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i'm in shambles. i'm inconsolable. i was able to recite every single jack black meme line from the trailers verbatim on this go around. when he said "i.... am steve" i found myself genuinely applauding. i laughed at EVERY. SINGLE. JOKE. i think i might be getting stockholm syndrome. did that one joke imply that jason momoa tried to have sex with a ghast? i have no idea. tears nearly came to my eyes at several points, watching this in 3D was like doing hard drugs. the entire theater (completely packed by the way) applauded as the credits rolled. twice. there might have been a standing ovation at the conclusion of it. i genuinely don't . needless to say this will not be my final theatrical viewing of this film

a lot of my mutuals are doing these again so sure go ahead, ask me whatever

(watched with Nadester17)

honestly have nothing to say about the movie itself other than... yeah, it's probably everything you thought it was, and in the end i had to settle on a rating in the direct middle of the scale, because i genuinely don't know what my personal rating of this would be; in of how good the movie actually was, it'd probably be like a 3, but if i was rating it in of how much fun i had watching it, it'd probably be like an 8 or a 9 if i'm gonna be completely honest 😭 yes, half of the movie is jack black just saying the names of things from the game in a jack black voice; yes, the acting is shitty and the writing is even worse; yes, nearly all of the "bad movie" cliches that you can think of are 100% in this movie (a fakeout death, a "yep, that's me..." moment, a title drop that rivals fantastic four in the sense that i can't tell whether it's the dumbest or the peakest line in the entire movie, a suit-up montage, a bunch of """""clever subversions,""""" etc. etc.); yes, they somehow made a pigstep needledrop lame, and i have NO clue how they did that; but i would be a huge liar if i said that i wasn't laughing the entire time. this is my retribution for never getting to see morbius or cats in theaters. i'll probably have more to say on the actual film itself on my second viewing (which i do have planned, with an entirely separate group of friends) and my third viewing (which i actually just decided just now that i will be doing)

however... i do want to talk about my movie theater experience, because holy shit this might have been objectively the funniest experience i have ever had watching a movie in theaters. when jack black said "i... am steve" one singular person behind me applauded, and nobody else did. when the "flint and steel!" and "CHICKEN JOCKEY!" scenes happened, the entire row of guys behind me said the lines as they happened, all in completely perfect unison. a guy, possibly drunk, fell ALL the way down the stairs trying to leave the theater, and i do not know if he was okay; he had to limp out of the emergency exit, and the entire theater turned because of how loud it was (he looked like he was alive and walking, so that's good at least). a kid left to go to the bathroom and did the minecraft character run as he did it. at one point i came back into the theater after leaving to refill my drink, and accidentally knocked over my entire metal TNT popcorn bucket (which me and conor bought as part of the minecraft snack packs they were offering because we are part of the problem), and it made the loudest "clang" sound in the entire world as it knocked over (i did clean it up after the movie, because i felt really really bad for making such a mess 😭). during the mid-credits scene, as the villager was saying that he had never felt the same after meeting jennifer coolidge after she hit him with her car, a guy behind me yelled "BRAIN DAMAGE." me and conor constantly were trying to hold in our laughter every single time jack black said the name of something from minecraft. when leaving the theater, we saw another kid with the same TNT popcorn bucket with it spilled all over the floor, and i said that it's because they were actually secretly explosive all along. do not buy the amc theaters TNT popcorn bucket. worst mistake of my life. we watched this in BigD by the way

all in all, even if i will most likely forget half of the movie by tomorrow (and then probably be forced to it all again when i go for my second and third viewings), i will never forget the absolute lunacy of my movie theater experience, i would not trade that for the world. i'm gonna go to sleep now i think i'm not mentally sound

it feels fitting to end off the marathon with this film, because it's actually what inadvertently made me want to do this whole marathon in the first place. a little while back, there was a museum exhibit near me all about guillermo del toro and more specifically, this film. it showed a bunch of replicas of "sets" and of the actual puppets, talked about how much time was spent working on just the animation of this film, and how stop motion is one of the most difficult and intimate forms of animation. i had seen the film before this, and had really enjoyed it, but only after seeing this exhibit did i realize exactly how much work goes into stop motion in general, and how dedicated del toro is to his craft. it gave me an unbelievable amount of respect for both the movie and the director, and i promised myself that i'd check out some more of his stuff.

lo and behold, now i've watched all of it, and he's actually the first director whose filmography i've managed to fully complete; and i can already tell that he is absolutely among my favorite directors currently working in the industry. his unique gothic, pulpy, and dark style that manages to creep its way into every film he touches, how every film of his just barely manages to skirt the lines between horror and fantasy; i love this man's work, and nearly all of his films, and i'm so glad i took the time to check them all out.

as for this film; it's really good. even with the newfound appreciation of how much effort was put into it set aside, i think it still holds up just as much as the last time i watched it. obviously an extremely well-made film, and easily del toro's best film visually to date; but i also believe it tackles the story of pinocchio better than pretty much any adaptation i've seen, and gives it its own del toro flair that makes it such a treat to watch, and takes the rather simple messaging of the original and fully fleshes it out to being a film about mortality and cherishing loved ones. it's obviously a movie with so much ion and love behind it, and you can feel that seeping through not only every frame, but also pretty much every line in the script.

it's not perfect by any means, i think the songs are mostly pretty mid and the villain's voice acting could have been a little better, and plus it didn't really need to be quite as long as it was; but it's still an extremely good film and i'm glad i gave it another watch after learning about everything that went into it

ANYWAY MARATHON'S COMPLETE NOW, i need to write my segment on this and then rewatch cronos so that i can refresh my memory (since i forgot to write about it the first time i watched it), and then i need to revise the script, but other than that the video ranking all of these is nearly completely written! i very much hope you'll all check it out when i finally get it out :)

(un-chicanery, because i already made my april fool's review)

was gonna watch pinocchio tonight to wrap up my guillermo del toro marathon, but i didn't have enough time or access to a netflix subscription, so i decided i'd start the jim carrey binge that i've been wanting to do for a long time, and thought it only appropriate to start off with this, since it's his first film and it's less than an hour long.

i was not prepared, however, to have to sit through one of the most sauceless and worthless excuses for both a comedy and a teen drama that i've ever seen in my life. every single joke that this movie tells either boils down to "funny voices" or "funny noises." that's it. there is not the slightest kernel of nuance to any of it, and it's really an amazing feat for the feature film debut of a comedy actor as beloved as jim carrey could turn out to be one of the most blatantly unfunny films that i have ever seen.

as for the drama... it's also pretty much completely pointless. the main character is worried because she's overweight and she makes it her entire identity with her friends, and she's tired of it being the only thing she's known for, and just wishes she had enough courage to be herself. a solid premise for a central conflict, but there's so many problems with it. for one, she doesn't look overweight at all, so it's hard to buy the central premise that being "fat" is a major problem for her in life, because she's fucking skinnier than ME, and secondly, nothing interesting comes out of this aside from her just monologuing occasionally, and aside from her having one of the most forced third act breakups i've ever seen in my life

i haven't even mentioned carrey, but this is maybe the most charismaless performance i have ever seen from him in my entire life. literally not a single line he said was funny, and the only times i ever even came close to chuckling was when you could notice the little bits and pieces of him incorporating facial expressions and visual cues to accentuate his comedy (which he doesn't do much here, but it's somewhat charming when he does i guess, and reminded me that this guy is in fact a real comedy actor; to be honest i think most of the reason why he was so unfunny of this was just because of the terrible writing)

not an outright insulting movie, and i don't think it offended me enough to really earn a half star rating, but it was an experience that i got absolutely nothing out of. it's gonna leave my brain the second i click save on this review, and i will have forgotten about all of it tomorrow

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masterpiece. the best film that has ever graced human creation. nothing else even compares to its writing, its acting, its direction; i can tell you all firsthand that this is the greatest movie that any of you will ever see. when minecraft steve played by jack black said "it's creepin' time" and creeped out those creepers i genuinely sobbed, top 3 moment in all of cinnamon. i cannot wait for martin scorcese to finally watch this astounding achievement in visual arts so that he can watch it, shed a tear, and finally quit directing like the hack fraud he is. when creeper from minecraft played by joaquin pheonix sang "and i'm a creeper, and i will explode" i got out of my seat and left the theater so that i could buy another ticket to see this movie again. absolute cinamarron. i see it in two days btw

all the time, i find myself wondering if i made the right choice.

i'd never give back anything i've gained in the past year no matter what. i know that i want to be a girl, and the idea of going back to being a boy feels comparable to killing myself. i love that i can be the beautiful woman that i've always longed to be, and i want to stay this way for the rest of my life.

but also... every once in a while, i find myself asking, "was it all worth it?" that feels like an insane question to ask, considering this is everything i ever wanted, but i lost so much in the process. i lost one of my best friends as i struggled to cope with the fact that he hated the new me, and took so much verbal abuse in the process. i caused my immediate family so much stress for a long time with every new step i took (wanting to change my name, wanting to get on hrt, etc). i put an enormous target on my back for the rest of time that i feel like is never going to go away, and i'm scared. i'm so terrified, all of the time, and occasionally it's all for nothing anyway, because sometimes it feels like everyone's just pretending. it feels like all my friends and family are just humoring me, playing along with what they think is an act, but it's not. i'm not a boy. i'm barely even a trans girl, even though by definition i am one. i'm just a girl who got trapped in a body she doesn't want, and is desperately trying to crawl to make my way out, doing everything that i can, but it still never feels like quite enough, because very second there's always something brand new to remind me that i'm stuck the way i am. i've put in so much work, and yet no matter how far i feel like i've gotten, it still always feels like "almost." i'm making progress on finally killing the old me, and making sure that he's dead, but i know for a fact that i never fully will, because i have to share a body with him. i have to constantly hear him, over and over, trying to convince me that i can't do this, or that i can't do that, because i'm not feminine enough, or because i haven't put in enough work yet, or because others deserve all the progess i've had way more than me, or that i'm just not enough in general.

i try not to make a big deal about it out loud, but all of these thoughts are constantly running through the back of my mind at all times. wondering if i made the right choice. never feeling like i'm doing enough, feeling like i don't deserve to have made it as far as i have if i'm just going to continue being ungrateful.

this film saved me the first time i watched it. it convinced me, right as i was in one of the most vulnerable and scary experiences i've ever been through in my life of coming out to everyone, that i was making and had made the right choice. that i would die if i stayed the way that i was before, and nobody would ever know it. it was the most cathartic, yet most anxiety-inducing film i have ever seen.

now, almost a whole year later, a lot has changed, and yet, the film still did the same exact thing for me. it convinced me that while it still doesn't feel right, and while it never will... i still made the right choice, and that if i hadn't done this, i would be suffering right now. i know for a fact that i'm a girl, and i'll always be one, and this film will always be incredibly special to me for helping me realize and come to with that on two separate occasions. i thought it wouldn't resonate with me as much on a second viewing, yet the film still left me as captivated, panicky, and downright upset as i was on my last viewing, to the point where i had to sit and just... think, for several minutes. it left me speechless, and that's always how i know that a film is deeply special to me, and i think this movie always will be, for how perfectly it both provided me immense emotional pain and comfort in a way that i couldn't ever do justice with words

happy trans day of visibility everyone 🏳️‍⚧️ to never stop fighting, and that there is always still time, no matter what

Watched on Friday March 28, 2025.

since i didn't do anything silly for 369 followers as is usually my tradition and because i'm feeling bored and impulsive right now, lemme make a deal with you all

if i get to 469 followers by the end of april, i will make it a point to watch every single hugh grant movie before this time next year

there is no punchline

gonna fully open up comment sections again soon, and slowly start making my way back here. thank you all for the kind words and understanding

i guess to start, because i haven't been around much lately, how are you all doing? i'll open the comments of this post up to friends only

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been a while since i've found a new film to put into my top four, but honestly i think this one completely deserves it. it didn't exactly resonate with me thematically or emotionally the same way whisper of the heart, everything everywhere, and whiplash did; but it's just the type of film where i fear something like it will never quite be made again. it's the type of movie that i've been craving for years, and it's honestly my fault for not checking it out sooner, because it's been recommended to me a ton by mutuals on here and i honestly knew i would almost definitely end up loving it. the combination of the more goofy and edgy styles of both humor and writing that flow so seamlessly while also never really feeling like the film is trying to hit you over the head with its tone and instead just opting to be whatever it wants to be, the incredibly creative concept that i'd been in love with ever since i first heard about it, the blending of hand-drawn 2d animation and live action done with more love and care here than in many other films i've seen with the same gimmick... obviously it's not quite visually perfect and it's a little rough around the edges in some ways (the outlines around the characters look a little wonky and christopher lloyd's cartoon eyes are gonna give me nightmares) but you can tell that they really cared about making the characters and the world fit together and generally it looks fantastic. the animation itself is also amazing and incredibly expressive, especially with roger and the way he's animated, and it makes this film such a treat to just look at.

aside from that, the writing and acting is also damn near perfect. every comedic beat hits perfectly, every line is memorable, and i mean it genuinely when i say there's never a dull moment in this whole movie. even though i just finished it, i already want to see it again, which i feel like is so rare for me to say about a film, ESPECIALLY a comedy. your jokes have to land REALLY well for me to not only be consistently laughing throughout the film, but also for me to want to immediately rewatch your movie just for the jokes, but honestly this movie accomplishes that so well and i know i'll be rewatching clips of it in the future.

is it narratively complex? no. is the messaging anything special? no, not really. but i still love this movie to pieces, and i'm so glad i finally checked it out.

that said i don't want to bump whiplash out of my top 4 and i also don't think i can justify having both this and captain underpants in my top 4 at the same time, so unfortunately... i think it's time for me to finally retire the title of #1 captain underpants: the first epic movie fan. i am very sorry for letting you all down 😔

Watched on Wednesday March 19, 2025.

as i said previously, i'm gonna be disabling all comments on my reviews and i will be significantly less active on here, but i still want you guys to have a way to talk to me if you need, so i'm gonna set this paint drying only so that friends can reply to it. if you have anything to tell me or ask me, you can do it here (there's no guarantee i'll reply, but i'll try to pop in every once in a while). sorry to be going inactive again, but i think this is for the best, at least for now

pro writing tip: maybe don't have your characters in the beginning of your movie directly and unsubtlety explain exactly what's going to happen by the end of your movie

it's a shame that for a film this long and ambitious, they fumbled SO HARD in the writing department, because this very easily could have been great. unfortunately, the movie seems to switch constantly between being confused on what it's trying to do, and being overly confident in what it's trying to do, leading to an experience that's one half incomprehensible and one half dry, bland and predictable. the "foreshadowing" of the film makes it easy to predict literally everything that's going to happen, and because of that it just makes it so hard to care, because the film is not as clever or subtle as it seems to think it is. maybe that could have been remedied if the characters were written better, but they really weren't; for the life of me, i was not able to understand what the deal of the main character was or what i was supposed to learn from him, and i didn't care about most of the other ones. it's honestly a shame because the great technical aspects of this movie are dragged down by this; the set design, score, performances, and direction are all generally very good in my opinion. however, the fact that the movie is written in the most uninteresting way possible makes it so that i can't even call this a good movie in spite of those aspects. the film seems like it just could have benefited from more thought or maybe a couple more drafts in the writers' room, and because of that, as well as the fact that the film drags on and on yet doesn't ever really provide a good reason for it, this was honestly one of my least favorite films in this whole marathon. i'm glad that i can at least finish off with pinocchio so that i can hopefully end this marathon off on a good note, because this was incredibly disappointing. willem dafoe innocent tho, if this movie had to exist to finally get him in a guillermo del toro film then so be it

Watched on Saturday March 15, 2025.

Watched on Friday March 14, 2025.

hello everyone! usually i don't like doing self promo for my youtube channel on here, but i have a really big video coming out tomorrow that's over 3 HOURS long. it's the ranking of every mario kart cup that i promised all the way back in july. it's coming out tomorrow at 7:00 AM PT on my yt channel, and i'd really appreciate it if some of ya'll would check out at least some of it if you're interested in the subject matter, since this is probably the biggest project that i've ever made and ever will make for a long time. that's all for now, have a good one everybody :)

hey gang, sorry that i haven't really been active on here for the past couple of weeks. i know i had JUST said that i was gonna be coming back from the short break that i went on at the beginning of february, but then things got worse, and it made me want to stay away from letterboxd in general for a while. i think i'm ok with coming back now, because things have definitely improved and are looking up for me currently, but don't be surprised if i'm active a lot less on here for a long time; a ton of stuff happened that i don't really have the energy to get into and even though very few people actually know about it that i know of, it does make me feel slightly more distant towards the community that i usually hang out with here, and more paranoid about coming back
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that said, this film was so good that it alone kind of sparked me to finally want to make another review, because holy shit, this might be one of the most impressive glowups between a first and second movie that i have ever seen. this movie probably wouldn't even have been on my radar, except 1) i actually did see the first ne zha back around when it came out, but ed very little from it, and 2) it's the highest grossing animated film of all time, obviously. it made me want to go back and check out the first one again, and... it was ok, but the movie's sense of humor was definitely not for me, and it did kill the film a lot for me.

and unfortunately, those same problems are present in the first act of this film; it did ittedly take a minute to fully sell me, especially due to two different gross-out humor bits that happen that really do just drag out forever. thankfully after a while the film kind of abandons that, and in the film's second act, it completely locks the fuck in and goes absolutely insane on the emotional weight, the scale, and ESPECIALLY the action. the final extended action scene that takes up the last 30 or so minutes of this might genuinely be one of my favorite final acts in any animated film ever, it just keeps going and going and building and building, while never feeling like it drags out. it's nearly overwhelming at certain points, i literally audibly said "holy shit" out loud several times and once this film comes to digital i WILL be rewatching the final act of this movie over and over again, which is something that i never usually do for movies without rewatching the entire film.

if you have the opportunity, PLEASE check this out; it is 100% worth the hype and if you can get through the sort of ho-hum first act, i promise that you will be absolutely floored by the second and third. it deserves all of the attention and more

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when i walked out of the theater, my first thought was "that movie was good, but just wasn't for me." that feels like a bizarre thing to say, because i grew up on dav pilkey's books, i have a ton of nostalgia for all of them, and hell, i'm the self-nominated #1 captain underpants: the first epic movie fan (if nothing else i'm glad i saw this so that i could participate in hopefully getting the second epic movie funded, PLEEEEASE dreamworks do this specifically for me personally 🙏🙏🙏). it really does feel like i should adore this movie, especially because i could tell that there was a ton of effort put into the animation, score, and voice acting, which were all fantastic and the best parts of the movie. the film looks phenomenal and does a great job at capturing the feel of the books while also being extremely fluid and pleasant to look at, the score is great and the more jazzy style that it takes at certain points fits this universe surprisingly well, and you could tell that all of the voice actors genuinely were putting a lot of effort into their performances. really, on paper, those 3 aspects should be enough to boost this movie for me, but... i don't know, honestly. it just feels like the movie's trying to do too much, and while that does make this very fun to watch as someone who grew up with the books, it does make it so that this film's plot feels kind of all over the place, with many characters and plot points (80-HD, petey's dad, the entire exposition) feeling like they get rushed through or sidelined just so that the movie can keep going at its breakneck pace. the writing style, while matching the books perfectly sometimes, also just wasn't hitting for me at a lot of points, which i think is just a result of this style of jokes not translating very well to a film. there are exceptions and it can be done right (see the captain underpants movie) but this movie's timing doesn't really for it that well.

however... i can't hate this movie. it's clear that there was so much effort put into it, and it absolutely oozes charm. i could honestly see this rating going up or down, but for now, a six seems fair for this. it's not bad at all, in fact i'd go as far as to say that it's fairly good, but it just didn't quite hit for me in the way that i'd like

ok firstly, ya'll had me worried that this movie was gonna be WAY worse. granted, i was fairly hype for this movie, since i was extremely excited to see ke huy quan in a lead role and the trailers made it look awesome, but when i started to see negative reviews coming out about it, i started to become very concerned that it would turn out to be disappointing. thankfully though, while not a masterpiece by any means, i feel like this movie mainly just set out to be an entertaining action flick, and it accomplishes that very very well in my opinion

tke huy quan is obviously great in this. you can really tell that this role was written with him in mind, because i honestly can't see any other actor playing a character that's simultaneously this mild-mannered while also being this much of a badass, and ke pulls off the role perfectly. he's honestly one of my favorite actors currently working in hollywood rn, and i'm so excited to see him doing more stuff after his success in everything everywhere

the other main talking point of this movie to me is the fight scenes. this movie is 80% fight scenes, so it was extremely important that they got those right, and in my opinion they definitely did. the choreography is great, the fights all flow perfectly, the quips (which could've easily fallen into "well that just happened" territory) are all fairly charming, and the set design is incorporated into the fights (which is always like my favorite thing ever) in general i just had a great time during all of these scenes, which i think plays a major part in why i enjoyed this so much more than many others have seemed to, because ittedly a lot of the other aspects are a little weaker.

the script, while not terrible in my opinion, is definitely still extremely shaky at some points (in general i don't think ashley's character is written very well at all), the exposition is kinda all over the place, and tbh the performances from pretty much everyone that isn't ke are kind of hit or miss to me. these aspects definitely all falter a LOT throughout the movie, and while they aren't always bad, they do still occasionally drag the film down quite a bit, to the point where i can understand why they might ruin the film for someone. to me, this film rides or dies on whether you think the action is entertaining enough to carry it, and i personally think it is, but i can also completely understand if someone thought the opposite. i just had a really fun time with this film and that's pretty much all that i asked for from it

Watched on Friday February 7, 2025.

god man, i don't even know how to describe something like this, because... i've just never seen a movie quite like this before. i've never a film that just feels so authentic, so unique in tone and style, so... human. it feels like the type of film that i've needed to see for years now. i wish i could show this film to lonely, anxious, pre-transition me back in 2023 to show her that it was all going to be okay. i wish i could've had this film to think about at the lowest points of my life. i wish i could have watched this at the points when i felt alone, when i felt overwhelmed about my future, when i felt scared of being abandoned, because i feel like if this film had been in my life sooner, i would've been a little more okay back then.

this and amelie were some of the first times that i had seen a film and it just straight up felt like a mirror to me. obviously i'd related to movies heavily before, sometimes to incredibly emotional degrees (whiplash and whisper of the heart are two of my favorite movies of all time for those very reasons), but this was different. it felt like it saw me. the film felt like it was talking to people who have been in the same positions i have. it felt like it was talking to me in a way that i hadn't seen in any other film i watched last year.

and if that wasn't enough, the film oozes charm at every corner. the stop-motion style is so unnatural, but not to the point where it feels uncanny, just to the point where it feels compelling and charming. the score is phenomenal (reminder that emilia perez got a best score nom and this didn't). the film doesn't feel like it's trying to be aggressively edgy for the sake of earning the r rating, it feels like it's just doing what it wants to do without worrying about what anyone else thinks, because this is a film made to appeal to people. not audiences, not award ceremonies, not studios, it feels like it's just trying to appeal to the people that it knows it's talking to. i've never seen a film this genuinely heartfelt in both its production and in its actual content before.

sorry if this review is a bit rambly, i just have so much to say on this film but have no idea how to properly express it in a way that feels coherent. i'm just in love with this movie. i know wild robot will likely win best animated feature (which i'm fine with), but out of all the nominees (and out of all the animated movies i saw last year), this is easily the best one to me. please, please, PLEASE seek it out if you haven't. not only does the film deserve it, but if you're anything like me, i think that you deserve it too.

(watched with Nadester17)

the funniest part about this movie is that even if i were to push aside EVERYTHING that i find problematic, how the film alienates the trans people and mexican people that it wishes to represent through sheer carelessness, how many literal inaccuracies there are, how the film takes a stance that i absolutely can't fucking stand where it acts like the doctor is the hero of the story for the first half and like emilia is a seperate person pre and post surgery and how surgery is seen as the be all end all for transitioning, how genuinely low-level and dumbed down the screenplay seems to be because we can't let the academy get confused and think our film has PURPOSE... even if i were to push every single one of those things aside, the film is so utterly incompetent that i would STILL hate it just as much and that is a genuine feat. but since the academy can't seem to see that, i'll go through all the nominations that they believed that this film deserved and explain how those noms thoroughly do not make sense to me

the songs are all terribly written (half the time just feeling like people talking with music behind it), rhythmically uninteresting, and an absolute chore to listen to. i don't think i could hum a single one if i tried, something that i could at least say for... idfk moana 2 (needed to come up with a quick musical punching bag). the lyrics have the same problem as the screenplay where they lack absolutely any sense of nuance they could have because we can't have the academy get confused on what the film is about!!! we don't want our audiences to THINK!!! god forbid people FEEL something!!! give me money omg yes please daddy oscar i love the money fill me with another best original song nomination oh please yes

to be fair, the two songs that they nominated were some of the better ones... but all that means to me is that the instrumentals weren't eye-glazingly boring. they stood out in the fact that they were 3/10 songs among a bunch of 2s and 1s.

the score? genuinely laughable. you could convince me that this was stock audio and i would believe you. nominating it of all things was just genuinely nonsensical (especially when challengers was RIGHT THERE) and it more than any other nom just seems like an excuse to throw another nom at this movie, because you can tell that the academy just ate this slop up for dinner

the screenplay? i already touched on this earlier, but it just lacks any nuance whatsoever. it doesn't get you to think. it doesn't get you to feel. it just exists to tell an incredibly shallow, surface-level, inaccurate story that again, alienates the VERY FUCKING PEOPLE THAT YOU'RE TRYING TO PAINT YOURSELF AS THE SPOKESPERSON OF

the makeup and hairstyling? are you joking? it was just normal. i do not know why they nominated it. everyone looked like normal human beings. nothing exceptional was done here

the cinematography? insanely uninteresting. again, there are so many other films this year that did far more interesting things with the cinematography than this pussy ass film ever even dared to go for, but the academy can't nominate those because it won't prove a point if we nominate those. here, it's just regular. it's uninteresting. at times, it's genuinely nauseating with the fast cuts and pans. i cannot think of a single cool shot in this movie. let that sink in. not a single SHOT was interesting

the editing? abysmal. the amount of frame-drops, slow motion shots that didn't need it, choppy scenes that desperately DID need it, weird cuts, songs that just get cut without feeling like they concluded is genuinely insane.

the sound? what? what do you even mean? what did this film even do with its sound that made it deserving of an oscar nom? i guess it did technically HAVE sound, which means you had to nominate it sense you GOTTA nominate this fucking god-forsaken movie for every damn category it can possibly be up for, but... this one doesn't even make sense! it's like with the makeup and hairstyling, it did nothing exceptional and just feels like a shoe-in nom more than anything.

the performances? i will give credit to karla sofia gascon, she was genuinely doing her best and it is super neat to see a trans actress get nominated for best actress (it's probably the only category where i would not be mad if this movie won), but zoe saldana? really? what did she do? again, i just have to ask, is it worth calling attention to the categories where they were obviously phoning it in with an oscar nom when all that's gonna do is just make us question why the film got those noms in the first place? is it, academy??? IS IT, MR. OSCAR???

and best picture/best international feature film... you already know how i'd feel about that. if this won, it wouldn't make anything better. you would prove nothing. you would just be spreading genuine misinformation and messages that common people should not be taking away. and even if you liked this movie (which, by the way, is completely fine), i feel like you should at least understand that.

i have nothing more to say on this film. rarely do you see me get genuinely pissed off and in my emotions this much when writing a review, but this one struck a nerve. i apologize if this is incoherent and kind of ranty, but i really, really just needed to express how thoroughly i loathe this film and genuinely believe it should never have been made.

Watched on Sunday January 26, 2025.

Watched on Saturday January 25, 2025.

Watched on Saturday January 18, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday January 15, 2025.

was honestly kinda worried that i'd find this one mediocre but it turned out to be one of my favorite del toro films yet. something that i've noticed with him is that with his best films, he makes them feel so compelling in a way that's so hard to describe. there's just this special style that he adds to (almost) every single movie that he touches and it makes them feel so much more fantastical, yet so much darker at the same time.

ittedly, there are some flaws that set it back from being 5 stars, particularly in the script at some points, but other than that... yeah, pretty much perfect? the characterization is at its best yet (which was a significant flaw in other del toro films that set them back for me), the mystery is extremely unnerving and intriguing, and while you could argue that the gore is a bit excessive... i mean, it feels like standard fare for an r-rated del toro film.

i'll go more in-depth in the video, but... yeah, i just can't say i have many issues with this one. it's just got this indescribable magic to it that made it so that i couldn't pull my eyes away from it no matter how disturbing it was

if i find a single popular review saying "do they need a third" i'm deleting this app

letterboxd's best of each year: #2 of 101

i feel a little bad for rating this one so low, because really, i can't quite put my finger on why it doesn't work for me. the cinematography, editing, and score are all great, and they did genuinely impress me. i think the main thing that threw me off, which wasn't the movie's fault in the slightest, was just the fact that i don't really know too much about the subject matter of this film. i'm sure i'll learn and maybe that'll help boost this film more in my eyes, but without having much knowledge of what the film actually portrays or represents, i was left just kinda bored for most of it. there are engaging moments, and again, this isn't a BAD movie, it's just not for me i don't think. i tend to not be big on war or political films anyway, and this is definitely a prime example of that, so while the movie is extremely impressive and well made, and while it does take a rightful spot in cinema history, i just don't ever really see myself wanting to come back to it

Watched on Sunday January 5, 2025.

letterboxd's best of each year: #1 of 101

my first buster keaton film (and for that matter, the first one of these classic slapstick silent comedies that i've really watched all the way through) and i loved it! one of those films where there's not really a great way for me to describe what i like about it beyond just talking about the jokes because the whole movie is basically just a series of very funny visual gags that all flow very well together and are all a joy to watch. it's a little light on plot, but that's okay for a movie like this considering that i wasn't really here for the plot at all, and what i was here for (the gags) worked very well. all in all, a great time and i can't wait to see more films like this pretty soon, since i'm pretty sure i do have a few more buster keaton and charlie chaplin films coming up

now i just gotta hope that battleship potemkin isn't a two star film considering the way that my diary has been going lately 😭

last film of the year! i'm glad that i could end it off with a bang rather than a whimper (imagine if four christmases was the last film i watched in 2024 😭)

anyway, i don't have too terribly much to say on this film, other than i was very pleasantly surprised by it. i haven't seen the original (though i do really want to), but this version of it was really engaging, very well written, and genuinely quite scary. i will it that it started to lose me a little in the third act when it leans away from the social anxiety horror aspect and more just into a regular horror movie chase, but it was still fairly thrilling and it didn't ruin the film for me. blumhouse can you release more movies like this with instead of shit about teddy bears and swimming pools

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that said, 2024 is finally over, and honestly? from a personal perspective (not from a media perspective and CERTAINLY not from a political perspective), this was one of the best years of my life. i put in a lot of work to improve myself this year as a person, finally started on hrt, became closer friends with a lot of people that i didn't talk much with before, finally gave myself the push to start making more youtube videos, refined my style of critique and analysis a lot more to the point where i now feel more confident about analyzing media (though i do still have room to improve lol), and just all around just spent the year transforming from a person who i honestly kind of hated being to someone that i'm actually kind of proud of being. i made so much growth in so many different ways and i feel like i hopefully set myself up for 2025 to be even better.

and i feel like i got closer with a lot of you too! obviously stuff changed this year, and i don't spend AS much time here as i used to, but i still have loved talking with you all, discussing movies, hearing about your lives and telling you all about mine, and getting to interact with wonderful communities. i can't shout out every person here that i talked with, but i do want to give some notable mentions to some of the people on here that i've enjoyed my time with most this past year, including maddy, willowpixie, celeste, holly, ash, darnell, vanessa, and so many more. (if i didn't mention you here don't worry, i just wanted to shout out a FEW people here but if we follow each other then chances are i definitely like you and enjoy talking with you :) )

also special shoutout to conor (nadester17), jam (jamdonut11), and max (moldydonuts) for constantly suffering through bad movies with me this year for our first year of silly movie nights. i can't wait to watch more shitty films with ya'll in 2025 lol. (and shoutout in general to conor for being an amazing friend and an integral piece of my podcasting and youtube channel. it wouldn't be the same without you, conor, and i feel very thankful to still be your friend after all these years :) )

i think i've about run out of stuff to say, so once again happy new year, and here's to hoping that 2025 won't be dogshit! 🎉

the movie was also really good

i don't want to be too harsh to this movie, because really, it's just not my thing. i probably never even would've watched it if it wasn't the only thing playing yesterday that i hadn't seen before, and going in i had pretty much no expectations. coming out of it... i mean... you can see the rating.

the best way i can sum up my thoughts on this film are that i can say for sure that it does what it sets out to do very, very well, but what it sets out to do is just not something that i found very pleasant to watch. and i get that that's likely the point (although part of me doubts that when scrolling through the top reviews of this movie, it seems like most people got something VERY different out of it than i did), but having a movie that's purposefully unpleasant to watch can only really work for me if i'm compelled by the characters or the story, which i really wasn't here. the two main characters are neither likable nor compelling, and the characters i actually cared about (romy's family) didn't get as much focus as i would like, instead opting to focus on the incredibly uncomfortable scenes between romy and samuel. as a result, the entire movie was just uncomfortable, but more importantly, really unengaging to me, and i didn't really feel like i got anything out of it. it went from a movie that was kind of hard to take seriously in the first act (literally what did she see in him, the movie wants to paint him as dominant but every single time he speaks he's like "erm i think- erm, do you think- erm, you should take your clothes off uwu 👉👈") to something that was genuinely kind of unwatchable the further it goes on, and it adds up and creates a movie that i honestly kind of hate.

but then again, i know that this is just a me thing. i know that this is the kind of movie that lots of people are gonna get very different things out of, and that's completely okay and respectable. it's just not the type of thing that i would ever willingly subject myself to again, and i don't feel like that's usually the mark of a good film in my eyes

Watched on Wednesday December 25, 2024.

Watched on Wednesday December 25, 2024.

(watched with Nadester17, JamDonut11, and temporarily moldydonuts for our nineteenth Silly Movie Night™️ and our final Silly Movie Night™️ of the year)

okay so we've never rigged a silly movie night before (we always choose the films randomly) but earlier this month i watched the bum biddy scene on youtube and decided that this HAD to be our final silly movie night of the year... and goddamn it didn't disappoint. i don't think i've been this endlessly baffled watching a movie for one of these and several times genuinely felt that i could not handle this movie. in my pan's labyrinth segment in the gdt ranking i'm working on i said that if a film renders me speechless, that's how i know it was truly special to me, and this film succeeded at this so i suppose that it truly was something special. i cannot think of a better way to end off this year of this stupid, stupid tradition that we've for some reason committed ourselves to now

that said this doesn't even crack the bottom five movies that we've watched for this which is how you know we've only been watching peak

young man...

This review may contain spoilers.

...WHAT THE FUCK

i intentionally went into this film without spoilers. this has been one of my most anticipated movies of the year and i intentionally wanted to know as little as humanly possible about it going in, and i am so glad for that choice because holy shit this was a ride. i'm not even the biggest mainline sonic fan (as in i haven't played most of the games), nor am i that deeply familiar with shadow as a character, yet i still found this film to be so incredibly awesome.

this is honestly such a big step up in quality that it's insane to think about. the second film is a fun, nice family movie with a lot of writing issues that drag it down from being anything phenomenal in my opinion, and i mostly the first film being the same. and to be fair, some of those writing issues are still present here. there are a LOT of one-liners, and while some were funny, some did start to get on my nerves, particularly from sonic himself (which was a big issue i had with the first two movies as well). however... honestly, that's the only real big issue that i can think of for this film. legit everything else was enjoyable. the licensed music didn't even really get on my nerves because it all felt like it fit pretty well.

first, we gotta talk about the elephant in the room (or at least one of them): jim carrey. some people that i talked to were worried that he would just be phoning it in for his performance in this, but honestly... no, this was the best he's been in the whole trilogy. (the laser hitting the moon HAD to be on purpose, it just HAD to be, they KNEW that they had to make eggman piss on the moon) his line deliveries are phenomenal, and the chemistry that he has with his grandfather (also played by jim carrey) is phenomenal. and the fact that they were actually able to make that grandfather a compelling villain in the third act beyond the silly jokes was honestly insanely impressive. additionally, the fact that they were able to actually make robotnik's death scene genuinely heartfelt was also extremely impressive, considering how comedic of a character he is in these movies.

the action in this film is honestly insane, it's so far beyond the first two movies that it's wild, particularly the final fight scene between sonic and shadow. it legitimately had me on the edge of my seat at certain points just from how downright awesome the whole thing was, and it's honestly one of my favorite action scenes of this year. the cgi in this movie is just generally so impressive, and the fact that the human actors work so well with the cgi is also incredibly impressive to the point where i forgot that sonic and his friends were not real actors in the movie.

and then there's the other big talking point that i can't really stall for any longer. shadow is easily the best part of this film and it's not even close. there's so much to say about him that i don't even know where to start. his backstory with maria that i STILL cannot believe that they went for in this movie, his perfect voice acting from keanu reeves, the way his backstory intertwines with sonic's arc and how they are both fueled by revenge in the final battle, the fact that they played live and learn like a dozen times and the fact that it still was not any less hype... i could go on and on and on about him, he was just so unbelievably cool and easily elevated this movie from a standard family flick to a genuinely amazing movie that i get excited just thinking about.

sonic 4 is scheduled for 2026 and i could not be any more excited. it seems like with each coming film, they're getting the hang of these characters and this world more and more and if it just keeps getting better from here then i cannot WAIT to see what they do with this film franchise in the future. i cannot believe i am saying all of this about sonic the hedgehog 3 of all things. why the fuck did they cook so unbelievably hard with this, and can they please keep cooking this hard in the future

(i am not a furry i am not a furry i am NOT a furry i am a good sensible reasonable lesbian woman who is attracted to WOMEN and women only and i do not find shadow the hedgehog attractive i do not find shadow the hedgehog attractive i do NOT find sha-)

Watched on Friday December 13, 2024.

Watched on Wednesday December 11, 2024.

(watched with Nadester17)

probably the most tonally and stylistically unique film i've seen in this entire marathon, and definitely the highest budget too (which does pay off because the vfx were phenomenal), but i just wasn't as invested in the story itself as i was with some of guillermo's other works. still, the big robot and sea monster fights were fun to watch and i didn't really expect anything more out of this film

pardon me while i go clip the burn gorman "and even if they do... you'll KILL YOURSELF!!! 🌩️🌩️🌩️🌩️🌩️☠️☠️☠️☠️" for future use

inspired by a list that @ur_mom_lol made a WHILE back

sorted from lowest average rating to highest

• Movie 43
• Die Hart 2: Die Harter
• Die Hart
• Melissa P.
• Roald Dahl's The Witches
• Downsizing
• Bigbug
• Something Evil
• Alien Resurrection
• Turbo

...plus 207 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

we do a miniscule amount of trolling

• Cars 3
• Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
• The Wiggles Movie
• Venom

marathon for later this year

only counting movies where he has a main or major role, not watching the ones where he just has a cameo or something like that

• Rubberface
• Copper Mountain
• Once Bitten
• Earth Girls Are Easy
• Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
• The Mask
• Dumb and Dumber
• Batman Forever
• Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
• The Cable Guy

...plus 24 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

the year night swim (2024) came out and no other movies

1. Sing Sing
2. Challengers
3. I Saw the TV Glow
4. Memoir of a Snail
5. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
6. Hundreds of Beavers
7. A Different Man
8. Nosferatu
9. Anora
10. Nickel Boys

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

my 15 favorite films. a good peek into what my taste and style is like

1. Whisper of the Heart
2. Everything Everywhere All at Once
3. Whiplash
4. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
5. Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
6. The Holdovers
7. Sing Sing
8. When Marnie Was There
9. Harakiri
10. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

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

every film that i have logged and unironically given a 10/10 to (so films i've watched but haven't logged don't count). basically a personal favorites list.

not adding short films or videos to keep things simple

1. Whisper of the Heart
2. Everything Everywhere All at Once
3. Whiplash
4. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
5. Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
6. The Holdovers
7. Sing Sing
8. When Marnie Was There
9. Harakiri
10. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

...plus 28 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

this list isn't late at all, what do you mean it's nearly the end of march

average rating: 4.15

1. Memoir of a Snail
2. A Different Man
3. Nosferatu
4. Anora
5. Sound! Euphonium the Movie – Our Promise: A Brand New Day
6. The Shape of Water
7. A Complete Unknown
8. Metropolis
9. Love Hurts
10. Dog Man

crazy how much this list shrunk 😭 anyway maddy you're super cool, sorry i haven't seen more of your favorites

go follow her

1. Whisper of the Heart
2. When Marnie Was There
3. Challengers
4. I Saw the TV Glow
5. Memoir of a Snail
6. Jurassic Park
7. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
8. Mad Max: Fury Road
9. Anora
10. Do the Right Thing

...plus 9 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

i love you sweetie, i still need to see so many of your favorite movies i'm really sorry😭

go follow her 🥰

1. Everything Everywhere All at Once
2. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
3. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
4. La La Land
5. WALL·E
6. 12 Angry Men
7. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
8. Hamilton
9. The Lion King
10. Guardians of the Galaxy

...plus 11 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

first person to figure out what the ranking is wins a pat on the back

• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
• Frida
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
• Finding Neverland
• Brokeback Mountain
• Babel
• Atonement
• Slumdog Millionaire
• Up

...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

planning to watch through all of these and then when i finally finish them all, i'll make a video ranking all of them! wish me luck because this is probably gonna take me like 5 years

• Sherlock Jr.
• Battleship Potemkin
• The General
• Metropolis
• The ion of Joan of Arc
• Man with a Movie Camera

  most popular film of this year is just a short so i replaced it with this (the second most popular film)

• All Quiet on the Western Front
• M
• Freaks
• King Kong

...plus 91 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

average rating: 3.17

1. Crimson Peak
2. Sherlock Jr.
3. The Brutalist
4. Flow
5. The General
6. Wicked
7. Battleship Potemkin
8. Babygirl
9. Emilia Pérez

this list is depressing

1. The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
2. Mad Max: Fury Road
3. Stick
4. The Mean One
5. Mad Max 2
6. Pacific Rim
7. Sonic the Hedgehog 2
8. Pixels
9. Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

   2024 oscars

10. Mad Max

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

a fun idea that i'm gonna do yearly from now on

i picked a film to represent every month in the year, and i'm using the average rating of all of my monthly rankings to figure out which months were the best for me and which ones were the worst (film-wise)

look in the notes for the monthly averages

oh also feel free to clone this if you want

2023 month ranking: boxd.it/rtKca

1. June

   june (average of 3.89)

   boxd.it/x2GLg

   best month for watches so far, mainly because i just watched what i wanted to watch

2. September

   september (average of 3.75)

   boxd.it/zkDYK

   literally only saw 4 movies

3. July

   july (average of 3.56)

   boxd.it/xGFrE

   no new 5 star films this month but also no real terrible films except for one

4. November

   november (average of 3.4)

   boxd.it/DLY5c

5. March

   march (average of 3.34)

   boxd.it/uT5Rq

   i watched a LOT this month and i think it led to a higher rating than usual

6. May

   may (average of 3.32)

   boxd.it/vYd46

   had a good mix of amazing movies and mid incarnate this month

7. August

   august (average of 3.292)

   boxd.it/yUt96

   was pretty inactive for a while and most of the movies i did see were at silly movie nights which probably brought the average down a little

8. April

   april (average of 3.26)

   watched some stuff and had a good variety of ratings

9. October

   october (average of 3.07)

   boxd.it/ArRTi

   guess which film dragged down the ranking

10. February

    february (average of 3.05)

    boxd.it/twqJs

    i don't usually watch a lot of movies in these earlier months so expect these to end up near the bottom at the end of the year

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

average rating: 2.96

1. Sonic the Hedgehog 3
2. The Muppet Christmas Carol
3. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
4. How the Grinch Stole Christmas
5. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
6. Speak No Evil
7. Pacific Rim
8. Red One
9. Four Christmases
10. Eight Crazy Nights

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

forgot to make this

average rating: 3.4

1. Pan's Labyrinth
2. Amélie
3. Hundreds of Beavers
4. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
5. Heretic
6. Moulin Rouge!
7. Robot Dreams
8. Pokémon Detective Pikachu
9. Wicked
10. Paprika

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

films that i want to see again for various reasons, which include wanting to see if my thoughts still hold up, the film getting worse/better in my mind, me wanting to make a longer and more in-depth analysis of it, or me just being really excited to see the film again

elaboration for each film in notes

if you wanna ask me about any of these then feel free to do so in the comments

no particular order

• Whiplash

  a lot of my mutuals have talked to me about why they don't like it (and i've also heard a lot of talk about it being "overrated"), and while i don't see the film getting any worse for me, i still do want to rewatch it, partially to see if my thoughts hold up and partially so that i can see where others are coming from

• Sonic the Hedgehog

  have not rewatched this one since the second one came out but i wanna rewatch it and 2 because i feel like my thoughts are starting to change on them (for better or for worse i can't decide)

• Sonic the Hedgehog 2
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

  it's been years since i've seen any of these and i wanna rewatch them to see how well they hold up because i do not my opinions on any of them

• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

...plus 30 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

i watched so much great stuff this year in addition to so, SO much dogshit

1. Everything Everywhere All at Once
2. Whiplash
3. The Holdovers
4. When Marnie Was There
5. Harakiri
6. A Town Called Panic
7. La La Land
8. Pan's Labyrinth
9. Amélie
10. 12 Angry Men

...plus 73 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

fine i'll rank them separately

1. Stick
2. The Mean One
3. Pixels
4. An All Dogs Christmas Carol
5. Chicken Park
6. Ernest in the Army
7. Sharknado
8. Home Alone 3
9. A Fool and His Money
10. Sherlock Gnomes

...plus 9 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

we hate ourselves

list of all the films that are currently in rotation for these movie nights: boxd.it/tyttG

these aren't ranked because i already have a ranking of all the movies i've seen with nadester and that would be kind of redundant, so this is moreso just to keep track of what we've seen so far

• Home Alone 3
• Smosh: The Movie
• Revenge of the Nerds
• Norm of the North
• Chicken Park
• Pixels
• Finding Jesus
• Stick
• Herbie Goes Bananas
• Marmaduke

...plus 9 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

basically, on movie nights of our choice, we will go to this list and shuffle it to pick a random "silly" movie to watch. i have selectively chosen one specifically chosen "silly" movie from every single year since 1980, and anytime we watch one i will remove it and replace it with a different silly movie from the same year. so on and so forth until lose our sanity

give recommendations here: boxd.it/ulVSC

movies we have watched so far: boxd.it/tBtbo

silly movie night rank: boxd.it/vwQSe

• Gamera: Super Monster
• Rubberface
• The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat
• Hercules
• Monster Dog
• The Nail Gun Massacre
• Howard the Duck
• Ernest Goes to Camp
• Mac and Me
• Going Overboard

...plus 35 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

average rating: 3.07

1. The Wild Robot
2. Blade II
3. It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
4. Blade
5. Ernest in the Army
6. Haunted Mansion
7. Trump vs the Illuminati

lmfao

average rating: 3.75

1. The Devil's Backbone
2. Despicable Me 4
3. An All Dogs Christmas Carol

sorry this is so late

average rating: 3.292

1. Whisper of the Heart
2. Sing Sing
3. Cuckoo
4. Mimic
5. Encanto
6. Deadpool & Wolverine
7. Despicable Me 4
8. Sharknado
9. A Fool and His Money
10. Sherlock Gnomes

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

i love just going and spending a whole day at the movies

check notes

combined runtimes for each feature:

barbenheimer: 295 minutes (4.9 hours)

anyone but migrapoleon: 345 minutes (5.75 hours)

if to black guy glow: 452 minutes (7.53 hours)

furiosout: 246 minutes (4.1 hours)

despicable deadpool: 222 minutes (3.7 hours)

sing cuckoo: 209 minutes (3.48 hours)

• Oppenheimer

  double feature w/ barbie

• Barbie
• Anyone But You

  triple feature w/ migration and napoleon

• Migration
• Napoleon
• IF

  quadruple feature w/ back to black, the fall guy, and i saw the tv glow

• Back to Black
• The Fall Guy
• I Saw the TV Glow
• Inside Out 2

  double feature w/ furiosa

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

title is pretty self-explanatory, this is just a list of taglines on this site that kinda suck lol. reasoning in notes

suggestions are welcome, i'll add suggestions and list your reasoning in the notes

not ranked

i will keep updating this list until letterboxd adds a feature that lets you change taglines

• Wayne's World 2

  "YOU’LL LAUGH AGAIN! YOU’LL CRY AGAIN!! YOU’LL HURL AGAIN!!!"

  literally just the tagline of the first movie but they added "again" after each part

• Despicable Me 2

  "BACK 2 WORK"

  others have explained this before but it's literally the most generic tagline you could possibly have for a sequel

• Despicable Me 3

  "OH BROTHER."

  similar to despicable me 2, just incredibly generic

• Happy Feet

  "WARNING: MAY CAUSE TOE-TAPPING."

  i just think it's cringe lmao

• Finding Jesus

  "DIVE INTO A WORLD OF FAITH AND FRIENDS!"

  reading this tagline fills me with a sense of dread that i can't explain

• Finding Jesus 2

  "FRIENDS, FAMILY AND FAITH UNDER THE SEA!"

  no less generic than the first's

• Dear Evan Hansen

  "AN HONEST AND ORIGINAL STORY FOR THE OUTSIDER IN ALL OF US."

  bro he literally lied about being friends with a kid who committed suicide to hook up with his sister what do you mean "honest and original"

  also i hate how this movie tries to be relatable. like no, no sane member of society would find themselves in this situation. this is not a story for "the outsider in all of us"

• The Post

  "TRUTH BE TOLD"

  reeks of the same bullshit that despicable me 3 had. and i liked the movie!

• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

  "AN EPIC OF EPIC EPICNESS."

  i'm sorry, i'm sure the movie's great, but i cannot take this tagline seriously lol. i know that's probably the point but being intentionally cringey is still cringey nonetheless

• The Big Short

  (suggested by Eve, reasoning was that she doesn't like adam mckay's "true story" bullshit)

  "THIS IS A TRUE STORY."

  holy shit guys i think this is a true story

...plus 103 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

no new 5 stars this month, kinda sad

average: 3.56/5

1. Orion and the Dark
2. Megamind
3. Boy & the World
4. Porco Rosso
5. The Orator
6. Cronos
7. Longlegs
8. My Neighbor Totoro
9. Fly Me to the Moon
10. The Mean One

...plus 6 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

suggest some silly movies for me and conor to watch for our silly movie nights. i'll look at this list anytime we have to replace a movie and take it into consideration, and if a movie is applicable to the year that we need to replace then i'll probably add it

the movie has to have released after 1980 and it has to either be so bad it's good or just plain bad

before you suggest a film, check and see if it's already in rotation or check and see if it's a film we've already watched for a silly movie night

sorted by release date

• Xanadu
• Arachnophobia
• The Shaggy Dog
• House on Haunted Hill
• Eight Crazy Nights
• Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
• Shark Tale
• The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl
• The Shaggy Dog
• Click

...plus 19 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

movies i have missed:

-sorry to bother you

-love and pop

-american movie

1. The Orator
2. The 'Burbs
3. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
4. Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
5. Ernest Goes to School
6. Bruh.mp4

gonna watch through all of these and make a ranking of them on youtube as one of my first biggish projects

starting sometime during the week of 7/21

• Cronos
• Mimic
• The Devil's Backbone
• Blade II
• Hellboy
• Pan's Labyrinth
• Hellboy II: The Golden Army
• Pacific Rim
• Crimson Peak
• The Shape of Water

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

every movie that i saw that released this year ranked

not counting shorts

honestly this is a pretty hype-ass year ngl

have started working on my 2023 ranking video. will post updates in the notes for what films i have written/recorded/edited segments for to give you all an idea of my progress

1. The Holdovers

   have written a segment for this one.

2. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

   have written a segment for this one.

3. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

   have written a segment for this one.

4. The Boy and the Heron

   have written a segment for this one, but fair warning: the segment i wrote on this kind of sucks and is really short

5. Godzilla Minus One

   recorded

6. Asteroid City

   recorded

7. Barbie

   recorded

8. Oppenheimer

   recorded

9. Nimona

   recorded

10. Killers of the Flower Moon

    recorded

...plus 31 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

probably gonna take me a while to finish this but whatever it looks fun (and also i can finally watch some real cinema)

credit to this list for the template and to @Green1122 for originally introducing me to this challenge

i'm actually really really excited to get to see a lot of these for the first time

progress: 18/35 (51% done)

• Nobody

  #1: watch the film that was added first

  (watched january 24, 2024)

• Whisper of the Heart

  #2: watch the film that was added last

  (watched throughout the week but finished on january 27, 2024)

• Killers of the Flower Moon

  #3: watch the film that is the longest (i'm only counting feature films for this)

  (watched january 28, 2024)

• The Rapsittie Street Kids: Believe in Santa

  #4: watch the film that is the shortest (i'm only counting feature films for this)

  (watched january 29, 2024)

• Harakiri

  #5: watch the film that is rated highest

  (watched february 4, 2024)

• The Last Airbender

  #6: watch the film that is rated lowest

  (watched february 10, 2024)

• 12 Angry Men

  #7: watch a film from the '50s

  (watched on march 31st, 2024)

• The Jungle Book

  #8: watch a film from the '60s

• The Godfather

  #9: watch a film from the '70s

• Blade Runner

  #10: watch a film from the '80s

...plus 25 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

pride month (i watched barely any pride movies unfortunately)

average rating: 3.89

1. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
2. A Town Called Panic
3. La La Land
4. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
5. Mad Max: Fury Road
6. Back to the Future
7. The Emperor's New Groove
8. The Tale of The Princess Kaguya
9. Inside Out 2
10. The Fairly OddParents: Channel Chasers

...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

it struck me how hard these are to think of so i decided to try and compile a list to see if there's really that few or if my brain has just been conditioned. suggestions are welcome

• My Neighbor Totoro
• A Goofy Movie
• Bluey: The Sign
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
• The Spider Within: A Spider-Verse Story
• IF
• Kung Fu Panda
• Kung Fu Panda 2
• Kung Fu Panda 3

...plus 24 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1938 to who knows when

please comment with possible connections that i missed

sorted by date to provide the most comprehensive timeline possible

look in the notes for the reasoning

• Four Daughters

  the actor john garfield is in it

• Swingtime in the Movies

  the actor john garfield is in it

• They Made Me a Criminal

  the actor john garfield is in it

• Blackwell's Island

  the actor john garfield is in it

• Juarez

  the actor john garfield is in it

• Daughters Courageous

  the actor john garfield is in it

• Dust Be My Destiny

  the actor john garfield is in it

• Four Wives

  the actor john garfield is in it

• Breakdowns of 1939

  the actor john garfield is in it

• Castle on the Hudson

  the actor john garfield is in it

...plus 850 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

movies where i would die happy if i could go my entire life without seeing them

this list mainly includes extreme/disturbing cinema (or stuff that i personally can't really tolerate watching), so if you find one that you're convinced i won't like then please tell me what it is so i can stay away from it

will be updated when i think of more

• Freddy Got Fingered

  from what i've heard, this film is an... experience

  it just doesn't sound like my thing at all and from descriptions of a lot of the jokes it feels like i'll just want to vomit if i'm subjected to this

• Finding Jesus 2

  watching this movie is an act of self-harm and i am not masochistic

• Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

  basically the definition of extreme/disturbing cinema

• The Human Centipede (First Sequence)

  i took one look at the poster and... you know what, i'm good

• The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence)
• The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence)
• A Serbian Film

  again, not a fan of extreme cinema

• Movie 43

  like freddy got fingered, it just doesn't sound like my thing and a lot of the humor sounds either gross or graphically sex-related

• 365 Days

  pornhub is free

• 365 Days: This Day

...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

will update

• Dune

  2020's

• Parasite

  2010's

• The Dark Knight

  2000's

• Fight Club

  '90's

• The Shining

  '80's

• The Godfather

  '70's

• Psycho

  '60's (technically would be 2001 a space odyssey but i have seen that before, i just don't anything about it since it was a very long time ago and i haven't rewatched it since)

• Vertigo

  '50's

• Casablanca

  '40's

• The Wizard of Oz

  '30's

...plus 6 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Me and my brother decided we'd watch (and in my case, rank) every Pixar movie.

I'm watching these in the order my brother chooses, so if it seems like I'm going in a random order, it's because I am.

100% of the way there

edit: my brother gave up two films in. i guess it's just me now. he still gets to choose the movies tho

edit: finally finished!

1. WALL·E
2. The Incredibles
3. Monsters, Inc.
4. Toy Story 2
5. Ratatouille
6. Soul
7. Coco
8. Toy Story 3
9. Luca
10. Inside Out

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

well george, you are an odd fellow, but i must say, you direct a good movie

1. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
2. Mad Max: Fury Road
3. Mad Max 2
4. Mad Max
5. Happy Feet Two
6. Happy Feet
7. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

i can't add the garfield movie to this list since it's unrankable

average rating: 3.32

1. Everything Everywhere All at Once
2. Whiplash
3. When Marnie Was There
4. Challengers
5. I Saw the TV Glow
6. IF
7. The Fall Guy
8. Stick
9. Mad Max 2
10. Mad Max

...plus 9 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

lgbtq+ people are the best fr fr

• The Rocky Horror Picture Show
• Portrait of a Lady on Fire
• Tangerine
• Bottoms
• But I'm a Cheerleader
• The Handmaiden

credit to wowzercowzer for making the literal funniest list on letterboxd

if you start from the bottom and scroll all the way up to the top (or sort the list in reverse order) then you can truly feel the disappointment set in on a personal level from the people in the posters

1. Evil Dead II
2. Iron Man
3. Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
4. The Angry Birds Movie
5. Les Misérables
6. John Wick: Chapter 4
7. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
8. Stalker
9. Black Adam
10. The Godfather Part III

...plus 39 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

seen some people using films with the same titles as albums to rank albums from their favorite musicians so i figured i'd do this since i've been obsessed with will wood lately. these are all 10/10's btw

look in the notes to see which film is supposed to represent each album

1. What Did I Do? (The Making of The Normal Album)

   the normal album

2. Everything

   everything is a lot

3. Selfish

   self-ish

4. In Case I Disappear

   in case i make it

try not to hate on me too much in the comments 🥺

1. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
2. The Garfield Movie

most default posters on this site are pretty mid, but here's a selection of some that i actually think are pretty good. suggestions are welcome

• Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Challengers
• The Lion King
• Blade Runner 2049
• Back to the Future
• Back to the Future Part II
• Back to the Future Part III
• A Silent Voice: The Movie
• Spirited Away
• Howl's Moving Castle

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

every official arc that Regal has gone through and officially acknowledged

check notes for each arc that has been completed, the films are just meant to respresent what film reviews they acknowledged them on

current arc that we're trying to complete: trying to get regal cinemas to it that they trans girls and take estrogen

• Dumb Money

  making it so that regal has apple pay in crocker park, westlake ohio

  boxd.it/4TH5WR

• Anyone But You

  trying to get regal to go on a date with James Kiscaden

  boxd.it/5m7qHH

please keep making these they're so funny

• Godzilla Minus One
• Leo
• Megamind vs. the Doom Syndicate
• The Wiggles Movie
• Venom
• Shrek

i watched some stuff

average rating: 3.26

1. Jurassic Park
2. Asteroid City
3. Spirited Away
4. Anatomy of a Fall
5. The Post
6. Monkey Man
7. The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
8. Pixels
9. Chicken Park
10. Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare

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

there is no rhyme or reason to this list

• Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

  i made this one :)

• Barbie
• Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
• Leo
• Shazam!
• Sonic the Hedgehog
• Sonic the Hedgehog 2
• Five Nights at Freddy's
• Cars 2
• Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey

...plus 24 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

movies that i want to get posters from to hang in my room. in case you need any more proof that i'm a total geek lol

no particular order. the custom poster that i have selected on this list will represent the poster i would most like to buy, but i'd be fine with getting any poster from any of these movies

• Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
• Whiplash
• Jurassic Park
• Venom

  i know it's gonna be like impossible to find this specific poster but i really want to because it would be funny as fuck

• Back to the Future
• Back to the Future Part II
• Back to the Future Part III
• The Post

...plus 16 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.