Tag Archives | disapointing
Star Trek into darkness
Terrorism is everywhere these days. From Iron Man to Star Trek and everywhere in between, you just can’t get away […]
Posted on 12 May 2013 | By Fence | 5 responses
A coalition of lions
Book two in The Lion Hunters. After the loss of her family Goewin is forced to flee Britain. In the […]
Posted on 10 June 2012 | By Fence
Glister
Teenage boys are going missing in Innertown. Where they go and what happens to them, nobody knows. Some say that […]
Posted on 19 February 2012 | By Fence | 4 responses
The Night eternal
The Strain Trilogy #3 I really enjoyed the first book in this series, The Strain worked really well as a […]
Posted on 5 February 2012 | By Fence | 2 responses
Tongues of Serpents
ISBN: 9780007256778 book 6 in the Temeraire series There were few streets in the main port of Sydney which deserved […]
Posted on 6 March 2011 | By Fence
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Scott Pilgram is dating a highschooler. A 17-teen year old Chinese American highschooler to be precise. But then he encounters Ramona Flowers and becomes a “nice guy” dick and starts seeing her two. But Ramona has a past, 7 evil exes, and for some reason Scott must fight and defeat them all.
Posted on 12 September 2010 | By Fence | 2 responses
Olympos
By Dan Simons
I really loved Ilium when I read it in June so was looking forward to this, the sequel. And it kicks off right where we left the story in the first book. Unfortunately it just didn’t work as well. All through this book I was interested in what was going on, but never gripped, never fascinated or engaged by it. Merely hmm, that’s interesting.
Posted on 8 August 2010 | By Fence
Iron Man 2
Dir: Jon Favreau
I really enjoyed Iron Man and I love Mr. Downey Jr. and I think Jon Favreau is so very adorable. All positives, so I’m guessing you can all feel the but coming. I’m going to keep you waiting, for a little while at least, because Iron Man 2 is a really fun film. And the effects are great. I enjoyed all the roles, Downey is great as Stark, he pulls off the role of ass-hole multi-millionaire while at the same time he is an engaging character. And all the supporting cast, while they aren’t asked to do a huge amount, do their jobs well.
Posted on 5 May 2010 | By Fence
The lovely bones [based on the book]
I read the book this was based on a long time ago. So long ago that I don’t really remember the details. But I do remember thinking that it wasn’t the most film-friendly of novels when I heard that it was to be adapted. But of course neither was The Lord of the Rings and look how well Jackson et al did there. This, however, is a very different kettle of fish from LOTR
Posted on 8 March 2010 | By Fence | 7 responses
The Wolfman
I really did want to enjoy this film. It is a werewolf film after all, and I am a fan, plus Benicio Del Toro has something about him that I usually enjoy. Unfortunately there is very little by way of storyline in this film. And even less of characters. I mean, why make a film about a character no one cares about? When your central character leaves me meh-d out, well, your film really isn’t going to grab my attention now is it?
Posted on 15 February 2010 | By Fence | 5 responses
The Ultimates
Writ: Mark Millar & Illus: Bryan Hitch
I was a little disappointed in these graphic novels. Mainly because they often seemed to look for the cheap laugh while at the same time trying to be all gritty at the same time. You can usually go for one or the other, but both at the same time usually doesn’t work.
Posted on 25 January 2010 | By Fence
Her fearful symmetry
Author: Audrey Niffenegger
For a lot of this book I really really liked it. I never quite loved it; but for a while I did really enjoy it. The writing is great. And the premise was interesting. But it just didn’t work in the end. And I think that one of the major problems was that the character who makes this big decision, well, I just didn’t get why she made it. And I really didn’t understand why other characters went along with her. That wasn’t the only problem, it just meant that I was less forgiving of the others
