Time to Wake Up by Carpenter Brut
Carpenter Brut · Song · 2016
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nervous_testpilot · Song · 2021
line endings by nervous_testpilot
Tammy Beaumont becomes the first women's batter to hit a century in The Hundred with a spectacular 118 for Welsh Fire against Trent Rockets.
I feel lucky to have been able to watch this. It was incredible.
A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening day, he invites a team of experts and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park and help calm anxious investors. However, the park is anything but amusing as the security systems go off-line and the dinosaurs escape.
This review may contain spoilers.
First watch with the children (8/11). I knew they’d struggle with the tension, so I had to chuck out some “no-one you like dies” spoilers before we even got going. But they were still appropriately terrified, especially in the breaker shed and the kitchen.
One of them wanted to stop and watch the rest tomorrow but I insisted we keep going 😈 Better to go to bed knowing what happens than have your brain trying to fill in the blanks, right!?
I obviously enjoyed but I did notice how clean Grant’s boots are when they’re in the tree and now I’ll never not be able to see that.
★★★★★ (contains spoilers)
After years of being sheltered from the human world, the Turtle brothers set out to win the hearts of New Yorkers and be accepted as normal teenagers through heroic acts. Their new friend April O'Neil helps them take on a mysterious crime syndicate, but they soon get in over their heads when an army of mutants is unleashed upon them.
I had quite high hopes for this. The animation and characterisation are all great. The voice work is top notch. But the story is immensely trite. There should be a law against writing and producing your own work, it’s a recipe for self-indulgence.
★★★
Jerry Shaw and Rachel Holloman are two strangers whose lives are suddenly thrown into turmoil by a mysterious woman they have never met. Threatening their lives and family, the unseen caller uses everyday technology to control their actions and push them into increasing danger. As events escalate, Jerry and Rachel become the country's most-wanted fugitives and must figure out what is happening to them.
I wish Shia LeBeouf had been in more stuff. He seems to play pretty much the same guy every time but he does it so well.
As for the film, as conspiracy movies go, it’s not bad.
★★★½
Pearl Jam · Song · 2004
Jeremy by Pearl Jam
When wily Captain Barbossa steals Jack Sparrow's ship and kidnaps the governor's beautiful daughter, Elizabeth, her childhood friend Will Turner joins forces with Jack to save her and recapture Jack's ship, the Black Pearl.
Watched with the kids (8/11). Taken a while to convince them they won’t be terrified. They thought Captain Jack was funny and they actually made sense of the plot! Success.
★★★½
Immediately after the events of The Desolation of Smaug, Bilbo and the dwarves try to defend Erebor's mountain of treasure from others who claim it: the men of the ruined Laketown and the elves of Mirkwood. Meanwhile an army of Orcs led by Azog the Defiler is marching on Erebor, fueled by the rise of the dark lord Sauron. Dwarves, elves and men must unite, and the hope for Middle-Earth falls into Bilbo's hands.
Watched with my youngest (8). She found this much more confusing than the previous films, with random armies appearing out of nowhere.
For my money… I get that you want your character deaths to have a bit of meaning, rather than being essentially a footnote as they are in the books, but wow this is laboured.
★★½
The Dwarves, Bilbo and Gandalf have successfully escaped the Misty Mountains, and Bilbo has gained the One Ring. They all continue their journey to get their gold back from the Dragon, Smaug.
