gumbyman

gumbyman

Favorite films

  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
  • Pulp Fiction
  • Aladdin
  • Tarzan

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  • The Princess Bride

    ★★★★½

  • Ultraman: Rising

    ★★★★

  • My Neighbor Totoro

    ★★★★½

  • The Wild Robot

    ★★★★

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  • The Princess Bride

    The Princess Bride

    ★★★★½

    I never really watched this movie as a kid so I really enjoyed seeing it for the first time in theaters. The princess Bride is a beautiful homage to classic storytelling, demonstrated through a classically structured fairy tale story. The story is pretty barebones with a pretty clear cut structure but what carries this movie is definitely the characters and humor. Just about every character is funny or charming in their own way. Paired up with a bunch of excellent…

  • Ultraman: Rising

    Ultraman: Rising

    ★★★★

    3D Animation at the highest level seems to have become way more accessible to studios, because holy shit does this random ass Ultraman movie look incredible. Character Designs were a breath of fresh air, especially this movie’s main character Ken Sato. I loved the lanky limbs of most of these characters and this version of Ultraman has, it made a lot of the frames during action sequences look way more impactful. It's also worth noting that although we only get…

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  • Yes Man

    Yes Man

    ★★

    I loved this movie when I was younger, but now I realize how naive and unfunny this was, also the Manic Pixie Dream Girl stereotype is as generic as it gets here. It does have a positive message that can help a lot of people putting life into prospective, but other than that this movie wasn’t all that good.

  • Dune

    Dune

    ★★★½

    I read the book before this movie and in my opinion this film is faithful but burdens itself with far too much content to convey in such little time. You don’t truly get to invest yourself in characters properly enough for situations to really impact you in any real significant way. Another issue is the inability to give proper exposition for things within the film, I highly doubt people will completely understand the roles of certain characters and the world…