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Watched on Sunday May 25, 2025.
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Watched on Friday May 23, 2025.
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We Got about halfway through and told my partner “I truly will not be surprised by anything at this point.”
And then I was surprised by a fair bit more. Outrageous / awesome movie. Cinema.
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Glad I avoided even the trailers for this.
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Watched on Monday March 31, 2025.
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Austere pulp?
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Don’t care if it’s just exercise I really like it still
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Watched on Saturday December 28, 2024.
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Watched on Saturday November 9, 2024.
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Watched on Monday October 28, 2024.
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Art the Clown up to his usual antics. Didn't like this one quite as much as Terrifier 2. The avenging angel bullshit in that one really worked for me, and while I liked the angle of bringing Sienna's trauma more to the fore in this one, that's really kinda all there is - aside from, of course, the incredible effects and extreme gore etc etc fun fun (kinda wild that this was the #1 movie when it opened lmao)
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The best film in the series. Made me cry.
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Watched on Monday September 23, 2024.
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Watched on Friday September 20, 2024.
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Justice vs. corruption, de-escalation vs. lethal force default.
On Saulnier more broadly and Rebel Ridge HERE
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Watched on Saturday September 21, 2024.
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So, so dark and rainy, foreboding and probably the scariest and meanest of the Friday the 13th movies, but also carries with it a real and lasting sadness. The kids making new connections and sparks of romance, so full of life, and then there’s the strange but moving suggestion that some great evil, some sense of trauma and grief and vengeance has been transferred to Tommy. The horror bites, the images have impact, a pitch blackness mixed with the 80s pastels of the Air BnB before Jason starts snuffing out the lights.
Probably the best one of the series.
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Watched on Monday September 16, 2024.
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Watched on Tuesday September 10, 2024.
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Watched on Wednesday September 11, 2024.
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Watched on Sunday September 8, 2024.
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Watched on Tuesday September 3, 2024.
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Officially Trap-pilled
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High on its own farts and way too convinced of its own cleverness to be anything other than obnoxious. Equally unfortunate: might be extremely misogynistic / anti-metoo. Willa Fitzgerald is phenomenal in this, and is innocent.
More HERE
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CINEMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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Verbinski was COOKING
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Please, no more non-diegetic music in found footage horror movies. Some good scares and use of space, manipulating the viewer's eye, etc etc, though.
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When did these start leaning into that weird head replacement CGI and non-diegetic music?
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Watched on Tuesday August 27, 2024.
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Still not sure about this one, I'll come back later on.
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Verbinski would cook even harder after this, but this rules. Wish Disney would let filmmakers make good movies now
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Every shot is perfect. Would've watched another hour of them sitting around silently. You cannot make a movie like this better than this.
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Watched on Saturday August 17, 2024.
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Watched on Friday August 16, 2024.
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Pacing really threw me for a loop. A lot to dig here but a lot also felt like a lotta edgy film school 101 stuff. Wonderfully acted by everybody though and the body horror stuff really worked. Idk overall.
I bet if this had been like 3 hours long I would’ve loved it, or if I’d seen it maybe like 8 years ago. Idk. Pretty torn. Also was super funny - “there is nothing wrong with you” had me in stitches
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It’s either this or Returns as the best Batman movie of them all. gets better every time.
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Watched on Monday August 12, 2024.
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Haneke vibes
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Watched on Saturday August 3, 2024.
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Thought this was really good.
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Watched on Friday August 2, 2024.
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I love Hemsworth’s Thor generally speaking but damn this just…I dunno. And Aaron’s God Butcher run had such potential, aside from a flew flashes here and there this just kinda missed for me.
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Watched on Wednesday July 31, 2024.
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Watched on Tuesday July 30, 2024.
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Nightmare within a nightmare. Bothered me
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Watched on Wednesday June 5, 2024.
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Anya Taylor-Joy’s eyes
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Is she safe? Is she alright?
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That shot of Anakin and Pe slowly being pulled into the light. The prequels are GOATED man
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The final battle with all the moving parts and pieces, the best lightsaber duel in the entire series - a ballet of light and sound, all the world building in every single frame. Absolutely incredible to take in on the big screen again.
]]>Snyder apologist, for sure.
(need to revisit his DOTD remake, haven't seen it since I worked at a car wash and watched it piece-meal, forget nearly everything).
]]>The first 5 on this list I think are genuinely really good.
- Logan
- X-Men: Days of Future Past
- X2
- The Wolverine
The "Unleashed" Cut version.
- X-Men
- X-Men: First Class
- Deadpool 2
- X-Men: Apocalypse
- Deadpool
- X-Men Origins: Wolverine
...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Not a single bad movie in the series, which makes ranking them an exercise in futility.
]]>Idk, something like this for now.
]]>Long live crazy/traumatized/abusive Loomis in 5.
[Ranking as I (slowly) rewatch these]
]]>RIP Wes Craven.
]]>[Rewatching this series with my fiance, will rank as I go back through these]
]]>Good director.
]]>Jigsaw wearing Assassin's Creed robes after having just murdered a large handful of people
I've never killed anyone.
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]]>First two are great and that's it.
]]>A few are due for a rewatch.
]]>Top three are pretty close, particularly Identity and Ultimatum. The bottom two are the bottom two. I am inflexible on this.
]]>I like 2 a lot.
]]>I'm a Mannboy. I love every single one of these.
- Heat
Brotha, you are going down.
- Miami Vice
- Collateral
- Blackhat
- Thief
- Manhunter
- The Insider
- Public Enemies
- The Last of the Mohicans
Love me some Finch
]]>(Re)watching all of his movies. Ranking as I go. Very good filmmaker.
]]>When it comes to comedies, you always want as much John C. Reilly as possible.
]]>Very good pop-horror craftsman/showman and really good at spooky maximalist haunted house stuff.
This of course makes it all the more hilarious that arguably his best movie is this jovial batshit bonk-bonk superhero film.
]]>Cinema!
]]>Fun escapism movies. Good adventures. I read the books growing up as a kid and while I prefer those to the films these work quite nicely when you don't have a week to set aside for some wizarding adventures.
Ranking as I go through this most recent Quarantine Rewatch. Subject to change and, as per usual, there isn't a lot of fluctuation in quality after Azkaban, which is clearly the best film (although I have a huge fondness for Order of the Phoenix).
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
This is fairly rough and thrown together for fun. And it has been a long time since I've seen some of them.
The "great" ones (in my book) are the top 10.
I have not yet seen: Finding Dory, The Good Dinosaur, or Brave.
- WALL·E
- The Incredibles
- Toy Story 2
- Up
- Toy Story
- Toy Story 3
- Inside Out
- Ratatouille
- Finding Nemo
- Monsters, Inc.
...plus 7 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Haven't seen Solo. Probably won't. The only film in the entire main series I don't think has any redeeming qualities is Episode 9.
top 6 are goated.
- The Empire Strikes Back
- Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
- Return of the Jedi
- Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones
- Star Wars
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
- Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens
- Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Log of movie theater trips.
- The Lego Movie
Who: Mom and brother (age 10)
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier
When: Opening night in IMAX 3D
Who: My buddies Cory and JakeWhen: 2 days later in IMAX 3D
Who: PamerWhen: Saturday April 12, 2D
Who: Little brothers and mommy. - Oculus
Who: With my buddy Cory.
- Under the Skin
Where: Some indie theater in Indy.
Who: Myself :> - The Amazing Spider-Man 2
When: Opening night, 2D only.
Who: PamerWhen: May 4th, 3D
Who: Mom and two brothers. - Godzilla
When: Opening night, iMAX 3D
Who: Cory and several of his friends who I do not know haha. - X-Men: Days of Future Past
When: Opening night 3D! Got some cool glasses yay.
Who: Best pal Pamer and my bruddah.Notable: Some guy kept laughing during parts that weren't funny and guffawing with laughter during the actual comedic moments. Also at the end of the film he was naming every character audibly for some unexplainable reason.
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When: Opening weekend
Who: Mi familia - Chef
When: Tuesday, June 10th
Who: Pamer!Notable: Only 4 people in the entire theater. Us (two early 20's kids) and two ladies (both probably 50 years old). I once made an involuntary noise when Scarlett walked on screen and the two ladies heard. It was embarrassing.
- How to Train Your Dragon 2
When: June 21st
Who: The whole darn family. - Edge of Tomorrow
When: July 1
Who: Myself matinee style :>
...plus 13 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Log of theater trips in 2015 with notes on any "funny business" I observed.
- Unbroken
No unsightly activity to report.
- Inherent Vice
Terence Malick look alike strolled lazily through the aisle not once, but twice, during the film's runtime.
- American Sniper
- Blackhat
By myself :p
- It Follows
- Furious 7
IMAX, w/ brother and his roommate who I don't know well at all.
- Ex Machina
W/ Cory
- The Avengers
W/ Cory
- Avengers: Age of Ultron
x2
Loud baby to my right second time around.
- Mad Max: Fury Road
...plus 13 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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