Holy moly, Death Race was way, way, WAY worse than I ever imagined.
The action was blurry, loud and shaky, with obnoxious engine-roars and never ending gun fire. Truly the cheapest possible action. The plot is beyond laughable, it’s actively distracting from the premise of seeing cars shoot at each other. How’d they ever manage to [...]
Misspent Youth - Peter F. Hamilton
I’m surprised to find I really quite liked this book. Unlike the last books of his I’ve read this one involves a much less fanciful scifi universe. Instead of a far-flung future full of Z-rays and Ultradrives this takes place in homely 2040, it’s a world that’s much easier to [...]
I’ve completed The Dreaming Void, from the mind of Peter F. Hamilton. I’m a bit of a sucker for omghuge space operas, and Hamilton certainly provided that in full with his humongous trilogy: Night’s Dawn. I know he’s not for everyone, Night’s Dawn in particular had a pretty… extreme take on the fiction part of [...]
Some people hate Transformers. Hate everything about it. But they are wrong. I’ve previously blagged about the ineptness of that movie, but you shouldn’t mistake that for complete dismissal. No the argument about Transformers is really quite simple: It opens great. Like, awesomely great. Fantastic. Yes it’s brainless action, but that robot helicopter was a [...]