vv238
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Member Since: 11 Sep 2018
Location: USA
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The Bear (2022) - Rated 19 Aug 2025
"For my money, the best show currently streaming. The Bear is a master craft of portraying the pain of living in trauma, the pain of healing from trauma, the pain of moving beyond trauma, the pain of every backslide into the familiar, and the winding rocky road of recovery. The characters are beautifully crafted, Chicago in all it's complexities is wonderfully (and horrifically) showcased, and the accents. Well, not to put too fine a point on the accents but *chef's kiss*."
Alien: Earth (2025) - Rated 17 Aug 2025
"Alien: Earth is pretty well made for it is (occasional bad effects notwithstanding) and the production and cinematography are very reminiscent of the better Alien films. However, in order to actually enjoy it you really have to turn off the part of your brain that expects characters to not act like complete morons and not laugh when it devolves into self-parody which happens early and often."
Alien: Romulus (2024) - Rated 17 Aug 2025
"Alright, can't be worse than Covenant right? Okay, slow atmospheric buildup with awesome effects and solid cinematography. Our heroes fighting corporatism instead of nature. Hey this isn't bad at all. Wait is that bad CGI Ian Holm? Okay that was weird, back to the creepy abandoned space station. BAH PROMETHEUS REFERENCE-JUMPSCARE! Oh no... space marines gun, goopy wall, human-xenomorph hybrid... no, no, no. You tricked me Fede Alvarez! This isn't a good movie. It's a legacy sequel!"
Chinatown (1974) - Rated 16 Aug 2025
"Chinatown is one of the finest film noirs ever made. The script stands among the greatest ever conceived and the smoky booze-soaked atmosphere of sex and political intrigue has never been more sexy or intriguing."
Barbarian (2022) - Rated 10 Aug 2025
"Barbarian is a very good movie. It's worth seeing, not just for horror fans but film buffs in general. Upon reflection, I found myself thinking more than anything about AI. Not because I'm unfavorably comparing Barbarian to ChatGPT, in fact quite the opposite. I don't think deep learning could ever come up with Barbarian. The twists and turns are shocking and unexpected but still relevant and important to the film's greater themes and ideas."
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."
