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So much better than I expected. Good job, everybody, you did it. My favorite part was obviously how they gave Jennifer Coolidge like, just an inch of room to play, she gets hilarious.

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Wow, what a perfect movie. Jodie Foster is the best. Anthony Hopkins? also the best also the worst because I'm anti-killing-people (brave). Basically the perfect movie, also sure, clumsy move making the bad guy a "trans" character... at least they exposit expositionly that basically he's bad because he's a killer, not because of his sexual differences.

The title kerning is actually very bad indeed

It's a Western! It's a chase movie! It's BOTH!!! I'm a huge fan of all of these movies, but the idea that the ultralight gryocopter could carry two adult men LOLOLOLOL such a hilarious joke!!

What the world needs now, is love! Love and acceptance. Love and acceptance and being genuine to yourself. I hope the cop and the tow truck driver have a long, fulfilling life together.

The moments where the camera isn't parallel to a wall or other feature? Like... ten? I enjoy the flat postcard quality of every scene, and the silly whimsical story. A perfect movie.

Uncomfortable. Creepy. Enraging. Those are three words I wrote. So is she a vampire or what

Good lordt in heavendt, Fincher can make a movie. He communicates such a strong sense of physical space, grimy houses, rain, ransacked rooms... loved it!

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I adore Anya Taylor-Joy and she's great in this, as usual. We all twist-hunt while watching Shyamalan movies, and I twist-hunted too hard while watching this. I ended up distracting myself and not enjoying the movie for what it actually turns out to be, a supervillain origin story, THAT'S the twist, not that the therapist and Taylor-Joy are hallucination-specter personalities who are trying to stop Beast nope not that at all so yeah anyway, I am planning on a rewatch soon

I approve of almost everything this studio does. So many jokes!

Let's hear it for sad-eyed red elephant-eared banana-horn giant armadillo guy!

Plenty of empty-headed fun, silly sight gags, nonsense piled upon nonsense. I met this movie halfway... okay 80% of the way... and really enjoyed it

I was convinced this was Boss Baby until ten minutes before starting the movie, and this is a lot different from Boss Baby I was like EWWW Kevin Spacey? and that Ansel loser, I guess...

Anyway, I like cars and stunts, and clever choreo, so hey I guess I liked it

The most try-hard wannabe gangster movie with an outstanding cast that manages to have zero charisma. How can Christopher Walken, Christopher Lloyd, Andy Garcia and Steve Buscemi have absolutely zero rizz. Why are Gabrielle Anwar and Fairuza Balk so desperate for Garcia's grinning mumbling fake-slang-spouting loser. So so bad don't watch this it's bad ,and not bad enough to be fun.

A desperately quirky movie. The main three actors are easy enough to watch, with Selma Blair just kicking all the butt in the Acting Well in a Bad Movie thing. But the story is just like... who cares... and the directing is just like... uuuggghhhhhhhh I'm so bored.... so I right-arrow skipped through the last third of this movie.

A movie category I loathe is Men Sitting Around Talking About Something. This is (mostly) Men Sitting Around Talking About Nothing. And Jeremy Pivens shows up. An actor who might be a wonderful person but I have hated every single character he's ever played. I even hate the way he looks. Gross.

Oh... I do like the beat up Monte Carlo that gets the roof cut off

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The most ludicrous thing about this movie is that their '80s Jeep Wagoneer lasts for at least a few years. This is my biggest clue that all the events we witness in the movie are actually in-universe fictional, and our befuddled hero is a deeeeeply confused person. Really compelling, sympathetic performances all around.

I wonder if Emma gets along with her dad Eric, who has spent his later career top billed on spectacularly bad Christian movie posters for eight minutes of screen time wearing the same rumpled clothing he wore on the plane to wherever the movie was shooting.

What a goofy cute movie.

Fury Road doesn't care where the cars came from, doesn't care who grows cabbage, and what the relationship is between the factions we see clash loudly onscreen.
This movie does care about all that stuff, which fills in some gaps that may not need to be filled in. }
I remain very confused as to why there's so many brand-new tires in this universe hmm very strange.

I don't usually care about a lot of stuff this movie does care about, but since Furiosa is at the center, played incredibly well by both actors, I'll say I adore this movie. I'll have to watch it three or four more times to decide if I like it as much as Fury Road though.

Wow! What a movie! Plenty of movies are made about moviemaking, but rarely with such a poignant center as the relationship between the stuntman and the migrant worker child.

I adored it, and wish movies like this would be made more often.

Watched this with a group of 6, and liked it more than anyone else. Doesn't make any sense, but held my attention, and you know what? When I was 11, living in the Peruvian jungle, my mom came home with a baby sloth (its mother was hunted for bush meat). He/she died in a few days because Google wasn't there to tell me how to take care of a baby sloth, but I loved wee Jacob for the short few days I was his caretaker.

So I have always loved sloths, even when they're insane killers like this one. Of course, the facial features match a 2-toed sloth while this Alpha has 3 toes, probably the most unrealistic thing about the film.

I can't believe it took me this long to watch this. It's nearly a perfect movie.

I missed Kim Cattrall, but I loved Kristy Swanson. Whose character deals surprisingly well with the fact that everybody she knew and loved has been dead for nearly a millennium. Her parents, her sister, her crush... all dead and gone, gravestones probably weathered to nubs. But she's like "yay, Philly cheese steak tastes better than boiled weasel!"

Enjoyable early-90's bubblegum

I was genuinely surprised by the little twist ending. Pretty sure I'm the only one who was. And Bette Midler rules -- I just don't think it's possible for her to overact. It's always just right.

I make and use a lot of fake blood. But not this much. This movie is ludicrously gory, with ludicrous characters and events. Watch it for a horrifyingly bloody ludicrous good time

LOLOLOL this movie hit for me. Absurd, female-led, cartoonishly queer!!!!!! needlessly, but hilariously, violent!?!!?? YUP, this movie is for me. I'm not sure it's a *good* movie, but it's so funny and touching. I thought the movie was called X-Ray for some reason, so the whole movie I was looking for the meaning behind that title. Like... "this is the real thing going on in modern high schools"... probably not, but that was my best guess (it was ironic, right?) but that wasn't the movie's name so nevermind.

So big!!! So much sand!!! Such ambiguous characters! Legit no good guys, just horrible people and less horrible people okay fine, Zendaya's character is 100% good. But nobody else is. Understandable. This movie is about colonization, resource extraction, religion bent to serve tribalism and power, featuring Timothee Dune, cute-boy-white-messiah... where you gonna find a good guy in that mix? Nowhere, that's where!

The writing is abominable, the entire premise is ludicrous, the dancing is confusing, Helen Hunt's wardrobe is miraculous I love it so much, and these elements come together to create the best movie I've seen in a while.

Feed a random LOTR movie through a gender-swap Snapchat filter, a catfishing Instagram filter, and a ludicrous TikTok filter that adds dragons and whatnot, and you'll get this movie. I left my brain at the door, and enjoyed watching this.

Not since Face Off has a movie title been such an egregious spoiler.

One tiny question why does gravity selectively affect certain thi-- you know what never mind, scientifically flawless, great movie, no notes.

I wanted to love this movie, and the puppetry absolutely floored me. Astonishing! Twoie and his puppeteers are GOD LEVEL masters of their craft. It's likely that we'll never see anything that well-done in practical puppetry ever again. I kept watching the lip-synching and naturalistic quick motions and reminding myself that it's *REAL* not CGI! I can still hardly believe it.

Musicals aren't really my thing... and I recognized some of Frank Oz's treacly sentimentality in the "Somewhere That's Green" song where the last three words lasted like seventeen minutes? and I was like oh em gee hurry up Ellen, somewhere that's green SOMEWHERE THAT'S GREEN SOMEWHERETHAT'SGREEN let's get back to Steve Martin or the puppet hurry upppppppp

This is a really great movie. I really really liked it. A lot.

Tour de force of filmmaking. Idiot self-destructive men destroying themselves to prove how mannish and manly and competent and awesome they are, destroying other lives (mostly women because Christopher Nolan) in the process.

I like how there's an Alfred in this movie, starring Michael Caine who is Alfred in the Batman movies starring Bale (y'know, Nolan's Batmen), and also Andy Serkis is Alfred in the latest one, and Hugh Jackman plays Wolverine!

LOVED watching this embarrassing movie. The movie was elbowing me in the ribs every ten seconds saying "GET IT? GET IT? GET IT?" I did, indeed, did get it, and enjoyed a lot of it.

I don't know how they convinced so many A-listers to participate, but I found Sam Rockwell to be drastically miscast. He works for me when he's playing an unlikeable sleaze, and in this he's playing Owen Wilson. It grated on me so bad I didn't even realize it was him until Houston told me who it was on the way home.

Wrap your ribs to withstand all the get-it-get-it-get-it elbows, maybe have a pre-movie cocktail or whatnot to make it easier to look at the poorly-done CGI, leave your belief as suspended as local regulations allow (are you near an airport?), and go watch this!

Or watch Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum, Bradley Pittman and Daniel Radcliffe in The Lost City.

A devastating movie. It's got the choreography of a mild family-centered drama; quietly sad people move through their small lives, being petty, or tender, or neglectful, moment by moment.
While the most horrific events of the modern era are happening just offscreen, barely occluded by walls or woods, but not out of earshot. The sound design is terrifying. The Good Germans we witness are behaving as naturally as can be. Hedwig moves like the most normal normal person who has ever normalled. Rudolph wanders, distracted, through his monstrous life with moments of grace, as though he'd taken ballet classes as a child.
If you can, watch this in a theater. You mustn't have a second screen to distract you -- you need to see the darkness, the REDness, the smoke and cinders chuffing from crematoria chimneys or locomotive stacks.
I would give this 5 stars but I hated it too much.

I noticed a goof in this movie, which was entertaining, well-acted, very pretty, and fun.
But if you watch carefully, you'll notice some of the characters handle food without wearing food-handling gloves. What's more, the FDA and similar regulatory agencies in English-speaking countries prohibit selling food made from chocolate that had two fully-clothed humans submerged in it for many minutes.
And this may seem like nitpicking, but none of the food is properly labeled with nutritional, ingredient, or allergy information.

Godzilla is SO BIG! She's SO MEAN! And so so SO SO impossible to understand. I don't know much about the franchise, but the idea of Godzilla standing in for the US military is really clear in this movie. The first act makes it explicit, Godzilla attacks a Japanese outpost on an island, and later in the film people say "No!!! We thought it was an American island-hop but it was the overgrown mutant chicken!" (paraphrased)
I love:
1) Within minutes, we get to see the monster very clearly. Cool move, people!
2) There are real stakes. I wish US studios would try this
3) The relationships in this movie seem so real and tender
4) Godzilla is just a super-high-def CG recreation of a dude in a big rubber suit. Wonderful to see them paying homage to her roots

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This movie is a wonderful and cutting examination of privilege and fame. As a person of exceedingly high (and COMPLETELY unearned) privilege, I recognize what it's like to appear in most spaces and be fully welcomed simply because of how I exist in the world. I've shown up to school events as a dad and been fawned over because 1) I was there 2) on time and 3) apparently sober. Accolades heaped upon me for doing the bare minimum.
This is what happens to Paul. Through some random quirk of the collective consciousness, Paul is thrust into worldwide fame. Mistaking this fame for something he earned, Paul embraces his new life as the center of attention, convinced that people would love to hear about his work with ..... ants. This character coined the term antelligence ha ha, as thought ants share a hife mind? Get it?
After being treated thoughtlessly by his wife, colleague, and a confused paramour, his fame becomes notoriety. Having believed that the adulation he received was earned somehow, he is left trying to convince people that this horror everyone experiences in his presence is UNearned. Which it is, obviously, but quirks gonna quirk.
Then, in the excruciatingly embarrassing comedic climax of the film, Paul sobs, bespittled, into a webcam that he "understands" now because of "lived experience".
Here we have the excoriation of privilege in our culture.
White males especially have been the center of power and culture for centuries. We convince ourselves that we're on top because we're the best. Obviously. But then small inroads are made into our central position of privilege, and all of a sudden we can't slap our female underlings on the ass. We can't toss racial slurs around. We're asked to come to grips with our ancestors' heinous acts of theft, enslavement, and genocide. We can't even make jokes anymore.
I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. It's very funny. Turns out we CAN still make jokes.

Okay I liked this one. Might be my fave in the MCU. There are enormous problems with the plot (why didn't the Eternals show up for any other existential threats?) and characters (the one Deviant dude who started thinking on his own should have become an ally and instead they just whacked him dead) and the idea that current existing sentient beings should be sacrificed for the benefit of future ones? that don't yet exist?? is ludicrous, doesn't stand up to even the briefest intellectual examination. Loved Kingo, and would watch a whole Oops! All Kingos series because omg so funny

The mom was actually a really good actor. Everything else about this movie was exquisitely bad. Rating this movie is an insult to the concept of ratings, movies, and insults.

Okay, there was a moment when she's tossing googly eyes around, and one lands on James Hong's character, you know, James Hong who played the eyeball engineer in Blade Runner. When that moment happens, there's a one-note musical cue referencing Blade Runner, if I'm not mistaken. I'm not mistaken, am I??

Besides that, liked the movie, loved the performances, thought I would think about it for at least a couple days after seeing it but ... it didn't make that much impact. Verdict: fun, but overhyped

Possibly my favorite movie ever. So so so cool I love every frame

So cute! May have shed a tear a few times because it was so cute. Excellent addition to our Christmas movie marathon

I LOVED WATCHING THIS
This movie is the paragon of mediocrity! I delighted in every adequate moment! The expositional dialog, competently delivered by professional, reasonably attractive actors, the serviceable set design, the predictable plot, the slight hint of chemistry between our lead actors...

The town where this movie is set was split down the middle a few years ago for tax reasons, and this movie manages to split exactly down the middle between bad and good. The only standout in my mind was the lack of constant bland festive background music these movies usually have, and the worst part was the dropped plot point of what the kid got his mom for Christmas.

If you're in the mood for absolute inoffensive mediocrity, watch this!

I'm giving it exactly 2.5 stars because that's what it deserves, but I would put it much higher because it managed to be such an incredibly SOLID 2.5/5 stars. Well done, perfect middle-of-the-road movie, everyone!

I love everything about this movie. The ship. The clueless military personnel. Amy Adams is fantastic. The alien design!!!!!

Everything in this movie looks heavy, solid, huge, and so cool.

I haven't seen a movie from Denis Villeneuve that I've disliked, and this one might be my favorite.

I keep thinking about how the alien in this movie is the perfect method of deep-space planetary exploration. One can't be sure what type of planet you'll discover -- oxygen/nitrogen atmosphere with carbon based life? Methane/hydrogen atmosphere with silicon based life??? So you'd build your probe/explorer with the ability to do exactly what The Thing does -- mimic local life forms well enough to assimilate, observe, study, learn, build a space ship out of scraps, and get the heck off planet to your civilization. I'm not convinced that the alien was malicious at all. If it had landed in a temperate zone, it may have taken over a few people, built a spaceship out of a Yugo, an electric shaver, and some vinyl siding, and rocketed back to space.

Anyway, this is the best movie about chilly antisocial men inexplicably equipped with a baffling arsenal of flame throwers.

What did I watch!?? This really is a testament to perseverance. A challenging watch, very strange, mostly entertaining, confusing.

I'd watch Samantha Morton in anything, especially a movie where she hesitantly agrees to buy a house that's on fire because she's "worried about the fire" and then dies a couple decades later of smoke inhalation. The movie has a lot more to recommend it, so you should watch it!

I love almost everything Aardman puts out.

They like machines possibly as much as I do, and this is a story of a bunch of chickens who decide to build an airplane. And they succeed. Ludicrous, but adorable,

What a great movie! It's deeply committed to being silly, is full of wonderful scenery and beautiful people. I love Sandra Bernhardt's Minerva -- possibly top 5 favorite movie characters. She's super gross, massively confident, has a couple amazing monologues, sings outrageously badly, and oozes malicious feminine sexuality.

Also Bruce!!! Aww!!! We like quoting one of the last lines of the movie "...Yeah, that's probably what happened!"

I adore complicated female characters, and while M3GAN isn't, like, a female, she's freaking awesome with her smoky eye makeup, cute doll dress, and disregard for societal norms like "don't kill people to death"

Anyway, M3GAN is awesome.

I loved this movie! About as chilling and frightening as any movie I've seen! CREEPY!!! Wow. And the questions that we're left with at the end!!!