Awix (3310 KP) rated The Last Samurai (2003) in Movies
Feb 12, 2018
Clearly wants to be a lavish Dances With Wolves-style epic drama; works well enough as a historical adventure with some well-staged action sequences, but not quite as moving or powerful as it would really like. Every Japanese person I know who's seen this movie seems to think it's supposed to be a hilarious deadpan comedy. Someone should tell Cruise it's bad manners to organise a kamikaze charge and not die alongside everyone else.
Performing Spaces: Triumphal Entries and Festivals in Early Modern Scotland
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Based on a comprehensive interpretation and comparison of the existing sources - including city...
Mr Atherstone Leaves the Stage the Battersea Murder Mystery: A Twisting and Tragic Tale of Love, Jealousy and Violence in the Age of Vaudeville
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This is the first book to tell the story of the Sherlockian mystery that is the classic London...
Collins Easy Learning Audio Course: Easy Learning French Audio Course - Stage 1: Language Learning the Easy Way with Collins
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UK's bestselling language learning audio series This new edition of the Easy Learning French Audio...
Ross (3284 KP) rated Feed (Newsflesh Trilogy #1) in Books
Sep 4, 2017
This is something of a zombie version of Hunter S Thompson's campaign trail with the hired journalists documenting a presidential candidate's campaign trail, with various implausible (staged) accidents.
The action rolls along well, the characters are a little irritating and some of the dialogue really got on my nerves.
Overall an enjoyable read with something of a message to it, and I did carry on with the series.
Movie Metropolis (309 KP) rated The Final Destination (2009) in Movies
Jun 10, 2019
Utilising sloppy 3D effects that cheapened the film’s look was a bad move by director David R. Ellis and even the main disaster was uninspiring to watch – a NASCAR race just didn’t cut it after already having a vehicular disaster in Final Destination 2. The climax however, staged in a cinema, is incredibly clever.
Add to this some truly dreadful acting and awful dialogue and it makes for a low-point that thankfully was reversed just two years later. Unbelievably, this was also the most successful of the series.
https://moviemetropolis.net/2017/10/15/final-destination-franchise-reviews/
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The Captain of Kopenick
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"Released after fifteen years in prison, trapped in a bureaucratic maze, petty criminal Wilhelm...
The Cherry Orchard: A Comedy in Four Acts
Anton Chekhov, Nick Worrall and Michael Frayn
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'Frayn's translation, which strikes me as splendidly lucid and alive ...will be acted again and...