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The Empty Man 2020
The first rule of Spook Club is, you talk in a weird whisper monotone. The other rules of Spook Club are just weird. Seriously, don’t talk about em.
I’m impressed that we get a fresh take on a haunted specter thing that doesn’t rely on the usual occult tropes and invents some kind of new cult lore. If it ever started to feel stale or confusing, you get a weird fucking curveball to keep you on your toes.
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Thir13en Ghosts 2001
In the first 5 minutes, someone says the name of the movie twice and also “who are you to play god?”.
How can you not?
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The Suicide Squad 2021
Gloriously stupid.
DC finally made an entertaining movie and pulled their head out their asses. -
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I Care a Lot 2020
This makes me about as uneasy as Nightcrawler, except for the bumpy plot around criminality depicting the mafia. It just seemed like the writer googled “how do u do crimes?” and then winged it, adding a neckerchief on a crime boss. I mean, I dunno I didn’t go to crime college or nuthin but that seemed more off-putting than elder abuse.
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Tenet 2020
Aww hell, I really don’t know. AT ALL.
It feels like Nolan audited some quantum physics classes to make this movie, but then lost his notes and shot from the hip.
Theoretical physics echo in Tenet like his last movie Interstellar. It’s just done in a way where I’m constantly giving it a side-eye and thinking “now wait just a goddamn minute here...”
There’s definitely a lot to unpack in this tangled plot and I’m too dumb to do it.There were some wild vfx shots though.
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Flight of the Navigator 1986
The costumes and set design were great but then you get an alien Paul Reubens and I was instantly won over. The movie just keeps giving and giving.
To top it off, you get to yell “NASA would never do it that way, this is totally inaccurate!!” at the tv. -
Trolls World Tour 2020
Weirdly a visual feast.
It’s a total fever dream of fuzzy trolls, lisa frank vibes stuffed into a Holy Mountain hallucination.
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Avengers: Infinity War 2018
The Russos did a pretty good job of wrangling all these storylines together. I mostly watched to catch up to last years memes, and was not disappointed.
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The Accountant 2016
Was an interesting premise for sure. A savant-like autistic accountant cooking books for all manner of high profile deplorables, with a sinister violent back story. That was the trailer at least.
The movie itself was awkwardly paced and felt disjointed with way too many subplots and unnecessary character development. It felt like 3 directors were making their own movies only to cut it back together at some point later. I still have no idea what happened, but there were some freakin sweet action scenes pew pew pew