The Thing from the Ice Age
Soooo ... 3 years since my last update, and it may well be 3 years until my next one, but a friend of mine recently asked me to list 5 books/movies that I enjoyed recently. And I thought that would actually make a good post, it means I don't have to think up original content, and for those few people who are wondering it lets you know I'm still around.
i) Mad Max: Fury Road. I had no plan to go and see this, but the backlash from areas like the MRA saying that it was too feminist meant I felt I ought to support it. And I just really enjoyed it, there was a good story, lots of interesting characters, you could see who was doing what to whom in the action scenes, and at one point I got really excited about big cars to the extent I could understand why people go to truck rallies :-)
ii) The Man from U.N.C.L.E. I like sixties era stories, and I thought this was a mostly successful update to the original. I loved the humour and could have settled for a film where all the protagonists just spent the time insulting each other!
iii) Knight's Shadow (Book 2 in The Greatcoats trilogy) by Sebastien de Castell. I loved the first book in the trilogy which I bought as a Kindle Daily Deal. It's very similar to The Three Musketeers and I was quite easily able to cast the three protagonists using the actors from the current BBC musketeers series. I was waiting for Book 2 to come down in price and then I missed the train to go to my brother's so treated myself to the book to make up for that. There's humour, sword fights, myths, unexpected plot turns, and an appealing narrator.
iv) The Craft Sequence series by Max Gladstone. I've read several of these recently. They have 'god wars' where the gods have been defeated by mortals who have become powerful enough in magic (or 'craft' as they call it) to be able to kill gods. The interesting thing is that it's set in quite a modern backdrop, but with epic legends not being far away, and although it seems like a good thing that the gods are defeated it's looking like a balance between gods and craft might be the way the series is going.
v) on DVD: Live, Die, Repeat (also known as Edge of Tomorrow). This is the aliens invade and time keeps resetting as in Groundhog Day with Tom Cruise. It's good if you like Tom Cruise since he starts off as a non-hero character and transforms over the film. And it's good if you don't like Tom Cruise since he gets killed … a lot … in many inventive ways :-) Also a good female lead in Emily Blunt and a plot which is a bit of an unfolding puzzle which I like.
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i) Mad Max: Fury Road. I had no plan to go and see this, but the backlash from areas like the MRA saying that it was too feminist meant I felt I ought to support it. And I just really enjoyed it, there was a good story, lots of interesting characters, you could see who was doing what to whom in the action scenes, and at one point I got really excited about big cars to the extent I could understand why people go to truck rallies :-)
ii) The Man from U.N.C.L.E. I like sixties era stories, and I thought this was a mostly successful update to the original. I loved the humour and could have settled for a film where all the protagonists just spent the time insulting each other!
iii) Knight's Shadow (Book 2 in The Greatcoats trilogy) by Sebastien de Castell. I loved the first book in the trilogy which I bought as a Kindle Daily Deal. It's very similar to The Three Musketeers and I was quite easily able to cast the three protagonists using the actors from the current BBC musketeers series. I was waiting for Book 2 to come down in price and then I missed the train to go to my brother's so treated myself to the book to make up for that. There's humour, sword fights, myths, unexpected plot turns, and an appealing narrator.
iv) The Craft Sequence series by Max Gladstone. I've read several of these recently. They have 'god wars' where the gods have been defeated by mortals who have become powerful enough in magic (or 'craft' as they call it) to be able to kill gods. The interesting thing is that it's set in quite a modern backdrop, but with epic legends not being far away, and although it seems like a good thing that the gods are defeated it's looking like a balance between gods and craft might be the way the series is going.
v) on DVD: Live, Die, Repeat (also known as Edge of Tomorrow). This is the aliens invade and time keeps resetting as in Groundhog Day with Tom Cruise. It's good if you like Tom Cruise since he starts off as a non-hero character and transforms over the film. And it's good if you don't like Tom Cruise since he gets killed … a lot … in many inventive ways :-) Also a good female lead in Emily Blunt and a plot which is a bit of an unfolding puzzle which I like.
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