Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Air Bud: Spikes Back 2003

  ★★★ Watched 26 Mar 2025

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Back in Action 2025

  ★★½ Watched 23 Mar 2025

  -I only caught the last half of this one, but it had some cool action sequences. I like when the kids start throwing people off the boat.
  -I can only hear Princess Fiona when Cameron Diaz talks.
  -Nigel was pretty funny panicing about how to close the gate or whatever it was. "Hey Siri... how do I -"

  Maybe it's not fair to judge a movie by only seeing the last 30-40 minutes, but I liked it fine for an action movie.

Popular reviews

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  Wicked 2024

  ★★★★ Rewatched 20 Mar 2025

  So fun! I wish there were more expansions of existing worlds in ways like this, where the tone is very different from the original work. To be clear, I'm not talking about wanting more cookie-cutter sequels. Like imagine a mockumentary sitcom in the style of The Office or Parks and Rec set in Middle-Earth, with elves, dwarves, hobbits, etc. Or a nature-documentary in the world of Pokémon, where they observe wild Pokémon and have a David Attenborough style narration explaining the nuances of the food web, but it has to be taken seriously.

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  Gladiator 2000

  ★★★½ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  -It's a good looking movie generally, except for the opening battle sequence. I don't like when they try to simulate the chaos of battle by just moving the camera around like crazy. It feels like a cheap trick.
  -Marcus Aurelius is pretty foolish to think that Commodus will just accept the plan for Maximus to be emperor. Like if he knew that Commodus was too unstable to be worthy of the throne, maybe he should have suspected that he would…