The Day The Eiffel Tower Went Beserk (The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite #1)
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Once, the Umbrella Academy was unstoppable. Under the tutelage of their guardian and mentor, Dr....
One Year Later
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Since Amy's daughter died in a terrible accident, her family has been beset by grief. So as the...
Burning Bright (Flynn, #2)
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The sequel to Falling Fast. Four months have passed and River and Flynn's romance is still going...
David McK (3473 KP) rated Shanghai Noon (2000) in Movies
Jul 23, 2023
As a Jackie Chan film, you pretty much know what to expect: lots of martial arts slapstick in his own inimitable style (and pidgin English, which is still a lot better than my non-existent Chinese!) and a few 'that's a terrible name for a cowboy' puns along the way!
A Childhood
Jona Oberski, Ralph Manheim and Eleanor Crow
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An Irish Times Book of the Year A small boy grows up in Amsterdam, making sand pies, playing with...
Sarah (7799 KP) rated Conversations With Friends in Books
Feb 12, 2019
After a while though you do get used to the writing style, however the main problem with this book is the horrendously unlikeable characters. Frances as the main protagonist is a horrible self absorbed person who doesn’t appear to have any kind thoughts or decent emotions, or any common sense. And sadly the rest of the characters don’t fare much better. It’s a very difficult to like a book when every character is so flawed and valid and self absorbed. The conversations had between some of these people are just jumped up nonsense, and whilst I don’t doubt there are people who have these conversations in real life, I really don’t want to read this in a book. The plot itself isn’t terrible and despite the strange writing style is fairly well written, it’s just a shame it’s spoilt by some terrible characters.
ArecRain (8 KP) rated The Frenzy in Books
Jan 18, 2018
I guess I should start with the writing style. Was there was nothing grammatically wrong with Block's style, it was about as interesting as watching mud dry. The novel is in first person narrative, which can always go downhill fast. I should have known from the first page that I wouldn't enjoy it. I think it would have been a lot better had it not been so choppy. However, it felt like half the novel was written as an aside to the real story.
The second would be the story line. It was annoying, uncreative, and so ridiculously obvious that I had the whole novel figured out only a few chapters in. I had mixed feelings about a lot of the topics going on like Pace committing suicide in concerns with Michael, Liv's relationship with her parents, and Victor wanting Liv as his bride. The entire novel felt shallow and superficial.
In all honesty, I felt terrible after reading this book. It put me in a dark mood for some many reasons, I feel that I can't even justify my emotions with words.
Kevin Wilson (179 KP) rated MAC and Me (1988) in Movies
Jul 17, 2018
Released 6 years after ET, which is comparable. Yet the CGI was worse and the costumes were horrible. I don't understand the plot exactly and the ending was just weird and bad.
The characters were not likeable, the acting was terrible. So much product placement from McDonald's and coca cola. We laughed at the aliens but they were just annoying.
Not sure if this was self aware about how bad it is but that's what it is. Bad. Don't even ask about that ending. I am as confused as anyone.
***Spoiler alert*** chased by government which soon goes away and suddenly the aliens are granted us citizenship with noone questioning anything. Oh and the daddy alien is wearing a suit.....yeah this movie was weird ***end spoiler***
I would still say give it a watch but watch it with friends so you can laugh at it. This is like the lower budget ET except no emotion osr redeeming qualities. The characters reactions to the aliens were too calm and rational and I have no idea of the point of the government chasing them. Didn't build to anything.
The lesson I came away with was that coca cola seems to solve everything.
Sarah (7799 KP) rated Crawl (2019) in Movies
May 30, 2020
To be fair, this film made me laugh so it was fairly entertaining. However I'm pretty sure this wasn't intentional. It made me laugh at how cheesy and bad and cliched it was. The script is terrible, and the majority of scenes are predictable and cliched. Like the swimming and motivational speeches in a lull between gator attacks, and the characters seemingly strange and inexplicable actions and doing completely the wrong thing (like shouting for helping metres away in a category 5 hurricane). This really made me giggle, but also made me want to bang my head against the wall it was so cringeworthy.
The effects too are pretty terrible. They dont look too bad in the darker more cramped basement scenes, but everything else looks pretty second rate. There's a decent amount of gore but even this gets ridiculous when you start to consider the amount of injuries these characters are obtaining without dying.
To be quite honest, this isnt the worst creature horror I've ever seen but it is definitely not the best. I'd suggest Lake Placid might be a better option.
The Museum of Broken Promises
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The stunning new novel from bestselling Elizabeth Buchan. The Museum of Broken Promises is a...
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