Josh Patron

Favorite films

  • Independence Day
  • Casablanca
  • Jurassic Park
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

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  • Cowboys & Aliens

    ★★½

  • Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning

    ★★★★½

  • Captain America: Brave New World

    ★★

  • Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

    ★★★½

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Independence Day

1996

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

“You know how I’m always trying to save the planet? Now’s my chance.”

GOD I LOVE THIS MOVIE. I watching Independence Day for the first time in 6th grade, as part of a science-fiction elective that my science teacher ran. I immediately fell in love with it. When I went home that day, I told my mom how much I had liked it and she very bittersweetly told me that it was her sister’s (who had ed away 5…

Schindler's List

1993

★★★★★ Liked 2

For my 1000th movie on Letterboxd I wanted to watch something special to me. I wanted to watch one of those ‘big’ movies that I had never seen, and I wanted it to feel important. I quickly landed on Schindler’s List for this, as not only had I never seen it, but as a Jewish person, I felt almost an obligation to see it, and I even had felt a little guilty that I hadn’t before. Nonetheless, I decided that…

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Cowboys & Aliens

2011

★★½ Watched

Shockingly not actually terrible! It’s not great either of course but it’s entertaining enough to warrant not feeling like I wasted my time. Terrible script and story, but it’s got decent enough performances from Craig and Ford, so it starts to balance out.

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning

2023

★★★★½ Liked Rewatched

"If anything happens to them, there's no place you and your God will be safe. There's no place that I won't go to kill you. That is written."

Regrettably not as strong as I it being, as it definitely does feel messier and the through-lines feel weaker, but doesn’t make it any less thrilling. Still hate that they killed Ferguson. Adore McQuarrie’s stylistic choices in this one.

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Arthur the King

2024

½ 2

“My dad has cancer”

(Rapturous audience laughter)

Stupidest movie I’ve ever seen. I want to make it clear that in no way did I actively seek out this movie, it was just the AMC Screen Unseen. 

Honestly on reflection, I’m really not sure whether or not I’m being punked into thinking it’s actually a real movie. I truly don’t think anyone tried here. Whalberg is obviously obnoxiously bad, it’s shot and directed like a Nike commercial, and it is so…

Napoleon

2023

★★★★★ Liked Watched

“My destiny is more powerful than my will”

Oh hell yeah. Absolutely rules. Screw the haters, Ridley Scott is still one of the best to do it. Incredibly made, the battles are epic and masterful, the script is fantastic, the performances are superb. And of course, Ridley’s direction is truly honed, and he knows exactly how to make an epic and compelling film. This is what it’s about.