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If Young Sheldon could hit a slapshot like this little nerd maybe he'd actually have a decent TV show.

This week I've been using a Disney+ movie randomizer to pick movies to watch. This one sucked ass but was still pretty fun.

99% of gamblers stop just before they hit the jackpot. Never stop gambling.

This summer I'm dressing like Woody and talking trash like Wesley.

Some men only need a minute. Which is fine. It's completely normal and actually pretty dope!

Wish we could turn back time, to the good old days,

When our mama sang us to sleep, but now we're stressed out! (oh)

Wish we could turn back time (oh), to the good old days (oh),

When our mama sang us to sleep, but now we're stressed out!

three things I loved:

- when Trinity senses three guys behind him drawing their guns so he no-look shoots them all over his shoulder

- when he does a back somersault into double leg kick to knock out two guys at once

- when he senses a guy upstairs drawing his gun so he shoots him in the balls through the ceiling

CNN was doing a marathon of this movie over the last couple days. Watched it for six hours and it felt like the story just didn’t go anywhere. Not sure what all the hype was about.

Every kick was a beautiful work of art… like a foot/leg playing a symphony, but with a ball instead of various instruments…

Watched this like four months ago and forgot to log it. Two thoughts:

1. Felt like they were really trying to flesh out the IP for future spin-offs (spins-off?)

2. Why are there THREE directors? It's just a movie guys… chill

I wanted to be a fighter pilot when I was 13, after watching the original Top Gun. Yes, I, Rory "I Hate War" O'Brien, wanted to the United States military. Heartbreakingly, however, I learned that I couldn't be a pilot due to my severe nearsightedness. After this discovery, I was crestfallen. I slipped into to a sedentary, rudderless life. I drank. I smoked. I did every drug in the book ("Ripley's Believe it or Not"). I would squint up at the sky with a mix of envy and dismay, cursing the beautiful hazel eyes which, before then, had only brought me success (.190 batting average in Little League, yellow belt in karate). My wings of hope were clipped; my plane of dreams was grounded; my seat-back tray of desire was locked firmly in the upright position.

That is, until Top Gun: Maverick. While I didn't watch the entirety of the film (fast-forwarded to the flying scenes), from what I did see, I was hooked again. When the movie ended, I immediately burned all my hippie bandanas, deleted my Tumblr , and scheduled an appointment for laser eye surgery. "Mama, Papa," I exclaimed over facetime to my stunned liberal parents, "I'm gonna be a fly-boy!"

As I strode into the Navy enlistment office, I finally felt like a true man. Sure, they said that I'm "too out of shape to even be a drone operator," but at the end of the day, being a fighter pilot isn't about a medal on your chest, a pretty lady painted on your plane, or even a form that says you're fit to operate heavy machinery. It's about what's in your heart: a merciless lust for the blood of whomever the oligarchy deems a threat to its nebulous interests. And, well, I think that's beautiful.

Watched on Thursday July 18, 2024.

Ok, ok, hear me out. Yes, it's Mel Gibson. Yes, he's a misogynist pig slimeball etc. for the first, I don't know, 75% of this movie. But the payoff in the end is great, the performances by all the women (and yeah, even Mel) are superb, and his character development is really well done.

So yes, women be shopping. But they also… be thinking.

amazing, as always, but couldn't help but think it could be improved if Robin Williams played a goofy blue genie instead of a troubled psychiatrist

At one point Lupin runs into an immortal Adolf Hitler and instinctively does the Elon salute out of pure bewilderment.

Not the kind of thing they're putting in The Minecraft Movie.

Because of woke…

This movie was so weirdly and oddly Lynchian..

Also my favorite line is probably when Nic Cage says "What" on the phone.

This is like Jaws on crack!!!! It’s like if freaking Jaws was on some damn crack, dude!!!! Yowee!!!

some of the shots in this movie look like they're from the 70s or 80s, it's really remarkable how well filmed this is. there's one short scene when two characters are playing ping pong, and the camera whips back and forth with the ball, the like of which I've never seen accomplished in such an early film.

I love old movies so much…

also I watched this on Tubi and am still amazed at the breadth of films they have there. no idea how it's free

for Valentine's Day this year I made popcorn chicken, cracked a beer, and watched George Stevens's classic 1938 romcom, "Vivacious Lady."

This dude has seen it all. Sincerely wish the movie was like two hours longer to include more about his life through the ages. I know it's fake but I want to believe…

For my money, the best Jane Austen adaptation ever… and I've seen freakin Bridgerton!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I need a large estate asap. Girls with big inheritances hmu, I'll make it worth your while (will play your pianoforte acceptably, if you know what I mean (I do actually just mean I will play one Mozart piece over and over again on your piano))

Broooo I love chick flicks!!! Texted my dad after watching it like "hey have you seen the 2009 BBC four-part miniseries version of 'Emma'? It rocks" and he was like "yeah it's great!" I guess what I'm saying is that I'm glad he never sent me away as a child to be raised by a distant relation.

These guys love being earnest fr. Another great movie about rich people just hanging out, my favorite genre

This is one of the most Catholic movies I've ever seen, and I've seen Encanto. DESPITE that it's a fun and heartwarming romcom.

that’s it, 2025 is the year I get off my lazy ass and start smoking cigarettes

Sometimes A Movie Is Just Really, Really Funny—And That's Okay.

I vividly seeing the scene with the two topless girls at the party on a TV at a car dealership when I was like twelve years old. It changed me forever

This review may contain spoilers.

Ok about 40 minutes in there's a defense attorney who sounds exactly like Kamala Harris, and it really blew my mind. Hoping I'm not the only one who noticed that.

Good movie though, even if the dark comedy stuff at the end threw me for a loop. Kinda weird to end it like that, I think. But that's ole Ricky Linklater for ya!

If I were as rich and insane as Thomas Crown I would to be the Robin Hood of art thieves. I'd steal Starry Night and give it to a homeless shelter. Each working class family would receive a painting by their favorite Dutch master. The rich people would get to keep their Kaws and Jeff Koonses and Banksies, white the poor would get the Tintorettos and Cezannes and Goyas. Simple as that.

Watched with my parents on Thanksgiving night. I honestly think this might be the best Christmas movie ever. It pretty much comes down to this or "It's a Wonderful Life," I guess.

Watched with my dad; between the two of us, we probably have more than 75% of all the lines memorized. Great film. Still my favorite.

What do you think is the best Hitchcock movie?

Two old rich guys randomly giving me £1,000,000 has actually been my career plan since ever I graduated from high school, so it's nice to see that path working out for someone.

This movie would be exactly like Poor Things (2023) if the censors hadn't gotten to it. Anyway, Judy Holliday is brilliant in this comedy, and totally earned the Best Actress Oscar (and Golden Globe) she got for the role. Broderick Crawford is no slouch either—the pair of them steal every scene they're in.

Also, side note: throughout the film all these people are drinking Scotch & soda, or even Scotch & water, and I just don't understand the appeal. Really just a gross drink.

Raquel Welch has a certain je ne sais quoi about her…

Oh wait—je sais quoi! Ce sont les bazongas!

I say, what an astoundingly original picture. Quite out of the ordinary, indeed. But really, I could've done without all that rot about those blasted servants! Do forgive me, but I tend to be of the mind that upstairs is where the only interesting events ever happen… A gripping game of bridge; a particularly bracing tea time; a discussion of the East Asian markets over brandy and billiards… Well, we can't all have as sophisticated tastes as I, eh? Some chaps can sit through anything and proclaim it "bloody good art, that is." I dare say, I mightn't have even finished the film at all if not for Stephen Fry's terribly witty late entrance as Inspector Thomp—Ah! The tea is here! Took you long enough, Jennings! I'm absolutely parched; I was about to start lapping madly at the cherub fountain in the east garden like a spaniel after retrieving an unusually gamey pheasant! Hah! Ahah hah!

We open on Rory O'Brien, lying in bed late one Saturday night, just returned from a bar, writing a letterboxd review of Adaptation (2002). He sets his fingers on the keyboard, and begins to type: "We open on Rory O'Brien, lying in bed late one Saturday night, just returned from a bar, writing a letterboxd review of Adaptation (2002)."

Ok, I didn’t actually watch this movie. But I’ve been reading lots of good books lately, and no movies, so I figured this is the best way to share that. For instance: tonight I just finished reading Pride and Prejudice, and I had a marvelous time in the process. It might be the perfect book. I also read The Code of the Woosters, by PG Wodehouse, which was extremely funny. I think we could all learn a thing or two from books.

Anyway I think this movie is a porno, so that’s neat. Apparently directed by Ron Jeremy. Huh. I’ll give it… two stars? Whatever!

Best,
Rory

watched this again right before moving to the city just to set my expectations unattainably high. masterpiece

Needed this one. Hell yes dude get that vengeance

This movie is dated in the best way. So entertaining

😍🤌🏻 🏺

io amo cinema. un film bellissimo!!! che sfumato…. ciao. buccatini 😼👍

Still funny, but it just doesn’t hold up to all those times I watched it with my dad as a kid. This is such a “dad and son movie night” movie.

face hurts from laughing ow

not as good as the first one, but still has plenty of funny moments 😀 James Garner is so funny.

My face hurts from laughing so much. Side note: that Russian assassin woman was a big part of my sexual awakening as a preteen. Gotta be honest here. It’s letterboxd

The age old battle: cattlemen vs sheepmen

this shit goes ham, no haram

The recurring shots of the police van driving Clouseau to prison made me cry laughing

Inspector Jacques Clouseau is the funniest natural disaster since Hurricane Doodoo

needs 100% more Clouseau!!!!

the kind of humor Marvel wishes it had

The name’s Galore… Pussy Galore.

*Jackie Chan gets punched in the nose*

ENGLISH VOICE ACTOR: Waaaaaaaaah owiieeeeeeeeee my noooooooose ouchie ouchie ouchie yowwwwwww

*Jackie Chan completes the most impressive series of acrobatics ever performed on film*

ENGLISH VOICE ACTOR: Wow! Haha! Yeah! Huah! Hyah! Kapow!

WARNING

This movie is entertainment distilled to its purest form. Entertainment at this concentration could kill a horse if injected with even the smallest quantity permitted by law.

A big list of all my favorite comedies. Some are much more comedic than others, but they're all funny. I sorted it by my star rating, just to give some idea of which ones I like more, but some of the lower-rated films are funnier than the 5-stars.

• Kung Fu Hustle
• The Apartment
• The Awful Truth
• Adaptation.
• Arthur
• Bottoms
• Hot Fuzz
• The Thin Man
• Snatch
• Surf's Up

...plus 55 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

the movies I always come back to

• To Catch a Thief
• A Room with a View
• The Three Musketeers
• When Harry Met Sally...
• The Philadelphia Story
• The Apartment
• Jaws
• O Brother, Where Art Thou?
• Singin' in the Rain
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind

...plus 20 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

My favorite movies of the black and white variety :)

• The Apartment
• It Happened One Night
• The Philadelphia Story
• All About Eve
• Casablanca
• The Thin Man
• It's a Wonderful Life
• Rope
• The Shop Around the Corner
• Scrooge

...plus 29 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

My personal ranking of Miyazaki’s movies

1. Porco Rosso
2. Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro
3. Princess Mononoke
4. Spirited Away
5. Howl's Moving Castle
6. My Neighbor Totoro
7. The Boy and the Heron
8. Castle in the Sky
9. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
10. Kiki's Delivery Service

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Some of these are Christmas movies, some of them take place during Christmas, and some just sorta involve Christmas in one way or another! Whatever the case, they're my favorites for this time of year. Merry Christmas, you movie freaks

• The Shop Around the Corner
• When Harry Met Sally...
• The Apartment
• It's a Wonderful Life
• Scrooge
• Miracle on 34th Street
• White Christmas
• Christmas in Connecticut
• The Bishop's Wife
• It Happened on Fifth Avenue

...plus 12 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

TENTATIVE LIST

1. The Royal Tenenbaums
2. The Grand Budapest Hotel
3. Fantastic Mr. Fox
4. Moonrise Kingdom
5. The Darjeeling Limited
6. Rushmore
7. The French Dispatch
8. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
9. Isle of Dogs
10. Bottle Rocket

Some of these are more com than rom. Or more rom than com. Whatever!

• To Catch a Thief
• When Harry Met Sally...
• Tootsie
• Four Weddings and a Funeral
• The Philadelphia Story
• The Awful Truth
• Bringing Up Baby
• My Favorite Wife
• Crazy, Stupid, Love.
• Emma

...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Lawrence of Arabia
• Jaws
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• The Godfather
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• Groundhog Day
• Life of Brian
• The Lobster
• Amadeus
• To Catch a Thief

...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Actually they’re all perfect, and if you disagree you’re wrong

• Surf's Up
• The Adventures of Tintin
• The Nice Guys
• Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
• Hot Rod
• The Illusionist
• The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
• Groundhog Day
• Porco Rosso
• What About Bob?

...plus 27 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Some movies to which people don’t pay enough attention

• Your Local Sheriff!
• The Three Musketeers
• The Nice Guys
• Surf's Up

• Mad Max: Fury Road
• Whiplash
• Blade Runner 2049
• Arrival
• The Lobster
• Parasite
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Moonrise Kingdom
• The Lighthouse
• The Farewell

1. Arrival
2. The General
3. A Page of Madness
4. City Lights
5. M
6. Modern Times
7. Rebecca
8. The Great Dictator
9. Citizen Kane
10. Suspicion

...plus 65 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.