continuing my popcorn favorites reviews first i promise i'll get to some less Well Duh stuff soon

the bourne supremacy whips ass. i used to think the bourne movies just got strictly better (the trilogy anyway, don't care about the spin offs or the newer one) over time but on this recent rewatch i do think supremacy clocks in just barely below identity. it's weaker in a couple of areas and stronger in a couple areas. what i think is…

this movie sucks ass. it wants so hard to be a Smart Adaptation and aims squarely at the naysayers who turn their nose up at anything that isn't the original japanese property and falls on its ass all the harder for it. instead of being major kusanagi the main character is named major killian. kill is right there in the name, you see. it's symbolic.

this movie copies the intro of the original film shot for shot. this is already…

classic movie. required viewing. arguably oshii's masterpiece etc etc etc

it's funny how basically everyone agrees on these things considering that on paper this movie is basically a manga nerd's worst nightmare. ghost in the shell (1995) is an adaptation of the shirow masamune manga series of the same name, and it commits basically every "sin" (huge air quotes from me here) that an adaptation possibly could: it rushes through (and past) a jumble of story threads from the original…

my uncontroversial take is that this film is a masterpiece and my maybe controversial take is that it's perhaps the only truly great hosoda film so far.

this is maybe my favorite coming-of-age film. the main character, makoto, sucks so much in such a specific and relatable way; she's selfish, rude, and irritable in the way basically all of us were as teens. then she gets pancaked by a train.

she wakes up and realizes she has the remote powers…