#frankly I’m also usually easy to please. so I’ll see negative reviews about something that mostly just confuse me as to why someone would

[capricioussuns]

in my experience, the Motorola phones I've had have been pretty good. my favorite was the Moto X but they haven't made them for a Hot while i think. i also got a Moto G that served me pretty well until someone else in my family upgraded their phone so i inherited their old one (which was slightly better than the one i had at that point)

if you're okay with, well, google. the google pixel is actually a pretty nice phone and since they're the ones financing and making it they don't have any dumb extraneous apps loaded on that you can't remove. but again it's google so they are undoubtedly being sketchy about it in some way as well. but it's also a good quality phone and still a better choice than apple.

but most importantly just. do your research for what will fit Your needs. if you like good quality build and camera that can compete with apple then you'll want to get the google pixel, if you like functionality and least amount of pre-loaded, un-uninstallible apps I'd recommend motorola, but ultimately you really wanna do research on your own

I think my uncle, who’s super techy, has or had the pixel, so I could definitely ask him about it, I honestly completely forgot about them! I’ve also never had a Motorola phone, so I will definitely look into both of those, thank you so much!!

Usually the only advice I ever get is to get the Samsung whatever latest model, which I’ve also seen pretty recurrently get mixed reviews (though I’m also super skeptical about customer reviews a lot of the time since they have a tendency to be “had it for two days, best phone ever five stars!!��� Or “I’ve always used apple but wanted to try something new and this isn’t apple I hate it -2/10”), so I really appreciate it!

[themediareviewer]

Pan (2015)

Directed by Joe Wright. Family/fantasy movie.

Okay, so this is the type of movie that I feel I will come to disagree with my own opinion in a few years. I’ll explain why. I think I speak for all of us when I say that nowadays it’s quite hard to watch a movie without having ANY preconceived ideas of it. Either we’ve watched the trailer (one of those here-is-the-whole-plot-of-the-movie-except-for-maybe-the-last-two-minutes kind of trailers), or perhaps one of our friends has watched it and talked about it heatedly, or  maybe we’ve gotten 5,839,286 GIFs of the movie on our feed and already know most of the whole plot. 

My point is that, by the point when we sit down to watch a movie, many times, we have already formed an opinion about it. Sometimes, the movie has been so hyped up by our friends that when we watch it, our expectations are not met and we end up not like the movie, period. Or, on the contrary, the media has been so harsh with the movie, that when it’s anything more than a catastrophe, you actually end up enjoying it. 

When I walked into Pan, I did NOT have a good image of the movie. I had read somewhere (and this is a bit of information that I have NOT managed to confirm since then), that although the story of Peter Pan has become public domain, people who use the story still pay the copyrights to the owner. Why, you ask? Because the actual “owner” of the story, writer J.M. Barrie transferred the copyright to the Great Ormond Street Hospital , which is a children’s hospital in London. In fact, in the strongly-worded article I had read at the time, the article’s writer had specified how important that source of income was for the hospital, and how it helped a lot of children (a good writer always appeals to the heart of its readers, right?). Now, it was said (and this is the part I have failed to confirm, please let me know if you find an article about it) that this iteration of Peter Pan chose NOT to pay the copyrights. I mean, no one is actually obliged to do it… but it does seem like the right thing to do, particularly when you think of today’s movie stars’ salaries (which can go up to millions of dollars), donating part of the revenue of your million-dollar movie to a hospital of children, doesn’t seem like such a hard thing to do.

In other words, this movie was already not looking good to me as a person (I am the type of person who can’t fully separate the artist from the art, and although I won’t go on about it here, I will say that I preferred not to buy this movie, and only watched it when it came to Netflix). In addition to that whole internal debate about watching the movie or not, I also found a lot of reviews about this movie when I was trying to confirm the information in the paragraph above. And they were all extremely negative, with scores going from 0 stars out of 5, to 23%, to “YOU SHOULD JUST NOT WATCH THIS” kind of reviews. 

So, when I sat down to watch this movie and I first met the main character, I was astounded to realize that I quite liked him. Played by Levi Miller, he was easily one of the best parts of the movie. But even more surprisingly, I was FLOORED when I noticed I was actually enjoying myself! I almost felt ashamed by that point. “How can you like a movie that might be STEALING money from sick CHILDREN????” my heart would scream. But then my eyes and my ears and my love for art started to speak louder and I realized that some aspects of this movie were truly worth talking about.

I’ll start by the easy one: the soundtrack by John Powell. If the first thought in your head after reading those words is, “Who the hell is John Powell?”, don’t worry, that’s normal. I do have a very soft spot for soundtracks and one of my favourite of all times is from How to Train Your Dragon (2010) by (you guessed it!) John Powell. The way he layers different instruments together is breathtaking and clearly resembles the rush of feelings you might get when you’re flying — a theme that is very relevant to both movies might I add. I listened to this soundtrack after having watched the movie, and even individually, these songs are wonderfully crafted. The first few chords of the “Opening Overture” pulled at my heartstrings, and “Kidnapped/Galleon Dog Fight” had me excited for everything this movie promised. Even the song, “Smells like Teen Spirit” (or how I call it, “Hello, Hello, How Low”) is so wonderfully dark, I had chills at the power of hundreds of voices singing it together; and then Hugh Jackman’s evil voice joins in and the all is deliciously creepy. Unfortunately, it was intercut with unnecessary jokes and the movie’s tone doesn’t live up to the song. Nevertheless, if anything positive should be coming out of the movie, the soundtrack is definitely the one.

Now, if you’ll allow me a second positive element to take out of this movie, I’d say that the circus elements were visually stunning. I wouldn’t go as far as saying that all of the art directing was brilliant, because the indigenous section of the movie was very weak on that front. (In almost all fronts really, but I’ll get to that later.) However, the circus-themed aspects of the movie were pretty enticing -- and had this style been consistent throughout the movie, it could have been one of my favourite art directing in a while. However, it wasn’t. We only had a few glimpses of it, such as when we first see the pirates of Neverland: in an otherwise dark room, one yellow spotlight lit up, a pirate dropped from the ceiling, with an elastic clearly wrapped around his waist, snatched something up, and slipped back up out of view. The snappy timing of the situation, the comically elaborate costumes and the whole theatricality of the sequence made it all very surreal and visually intriguing. Again, I wish this circus theme had stayed throughout the movie, because the rest of it simply did not live up to it.

This leads me to the next point which is where I will shift into negative gear. Now, from the beginning of this review, you probably thought I was going to say this movie was genius, but fear not; those reviews online had good reason to criticize this movie. And my reason for joining them is because the aspects that this movie gets wrong, it gets really wrong. 

The first aspect that bothered me was the inconsistency in tone. The beginning of this movie is quite delightful in my opinion -- a sort of “Home Alone” vibe, as my friend called it. Adults are quite simply caricatures of adults, and the children are the real heroes of the story. That in itself was a tiny movie that begins with (**tiny spoiler**) Peter at the orphanage and ends with him and Nibs finding something they were not looking for (**end of spoiler**). Then, the second movie begins: an action movie where Peter is forced into a dark, adult world where death, slavery and capitalism are ever present; this, by far is the strongest part of the movie in my opinion. The conversation between Peter and Blackbeard in the Captain’s Cabin is one of the most chilling sequences I have ever seen. Their age difference is so obvious displayed, thanks to the difference in the complexity of their dialogue and interests. I was very positively impressed by the scene’s depth, and particularly by Hugh Jackman’s acting. 

From then on, the movie goes downhill. It becomes your usual very-bad-adaptation of a story, with corny costumes, weird character development and quite frankly, racism left to right. I’m not one to hammer on socially inadequate problems, because I’m afraid of joining in today’s abuse of the term “politically correct”.  However, this movie really did some very poor decisions on that front. I mean, the most violent character is the only prominent dark-skinned character; the only traitor is the Indian-looking character; the only character that can barely speak English is Asian; and the only strong indigenous character is played by a white actress. I mean. It’s hard to defend casting decisions like that.

Apart from that, although the special effects were pretty good, the integration between them and the characters was a bit… jarring. By that, I mean that sometimes we would see an extreme long shot (shot from very far) of a CGI battle taking place, then suddenly cut to a close-up of the character’s reaction to the battle... and not for one second did I believe that those two shots were taking place at the same at the same time and space. My movie-geek mind could just see the actors standing in front of a green screen and some director yelling at them “PRETEND TO REACT TO THIS!! REMEMBER THIS IS ALL VEEEERY SCARY!!” The soundtrack and quality of the actors themselves almost fixed this feeling, but I couldn’t quite shake it off. This CG oddness got considerably more relevant whenever flying characters were involved; it was very difficult for me to believe that they were part of the same world as the non-flying characters, which took me away from the story in numerous occasions.

Finally, one of my biggest problems was the character of Hook. I won’t say much about him in respect for those who want to watch the movie spoiler free, but let’s just say that as an origin story, it felt quite thrown together and poorly developed. His motivations were nebulous to say to least and it’s difficult to see how he and the Captain Hook we know turn out to be the same person. And if they truly do, then I would love to see that happening, because what I saw so far did not sell me on that story point. 

Not only that, but it felt like a wasted opportunity to make something incredible. Imagine if (** Spoilers ahead till the end of this paragraph**) after Peter gets taken to Neverland, Peter’s best friend, Nibs actually grows up and becomes bitter. And suppose, that when Peter does come back for him, Nibs has become a self-reliant old man, whose life was so sad and lonely, that his only drive to live was to hate that “blasted Peter Pan” who left him rotting in that orphanage. Now suppose that at some point in the movie, you find out that Nibs’ last name is actually Hook. I mean, wouldn’t you have lost your mind a tiny little bit? Wouldn’t it have been superb if Peter turned out to be the originator of his own nemesis? Wouldn’t it be tragic if, child-minded Peter doesn’t see the bitterness in Nibs-turned-Hook, and continues to play hero-versus-villain with his best friend for the rest of his days? Meanwhile, Nibs-Hook is actually trying to get to Peter, but can’t quite bring himself to kill him because they were best friends once? (**End of Spoiler**) Now that would have been true to the creepy, deep tone that the movie had established in the beginning, and could have actually done justice to the great character of Captain Hook.

In fact, as ridiculous as this might sound, I believe that the lack of time was part of this movie’s problem. “Wait, you’re saying you wanted more of this??” I hear you rage. Well, sort of, yes. I think this movie had a lot of rich material they could have explored, particularly in the dark aspects, like the slavery and war. The contrast between innocent children and truly infamous world is a hard sell, but a very possible one, if Stranger Things (2016) has taught me anything. 

The indigenous people also felt thrown into the story for me, and even seemed unnecessary the way they were presented. Their fighting style didn’t seem particularly unique (or effective), their costumes were not particularly rich, and their intentions seemed to come from a glorified past we didn’t get to see. I feel like they had to be there because they were in the original story, but their necessity in this movie was questionable. 

Now, if the movie had had more time, say, (**Spoilers ahead**) if the first movie had focused simply on Blackbeard’s exploitation of pixum and Peter’s escape from the compound, then the second one could have been about Peter discovering Neverland and its inhabitants (the tribe, the fairies, the mermaids), and the third movie could be the climax where Peter rises up against Blackbeard and the Pirates (**end of spoilers**). 

Again, I know this would all never happen, because producers don’t like investing in something they’re not sure will sell. They would hardly invest in three Peter Pan origin movies, particularly if the first one did as badly as Pan did. But as usual, I am speaking from a story standpoint. And although I understand that people claim that the world has simply “moved on” from the notion of Peter Pan, the boy who never grew up, I think that if we had had the time to explore a new, original Neverland, we could have been sold into loving Peter again. This movie could have reawaken the joys of being a child into many viewers’ hearts. But instead, it settled for being a rushed movie, with clashing themes, and brilliant aspects just begging to be explored. Now, it’s true that, as I said in the beginning, my expectations for this movie might have been so low, I ended up finding too many redeeming points about it, and maybe one day I’ll come to disagree with myself about all this. But for now, I honestly feel that this is one of the only bad movies I wish they had done more of.

[udemy-gift-coupon-blog]

The Unstoppable Discipline Program - Masterclass ##UdemyFreeCourses ##udemykupon #discipline #Masterclass #Program #Unstoppable The Unstoppable Discipline Program - Masterclass Dear Friend, If you want to develop your potential as much as you can in life, this will be the most important course you'll ever watch. But First, Read This Disclaimer: Please understand my results are not typical. I’m not implying you’ll duplicate them (or do anything for that matter). This course is only for those that feel they have great potential but they waste it because they are not disciplined to develop and nourish that potential. The average person who buys any "how to" courses gets little to no results. I'm using these references for example purposes only. Your results will vary and depend on many factors ...including but not limited to your background, experience, and level of determination. If you don't really care about striving to be the best version of yourself, please DO NOT GET THIS COURSE. It's not really for the average person. So with that understood ... let me jump right in and show you what's this really all about... Exactly What You're Getting First of all, this isn't like any personal development course you've ever watch. There's no fluff or filler - just battle-tested principles to be the most self-disciplined person you've ever seen. And it's easy to watch, we created animated videos to better express a concept or idea. And It's About MORE Than Just Self-Discipline. See, you can use the same methods in this course to change your bad habits, increase productivity, strengthen your ability to focus and much more. For example, some students used this to achieve their fitness goals, others for their financial goals. A client of mine went from being lazy and without purpose to open a new business and become a trusted influencer. Now he's enjoying the benefits of being a focused, productive and disciplined person. Another client said that he could never be consistent in his work. He's motivation fluctuated even if he saw positive results. After watching this course, he's motivation started to increase without feeling overwhelmed. THIS IS NOT JUST A COURSE. IT'S A PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM. It is a complete personal development program from A to Z. Hundreds of our clients say it is the most complete program on self-discipline on the market today. Hundreds of people completely changed their life using The Unstoppable Discipline Program. This course gave them the "WHY" of their life. They BANISHED addictions, bad habits, negative thinking, indecision and fearful thoughts. If you want to experience the MOST POWERFUL transformation of your life, you cannot afford NOT TO GET THIS COURSE. "So like I said, there's more to The Unstoppable Discipline Program than "just" self-discipline. Here's a fraction of what you're getting... How to actually stick to your daily commitments. The hard truth is that most people aren't successful because they lose their motivation to stick to their daily tasks. This course will give you the formula to stick to your goals even if you're not feeling it. Module 4. How to banish procrastination forever. Remember how awful it feels to procrastinate on the things you want to work on? The guilt, the self-pity, the lack of motivation. After this course, you'll learn how to overcome all of that. You'll find how to do that in Module 7. The ONE THING that matters the most: Your habits. The Unstoppable Discipline Program will teach you how to turn your bad habits into good habits. You'll find how to change your habits in Module 8. TODAY: You are going to redefine your identity. Do you know who you really are? That's the most important question when we change our life. Re-Discover WHO YOU ARE AS A PERSON in Module 2. Do you feel overwhelmed sometimes? This course will reveal the right psychology and the right diet to have sustained levels of energy. You'll learn how to eliminate brain fog and keep your body energized on Module 15. Confused and without purpose in life? Can't find your "WHY"? You'll learn how to discover your purpose in life on page Module 1. You need to eliminate fear to succeed in life, right? Wrong! This is the "common mistake" people do. You'll learn how to make fear your partner and use it to your advantage. Here's a brand new approach that's faster, simpler to implement, and quite frankly better. Module 12. How to quit any addiction. Eye-opening stats and a recent case study. Module 9. Do you lose your drive over time? Sometimes you're very motivated and sometimes you're lazy as a cat. This course will going to fix that. You'll learn how to be constantly motivated in Module 10. Shocking simple psychological technique to control your cravings. It's called the Sublime Moment and this is the greatest weapon of self-discipline. This alone is worth the course. Module 14. A proven way to eliminate self-doubt. Forget the usual "guru stuff" This 3-step approach works much better and makes you feel like a hero. Module 12. The new approach to discover meaning in your life. It's like nothing you've ever seen before, and you'll know what your life is all about. Module 16. How to use your willpower and imagination to get things done faster than ever before. Module 3. How to dissolve any negative thought ...even if you've been the most depressed person ever. Module 6. How to eliminate distractions so you can get more things done in the day.Shocking results. Module 8. The truth about productivity. The stuff you see everyone else doing is failing, but this new method is simpler and it's working. Case study walks you through it in Module 15. Scientific method proven to dramatically increase your attention span. Do this technique in the morning before anything else. Module 3. How can a piece of paper create unstoppable discipline. No one told you this secret until now. Module 5. You're right ...that is a lot of battle-tested strategies and tactics. And it's really just the tip of the iceberg. But it gets better because you're also getting... An Advanced System For Habits Hacking As a bonus, you will learn how to hack your habits so it's fun and easy to wake up early in the morning, hit the gym, cut those 10 pounds, read that book, and live mindfully. Discover the tactics to build the perfect routine to grow your business. All you need to do is change your daily habits. This is not taught anywhere else, so you may want to pay attention to this. This is a science based system that gets you laser focused on your productivity. The best part of this is that ... It Works Even If You Don't Believe It Does Listen. If you don't believe a course can totally transform your life, you're not alone. I didn't believe it either until I saw the results. And that's why I've spent years developing this simple, yet advanced system I'll be giving you in this course. When you use it, two things will happen. First, you'll start to see an immediate increase in your personal satisfaction... regardless of whether you'll make a big change or a small change. This is really important to you because whenever you feel you make progress in life, you will also feel happier. The next thing you'll notice right away is: It Is Fun And Easy To Watch The way the system is structured in the course is fun and engaging. Other courses on personal development like this are boring and slow paced. This is something totally different. Every module from the course is under 15 minutes long, engaging and fun to watch. We've created amazing animations to better express a concept or idea. Here's What To Do Next The "cost" of this course is very inexpensive. I usually charge hundreds of dollars in my private coaching sessions for the exact information, but you can have it today for a fraction of that. Just get enrolled now before it's too late. Thanks for taking the time to read this letter and I look forward to speaking with you soon. Sincerely, Andrei & Radu Antoniu 👉 Activate Udemy Coupon 👈 Free Tutorials Udemy Review Real Discount Udemy Free Courses Udemy Coupon Udemy Francais Coupon Udemy gratuit Coursera and Edx ELearningFree Course Free Online Training Udemy Udemy Free Coupons Udemy Free Discount Coupons Udemy Online Course Udemy Online Training 100% FREE Udemy Discount Coupons https://www.couponudemy.com/blog/the-unstoppable-discipline-program-masterclass/