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Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) in Movies

May 6, 2020  
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
1981 | Action, Adventure
9
8.9 (95 Ratings)
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Snakes! Why Did It Have To Be Snakes?
Raiders of the Lost Ark- started the Indiana Jones franchise, off with a bang. Lots of action, adventure, wips and gun fights. Classic sences like.. The Boulder chase, sword vs gun, face melting, taking the lost ark and top secert.

The plot: Epic tale in which an intrepid archaeologist tries to beat a band of Nazis to a unique religious relic which is central to their plans for world domination. Battling against a snake phobia and a vengeful ex-girlfriend, Indiana Jones is in constant peril, making hair's-breadth escapes at every turn in this celebration of the innocent adventure movies of an earlier era.

The film was subsequently nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture, in 1982 and won four (Best Sound, Best Film Editing, Best Visual Effects, and Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Norman Reynolds, Leslie Dilley, and Michael D. Ford)).

American Film Institute
AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies—No. 60

AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills—No. 10

AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains:
Indiana Jones—No. 2 Hero

AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes:
"Snakes! Why did it have to be snakes?"—Nominated

AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores—Nominated

AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition)—No. 66

Its a classic action-adventure film.
  
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Mekkin B. (122 KP) rated Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015) in Movies

Sep 20, 2017  
Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015)
Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015)
2015 | Mystery
9
8.0 (76 Ratings)
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A Clever Little Love Letter to Classic James Bond Movies
With sharp cinematography, creative action sequences, and an incredibly tight screenplay, the only thing The Kingsmen stumbles over is its own cleverness. This is another movie that proves that films can be both entertaining to the masses and offer something fresh. It gives you that nostalgia for the days of shoe phones and colorful megalomaniacal villains while still subverting enough tropes of the genre to avoid feeling like a remix. Only 9 out of 10 because for my tastes, the film was just slightly too beholden to the Rule of Cool, especially towards the end of the film.
  
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Dean (6921 KP) rated Dark City (1998) in Movies

Sep 30, 2017  
Dark City (1998)
Dark City (1998)
1998 | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
6
8.1 (20 Ratings)
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Huge potential but falls short
A strange, weird Sci-Fi/horror. It's not helped by a confusing plot that takes a while to unravel. Featuring a well known cast including the brilliant Ian Richardson who should be in more films and an early small role for Melissa George. It's ambitious and with the right budget could have been amazing. I kinda felt it was trying too hard to be a film ahead of its time. It's not until about half way through things start to make sense, until then the highlight was Melissa George. It could have been a classic but falls a bit short for me.
  
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tarabu42 (7 KP) rated The Transatlantic Conspiracy in Books

Nov 2, 2017  
The Transatlantic Conspiracy
The Transatlantic Conspiracy
G.D. Falksen | 2017 | Mystery, Young Adult (YA)
7
7.0 (1 Ratings)
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Well-paced, good dialogue, some fluttery heartbeats but no trifling romance (0 more)
It's a Falksen book, so you know someone's going to die and it might be someone you like. (0 more)
Exciting, fast-paced, no fluff
Classic conflicts of child/parent, friend/(boy)friend, working/privileged classes, come to a head with a brutal murder, pre-WWI industrial espionage, and a race to survive the crossing.

The publisher classes it as YA, but it is suitable for a well-read late middle grader as the murder is neither gory nor superfluous to the plot. The language is clear and direct, the dialogue natural, and the settings imaginative.
  
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Book Divas (227 KP) rated Hansel and Gretel in Books

Dec 12, 2017  
HA
Hansel and Gretel
Mike Klaassen
10
10.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
I cannot begin to tell you just how much I loved reading this retelling of a childhood classic. I was instantly transported into the story and was kept its captive until the end. The author kept it as it was but told it in a way that younger kids can understand and bring the meaning home. This sad and beautiful tale of two young siblings also teaches that if you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything!!

{I requested a copy of this book for reviewing purposes and made no guarantees of a favorable review. The opinions expressed here are unbiased and my own.}