Spot Reviews 05/17/24
May 17 2024
The Green Knight (2021) [/] On Christmas Day Sir Gawain (Dev Patel) accepts the mysterious Green Knight's (Ralph Ineson) challenge and proceeds to cut off the Green Knight's head, which doesn't kill him. One year later Sir Gawain must now travel six days north to meet the Green Knight who will strike Sir Gawain the same blow... Based on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. This is an Arthurian tale told in sort of a gritty Shakespearan dark tragedy style. It is more realistic in depicting the world as dirtier and the knights as lightly armed and armored. Lots of showing but not telling so you have to pay attention. Also lots of cut scenes and "magic" but could be hallucinations. Alicia Vikander plays two characters, one made up for the film and one from the story. This is a good King Arthur Pendragon adventure type of film though I do think you have to know the tone of the film before seeing it since it's so different than most Arthurian films.
Love O2O (2016 film) [-] This movie came out 10 days before the tv series and both are based on the same novel though since this is a movie there are less characters and less subplots. In comparison it's astonishing how good looking the tv series actors are compared to the movie. The core love story in the movie seems hurried and not as much of a central focus as in the tv series. Overall the movie felt very hurried especially the ending. This is a fairly disappointing experience.
Solitaire by MobilityWare+ (2021) [-] It's Klondike where you turn over one card (though you can change it to 3 cards in the settings) at a time from the draw pile and can redo the draw pile unlimited number of times. No other variants and instead you get various theming options. Rather boring version of a fairly boring game.
Daimo, Richmond - Shrimp Wonton Soup [+] Came here for lunch with my parents. Had shrimp wonton soup and it was really good. Large wontons full of shrimp like how my dad makes them. Soup broth was good too. May be the best restaurant wonton soup I've ever had. Parking though was fairly hard during a Saturday lunch time.
Love O2O (2016 film) [-] This movie came out 10 days before the tv series and both are based on the same novel though since this is a movie there are less characters and less subplots. In comparison it's astonishing how good looking the tv series actors are compared to the movie. The core love story in the movie seems hurried and not as much of a central focus as in the tv series. Overall the movie felt very hurried especially the ending. This is a fairly disappointing experience.
Solitaire by MobilityWare+ (2021) [-] It's Klondike where you turn over one card (though you can change it to 3 cards in the settings) at a time from the draw pile and can redo the draw pile unlimited number of times. No other variants and instead you get various theming options. Rather boring version of a fairly boring game.
Daimo, Richmond - Shrimp Wonton Soup [+] Came here for lunch with my parents. Had shrimp wonton soup and it was really good. Large wontons full of shrimp like how my dad makes them. Soup broth was good too. May be the best restaurant wonton soup I've ever had. Parking though was fairly hard during a Saturday lunch time.