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"I missed your wedding, I wasn't going to miss this" but "this" is literally just a 13-year high school reunion.

Watched on Monday May 26, 2025.

Watched on Monday May 26, 2025.

Jessica with an 8am Mountain Dew. My kind of lady.
"Come on Heather, work with me here" is (impressively) maybe the douchiest line reading of all time.

Wild that everyone is arguably giving a career-worst performance. A Guy Ritchie-directed adventure about the Fountain of Youth should have been such an easy slam dunk, but it's missing that usual zip and energy from so many of his films. There are a few flashes of that, and coupled with the broad setup, it's enough to at least qualify as "watchable" - but only just.

2025 ranked

First hour or so is a mess, but a strong finish always helps. And a less-than Mission: Impossible movie is still better than most movies.

2025 ranked
Mission: Impossible Ranked

"Whydjya wanna play cawledge hawkey?"
The entire cast nailed the stereotypical Minnesota and Boston accents combined with the hockey accent, but nobody more than Michael Mantenuto. Doing yeoman's work.

Watched on Tuesday May 20, 2025.

"See what happens when you do things?"
Jason Schwartzman is the unsung MVP of this, incredible work.

Watched on Saturday May 17, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 17, 2025.

These movies are all the exact same to me.

2025 ranked

Watched on Sunday May 11, 2025.

Kirsten Dunst saves this from being a 1/2 star.

Watched on Sunday May 11, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 10, 2025.

Watched on Friday May 9, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday May 6, 2025.

With this and Furiosa, Chris Hemsworth should play a lot more charismatic freaks.

There's a Ted Mosby quote where he says, "I will do a lot to get laid, but I am not going to New Jersey."
Well, I would do a lot to watch a hard-to-find movie, but I am never watching one on Fawesome. The sheer number of ads and the random points they come on, in the middle of scenes, even in the middle of sentences. Would make a lesser movie unwatchable.

Good movie though.

Watched on Saturday May 3, 2025.

"Yeah, Albanian. From Albania." Legitimately hilarious line.

The first time Denzel puts on the fedora and straightens it out is arguably the coolest simple thing anyone has ever done in a movie.

Actually kind of jarring seeing Willem Dafoe just being a regular guy.

First off, simply an inspired use of Pony. More movies should have spontaneous Ginuwine.

Would not have expected an MCU movie to give us one of the more sensitive looks into depression and mental health that we've seen recently, at least from a blockbuster like this. And where the MCU so often undercuts many of its more serious moments with a quick joke, Thunderbolts* lets you sit with those, giving them the weight and space they deserve.

Regarding the post credit scene, there is one part, that if it becomes even a minor plotline going forward, is going to be incredibly annoying. I really hope it was a one-time use here, played for some cheap laughs.

2025 ranked
MCU

The first hour is incredible, but the second hour is wildly uneven. It sizzles whenever Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively are together, and that helps mask some of the bigger issues. ing cast is nothing special (Andrew Rannells innocent, of course). Too twisty for its own good.

There's enough here to like enough to recommend it, but it's still a disappointing step down from its predecessor.

2025 ranked

Bad, so very bad. Just watch A Star is Born. Extra half star for two ridiculous cameos that only make sense if you happen to catch a certain name in the opening credits. 

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2025 ranked

Watched on Sunday April 27, 2025.

Andrew Rannells the unsung star of this movie.

Watched on Sunday April 27, 2025.

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Apparently helicopters weigh a lot less than I would have guessed.

2025 ranked

Watched on Saturday April 26, 2025.

I don't begrudge the movie this, but it's very convenient it completely left out the fact that the 2002 A's returned an insane trio of starting pitchers in Barry Zito (who also won the Cy Young), Mark Mulder, and Tim Hudson, plus eventual 2002 MVP Miguel Tejada and Gold Glove 3B Eric Chavez.

Also, the A's elephant hat is so sick, way up there for coolest hat in sports.

Was not expecting the 2003 Vikings draft catching (ittedly deserved) strays.

Plotting is pretty messy, but the action is fun and it's way funnier than I was expecting. But the real star is Jon Bernthal on an absolute heater. Incredible stuff.

2025 ranked

Watched on Monday April 21, 2025.

Watched on Saturday April 19, 2025.

On the surface, a wildly entertaining blockbuster. And if that's how you want to watch it, have at it, you'll have a blast.

But Coogler weaves in countless themes and tones throughout. Race, legacy, religion/spirituality (I choose to believe releasing this Easter weekend was intentional), even the evolution of music and how it connects generations and cultures.

And oh man, the music. Both Ludwig Göransson's score and the music within the movie itself, complete knockouts.

Biggest complaint though is the opening. The ol' "I bet you're wondering how we ended up here" trope. Hate it. It almost never works. At best, its neutral, at worst it actively detracts from the rest of the movie. This wasn't the most egregious use of it I've seen, but it would have been better off without. But at the end of the day, whatever, movie still rips.

2025 ranked

Watched on Sunday April 13, 2025.

Watched on Sunday April 13, 2025.

Watched on Saturday April 12, 2025.

Watched on Saturday April 12, 2025.

Watched on Thursday April 10, 2025.

Absolutely preposterous. Double feature this with Trap and have yourself a night.

The whole movie should have been whatever movie Christian Bale thought he was in.

MCU

Watched on Sunday April 6, 2025.

A couple walked into this movie with 45 minutes left. At that point, you just skip the movie, right?

MCU

Watched on Friday April 4, 2025.

Watched on Thursday April 3, 2025.

Watched on Monday March 31, 2025.

Watched on Friday March 28, 2025.

1. Sinners
2. Black Bag
3. Thunderbolts*
4. Companion
5. Heart Eyes
6. One of Them Days
7. The ant²
8. The Amateur
9. Sacramento
10. Drop

...plus 22 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
2. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
3. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
4. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning
5. Mission: Impossible III
6. Mission: Impossible
7. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
8. Mission: Impossible II

1. Avengers: Endgame
2. Avengers: Infinity War
3. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
4. Black Panther
5. Spider-Man: No Way Home
6. Thor: Ragnarok
7. The Avengers
8. Spider-Man: Homecoming
9. Deadpool & Wolverine
10. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

...plus 26 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Casino Royale
2. Skyfall
3. No Time to Die
4. The Spy Who Loved Me
5. Dr. No
6. Goldfinger
7. From Russia with Love
8. Thunderball
9. Spectre
10. GoldenEye

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

1. Dune: Part Two
2. Federer: Twelve Final Days
3. The Brutalist
4. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
5. Challengers
6. A Real Pain
7. Sing Sing
8. Hit Man
9. Anora
10. Dìdi (弟弟)

...plus 165 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Lion King
2. Raya and the Last Dragon
3. Zootopia
4. Moana
5. Tangled
6. Aladdin
7. Wreck-It Ralph
8. Mulan
9. Frozen
10. Wish

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Toy Story
2. Toy Story 3
3. Toy Story 2
4. Inside Out
5. The Incredibles
6. Monsters, Inc.
7. Toy Story 4
8. Soul
9. Finding Nemo
10. Up

...plus 18 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
2. The Holdovers
3. John Wick: Chapter 4
4. Oppenheimer
5. Air
6. Anatomy of a Fall
7. The Iron Claw
8. Sanctuary
9. Killers of the Flower Moon
10. Joy Ride

...plus 160 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.