Godard and Sound: Acoustic Innovation in the Late Films of Jean-Luc Godard
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What happens when we listen to a film? How can we describe the relationship of sound to vision in...
The Yellow River: The Problem of Water in Modern China
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Flowing through the heart of the North China Plain--home to 200 million people--the Yellow River...
The Economics and Political Economy of Energy Subsidies
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Government subsidies to energy are widespread and represent a heavy burden on public budgets in many...
The Healthy Indoor Environment: How to Assess Occupants' Wellbeing in Buildings
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Despite policy directives, standards and guidelines, indoor environmental quality is still poor in...
The Law and Economics of Federalism
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This collection of specially commissioned chapters takes one of the oldest theoretical approaches on...
The Penal Voluntary Sector
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The penal voluntary sector and the relationships between punishment and charity are more topical...
Sarah (7800 KP) rated Doom: Annihilation (2019) in Movies
Jul 19, 2020
To start with, you can tell this is a very low budget film. The whole thing just looks cheap, from the poorly built sets to the costumes and props. It just has an overall feel of a cheap made for TV movie. And then there’s the cast and the script, both of which are incredibly dire. The acting for the most part is terrible, although I did have a soft spot for the rather over the top and hilarious Australian Winslow. One good thing about this is they at least use mostly physical effects, which is probably because the CGI is awful when it is eventually used. That said, some of the physical effects are pretty atrocious too. The creatures when they eventually show up (after the weird zombie like creatures that aren’t Doom in the slightest), they’re obviously just a bloke in a suit and a very badly made suit at that. The creatures aren’t scary, they’re just funny and actually reminded me of the bad guys you used to see on Power Rangers.
There are some films that are so bad they’re good, but sadly this isn’t one of them. This is just plain awful and really didn’t need to be made.
Affirmative Action Around the World: An Empirical Study
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In this important book, an eminent authority presents a new perspective on affirmative action,...
Affective Circuits: African Migrations to Europe and the Pursuit of Social Regeneration
Jennifer Cole and Christian Groes
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The influx of African migrants into Europe in recent years has raised important issues about...
Carceral Fantasies: Cinema and Prison in Early Twentieth-Century America
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A groundbreaking contribution to the study of nontheatrical film exhibition, Carceral Fantasies...
Kevin Phillipson (10072 KP) Jul 19, 2020