Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Hang 'em High 1968

  ★★★ Watched 13 Sep 2023

  it took me the whole movie to realize where I’d heard the main theme… the Booker T cover that Mike Canton always used to open The Soul Show on WYEP before they stupidly got rid of that program.

  Oh yeah; the film was adequate

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  Hot Fuzz 2007

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 20 Aug 2023

  Dalton is perfect in this, no notes

Popular reviews

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  The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 13 Apr 2023

  (20th anniversary Fathom event)

  I don’t fault them for shrinking the world so significantly- the film is already 4+ hours long! I do continue to be disappointed about character changes, particularly Denethor and Aragorn.

  But that said, this is still quite the triumph of filmmaking. You can see the edges of a lot of effects at this point, but it still feels incredibly competent overall. The miniatures and makeup look just as good at 20 years as they did originally.…

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  Blade Runner 2049 2017

  Added

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

  It's too damn long. That’s my chief complaint. For the story they were telling, it could have been condensed pretty far.

  Joi was interesting for a little bit, but then there was too much time spent on dumb things with her (like that technically impressive merge with the hooker) and not enough to make us care about her as a character.

  Gosling was fine™ but nothing all that special. Was he meant to find some of these things, or was…