Harper Kingsley blogReviews

October 25, 2011 0 comments

Just read an awful book

I’m not going to name any names, but I just read the most boring and lackluster romance story I have ever had the displeasure of coming across. Not because it was badly written or anything, but because it had so much potential. There was all this build up, then nothing happened. Then there was the build up again, then nothing. Then again and again. Every single point when the story could have some kind of action, nothing would happen.

It was so frustrating and now I feel like I’ve irrevocably lost a few chunks of my life that I’m never going to get back. It was kind of like the Rune Lords books.

October 17, 2011 0 comments

Messing around with BookieJar (a How-Not-To-Do)

It took awhile for “Heroes & Villains” to show up on BookieJar.com, then I had to go back over it again and make some changes. In the process, I figured out a few things:

October 14, 2011 0 comments

alien movie “Paul”

I am currently watching “Paul,” and while it’s never going to be any kind of a favorite movie, it’s an interesting watch. A lot of silly humor, plenty of geeky references, and Simon Pegg.

It’s just rather unfortunate that they wanted so badly to get that R-rating that they took a PG-13 movie and bumped it up with vulgar language. I mean, I might have let my nephew watch it, but for all the language.

He’s such a nerdy creature that I’m sure he would totally love the movie and appreciate the watching of it more than I have. Except there’s so much bad language that there’s just no way.

October 14, 2011 0 comments

MOVIE REVIEW: Real Steel

Title: Real Steel
Genre: action, science fiction, boxing
My rating: 3 out of 5. A great popcorn movie, but as I’m not a 12-year old boy, probably something I’d only watch once.

Review: Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman) is a down on his out ex-boxer, current robot boxing contestant. A foolhardy risk taker, he owes money all over the place and is desperate for a single win. But when his ex-girlfriend is killed in an accident, Charlie is left with the custody of the eleven year old son he’s never met.

The boy, Max, has been taken in by his maternal aunt who wants to have custody of him. Charlie agrees to sign the custody papers after talking her much-older husband into ponying up $100,000 to pay for the child–half now and half later.

Charlie takes the boy and uses the money to buy himself a new robot boxer. From there, it becomes an all-out rock ’em, sock ’em robot experience.

What you have here is Hugh Jackman, a bunch of giant robots, a cute kid, and an underdog story. So if you like all that… this is your movie. And even if you don’t like all that, it’s still a popcorn movie that will leave you thoroughly entertained.