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Favorite films

  • Seven Samurai
  • Back to the Future
  • They Came Together
  • Scream

All
  • Final Destination Bloodlines

    ★★★½

  • Fear Street: Prom Queen

    ★★★

  • Final Destination 5

    ★★★

  • Friendship

    ★★★★½

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Friendship

2024

★★★★½ Liked Watched

I Think You Should Leave: The Movie

My God, this was such a joy. It's consistently hilarious while also being mortifying as we watch Craig's life disintegrate. Tim Robinson is perfect at balancing those slightly deranged and unstable mannerisms with a certain empathy that carries throughout the movie. Even when things hit the fan, you're laughing at his awkwardness. It's not because he's good-natured or well-meaning, though. It's because he's so socially awkward and unhinged. This gives us the ability…

Hurry Up Tomorrow

2025

Watched

Some interesting imagery here and there but this just reeks of self-indulgence masquerading as profound and nuanced. It's neither. It's insipid and frustratingly ambiguous. Worst of all, it's obnoxious at every turn. Flashy club lights and montages of partying that leaves the dark and brooding Weeknd unfulfilled feels like it's from the first chapter to an Intro to Storytelling textbook.

I was gobsmacked by the climax of the movie and not in a good way. Everything about the choices made…

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Final Destination Bloodlines

2025

★★★½ Liked Watched

Really impressed with how this movie changes up the formula and creates characters we actually care about. Having the focus being on a family was a great choice since it made everything else matter a lot more.

Gruesome deaths and a beautiful swan song for Tony Todd in his final role.

I liked this a lot. More thoughts to come later this week on The Obsessive Viewer Podcast.

Fear Street: Prom Queen

2025

★★★ Liked Watched

I am very fond of the Fear Street trilogy from 2021, so I was very excited for this new movie. I enjoyed it a lot for what it was. It's a teen slasher draped in 80s nostalgia and filled with angst and teen drama. It's not as strong as the trilogy that preceded it, but it's still a good time.

I enjoyed myself. More thoughts to come later this week on The Obsessive Viewer Podcast.

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Avatar: The Way of Water

2022

★★ 3

James Cameron has never been a good storyteller and it was unlikely that the 13 years he spent making Avatar: The Way of Water was going to change that.

But when your eyes aren't assaulted by scenes switching to high frame rate in parts, The Way of Water is a good demonstration of why Cameron wants to make Pandora his sandbox and keep making movies in it forever.

The narrative is a big improvement over the first movie, but that's…

Thor: Love and Thunder

2022

★★ 2

Not the worst MCU movie. It's not even the worst Thor movie. But it's far from the best of either.

The more I think about this movie, the more annoyed I am by it. It's incredibly sloppy and has some of the worst character development (or lack thereof) in the MCU. We don't get to see Jane go from scientist to Thor, but we do get an extended preview of Guardians 3. Gorr the God Butcher's god butchering is mostly…