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Casino Royale

the suicide squad. It's honestly one of the best modern superhero movies because of how much of it was just fun comic fun. the characters were all amazing and likable with being my favorite. I really hope dc can make more movies like this on as they get more experimental with what their directors can do because rn marvel is kinda lacking with creativity

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

On The Silver Globe. 3 hour unfinished scifi movie from Poland that doesn't even feel real in my memory after watching it. I'd say it's good? I'll admit I wasn't super invested in its vision or themes, and I don't think I'd have anything interesting to say about it, but I definitely got a lot of enjoyment out of the movie. Appreciate being able to watch something on its scale that's just totally out of the left field (in a creative sense).

Dirty Work (1998)

Dear lord, I laughed throughout the whole movie. Norm Macdonald had such an amazing comedic understanding which will never be replicated again. Truly a once ever comedian he was.

re:assemblage

woah interesting documentary style

Free Guy
I don't wanna be mean but genuinely one of the worst movies I've seen lol

Last movie I watched: Godfather Part II

Last new movie I watched: The Many Saints of Newark

funeral parade of roses

ah, yes. a nonlinear narrative. just my style. might want to go back and watch it again some time. i like how different film genres are combined in it. an interesting lgbt film, but i'm not sure how much i can comment on representation in it bc it covers identities within the paradigm of 60's lgbt culture in japan, and i'm not super familiar with that.

Abominable. It was nothing extraordinary, but still much better than expected.

Over the past few months i’ve watched nearly every disney animated classic and every direct to video/dvd sequel (yes, including half a dozen winnie the pooh movies). I only need to watch raya and the last dragon. i’ve made a tier list, but the f tiers are pretty barren. should i watch the remakes to fix that?

I’ll post the tier list when its finished

oh i wouldn't want to subject you to the remakes

excited to see your tier list!

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mitchells vs the machines

interesting. a little too fast paced for me, but then again i was watching it while working on something, so i'm not one to talk. i liked the way they were able to experiment with the animation style. hope to see more mainstream films like that in the future


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venom 2

it was horrible. i loved it

Popeye
pure cinema

Screwed (2000)

Another entertaining movie starring Norm Macdonald. Great fun and laughs, not that highly rated by "serious critics" but serves its purpose in a satisfactory manner.

watched turbo kid. idk why but i recently got into gorey cheesey 80 love letters and it was quite enjoyable. the music was very nice and the plot moved pretty well. all the gore was practical and were quite impressive. i got invested into the character apple pretty easily and the over the top action mixed with slapstick humor was fun. The two main leads dynamic was very sweet. a good movie to turn your brain off to.

sonic movie

yeah it was just kind of meh, but it was cute! i remember when the poster for it was leaked. was right when i started using ds. the sonic movie topic where we dunked on his weird original designs is a good memory. i'm happy with the final design of sonic -- it' a much more appealing design -- but i won't lie, i'd have had a little more fun with the movie if he looked horrendous. but that's mostly because i usually like weird/horrible things


spirit: stallion of the cimmaron

a classic

Same

Watched it the other day, and I was very impressed.

encanto

haven't enjoyed a disney animated film like this for a long time!

500 days of summer

Really liked it. Related super hard with the lead and it makes me want to grow up with the topic of self respect instead of being a hopeless romantic

Earwig and the Witch

It was meh. The fact that it's a CGI film by a company known for traditional animation never bothered me, but it didn't really feel like a Ghibli film either way. What I didn't like was that it ends abruptly just as the plot gets interesting.

castle in the sky

i have more lines memorized than i thought i did. also the ost is good

Finally watched Encanto! Very fun and adorable, pacing felt a little too quick but still very enjoyable.

THE BATMAN, was freaking good too! :D

Wild at Heart

Sonic 2. Very nice and fun, still some big problems but nothing that takes away from it.

Saw The Alchemist Cookbook. On paper it has a lot of ideas I like, but it didn't come together for me.

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness on Disney Plus

watched the first half of spirited away. i've seen it many many times, so i don't feel like i'm missing anything by not watching the whole thing.

i kind of understand a little better why there are people who think it's a strange movie. i think mostly because now that i'm an adult, i've been exposed to more people with different backgrounds. i've been watching this film since i was very young, so i accepted everything about it, but i think it makes sense that people who haven't had that experience and don't have the cultural context for the movie will be confused.

is it still annoying when they're assholes about it? yes

the ghibli "fandom" scares me

hey what a good point in that post spirited away has been a top 1 favorite movie for me since i was younger japanese culture was never a problem for me haha i think if other people wouldnt be so narrow minded about other peoples culture they could understand this stuff better or rather i mean more open to it without it having to be a criticism rather than accepting hm maybe i need to do some reasearch there are things i do not know

im actually not at all familiar with the western ghibli fanbase the japanese one has never seemed too bad to me are they crazy

my last movie was probably kimi no no wa because im still hooked on that one and cannot wait for shinkais new film to add it to my most recently watched list

oh yeah most of the ghibi fans i've run into are into it because they think it makes them "quirky" and "unique" and have no understanding of film analysis. you're right, it's probably bc the most outspoken ghibli-watchers i know are westerners who think watching a film not made by hollywood makes them special. like think annoying hipster. i'm not sure how it is in different areas.

they buy all the AeSThEtiC ghibli merch and don't really take the time to think about the messages in any of the films. or, if they do, they're cis/het/white men who watched a youtube video about a movie and think mentioning that many ghibli films have FEMALE protagonists automatically makes them ultra feminists

although i suppose saying this also makes me just like them... like, based on my background, there's no way i'm going to understand everything about a film. i'm not the director and i didn't work on it.

funny cause for japanese its like opposite of quirky and unique thats standard like disney you probably saw it as a kid if you were into animation at all "annoying hipster" sounds about right to me in my experience of them.

you have no idea how hard i laughed at this line exactly gotta love it when men (and so commonly cis/het/white men) perform a basic function such as acknowledging something about a female makes them think they are these pro extreme feminist GIRL POWER type

nah you even acknowledge they exist and dont make excuses even people who maybe dont fall into that category directly themselves will often still make an attempt at excusing the behavior or find it sympathetic in some way which you dont seem to

Turning red - Really personally resonated with me. Love it.

Real last movie I watched was Revenge of the Sith. Solid star wars fun.

Last night in soho. Wow first half was sick as it was a girl romanticizing the 60s but than realizing how bad the 60s actually were for women. The horror elements tho were pretty bad with the cgi not being the greatest and really could have been left out or practical. The climax was also pretty bad and kinda made the theme of the movie irrelevant. Eh maybe on a rewatch I would enjoy it more.

Fear Street 1994: I liked it. Felt like a classic slasher film but there was one death in particular that I loved because of how insane it was. Characters idk how to feel tbh. Didn't really care for the main girl and the supporting cast were kinda uninteresting because they weren't very dimensional but had a personality at least? But that's kinda the norm for slashers. Feel like it can get better I. The other movies.also that sex scene sucked

Fear Street part 2: major improvement. The characters are actually written to be characters with flaws and personalities. The gore was sick in this and people getting murdered actually gets reactions. Best on of the trilogy

Fear Street part 3: accents can get super distracting. More enjoyable than the first movie but not as good as the second. Probably because it was less horror and more witch burny. Second half was pretty meh tbh

Thor love and thunder: uhh it was kinda boring. The main villain didn't feel threatening at all because he doesn't do anything threatening. There's a subplot with children that is uninteresting because I have never seen these kids before this movie not will I ever think about them after. Thor himself feels like he's losr his character traits from the past few movies he was in. Jane and thor still feel like a boring relationship from the first movie.

The Sea Beast! Super fun, not piratey in the way I went in expecting, but still very piratey.

everything everywhere at once. yep this is my favorite movie of all time now

GoldenEye (GoldenEyyyyyye)

Existenz.
Just wanted some Jude Law and came out a vegan.

The World Is Not Enough

GoldenEye and this film are the only decent Brosnan ones IMO

finally had the tv to myself so i watched the lion king 1 1/2 for the first time! it was cute

Watched Existenz again.

Dr. No

It's so dated, and the only actor that stands out is Connery

Some documentary probably, I've been binge-watching them lately.

oooo i'm in the process of watching the celts docuseries from 1987. more of a show than a movie, though. i missed docs

The last one I can remember fully watching is Michele Soavi's Stage Fright: Aquarius (Deliria). (1987)

uhh, it's an Italian slasher film about stage actors being trapped in an auditorium by an escaped killer who wears an oversized owl mask. That may sound stupid on paper, but when you look at it and think about it, it's kinda jarring.

It's very gory. It's got brutally good kills and death scenes. It knows how to build tension and suspense splendidly. It is macabrely beautiful and artsy, and the soundtrack by Simon Boswell is epic.

american psycho!

i feel like there's more to it than i picked up on, so i'm gonna try to find an analysis. i liked the directing style. the movie plot itself i was meh on. watched it with a really great group of people. had they been anyone else i think the experience would have sucked