brianau

brianau

What kind of nerd catalogs the movies they’ve watched??

Favorite films

  • Little Big League
  • Galaxy Quest
  • Miss Congeniality
  • tick, tick... BOOM!

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  • Pacific Rim

  • Irish Wish

  • Tall Girl

  • Flamin' Hot

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  • Pacific Rim

    Pacific Rim

    Why did they name this movie Pacific Rim, such a generic title that indicates almost nothing about the tone of the movie. Why didn’t they call it “Robots Punching Monsters,” were they trying to trick me into thinking there was something more sophisticated going on here, why would you play me like that Guillermo? 

    I also felt a little bait-and-switched with the world-building establishing about drift compatibility and Jagers being seen as celebrities and Kaiju being commercialized - that all…

  • Irish Wish

    Irish Wish

    It’s nice that Lindsay Lohan is back. Kind of feels like she’s picking up where she left off by going from Disney channel movies to Netflix romcoms, which in a bizarre way is both nostalgically comforting and subtly morose to me as a millennial. Like some things never change — the recognizably familiar has returned and will always be here — but also perhaps some things never change — have I, like Lindsay, gotten older but remained stagnant in my personal growth. A sobering reminder of the passage of time, the brevity of life, our imminent mortality. 

    The movie itself is unremarkable.

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  • The Encounter

    The Encounter

    Full disclosure I was definitely on my phone for large chunks of this movie, but I feel like I earned the right to log this one. 

    I hesitate to say anything too mean about this movie, partly because of the sweet older couple who recommended this movie to us and partly because I’ll probably see most of these people in Heaven and that will just be so awkward. 

    I will say only this - no one who was involved in…

  • The Master of Disguise

    The Master of Disguise

    Terrible movie but for whatever reason, infinitely quotable in my family