Comments for Tom's Media Scrapbook

Comment on Games that defined me #1 Super Metroid by Thomas Robinson

Thomas Robinson — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:05:37 +0000

That’s ‘strafing’ not ‘straffing’ you utter embarrassment!

Comment on Games that defined me #1 Super Metroid by Tim

Tim — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:25:28 +0000

I’ll give you lunging forward!!!!!!!! also two hands makes the jump more accurate – whats straffing????

Comment on Cretins by Chris

Chris — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:57:38 +0000

as they always used to tell you in college/school, treat everyone as if they know nothing (i guess you don’t get disappointed that way)……../

But to summarise, I concur people are stupid.

Comment on Primer Review by Thomas Robinson

Thomas Robinson — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:39:56 +0000

Thanks for reading David I am familiar with Aronofsky’s works and Pi is his only film I am yet to see. I will dig it out!

Comment on Primer Review by David

David — Sun, 03 May 2009 14:48:50 +0000

Have a look at “PI” by Darren Aronofsky. Excellent film about a scientist on the edge of insanity. Some factual errors but otherwise a very enjoyable and compelling film. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138704/

Comment on The Mist Review by Thomas Robinson

Thomas Robinson — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:35:50 +0000

You make a good point. I felt that, surprising or not, the ending worked very well within the themes of the story and seemed like a really hard hitting and logical way for the characters to go out. I much preferred it to King’s ‘and they drove off into the unknown’ style finale. I sometimes feel that an ending can be very effective even if the audience guesses the outcome (The ‘what’s in the box?’ scene from Se7en springs to mind)

I also agree that the characters are thin (I tried to cover this a bit) and it all fits in with the ‘pulpiness’ of the story. If the characters were too realistic I doubt it would have meshed well with the more traditional ‘giant spiders/tentacles’ monsters they had to interact with, also the extreme nature of some peoples actions within the store would have come off exceptionally false. I praised Marcia Gay Harden’s Mrs Carmondy. By no fair estimation a realistic character but very convincing in a very one-note role (how regularly we see a crazy priest type character proclaiming the end of the world). I felt the film found a logical middle ground between the real and the improbable, its more a cool story than a proper character piece (I had to look up the main guy’s name on Imdb, which is rarely a good sign) and fit in with the vibe most of Kings work follows.

There are certainly better horror films out there and I do not suggest this be labelled a classic, but its the type of film you expect to be pretty run of the mill, but surprises you with its effectiveness. Its like when you can’t sleep at night and you turn on the TV to find a particularly good X-Files episode.

When I re-read the review to answer your comment I noticed a few grammatical problems. I will endeavour to fix this. Make sure you let me know of any problems with my style, I want it to read smoothly without getting bogged down in superfluous adjectives.

Comment on The Mist Review by Ste J

Ste J — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:17:13 +0000

I totally agree that the best horror films are about the story and they do seem to be lacking these days. As for the ending of the film, for me it was a bit obvious since i’d seen that old black and white film i told you about, the depressing end works okay but i found it hard to care about the characters, i suppose because i’m used to King’s book descriptions of them which are stupidly indepth.
What this review has is a solid, humourous and indepth view with a good ending. Much like the Mist itself but you aren’t a mentalist and your cat isn’t a special effect.

Comment on Saw V Rant by Thomas Robinson

Thomas Robinson — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:05:24 +0000

I thought if I killed myself my blog would get more hits…

Thanks for your comments! (and the roast)

Comment on Saw V Rant by ste J

ste J — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:17:01 +0000

Erudite review, i particularly like the fact you would do yourself in after the clown and not at least glory in the fact you have saved humanity, which i am sure all of humanity would at least make you a beef roast and clean the gun up for you before you decided to journey to the next life. I am proud to know a man who would sacrifice himself for no reason after commiting the most beautiful selfless act i can imagine. I salute you sir!

Comment on Cretins by Ste J

Ste J — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:43:45 +0000

Makes you feel superior though, just like walking through town and wondering when the gene pool got so diluted and scummy.