adamtwosleeves

adamtwosleeves

M.F.A. in screenwriting and film studies. Hoping to write for tv one day.

Favorite films

  • Jurassic Park
  • Star Wars
  • Midnight in Paris

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  • Deadpool & Wolverine

    ★★★★½

  • Dumb Money

    ★★★½

  • Ender's Game

    ★½

  • Smokey and the Bandit

    ★★★

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  • The Batman

    The Batman

    ★★★★½

    A lot of comparisons to Nolan's trilogy. The Dark Knight was probably a better movie overall in terms of nailing each facet of moviemaking with but The Batman certainly has its own unique take. 

    My movie-watching group just did a marathon of the 4 90's Batman movies as well as Nolan's trilogy. Carrey's Riddler was particularly annoying so I really loved this take on him. 

    I appreciated the simplifying of Batman down to his essentials without unrealistic gadgetry. I feel…

  • Holmes & Watson

    Holmes & Watson

    ½

    I sneaked into this after seeing Mary, Queen of Scots. I wanted to see if it was as bad as they said. 

    It was. 

    Ferrell and Reilly usually have great chemistry, but I just don’t think the script was there. Jokes were obvious and over-told. Dwelling on them for far too long. A lot of the jokes were about current events which furthermore limits what little humor it had to a (hopefully) smaller timeframe. 

    That gave it this feeling of a Scary/Epic/Not-Another-Teen Movie vibe which is certainly not up my alley. 

    I saw it for free, and I still want my money back.

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