Great, but a bit of a monster
592236
Great, but a bit of a monster; it's definitely not meant to be in a pocket. Kind of overheats as well, but I don't doubt Anker's claims about the capacity of this battery. I've used this on multiple day trips without ever having to use my wall charger, and it charges FAST, even without the Quick Charge ports.
4198169
As much as I tried to put down this book once I hit the goriest sections, I picked it up again because Cade sucked (pun intended) me back in.  He's such an interesting and well written character.  However, I'm not a fan of explicit gore, and this book has some extremely disturbing scenes that went into far too much graphic detail for my taste.  So as much as I'd like to know what happends next to Cade, I won't be picking up the sequel.
2733867
The novel is excellent in terms of its thematics: on belief, on a human's place in the ecosystem, and so on. Its images are powerful, both those that are beautiful and those that are horrifying. There's a good bit of violence described in the novel, a good bit of blood and guts and all that would or might attend a story about surviving at sea with (possibly) four wild animals or (possibly) other desperate humans. Not for the squeamish. Not for those who can't stop anthropomorphizing animals or who won't bear the savagery born of desperation to live. It's not a question of narrative skill on Martel's part, but of the reader's taste or capacity to handle these scenes. One might then ask, is there any comparison between enduring reading about these incidents and actually enduring them? Hardly, but I found the reading of such to be so gruelling that I docked the novel a star.
4911230
I loved the book. Good suspense, scary monster critter, creepy and lots of fun. The only complaint is I think the ending was a bit ambiguous. What was the monster? Well worth the price. I'm glad those jerks needles and Jose got it in thend
2672581
As always, a good read--exciting, lots of monsters and gore. Now at book 22, I confess to being a bit tired of the excruciatingly detailed sex descriptions, but I can always skim those parts. One thing that made me sigh, though...Hamilton has always described Blake as petite but well endowed. This time she came right out and said Blake wears a triple E bra. Please! At 5'3", Blake would be a mutant to wear a size that large and she certainly couldn't run around the way she does. A very well endowed friend of mine at 5'6" wears a C, so Hamilton should have researched a tiny bit more to be realistic with Blake's attributes.

One message to Hamilton from me--please maintain Blake's ideas about children and don't ever make her a mother!
3967496
I very much regret not having read this series in full before unleashing my kid to go read Marks of Secret. The Gregor series is very enjoyable. I did notice that increases in violence and darkness much as the Harry Potter series does... but to have the book's 11 year old antagonist bear witness to a full-on Holocaust gas chamber of rodents, quite vividly described, is really a bit much.  For one thing, there's enough trauma in life without dwelling on the details of imaginary mass murders when you're little. For another, I think it's cheap to make gratuitous references to the Holocaust just to ratchet up the emotion in your YA quintet: Collins has gone into so much detail that at times she appears to be quoting from Holocaust accounts. It's bad enough that it really happened to human beings: can't we let the kids learn about that in an appropriate setting, rather than slavishly reproduce the horror in a fantasy world?

Nor is the plot that hot: Gregor's reckless behavior in the first half of the book is pretty uncharacteristic.

All in all, left a bad taste in my mouth. Wish I'd withheld 4 & 5.
3134035
If I have said it once , I have said it a thousand times. If a movie is going to be a movie, then it should be at least an hour and twenty-five minutes long. This was a really good movie, but I could not see most of the action done in the dark. There are ways to alleviate this problem. I have seen it in other movies, like green screening the night. The monsters could have been a bit better , instead of looking like an actor covered in a shaggy rug. Other special effects were good, like when the wolves took  bits out of their victims. The story was a good one though. I do not regret buying this one, although the accents were too sharp many times. Good for what I paid for it.
22791
I found Volume 5 of Monster Musume to be one of the best.  Kimihito has new issues in his life.  Somebody is sending threatening letters.  Papi tries to help a fellow monster girl with wildly disastrous results and as for how that gets resolved, I found myself wondering if Okayado saw Woody Allen's film "Bananas" and recalled the scene about treating snakebite.  There are some new girls, including a cute but nasty devil named Lilith who loves to stir up trouble.  Lilith finds herself getting punished by both Rachnee and exercise fanatic Polt (I think Lilith much preferred Rachnee's idea of discipline).  At the end, it looks like yet another female is about to make her way into the story.  While Monster Musume is definitely not for kids or the more prudish, it is a wonderful piece of naughty farce.
792477
Very good movie overall. The story was a little far-fetched, but the special effects were excellent. The dialog was decent, but the movie was dubbed and that drives me crazy. I would have much rather "read" the real dialog instead of hearing the dubbed version. Overall, I thought that the movie looked great and really kept me involved and interested. I would recommend to any monster movie fan as a good way to spend 2 hours.
2250048
Frankenstein is a classic, which means that a lot of us haven't sat through it, start to finish, but feel as though we have. And sometimes when we do finally sit down and watch a "classic," we're kind of left wondering...why is that a classic?

In the case of Frankenstein, the years and frequent remakes have made it difficult to watch the movie in the context in which it was made. We've come to look upon Frankenstein's monster as a sympathetic character, especially after movies like Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, which is more faithful to the original tale, and gave the monster great intelligence and humanity. Thus, the treatment of the monster as a monster seems cruel and unfair.

Some aspects of Frankenstein still seem to play as they might have to the original audience. The movie is an atmospheric masterpiece. Dread intermingled with curiosity sweep through us from the very start. The movie starts very abruptly; no set up as to who Frankenstein is, why he's lurking in graveyards at dusk. From the moment the movie starts, we're plunged into gruesome action in a ghastly atmosphere. A grim reaper stands as a scarecrow above them as Frankenstein and the hunchbacked Fritz begin digging. They reach the coffin, and Frankenstein pats it lovingly, as if it held a newborn baby. Frankenstein is in love with his creation...or perhaps only his power to create?

As the movie progresses, it becomes clear that it is ambition alone that drives Henry, that he has no compassion for his creation. And this is where it becomes difficult to watch. As I said at the start, we are a different audience than the one that first saw Frankenstein in 1931. We are more troubled by calling the creature a monster, by the inhuman treatment that he receives. Karloff's brilliant body work that captures the pain and beauty of the creature, and the inclusion of the scene in which the monster is happily playing seem insufficient as an indictment of Henry's treatment of his creation, of the ambition that robbed him of his humanity. I think it was easier then to see the creature as a monster than it is now.

Is Frankenstein a classic. Certainly, yes. Technically, it is a brilliant film; the atmosphere it creates, the way it captures Henry's madness and the creature's childlike beauty are exquisite. And it is a classic, too, in that it preserves for us a time when monsters were monsters, and deserved to die; it is a record of a time when we found it easier, more comfortable to treat Frankenstein's monster as a horror, instead of as a man suffering innumerable indignities and trying to make sense of a world that he should never have been brought into.
465517
This is obviously supposed to be the body of the last of the V8s black Mad Max Ford Falcon Interceptor or as some would say Pursuit Special. I wish the front grill matched the original Monza style and I wish the slotted headlights were in the mold. I wish the engine blower was a bit more low profile like the movie car. There was no reason to run the side pipes down the length of the side of the car. Other than that this is a beautiful body and looks great. Unfortunately it is HUGE in size... it seems more like a 1/7 scale in size. You couldn't put this on a 1/10 street car by any means, but you could flip it upside down and take a bath in it though. I put mine on an ECX Torment with a brushless castle creations motor/esc and she clocks in just under 40mph. The mud flaps on the rear make it look pretty good. I will say the body is kind of thin and vibrates and shakes a little more than desired. I have two of these and the second one is getting professionally painted like the MFP Interceptor and will order a third one to be painted like the MFP Pursuit. Im overjoyed that this body is available in the first place. I also own 4 of the licensed Mini Z Mad Max RC 1/18 scale cars so this was a great addition to my collection.
2657811
Offensive, and outrageous. Absolutely what I was looking for! An unconventional and gross monster hunter, and terrible gross monsters for them to hunt, and spoilers: a giant monster losing its dick. Gory, violent, nasty, would definitely pay for a spiritual sequel of some kind...maybe featuring horny princess ravaging dragons, or some other twisted variation of typical fantasy creatures!
905344
I love the look of this guy. He looks even more great in your heads.  The figure has a few problems though.  He can't really ride the broom and he will have trouble holding his stuff. Also there is nowhere to put his stuff when he isn't holding them. Also because of his odd body he can be a pain to pose.

That is a lot of negatives but I still really dig this guy.  The flaming pumpkin looks great. The way the flames catches the light in the translucent sculpt is wonderful.  His skinny body gives off this monster vibe that I love.
1771033
First of all, the movie is great.  The epic nature, the chases, the battles, everything is done to the max.  The viewer can really get the feel of living eons ago, with the struggles of daily life.  I truly enjoyed the entire movie.

However, it may as well have been called Apocalypto II.

A village of people lives peacefully enough.  They hunt giant mastadons and their entire way of life is dependent upon the yearly migration of the beasts.  Basically it's the B.C. version of the tatanka from "Dances With Wolves".  Each year the hunt gets more and more difficult, and the hunger of the village follows downward.  They must use their specially honed hunting tactics to take down their prey (Apocalypto!).  Unfortunately, the wise, witchdoctor woman - who apparently is capable of some serious magic - prophecizes that with the last hunt comes the end of their way.

Actually, this movie is so full of mysticism, voodoo, mumbo-jumbo, signs, and legends that it's a little bit much to digest.  It seems that everyone in the movie has some kind of tale to tell.

Anyway, the hunters from this village, who all vie for the sign of dominance in the village (the white spear), are not able to stop a group of hunter-collectors from a far away land from capturing many of their people during a raid (Apocalypto!).  It's up to a select few to chase after the enemies, and free their loved ones (Apocalypto!).

Along the way the protagonist encounters a great sabertooth tiger who is trapped under a log, in a giant pit, and about to drown (Apocalypto!)  The hero saves the beast and becomes some kind of prehistoric Dr. Doolittle.

Naturally, they gather hundreds of warriors from neighboring tribes as they march on through snow, a jungle, as well as a desert.  And when they finally catch up to the abductors, they just happen to find thousands of slaves being used to build the great pyramids (Apocalypto!).  Before they are able to gather all of their strength, and convince the slaves to revolt, one of the members from the village is sacrificed (Apocalypto!).

Eventually the overthrow happens, the bad guys lose and their leader suffers a demoralizing death (Apocalypto!), the good guys use their previously established hunting tricks against their enemies (Apocalypto!), and the star returns to his home to begin anew (Apocalypto!).

The movie is incredibly worthwhile, told fairly well, with superb acting and action.  It's just a shameless Apocalypto ripoff is all.
3837310
Fantastic thriller-suspense, but too much for those of us who do not like super scary.
1492813
The game has excellent graphics (though sometimes they may look a little off...) and the story is also very good. The characters are pretty likable, and depending on which characters you prefer depends on which ones go with you til the end of the game. Depending on your relationship with them can also change the ending. The game has a ton of cut scenes, but I have yet to find one cutscene I didn't like. BUT, the switch from the "easy" level to "normal" is a hard one-I felt like there was a huge difference in the monster's power. Overall though, it's still a great game.
2430165
If you enjoy creature features with dopy teenagers & local yokels gettin' got by unstoppable beasties, then there's nothing to complain about here. This time, the story is of revenge gone wrong...monstrously wrong. Don't know why this critter is called Pumphinhead. It's head does not resemble a pumpkin or sport a head-full of red hair. But monsters often get stuck with awful names. What kind of parent would name it's kid Quasimodo, Godzilla, or even Jason? No wonder they were so antisocial. Stan Winston, a man who turned his own neuroses into a very lucrative career as a makeup & special effects master, hands that end of filmmaking over to others & gives directing a shot, this time. The movie's strengths are visual with the title creature being one of the all-time great monster designs. However, Stan's direction is just fine.