Mike S

Mike S

This is where I keep track of what I watch including some thoughts and ideas on these films.

Favorite films

  • Mulholland Drive
  • Jaws
  • Our Little Sister
  • Mad Max: Fury Road

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  • Glass Onion

    ★★★

  • Avatar: The Way of Water

    ★★★★

  • Veronica

    ★★½

  • Satan's Slaves

    ★★½

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  • Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin

    Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin

    ★★½

    This movie was much better than I expected. Pretty decent direction and even some of the jokes landed. With a more original story and more scares this could've been one of the best of this series. But overall, not bad.

  • Black Friday

    Black Friday

    ½

    Somehow they managed to make a 80-minute movie feel like an eternity.

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  • Another Earth

    Another Earth

    ★½

    This was a weak attempt at mixing science fiction and drama. Both angles did not work for me and I felt both were underdeveloped. The drama of the car crash and Rhoda's relationship with the father who survived the crash was unoriginal and sappy. The science fiction aspect of a second earth right next to our own is an interesting idea, but the execution was lacking at best. Some shots of having the planet in the background worked well, but…

  • Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins

    Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins

    ★★★★

    Before watching this film I was totally unfamiliar with Rurouni Kenshin, or Samurai X, a manga/anime series from Japan. I had no idea what it was about. I went in this film blind and for the whole movie I somehow thought the main character was a girl who pretended to be a guy, like in the film Mulan. Little did I know that it was a guy all along. I was a bit disappointed because I do think that my…