Betrayal at House on the Hill
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Players all begin as allies exploring a haunted house filled with dangers, traps, items, and omens....
Betrayal Widow's Walk. Horror adventure exploration co-op
Trivial Pursuit: Classic Edition
8.2
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Gather your friends to play the trivia game that started it all! The classic edition of this Trivial...
Night of Nonsense (The Magic Magnifying Glass #3)
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Join me (Finley James Carter) in this fast-paced and unpredictable adventure where I ask: - Will the...
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A Plague of Traitors (Leine Basso #11)
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A former assassin leads a heroic band of foreign fighters to thwart an enemy like no other. ...
David McK (3642 KP) rated Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) in Movies
Oct 24, 2021
I get that it's one of John Hughes 1980s movies.
I get that it was Matthew Broderick's break-out role, and that the 4th-wall breaking nature of the movie helped lay the groundwork for 'Deadpool' all those years later.
I DON'T get the appeal of the movie: for me, this was forgettable, with the lead character an annoying jerk (who, admittedly, does have one good line about how life is pretty short) only out for himself, and who pulls his girlfriend and his best friend Cameron along for no reason other than to show off to - he doesn't even have the gumption to check how Cameron is at the tail end of the movie.
I've heard about people saying how it is, essentially, a wish-fulfilment movie. My only wish is that I hadn't wasted my time watching it.
David McK (3642 KP) rated The Legend of Tarzan (2016) in Movies
Oct 16, 2022
Instead of the 'usual' Tarzan origin tale, or even of his time in the jungle, this actually is set when he has returned to England and taken up the mantle of Lord Greystoke.
That is, before circumstances lead him to travelling back to the Congo, in the company of Jane (With plenty of flashbacks showing how they first met) and of the American George Williams (played by Samuel L. Jackson), who has his own motives for wanting to visit the Congo.
Yes, I'm well aware of the questionably problematic nature of the Tarzan tale.
it was written over a hundred years ago (exactly 120 as of me writing this, to be precise), however.
The movie does - to its credit - at least try to address some of those concerns.
Weyward
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KATE, 2019 Kate flees London – abandoning everything – for Cumbria and Weyward Cottage,...
Historical fiction Witches Magical Realism Trigger Warning: domestic violence
Darren (1599 KP) rated Redwood (2017) in Movies
Dec 1, 2019
Story: Redwood starts as a couple Josh (Beckingham) and Beth (Nardone) head away for a hiking trip to get back to nature before Josh start his treatment for leukaemia, the pair meet ranger Steve (Khan) who warns them to stay on the path and the two set off on their adventure.
The couple see a chance at a shortcut up the mountain, which sees them go off the trail where they run into bloodthirsty vampires forcing them to battle to survive.
Thoughts on Redwood
Characters – Josh is a workaholic that has just discovered he has leukaemia, which sees him want to do more open to nature, which sees this hiking trip come about, he is dealing with everything well believing everything is under control and he suggests the shortcut off the trail. Beth is the supportive girlfriend that is getting scared about what is happening to Josh, wanting to get the most out of their time in case the treatment doesn’t work. Vincent and Steve are both rangers that are met on the way up the mountain, both have the same warning about staying on the trail.
Performances – Mike Beckingham and Tatjana Nardone both are solid enough through the film, we get the ideas of how their relationship is facing a new problem, with how they are both trying to stay strong. Anybody we meet is simply a cameo like performance.
Story – The story here follows a couple that head off on a hiking trip on a mountain range only to head off the trail and find themselves facing off against vampires. This is a typical type of story which follows a couple making the mistake of going of the trail, there really isn’t much more to the story, we do have the relationship strain between a couple when one could become terminally ill. Once we get to the vampire side of the story, we just don’t get very much going on because by the time we get to the vampire side of the story, it is just running without doing much. We don’t get much out of this story by the end.
Horror – The horror in the film does feel weak because we have a couple of moments which is mostly just running, with the emotional drama seeming to take centre stage.
Settings – The film is set in a mountain range which shows us just how far the couple have gone to get back to nature, it could have mystery about it.
Special Effects – The effects are simple when it comes to the vampire creations, we don’t need too many effects either.
Scene of the Movie – Getting to the top.
That Moment That Annoyed Me – Too much talking.
Final Thoughts – This is a poor vampire movie that tries to do something bigger, but ends up dragging along way too long.
Overall: Forgettable Vampire Movie.
Cody Cook (8 KP) rated The Satanic Bible in Books
Jun 29, 2018
LaVey does not view Satan as a person (nor does he view God that way), but as a representation of what man really is in his primal nature-- a violent and lustful nature which LaVey calls good, though he simultaneously argues that certain parts of it (that which would harm children or rape, for instance) are not good-- a dichotomy that he calls hypocritical in righthand path religions such as Christianity. Beyond this tension, he elsewhere seems to argue for moral relativism, creating a vicious circle of nonsense. Because good and evil are falsehoods and God and Satan are non-persons, the spells and rituals he creates are only symbols meant to harness our primal energies, sending them out to accomplish our goals (much like in the Hicks' Law of Attraction books or in The Secret).
A mix of equal parts tongue-in-cheek symbolism and outright charlatanism.
I suspect that this book's teachings would appeal primarily to two types of people: narcissists who want to seem edgy and angry people who have been harmed by institutional religion. In regard to the former, there are more thoughtful ways to be counter-cultural. In regard to the latter, an assessment of the intellectual weaknesses of this philosophy won't remove the hurt or pain they've been through, but hopefully an understanding that the kind of Christianity spoken of by LaVey is not genuine Christianity can remove some of the hatred they feel toward it due to the immoral actions performed by its claimed representatives.
Totally off-topic, but Lavey looks like a bald version of Evil Spock.