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  Stop Making Sense 1984

  ★★★★★ Watched 23 Mar 2025

  yeah this is obviously the best version of what it’s attempting to be.

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  Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 23 Mar 2025

  i think any other time i've watched this it's an easy 5, but I'm realizing that i've never watched it in close succession to the first movie and somehow doing that makes this feel like it's pandering to early 90's pop culture in a more tedious way than i've previously felt. obvious thing to say, just never felt annoyed by it before. i knew the bad to the bone needle drop was coming and was actually kind of dreading it,…

Popular reviews

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  The Substitute 1996

  ★ Watched 27 Jan 2023

  A white high school teacher makes a latino gang member write 'i'm sorry' 100 times on a blackboard, so the gang co-ordinates with the school's black principal (who is secretly a drug kingpin) to send a 5 person hit squad to kill him, and to this day conservatives really think that's what the world is like.

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  Brightburn 2019

  ★½ Watched 13 Mar 2025

  didn't finish but logging because i invested an hour before giving up.

  not really up on superman stuff but i assume one of the interesting things to get into with him is why or why not he thinks earth humans are worth saving. could imagine a good version of this in which the superman kid decides humans aren't worth it (whoops that's just watchmen)- in this movie the kid is just evil because of demons or something.