Reviews
Read what the community thinks about their favorite albums
Counter-Strike: Source
Counter-Strike: Source
“I have over 1,100 hours logged in this game, and I stopped playing it 15 years ago. Imagine if I learned something useful with all of that time instead. Instead, I decided to master Gun Game and Jailbreak.”
Avatar the Last Airbender - Season 1
Avatar the Last Airbender - Season 1
“Plodding, kitschy; a caricature that manages none of the quality or levity of the original. As with most so-called adaptations of this sort, one struggles even to recognize familiar characters. Where has the cast gone, and who are these mannequins stuffed in their habits? Really, the studios who make this trash ought to pay viewers to watch it. It's an eye-glazing affair...”
Eve Online
Eve Online
“Perhaps the greatest second job simulator to ever exist. Nothing is intuitive, everything is trying to kill you, and all of your work can be vaporized forever in an instance. I kicked this game like a drug habit a long time ago, thankfully, but like a true addict I still think about it sometimes. Luckily there are still people out there ruining each other's lives so I can read about it on IGN.”
Guild Wars
Guild Wars
“One of the all-time great MMORPGs. I am so glad there was no way to log the number of hours I played this game. Years of my childhood are sunk into this. The multi-class skill system was revolutionary, and the PVP experience was unmatched. All of this bolstered by the fact that a broke teenager could buy it once and play it forever.”
Innerspace
Innerspace
“Innerspace is a sci-fi comedy about a devil-may-care test pilot, Tuck Pendleton (Dennis Quaid) ,shrunken smaller than a blood cell. After an attack on the lab where he was shrunk a scientist injected into the butt of Jack Putter (Martain Short). What happens next is classic 1980s hi-jinks with a sprinkling of pretty good practical effects. This of this as a lessor version of Ghostbusters.”
Kevin Can F**K Himself - Season 2
Kevin Can F**K Himself - Season 2
“What a waste of such an interesting premise and setting. A second season with no payoff, no meaningful progression, ending in a cadre of unredeemed, unlikeable characters. What could have been a fun twist on a format ended up being as meandering and meaningless as the thing it was aiming to subvert.”
Interstellar
Interstellar
“An irritating, and at-times preachy lump of a film that's nowhere near as smart as it would like to be. Ah, yes. If only someone told those physicists who simulated the black hole (did you know, did you?)—Across the event horizon, not to worry. Toss the silver! Worked for Aubrey and Maturin, worked for Napoleon. Incomplete, of course, without a hackneyed bootleg Kubrick sequence. What a bore.”
Iron Lung
Iron Lung
“I checked my phone after watching this and my Oura ring asked me if I napped for an hour and 15 minutes. I did really enjoy the blood stuff and the soundtrack.”
Iron Lung
Iron Lung
“Despite inventive camerawork, fantastic visuals, and a noteworthy score, there's only so much time one can be expected to sit listening to breathless, disembodied voices bark gruff, grave nonsense at each other and stammer, before something else ought to happen. And yet... Agonizingly slow, and with relatively little payoff. Forty minutes or so of this probably should have been cut.”
The Animatrix
The Animatrix
“Self indulgent, gratuitous and a little more than self important this is a strange artifact best forgotten. So much nightmare fuel the violence just gets boring. It is animated well though.”
The Secret History
The Secret History
“Performative read. Fanfic about Donna's own dream life.....to be surrounded by such intellectual boy toys, oh dear.”
DAHMER - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story - Miniseries
DAHMER - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story - Miniseries
“Evan Peters, cannibalism, I give it an A”
Marcy Playground
Marcy Playground · Marcy Playground
“most iconic self-titled of the 90s, I will die on this hill”
Violet Evergarden - Season 1
Violet Evergarden - Season 1
“so annoying, it's basically an anime about a pick-me autist who happens to be attractive and good at a few things (vaguely?) and that's about it.”
10 Things I Hate About You
10 Things I Hate About You
“profound”
Turok 2: Seeds of Evil
Turok 2: Seeds of Evil
“More brutal. Better weapons More enemies.More over the top fun. One weapon, the Cerebral Bore, is a small projectile that will follow an enemy around corners and off cliffs, attach to the victim's skull, suction their brains out and explode.”
Turok: Dinosaur Hunter
Turok: Dinosaur Hunter
“Brutal. Fun. Over the top. This is a classic late 90s FPS that seemed to come out of nowhere. Lots of fun.”
WinBack: Covert Operations
WinBack: Covert Operations
“A stiff and bloated clone of Metal Gear: Solid but manages to hold a place in my heart. I would rent this game frequently from Blockbuster and play it all weekend. I wish It could be remastered and released in a modern console.”
Backrooms
Backrooms
“What a strange collage of missed opportunities. Every last bit of the charm of the webseries is conspicuously absent, here. Thoughtful ambience replaced with an abusive degree of corny narration. The technical intrigue of its setting reworked into a never-ending therapy session. A bureaucratic entity weighing profit against research? Gone. Perhaps the monster was the viewer all along... Yawn.”
The Return
The Return
“Carried by the brilliant performances of its two leads, director Uberto Pasolini's view of Odysseus's return to Ithaca strips the metaphysical substance from the text, opting instead to present an historical drama. It lags a bit, at times; evidently it's difficult to excise the story's mythical imperatives without also gutting Odysseus's motives. But on the whole, the film is certainly compelling.”
The Bronze Lie: Shattering the Myth of Spartan Warrior Supremacy
The Bronze Lie: Shattering the Myth of Spartan Warrior Supremacy
“If this was a better written book I think I might have enjoyed it more. This is not...bad...just written for people with more than a casual understanding of ancient warfare and the Mediterranean world.”
The Bourne Identity
The Bourne Identity
“Inside Matt Damon there are two wolves, both are really confused”
The Odyssey
The Odyssey
“It's well-paced and captures the spirit of the story as well as you can expect from an adaption. My only complaint is that I wish Nolan didn't have to make all of his movies so washed out and gray. A little bit of contrast never hurt anybody. Some may take issue with his modernization of the story's themes, but I don't mind as much. Adapting legends to the times kind of comes with the territory.”
The Odyssey
The Odyssey
Spoiler “I would also go through all that for Anne Hathaway. Inversely, I too, would wait that long for Matt Damon. No bag of wind, nor big tree bed, but i'll let it slide.”