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Jackie Chan teamed up with ghosts to fight Shaolin monks. This movie is exactly as appealing as that premise.

Still fun!

I don’t think this fully hangs together, but it does have plenty of Bigelow’s style and an absolutely unhinged (2004 RNC keynote speaker)Ron Silver performance. I like the idea that a serial killer could witness the casual lethal violence we allow cops in this country to get away with and think “yeah you’re just like me!”.

Say what you will about the dip in quality of the RoboCop sequels, but at least none of them were this boring.

I’m ready to start the movement to reclaim and reevaluate RoboCop 3. This is a movie full of guys! Bradly Whitford is in this! They give Robocop a Jetpack and have him fight Samurai robots! What are we asking the third Robocop movie to be if this is a disappointment??

RoboCop 2 is fun because the whole premise is that the evil corporation is trying to improve on RoboCop and just can't figure it out. Does it end up becoming the kind of movie the first one was satirizing? Yeah, for sure, but it's a pretty competent version of that kind of movie, so it's hard to be too upset about it.

The tragic beauty of RoboCop is that it sees the world so clearly. There is no distinguishable difference between “I’d buy that for a dollar!” and every catchphrase uttered by the Costco Guys.
 Does it remain satire if this is just exactly who we are?

Gambling has never been a draw for me, but chasing something that just isn’t there has to resonate with everyone. We’re constantly waiting for the other shoe to drop in California Split, and it just doesn’t, and it's somehow still satisfying. That's the Robert Altman magic.

In a lot of ways, this is the weakest Breaking Bad thing, but it still manages to be a pretty decent episode stretched out into a movie. It's hard not to feel like Jesse got a bad ending in the finale and, rather than delve into that, they basically just give him a happier one. It's interesting that of the big three Breaking Bad characters, only Saul really pays the price.

Those little hats really accentuate the various types of male pattern baldness on display in this film.

Great argument for style over substance.

The insane reaction to this movie was a warning sign for basically everything we’re dealing with in the United States right now. Very angry very online men continually mad that this movie didn’t cater to their boring and reductive view of what Star Wars should be.

Really in on Julia Roberts on a mission movies right now.

RIP Thousand Oaks Mayor Edward L. Masry. Everyday is indeed a winding road.

The Buddy Guy origin story rips. 

Coogler really hits that perfect zone between crunchy action, arthouse sensibility, and stage play musical. It’s somewhere between From Dusk Till Dawn and RRR while also likely being the best movie that comes out this year.

Hard to know if this is satire or just a sincere musical.

A total visual treat that also acts as Orson Welles' art house rebuttal to On The Waterfront's coziness towards informers.

Yeah that’s the stuff.

It feels kind of insane that this French film from 2023 is the only movie I’ve ever seen that directly tackles the 2014 Isla Vista shootings, but here we are. There is a lot being explored here involving isolation, paranoia, and nostalgia, but what really struck me was the two central performances, which had to be compelling enough to keep me hooked on a movie that is demanding a lot from its audience.

If Mr. Farnsworth buying the LA Rams and making himself the starting quarterback for the superbowl isn’t in God’s plan. God is simply wrong.

I did not realize how much nostalgia I had for this until it was on and I found myself loving it WAY more than I thought I would.

Is this the funniest movie ever?

I did not originally like this but I've watched it three times and it's just doing something so interesting tonally that I can't deny how much it's grown on me since seeing it the first time.

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The Cyborg Dolphin working with Ice Tea's resistance movement reaches levels of beauty and absurdity that few films can match.

Pierce Brosnan's virtual reality acting in this should have won him an Oscar. Baffling that it exists and is so self-serious and long, but also that's kind of the charm.

This movie sent me down a google rabbit hole of the cult my girlfriend from high school was in. 

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movement_of_Spiritual_Inner_Awareness

Candice Bergen is giving an all-time great “dumb guy” performance and her songs are the highlight of the movie for me. I’m just really thrilled with basically every aspect of this.

I saw this the way it was intended to be seen. In the background while I played chess on my computer. I enjoyed hearing Holly Hunter's voice every once in a while.

Parasite is the consensus Bong Joon Ho masterpiece, but in my opinion he has two and this is the first one.  “look me in the eyes! Fuck,I don’t know” is an incredible piece of movie making and he tops it five minutes later.

Continuing the Bong-athon with this twisted sci-fi parable about class disparity and doomed revolutions. Sci-fi really feels like director Bong's natural state with things like Parasite and Memories Of Murder as outliers.

I forgot how incredibly dark and sad this movie gets. It’s like if Babe Pig in the City ended with graphic depictions of the horrors of factory farming.

Director Bong’s attempt at explaining Starship Troopers to Americans.

So relentlessly unfunny that it circles around and becomes a little bit funny.

The Dogme 95 rules are a nice fit with this rec center-core romantic comedy. It's fun that stripping away the artifice of modern movies inevitably leads to what feels like a normal 90s dramedy.

Oh I ate this up.

"You don't butt in line! You don't sell drugs! You don't molest little children! You don't profit off the misery of others! The rules were set a long time ago! They don't change!"

Probably the most cynical of the “what if somebody decided to be a real superhero” genre that popped up alongside the rise of the MCU.

Watched on Sunday February 23, 2025.

If Tarantino does stop making movies I’d be cool with a season or two of Bounty Law.

Watched on Friday February 14, 2025.

I think Sandra Bullock’s cleft chin is what makes me fully buy her as an FBI agent.

We used to be a country that made things.

The people being satirized in this movie run the country now.

One of my more embarrassing movie opinions is that I prefer this indulgent sci-fi slop over the austere Dune films.

I feel like Black Mirror has been a net positive on genre movies of this era.

I was really taken with the way the movie uses film as a medium that can't be disturbed by fascism. Smiling for photos is both a corny thing your parents make you do and a way to resist fascists.

The characters from The Player would have pitched this and changed it upon hearing test screening reactions to the ending.

Put everything in your head on the screen cinema.

This may be the biggest budget and highest grossing 9/11 Truther movie ever made. It’s both obviously bad and highly watchable. Maybe the perfect microcosm of JJ Abrams as a filmmaker.

Gimme that Verhoeven sleaze.

It’s kind of like a Black Mirror episode turned up to 11.

1. Den of Thieves 2: Pantera
2. Sinners
3. Mickey 17
4. Companion
5. Star Trek: Section 31
6. Captain America: Brave New World
7. The Electric State

1. Challengers
2. Conclave
3. I Saw the TV Glow
4. Love Lies Bleeding
5. The Substance
6. Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1
7. Hit Man
8. Juror #2
9. The First Omen
10. Emilia Pérez

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I have a fondness for movies that pack every scene with generic sci-fi slop.

• Elysium
• Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
• Jupiter Ascending
• Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
• Alita: Battle Angel
• Wizards
• The Fifth Element
• District 9
• Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
• Heavy Metal

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1. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
2. For Your Eyes Only
3. Goldfinger
4. The Living Daylights
5. The Spy Who Loved Me
6. Tomorrow Never Dies
7. Casino Royale
8. Octopussy
9. Never Say Never Again
10. You Only Live Twice

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

• Drive My Car
• West Side Story
• The Tragedy of Macbeth
• The Green Knight
• The Matrix Resurrections
• Spider-Man: No Way Home
• Luca
• Eternals
• Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
• The French Dispatch

...plus 23 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III
• The Fly
• Freddy vs. Jason
• Halloween
• Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
• Lifeforce
• Halloween
• Bone Tomahawk
• Psycho II
• Scream

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

1. Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
2. Friday the 13th Part III
3. Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
4. Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
5. Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
6. Jason X
7. Friday the 13th
8. Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
9. Freddy vs. Jason
10. Friday the 13th

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1. eXistenZ
2. Crimes of the Future
3. Crash
4. Videodrome
5. The Fly
6. The Brood
7. Scanners
8. A Dangerous Method
9. A History of Violence
10. Dead Ringers

• Babylon
• Dick
• 3 Women
• California Split
• Crash
• A Serious Man
• Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
• Short Cuts
• Something Wild
• Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

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1. Crimes of the Future
2. Decision to Leave
3. EO
4. White Noise
5. The Northman
6. Everything Everywhere All at Once
7. Nope
8. All Quiet on the Western Front
9. Shin Ultraman
10. Babylon

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1. Alien
2. Alien³
3. Aliens
4. Prometheus
5. Alien: Covenant
6. Alien Resurrection
7. AVP: Alien vs. Predator
8. Aliens vs Predator: Requiem

1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. Mad Max
3. Mad Max 2
4. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
5. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

1. Escape from the Planet of the Apes
2. Planet of the Apes
3. Beneath the Planet of the Apes
4. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
5. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
6. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
7. War for the Planet of the Apes
8. Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
9. Battle for the Planet of the Apes
10. Planet of the Apes

1. Godzilla Minus One
2. Priscilla
3. Barbie
4. Asteroid City
5. Ferrari
6. Extraction 2
7. Bottoms
8. The Holdovers
9. May December
10. The Boy and the Heron

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1. Whisper of the Heart
2. Porco Rosso
3. Ponyo
4. Howl's Moving Castle
5. My Neighbor Totoro
6. The Boy and the Heron
7. Spirited Away
8. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
9. Kiki's Delivery Service
10. The Wind Rises

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• The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
• Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
• Daisies
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
• Ponyo

• Sunset Boulevard
• Flesh + Blood
• Body Heat
• Excalibur
• Klute
• Kiss Me Deadly
• Marnie
• Written on the Wind
• A Simple Favor
• Leave Her to Heaven

• Stalker
• Sunset Boulevard
• Daisies
• Pierrot le Fou
• High and Low
• Something Wild
• Inland Empire
• eXistenZ
• Short Cuts
• Heat

• Short Cuts

  Jack Lemmon broke my heart.

• The Player

  Best ending of all time?

• 3 Women

  Mulholland Drive with no training wheels.

• The Long Goodbye

  Jack Geller is the coolest man on the planet.

• California Split
• McCabe & Mrs. Miller
• Nashville
• Images

  Let the past die. Kill it, if you have to.

• Gosford Park

  If Parsite was a British Whodunit

• Dr. T & the Women

  This is so specific.

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1. Blood and Black Lace

   1960’s

2. The Angel Levine

   1970's

3. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

   1980’s

4. Gas Food Lodging

   1990’s

5. Throw Down

   2000's

6. Asako I & II

   2010's

7. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

   War

8. Space Is the Place

   Science Fiction

9. Donkey Skin

   Music/Musical

10. Stalker

    A film by a director whose work I haven't seen before

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Ranking predator movies

• Prey
• Predators
• Predator 2
• Predator
• AVP: Alien vs. Predator
• The Predator
• Aliens vs Predator: Requiem

1. Godzilla: King of the Monsters
2. Us
3. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
4. Avengers: Endgame
5. Knives Out
6. Alita: Battle Angel
7. Parasite
8. The Farewell
9. Velvet Buzzsaw
10. Captain Marvel

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• Get Out
• mother!

  Fucked up christmas movie

• Thor: Ragnarok
• War for the Planet of the Apes
• The Lego Batman Movie
• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi
• Okja
• Atomic Blonde
• The Foreigner

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• Avengers: Infinity War
• Black Panther
• Won't You Be My Neighbor?
• Game Night
• Rampage
• Ant-Man and the Wasp
• Deadpool 2
• Annihilation
• Blockers
• Isle of Dogs

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• Captain America: Civil War
• The Nice Guys
• The Purge: Election Year
• The Neon Demon
• Star Trek Beyond
• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
• Green Room
• The Shallows
• Hail, Caesar!
• Sausage Party

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• The Martian
• Creed
• Kingsman: The Secret Service
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• Ex Machina
• Avengers: Age of Ultron
• Straight Outta Compton
• Sicario
• Ant-Man
• Furious 7

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• The Lego Movie

  A+

• Snowpiercer

  A+

• Captain America: The Winter Soldier

  A

• Selma
• Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

  A

• Guardians of the Galaxy

  A

• The Grand Budapest Hotel

  A

• Rosewater

  A

• Gone Girl

  A

• 22 Jump Street

  A

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