Shawn Bird

Favorite films

  • Ghostbusters
  • Back to the Future
  • The Empire Strikes Back
  • Zodiac

All
  • For the Birds

    ★★★

  • Come and See

    ★★★★½

  • Swamp Thing

    ★★★

  • A Knight's War

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For the Birds

2000

★★★ Liked Watched

BYC2 #87

Okay, I just added this to have something stupid and silly on the last, plus I wanted to show some love for short films again, like the first BYC list.

There's not much to say about this, birds are mean idiots, apparently. Also, Pixar kind of spoils it with the cover image used.

Come and See

1985

★★★★½ Liked Watched

BYC2 #86

Movies about Nazis and World War II are a dime a dozen. However, Come and See stands apart by showing the horrors from a different perspective, through the eyes of ordinary people just trying to survive. This time, it’s in Russia, and while we’ve long accepted how evil the Nazis were, the movie dives deep into what that evil actually looked and felt like.

Unlike many war movies that are sanitized, Come and See is raw, gritty and…

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No One Will Save You

2023

★★½ 4

The first half was great, kept me intrigued. It all falls apart after that.

Brian Duffield is about as subtle as his TDS. Literally having to spell everything out by the end.

John Wick: Chapter 4

2023

★★★★ Liked Watched

The bulletproof suits were too ridiculous at this point.

Chad Stahelski basically has done with John Wick as Die Hard has done with John McClain. He's basically a superhero at this point. There's never any real fear of danger.

At least in the previous movies John Wick would get shot, stabbed, beaten up and hurt from it all.

That said, I thought the movie was great. More so out of being a guilty pleasure than thinking the movie is great overall.