Rorschach Posted April 27, 2018 Share Posted April 27, 2018 8 minutes ago, Xillix said: According to my spreadsheet it's 78 >.> You'd be correct. 77.7 to be exact. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookie Posted April 27, 2018 Author Share Posted April 27, 2018 About twenty minutes into Bridge to Anna Kendrick-a @Isle of Pasta So far not noticing anything different so I'm kinda skimming it until I find something I don't recognize. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookie Posted April 27, 2018 Author Share Posted April 27, 2018 Quote Tyler’s a bit of a jokester, as well as a connoisseur of terrible puns I relate to him already 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ezen Baklattan Posted April 27, 2018 Share Posted April 27, 2018 3 minutes ago, cookie said: About twenty minutes into Bridge to Anna Kendrick-a @Isle of Pasta So far not noticing anything different so I'm kinda skimming it until I find something I don't recognize. It mainly comes later, and the changes are kinda small. Lots of grammatical fixes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookie Posted April 27, 2018 Author Share Posted April 27, 2018 You fixed the grocery store brain fart. Good for you. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookie Posted April 27, 2018 Author Share Posted April 27, 2018 I WANNA KNOW WHAT LOVE IIIIIIIISSSS 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookie Posted April 27, 2018 Author Share Posted April 27, 2018 (edited) Notes From The Otherspace Had to take a little time Little time to think things over Had to read between the lines In case I need it for the folder Now this review I must chime Feels like the world upon your shoulders Through the clouds I see Meg shine Beats the Hugh for my top holder In her life There's been heartache and pain I don't know If she could face it again Can't stop now I've read two times far To have it all be riiiiiiiight You wanna what know love iiiiiisssss Allow me to show theeee You were praising Shuriii Now let me praise Kendriiiick You had fixed everythiiiing (I knooow) Everything I showed theeee No more brain farts found heereeeee It's all really soliiiiid A Edited April 27, 2018 by cookie 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookie Posted April 27, 2018 Author Share Posted April 27, 2018 There's about a million jokes I could make about the village being called Waknuk but I'm going to spare @Hiccup23 from further misery. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hiccup23 Posted April 27, 2018 Share Posted April 27, 2018 37 minutes ago, cookie said: There's about a million jokes I could make about the village being called Waknuk but I'm going to spare @Hiccup23 from further misery. That's the name in the book. I didn't pick that 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookie Posted April 27, 2018 Author Share Posted April 27, 2018 (edited) The Chrysalids I'm sorry, I can't pronounce the word Waknuk without snickering a bit every single time. Just needed to get that out of the way. What would be the best way to describe this movie? I mean it's based off a book, which I've never read so I can't say how it follows the book or not. It's a bit of an odd, but ultimately intriguing experience. The overall cast does pretty well, Del Toro's direction is superb as you'd expect, and it goes in some interesting directions even if I feel they don't all pay off like I'd like them to. If there's two major flaws, the first would be that the world building is pretty wobbly and it's honestly not easy to keep track of all the pieces. Like I said, I never read the book, but like with any adaptation of something I haven't seen or read I assume the source material makes more sense of it. The movie kinda throws a lot of stuff at you which doesn't get really get elaborated or developed on, which is a shame because the stuff with the Deviances and why the villagers see them as a threat is done fairly effectively. The other flaw would be the ending, mainly because... it's kinda confusing? Not in a "What. The. Fuck." kind of sense but more in a "Uuh, okay?". Felt like I was missing a few pages. And this doesn't really impact the grade or anything but calling it a horror movie is a misnomer from my vantage point. It's more of a dark drama with an action beat at the end, there's not anything I could make out as really scary. So I guess the verdict is that it's a fairly good period fantasy, wobbly in parts but ultimately hangs together on the intrigue and direction alone. B+ Edited April 27, 2018 by cookie 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hiccup23 Posted April 27, 2018 Share Posted April 27, 2018 I copied the genre from 2.0 and forgot to edit it. My bad 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookie Posted April 27, 2018 Author Share Posted April 27, 2018 10 minutes ago, Hiccup23 said: That's the name in the book. I didn't pick that Maybe it's pronounced differently in the book but it doesn't translate well when I read it out loud. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookie Posted April 28, 2018 Author Share Posted April 28, 2018 (edited) Coming Tonight (maybe): Cataclysmidicious The Two Video Game Movies @4815162342 Made that Some People Seem to Really Hate for Some Reason Edited April 28, 2018 by cookie 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookie Posted April 28, 2018 Author Share Posted April 28, 2018 Quote He tells them they all need to get out right now, and that the final explosion could happen at any point - and will be, in his words, "cataclysmic." Ayyy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookie Posted April 28, 2018 Author Share Posted April 28, 2018 (edited) Cataclysmic To make sure I don't come across as insensitive to the real people who lost their lives to the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo, the second largest of the 20th century, I Googled some of the names of the characters in the movie to make sure they weren't based on real people. From what I could find, they were not. I'm mentioning this because there are quite a few moments where the stubbornness of the lead characters when told over and over again to evacuate and they keep refusing gets on one's nerves after a bit. The native refusing to leave his homeland I could understand, but Emily's sole motivation for not getting out the way being to advance her own career does make her come across as pretty selfish, not even mentioning the way she appears to rather dismissively treat her mother for the majority of the runtime. In this movie's defense, Emily's mother does call her out on it. Jennifer Lawrence's performance still makes her the standout since she's good or even great in a crowd of serviceable. Affleck really gets the short end of the stick here, being mostly about exposition and once shit hits the fan he vanishes for a good chunk of the film completely. The supporting cast also do fine, and while Pfieffer is two-dimensional at most you get to feel what she's going through. I was starting to wonder why this doesn't work to the same level as something like White Hurricane or The Towering Inferno did and I think I have answers for both: White Hurricane is a drama-thriller about rival families and racism first and a disaster movie second, and The Towering Inferno is all about watching capable people deal with a situation quickly spiraling about of control. The methodical nature of the latter made you feel like you were a part of the efforts to contain the fire and rescue people, which I didn't really get with Cataclysmic. Does that make it bad? Not at all; it's very well-made on a technical level and once the disaster hits it's some very intense stuff, the kind that made films like White Hurricane and Towering Inferno into the successes they were. I just think it's just decent outside of the pyrotechnics. Not like that will stop it from making a killing. B Edited April 28, 2018 by cookie 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookie Posted April 28, 2018 Author Share Posted April 28, 2018 Since I'm tired the dual Numbers VG review will have to wait until tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xillix Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 Yeah no worries @cookie all the characters are fictional. I mentioned that back in the Magazine thread a while back but that thing moves so fast it's easy to miss. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookie Posted April 28, 2018 Author Share Posted April 28, 2018 (edited) 14 minutes ago, Xillix said: Yeah no worries @cookie all the characters are fictional. I mentioned that back in the Magazine thread a while back but that thing moves so fast it's easy to miss. I tend to avoid making criticisms about character behavior when they're based on real people, but if the movie were to portray them badly that can piss me off a lot more (which is why I fucking hate movies like Into the Wild and have nothing but venom leveled at how Titanic decided to portray that first officer), so it's a risky trade. Creating fictional characters was the best way to go. Edited April 28, 2018 by cookie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethan Hunt Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 3 minutes ago, cookie said: I tend to avoid making criticisms about character behavior when they're based on real people, but if the movie were to portray them badly that can piss me off a lot more (which is why I fucking hate movies like Into the Wild), so it's a risky trade. Creating fictional characters was the best way to go. I mean I haven't seen the Into the Wild movie. But from reading the book I would pretty much say Chris Mccandless was a shit bag Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookie Posted April 28, 2018 Author Share Posted April 28, 2018 (edited) 3 minutes ago, Ethan Hunt said: I mean I haven't seen the Into the Wild movie. But from reading the book I would pretty much say Chris Mccandless was a shit bag The book it was based on supposedly twisted around with a lot of facts too. Watching the movie I refused to believe the real Mccandless was that insufferable. Edited April 28, 2018 by cookie 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
