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Knock at the Cabin

Not M. Night's best work. I'm not a particular fan anyway, but here's my micro-review. The love story was touching, but didn't wrestle a tear out of me. You can tell from the flashbacks that the writers spent a lot of time thinking about the main characters, but there's not enough screen time dedicated to developing them.

Most of the screen time is spent highlighting two or three perdictable jump scares, and many minutes of bad attempts to build suspense. The religious dogma is boring. If you're going to include that as the premise of your thriller, then at least get creative.

Bautista is the best part and that's saying something.

EDIT: The twist, if you can call it that, is more of a mild tale of morality about how things aren't always what they seem. Blair Witch 2 had a better "twist" and it was one of the worst movies I've ever had to suffer through.

I watched 20 minutes of Moonfall. 20 minutes because it was full of cliches and cringe. Then I watched a YouTube video of Action Adventure Twins who explore deep, unsettling and claustrophobic caves. It was wayy better.

I just spent ten minutes attempting to remember. I did not remember but, whatever it was, it was "meh".

Just watched Greta Gerwig's Little Women, it was quite enjoyable.

Transformers 1

The Bad Guys (animated kids film) with my kids for any the 6th time I think. Still pretty good.

Charlie Day's new movie Fools Paradise!

If you like always sunny you'll have a good time spotting cameos from like, everyone.

I really enjoyed the film, but my family wasn't digging it and I could definitely see why.

The Banshees Of Inisherin.

It was like finding razorblades if you are in a really razorblade-y kinda mood.

Glorious - a film about a man's interaction with an other dimensional being he finds in a rest stop bathroom. Very weird, but refreshingly interesting. I didn't know what was going to happen next throughout the whole movie, which was is a change compared to most movies these days. I'd give it an 8/10 overall.

Ice Age 6(?) with my daughter watching on repeat. I couldn't help but immediately notice that the voice actors were discount versions of the original actors (no shade to them considering what they had to work with). 1/10 would highly recommend this masterpiece.

I watched Despicable Me with the kids recently - for the very first time - and was pleasantly surprised. It was actually good fun!

Avatar: The Way of Water

I liked it. Not much happens story wise but I love exploring the lore and stuff of Pandora.

I watched Sick (2022), the story was about normal/average for a slash-horror, but the action scenes themselves were surprisingly well shot. It was written by the same writer of the original Scream movies.

Just watched Monsters, Inc. It's great, the ending is really sweet too. I miss old Pixar ;(

Free Solo

Impressive what some people can handle.

Blackberry. It is awesome

Repo! The Genetic Opera. It's a rock opera horror set in a dystopian future where organ repossession is a thing. I enjoyed it and might even add it to my background noise rotation.

12 angry men. The 1957 version. It was an amazing watch and I can definitely see why it's one of the highest rated movies of all times.

Not sure whether I should watch the remake though. Not sure about some things that it decided to go with.

Spiderman: ATSV. It was so good.

watched Renfield yesterday. was pleasantly surprised. nothing too deep and meaningful but quite entertaining.

Heat....rewatched it for the nth time. One of the all time great crime movies.

I watched Django Unchained by Quentin Tarantino yesterday for the first time, after being in my list for so long.

Such a masterpiece. Lengthy, but it gives it enough room to have a nice pacing. Great photography and dialogue, of course. One of Tarantino's best, imo.

Watched the new ant man and i honestly thought it was a lot better than the reviews gave it credit for. The cg was pretty bad though.

Last I saw was Tàr in the cinemas when it came out. I liked it, not a lot, but I liked it and defended it against my partner who didn't think much of it.

But I haven't had a film fade away in my mind as much as this, where I went from liking it, to kind of forgetting it and eventually criticising it, just passively as my mind mulled over the film.

When it came time for the Oscars I accurately predicted it wasn't going to win anything because I suspected I wasn't alone in this feeling ... that others would eventually feel like maybe it was just technically good and not actually about much.

Ator 2 - the invincible. It's complete garbage but that was to be expected as it was an episode of Schlefaz so it was a shit movie but a fun watch!

Werewolf of London (1935) - a solid werewolf movie for the period, but with no surprises in the plot - and without a lot of the 'standard' lore that developed around the time.

Chiefly notable, I thought though, in showing a surprisingly independent woman in a failing marriage (failing due to her husband being a werewolf...) and in portraying a drunken upper-middle class woman (and contrasting that with fairly stereotypical drunken working class women). Warner Oland features in one of his many bizarre yellow-face roles too.

Just prior to that I went to a 50th anniversary screening of The Wicker Man (1973), which was as great as ever.

Into the Spiderverse at cinema! It really really blew me away, the visuals, the music, the plot. Honestly an experience. One of the few movies I'd really recommend to watch on cinema (alongside the LOTR movies)

27th May - Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian.

It was alright, good film you can put on and zone out to. I wasn't actively watching it out was in the background while I was visiting family.

I know when and what it was cause I keep a list of every film I watch, the day I watched it, and if it's the first time I've seen it. The last new film I've seen was Rio 2, same date and same occasion.

Have been doing this for many years and thought I'd lost a couple years of data when Google decided to update the notes app and all my archived lists vanished, but I retrieved a backup (luckily)

The new Flash movie. I really like it, seemed pretty well-thought-out, had some pretty funny bits, and lots of nostalgia. The CGI was a big meh, some parts good, some parts just too cheesy.

Dragon Ball Super: Super Heroes. I loved it!

Just finished Blue Velvet. Very David Lynch. I think I may have changed a few things; Jeffrey should have picked up the knife Dorothy dropped, for instance. You could see some of the influence on later works like Lost Highway and Twin Peaks. I went in with no idea what I was going to see, and as might be expected it was twisted.