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Actual Favorites: Alien, Good Will Hunting, Whiplash, Inside Llewyn Davis

Favorite films

  • House
  • Diabolique
  • Inside Llewyn Davis
  • Videodrome

All
  • Fantastic Four

    ★★½

  • The Fantastic Four

    ★½

  • Original Cast Album: Company

    ★★★½

  • Godzilla

    ★★★★½

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Fantastic Four

2005

★★½ Liked Rewatched

"Unfortunately, the doctors just couldn't do anything to fix your face."

This isn’t a good movie, but I have so much nostalgia for it, and I’ll always take camp over self-seriousness in my comic book films. It was one of the few movie soundtracks I owned on CD, so 8 year old me was definitely blasting Velvet Revolver and Sum 41 in my bedroom when this came out.

There are definitely elements here that hold up without any nostalgia goggles,…

The Fantastic Four

1994

★½ Watched

Honey, I Shrunk the Watchlist! Challenge 2025
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"What kind of a thing have I turned in to?"

They gave a blind woman a POV shot. Pure schlock made just to hold onto the film rights and never actually released, but still a really fun time with the cast and crew clearly doing their best on a tiny budget. Might be the hardest I’ve ever laughed at a movie ending.

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Pinocchio

2022

½ Watched

Literally every single change they made was bad. It’d be one thing if it was just bland with unfinished VFX. But no, it has lines like “Holy Smoke-io,” Chris Pine jokes, and explains why his name is Pinocchio THREE separate times. Disney doesn’t understand what makes their own films special and it’s infuriating to see classics remade with no care whatsoever.

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

2024

★★ Watched

"Never seen that chick before in my life. Or afterlife."

Structurally, this film is a bit of a mess. The original had such a simple, fun premise of people haunting ghosts. This one would be nearly impossible to summarize in a line or two without leaving out large sections of the film. It feels like two or three different scripts were Frankensteined together. I think it’s because there are just too many characters dividing up the screen time that it…