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  The Wild Robot 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 07 Dec 2024 1

  "I do not have the programming to be a mother."

  "No one does. We just make it up."

  Now, call me a hopeless optimist, but I have been taking notice of a particularly encouraging trend in the mainstream animated space. Ever since the advent of Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse in 2018, there has been a notable uptick in terms of quality. Save the odd stand-out stinkers of the last half-decade, like Raya and the Last Dragon, Lightyear, Wish and Moana…

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  Venom: The Last Dance 2024

  ★½ Watched 09 Nov 2024 1

  "Are we the Lethal Protector, or not?"

  It's been a helluva long time since I've done this. So let's start with... well, something easy.

  Venom: The Last Dance, the final movie in the somehow-existing Venom trilogy. Don't get me wrong, I love the first installment, and there are bits of the second that I find myself enjoying. But this film truly evaporates any of the goodwill the franchise had nurtured within me during the first minute of it's runtime.

  I…

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  Ghostbusters 1984

  ★ Watched 31 Oct 2021

  I went into this film expecting the cultural phenomenon, cult classic that I'd been told it was for my entire life.

  And here I sit, pondering "how the hell does anyone get enjoyment out of this film?"

  I found none of the characters likeable, let alone compelling, and the story simultaneously felt slow and rushed. I'm just bewildered at how it grew into such a cultural success. The only points I'll give this film are for the Ghostbusters Theme, which goes hard as hell, and for the sounds that the Ecto-1 makes.

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  The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special 2022

  ★★★ Watched 30 Nov 2022 2

  If Drax's Funny Little Man doesn't appear in GotG Vol. III, I'm going to kidnap Kevin Bacon again.

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