Narg
Film Freak
Member Since: 05 Feb 2018
Location: Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
Bio: I have only recently begun to feel like I truly "understand" film and the saying that the more you know the more you know you don't know applies here. My ratings are purely based on personal enjoyment and I update and change them pretty liberally, so it's not super exact. . Generally if something is over 75 I think it's a certified banger, 75 to 50 is anything from pretty good to average, and anything below 50 ranges from below average to terrible. If you want to argue with me and call me a moron feel free to do so.
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Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024) - Rated 14 Sep 2024
"Now this is the kind of dumb bullshit I can get behind. Instead of having completely awful character arcs for the puny humans, we have long stretches of the kaiju in essentially a silent film where we rely on their expressions and movement to tell the story. Then they fight and engage in hilarious WWE style shenanigans. The film knows what it is and revels in its complete unseriousness, which is much better than I can say for the last two Monsterverse films."
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) - Rated 03 Jun 2024
"A little bit less visually compelling, a little bit less visceral, a little bit less clear in its stakes, and a lot less tightly constructed than Fury Road, which at this point has settled into its status as one of the greatest action films of all time. Some of those things aren't necessarily negative, but some of them are, especially in a follow up to something as iconic as Fury Road. To its credit, it is just as sneakily interesting in its themes, and the performances are all great."
Hit Man (2024) - Rated 09 Jun 2024
"Every costume change Powell does to take on a different hitman persona had me cackling. Great performances, great chemistry, and in a Linklater film that goes down so smooth that you almost forget that the themes and the characters have a dark undercurrent that adds some complexity to the fun and breezy proceedings."
Rebel Ridge (2024) - Rated 11 Sep 2024
"The film is restrained in several interesting ways while still giving you the violent comeuppance you want to see from a film with corrupt cops. Also, imagining this film with John Boyega instead of Aaron Pierre is impossible. Put Pierre in all the action movies, thank you."
Sinners (2025) - Rated 04 May 2025
"Thematically dense, exciting, original crowd-pleasers that take big directorial swings are sorely lacking in the film landscape; but here comes Coogler to deliver that exact thing to remind us that we need to have more of these and less Bond tv shows on Amazon or whatever the hell they're doing over there."