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  Superfast! 2015

  ★★ Watched 09 Feb 2025

  I think I can be too curious for my own good sometimes. I see a movie on a list come up in the options, and I catch a quick synopsis. That can be enough to make me hit play just to see something I might not ordinarily watch. This was another one of those times. Immediately, the one thing clear going in is that this is a self-aware parody that follows the overall brushstrokes of the Fast and the Furious…

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  The NeverEnding Story 1984

  ★★★★ Rewatched 25 Jan 2025

  It had been a very long time since I last tried to watch this movie, like more than a decade ago. This time around, it was on and I sat down and watched until the end. I was transported back to when I first saw this movie as a kid and it was a pleasant time. Man, that climax of the movie where the Empress comes into the mix is one of the more emotionally resonant situations ever. Tami Stronach…

Popular reviews

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  Alien 1979

  ★★★★★ Watched 26 May 2020 5

  I had never really seen this film outside of clips and references I’ve come across during my time alive. The only film in this series I remember seeing as a kid in theaters was Alien 3. I was too scared to really catch anything about the story other than people were getting jacked up and that Ripley ended up having to kill herself because of the alien embryo inside her or something. I knew I didn’t like that. My crush…

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  Return of the Jedi 1983

  ★★★★ Rewatched 20 Dec 2020 9

  I’m not going to lie here. The recent season two finale of The Mandalorian brought this on. I was thinking about it and wanted to see Luke Skywalker as a full on Jedi again so, I put this one on. 

  Look, I know there are issues with the Ewoks for a lot of people. Myself included. The extended sections with them slow the narrative down for me. There are even more issues with the remastered versions of this film, which…