tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89577103079811809722023-11-16T14:02:06.638+00:00Mountain's scrapbookA scrap book of ideas, short essays, reviews and general opinion's from me. I mean what else are these used for, be warned self referential humour aboundsMountain Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01338740470502820354noreply@blogger.comBlogger133125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957710307981180972.post-59365987336099363052019-05-28T15:12:00.000+01:002019-05-28T15:59:37.794+01:00Godzilla (2014) Review
With the new Godzilla King of the Monsters (2019) film out on the Friday after I write this I thought it might be interesting for me to go over the 2014 film. After watching it again I wondered if it would be a good idea to do this… And yes it is.
Godzilla (2014) is certainly a film. To say anything more about it I need to dive head first into just what Godzilla is, it’s history and Mountain Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01338740470502820354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957710307981180972.post-8357402413583133572019-04-30T09:50:00.003+01:002019-04-30T10:02:29.233+01:00The Twilight Zone 2019
If you don’t know, this year we’ve had another new series of the Twilight Zone. Since the first series, which had five seasons, was first broadcast in 1959 there have been a few sequels. The 1985 version (three seasons) and the 2002 version (one season), not including the anthology film in ’83.
Twilight Zone is big thing, it was one of the first times in TV, at least American TV, that a Mountain Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01338740470502820354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957710307981180972.post-57409701874158565472019-01-13T16:25:00.002+00:002019-01-13T16:25:18.560+00:00Doctor Who Series 11 Overview
I need to clarify something, I’m not angry.
I’m disappointed.
I’m going to start this overview with the characters, move on to the episodes and then sum up with my hopes for the 2020 season. So with a lot to get through we best get started with The Doctor.
Having time to reflect is a good thing. It takes us away from the immediacy of a moment and can often give us a better sense of Mountain Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01338740470502820354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957710307981180972.post-7789904248004980802019-01-01T22:52:00.002+00:002019-01-01T22:53:01.918+00:00Doctor Who Series 11 Special Resolution Review
Did Chris Chibnall get a book on how to write a horror story over Christmas?
Now I know this was probably recorded back sometime around August, but the joke works. I’m just not that funny. So what did I think of the episode?
It felt like a season ending adventure, a lot more than The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos was. It was a strong story, with some really exciting moments. Good Mountain Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01338740470502820354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957710307981180972.post-87856888598789621252018-12-10T12:45:00.001+00:002018-12-10T12:46:24.472+00:00Doctor Who Series 11 The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos Review
Well that was technically the season finale and er…
It took up 50 minutes. The effects were decent. The direction was solid, nothing too spectacular but not too pedestrian either. Bradley Walsh’s Graham was a star, deadly serious but funny with what I’m convinced have to be ad-libs done on the fly. Tosin Cole’s Ryan talked sense for a change and did a good job of grounding Graham,Mountain Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01338740470502820354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957710307981180972.post-40343828238818873902018-12-03T11:37:00.000+00:002018-12-03T11:37:12.244+00:00Doctor Who Series 11 They Take You Away Review
I’ve tried to be fair about Who in these reviews. Sometimes I’ve been a bit too critical and others I’ve been willing to over look things I really shouldn’t have. There are reviewers out there that have just been praising the show and I’ve been left wondering just what they saw I haven’t. There are other reviewers that lay into the show and have nothing good to say about it. I think all three Mountain Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01338740470502820354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957710307981180972.post-3354727028096601512018-11-26T06:16:00.000+00:002018-11-26T10:28:58.079+00:00Doctor Who Series 11 The Witchfinders Review
“Pendle Hill is a prison for intergalactic criminals!”
It was at that point I lost it, totally, and collapsed on the floor in hysterics.
Going into this one I had a very bad feeling it was going to turn out like Rosa. You see the Pendle Witch Trials were a nightmare. If anyone was even thought of being a “Witch” they were tried and quickly executed with very little defence. Mountain Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01338740470502820354noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957710307981180972.post-82704640733445293132018-11-19T11:20:00.002+00:002018-11-19T11:20:37.044+00:00Doctor Who Series 11 Kerblam Review
Really, was that the whole point of the silly name? That gag at the end? Was it worth it?
Yes, yes it was.
I can say this is the the first truly good, not great but good, episode of the season. Somebody behind the scenes seems to have woken up and realised Doctor Who can be good and doesn’t have to be mediocre.
Which is ironic because any other time this far into the season itMountain Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01338740470502820354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957710307981180972.post-91979796750965148172018-11-12T15:50:00.002+00:002018-11-12T15:50:49.790+00:00Doctor Who Demons of the Punjab Review
As much as I don’t want I’m going to split this review in two. Set up a boarder between the sections and then look at them apart before fitting them back together.
It’s a metaphor, go with it.
In part A I’m going to look at the plight of Yaz’s grandmother and her family. It’s a terrible time that in many ways appears to mirror the troubles of Northern Ireland. A boarder is being Mountain Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01338740470502820354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957710307981180972.post-53161353318431077732018-11-09T06:39:00.001+00:002018-11-15T09:12:19.514+00:00Doctor Who Season 11 Mid-season overview
Half way through this truncated season and I feel it’s necessary to take a metaphorical step back and look at the big picture.
I was looking forward to this season. I really was actually. Look, lets be honest here Steven Moffat had run out of steam by the end. Season 10 was an improvement over the previous two, but nowhere near as great as season 5. I blame Sherlock, it’s difficult enoughMountain Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01338740470502820354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957710307981180972.post-9543894793580737752018-11-05T10:40:00.003+00:002018-11-05T15:40:39.215+00:00Doctor Who The Tsuranga Conundrum Review
Wha…
I don’t know how to begin this review, because I truly am in two minds about this episode. On the one hand it was an utterly pointless waste of my time that I want to bill the BBC for to get my money back. On the other it was a whimsical piece of dada-ism in film making that deserves some kind of award.
I want to love Doctor Who. It’s important you know this. I want to be Mountain Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01338740470502820354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957710307981180972.post-33865120011556460412018-10-29T10:45:00.001+00:002018-10-29T11:43:51.407+00:00Doctor Who Arachnids in the UK Review
Think I’d better mention that I don’t like spiders.
They have the effect of creeping me out. Too many legs, eyes and fangs. Don’t forget the fangs. Then there’s the webs wrapping you up, covering you, suffocating you. Being mummified alive. Trapped in tomb no bigger than yourself, screaming silently as you slowly die…
Anyway Arachnids in the UK was meant to be a horror Mountain Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01338740470502820354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957710307981180972.post-31497020006846624552018-10-22T13:40:00.003+01:002018-11-05T15:40:55.189+00:00Doctor Who Rosa Review
Well that was… Horrific. On many different levels.
Trying to review this episode is difficult because its a difficult topic. They try to address it in a ridiculously short amount of time. 50 minutes is not long enough to go into any real detail. Add in the pointless time criminal sub plot (seriously what was the point of that guy?) and we have even less.
The problem is I don’t feel Mountain Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01338740470502820354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957710307981180972.post-31117001996607968302018-10-15T12:14:00.001+01:002018-11-05T15:41:10.429+00:00Doctor Who The Ghost Monument Review
Can I talk about Enlightenment. I want to talk about Enlightenment. No, I’m not taking a sudden right turn into philosophy and using the tile as clickbait. Enlightenment is a Classic Doctor Who adventure from the Peter Davidson (5th) Doctor’s run and in all honesty is one of my favourites of his time in the TARDIS.
In it the Doctor lands in the middle of the final stage of a Mountain Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01338740470502820354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957710307981180972.post-39636438268070758602018-10-08T12:26:00.001+01:002018-11-05T15:41:27.036+00:00Doctor Who The Woman Who Fell To Earth Review
Well that was... Not what I expected. I guess pretty much all of my predictions were wrong. I honestly don’t know what to make of that. Is it better than my idea… Not sure really.
Spoilers ahead.
The story goes as follows; an alien hunter arrives on Earth, looking for a randomly selected human to take as trophy back home. Proving themselves to be a capable hunter is the final act Mountain Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01338740470502820354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957710307981180972.post-63917533233418309242018-07-29T22:32:00.001+01:002018-07-29T22:32:53.317+01:00The Companions in “New” Doctor Who Part Two
The Companions in “New” Doctor Who
Part Two
Here, at long last, is the second half of my New Doctor Who Companions retrospective. With this one we enter the era of Moffat. It’s hard to remember today but when Moffat took over from Russell T. Davis the fandom was overwhelmingly positive. Moffat had a good track record behind him, with some of the best episodes of the new series so far Mountain Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01338740470502820354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957710307981180972.post-4597611250276884752018-07-16T11:14:00.001+01:002018-07-16T11:14:18.414+01:00The Companions in “New” Doctor Who:- Part One
Well we’re looking at a new season of Doctor Who on the horizon and I’m getting around to a project I’ve waned to do for a while. Look at the Companions in Doctor Who since it’s relaunch in 2005 and try and put them into some sort of perspective.
A lot of my opinions have actually evolved and changed over the 13 years since this restart began. Characters I saw as fairly Mountain Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01338740470502820354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957710307981180972.post-86931339968726744942018-07-13T23:09:00.000+01:002018-07-13T23:09:30.767+01:00Doctor Who Series 11:- Predictions
Well, with something of a trailer coming this weekend. Either a proper trailer, something shot special for it, or just footage from the first couple of episodes string together, we’re going to finally see something more than a brief snippet at the end of Twice upon a Time. So before we get to that I want to make a couple predictions
Now I know about the leaked footage and the behind theMountain Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01338740470502820354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957710307981180972.post-46646681846041342462018-07-02T14:15:00.002+01:002018-07-02T14:16:14.946+01:00FAQ about Time Travel (2009) Review
I’m going for a good film, bad film rhythm with these reviews. So we’re on the good film part of the cycle and I’m going to go somewhat obscure this time, with what I consider a quiet little gem.
FAQ About Time Travel (2009) is, unsurprisingly, a Science Fiction comedy, but unlike a lot of Science fiction comedies you’ll find out there it doesn’t make fun of science fiction. It makes fun Mountain Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01338740470502820354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957710307981180972.post-19414883307229547312018-06-25T10:38:00.003+01:002018-06-25T10:39:02.233+01:00Ghostbusters Answer the Call (2016) Review
Ghostbusters Answer the Call (2016)
Well, last week I reviewed Tomorrowland. A good film. Not a brilliant one, but still a good one. The point was not every film has to be Citizen Kane, or the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Some can just be good without being great or iconic.
Not everything has to be a ten out of ten story. You don’t need to dine out at a fine restaurant every day, Mountain Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01338740470502820354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957710307981180972.post-54063692302259937672018-06-21T21:42:00.001+01:002018-06-22T06:04:33.562+01:00The Best Bond?
One of the reasons I restarted these reviews was that I forwarded a link to my ancient, fawning, opinion on Timothy Dalton’s acting when a friend of mine started posting something on Facebook. He said it was good and I should try writing this sort of thing again.
Well among other things it got me thinking about James Bond in general and I want to take this opportunity to do a Mountain Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01338740470502820354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957710307981180972.post-68862410903411447362018-06-18T10:06:00.000+01:002018-06-18T17:03:32.967+01:00Film Review:- Tomorrowland A World BeyondWell I'm back. I'm going to start trying to write reviews again and I'm got to start with what I think is a hidden gem, that I'm sure is going to become a cult classic in a few years.
Tomorrowland A World Beyond
Now I'm going to try and avoid spoilers, because while the twist is sort of obvious, especially in hindsight, its important you follow the journey with the characters. Having Mountain Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01338740470502820354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957710307981180972.post-8181981106677279192013-12-31T12:37:00.002+00:002013-12-31T12:37:32.919+00:00End of year Doctor Who review.
Alright. The year ends and I’ve got a job to finish. Now I’ve tried reviewing recent Doctor Who adventures all year but life, being what it is these days I’ve never had the chance. Now I do.
So what am I gong to review here. In short; Matt Smith’s last two adventures and whatever I can tag on…
So to begin the 50th anniversary special, Day of the Doctor. I loved this episode, great fun to Mountain Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01338740470502820354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957710307981180972.post-49487133432071370602013-09-03T00:50:00.000+01:002013-09-03T00:50:12.270+01:00Linkara's Creative Challange
Okay Linkara (AKA Lewis Lovhaug) An on line video reviewer just posted a creative writing challenge. I've been thinking about this and here we go.
First of all background; during his reviews of comic books both old and new Linkara has vast storylines with some fairly competent plots. Basically it's his way of saying "Yes I can do it too, and better than you" to the comics he reviews. Believe Mountain Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01338740470502820354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957710307981180972.post-78696803906115024872013-07-19T23:21:00.003+01:002013-07-19T23:21:38.231+01:00At Worlds End Review
You ever watched a football match, or Cricket, or any sport really and this happens:- It's your favourite team, they're legendary in your eyes, and been a good match so far. Sure there's something off about the way your team's playing, but you chalk that up to nerves, or that they're playing tactics you're not familiar with. Then, in the last few minutes, the other side scores an equaliser. Mountain Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01338740470502820354noreply@blogger.com0