Almost threw up during an unrelated story because I was still thinking about the sweat drinking challenge
Spike Jonze fucks so hard
Idk what I'm going to do without Better Call Saul, I think that show might kill me
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Predator 1987
I've said it before, but what a perfect "have your cake and eat it too" movie. Let's hang out with a bunch of muscled-up cigar-chomping action guy soldiers in the jungle, while also deeply criticizing the way the CIA and American military have made a goddamn napalm playground out of every country full of brown people. The movie has such a deep love for humanity and such a deep hatred for the institutions we've built to thrash the shit out…
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Lightyear 2022
Wow, I didn't expect this to be for me, but I was really unprepared for how creatively bankrupt this whole thing was. Like, if you were assigned a movie based on Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story, and the most creative visual you could come up with was "a robot that looks like a cat" and didn't use any cool aliens or wacky robots or anything even remotely resembling a fun Pixar movie, making the whole thing a brown gray generic…
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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie 2019
Don't talk to me about The Gray Man, talk to me about the Pinkman
Pretty good, but it'd be better if it was a prequel about Jimmy McGill rising through the ranks of the Albuquerque legal world while the Mexican drug cartel wages a secret battle for the soul of the Southwest
The opening scene in this movie is a flashback of Mike, standing where he'll one day die, talking to Jesse about how the future is wide open, but…
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The Gray Man 2022
The Russos hate auteur theory so much, they've decided to go out of their way to prove the good parts of their older movies were entirely due the work of other people
For real though, the directing here is actually incompetent. I've heard of directors getting locked out of the editing room, but this feels like they locked the editor out of the editing room. Like they filmed coverage for every possible shot, and then insisted on using every single one of them
Dullllll, so dulllllll!!!! Dull dull DULLLL
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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan 1982
"Music by James Horner" appears at the beginning and I clap and whoop so hard that my neighbors call the police
I think basically any of the better Trek movies are shaded a color of "underrated" except for this one, which nobody on earth will disagree if you call it the best of them. But Shatner has this reputation as a shitty or lesser actor, I think partially due to his history of treating other people like crap on and…
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Before Midnight 2013
Currently really interested in the idea of a millennial/gen Z version of the Before trilogy where they have to deal with how to build a future together in a world that might not have one. I feel like we're in this pop cultural state of denial where movies are largely uninterested in grappling with the dark stuff we're looking down the barrel of. A modern Jesse and Celine would have a long hard conversation about whether it's moral to bring…
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The Powerpuff Girls Movie 2002
Not so much a "movie" because it really only has a first and third act, but it has some absolutely immaculate art design, some very sweet emotion at its core, and one of the most underrated vocal performances in modern cartoon history in Tom Kane's Professor Utonium. So genuine and wholesome, he retired from acting last year after a devastating stroke, and I'm really going to miss hearing his voice in projects. Chances are you've heard him a million times in cartoons, video games, and movies, and just never noticed
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Ms. Marvel 2022
The start of this show comes tantalizing close to being the ideal of what a Disney+ Marvel show should be. Imagine if these TV shows were actually treated like episodic TV SHOWS, like idk, pick literally any Spider-Man cartoon. "This is the episode where Kamala stops a bank robbery." "This is the one where a kid from her school becomes a supervillain." "This is the one where she goes to prom." We'd build a relationship to the characters and when…
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