Sign up
Search
Advanced search settings

Search only in certain items:

Search results
All (2166)
Content
People
Apps
Books
Orbs
Movies
Music
Podcasts
Shows
Tabletop Games
Tech
TV
Video Games
YouTube Channels
Videos
40x40

David McK (3562 KP) rated The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) in Movies

Jan 27, 2023  
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
2008 | Sci-Fi
5
5.2 (9 Ratings)
Movie Rating
2008 re-make/re-imagining of the 1951 original, with Keanu Reeves - who I felt would be perfect for this role - playing the alien Kla'atu.

Unfortunately, the majority of the film is slow and plodding, with no real connection between Reeves and Jennifer Connelly, with a (very young) Jaden Smith playing a kid who just deserves a good slapping, and with the anti-war stance of the original replaced with an environmental message instead (that's neither good nor bad, just an observation).

One that I may watch on TV if nothing else on, but not one I would be going out of my way to look for or even make time to sit down and view.
  
40x40

David McK (3562 KP) rated Doctor Who: Once Upon a Timelord in Books

Nov 24, 2023  
Doctor Who: Once Upon a Timelord
Doctor Who: Once Upon a Timelord
Dan Slott | 2023
6
6.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
It's hard to believe that BBCs Doctor Who is now 60 (as of 2023).

Yes, you read that right: 60.

Albeit with a hiatus in the 1980s/1990s, until it's triumphant return in 2005.

And it's that later incarnation that is the main lead in this graphic novel, with perhaps-the-most-popular-modern-incarnation (Dr #10, David Tennant, soon also to be Dr #14) taking the lead here alongside his just-after-Rose-Tyler companion Martha. This is then a whistle-stop tour of the Doctor's various enemies, with the story itself being told as a story within a story by Martha to a group of alien monsters who feed off the pyschic energy released by storytellers.