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CKD (37 KP) rated The Runaway Jury in Books

Dec 7, 2018  
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The Runaway Jury
John Grisham | 1996
10
7.7 (7 Ratings)
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This is a book about a jury in a tobacco company trial. A widow is suing a tobacco company because her husband died from lung cancer from smoking this company's cigarettes for many years. (No real tobacco companies were named in this book). At first glance, it appears that one juror (#2) is controlling the jury. But is he? Is he acting alone or is he working with someone on the outside? A woman keeps calling a jury consultant and giving information that turns out to be true - could she be working with Juror #2? One side wants/needs a verdict in favor of the tobacco company and the other side wants/needs a verdict in favor of the widow. Who will win?

Was also made into a movie in 2003 staring John Cusack, Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman, among others.
  
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Sevda (1 KP) rated A Walk to Remember in Books

Jan 9, 2019  
A Walk to Remember
A Walk to Remember
Nicholas Sparks | 2004 | Fiction & Poetry, Romance
10
8.0 (20 Ratings)
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Omg I could not put this book down at all from beginning to end. Omg by the time I was done, I was an emotional wreck. Ok this is where I let you know what happens in the end. So don't want to know, then stop right here. Ok so the story is about this boy named Landon who falls in love with this girl named Jamie. Now Jamie is not like the rest of the girls at school. But that doesn't stop andon from falling in love with her. But there is a secret that she kept hidden from him. She was dying from cancer. So to make her biggest wish come true, He proposes to her. You'll need alot of kleenex for this.
  
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LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated Midnight Sun (2018) in Movies

Nov 20, 2020  
Midnight Sun (2018)
Midnight Sun (2018)
2018 | Drama, Romance
7
7.4 (5 Ratings)
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Brutally effective cry-porn, succeeds at that and nothing else but it doesn't really need to - and considering how clunky the rest of it feels it's probably for the best that it didn't try to be anything more. Enough has been said about the very justified anger this caused in romanticizing this incredibly serious disorder but imo it isn't all too much different from how π˜›π˜©π˜¦ 𝘍𝘒𝘢𝘭𝘡 π˜ͺ𝘯 π˜–π˜Άπ˜³ 𝘚𝘡𝘒𝘳𝘴 also cheesily used cancer. Thorne and Riggle are terrific, Patrick Schwarzenegger gives one of the worst performance of 2018 and it's straight-up riotous to watch this guy try and emote. Has the 2014 artsy Tumblr hipster white-Christmas-lights aesthetic and everything. Mostly all I could have hoped for out of it as this stupid, overly-quirky genre of John Green clones continues to ironically swoon me.
  
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David McK (3791 KP) rated I Am Legend (2007) in Movies

Apr 4, 2021  
I Am Legend (2007)
I Am Legend (2007)
2007 | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
7
7.4 (35 Ratings)
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Messing with nature is never a good idea
Will Smith as Robert Neville

The sole survivor of the Zombie Apocalypse in New York City.

This is actually the third movie to be based on the classic Richard Matheson novel, taking liberties (like the previous two both do as well) with that source material - there is a very different ending here (even in the alternate cut!) than that novel originally had.

It also, for large parts, an acting masterclass by the former Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, as he is onscreen alone for large swathes of the movie - only really sharing the screen in the flashback portions to the pre-pandemic time (hmm .... sound familiar? I'm writing this in 2021), when scientists believe they have found a genetic cure for cancer.

But, oh Sam ...

(I'll deliberately leave that obscure)