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Favorite films

  • The Thing
  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  • Who Framed Roger Rabbit
  • Boogie Nights

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  • The Visit

    ★★★★

  • Unbreakable

    ★★★★

  • The First Omen

    ★★★★

  • Hundreds of Beavers

    ★★★★★

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  • Longlegs

    Longlegs

    ★★★

    Very close to being something really special but misses the mark on about a half dozen choices which range from undercooked to totally baffling.

    The sense of dread throughout (well, in acts 1 and 2) is excellent. Perkins has always been adept at conjuring images of palpably dense evil. He's tapped into the layer of something actually unnerving where a lot of directors can only get at the surface level creepy images of the Conjuring/Sinister/Nuns that are so prevalent in…

  • Godzilla × Kong: The New Empire

    Godzilla × Kong: The New Empire

    ★★★★

    Pretty dumb. Pretty fun.

    Probably the most economically stripped down the dumb human parts have been in any western Zilla. A side effect of this is that dumb human part exposition isn't sprinkled carefully through the dumb human dialogue. We're hit with a "Ziamat's Cave" cars and then someone on board a submarine double tap shotgun blasts us with "We're nearing Ziamat's cave!" There are approximately four thousand Godzilla is out there and he's hurting people and we don't know…

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  • Late Night with the Devil

    Late Night with the Devil

    ½

    This is a (nonautomated) automatic half star for AI art. Will be doing this sight unseen for all future instances. Better luck next time.

  • Spider-Man: No Way Home

    Spider-Man: No Way Home

    ½

    A movie that spends its entire runtime attempting and failing to justify the MCU version of Spider-Man while essentially cashing someone else's paycheck by invoking and then mostly making fun of better stories and characters whose chief sins are sincerity and unashamed camp.

    Just a god damn terrible looking film seemingly made by a robot to be the blandest most plastic inoffensive nothing. Just machine learning algorithm ass filmmaking from either a highly competent mercenary capable of leaving a film…