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by Velvet Crowe
Sat Sep 05, 2015 6:00 am
Forum: Full Reviews
Topic: Shrek 2 (2004)
Replies: 1
Views: 1176

Re: Shrek 2 (2004)

Well I think you have to consider the time it was made. Back in 2001-2004, crude humor, pop culture references and parodies of fairy tales were all pretty novel ideas. It was before youtube was really a thing and when Newgrounds was dropping down tons of violent Mario and Sonic parodies on a weekly ...
by Velvet Crowe
Sat Sep 05, 2015 5:48 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Famous Movies Better/Worse than Books They Were Adapted From
Replies: 45
Views: 15122

Re: Famous Movies Better/Worse than Books They Were Adapted

As for novels that are better than movies, The Time Machine. Easily. The novel was pretty average and not particularly great, but movie was outright atrocious and completely missed the point of the novel and inserted in some awful, generic, blockbuster-ish story. Which movie version of the "Th...
by Velvet Crowe
Sun Aug 30, 2015 12:02 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Famous Movies Better/Worse than Books They Were Adapted From
Replies: 45
Views: 15122

Re: Famous Movies Better/Worse than Books They Were Adapted

Personally I mostly read non-fiction novels and rarely go into TOO heavily into fiction novels. I mean I've read plenty of classics like "Brave New World," "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" as well as oddball shit like Corley Edwin's &...
by Velvet Crowe
Sat Aug 29, 2015 11:38 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Would you recommend Netflix?
Replies: 37
Views: 12819

Re: Would you recommend Netflix?

The way I see it is that if you're not really certain of what you want to watch and just kinda want to browse through a bunch of random shit and find something, Netflix is a pretty good option. Otherwise if you want something specific I'd suggest torrents if the legality of it isn't an issue for you...
by Velvet Crowe
Sat Aug 29, 2015 11:29 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Favorite Mini-Reviews
Replies: 244
Views: 245138

Re: Favorite Mini-Reviews

I rarely post here on the forums but I do like using this website a lot. I've come to like a lot of the reviews a lot of people put up here and I find this community a lot more respectable than other places I've gone to. When I started I didn't really put up too many reviews on what I watched, but n...
by Velvet Crowe
Thu Dec 09, 2010 1:39 pm
Forum: Movie-Specific
Topic: The World Is Coming to an End
Replies: 20
Views: 8161

Re: The World Is Coming to an End

Is it going to involve penguins?