Luna6ix

luna6ix
Celluloid Junkie - 4609 Film Ratings
Member Since: 17 May 2008
Location: Rochester, MN, USA
Age: 38
Bio: i love movies, in fact i am on a quest to see all of the movies ever made, i do realize that's not possible, but at least i set the bar high. i was drawn even more to this site after i got my first star. i now write mini-reviews for every movie i watch, and am going through my back catalog to write them for every movie i've rated, i've got a long way to go. might i interest you in donating to the give me a star foundation?

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76 57% Warcraft Warcraft (2016) - Rated 06 Oct 2017
"As a work of art, a critic's film, this is complete crap. But it's an action movie, it's made for people who don't give a shit about tracking shots, metaphors, and film theory. I really anticipated a dud here, I have no idea how closely it followed the games, but there's way way too much lore to fit into two hours and you can tell, because the movie glosses over details that I'm sure a WoW player would appreciate, but the movie is not bad, not at all, except for Ben Foster, he really sucks here."
87 93% Star Trek Star Trek (2009) - Rated 17 May 2009
"The "Star Trek" movie that alienates trekkies for the sake of mass appeal, and it definitely is appealing. This movie has a ton of action, and a generally exciting, and, at many times, a funny plot. While the average person may find this movie very entertaining, the "Star Trek" fan will find the deviation from reality in past movies unsettling. Regardless of the artistic license taken in this movie, I definitely look forward to see where they take the franchise next."
70 34% The Lost City of Z The Lost City of Z (2017) - Rated 07 Dec 2017
"Advertised as an epic adventure movie, but it's really a slow moving biography, cutting up jungle time with trips back to England and even a bout in WWI. Miller is below average, except in the looks department, Hunnam is lukewarm, but Pattinson really shines here. For some insane reason Gray tries to leave the ending up to your imagination, but it's pretty easy to guess what happened to Fawcett: he died, that's what happens when you go places where spiders eat birds, dude."
30 1% Point Break Point Break (2015) - Rated 20 Mar 2017
62 18% The Untold Story The Untold Story (1993) - Rated 19 Dec 2021
"Based on a true story, "The Untold Story" is a notable HK exploitation film, yet it's too similar to "Ebola Syndrome" also directed by Yau and starring Wong. Though released first, it's bettered by "Ebola Syndrome" because it's too grounded and not exploitative enough (which you might not believe if you've seen the rape and murder scenes). In other words, this one feels like it's here to shock you, the other wants to morbidly entertain you by shocking you. A subtle, but important distinction."
90 97% The Conversation The Conversation (1974) - Rated 20 Jul 2018
"Hot off the heels of what is generally considered to be one of the best movies of all time, Coppola delivers, in my opinion, a far better movie. "The Conversation" is gripping, it's thrilling, it's mysterious, and Hackman sells the role as one hell of a character in Caul. There's a degree of subtlety in his paranoia and overcautious privacy that ultimately destroys him, ending in one of the most harrowing, poignant scenes ever committed to film."
82 81% Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (1972) - Rated 15 Dec 2021
"From the first installment, it's easy to see why this series could justify four installments in a single year. It's a tremendously watchable exploitation flick and for the era, that amount of artery spurting is unheard of. I was gleefully waiting for every next instance of blood rain, and never had to wait too long. Blood rain is my favorite kind of blood...and rain."
76 57% Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015) - Rated 04 Dec 2017
"Episodes 4-6 gained a rabid following of sci-fi misfits. Episodes 1-3 quaked the fan community's faith. Now, we see a return to form, an apology to the fans in the form of an infinitely better movie. For the uninitiated, or the fence sitters, like myself, "The Force Awakens" is an entertaining and complacent revelry in the universe that Lucas created forty years ago. The world building has ended, and fans may be sated, but I'm a little disappointed, but that's not to say it's not a good movie."
79 70% Noah Noah (2014) - Rated 16 Nov 2017
"Basically Aronofsky came up with the biblical story of Noah, as told by a ten year old with an overactive imagination, who was told the story by a ten year old with an overactive imagination, who was read the story by a priest who, incidentally, was having a stroke while reading a badly water damaged copy of the bible. And you know what? That's a pretty entertaining game of telephone right there. It's got Noah, it's got water, and...um rock monsters. You're gonna love it."
42 4% How It Ends How It Ends (2018) - Rated 26 Sep 2018
"Further cementing Netflix's association with cut-rate sci-fi is a lame-pocolypse outing with Forest Whitaker and a bunch of nobodies. I've about had it up to here with lazy sci-fi that leaves things up to interpretation. I don't want allegory or ambiguity in my sci-fi. I want clever storytelling and immense amounts of imagination. Is that so much to ask for? If McLaren can't deliver that, he can always take his writing to a publisher of YA fiction, they gobble this crap up like Skittles."