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Popeye

★★★★★
Predator 2

★★★
The Last Boy Scout

★★★
The Monster Squad

★★★★

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Popeye 1980

★★★★★ Watched 23 Sep, 2018

175/200

Basically the most charming movie of the 70s and 80s. Heaven's Gate but cheery and cartoonish.

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Predator 2 1990

★★★ Watched 12 Sep, 2018

124/200

Some fun stuff in here, but also...like a little early to completely deflate the monster. Why make the movie at all if you're like...over the idea of the movie? That's why Spike's worst film is Clockers.

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Hereditary 2018

★★★ Watched 22 Jun, 2018 2

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

103/200

Maybe it's me but there's something kind of cheap and tawdry about giving your character a sort of accentuated handicap and playing it for scares? The treatment of Charlie broke the spell the movie attempts to cast in the first ten minutes. She produces a chocolate bar from her pocket that neither parent knows the origins of, hinting that she's one of those magic children movies love that just does things to which the parents of a heavily troubled…
Mad Max: Fury Road 2015

★★★★★ Watched 15 May, 2015

184/200

Entirely satisfying. The score provides just the right amount of pathos so that the emotional underpinning isn't lost during the absolutely insane early going. Miller's direction has lost none of its hyper giddiness at throwing the next mind-boggling image at you. When the trailer first debuted last year, I compared it to Hard to be a God, and it turns out I wasn't super far off the map. The film is all moving parts and every aspect has to…