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Something something suspension of disbelief.

While Dead Reckoning turned the camp up to a hundred, plenty of action and delightfully precarious set pieces meant that it remained a Mission Impossible film through and through.

The Final Reckoning somehow has some of the least action for being the longest film in the franchise. Instead it relies on nostalgia and fan service (some of which are clever I will it) to carry the audience through its baffling AI plotline and tragically underwhelming main villain.

Plot threads that looked as if they were CLEARLY being set up in Dead Reckoning just did not see the light of day, which is even more perplexing when you consider that this film was originally going be subtitled as 'Dead Reckoning Part Two'.

Maybe I had too high of an expectation for this film, but The Final Reckoning does not even come close to hitting the heights of Rogue Nation and Fallout by a wide margin. Even its emphasis on looking towards the past to create a finale of sorts failed to capture the same emotional gut-punches that this franchise has so often surprised us with.

Watched on Saturday April 19, 2025.

Watched on Friday April 18, 2025.

Watched on Sunday April 6, 2025.

Watched on Saturday March 29, 2025.

Watched on Sunday March 23, 2025.

Warner Bros. Pictures presents...

Bong Joon-Ho's Avatar

Watched on Tuesday February 11, 2025.

Un-fucking-believably grim, the foreboding atmosphere will leave you physically shaking and hoping for this nightmare to end.

Few films have the ability to produce a visceral reaction out of its audience but this is definitely one of them.

Watched on Thursday January 2, 2025.

Watched on Thursday January 30, 2025.

So this is how a dog feels while watching The Wild Robot

Watched on Wednesday December 18, 2024.

Hugh Grant: A Knives Out Mystery

Watched on Tuesday December 3, 2024.

The first half is perhaps a little obtuse but the second hour, along with the sublime cinematography, makes up for it.

Watching A Brighter Summer Day is like watching from the sidelines as a plane descends from the sky and it takes a long time before it finally crashes and burns knowing there's nothing you can do to stop it.

A family drama to beat all family dramas.

Except their lives are not as interconnected as you might have been led to assume. Each family member goes through their phase of life and faces different challenges which lead to these characters being some of the most relatable in cinema. Even if we do not personally see ourselves as somebody in this family, we definitely know of somebody else.

I absolutely wanted another 3 more hours of this as soon as the credits rolled. It's that good.

Watched on Wednesday October 30, 2024.

Watched on Thursday October 17, 2024.

Watched on Sunday October 13, 2024.

I will stand by the idea that this film absolutely did not need to be made, even with the idea that Joker: Folie à Deux was conceived to intentionally subvert expectations from the divisive but highly successful original film.

There was an attempt to deconstruct the Joker character and his mythos but what we are left with is a set of unexciting musical numbers with a paper thin plot that meanders its way through the runtime.

There is no audience to deliberately disappoint, or any anti-fan service to fabricate if even the critics of 2019's Joker are left scratching their heads.

Watched on Wednesday October 9, 2024.

A standout performance from Eguchi Noriko, but otherwise pretty standard marital melodrama fare.

Watched on Friday October 4, 2024.

Watched on Monday September 30, 2024.

Watched on Monday September 23, 2024.

Watched on Sunday August 25, 2024.

Watched on Wednesday August 21, 2024.

It's a better comedy than a thriller, although not by much.

This the best Non-video game video game movie (I'm looking at you Dead Space).

Clearly a lot of care and respect was given to reproduce the look of the original movie's sets and certainly succeeds with bridging the old and the new with incentive set-pieces; I was never bored.

Cailee Spaeny is slowly becoming a favourite of mine and it brings me great joy to see an old franchise being ushered in with the next generation of talent.

Yes, this is ultimately a very 'fan-servicey' film in the Alien franchise.

Who said that was a bad thing?

Perhaps a bit too sentimental, but the trip back to AOL and MSN Messenger days makes this quaint comedy-drama set in the haze of the sunny Bay Area makes this film a worthwhile watch.

Watched on Tuesday July 30, 2024.

Watched on Tuesday July 23, 2024.

Watched on Saturday July 20, 2024.

Watched on Thursday July 18, 2024.

Watched on Wednesday July 17, 2024.

Watched on Tuesday July 16, 2024.

About as thrilling as watching water in a glass cup.

Watched on Tuesday July 9, 2024.

Watched on Monday July 8, 2024.

Watched on Friday July 5, 2024.

Watched on Thursday June 27, 2024.

Watched on Thursday June 20, 2024.

It could never reach the emotional heights of the first film, but what is here is a competent great time with laughs for the kids and adults.

The Bing-Bong disrespect is inexcusable though.

Watched on Tuesday June 18, 2024.

Watched on Monday June 3, 2024.

Watched on Saturday June 1, 2024.

Watched on Monday May 27, 2024.

Watched on Sunday May 26, 2024.

• Oppenheimer
• The Holdovers
• Anatomy of a Fall
• Poor Things
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning
• Asteroid City
• The Zone of Interest
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
• John Wick: Chapter 4

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

Films by directors that I want to explore more.

Inspired by Azreal Tay.

Featuring:
Paul Thomas Anderson
Edward Yang
Hou Hsiao Hsien
David Cronenberg
Yasujiro Ozu
Andrei Tarkovsky
Mikio Naruse
Kenji Mizoguchi
Masaki Kobayashi
Thomas Vinterberg
Hirokazu Kore-eda
The Coen Brothers
Alfonso Cuarón
Steven Soderbergh
Jane Campion
Sofia Coppola
Lynne Ramsay

No one notice that I couldn't finish this in 2023 and totally didn't move it to 2024

• Boogie Nights
• There Will Be Blood
• Licorice Pizza
• Terrorizers
• A Brighter Summer Day
• Yi Yi
• A City of Sadness
• Flowers of Shanghai
• Millennium Mambo
• The Fly

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

Top 30 of my favourite movies of all time. (Not in any order)

• Everything Everywhere All at Once
• 1917
• One Cut of the Dead
• Blade Runner 2049
• Inside Out
• Our Little Sister
• Whiplash
• The Master
• Ratatouille
• No Country for Old Men

...plus 20 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

My top Pixar movies ranked

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

...plus 17 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Whiplash
2. La La Land
3. Babylon
4. First Man

Films that have that fixed gaze. Sexual or not, this is truly an interesting sub genre.
Films are inherently voyeuristic but these ones take it a step further.

• Bad Times at the El Royale
• Peeping Tom
• Psycho
• Strange Days
• Nightcrawler
• American Beauty
• The Truman Show
• Ex Machina
• Wings of Desire
• Rear Window

1. 1917
2. Ad Astra
3. Parasite
4. Little Women
5. The Irishman
6. Us
7. Weathering with You
8. Booksmart
9. Godzilla: King of the Monsters
10. Toy Story 4

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

My top Tarrantino movies ranked

1. Reservoir Dogs
2. Pulp Fiction
3. Inglourious Basterds
4. Django Unchained
5. Jackie Brown
6. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
7. The Hateful Eight
8. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
9. Kill Bill: Vol. 1

A personal collection of films I've watched that has food as some sort of relevance to the plot or characters.

• Eat Drink Man Woman
• Bao
• Chungking Express
• Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
• The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
• Lost in Ramen
• Ratatouille
• Tampopo
• Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
• Udon

A list of classic and influential Science Fiction films. Nuff said.

• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• A Boy and His Dog
• Star Wars
• Mad Max
• Alien
• Escape from New York
• Mad Max 2
• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
• Blade Runner
• The Terminator

...plus 12 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Cyberpunk.

Oh what a genre.

This list needs no words, I love this genre to the ends of the earth

Honorable Mentions:
Deus Ex: Human Revolution is not a movie but it has, in my opinion, one of the BEST cyberpunk storylines to surface in media

Psycho- is an Anime that will also be one of my favourites in the genre and has a lot of homages to early cyberpunk

• Blade Runner 2049
• A Scanner Darkly
• Akira
• Blade Runner
• Dredd
• Escape from New York
• Ex Machina
• Ghost in the Shell
• RoboCop
• Strange Days

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

1. Taxi Driver
2. The Wolf of Wall Street
3. Casino
4. GoodFellas
5. The Departed
6. Hugo
7. Shutter Island

1. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
2. Shoplifters
3. Incredibles 2
4. Halloween
5. Ralph Breaks the Internet
6. Black Panther
7. the Girls
8. Hearts Beat Loud
9. First Man
10. Upgrade

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

Ranked films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe

1. Captain America: Civil War
2. Black Panther
3. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
4. Avengers: Infinity War
5. The Avengers
6. Iron Man
7. Guardians of the Galaxy
8. Ant-Man
9. Thor: Ragnarok
10. Iron Man 2

...plus 7 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I have found myself watching lots of modern movies recently (which is not a bad thing at all) and I feel that I should start watching more movies from the 70s, 80s, 90s. A lot of my favourite movies of all time actually come from this era so here's a list of movies that I plan to finish by the end of the year!

-Written on 3/9/18

• Mean Streets
• The Conversation
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• Rocky
• Network
• Halloween
• Apocalypse Now
• Airplane!
• The Thing
• Repo Man

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

AAAAAAAAAAAA

there are bad movies, and then there are movies that just make me wanna kill myself

• Bee Movie
• Despicable Me 2
• Despicable Me 3
• Don't Breathe
• Flightplan
• Ghost in the Shell
• Minions
• Point Break
• The Boss Baby
• The Emoji Movie

1. Blade Runner 2049
2. Lady Bird
3. Dunkirk
4. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
5. Phantom Thread
6. Coco
7. Wind River
8. Baby Driver
9. Paddington 2
10. Detroit

• Snowpiercer
• The Truman Show

1. Dunkirk
2. The Prestige
3. Inception
4. The Dark Knight
5. Interstellar
6. Batman Begins

• The Wolf of Wall Street
• Logan Lucky
• Ocean's Eleven
• Catch Me If You Can
• Jackie Brown
• Reservoir Dogs

• 12 Angry Men
• Paths of Glory
• The Shawshank Redemption
• The Untouchables

• Blade Runner
• The Terminator
• Ex Machina
• Her
• WALL·E
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day
• I, Robot
• Big Hero 6
• Ghost in the Shell
• Ghost in the Shell

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

• Se7en
• RoboCop
• Dredd
• Men in Black
• Shutter Island

• Back to the Future
• Looper
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day
• Arrival
• Back to the Future Part II
• Back to the Future Part III
• Groundhog Day
• The Terminator
• Source Code

A ranked list of Top Leonardo DiCaprio Performsnces in Movies

p.s None of these movies are in any way bad, just a ranked list of his best performances

1. The Wolf of Wall Street
2. The Departed
3. Django Unchained
4. Catch Me If You Can
5. Shutter Island
6. Inception

• Lost in Translation
• Up
• Ratatouille
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• The Simpsons Movie
• Tomorrowland

A ranked list of all the Terminator movies

1. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
2. The Terminator
3. Terminator Genisys
4. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
5. Terminator Salvation

Studio Ghibli films challenge:
-Complete the whole Studio Ghibli Filmography
-Does not have to be in any order

Sorted by date

Plan to marathon somewhere in November/December of 2017

1. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
2. Castle in the Sky
3. Grave of the Fireflies
4. My Neighbor Totoro
5. Kiki's Delivery Service
6. Only Yesterday
7. Porco Rosso
8. Ocean Waves
9. Pom Poko
10. Whisper of the Heart

...plus 12 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.