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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 2008

★★½ Rewatched 17 Mar 2021

I wish I could get more into this movie but the CGI has aged very poorly and a good number of scenes look absolutely horrible as a result.
Death to 2020 2020

★★ Watched 27 Dec 2020

My favorite bit was when it just nonchalantly turns into a Netflix content showcase for a few minutes.
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York 1992

★★½ Rewatched 25 Dec 2020

That one trap with the toilet filled with kerosene could be transplanted to any torture porn movie without any changes whatsoever. Pure evil.
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later 1998

★★½ Watched 13 Nov 2020

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

It took twenty years, but finally someone had the sense to cut his head off.
Also, I am more and more of the 100% genuine opinion LL Cool J elevates every part he his given.
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers 1995

★★ Watched 07 Nov 2020

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

Somethings about druids and that one dude from the Hot Shots movie? Young Paul Rudd, pre-acting classes. Pour one out for Donald Pleasence, whose character is inexplicably killed off-screen as the credits begins to roll. Classy.
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers 1989

★ Watched 06 Nov 2020

The franchise hits rock bottom (for now... still got a few to go) but Donald Pleasence remains immensily and maybe even increasingly entertaining as Dr. Loomis, an entity to match Micheal Myers blow for blow in monomania and tendency to leave a trail of corpses in their tow.
Cursed 2005

★★ Watched 30 Oct 2020

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

Wes Craven is capable of the good, the bar and the forgettable. This edges towards the later, but it’s not without it’s charms: an inspired cast, an intriguing premise (that ultimately feels wasted...) and a werewolf giving the finger. Won’t watch the movie again, might watch that scene again.
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers 1988

★★★ Watched 31 Oct 2020

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

I love how this movie starts by bringing two major characters back to life in the handwavy-est fashion, kills off the previous protagonist offscreen and proceeds to actually be a decent slasher movie.
Michael Myers (lame mask notwithstanding, though it is so bad) is threatening here in a way that he wasn’t in the original’s direct sequel, more Jaws than Jason. The niece hook is ridiculous, as is the ending, but Michael stabbed, impaled and crushed his way across town…
Halloween III: Season of the Witch 1982

★★★½ Watched 30 Oct 2020

Bot sure if the attempt to turn Halloween into an anthology franchise at this point in the game is commendable or just batshit crazy, but this movie was a nice surprise! A decent Carpenter riff, calling to mind They Live (which only came out 6 years after this, so maybe that’s the other way around?), its anti-capitalist overtones, overall sense of paranoia and, yes, inherent silliness.
Halloween II 1981

★★ Watched 25 Oct 2020

Not since Jaws 2 have I seen a sequel that is as unnecessary as it is disappointing.
Prom Night 1980

★½ Added

If you can’t handle me at my Leslie Nielsen in Prom Night, you don’t deserve me at my Leslie Nielsen in Airplane!
Deep Blue Sea 1999

★★★½ Rewatched 05 Apr 2020

I originally rated this movie 1/5 and would like to officially apologize for the behavior of my past self.

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