Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Blade 1998

  ★★★★ Watched 08 Feb 2025

  David Goyer is a bad writer but this movie had juice. The opening sequence rocked. some great and not so great effects. My theater clapped when he said the iceskating line. 👍👍

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  The Thing 1982

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 20 Jan 2025

  probably the greatest special effects of all time

Popular reviews

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  Trap 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 01 Aug 2024

  This movie was shot gorgeously, and if there’s ever a target audience for “reverse silence of the lambs at a concert” it’s me. I liked how the characters looking directly into the camera evoked some of the same direction as lambs too. However the pacing just didn’t quite do it for me. It feels like the movie wasn’t scary enough to be horror and was a bit too slow to be a thriller. It’s a tough middle ground to hit,…

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  Prometheus 2012

  ★★★★ Watched 15 Aug 2024

  this movie was good, but it could and should have been so much better. Some of the direction just kills it. Why does it take less than 30 secs for the engineer to reappear into the life pod and then get killed by the giant squid? Why does the map maker get lost and then the biologist immediately approaches and touches a literal alien? Why does David infecting Holloway feel so clunky? Why does the map maker become a zombie for…