My crap, all in one place.
Hokum was an above decent horror movie. The scares were good, albeit sometimes cheap. Adam Scotts's Ohm was an annoying and easily-hated spitwad who somewhat redeems himself by the end. The plot (or rather, plots), although not complete, was left open in all the right ways.
It just oozed a confidence and attention to itself that a lot of films, let alone horror films, lack in an age of low attention spans. Even the relatively non-eventful first act was watchable.
Recommended.
To be honest I'm not sure why this book was on my list. I like to think I have a robust and discerning filter mechanism - mainly because I don't have the time any more to consume all the books that I want to. I guess no system is perfect and thus Dark Matter slipped made it to my reading list.
How bad a book is doesn't typically stem from a single reason. Dark Matter is badly written (both technically and creatively), has bad characters (although I was made to feel very strongly how much of a douchebag Jason was) and characterisation and treats the "multiple worlds" concept with such a lack of care and attention that I was left unusually frustrated. This wasn't just bad scifi, it was bad art, and I firmly place it amongst Twilight and The Hunger Games as one of the most awful books I've read.
The only reason I completed this book was because it was mercifully short. One to skip.
