meg_bytes

professional pasta eater

Favorite films

  • Up
  • Knives Out
  • Surf's Up
  • Jurassic Park

All
  • A Minecraft Movie

    ★★

  • Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

    ★★★★

  • Captain America: Brave New World

    ★★

  • The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie

    ★★

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A Minecraft Movie

2025

★★ Watched

The first half hour of this movie was genuinely funny. It worked. It made me laugh. No one is more surprised about that than I am.

But once the characters entered the frufru fantasy world of minecraft and blocks, and bad CG, this movie was dead to me. No thanks. I'm out.

Despite that, seeing Jack Black and Jason Momoa have such a dang good time together was strangling endearing, and to his credit, mmc held his own, too.

The…

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

2023

★★★★ Watched

Pleasantly surprising, with a great deal of heart and comedic moments that actually made me laugh. I went in with sub zero expectations and then came out the other side having had a better movie experience than I've had in months. Mostly, I think I just appreciated that D&D wasn't trying to be anything it wasn't or take itself too seriously. It wasn't made to change the world or reinvent the wheel. It merely exists for some fun, some laughs, and a good old fashioned adventure.

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The Marvels

2023

½ 4

This movie felt a lot like me in high school: it had No Idea what it wanted to be.

And it's honestly a bit tragic to see what Marvel has become. It's not hard to the good ol days-- anxiously awaiting their next movie, shoving popcorn into my facehole at the theater just to satiate my need to comment on funky fresh fights and quick dialogue, generally obsessing over how things would continue to masterfully connect...

Unfortunately for the…

Where the Wild Things Are

2009

★★½ 1

"If you were a normal person and not a hater you would've enjoyed this movie." - Shandril