Susan Hated Literature

She'd much prefer to read a good book

Tag Archives: ending is crap




7 December 2009
Genre: ,
Setting:
Comments Off

Her fearful symmetry by

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 Continue reading →

17 November 2009
Genre: ,
3 Comments

The historian by

ISBN: 0316730319 In 1972 I was sixteen – young my father said to be travelling with him on his diplomatic missions. The one word that sprang into my mind, more than any other, when I finished this book was “unsatisfying”. … Continue reading →

19 January 2008
Cast: , , , , , ,
Script: ,
Genre: ,
Setting: ,

11 Comments

I am legend [based on the book] by directed by

After the end of the world as we know it Robert Neville lives in New York. All alone apart from his dog, Sam, he drives around hunting deer, chatting to mannequins and going through the stock of a local video store. He also makes sure to be home and locked away by the time night comes. Because at night the rest of the survivors come out. And they aren’t so friendly.

Continue reading →

20 September 2006
Cast: , , ,
Script:
Genre:

7 Comments

Right at Your Door directed by

I’m not quite sure what I was expecting from this film, but I didn’t get it. The plot should have been able to create tension and drama easily enough. After all you can’t really get more tension filled than a … Continue reading →

2 August 2006
Cast: ,
Script:
Genre: ,
Setting:

4 Comments

Angel-A directed by

Don’t you just hate when a film you’ve been enjoying falls to pieces in the final third? Angel-A starts off well. We meet André as he tries to talk his way out of debt, on a few occasions. None of … Continue reading →

15 January 2006
Cast: , ,
Script:
Genre: ,

2 Comments

Hide and Seek directed by

After Emily Callaway’s mother commits suicide her father decide to take her away to a house in the woods to help her get over the trauma. But Emily seems to be getting worse. She starts talking to a new friend, … Continue reading →

26 September 2005
Cast: , ,
Script:
Genre: ,
Setting: ,

3 Comments

Pride and Prejudice [based on book] by directed by

Sometimes directors really make you think, make you stop and consider their work, make you want to never ever see anything in the cinema ever again because they have killed any desire you might have felt for moving pictures. Wright … Continue reading →

5 July 2005
Cast: , , , ,
Script: ,
Genre:
Setting:

Comments Off

War of the Worlds [based on book] by directed by

You know the way you go to see a film that you’ve heard is crap, you have these really low expectations so the film turns out to be quite good. Well, not in this case. I thought it was going … Continue reading →

17 November 2003
Call no:
Cast: , , ,
Script:
Genre: ,
Setting:

Comments Off

Signs directed by

I found this to be a very disappointing film. I had enjoyed Shyamalan’s films and had hoped for something equally as good. It wasn’t even a twist that I was looking for seeing as a friend had figured out the twist to The Sixth Sense after seeing a trailer and guessing it. Once I started watching Sixth Sense what she had said well, it was pretty obvious. Continue reading →