daredavis214

daredavis214

Favorite films

  • Spider-Man
  • Return of the Jedi
  • Alien
  • A Nightmare on Elm Street

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  • The Gorge

    ★★½

  • Gamera, the Giant Monster

    ★★★

  • 2 Fast 2 Furious

    ★★★½

  • Sweethearts

    ★★★½

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  • The Gorge

    The Gorge

    ★★½

    The premise was really intriguing, and the plunge into the gorge was setting up something really fun, but the movie felt by-the-numbers. The pacing of their meeting and romance just felt off.

    I was also bummed about it just being a government experiment, I was hoping it actually was the entrance to hell; that would've been a lot more interesting.

    As it is, it felt a lot like sorta-cute romcom mashed up with a generic 7th generation video game. Very…

  • Gamera, the Giant Monster

    Gamera, the Giant Monster

    ★★★

    Not bad! Very much inspired by Godzilla although it's interesting to see the sympathetic edge being there from the beginning. The ending is pretty wild too, I was not expecting that to be the solution. I wonder if the following ones acknowledge it.

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  • Look Back

    Look Back

    ★★★★★

    Man, I didn't want to watch any other movies ever again when this was going. I laughed, I cried, I was charmed all throughout. It made me want to draw, which I'm not good at.

    I hope Goodbye Eri gets made, it'd make a great companion piece to this.

  • Shin Kamen Rider

    Shin Kamen Rider

    ★★★½

    Well, something actually got me writing on this thing.

    So. Where could I even start.

    I've never given much thought to the term "thought experiment" before, but this definitely was one. I imagine this film being like your old buddy catching up with you after many years, (post-pandemic, perhaps?), and they've been doing a lot of thinking about where they've come from in life and how they've acted, and they've been reading a lot of philosophy and studying the news,…