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  Spider-Man 2 2004

  Rewatched 11 Mar 2025

  No superhero movie will ever top the 10 minute stretch from Spider-Man 2 starting with Spider-Man stealing his suit back from J Jonah Jameson and ending with him saving a runaway subway.

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  Predators 2010

  Rewatched 02 Mar 2025

  Continuing my retrospective on the Predator series, with Nimród Antal and Robert Rodriguez's Predators.

  I've always had a soft spot for this one - I would've been 13 when it came out, and it was the first movie in the Alien/Predator series that I can remember anticipating in real time! And in many ways, it kind of is the perfect movie for a 13-year-old boy in 2010 - guns, katanas, off-color jokes, bigger + badder Super Predators, and an electric…

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  Alien: Romulus 2024

  Watched 16 Aug 2024

  Alien: Romulus follows in the footsteps of many longstanding horror/sci-fi franchises - think Halloween (2018), or Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Forget about the dogshittiest of dogshit entries (Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem), or those peskily divisive prequels by the original director (Prometheus, Alien: Covenant) - this IP’s under new management and we’re returning to form with a… greatest hits compilation, baby!

  Now, to be fair, I actually enjoy Halloween (2018) and Rogue One. And I’d be lying if I didn’t admit I…

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  Predator 2 1990

  Rewatched 24 Nov 2024 1

  “It’s alright - I’m a cop!”
  “I don’t think he gives a shit.”

  The year is 1990, and you’re making a sequel to Predator. How do you follow up John McTiernan’s action-slasher mashup about a special forces unit being picked off one by one in the Guatamalan jungle? Maybe you move the sequel to the concrete jungle - if Jason’s taking Manhattan, the Predator could have LA. Hell, set it in the futuristic year of 1997, and use that as…