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Look. There’s nothing inherently wrong with this movie on its surface, and if you don’t think about it too much then it’s just a fun, cute movie that a lot of people will probably enjoy.
However, I am sick and tired of pretending that live action remakes are not, at its core, anti art and probably the laziest form of film that can be made.
The way I see it, there are two outcomes from a live action remake. You either make a 1 by 1 carbon copy of the animated version which is completely pointless, or you change key details of the original film and defeat the purpose of recreating the movie. It is a lose-lose situation and it drives me crazy that studios put so much time and effort into these remakes rather than putting that money and effort into an original idea.
I know that this means nothing in the grand scheme of things and these remakes are going to keep getting churned out but people love to complain that there aren’t any original movies out and then continue to these ventures regardless.
Endlessly frustrating
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Watched on Friday June 13, 2025.
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Watched on Friday June 13, 2025.
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Watched on Thursday June 12, 2025.
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Watched on Wednesday June 11, 2025.
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Watched on Friday June 6, 2025.
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Watched on Friday June 6, 2025.
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Watched on Friday May 30, 2025.
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I’m sitting here trying to think of a reason to not give this 5 stars and I genuinely can’t.
A 3 hour long journey that takes us through the minds of literally a dozen characters and their experience with family, loss, and love. The father-son relationships developing between Jake/Lo’ak and spider/Quaritch. The BEST VISUALS of all time. The continuing war between the colonizing power and the natives. The continued presence of nature, being the driving force of the entire film.
I was sitting and just watching the main credits and I just felt something that you only feel during very specific movies. The ethereal voices and pure appreciation for nature really drove this home towards the end for me.
This is epic storytelling at its finest and I’m tired of pretending like it isn’t. James Cameron is a goat and I am beyond excited for Fire and Ash.
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Watched on Thursday May 29, 2025.
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Watched on Wednesday May 28, 2025.
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Perhaps I treated you too harshly…
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Watched on Tuesday May 27, 2025.
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Watched on Tuesday May 27, 2025.
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RAAHHHHHHHH
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Watched on Wednesday May 21, 2025.
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Watched on Tuesday May 20, 2025.
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Watched on Friday May 16, 2025.
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I got a random urge to rewatch this for the first time in years and it has aged wonderfully.
Mulan is the ultimate criticism of toxic masculinity while being simultaneously uplifting for young boys and girls alike.
I genuinely think if many of the young men in this world who fall into the incel/andrew Tate podcast listening category would just watch this film and try to understand what is happening then they would be so much better off for it.
It’s so funny because the dudes that listen to “I’ll make a man out of you” and immediately think of being big and strong and manly don’t realize that the entire scene that the song is playing over is showing how “being a man” isn’t helping them accomplish their task. The song says “be a man” over and over again, while Mulan retrieves the arrow by doing the opposite of what the song is telling them to do. She uses her brain.
Her whole motivation behind ing the army in the first place is completely unselfish and probably much more honorable than any of the other men, yet once they find out she’s a woman they immediately forget anything she’s done and toss her to the curb despite the fact that she saved all of their lives. Plus they don’t even give her the opportunity to show them why she was there in the first place.
Everyone needs to watch this film.
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Watched on Thursday May 8, 2025.
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Upon rewatch I think it’s pretty safe to say that Marvel is heading in the right direction again.
This really takes a swing at tackling some difficult themes and I really appreciate that. Most recent marvel films have been lacking that, they don’t really feel like films, just a continuation of a multiple decade long story with no real substance to it. The themes of trauma and mental illness, while on the nose at times, were thought out and put on display pretty well.
This ensemble cast did a really wonderful job, especially Florence Pugh and Lewis Pullman. I really love what they are doing.
I can’t wait for Fantastic Four!
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Watched on Friday May 2, 2025.
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Watched on Thursday May 1, 2025.
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Watched on Thursday May 1, 2025.
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“I know now why you cry, but it’s something I could never do.”
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Watched on Sunday April 27, 2025.
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Yeah this is a perfect film.
Completely visceral but undeniably beautiful scenery with one of the best soundtracks I’ve ever heard and some of the greatest performances I’ve seen from an ensemble cast.
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Watched on Friday April 18, 2025.
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Watched on Thursday April 17, 2025.
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Watched on Thursday April 17, 2025.
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Watched on Thursday April 17, 2025.
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Watched on Thursday April 17, 2025.
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Watched on Thursday April 17, 2025.
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The woman that lived in the house screaming "Why? Why?" at the end of the film really explains how I felt about this movie. We see these soldiers march in to this house, put the families in one room, with nothing but absolute chaos and destruction to follow.
I've seen some people try and equate this to just another American propaganda war film, but I think that couldn't be further from the truth. We know literally nothing about any of these characters, we don't really know the nature of their mission, neither do they, and we sure as hell don't get attached to any of them before they get absolutely shit on the entire film. This pretty much sums up what these soldiers are to our government. Nothing but guns to send on missions, who can die at any point and immediately be replaced.
This film is absolutely suffocating, with a sound design that made me wince, and with scenery that is just horrid to look at.
I can't say that I will be rewatching this any time soon, but I will be thinking about this for a good while.
I may have been slightly hyperbolic in my initial review🥴
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Watched on Thursday April 10, 2025.
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Watched on Monday April 7, 2025.
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I am not being hyperbolic in the slightest when I say that this is the greatest movie of all time
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Watched on Wednesday April 2, 2025.
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Watched on Thursday March 27, 2025.
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There’s an interesting premise and solid mystery story telling somewhere in here but the over convoluted writing, headache inducing sensory overload, and ending that could’ve come 20 minutes sooner really brought this down for me.
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Watched on Wednesday March 26, 2025.
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Watched on Friday March 21, 2025.
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Watched on Wednesday March 19, 2025.
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Watched on Friday March 14, 2025.
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Endlessly entertaining and filled to the brim with the blatant social commentary that is typical in a Bong Joon-Ho film.
I have yet to see this man make a film that wasn’t outstanding. Every performance is hilarious and perfect for their role, the film is delightful to look at and overall just a great time.
First win of 2025.
Watched on Sunday March 9, 2025.
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Watched on Tuesday March 4, 2025.
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Watched on Thursday February 27, 2025.
]]>Every film released in 2025 I’ve seen ranked
- Sinners
- Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
- Warfare
- The Life of Chuck
- Ballerina
- Mickey 17
- Thunderbolts*
- The ant²
- Materialists
- Black Bag
...plus 7 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Every 2022 release I’ve seen ranked
- Everything Everywhere All at Once
- Avatar: The Way of Water
- The Batman
- Top Gun: Maverick
- The Fabelmans
- Glass Onion
- Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
- The Banshees of Inisherin
- Bullet Train
- The Menu
...plus 26 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Every James Cameron film I’ve seen, ranked
]]>My collection of movies that I’ve given 5 stars in alphabetical order.
I got tired of trying to rank these
- 12 Angry Men
- 1917
- Arrival
- Avatar: The Way of Water
- Avengers: Infinity War
- Die Hard
- Django Unchained
- Dune: Part Two
- Everything Everywhere All at Once
- Gone Girl
...plus 26 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Every mission impossible film I’ve seen ranked
]]>Every physical criterion film I own in order by its release number.
- The Silence of the Lambs
- Do the Right Thing
- Paths of Glory
- 12 Angry Men
- Anatomy of a Murder
- Y Tu Mamá También
- Before Sunrise
- Before Sunset
- Before Midnight
- The Princess Bride
...plus 6 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Every physical steelbook I own
- 1917
- 300
- Alien: Covenant
- Bram Stoker's Dracula
- Bullet Train
- Django Unchained
- First Blood
- Get Out
- Gladiator
- GoodFellas
...plus 65 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Every normal Blu-ray/4k movie I own.
]]>Every Alien film I’ve seen, ranked
]]>Every 2021 release I've seen ranked
- tick, tick... BOOM!
- Dune
- The Suicide Squad
- Spider-Man: No Way Home
- CODA
- On the Count of Three
- Zack Snyder's Justice League
- The Harder They Fall
- Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
- The Guilty
...plus 16 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Every 2024 release I’ve seen ranked
- Dune: Part Two
- Conclave
- Sing Sing
- Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
- The Brutalist
- Hit Man
- Challengers
- Alien: Romulus
- The Wild Robot
- Bad Boys: Ride or Die
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]]>Every Robert Eggers film I’ve seen ranked
]]>Every Ridley Scott film I’ve seen, ranked
]]>- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
- Spider-Man: No Way Home
- Spider-Man 2
- Spider-Man
- Spider-Man: Homecoming
- The Amazing Spider-Man
- Spider-Man 3
- Spider-Man: Far From Home
- Venom
...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Every 2019 release I’ve seen ranked
- John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
- 1917
- Knives Out
- Parasite
- Little Women
- Uncut Gems
- Marriage Story
- Avengers: Endgame
- Joker
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire
...plus 13 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Every David Fincher film I’ve seen ranked
]]>Every Damien Chazelle Film I’ve seen ranked
]]>Every Steven Spielberg film I’ve seen ranked
]]>Every Stanley Kubrick film I’ve seen ranked
]]>Every M. Night Shyamalan movie I’ve seen ranked.
]]>- Avengers: Infinity War
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
- Avengers: Endgame
- Thor: Ragnarok
- Spider-Man: No Way Home
- Loki
- Doctor Strange
- Captain America: Civil War
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier
- The Avengers
...plus 31 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Every 2023 release I’ve seen ranked
- Oppenheimer
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
- The Holdovers
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
- The Iron Claw
- Past Lives
- John Wick: Chapter 4
- Poor Things
- Society of the Snow
- May December
...plus 56 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Every Denis Villeneuve Film I’ve seen ranked
]]>- The Suicide Squad
- Zack Snyder's Justice League
- Wonder Woman
- Shazam!
- Aquaman
- Man of Steel
- Black Adam
- The Flash
- Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
- Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Up
- Toy Story 3
- Inside Out
- Toy Story
- WALL·E
- Soul
- The Incredibles
- Finding Nemo
- Toy Story 2
- Inside Out 2
...plus 13 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Every 2020 release I’ve seen ranked
- Minari
- Sound of Metal
- Soul
- The Trial of the Chicago 7
- The Father
- A Quiet Place Part II
- Palm Springs
- Extraction
- Bad Boys for Life
- Onward
...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Every film in the planet of the apes franchise I’ve seen, ranked.
]]>Every Quentin Tarantino Film Ranked
]]>- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Every Christopher Nolan film I’ve seen ranked
]]>Every film in the twilight franchise, ranked.
]]>Any movie in the “spiderverse” I’ve seen ranked
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
- Spider-Man: No Way Home
- Spider-Man 2
- Spider-Man: Homecoming
- Spider-Man
- Spider-Man: Far From Home
- The Amazing Spider-Man
- Spider-Man 3
- The Amazing Spider-Man 2
...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Logan
- Deadpool
- X-Men: Days of Future Past
- Deadpool 2
- X-Men: First Class
- X2
- X-Men
- The Wolverine
- X-Men Origins: Wolverine
- X-Men: The Last Stand
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]]>Every movie from the DC Animated Universe I’ve seen ranked
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]]>Every film from the fast and furious franchise ranked
- Fast & Furious 6
- Fast Five
- Furious 7
- The Fast and the Furious
- The Fate of the Furious
- Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
- Fast & Furious
- Fast X
- 2 Fast 2 Furious
- The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
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]]>Every film from the Rocky/Creed franchise ranked
]]>Any series on this app I’ve seen ranked
- The Queen's Gambit
- BEEF
- The Last Dance
- Loki
- Moon Knight
- WandaVision
- Hawkeye
- The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
- Squid Game
- Ms. Marvel
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]]>Every Indiana Jones film ranked
]]>All of the hunger games films ranked
]]>Every Martin Scorsese Film I've seen ranked
]]>Every war film I’ve seen ranked
- Inglourious Basterds
- Schindler's List
- 1917
- Hacksaw Ridge
- Paths of Glory
- Full Metal Jacket
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
- Fury
- Saving Private Ryan
- Apocalypse Now
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]]>Batman Movies I’ve seen ranked
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