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My GOAT.
Okay, I'll try to keep the Tom Cruise glazing to a minimum, it's not like the guy needs it...but...that crazy sonofabitch.

This film is long, it kind of meanders in places, some of the writing is a bit hokey, but I was still thrilled and dazzled and that's why we come to the movies, and this franchise specifically.

About 2/3rds into the movie I was like, "I love teams, teams are so good." No one really thinks of characters or character writing as it pertains to these films, but the characters have so much heart and really sell everything going on here. And once everyone is in one place you just...love them.

And then the set pieces stunts are just...amazing. We got planes, submarines, a (brief) car chase, and plenty of punching and gun fights. The sequence aboard a haunted submarine is just fantastic and about as close to horror as these films will ever get. But I did enjoy the tension and scale and claustrophobia that came with it.

There are returning faces here that I hope return again. Pom Klementieff is my MVP, I just like that she's a valued member of the team and they don't waste time with, "can we trust her?" nonsense, she's here and Ethan would die for her. As would I. I would have liked to see her get into a few more fights though. Haley Atwell is great, I hope she comes back as well, she has a big moment that made my entire theater gasp. And special shout out to Tramell Tillman, the most beautiful man on earth, such an immense talent, I'm so glad they got him in here. He is a legit scene stealer, I cannot wait to see him show up in more things.

These are just great action films. The stakes are big and stupid, but you're bought in. I don't know how you raise the stakes after this one. This feels like the culmination of years of storytelling, even though most of that culmination was sort of invented after the fact to give things a connective tissue. It works though, but it does make me wonder where we do go from here?

Wherever we do go...I'll be there of course. In IMAX, ready to gulp down the Tom Cruise, state department propaganda with a smile on my face. Because...I'm only human, so leave me alone. Dudes on a plane! He's on it! That's him! Cool!!!

Still loved it, but as a film following Rogue Nation and Fallout, it's kinda missing a little bit of spice. I didn't realize just how spread out the action is. The airport chase is pretty fun, but it's fun in a very muted spy movie hijinks sort of way. The big stunt off the cliff is amazing but it's sort of a one and done sort of thing.

And there's a lot of plot, more than I think necessary. It's a long movie and there is so much place setting, and smug villain moments.

It's not bad, I was into it, but again, following up two fantastic films, it does feel a bit sluggish.

With that said, the car chase in Rome is still top tier. It's more hijinks than previous car chases in the series, but it works, it's funny at times, and exciting throughout, just some fantastic camera work too. The skinny hall way fight is fucking amazing (Pom Klementieff is so cool, I'm so glad she's coming back for the 8th film), and the final sequence with the collapsing train is thrilling.

Still fantastic, still love this series, I can't wait to see what is in store in the second half.

I always rated this film lower than Rogue Nation and Ghost Protocol (and I guess now, Dead Reckoning), but...I don't know, this time I was just fully in. With that said, this film is the worst about the Ethan Hunt...let's say evangelizing? I don't know, but I was more forgiving about it on this viewing because...well because Tom Cruise has earned it. Sorry, he's doing fucking insane stunts. If you want every character to talk about how amazing and heroic you are anytime you're not on screen, fine, but I need to see you running across rooftops and climbing on to a moving helicopter. Give me the helicopter fights and we're squared away. Sorry, The Rock™, you can't just have everyone say you're cool, prove it! Tom Cruise is doing that shit, you can write it into the script that he's a nice guy who knows how to fuck.

Oh? You're giving me a helicopter fight? Okay, fine! You win! I'm yours! We'll say that your dicks big and your ass is fat, okay???

Also...it needs to be said again, the bathroom fight is so FUCKING GOOD.

Okay, I'm revising my ranking. The best Mission Impossible film is whichever one you're currently watching. Except 3.

Fallout has some seriously cool shit packed into it. Rogue Nation oozes style and polish, but this movie sort of overwhelms you with feats of heroism and athleticism. The scene where Tom Cruise is running through London? Yeah, okay, hero shit. The music swelling, the stakes are high, and there's Tom Cruise sprinting at max speed. And the third act climax is probably the best of all the films. The ticking clock, the multiple nukes, the FUCKIGN HELICOPTER FIGHT, THEY FIGHT IN A HELICOPTER IT'S SO COOL.

All I'm saying is whoever had the idea to have there be not one but two helicopters, and both helicopters fight, deserves a raise. Thank you, I really enjoyed seeing the helicopters fight.

I'm rewatching the last three movies in preparation for The Final Reckoning. And this movie is still an absolute delight. A when I last watched this in 2023 I was still undecided which film in the franchise is my favorite, but I think it might be this one. The stunts are fantastic, the debut of Rebecca Ferguson in the series is excellent, and the set pieces are superb. The diving scene still makes me tense up. And the car chase that follows is top tier.

Just craft and talent at every level. Endlessly rewatchable, and cool as hell.

It's hard to get enthusiastic about a new Marvel movie these days. But even with my dimmed enthusiasm, I found this pretty fun. It's a great cast, with some surprisingly sharp writing.

The Son Lux score is actually very good too, I feel like most Marvel movie scores are pretty forgettable, with both Black Panther films being the clear exceptions. But we can add Thunderbolts* to the list too.

Also the third act is pretty fun.
Idk. It was fine!

I thought it was fun. I've never seen Twister, I had it in my watchlist on Peacock™ but when I was ready to watch it they removed it.

Anyways, I hate country music. The soundtrack is fucking terrible, sorry to the country lovers out there but this music sucks immense ass. Makes me never want to visit the Midwest. To be fair I'm sure there are plenty of places in the Midwest that don't want me to visit either, just off complexion alone.

Country music slander aside, it's just a fun rollercoaster ride. And even though the two leads don't kiss they have pretty good chemistry. Also, I am a sucker for diverse teams of friends who all have a thing they're good at, and I realized very quickly that I actually liked the oddball characters who were on my screen.

Did I feel anything past that? No, but it's a rollercoaster.

Also, can anyone explain to me why the storm chasers were constantly trying to beat each other? Both teams were trying to do different things, was it just competiton for the sake of it? I don't need it spelled out, but there were a few times when I was like, "why do you need to get out in front of them right now?"

Uh, fun flick!

Watched this a few years ago since it was directed by one of my favorite musicians, Alan Palomo (fka Neon Indian), and loved it. Kind of forgot about it until my friends in my writing workshop started recommended short films. I realized I don't watch a ton but I did this one.

So I rewatched it and loved it all over again. Loved the vibes, the ways the interstitials are slotted in, it just gives everything an uncomfortable sense of place. But it also feels of a time, it's captured so well, so huge props to the performers and the art direction. The vibes are super grimey. But most importantly the writing is super sharp. You're just watching these wild conversations unfold, and none of this would work if even one of the corners of this space turned out to be boring. Every angle needs to be interesting and it all comes together so wonderfully. It's really great stuff.

Definitely check it out!

Watched on Saturday April 19, 2025.

There is a scene in If Beale Street Could Talk, that brought me to tears on my first viewing. Every time I told someone the movie made me cry they always guess the wrong scene. It's a film with a ton of emotionally devastating moments, but the scene that made me FUCKING SOB like a baby was a moment of unbridled black joy. A scene where the two leads were so overcome with emotion and happiness, and seeing that display made my heart melt and crumble into pieces. The end of this movie had a scene that reminds you of the moments of black joy that we experience through pain and suffering. Suffering that is just thrust upon us, systemically, that we have to navigate. But through those moments we find delight in the art we create, in the friendships we have, in the private moments of a long car ride, or sharing a story.

This movie is a triumph. The performances (Wunmi Mosaku, I will always love you, Delroy Lindo, you are a legend), the music (my god, the music!) the cinnamon-tography, it's all so rich, and packed, and dense.There is one sequence in the middle of this movie that had me floored. It's stunning, bold, daring, and one of the most beautiful things I have seen in a film.

Am I overhyping it? Man, shut the hell up. Go see this in IMAX. I'm begging you, please see this on a huge screen with an incredible sound system. I'll probably go see it again soon as well. What a marvel, wow, wow, wow, fucking wow! I love art! I love being black! Wow!!!!

I had a lot of fun with this one. Robert Pattinson is quickly becoming one of my favorite actors. What a talent, he's so versatile and so game for anything. I love it. The rest of the cast is having a ton of fun too.

There are a few story choices that had me scratching my head. There's a second romance(?) that I kinda wanted more from, and the focus of the movie goes pretty wide in the second half. It starts to turn into a bit of a mess, but I love mess, and I think it works overall.

Bong Joon Ho absolutely hits you over the head with the films themes multiple times. I've only seen Parasite and Snowpiercer, and this film is a lot closer to Snowpiercer in tone and how it delivers on its themes. Having said that, I love seeing these themes of income inequality, and politics, present in a big budget science fiction film.

Speaking of the science fiction, I love the world here. The tech we see is so tangible, the ideas are stupid and weird and consistent, and it all looks fantastic. There's an argument that a dock worker and a truck driver have that I love. It's good stuff.

I honestly don't think this will gel with a lot of people, your mileage may vary, but that just makes it an even stronger recommendation. Check it out! Hate it, love it, I don't care. Toni Collette you will always be her.

So I didn't watch this film recently, I actually watched it not long after it came out some years ago after it was nominated at the Oscars. But, No Other Land, winning best doc reminded me of this films existence, so I just wanted to log it for posterity, and also because this film came out over a decade ago, and things have gotten arguably worse for Palestinians living under Israeli occupation. But we're still awarding Palestinian film makers for documenting their life under an oppressive nation state, and the ethnic cleansing of their own people. We all smile and clap because, wow, so powerful.

At the time I watched this movie I was unfamiliar with how Palestinians suffered in the occupied West Bank and in Gaza. So the rage I felt was fresh. How do we move the needle? How do we end this suffering and free Palestine? I hope No Other Land finds a US distributor, I'd really love to see it, but I hope one day I can see a film documenting Palestinians in a free Palestine. Until then the fight continues. Free Palestine!

If this movie had come out when I was a kid it would have enveloped my entire personality. I would watch it 100 times a day. It's fun and delightful.

I thought the two previous Sonic films were fine. But this one is actually good as both a Sonic film and as an actual action movie on its own. Most of the jokes land, the performances are solid, and the action sequences are actually pretty cool.

The pacing is also just really good. The first two films always had some silly little sequence (usually involving Sonic at a bar or something?) where things just slow down so there can be some silly scene where team building shenanigans happen. But here it's all the right kind of momentum.

Also Jim Carey continues to be the best part about these movies. I would not have thought to cast him as Eggman all those years ago but that decision continues to pay off each time he's on screen. He made me laugh consistently. Sonic's jokes were about 50/50. Which makes sense, I think he's written to appeal to 9 year olds. Whereas Robotnik is for the parents of those 9 year olds..

These are dumb fun kids films, and it's refreshing to see a big budget one of these that is actually really good. I feel like these days when it comes to children's media as of late you never know what you'll get. But this was fun, really fun. Predictable, silly, corny, but really, really, really, fun.

I'm still digesting. I might bump my score up, but wow, also went into this without knowing much and was blown away. As a hater with anxiety, and many insecurities, this film just turned into my absolute worst nightmare pretty quickly. I don't know if the films message is that sometimes our circumstances are a result of how we approach life, but I think there is some truth to some of the more uncomfortable revelations in this.

But everything from that insecurity, to the jealousy we see throughout is so palpable, I could just feel this bubbling discomfort throughout.

Also Adam Pearson and Sebastian Stan are terrific. Pearson plays a character that is so charming, but you also hate him just a teeny bit, and Sebastian Stan does such a wonderful job being someone constantly uncomfortable in the spaces he's in. It's heartbreaking, but leads to some hilarious and horrifying moments.

Loved this one!

Really surprised at how much I enjoyed this. Everything here is just so competent and confident. I haven't watched many Clint Eastwood films. I think the last one I watched might have been Gran Torino, a film that sucks immense ass. But it did lead me to start referring to old racists as Gran Torino, a thing that is only funny to me.

Anyways, I didn't know anything about this going into it, but once the premise became clear I just felt my anxiety shoot up. I don't know if anyone of you has ever had that moment where you suddenly second guess or wonder about your involvement when you hear something bad has happened? It's just some irrational thoughts that pops into your head, anyways, this movie is that.

Cedric Yarborough should have been part of the awards season convo imho, he's incredible in this. I've never seen him do dramatic stuff, but he inhabits his character in a way I found really effective. Toni Collette is unsurprisingly amazing in this, just so effortless in her talent. Anytime she spoke I was just transfixed, what a talent. And did Nicholas Holt always have piercing blue eyes? Staring at his eyes alone ratcheted up the tension.

This is just a fantastic thriller, sometimes ease and clarity make for some effective entertainment, really enjoyed this!

I tried multiple times to put my thoughts on this film into words but failed. So I'll just say there's a lesson to be learned here. It's not enough to have an idea, or to want to do something. You actually have to commit, and do your research and talk to people, and know what you know, and accept what you don't know and try to fill in those blanks as best you can.

I know that all sounded so vague, but every part of this film has an unearned confidence. It never wears its themes with any confidence.

The most frustrating thing about it is that I think that unearned confidence is convincing a lot of powerful people that what they're watching is profound and interesting. I am shocked at how little this film has to say about anything. About identify, violence, even something as basic as the self. It's masturbatory. Look at me, look at how much shit I can cram into my little Netflix movie? Empty, thoughtless, trash.

Really enjoyed most of this. Certain plot elements kept me from truly "loving" it, but I like a good drama and thriller. Thematically I really liked what this film had to say about progress and tradition, and layering on what on its face seems to be silly rituals (didn't grow up Catholic, sorry!) just adds to a wonderfully complex view of culture, society, and religion.

But as I said, dramatic beats sort of fall out of the air and land with a loud, clunk, half the time. It's not that they're bad, they just feel inorganic, and yet none of it really ruins the overall experience which is good. Performances are pretty fantastic across the board. Not sure what they were going for with the string heavy score, doesn't really seem to match the energy they're going for, but independent of that I thought it was fine.

Anyway, I want more dramas set in real worlds that I am unfamiliar with, this felt downright fantastical at time. Why are we punching ballots with needle and string? Why do their hotel(?) rooms look like a luxury spas? This is all cool to me by the way!!!

I think as a follow up to a very mediocre dad movie, it's pretty good. I spent the entire time thinking about how this isn't quite as dad movie as the first, mostly because the protagonist here makes a few mistakes and has to actually learn a little bit. I still think Dad's will enjoy it, so don't worry, Dad's.

I was a little surprised at how many plot beats follow the first films plotting exactly though. There's some clever spin in a few places but you know...it's kinda just that movie again. Father and son just somehow end up on the frying pan under similar circumstances, and Rome is just at a tipping point, while ruled by a sadistic leader who doesn't command any real respect. Same goals and aims, etc, etc.

My big complaint is that Rome is never developed. It's the engine driving all the political machinery, but I don't know why Connie Brighton cares for it at all. In the first film the same sentiment is echoed, oh boo hoo, Rome has lost its way, we need a steady hand to right the ship. But the movie opens on a conquest by an old idiot who up on said conquest has second thoughts about colonial expansion. And then hours later he's killed and the machine he started continues to chug along. And in this movie we get to watch a former slave try to topple that same nation that enslaved him, but we're not supposed to root for him, we're supposed to root for the idealists who have a vision for Rome that is...better? Unclear! So you know, cool?

This is more thought than this film deserves. The target audience of these pair of films won't give a shit. It's just an excuse to get characters into situations that involve swords. What they want to see is colosseum boat baffles, and Paul Mescal biting a monkey. Guess what? There are boat battles and monkeys getting bitten. Also Denzel Washington is just so effortless, what a tremendous talent. I think if everyone else was bringing his energy to this I'd have enjoyed it more. As it stands, it's perfectly entertaining and a bit empty. But hey, Paul Mescal bites a monkey!

Spent the last 40ish minutes of the movie fighting back tears. A good found family story will always get me, but when it's done as well as it's done here then it will ruin me. I love stories about people coming together to protect each other, and build community.

On top of that it's gorgeous to look at, the jokes are really funny, the voice acting is superb, and it is just thrilling throughout. Loved this so much!

Loved this. I saw the film in IMAX and it looks and sounds amazing. The way tension builds throughout each scene had me so uneasy for most of the film. The vibes are just rancid, everyone looks stinky, just good shit all around.

Lily Rose Depp is fantastic, she has to give a gnarly performance, but even when she isn't gyrating or vibrating across the screen, she is always fun to watch.

I don't know if I have plans to watch either of the older Nosferatu films, but I am a bit more curious about them. There is a palpable dread and I'm interested to see if that is captured in the older films.

Shout-out to Aaron Taylor Johnson's bulge in that one scene. It was definitely hard to miss on a screen that is three stories tall.

Another 4K revisit. I watched this on my laptop for the first time back in 2017 a few days before I saw the sequel. I loved it then and I still love it now.

Vangelis' score is fucking incredible, and the visuals are so stunning. Pretty much every flyover of the Tyrell building just had my eyes glued to the set.

I love how much Decker sucks. He sucks at fighting, he almost dies like 5 times, his job sucks, he kind of sucks. Just a fucking asshole who lucks his way upward. 90% of the time we see him, he's wet from either sweat or rain, and he's almost always bleeding. It contrasts nicely with the replicants he's tasked with catching. They just want to survive, and live. He takes so much for granted and it's so much more philosophical for them. That contrast just fucks me up. At one point Rachel (Sean Young) is undoing her hair, looking radiant, thinking about the point of it all, and then Decker plops down next to her, sweaty, bleeding, drunk...he sucks!

With that said...the "love" scene still fucking sucks. I don't know how that scene reads in 1982, but it's so bizarre and violent. But the score seems to communicate a different tone? I still haven't seen the theatrical cut, but I can imagine a version of this movie that goes further to lionize Decker, and make him seem more like a classic, tough guy, hero. It's old fashioned in the worst way.

Anyway, I really didn't take in what a magnificent performance Rutger Hauer is giving. It's tremendous stuff, and I love watching him run around nearly nude while terrorizing Decker.

I don't know if I ever have any interest in watching the theatrical cut, but I am impressed that something so messy still has such confident visuals, world building, and just an overall visual consistency as this. It's all so weird, but the end result still astounds me every time.

I have not rewatched this film since the first time I saw it. In high school. In my English class. In like 2007. We weren't even watching it for an assignment, my teacher just put it on so we could watch it. We watched it over the course of like 2...maybe 3 days, because our class periods were like 50 minutes.

Anyways, I bought the 4K Blu-ray and sat down to finally revisit it today, and my opinion is largely unchanged. Absolutely incredible. Visually stunning, the score is amazing, and the violent resistance in the face of horrific fascism is so needed. The villains are greedy, sadistic, monsters and we are never meant to sympathize with them.

The fantasy story that unfolds between it all is among my favorites. And it's mixed with a sense of wonder and horror. Like, why did she need to eat the grape! Amazing! Terrifying! Glad to finally have this film stored in my memory in 4K, but it says a lot about the films quality that it made such an impression when viewed on the shitty classroom TV.

Do you like courtroom dramas? Do you like courtroom dramas that are very boring and not interesting? Great! Anyway, this movie is mostly mediocre and boring for most of the runtime. But I fucking hate Todd Phillips and this film cemented my feelings. Everything about this film is trying to be subversive, but what makes it worse is that I think Phillips is genuinely too scared to actually be mean and make a point that is actually daring and interesting. And it's something I sorta knew, especially following his comments a few years ago about how you can't make raunchy comedies anymore because of woke. But now I get it, HE doesn't want to make raunchy movies anymore, because he's a scaredy cat who thinks people will get mad at him. :(

To go back for a second though, this movie feels like it's in part a response to the response the first film received. And to be fair, I'm not sure I what that response is. Cause...I don't know anyone, personally, who enjoyed Joker (2019), so I guess I need to know, what was the response from "the normies?" Because I that movie being fucking boring. You made a movie called Joker and it's about some weird guy who got pushed to the brink. But the brink wasn't really the brink, he sorta just killed a person being mean to him. Which is bad, but that happens in real life too. Lmao. Phillips was too scared to make his Joker a fucked up freak who liked to be fucked up for no reason, or fucked up reasons! Instead Joker (2019) builds to the moment where he...shoots a guy. Wow. This really says a lot about, gun culture in America? Mental illness? Late night TV?

Anyway, Arthur just kinda sucks, and he is always boring to watch. Joaquin Phoenix gives a performance that is perfectly fine, but I don't need to see him smoke a cigarette in silence for 10 minutes. The fact that we then have to watch a courtroom drama unfold is especially weird because, what are we the audience supposed to hope for? If anything? Are we meant to root for him? Is that question the message of the film? Is it a mirror? Are we the baddies? Why are we the audience rooting for this murderer (who killed a couple assholes while wearing clown makeup)? That's so fucked up of us!

But the thing is I don't care. I don't care about the themes, about the characters. About the shitty musical numbers...

Oh yeah, this film is also a musical. Why? Fuck you for asking that. Hypocrite! The music feels so detached. I'm convinced it's in the movie just to waste our time. Or make people get mad. When a musical number occurs it almost always happens as a sort of dream, or imagination, sequence. But the numbers are so boring, that I could never connect the music to the narrative. It never adds anything.

About an hour in, I wished that the film was worse. I wish it was truly awful. Give me big swings that totally whiff, give me dogshit plot twists, give me just ass, pure ass. But everything here is just so fucking boring. Why did Todd Phillips want to make this? There is clearly talent behind the camera, the film looks gorgeous, the costumes are fantastic, but NOTHING of note is happening. I'm sure Todd Phillips thinks he's saying something, (maybe?) and that the final few minutes are subversive (maybe?!), but I just feel like this film is so cowardly. Just like the first film. You're so scared to be scary, or mean, or directed, and pointed. Say it with your chest, bitch!

And to be fair, I knew Joker Folie a Deux reviewed poorly going into it, but sometimes bad movies are fun. I can extract value out of that mess, and even learn something. And sometimes it's just funny!.I barely go out of my way to wash critically panned films, a fact I'm trying to change, so I decided to check in on this and see what was being attempted.

And honestly, it just made me mad because the answer, this time, turned out to be nothing. This movie is a Banksy painting come to life. Yes Mr. Affluent white man, please tell us how McDonalds is President, that's so fucked up and you're so cool for knowing that. I am complicit in the normalization of shitty movie characters who kill one or two people, actually.

I just know that the Smile monster was absolutely ELATED that it landed in a pop star next. And a pop star with so much trauma? I know it was just licking its fingers, like damn this shits good!

Anyway, this is very boring for most of the run time. It does get pretty fun in the third act, and there's one sequence I found really cool, and one scare that i found very unsettling (in a good way). But everything else from the films setup to execution seems designed to make very easy sequels. With that said, the first film seemed to have more fun with the central premise, i.e, silly billies doing creepy smiles and occasionally stabbing themselves in the face.

I guess now we wait for the inevitable bonkers sequel that is super stupid and super fun. That could have been this film,but I guess they thought we'd rather see Naomi Scott (who is extremely good in this) down a bottle of water over and over again. This film at least retains the first films mean spirit. But we don't get "more," it's just a retread, which makes the formula for future sequels pretty easy to follow, but we're not left with much else. We're not building lore, or building to a finale, we're setting up the next horror franchise that will spawn 6-8 movies. We want to have smiling actors at Horror Nights who chase you, or do fucked up interpretive dance (while smiling), and we want to have the smile monster do the gritty in Fortnite, okay?

Watched on Saturday December 7, 2024.

As far as legacy sequels go, this is one of the better ones. I feel like legacy sequels usually fall in the trap of trying to be too nostalgic, while also trying to be fresh. And they almost always forget what made the original special in the first place. I think this film is even more of a miracle because Tim Burton has not had the juice for awhile now. And a sequel to Beetlejuice would have been really easy to fuck up, but this ended up being pretty fun and consistent with the original.

Are there way too many plotlines and dangling threads? Sure. But moment to moment I was still having fun. I do wish Monica Bellucci had more to do. She never feels scary or even relevant to the plot. She spends the movie chasing Beetlejuice, but I had no idea what threat she posed to him, or why I should be excited about them meeting and interacting. Is she really hot though? Yes, yes she is.

Jenna Ortega continues to play the same annoyed, pseudo rebellious, teenager that she does in every movie. Catherine O'Hara is the best thing in the movie, but Michael Keaton got plenty of big laughs out of me. Although Beetlejuice feels oddly restrained? I don't know.

Going back to my earlier point, (about Burton no longer having the juice), I was surprised at how good everything looked. Visuals, set design, costumes, the gross out gags, all of it looks fantastic. The last (timeline wise) movie of Burtons I watched was his Alice in Wonderland live action film and that looked like shit, so I'm glad this project inspired a more flexible visual design language.

It's fun, I await the inevitable Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.

Before the film was over, I thought to myself, "I want a sequel to this, so badly." It's pretty rare that I skip the current moment to wait for what comes next, but Transformers One is all set up. And it's fun set up, but it just builds until it's over.

The third act is really fucking cool. The action, visuals, and storytelling all finally come together. Prior to that it's a perfectly fine animated film. There's some pretty good jokes, with one very early one landing pretty well for me. But everything else is sort of standard.

The two main characters, Optimus and Megatron, are easily the best part of the film. The voice acting from both my favorite working actors currently, Brian Tyree Henry, and Chris Hemsworth, an actor I've grown to really respect in recent years, really elevates the fairly standard, boiler plate, plotting. I wish we could have seen a little more pre-radicalized versions of both characters, just so we can see glimpses of the characters they end up becoming by the films end. But again, this is a sub-2 hour film.

Honestly, I'd have watched this as a series. But there's no way the beautiful animation would have been afforded for anything less than a feature film. As it stands this is probably my favorite feature film Transformers story...not that that says much, but you know, it's cute and animated beautifully. Fun for the whole family, etc.

Saw this with my mom and we both enjoyed it!

I'm also legitimately surprised at how good this looks. Some great visuals, camera work, set designs, and effects. I feel like a big budget movie these days will either look very polished and expensive, or like doodoo ass (poop).

I wonder if the reason the sets are so intricate and thoughtfully designed has to do with the fact that this is a musical. I feel like you need a sense of place and space when staging huge dance numbers. But I also haven't watched a ton of effects heavy musicals. Usually they're all set in a place that I recognize...like New York. The fact that everyone isn't just floating in some effects heavy void is nice. And it also looks good. There's a dance number in a library that is sick as shit. Fun!

I've seen Wicked on stage years ago, and everything I about the songs and plot is contained in this film. Post-intermission, I vaguely any plot stuff, and I definitely don't any of the songs in the second half.

Anyway!

This was fun. Performances are pretty great all around, really impressed with Ariana Grande, and was blown away at times by Cynthia Erivo. And of course the songs are the songs, you know... they're really catchy and performed beautifully. I did find some of the *actual* plot stuff a little clunky at times, but with songs these good who cares about that. Also, I have never seen, The Wizard of Oz. The old one with Judy Garland. Actually I don't think I've ever seen any other adaptation of Oz or these characters. Which is funny. Is it really called Munchkin Land? Seems like some Dr.Seuss shit.

Anyways, I just ust thought you should know.

I was struggling to put my thoughts on this movie into words.

Every needle drop in this is fucking agony. This film is so desperate to have an identity, and a personality but it just doesn't have the bandwidth.

The films opening credits are set to a song from the Backstreet Boys. Why? That song was chosen for a reason, why? Did a character in an earlier scene mention it? Is it Deadpool's favorite song? Or...is it only because it is irreverent? Does it contrast hilariously to the carnage unfolding on screen? Haha. We're having so much fun playing upbeat pop songs to people getting stabbed. This has never been done before.

There's precisely one gag that worked for me and it is all about minivans. The Honda Odyssey is mentioned in an early conversation and it comes back in a way that isn't clever, but in a way I still enjoyed.

Anyways, this movie isn't a sequel to Deadpool 2. This movie is a sequel to Free Guy, a film that I have not seen, and in all likelihood, never will see. But this movie is that movies sequel. So congrats to everyone involved in making sure we got Free Guy 2: More Free Guy. Granted, Free Guy seems to be the only movie Disney is interested in making these days, so a preemptive congrats on Free Guy 3, Free Guy 4, and the soft reboot, The Free Guy. Oh and Ryan Reynolds, you will never see heaven.

This was such a fucking disappointment. It's just so wonderfully directed and acted. Production design and details are immaculate and beautiful. There is an impressive attention to detail and craft on display here.

But the writing is absolute dogshit, I'm really surprised given the pedigree. I wanted to like it, and maybe halfway through I thought I might. The character dynamics seemed interesting and I was curious to see how the mystery would play out. But it was the moment that a character shouted, "you're so cancelled!," that I realized this show might be bad, actually.

I also felt an essay coming together as I watched, about how men of a certain generation are obsessed with stories of cancel culture that come with a huge caveat. As though there's more to the story a lot of the time. Hey, what if the person you're cancelling is actually the victim? Ever think of that?! Huh?!!

I also have a non-complaint about a certain disclaimer that plays before each episode. It gives the warning that theres some intense depictions of sex AND sexual violence. And I'm all for trigger warnings, but I do wonder if that was Cuarón's choice or if Apple was really uncomfortable with it. Again, I'm not saying it needs to be taken out, but once you know that a certain depiction of suicide or sexual assault is on the way you sort of spend the entire time waiting for it. It adds this meta layer to the narrative, which is unavoidable to a certain degree, but this show in particular wants you to have a certain perception of events as they unravel only to recontextualize it later. And...I don't know, I feel like I always had that context so I spent 6 episodes waiting for it to make it's grand reveal. Which is a really flippant way to talk about that subject matter, but I bring it up because the show doesn't have much else to add once these elements make their way into the narrative.

It's all wonderfully acted and beautifully shot, but it's surprisingly surface level. It's so weird how my reaction to a very straightforward progression of events is disbelief. You gathered all these actors, all this talent just to tell this shockingly insipid story. A story that oddly enough is all about story telling. The events just played out the way you'd expect them to at every turn. It's as straightforward as it seems. But hey, Cate Blanchett is really good in it...I should rewatch Tár.

Who do you think you are?! I am!

This movie got a BIG involuntary laugh out of me. My brain didn't even process what was happening on screen as "funny" but I let out a huge laugh.

This film is so fun and wild and so FUCKING GROSS. I don't know if this will send me down a body horror rabbit hole, but I was captivated. Demi Moore gives a really fantastic performance. There's so much depth here and physicality, it's superb.

I just love how in your face the films themes are. Not everything needs to be subtle, sometimes you need a jackhammer, and a glorious film score to tie it all together.

I know horror gets shafted at The Oscars but if this doesn't at least get a nod for best sound/sound mixing/whatever the fuck the category is called now, then I'll know the voters aren't watching films "like that." Everything sounds so wet, all the time. I never want to see Ronald Reagan chew food ever again.

I had only ever seen scenes from The Fall as gifs on Tumblr. I hadn't made an attempt to look it up at all. But on Twitter a few weeks back I heard about a 4K restoration of this film coming out on Mubi,so I knew it was time.

Holy shit. Just from a visual standpoint alone this film is gorgeous. It's so beautiful, I want to rewatch it on the largest screen I can.

I've been a Lee Pace enjoyer for a long time now and he is giving a tremendous performance. He's also extremely hot. As is most of the cast of I'm being real. The young girl is also great, I work with preschoolers and her way of speaking mixed with her limited English is so endearing and real.

This is definitely one of those films that lights up my brain and makes me want to sit down and create some goddamn stories. We need big stories, bold colors, and loud emotions. Thats life baby. That's what we live for!

I avoided this for so long because it looked so corny and dated. But I was replaying Kingdom Hearts 2 on Twitch and realized that it's kinda wild that they bothered to include it in the game at all. And my earlier assessment of the original Tron was made back before Tron Legacy came out. Since that time my tastes have changed a lot, so the idea of watching an old, clunky, weird, scifi movie from the early 80's felt more like a treat.

Ten minutes in I was a bit worried, based on how garish a lot of the costume design is, and how bad the dialog is. But once things get going I found myself really, really, really into it. The plot is dumb, there's a lot of rules that are never really explained, but it just looks and sounds like nothing else.

I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought, and honestly the visuals don't hold up in the literal sense, but I think they make a lot with what little they do have. What a weird thing this is!

There's a lot of stupid dumb shit in this movie. But consider this:

Shoot out in a church that immediately leads into a chase on speedboats.

I'm only human, folks, I see cool shit I start to smile really big, okay!

when you could have an airplane, helicopters, several cars, a pier, and boats, explode all in the same movie?! when we used to film that stuff because it was cool? God, Christopher Nolan is the only one still blowing shit up on camera these days.

We 👏🏿need 👏🏿more👏🏿 needless👏🏿 explosions👏🏿 in👏🏿 movies 👏🏿again👏🏿.

Honestly, my biggest complaint is that I wanted a few more body double hijinks. It makes sense that John Travolta gets to have the most fun, but I wanted to see both of them in more situations.

Great action flick though. Dumb concept, executed with an absurd amount of craft, with more needless dumb shit layered on top. Excellent choice, sir, very good, sir.

As much as I loved, Nope, after having seen it in theaters I hadn't gone back to rewatch it. That's because I'm a big idiot! A huge dummy! Dumbass!

God, fucking, damn. What a picture! I had my sound cranked up, my room was just vibrating. Visually stunning, I want to see this in IMAX again. It's just a pleasure to behold. It's perfect.

I'm once again angry that NONE of the performances here were nominated come awards time. Everyone's giving award winning performances, just a fantastic cast from top to bottom. From toe to tip. Keke Palmer, you will always be her. And Daniel Kaluya I genuinely think is an all time great. My favorite performance of his thus far.

The third act still has me glued to my seat. Emeralds bike ride as Jean Jacket chases her? Goddammit! Just incredible stuff! Filmed to perfection. My favorite scene still remains the house scene in the rain. It is just so overwhelming with sound and visuals. Just a gorgeous sequence.

Also, I don't if I talked about it at the time, but the films score is so rousing and beautiful. It elevates what is already absolutely thrilling visuals, I was just happy to soak it all in.

Bring back Fry's Electronics, goddammit, so I can buy a 4K Blu-ray player, OLED TV, and Nope on 4K Blu-ray, also maybe a new sound system too. And Brandon Perea to come and install it for me and maybe stay for drinks after. 🫨👀

Had a lot of fun watching this one. I was surprised at how sharp much of the writing is. Also spent way too much time wondering if the teacher was JK Simmons (it is).

I would have liked a few more kills but that's just me living for what we do get to see.

I don't have anything profound to add. Megan Fox gives a really good performance. She's having fun but never making fun of herself or winking too much at the camera. This girl exists somewhere.

I do wonder if this film has been made...today, if certain narrative choices might've been different. Not a complaint about the direction they did take just wondering, I guess!

Can you imagine you take your daughter to see her favorite medicore popstar, and like 45 minutes into it a bunch of cops surround you and ask you to follow them so that you can be interrogated? I'd be pissed off, already don't want to talk to cops but now you're embarrassing me in front of my daughter, now everyone's wondering what that guy did. Who gets arrested at a concert for teen girls? You're a late 30's, early 40's guy being escorted by the cops out of a concert for teenage girls. I'd sue!!!

Anyways, this was fun. I haven't really kept up with Shyamalan's output. Took me awhile to really get into the rhythm of his dialog,but I grew to enjoy it.

What I did not enjoy was the horrible fit Alison Pills character is wearing. She stepped out and I was wondering if she was supposed to be someone's grandmother??? She dresses worse than my Mormon friends mom when I was in fourth grade. He didn't even have TV. :(

The worst thing about this movie is that they are clearly trying to start a franchise. Granted, The Omen (1976), had already spawned plenty of sequels, but Disney clearly wants another horror franchise to wheel out from time to time.

Having said that, much of this movie doesn't gesture to that franchise building at all. There are a few call backs, but this is otherwise a great horror flick. Loved the setting, the characters, it's shot beautifully, and there are some really scary sequences. Theres a scene following a car crash that I wanted to go on for much longer while simultaneously wanting it to end as soon as possible.

I won't lie and say that I fully understand how the villains plot is even possible, I feel like I looked away at an early scene or just missed the explanation somewhere.

I can't wait to read the essay about the 2024 horror films with intense birthing scenes and what that may be gesturing at in the year two thousand and twenty-four.

I was not planning on watching this today, but I wanted to watch The First Omen, and then I realized that I hadn't actually seen this film. And sure, plenty of people have watched prequels before sequels, especially legacy prequels...erm...sequels, but it was an excuse to check this out and I really enjoyed it.

The mood and tone really did creep me out. I did find it funny that Damien the lil anti-Christ isn't really all that bad? I mean, he is, but he doesn't go out of his way to torture and be a menace. He's just unsettling and fucked up. Not a critique, I was just expecting him to be a little boy genius who went around killing people. I was a little unclear on how much he seems to know or what he doesn't know, but I didn't find those questions distracting, I was just along for the ride.

I don't know why I was also surprised at how gnarly the kills are. The movie is just taking its time for so long before shit starts getting upsetting.

Great score too, although some of the audio is a bit shrieky, like damn ol' girl crashing through the window was loud as hell.

Also was amused at the political angle of the anti-christ stuff, just for context I'm watching this a little over a week before the US 2024 elections, so that's fun. Fun, fun, fun!!!!

I could have swore I had watched this movie as a kid. I my dad had borrowed three movies from a coworker. It was Gladiator, Meet Joe Black, and Coyote Ugly. I we had planned to watch Coyote Ugly but my mom found out what it was about and was like, "no." I watched Meet Joe Black, and I that fever dream somewhat. But this? Nada. I swear at one point Russell Crowe was on a boat, but there's no boat here.

Anyways, I was sorta surprised at how...ordinary it is. It feels old school, even by 2000's standards. It was created in a lab to be on the top 10 best films list for Gen-X dad's who love to do that thing where they threaten their daughters first boyfriend with a gun. "You hurt my daughters feelings and I'll shoot you with a gun, in real life you got it?"

Russell Cross character is so good and honorable and always nice and stoic. He's the perfect uncomplicated boring protagonist. The perfect instrument to steer this story. He even has a black best friend. You know, not to go off on another tangent, but every single white Gen-X dad wants a black best friend so badly, it's not even funny. They want to be the main character of every single interaction they have, but they want to have a black best friend who is super cool who thinks that they're super cool by their side at all times. Does this black bestie think every decision you make is good? Of course. Are they going to have your back? Hell yeah. Will they have some stupid little backstory that you already forgot about? Brother, that's the dream baybee!

But will this movie dive into like...politics? Like, the honorable emperor who dies in the beginning is still just doing land grabs and expanding his empire. Then he has the gall to talk about how toxic and bad politics has become. Boohoo the senate is corrupt. Bitch, you're in a tent in Germania. Was that apart of Rome the day before? What are you talking about? You're the...oh we're supposed to be sad he died I guess. Rip to him. He loved this General like a son. Isn't that sweet?

Also realizing that the vast majority of Hans Zimmer scores sre...fine. I think he got by on a few iconic themes, but that's mostly thanks to them being attached to blockbusters that everyone watched, but as individual works, idk, maybe I'm just being a stupid asshole, but the music is so, uncomplicated. Like this movie! Good honorable guys getting bullied by skinny ,scheming, sissies, while dramatic music swells. That's just the American way.

I was entertained though. There's some undeniably great film making here, says me, an idiot. And it looks gorgeous. Also those tigers look good as fuck. I'm curious how the sequel will change up the formula, if at all. Ridley Scott is sorta unpredictable. Sometimes he'll be a bit more challenging, and then he'll turn around and make the most normal movie you've ever seen. Anyway, I'm still not convinced this is my first time having watched this. I suppose it is possible that my 8 year old brain was simply too bored to care about anything I saw in this. Meanwhile 33 year old me is simply thinking about the implications of it all.

Still perfect, still gross, still fucked up, still scary.

The scene with the hot needle...all timer. Just terrifying and funny and thrilling, it's so good. I watched this for the first time only a few years ago but I still forgot the order of things so it was almost like watching it for the first time again, which for a movie like this is so rewarding. I was still on pins and needles the entire time, what a film.

The score is amazing, the visual effects are fucking incredible, the cinematography is stunning...just gorgeous lighting.

And, best dog performance? Look, I've never seen Air Bud, but this is a talented dog. Just so unsettling and fucked up, and I'm sure part of that is me filling in the blanks, "this dog hasn't barked at all, what the fuck!" but still, good bad dog. Good fucked up dog.

I'm planning on getting a 4K Blu-ray player soon and this is definitely a movie I need to own physically in the best quality possible, it's in my top 10 all time favorites for sure, it's perfect.

Had a lot of fun with this one. It's a lot sillier than I thought it was going to be. Why do the kids have that fucked up clown doll though? Is that just a thing kids had back in the 70's and 80's? You just had one fucked up scary toy that scared you but that you kept anyways because...you had to?

I had a fucked up doll growing up. We kept it in the closet and it was named "the ugly baby," and the thought of being in the closet with it was terrifying and we just didn't throw it out, it was just there for...longer than necessary.

Anyways, it's hard to imagine life without PG-13, you could just have intense blips of gore in a PG movie, but that's cool to me, we should put gore back into PG movies.

I thought about the final 15 minutes of this film as I finished dinner tonight and almost began to cry. I thought about the smile Justice Smiths character gives himself in the bathroom mirror as he looks at what might have been, and then what follows is just devastating.

I think every queer person who is still in the closet, whether it be partially, or totally, has either thought about, or flat out experienced, the notion of ones life ing by without being the fullest realized version of yourself. Existing for yourself, accepted for it, and going through unashamed and unbound is just not the reality for many queer folk for a litany of reasons. And the sorrow and horror that comes with seeing it play out is palpable. It's thoughout I Saw the TV Glow and for that reason it has stuck with me days after seeing it. And I'll likely continue thinking about it for that reason.

As a film, it's great, I think there were some choices that maybe didn't land with me, but overall the magical and horror elements worked really well with me. I was hot and cold on the soundtrack, a lot of the aesthetic gave me Oxenfree vibes in a good and bad way, but I think I landed more positively on that.

This is one of those reviews I write where my feelings are locked in, but the score I'd give it varies on when you'd ask me. Sometimes is a 3, sometimes it's a 4, sometimes it's a 5, so I'm splitting the difference. It's definitely worth watching, if only to see Justice Smith give the cutest most sincere smile I've seen in a film in a long time. It melted (and broke) my heart.

I've ired Julio Torres from a distance (how cute his face is, I mean, iktr) but I actually hadn't seen any of his work before. Well, not in its entirety...

Anyway, I loved this. It's probably the funniest movie I've seen this year. Every time Tilda Swintons character interacted with a service worker I wanted to peel my skin off and die, and yet...you never hate her. Well, you do, but you hate her in the, "but she's still mine," sorta way.

It's so fun, visually, the social commentary is devastating and on point, and I really loved the music too. It balances on not quite reality, but extremely in our reality so well. The cute little run Julio Torres' character just fits right in. So does the immigration politics, fun!

Also the recurring bit about "File Maker Pro" killed me every time. Just, so good!

This was so boring. The cast is terrific, performances are good, but I just did not find it engaging at all.

I enjoyed the original A Quiet Place, film. It has its share of problems, but as a theater experience it was fun, even if the premise is stupid. With that said...the premise is stupid, so I never watched it again, and I didn't watch the sequel. I enjoyed it in the moment and that was that.

But I watched this one because it's a prequel and I love Lupita so I figured there'd be some more to chew on. But...there's just not much here. Also the rules around noise will just always bother me. It's so inconsistent as far as what activates the monsters. Sometimes they'll react instantly, sometimes the heros have time to fuck up a few times. Idk. As far as threats go, they just never that sophisticated. They're always dumb snarling monsters, they're never scary. Also, how does a chase work when the monster is flying towards a spot where a soda can dropped? They don't know which direction the pursuee is going. Or do they know, on of footsteps??? Okay, then they should always hear footsteps right? But maybe not when they're walking quietly. Okay, so let's say...a power generator kicks on several feet away from you. Why turn it off? Sure you're attracting more monsters, potentially, but they just heard the loud noise that you didn't start, so...just walk in the opposite direction. Let them just punch it until it turns off. Oh no, your shirt ripped and that was loud I guess. Womp, womp the monster did hear that and they're already here so don't even try to run, oh you're dead now because they hate noise.

Look, that sort of logic explaining I just did is stupid, but when a premise is just so fundamentally weak it's all you end up thinking about in the moment to moment. With the first film I could just shut my brain off, and there's just less to think about. You're in one location, one set of characters. You know that environment. But here everything is open, there are too many variables. So many places to go, where do you even go? It's just not as compelling.

Also, there's just not enough tension with staying quiet, which is the entire point of the movie. The biggest point of tension that I think they could have pulled on is having people LEARN about the noise much more slowly. But we make it out of act one with EVERYONE knowing to shut the fuck up. And that is such an odd choice. Which again just keeps opening things up. How did people figure out these monsters only react to noise? How did they learn that can't swim? Also they figure out that they need to stay quiet, but no one knows to use high pitched frequencies against monsters super sensitive to hearing? I feel like that's an obvious logical step, right? Again, these are boring complaints, but the internal logic of the movie is so unfun that the tension just stops happening. They have to sneak but you know someone's going to knock over a vase at some point, so let's just wait for that to happen so we can watch them all run away from monsters spilling out from one direction.And at that point you're just running away from monsters and we've seen that already, we've seen it done better already.

I did enjoy the relatively low stakes of the characters mission though, I think in a better movie that would have been something that stuck with me more, as it stands it's a pretty good set up for a movie that doesn't deliver on much else.

There's a shot of Dev Patel shirtless, sweating, with a few grains of rice stuck to his chest. Idk, just thought that was pretty cool.

Anyways, this is a pretty by the numbers revenge flick. It's nothing profound, but it is a lot of fun. I enjoyed the second half much more than the first. Some of the action in the first half is a bit hard to follow, maybe that was intentional since it sort of follows the characters progression, who knows. But the second half feels more refined and there's some seriously cool shit in those later sequences.

I enjoyed it!

The movie is at its best when it's just doing its own thing. Which is the primary criticism I saw for Alien:Romulus when reviews began to drop, but it is so confident in its own ideas that I wonder why they felt the need to wink and nod at places.

They do the legacy sequel thing of bringing back a familiar face. And it looks BAD. It's super distracting and I just didn't care for it. With that said, I do think that the comparisons to The Force Awakens, are overblown. Structurally there are similarities but it just didn't evoke the original films in that way, in my opinion. There are nods, sure, but that's about it.

What I did like is the alien shit, the space shit, the body horror shit, and the scares. Actually, sorry, one more minor complaint. The group of characters is so small. Which neans there are not many kills, and there are two kills that were kinda just...meh. The first kill is gnarly, and the third act is nuts. I'll just say it's very upsetting in a way that I enjoyed. Just some fucked up visuals and body horror, and it leans into that confident film making that I wanted more of. Also, sound design and music are top notch. Derelict space stations are my shit, and they do not disappoint in this.

Performances are mostly good, with the actor portraying Andy (David Jonsson) being the clear stand out. It really does feel like the Alien movies really know how to deliver on fucked up Android guys, they seem to be consistently the high points of these movies.

Anyways, I do want to digest it some more, but it's good. The more I have time to sit with it the more I hate the digital actor replacement stuff though. It feels like every legacy sequel just feels the need to do it, and...you don't need to do it. We all those original films, they're all available to watch in 4K, it's fine. It's far from the most egregious culprit, but that even the Alien franchise doesn't seem immune to it is a bummer. But with that said, most of this movie fucking rules, and the alien shit that happens in the final 20 minutes scared me. Like hell yeah, I never want to see that again, love it. That's what we paid IMAX prices for!

Really stupid at its best, very boring at its worst. It'll be out of my mind in a week. I think for a series that has sorta accidentally stumbled into a shared universe thing, these movies haven't really felt like "events" in the usual sense. I think the AppleTV+ show, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, attempts to elevate the material, then this comes out and dumbs it all down again.

It's bad, but also profoundly inoffensive. If you need something on while you cook, do laundry, or have a date over, or grind in your favorite MMO, it's perfectly fine. It sucks to say that about a movie with both King Kong and Godzilla but that's just where we're at folks.

Watched on Thursday July 4, 2024.

I liked this better on a rewatch. Marvel was never going to stop after this, but it would've made a good end point. I think what they definitely should have done was have a years long break after this one. Like as far as an ending to a saga goes, it's pretty OK! There's good fan service, the effects look good, and it's easy to get swept up in the scale. With a grand conclusion like this, it feels weird that the next film in the MCU followed this so closely, give people a chance to digest, and maybe even miss you!

Anyways, enough about that. Years ago someone brought up how the MCU characters have no drip out of their costumes and it's so evident here. Wardrobe! Where are you? No one has a distinct look or style, they're all dressed like they shop at Old Navy or Ross. And I guess that maybe makes sense for like...Steve Rogers, but everyone is dressed so badly, and I say this as someone whose wardrobe isn't super amazing, but that's cause I'm a broke boy who works at a preschool, I don't go out much!

Captain Marvel shows up early and they have her dressed like a girl about to go out to the club in 2003. Like, she wouldn't wear that! It's an unfair comparison but look at how the characters in Birds of Prey dress, like...everyones outfits says something about their personality. Granted, they're not really suiting up either, but I think these characters should have a bit more personality with their outfits. But no, Steve will wear some ugly cashmere sweater and some dad jeans. Just zero drip across the board. Pitiful!

I watched this immediately after This is Me...Now, and it's so fascinating. Even if you have no interest in JLo it's...wild. Like, it's filmed and structured in the typical fluff piece way a lot of these types of documentaries are. You never get any actual insight, it's just vapid observations, manufactured drama, and uninteresting behind the scenes footage.

They try to construct that from what they have, but everyone involved seems so unsure of the project and that uncertainty is never resolved. She can't find actors, some of whom I'm sure she's friends with, to come and work with her. No one wants to fund or distribute the movie, even though plenty of artists have successfully done so! But no one has the courage to break it to JLo that her vision for this thing is kinda stupid and not well thought out. And if you have ever wanted to see that level of arrogance and narcism play out in real time, here you go.

Just watching her try and explain to everyone what the project even is, only for her to get exasperated and say, "it doesn't make sense, it's okay!" every time is so painful. Why, JLo! Why does it make sense?! This is the most ordinary story ever! Why do we need Zodiacs and factories and mud, and these weird scenes with Fat Joe?! It's all very easy to explain, it's just not good and every fuckig person involved knows it.

We need more dogshit like this, I really do thrive off of negativity and misfortune, watching someone be stupid and drag everyone down with them truly nourishes my soul. Jane Fonda did not want to do this and it is not hidden at all and I enjoyed watching her suffer for her idiot friend.

God, what other artists is feeling bold? I want to be evil and start encouraging them to take a risk and waste a bunch of money on their dumb idea.

I still maintain that the best Mission Impossible (with the exception of 3) is the best Mission Impossible movie. But...it's time to give my useless ranking.

• Mission: Impossible – Fallout

  For the longest I ranked this lower than Rogue Nation, but I think overall it's just the more exciting movie. Ask me again tomorrow, it might move back down to second place.

• Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
• Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning
• Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
• Mission: Impossible
• Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
• Mission: Impossible II
• Mission: Impossible III

My favorite films of the year. Number one is my FOTY.

1. Nope
2. Three Thousand Years of Longing
3. Everything Everywhere All at Once
4. RRR
5. Vesper
6. Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
7. The Batman
8. Prey

A list of my favorite films of the 2010's.

1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
3. Moonlight
4. Annihilation
5. Get Out
6. Roma
7. Blade Runner 2049
8. Paddington 2
9. Edge of Tomorrow
10. Burning

Here are my top 10 films of 2018.

• Annihilation
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
• Sorry to Bother You
• Roma
• Paddington 2
• Black Panther
• Hereditary
• Widows
• Game Night
• Mandy