Matt N.

Favorite films

  • The Abyss
  • Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
  • The Empire Strikes Back
  • Almost Famous

All
  • The Wedding Singer

    ★★★★

  • A Complete Unknown

    ★★★

  • Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

    ★★★★

  • Superman Returns

    ★★½

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A Complete Unknown

2024

★★★ Watched

Far more watchable than I had expected based off the impressions I had gotten from the promotional material. Chalamet flits somewhere between a great fit for playing Dylan and falling into caricature. The main feeling I come away with is that Dylan was/is a bit of an insufferable arse.

The issues come from how little this tells us about Bob Dylan. The film ends and I feel like I know nothing about him. He seems constantly annoyed, but why? There's…

Superman Returns

2006

★★½ Rewatched

A film that doesn't know what it wants to be, yet manages to find some moments of magic. It's strangely sombre and slow paced, and it really lacks any sense of the characters.

It's supposed to be a direct sequel to the first two Christopher Reeve movies (there's even an argument that Supergirl could be included too, as that film mentions that Superman has left to visit a distant galaxy) - and I like the idea of that approach -…

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Back in Time

2015

★½ Watched

How do you make a documentary about Back To The Future boring? I don't know, but this manages it. Way, way too much focus on fans with no really interesting stories about the making of the films themselves.

Freddie Mercury: The Final Act

2021

★★★★ Watched

The thing about all the Queen documentaries that are now out there is that they all fall back on using the same old footage, and yet somehow manage to add new commentary on top of it that gets me thinking about it in different ways. This one is no exception.

This one covers the period from Queen's final gig together (Knebworth 1986) up to the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert in 1992. Basically, the sad times. It's a tearjerker, but it…