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    Fiete Quiztime

    Fiete Quiztime

    Education and Games

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    It´s Quiztime! In this fun and educational trivia quiz, parents and children ages 4 and up can work...

    Sheep Frenzy 2

    Sheep Frenzy 2

    Games

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    Have you ever wondered if there’s an alternate universe where animals rule the world. What if…...

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BookwormLea (3034 KP) rated Love and Monsters (2021) in Movies

Apr 17, 2021  
Love and Monsters (2021)
Love and Monsters (2021)
2021 | Action, Adventure, Comedy
6
7.8 (20 Ratings)
Movie Rating
Good take on an apocalypse. But really?
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So the world's going to end with a huge comet but they save themselves with a rocket. But the rocket is made of some weird crap that lands back on earth and mutates all the bugs and lizards. Don't ask me why only those things and not actual animals because I don't know.

In a year, 95% of the worlds population has been wiped out. Those that are left have spent 7 years in bunkers, safe houses and other hidey holes. Joel is one of them. He was 16 when the world ended and now he wants to go find his ex girlfriend who lives in a different (what they call) colony. He's lonely because all his colony family have shacked up and he's the odd one out. He's also totally useless. He freezes up at the sight of the giant mutant bugs. But yes, he leaves to take a 7 day journey across mutant filled terrain, thats overgrown over 7 years.

Far fetched right? But he does it. With the help of a dog (yeah, a dog survived 7 years alone) an old man and his adopted daughter who know everything there is to know about the mutants, and at some weird point, a broken AI who just happens to have a few moments spare to comfort him. Also, sky jellies??? Mutations can't make sea animals fly...

So he gets there eventually, and finds her looking after old people. She's about to pack up and boars a yacht for a creepy youngish captain. And after some deliberation, Joel realises he's not who he says he is and he's actually a food stealer which, haha, ironically Joel kept being accused of being just that!! The captain sets this giant crab onto the biddies and sets sail to loot some other colony. But Joel looks right into that creepy crabs slightly human looking eyes and realises, he just wants to be free like any other self respecting mutant crab. So of course he frees him.

And then because his ex is a bitch who totally forgot about him and didn't really want him to go there, he goes back to his old colony to help them get to the mountain where there is a huge safe haven supposedly.

No romantic ending. He mysteriously survived 14 days on the surface, only coming close to being eaten like 5 times. And we don't even see if they make it to the mountain. Instead we hear his speech over the radio signals, encouraging people who've been safe for 7 years to risk their lives outside trying to make it to the mountains. Because if he can, anyone can.... gross.

So in summary, if they'd skipped the romance part, and maybe made it about a guy finding his parents or something, great movie. And someone give the damn dog his human back!
  
    go! Kruger

    go! Kruger

    Lifestyle and Travel

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    go! Kruger guide South Africa’s Kruger National Park offers tourists an unforgettable wildlife...

    First Words Deluxe

    First Words Deluxe

    Games and Education

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    *** Finalist for the BestAppEver Award: Toddler Apps * ** The best-selling reading game for kids...

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Mekkin B. (122 KP) rated High-Rise (2016) in Movies

Sep 15, 2017  
High-Rise (2016)
High-Rise (2016)
2016 | Action, Drama, International
4
5.0 (8 Ratings)
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This movie wants to be a dystopian drama, but fails to really add any dystopia. It wants to be a satire, but it is largely unclear what it is satirizing, other than a generic "all people are really just animals" theme and some under-explored "the rich live at the top and the poor at the bottom" stuff that doesn't really seem to pan out. It has very little in the way of narrative structure, what the characters are doing and why is never explained. I had a difficult time getting behind the idea of this "state of the art" high rise being some gleaming and beautiful example when it was such a ugly, Brutalist concrete mess to begin with. I'm sure there's some sort of "but the High-Rise looks like a prison because it metaphorically is one!" explanation, but it's just not a good one.

This movie was a slog to get through. It's far too long and feels even longer. Very few of the thematic elements amount to much. It's like it wants to say something about *society*, but isn't very clear on what that is.

The acting is pretty great. The visuals are gripping enough in some sections to keep you hooked and hopeful that the movie will amount to something greater than the sum of its parts, but it simply doesn't.

Also Tom Hiddleston is naked for a couple minutes.
  
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Suswatibasu (1701 KP) Sep 15, 2017

I totally agree as I actually prefer the book! The film was a little muddled and it got lost in the cinematography.