolly

7.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

Book

Accident? Dangerous game gone wrong? Or murder? DI Blackwell faces her toughest case yet. ...

Daniel Boyd (1066 KP) rated Kinda Funny Gamescast in Podcasts

Jan 11, 2018

Kinda Funny Gamescast

Games & Hobbies

9.0

(1 Ratings)

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Two fantastic personalities passionate about what they are discussing (1 more)

Features a lot of interesting guests

Tim's bias for Nintendo (1 more)

Not as insightful since Colin left

Kinda Brilliant

I have been listening to Gamescast since day one. The podcast took a few episodes to find it's feet, but once it did, it quickly became one of the most insightful gaming discussion podcasts on the internet.
Unfortunately Colin left Kinda Funny almost a year ago and some of the show's integrity went with him. Now it is just Greg and Tim that host it, however it is still very much worth listening to, if you can ignore some of the outrageous things that Tim frequently hits out with. It has been good though, to listen to Tim grow as a prevalent voice in the video game journalism echo-chamber.

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Daniel Boyd (1066 KP) rated The Girl With All the Gifts (2017) in Movies

Aug 9, 2017 (Updated Oct 24, 2017)

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An interesting take on a familiar concept

Zombie movies are one a penny at this point, but I was looking forward to this since seeing the first trailer. It looked very inspired by a video game that I am a huge fan of, The Last Of Us and I was curious to know if it compared.
In general, the movie is pretty good, it is a cool concept that is fairly well executed. Paddy Considine, Glenn Close and Gemma Arterton give great performances and the young actress in the title role does a decent job too. The direction is good, the sound design and lighting is effective and the ending is unexpected.
Overall this is worth a watch, it's not going to go down as the greatest zombie movie in history, but it is an interesting piece of film.

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Glen Banyard (13 KP) rated Pokémon: Detective Pikachu (2019) in Movies

May 12, 2019

Pokémon: Detective Pikachu (2019)

2019 | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy

7.9

(108 Ratings)

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One of the better game/cartoon to live movies (0 more)

Predictable plot (1 more)

Forced humour

Pika Pika

Pokemon is a global brand spanning cartoon, cards, animated films, video games and now a live film, well as live as you can get with imaginary creatures.

Watched in 3D, it really didn't bring anything extra to film.

The plot is pretty much by the numbers and suffers from being horribly predictable, this most likely due to being aimed at a much younger demographic. Bill Nighy really got license to over act his heart out and it shows, in his somewhat limited screen time.

Will it spawn a sequel, possibly, only time will tell as it's launched at difficult time with Endgame still massing larger viewings and Aladdin and John Wick 3 releasing in the next 10 days, it may get squashed to limited performances quickly.