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  Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes 2024

  ★★★★ Rewatched 20 Mar 2025

  Love all the nods to the original in this. Would be kind of cool if this reboot series ended with a sort of retelling of the original film, but more from the ape perspective.

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  Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows 2011

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 18 Mar 2025

  Such a great time. Fantastic action and wonderful performances. Jared Harris is an exquisite Professor Moriarty. A strong script with tons of great interplay between Holmes and Watson. It's obviously presenting an action/adventure take on this world and these characters, but it never feels like its forgetting the legacy of Holmes. Fresh, but deeply reverential of the source material.

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  Aliens vs Predator: Requiem 2007

  ★★★½ Rewatched 08 Aug 2022 3

  I like it. Call it a guilty pleasure, but I'm honestly not guilty about it. It's stupid and filled with cliches, but it's fun, man. The creature effects are awesome. "Wolf" is arguably the most badass Predator in the entire franchise. The "Predalien" is such a cool monster and it was great to see the full sized version after the tease at the end of the first AVP.

  Sometimes the cinematography is too dark, as many have noted, and the…

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  Prey 2022

  ★½ Watched 06 Aug 2022

  So disappointing.

  Well shot, but the protagonist is insufferable and impossible to root for. Due to her own ego and quest to be taken more seriously, she is responsible for so much of the death that happens in this movie.

  SPOILERS AHEAD.

  It is because of her running off alone and her tribe sending out warriors to find her that they are ever put in the Predator's line of fire in the first place. She constantly demonstrates that she is…

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