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I think the kiki would have been just fine if they just went the David route. Joking aside, it's pretty great seeing a solid vampire flick set in 1930s rural Mississippi.

Though I would have liked some more explanation of how music summoned the vampires, but also....I think we know how and why. We all love a hood singy song.

As someone who has known maybe little of Josephine Baker prior to watching this film, this really did have me captivated. The cinematography and outfits are really top notch, and Lynn Whitfield absolutely slays the lead role. I do know that as a biopic released in the 90s, it's not gonna be everything, but I definitely feel like I have been given everything (if you catch my drift).

Imagine Adam Silver in the boardroom saying something like " that scene where the Moron Mountain aliens take the players talent? Let's make a dope ass fire ass movie that's like 'like mike meets freaky friday' and let's have that stars Kevin Durant."

The end result feels like I am watching those aforementioned films if it was an Asylum film or The Room? But then I realized this literally a dvd bin b-flick for kids. No lie, there are moments where I was enjoying this film. Good? Bad? Camp? Yes. I may be a bit biased, but I couldn't help but cheese through this a little.

The acting is as subpar and phoned in to an extent where interactions between characters feel awkward to a delight. Good performances and bad perfromances scattered throughout. KD is KD, and he is his most KD. The bully character sucks and doesn't feel like there's a reason to have him.

The cinematography and the music that sounds straight out of a sound library really makes me wish there was a way higher budget for this thing. Not the worst thing, but on some real shit, I would fall asleep to this if someone trotted this out in front of me as a kid.

This film probably manifested Mac McClung for some reason.

This is the most cookie cutter political thriller yet, but you knew I'd say that.

Really ire the set design, but it's complemented with a story that I don't think captures the spirit of the comics.

Oh, that guy that would eventually do the music for Marvel's The Avengers is here. I guess that makes sense.

I could absolutely be friends with just about every one of these characters....except the one academia-pilled professor lady.

Where has this been all of my life?

No lie, this film has made me rethink what is possible with visual mediums, which hoenstly might have been one of the things this film intends to do.

Bad Black is the kind of action hero we need more of. Imo one of the best choreographed films I have seen in a while in a film that knows when to take itself seriously.

Big shoutout to DJ Emmie on da mic. The perfect MC for diving into this crazy lil world.

They really slayed those action scenes! Absolutely not kidding about this being the best of the best action packed movie!

The moment this felt Luke a white savior movie, I absolutely tuned the fuck out and never went back. "How can you make a superhero movie feel so lifeless?", someone must have asked at some point.

The kind of slumber party I would show to my slumber party

hollywood is a cycle is a cycle is a cycle

The perfect kinda pallette cleanser with the perfect amount of rat(atoulie)s

This is feels like a film that the academy enjoyed, and i mean that in the most derogatory way imaginable. This film feels like it lacks a central identity, and this ia worsened by the fact that this is a musical where the music is bland and forgettable (asides from the scenes where they are clearly buttering cis audiences). Leave it to the French to make Mexico feel so lifeless.

So i had written all of that after watching the first hour. Hooooooooooo boy does it get fucking worse.

I would consent to parenting if involved have an army of little gremlin children act out my rage.

You would have loved Instagram Reels circa 2025.

happy cannibal funtime hour

Aliens? Vampires? Zombies? A girl that would burn down the world for some mid looking guy? Count me in!

I wish I could crash out like this.

Why did we ever need Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson when we had this all along?

Why the fuck is that man named Mason Dixon?

Why was this kind of a solid return to form for Rocky until he basically turned into Hulk Hogan?

Why do I feel they were trying to send one another to CTE city?

It's Rocky 6, Rocky Balboa!

You know I never knew I needed a whodunnit with rich gen z-ers who do a lot of blow and insult in therapy speak. I think that's a truly terrifying experience and you would know if you ever were around them.

Never let your shithead friend fuck around with the Betamax set in front of the girlies.

I'm ing the war on the creature, on the side of the creature.

Those scenes where the girl feels sympathy for the creature? Totally had to be the inspo for The Shape of Water

those hunters feel so intimidating but those shotguns look pretty

Kinda dry like this prosecco I'm drinking, but the dialogue is really freaking solid. Quite the enjoyable ride, but could have been way tighter.

Surprised I enjoyed this film for the most part, but the thing that always kills me is WWE being absolutely cheap with their sets. Like you mean to tell me you couldn't roll out the stage design from basically a few years before the film was filmed? Maybe for that (maybe) fourth wall joke The Rock made.

I also wish this film had a better score too at tines. Like some of it is solid but other times it feels out of place, but alas.

Also, "dick me down and bury me pregnant"

There's times where I have shat on this film a lot, and then I ed....this is a silly slapstick family comedy. No idea why the theatrical cut removed Sinbad enthusiastically yapping about the Johnny Seven One Man Army.

I feel similarly about this film in the way that I feel About Clue (1985); a deconstructionist film about the property it is based off of, funded by the company that produces said property. Holy fuck is that weird, but hey I did enjoy the hell out of this!

This film was quite more quippied than I expected going in, and goddamn do some of the characters in the film have hit with relatable takes on womanhood, manhood, and the gender binary in practice.

But I also couldn't help but think about how this is something that had to have gone through a boardroom and they were like "we can talk shit about ourselves as a little treat"

Rocky 3 meets Rocky 4 meets Rocky Balboa pretty much, which by fhe way this is the first film in the series not to have Rocky present. That's honestly fine because at this point in the timeline, Adonis is straight up retired and has a whole empire. I think this is also the first time we dive more into the background of Adonis Creed. I just wish this was one way better than it did because this felt less engaging than the other films.

Rocky 2 meets Rocky 4. Really love how these films really divide the opulence and intensity of the boxing world that we see, and the side we don't see.

Also great to see Tessa Thompson saying "jawn" more naturally the second time they hit up Max's.

(somehow this is my second time watching this, the first time was in a theater with my girlfriend of the time, and I have to say both Creed 1 and 2 are made as theater experiences)

My guess is that Ryan Cooler was so in love with the original Rocky because this really hits all those same beats that the original did.

I think this film really does understand Philly as a character in itself too.

I will say hearing Tessa Thompson try her best "jawn" really is an experience

Sometimes it's great to sit back and watch a nice gay buddy cop movie.

One thing I kinda like about these films is the moody ass lighting they employ.

The phantom is so fucking babygirl

I don't know who came up with the idea for Kiefer Sutherland to talk in the cadence he does in this film, because I wanna say thank you!

These theater gays kinda cooked with this. I don't know what, but it cooks.

I'm not really feeling the social media cutaways though as they remind me of my own terminally online ass.

James Gunn must have really loved that one camera technique where they just hurl you around.

I kinda wonder how serious of a comic book movie does this want to be. Some of the character beats aren't really paid off.

Quentin Tarantino likes stuff part 2, and the stuff is pretty good pretty much! I really like how the violence is a little more grounded at times and other times it's ridiculous as hell. This part also feels more tighter than the first one too.

We still get that "Tarantino thinks he's hot shit" vibe at a couple points tho.

Some guy makes his anime wet dream. I love Uma Thurman though, and Lucy Liu is astounding!

But for real, can we ask why the fuck are there so many foot shots in this film? There's so many things that I guess are supposed to be accepted as stylistic choices, but they don't make sense but to be like "I like Kurosawa, I like Bruce Lee".

At the very least, it's sometimes cool to see a director be like "this is what I love"

Surely autistics have to had made this film. It's so great to have a film that incorporates music to the extent that this film does. Every cut and motion senselessly synchronized. What more is there to love?

Ok, unironically this has to be one of the best films of its kind. Transitioning out of high school is wild and social pressure is pretty wild, and I think this nails that in some way without a lot of the characters feeling too out of pocket.

It's still very much a coming of age film from 2007, but goddamnit does it get awkward teenage boys kinda right.

The morning didn't make sense at all. But at least Matt Smith Matt Smith'd.

Sports! Sports! Sports!

This really reads to me like a silly ass 80s romp with a lot of silly ass banter. Also is this basically a Peugeot commercial?

She was absolutely so fucking real for this

You know this film has got to have one of the most satisfying endings in film, period. So many of the characters feel it's way over their head, like this shit was like watching a match of chess unfold. Oh, the gay shit is very delicious!

Peak queer cinema!

I saw the horny tennis movie and was blown away with the cinematography!

Like yeah, this shit got my heart racing as if indeed, tennis is the relationship. Tennis is a relationship, and by the end, I just wanted to see them all kiss.

So you know growing up I always wondered why there wasn't a Chicken Run 2. The original oas one of my favorite films growing up, so there must be a sequel somewhere.

Time would go on and there would be no Chicken Run 2. I would watch the original a couple more times and then I thought, wow this film is a pretty well thought out prison break film where a bunch of chickens collectively organize to fuck up this one girlies dreams of industrialization.

It's 2024. There's now a Chicken Run 2. It's on Netflix. Why is there a sequel now? Why were they making a sequel? You didn't need another.

So I watched it. I couldn't look away. Honestly this is everything I could have wanted for a Chicken Run sequel. We got a saucy colorful heist film that even reminds me of a lot of earlier Pixar films (The Incredibles, Toy Story 2, etc.). It manages to keep a lot of the themes of the first one present as well!

They been doing the deconstructionist jawn way before Barbie

"Communism is just a red herring"

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I love a film that will drag you through the depths of your psyche and leave your heart in a freezer.

This time I also noticed how they literally start to blur the lines of the two realities the further you get into the film, which I think is really nice!

"They won't get you of you don't think about it"

Maybe one of the wildest and funniest films I have ever seen. These are the murderers in the building I would fuck with.

I feel you. If I were Nancy, i would totally invoke Manon to fuck shit up too.

• A Thin Line Between Love and Hate

  free my girl brandi web

• Love Lies Bleeding

  i love muscle mommies who can become giant muscle mommies

• Carrie

  the essential

• Bound

  best ultimate good happy ending ever

• Bad Black

if you need ideas for your next show pls @ me, I can be trusted with ideas for shows :)

(these are mostly things that i have watched and would be worth making a solid ass drag parody)

• Troll 2
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

the little film list that defines my life...or whatever. these are kinda my favorite films over time.

the order doesn't matter

• The Matrix

  basically an allegory of how the capitalist class stands in the way of queer and trans liberation

  or, why so many eggs cracked around 2020

  Did I mention this was my favorite film growing up?

• Mean Girls

  you know girl world as defined by the plastics are all about the performance of femininity or something

• Lilo & Stitch

  my "friends" need to be punished

• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

  you know why this is here, don't you

• Showgirls

  how the fuck I fell in love with Gina Gershon (she'll show up again)

• A Thin Line Between Love and Hate

  brandy web is kin

• Monster House

  First film that I saw in theaters, and you know I enjoyed this shit

• Constantine

  How I learned to shut the fuck up and love Tilda Swinton

• The Last Dragon

  kiss my converse, coolie

• Kick-Ass

  speedrunning ive protagonist who is also an active protagonist, they are both one in the same when you find out there's a bigger pond than you ever could realize

...plus 26 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.