vv238
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Member Since: 10 Sep 2018
Location: USA
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The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991) - Rated 03 Aug 2025
"The Smell of Fear is B-tier Zucker Brothers material. There aren't any truly standout bits but I was laughing throughout. I wonder what happened to the guy that plays Nordberg? He always gave a killer performance. He approached everything with a white glove mentality. When he was riding that Bronco I never laughed harder. Johnnie Cochran."
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017) - Rated 02 Aug 2025
"Jumanji: Whatever is pretty solid. The first 10 minutes was a painful reminder that this is a Sony Picture but after that it turns into kind of okay family fun time. The core four are pretty tolerable and, although it refuses to go the extra mile into true dumb-fun territory, the set pieces are good."
Transformers: The Last Knight (2017) - Rated 02 Aug 2025
"Even Michael Bay doesn’t care any more. Don’t misunderstand me, Trans-five-ers is still stupid, grating, and obnoxious, it’s just less self-obsessed and instead of feeling like a cocaine-fueled descent in madness it feels like a bad PS3-era video game."
Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) - Rated 31 Jul 2025
"Godzilla: King of the Monsters is like taking three different movies, all on their own capable of being entertaining as schlocky goodness or schlocky badness, and manages to be a boring drag. I'm not sure who has less personality between the humans or titans and quite frankly, I don't give a damn. Come to think of it, Godzilla: King of the O'Hara's sounds like a much better movie. "As God as my witness I'll never lack for radiation again!""
Stop Making Sense (1984) - Rated 28 Jul 2025
"Stop Making Sense is an electric piece of concert filmmaking. It's at times candid, meta-contextual, autobiographical, energetic, and touching. Again, this is a concert film. But at the center of it all David Byrne is simply stellar. In every frame he exhibits a joyous exuberance that is infectious and, despite his rockstar antics, feels in no way ironic, pandering, or rehearsed. I doubt Stop Making Sense will ever find it's equal."
Raging Bull (1980) - Rated 22 Jul 2025
"Raging Bull is a stunning piece of cinema. It's one of the greatest top-to-bottom character studies ever put to film. De Niro is a standout of standouts and LaMotta feels alive in only the way a darkly complex real person can. The cinematography is perfectly used: dull in parts and sublime in others and editing is also superb. This is deservedly considered to be a modern classic and arguably Scorsese's best film."
Bride Wars (2009) - Rated 21 Jul 2025
"A truly horrendous experience. None of the characters are in the slightest bit likeable. None of the jokes ever threaten to land. The script manages to be nonsensical and full of cliches at the same time. The biggest question I have is how anyone's career survived this mess."
My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002) - Rated 20 Jul 2025
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) - Rated 13 Jul 2025
"Machiavellian wasteland politics! More side characters who are almost as interesting as the main cast! A prequel that neither sucks nor is trying to replicate Fury Road! Chris Hemsworth in his native (Australian) tongue! Is there anything George Miller can't do?"
Double Indemnity (1944) - Rated 28 Jun 2025
"Double Indemnity is the quintessential film noir."
