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The only thing that would make this movie better is if Spider-Man died, and then Miles Morales was the star of the Spider-MCU Movies, as they clearly are writing those to be Miles movies anyway.

How have I never logged this before?

Every time they say “cruciform key,” I try to make it fit into the “she ___ on my ____ til I ____” structure, just like the Entity always intended.

She cruci on my form til I key.

Let me make a Final Destination movie where Tom Cruise has to outsmart and defeat death. I’ve been writing it in my head for the last hour and a half.

Ima be so honest with you all: this movie doesn’t need to go as hard as it does. It’s pretty great.

The more I watch this, the more I realize it’s the most impressive of the batch. On every level. There’s true mastery behind the craft, and it’s so wild that these movies are made basically without a script.

I still think the last hour is a mess, but the experience of watching Andor Season Two directly into this is very satisfying. I now have no complaints about where he ends up.

I mean, there’s never been a better made action film, right? This is the American answer to The Raid II.

Forgot how solid this is. Better than I , and better than the actual movie that comes out two years later.

First time in a long time I’ve gone back to see one of these again.

Wow. Still great, and winner of the “Sexiest Chris Evans MCU Appearance” award.

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Quinn was making fun of everything in the last hour of this movie behind my back instead of doing homework like she was supposed to, and that hurt my feelings, so I’m typing about it here. Hurt people hurt people.

Hot damn. Now THAT’S a movie right there. Bring back Marvel movies being ABOUT something, not just about our friends that we like to watch do stuff.

It’s not perfect, but for my money it’s damn near close, and I cannot wait to see it again.

(I would give it a 4.25 stars if I could, but that’s not an option.)

Man, I really wish this was better. 

Why were all the car exterior scenes CGI?!

#justiceforJane

Best ing Actor nomination for Jon Bernthal, because that’s a scene stealing performance.

Baby Aaron Paul, you sweet idiot.

Davian is still the best villain performance in these, for sure.

Damn, we used to make pictures.

Three notes:
It really wants to be a Bond movie.
Three stars because the last hour is SO excellent. It’s the most “Dudes Rock!” these movies get.

The way my eyes poured during Preacher Boy’s first number in the club. I will never have an experience like that again.

Still excellent. I think about searching “MAX.COM” on the internet all the time.

I wish this wasn’t the standard for Marvel movies for several years, and was in a vacuum. But otherwise, good fun!

Honestly better than I , has real juice until the boring last act. But way more fun than I ed.

Damn, still fun though

God, we used to make MOVIES.

I just feel like Kraven would be a fun hang at the bar on a Thursday night.

This used to be my favorite Anderson, and still is. But wow, I barely cared.

Maybe recent event in my life have colored things, but I’m done with White Nonsense.

Damn.

They got me.

He was a one eyed…one horned…flying…purple people eater.

Okay, a LOT of complicated feelings here. Lemme cook.

First off, Mackie is SO great in this role, and that has only been enhanced since Endgame. He’s charming, charismatic, just dialed in all the way. And has fantastic chemistry with EVERYONE, especially Danny Ramirez, who deserves to be a star. He’s a great new presence, as a guy who grew up in a world of gods and monsters. And give it up to Harrison Ford, who makes Ross a character. And a great time.

But. This movie…she got some mess to her. There’s a world where this is a CAATWS follow up series and it’s better, with more time. It feels like it’s constantly running to the finish line of under 120 minutes. A truly excellent first twenty five minutes turns into a frenzy of a movie, and I wish it had way more time to breathe, and also examine what it means for Sam to be Cap responding to not just the government but Ross as the president. They have that conversation a couple of times at the beginning of the movie, then run out of conversational gas. 

Slow down! It’s okay. Let it breathe a little.

Also, “Ruth” does NOT need to be in that movie. Give her stuff to Leila (?), who has NOTHING TO DO DESPITE BEING SAM’S FRIEND. It’s like they split her role into her and “Ruth” (I see your nasty, girl).

I gave it an extra star because of Mackie playing off of everyone, ever.

I love almost every choice this movie made.

Three fifteen in the morning, Bokeem Woodbine shows up on my screen, I throw my hands in the air and quietly yell “Bokeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeem!”

It actually took me a week and a half to get through one sitting of this. Haven’t seen it since 2011, and I should’ve kept it that way. But it’s going to come up on the podcast in a few months, so I wanted to be prepared. 

BIG boo.

As someone with a mother who’s been sick since I was two, this movie hit me really hard in ways I did not expect. 

Andrew Garfield might be the most romantic actor of all time, he sells love like no one else does.  And I know making this after his mother died must’ve helped him tap into something extra, but wow, we do not appreciate him enough.

DENZELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

I can’t believe how blessed we were to have two beautifully realized sci-fi movies that are actually about love in the same decade. Unreal, and so glad I watched this now.

There were a great amount of performances in this, but I actually started crying when Cooper Hoffman did the Phillip Seymour Hoffman hand in the staircase.

That moment was my new “Captain America hears Sam Wilson’s voice on the radio before the heroes of Wakanda come out of the portal” moment.

I’M SORRY! 
I’M SORRY! I’M SORRY! I’M SORRY! I’M SORRY! I’M SORRY! I’M SORRY! I’M SORRY! I’M SORRY! I’M SORRY! I’M SORRY! I’M SORRY! I’M SORRY!

I kinda thought this ruled?

Way less offensive than I expected!

I know it’s not perfect, but A) it feels like a really great Sam Wilson/Bucky Barnes comic, and B) episodes two and five (and the big speech in episode six) are literally better than 98% of the MCU stuff, and I’ll die on that hill.

White nonsense: the movie.

I may need to rewatch this, because it REALLY didn’t do it for me.

I mean, I love a messy girl. And this movie, she messy.

Man, Sue really stinks in this. Can’t wait to play Invisible Woman in Marvel Rivals tomorrow!

Koji and Golding are SO GOOD TOGETHER, this movie is a three star just for their dynamic. Plus, the woman playing Baroness has the c*nty of the character down, and I’m down bad

A very large part of my personality was crafted from seeing Zeus interact with anyone as a child on television.

Only line that didn’t age well was a black woman saying, “And I’M married to Donald Trump!”

If I was white, this would mean more to me.

For the second ever attempt at a Die Hard, this missed the mark. Took me three days to watch it.

Super fun, and I LOVE a hot man with a silly accent. And there’s PLENTY of them here.

Almost gets five stars just for the scene of Viggo opening the hall doors with a two hands.

JUST SAY NOOOO

Well that ending was a wild mic drop, wasn’t it?

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A sign of a good movie is the amount of actual dread and fear I felt in the last five minutes for the main character. I REALLY thought she was going to die, and was so bummed.

GREAT movie. Landon does it again!

Note: these are JUST the Marvel Cinematic Universe Movies

• Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
• Captain America: Civil War
• Black Panther
• Captain America: The Winter Soldier
• Eternals
• Thunderbolts*
• The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
• Avengers: Endgame
• Iron Man 3
• Hawkeye

...plus 36 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I’m ALSO surprised Trap wasn’t number one

• Dune: Part Two

  Number one because it inspired the hilarious “Shia Hulud Trump” TikTok, my favorite joke of the year

• Trap

  The most fun I had watching a movie this year

• My Old Ass

  The hardest I cried at the end of a movie this year

• Anora

  The best anyone looked in movie this year

• Rebel Ridge

  The best Dad action movie this year
  
  
  
  …and the hottest lead in a movie this year

• Bad Boys: Ride or Die

  The best looking action in a movie this year

• Challengers

  The horniest movie this year
  
  (That churro bite HAUNTS me)

• I Saw the TV Glow

  The most seen I felt in a movie this year

• Civil War

  The second most fun I had at a movie this year

• Y2K

  The biggest surprise of movies this year

(Also all better candidates of skill than most)

• Blade Runner 2049

  Like, SO sci-fi

• Skyfall

  Like, SO spy-fi

• Prisoners

  Like, SO tortured

• True Grit

  Like, SO Western

• Sicario

  Like, SO Phoenix

• In Time

  Like, SO science fiction

• Hail, Caesar!

  Like, SO Ceasar

• Doubt

  Like, SO doubtful

• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

  Like, SO cowardly

• No Country for Old Men

  Like, SO Coen

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

Big Theatrical Releases ONLY, and NO I DO NOT CARE ABOUT MASK OF THE PHANTASM

• Batman Begins
• The Lego Batman Movie
• The Dark Knight Rises
• Sherlock Holmes
• Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
• Batman
• Batman Forever
• The Dark Knight
• The Batman
• Batman Returns

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

FoX-Men

• X-Men: Days of Future Past

  A near perfect movie, and the superior Wolverine, Xavier, Magneto and Mystique stories.

• The Wolverine

  The SUPERIOR Wolverine solo movie

• X2

  The first time they really had something here. One of the greats.

• Logan

  Wait, is this a Western?

• Dark Phoenix

  The most underrated one, and the one with the BEST usage and understanding of powers on a whole.

• X-Men: First Class

  “Unfortunately, you killed my mohther.”

• X-Men

  “We are the future, Charles, not them. They no longer matter.”

• X-Men Origins: Wolverine

  The perfect 90s Comic Book™️ Movie

• Deadpool

  Y’all are wrong, this is insufferable.

• Deadpool 2

  This is somehow way worse than the first one? Blegh

...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Does what it says on the tin.

Revised list 5/4/24, AtSV has kept from #3 to #2.

• Spider-Man 2
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
• Spider-Man
• Spider-Man 3
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
• Spider-Man: Homecoming
• Spider-Man: Far From Home
• The Amazing Spider-Man
• Spider-Man: No Way Home
• The Amazing Spider-Man 2

• No One Will Save You
• It Lives Inside
• Batman Ninja
• Batman vs. Robin
• The Blair Witch Project
• Batman: Bad Blood
• Fantastic Four
• Justice League vs. Teen Titans
• Pacific Rim
• Pacific Rim: Uprising

...plus 18 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Just know there’s a long country mile between some of these.

• Star Wars: The Last Jedi

  The best.

• Return of the Jedi

  The best lightsaber vs lightsaber duel.

• The Empire Strikes Back

  The best movie that introduces Lando.

• Star Wars

  The best start of a franchise even though it’s a fourth entry in a series.

• Star Wars: The Force Awakens

  The best start to a franchise even though it’s the seventh entry in the series and is a cover song of the fourth entry in the series.

• Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith

  Best “You have allowed this dark lord to twist your mind, until now, until now you've become the very thing you swore to destroy.”
  “Don't lecture me, Obi-Wan! I see through the lies of the Jedi. I do not fear the dark side as you do. I have brought peace, freedom, justice, and security to my new Empire. “Your new Empire?”
   “Don't make me kill you.”
  “Anakin, my allegiance is to the Republic, to democracy!”
  “If you're not with me, then you're my enemy.
  Obi-Wan Kenobi : [realizing that Anakin is consumed by evil and there's no reasoning with him anymore]  “Only a Sith deals in absolutes.”
  [draws his lightsaber]  “I will do what I must.”
  “You will try.”

• Solo: A Star Wars Story

  Best introduction of Lando and best showcase of coaxium.

• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

  Best Star Wars movie that’s actually about a war. Like it’s so crazy that it’s the first Star Wars movie that’s REALLY about war.

• Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace

  Best Qui-Gon Jinn movie.

• Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones

  Best movie with my favorite guy Jango Fett being an awesome father.

😬😬😬😬😬

• Past Lives

  Obviously the best overall.

• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

  Best looking movie of the year

• Oppenheimer

  Best heavy ending of a movie all year

• May December

  Best “If we love each other as much as we’re supposed to…” of the year

• Barbie

  Best “Eat It, Nerds!” movie of the year

• Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning

  Best movie with an upsetting death that I still don’t like because of the double bluff thing, and that’s the reason it’s so low in this list because if you know me, you know that I love Mission movies, they’re the best action franchise in the modern era

• They Cloned Tyrone

  Best Black movie of the year, easily

• Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

  Best comedy of the year

• Priscilla

  Best “Elvis Freaking SUCKS” movie of the year

• Knock at the Cabin

  Best version of “Leave The World Behind” of the year

Ethan Hunt is the living manifestation of destiny, and he has made you his mission.

• Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
• Mission: Impossible – Fallout
• Mission: Impossible
• Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning
• Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
• Mission: Impossible III
• Mission: Impossible II

Here’s a list of films to be covered for season three of On The Subject, my podcast with hosts @bossrossjackson and @thatlogan about movies, franchises, and all the other garbage that flies through our heads to make bits.

Season three begins January 2021!

• Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters
• The Muppets
• Charlie's Angels

I am a co-host on a podcast about franchises, the evolution of story and character between parts of a franchise, and how they impact us all. These are the movies we've covered this year.

• Batman Begins
• The Dark Knight
• The Dark Knight Rises
• Mission: Impossible
• Mission: Impossible II
• Mission: Impossible III
• Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
• Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
• Mission: Impossible – Fallout
• Unbreakable

...plus 34 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.