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Sarah (7800 KP) rated Call Me by Your Name (2017) in Movies

Aug 28, 2018

Call Me by Your Name (2017)

2017 | Drama, Romance

8.0

(26 Ratings)

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Not as good as the book

The book is quite a slow burner, but it works because of the level of depth and detail given to Elio as the main character. The film sadly doesn’t have the same impact and it actually comes across quite dull. Whilst some of the performances and scenes are in keeping with the book, the whole film just seems very slow and verging on boring. And the edgy scenes from the book (the peach one for instance) are a lot more shocking to see on film. It isn’t a terrible film, it’s just completely immemorable and I don’t think deserving of all of the accolades.

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David McK (3880 KP) rated Isard's Revenge (Star Wars: X-Wing, #8) in Books

Jan 30, 2019

If, by and large, books can be compared to food - the classics being haute cuisine; the terrible books being dog-food - then the X-Wing series of Star Wars books (all written pre-Episode One, and based on the popular LucasArts games) could probably be best described as fast food: enjoyable enough in small doses but you wouldn't want to live on them and not always that memorable.

With regard to this book, which picks up from the end of Timothy Zahn's "The Last Command" (with the ending of that novel shown from a different perspective), it's also more than half way through before the jacket blurb begins to make sense.