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Crowd Funding: How to Raise Money and Make Money in the Crowd

Modwenna Rees-Mogg

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Crowd Funding by business-funding expert and business angel Modwenna Rees-Mogg is the first book to...

Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition

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For as long as you can remember, your view of the world has been limited to the heavily fortified...

How to be a Pirate: Book 2

Cressida Cowell

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Read the books that inspired the How to Train Your Dragon films! This book will be a hit with...

Nimona

Noelle Stevenson

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Indies Choice Book of the Year * National Book Award Finalist * New York Times Bestseller * New York...

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LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated Project Almanac (2015) in Movies

Sep 20, 2020

Project Almanac (2015)

2015 | Mystery, Sci-Fi

6.7

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Dumb-as-nails but unpretentious CW teen soap opera reimagining of a time travel film - in which the machine itself is built using parts from an Xbox 360 and there are prominent slo-mo shots of Red Bull cans flying through the air. And what's the most noteworthy thing they do with the power of time travel right at their fingertips? Go to an Imagine Dragons concert, of course! Seems like it hates its own existence, no question about it - this was only made to sell tickets and that's it. But there's something really stupidly fun about it - maybe it's the neurotic nature of each element (from the acting to the camerawork to the cutting to the writing etc), or the fact that people record a good chunk of this pointlessly (but thankfully) found footage Chronicle ripoff with their smartphones yet they still make the clunky old camera sounds? And when they *do* record with the 10+ year old camcorder (which still takes tape btw) it's somehow pristine HD quality? I also really have to appreciate that so much of this is dedicated to the actual anxiety of making the machine itself, too - rather than jumping right into the travel stuff. Kind of falls off when this becomes another lame YA romance deal but even then it's still so confidently dumb and committed to its daft premise that I had to admire it somewhat. Also whenever they turn the machine on and everything starts floating and spinning that shit is cool as fuck and you know it.