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Awix (3310 KP) rated Stranger from Venus (1954) in Movies

Aug 15, 2020  
Stranger from Venus (1954)
Stranger from Venus (1954)
1954 | Sci-Fi
5
5.5 (2 Ratings)
Movie Rating
Yet another low-budget British knock-off of The Day the Earth Stood Still, distinguished (sort of) by the fact it's managed to secure the services of one of the stars of the original film, Patricia Neal (the movie never got an American release as it might have drawn a plagiarism suit from Fox). Bloke from Venus arrives in the home counties to deliver a grave message about the dangers of atomic weapons, engages in chaste sort-of romance with a woman who lives locally (Neal), is messed about by the government.

At least it's a little easier to take seriously than Devil Girl from Mars, but the production is even more primitive and it's a lot less fun. Helmut Dantine does the best he can, dispensing cosmic wisdom in a gravelly Austrian monotone, but the punishingly low budget really shows. The purest kind of rip-off - there's nothing here that isn't in the original movie, and everything that is here is less accomplished and less interesting. Not awful, though, nor is it without a certain historical curiosity value for SF aficionados.
  
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LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated Weathering with You (2019) in Movies

Sep 22, 2021  
Weathering with You (2019)
Weathering with You (2019)
2019 | Animation, Drama, Fantasy
9
8.2 (5 Ratings)
Movie Rating Watch
Well, it's official - Makoto Shinkai is now my comfort director. Only he could make something so conventional and arguably problematic so rich and compelling that those previous two things don't really even matter that much at the end of the day. Impossible (unfairly so, I realize) not to compare this to ๐˜ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ ๐˜•๐˜ข๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ. as this never really reaches those same emotional peaks, story/character complexities, the music's cornier and it doesn't look *as* good imo. But it reminds me of something like Miike's ๐˜๐˜ช๐˜ณ๐˜ด๐˜ต ๐˜“๐˜ฐ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ where even his lesser, more commercial works are still better than most other stuff available - I mean this is still one of the best looking and sounding movies on the planet which features a heap of continuous tear-draining emotional moments that are impossible to forget. Unlike many recent Disney outings - for example - which are guilty of comparable sins, this really, truly believes in itself and it's reverberated while viewing with a staggering force. Not ashamed to admit I loved nearly every second of it.
  
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Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated Blue Christmas Balls in Books

Jan 10, 2022  
BC
Blue Christmas Balls
Nick Spalding | 2022
7
7.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
6 of 230
Kindle
Blue Christmas Balls
By Nick Spalding

A laugh out loud seasonal novella from Nick Spalding, the bestselling author of the smash hit comedies Fat Chance & Love... From Both Sides.

One man. Three women. Twelve days to achieve Yuletide sexual glory!

Christmas is coming and Matt Bunion is on a mission. Somehow, he's made the huge mistake of remaining a virgin well into his twenties - a grievous error he fully intends to rectify before the Queen's speech starts.

But it's not going to be easy...

What with strange requests to molest living room furniture, painfully inserted action figures, and an extremely festive lady of the night, Matt will be lucky to reach Boxing Day with his pride and manhood still intact.

Ok so it was a little funny but in some parts trying to be too funny! For a novella it wasnโ€™t bad at all I would definitely read more of his work! Donโ€™t think Iโ€™ll look at an Ewok without thinking of this book though ๐Ÿ˜‚!