jacobclark12
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Member Since: 28 Jun 2015
Location: Morton, Illinois, USA
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The White Lotus - Season 2 (2022) - Rated 05 Jul 2025
"While it still retains a lot of the good mystery and drama from season 1, a deep dive of the themes of carnal pleasure and sexual tension don’t resonate as well with me. The extra episode does allow for a longer fuse, which does occasionally pay off while also making some characters harder to quickly latch on to. Many of their motives are also highly ambiguous for much of the season. The finale was a bit anticlimactic, as it leaves a lot of questions about those motives deliberately unanswered."
The White Lotus - Season 1 (2021) - Rated 02 Jul 2025
"Stellar, stellar opening season. The cast is perfect, and the talent behind the camera gets so much more out of them than expected."
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025) - Rated 31 May 2025
"A definite improvement over the solid but overlong Dead Reckoning, this fittingly ties every film together while having everything it needs to succeed, especially a protagonist whose life never feels completely safe. The set pieces, especially the submarine, are delightfully daring and tense. I still think that this like its predecessor could have had some fat trimmed, but at the end of the day we left happy and satisfied."
Pride and Prejudice (1995) - Rated 30 May 2025
"Enthrallingly accurate to its source material and distinctly non-American, this adaptation of Pride and Prejudice preserves every facet about the novel that makes it good with a cast that is nearly perfect."
Conclave (2024) - Rated 03 May 2025
"Yeah, that hit the spot. A political thriller about the most secretive Christian ritual is a great idea, and Conclave truly delivers the goods. What it has to say about the state of the Church today is prescient too, especially in light of recent events. But what’s more interesting is its unique and relatable themes of faith, doubt, certainty, and inter-religious conflict and contact."
Nosferatu (2024) - Rated 05 Apr 2025
"Well, that was a lot. I adore how unsettling Robert Eggers can be, and this reimagining of an early horror icon lets him run rampant with his signature style. There’s quite a bit thematically to chew on inside this gothic vampire flick too, whether it’s a discussion of how to defeat evil within the self, the insufficiency of empiricism, the darkest parts of loneliness, or society’s distrust of women (especially when they seem to be experiencing pleasure)."
Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022) - Rated 04 Apr 2025
"It’s not great; however, it’s good enough to allow me, someone who grew up with the prequels and is beginning to appreciate them more, to get some satisfying connective tissue between the trilogies. Seeing Ewan and Hayden together again was worth the watch itself."
Baking Up Love (2021) - Rated 29 Mar 2025
"Was it worth enduring this to see my own house in a movie?
No. No it was not."
Godzilla Minus One (2023) - Rated 29 Mar 2025
"Legendary can suck it: this is how to make a Godzilla film. Loved the perspective of postwar Japan, which I feel is underrepresented in discussion of the collateral damage of WWII. All the human stories have very fulfilling conclusions that thoroughly satisfy what I wanted out of their character arcs without being too predictable. The performances even through subtitles felt solid too."
The Zone of Interest (2023) - Rated 29 Mar 2025
"The film adaptation of “I can’t sleep in this hotel because it sounds weird” but in the most unsettling way possible."
