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  Resident Evil: Death Island 2023

  ★★ Watched 26 Jul 2023

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

  It's so tragic these movies started during the RE5/RE6 era. Now they're just carrying on as a shambling corpse of the period of Resident Evil nobody liked that's been over for six years. We've got it all! Stupid, excessive action and explosions, a nonsensical plot, and an excessive focus on the incredibly dull and convoluted lore. It's kind of shocking that after three separate reboots over 11 films there has still yet to be a good Resident Evil movie, but…

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  Evil Dead Rise 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 24 Apr 2023

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

  There's a number of ways in which I find the modern direction of "Evil Dead" movies disappointing, but it's kind of hard to focus too much on that when the movies are so much fun overall.

  After a fun pointless open, "Rise" spends an inordinate amount of time trying to make me care deeply about this family. Sorry, it didn't work in 2013 and it's still not working here. I don't envy these films trying to fill a Bruce Campbell-shaped…

Popular reviews

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  Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace 1999

  ½ Added

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

  I've been watching each "Star Wars" movie for what is basically the first time, and I'm absolutely over the moon that I finished the original trilogy and now get to watch the prequels which, if this is anything to go by, are absolutely stellar.

  Explaining why this movie is so bad it would be news to precisely 0 people. The acting is absolutely terrible across the board (which, with talented actors like this, indicates more of a problem with the…

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  Nukie 1987

  ★★★★★ Watched 02 Jan 2023

  Starting off the New Year with a bang. Every one of the ~30,000 times they cut to sickly Miko on the Roswell table saying "Nuuuukieeeee Nuuukieeee help me Nuuuukieeee" I laughed uncontrollably.