OctoJosh

OctoJosh

Favorite films

  • Jurassic Park
  • The Thing
  • Who Framed Roger Rabbit
  • Godzilla Minus One

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  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

    ★★★★★

  • Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

    ★★

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

    ★★★★★

  • How to Train Your Dragon

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  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

    The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

    ★★★★★

    I fear that, after having watched this trilogy, I can’t bring myself to quantity my feelings into a simple bulleted list anymore. Where there is so much passion woven in golden threads between the men of Middle-Earth and those they hold dear, pulling the tapestry apart into segmented notes would be worse than a disservice to this film.

    What a beautiful movie — a beautiful trilogy. I hope to feel a deeper appreciation upon watching the extended edition where I hear the narrative truly shines brightest. These Hobbits really do reminded me why I look forward to every tomorrow.

  • Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

    Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

    ★★

    -I can’t do this anymore.
    -Listen, I know it isn’t fair to critique a movie based purely on comparisons to other films, but watching an actual movie before this one does not do Fallen Kingdom any favors. The more I watch modern Jurassic movies, the less they actually feel like movies and the more they feel like Chris Pratt really wanted a paycheck and a movie was written around that fact
    -In particular, the problems I had with Jurassic World’s characters…

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  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

    The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

    ★★★★½

    -My god. I had no idea. I have been so blind to the beauty, heart, and fantasy of these films. This was a wonderful movie in almost every regard: character, setting, heart, special effects, and so on and so forth
    -I truly do miss when movies used to look like this. Real settings with real people cast in beautiful lights and colors. By a technical and technological degree, The Hobbit films are more advanced, but I would hardly call them…

  • Donnie Darko

    Donnie Darko

    i don’t get it