Escapist Community User Review Index {Films, Books, TV Shows, Anime, Music}
The User Review Board at your fingertips
Introduction
Seeing as how Pimppeter2 has left the site Okay, Pimp's back, but I am still taking control of the User Review Indexes here on The Escapist. I have gotten permission from Kuliani to do this, and have cleaned up everything in this thread. It will stay updated, and like before, there will be two threads, one for video games, and one for everything else. This is the thread for everything else. For video games, please go here.
Using the User Review Index
To find a review, use Ctrl + F[1] to search for your favorite title, or simply scroll through the sections and click on whatever catches your eye.
Please refrain from posting on old reviews.
If a review is over one month old, an author may not wish for their review to be brought back from the dead. This is both inconsiderate to the author, who may have drasticly improved their writing since that time, but is also inconsiderate to other reviewers, who do not like having their review pushed down by a much older review.
Submitting a review to the User Review Index
A review can only be submitted to the User Review Index with its author's permission. If you feel like a review should be featured in the glossary, please contact the author. No review can be featured unless it has the approval of its author. If you are the author, then obviously you need not get additional permission. More than one submission for a specific item is more than acceptable, in fact, that is preferred! Multiple viewpoints on an item offers readers many perspectives to help them make an informed decision. If it is someone else's review, please PM them and forward their response to me so that I can verify they have approved its posting in the index. If the review is your own, all you must do is follow the steps below. If you believe a review should be featured in this index, please post the review here in the following format:
Link - The url of the Review should be embedded to show the name of the product your are reviewing Author - This should be YOU Series - Optional, The name of your review series. (Ex: $2.50 Reviews)[2] Date - The date that the review was published (Month Date, Year)
For 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
Films:
Need a good flick to spend the night with, but don't want to waste your money and time on a crappy film? The Escapist features some great reviewers to cover your cinematic needs!
[1] Or don't and make my job harder. Either way, they'll still get put in. It's just that I don't have time to do it now, and proper formatting would make it easier. ;)
I'm blaming it on tiredness. Despite the fact I posted it at 7:33 at night. Fixed now.
[1] Or don't and make my job harder. Either way, they'll still get put in. It's just that I don't have time to do it now, and proper formatting would make it easier. ;)
Damn, right. Five at once. This might also be the right time to ask what exactly happened to the books section? I'm fair certain we used to have one (I remember some guy reviewing Metro 2033 at least), but it appears gone.
Next time, please put them in the proper format before asking for them to be added. It helps out a lot if they are formatted properly, as it saves me time. :)
joethekoeller: This might also be the right time to ask what exactly happened to the books section? I'm fair certain we used to have one (I remember some guy reviewing Metro 2033 at least), but it appears gone.
I...actually don't know. I took all the previous reviews in the section and put them into here. Maybe I missed books? I'm not sure, but it is there again now!
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Adaption Decay: Where I look at a film adaption of a anime or video game and see where they went right and so very wrong. Adaption Decay: BloodRayne
Anime And The Issues We have With I: A series i doo to showcase what are the different things people complain about anime, add either explain why this is blown well out of proportion or rarely agree with the critics. It's here because I feel lazy and don't want to search for them all when needs be.
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Oh cool, I wondered if somebody was going to take over the Review Index after Pimppeter went about requesting a ban.
Looks over list...
All righty, it appears this new version of the index has all but my two most recent contributions to the User Review section on it already, so here are those, formatted in the requested style.
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Escapist Community User Review Index {Films, Books, TV Shows, Anime, Music}
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Using the User Review Index
To find a review, use Ctrl + F [1] to search for your favorite title, or simply scroll through the sections and click on whatever catches your eye.
Please refrain from posting on old reviews.
If a review is over one month old, an author may not wish for their review to be brought back from the dead. This is both inconsiderate to the author, who may have drasticly improved their writing since that time, but is also inconsiderate to other reviewers, who do not like having their review pushed down by a much older review.
Submitting a review to the User Review Index