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Favorite films

  • Singin' in the Rain
  • Confess, Fletch
  • The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
  • Guardians of the Galaxy

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  • Uncharted

    ★★★

  • Captain America: Brave New World

    ★½

  • Gladiator II

    ★★

  • Raging Fire

    ★★★½

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  • Uncharted

    Uncharted

    ★★★

    okay this is my real ‘objective’ score for it

  • Raging Fire

    Raging Fire

    ★★★½

    there should be a category at the oscars for best film to watch in 20 minute treadmill intervals

    a pretty boilerplate donnie yen feature script - replete with allegedly philosophical policeman-waxed musings on the nature of justice, with no conclusion drawn beyond the fact that justice is an ideal. elevated considerably by action that is - even by yen’s standards - shockingly brutalizing. it appears as if he rains real blows upon extras and main cast alike and receives many…

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  • Avengers: Endgame

    Avengers: Endgame

    ★★★★★

    Non spoiler part
    - Downey and Evans were great, the former deserves an oscar for Best Supporting Actor
    - Thor was...interesting but Hemsworth did a good job.
    - Ruffalo's best performance since A1, however, still relatively phoned in
    - Renner and Johansson are A C T I N G. Phenomenal stuff. With that said, both felt underserved
    - Paul Rudd changed things up for Ant-man, brought more emotion
    - Karen Gillan absolutely killed it. One of my personal favorites.
    -…

  • Tenet

    Tenet

    ★★★½

    Brief preface: this contains no plot spoilers besides one small thing at the very end which has been marked with a warning, and it is a character name. Additionally, I will not be discussing the distribution strategy here.

    I'd like to say Christopher Nolan has recaptured the ferocious combination of brain and brawn that made Inception so popular. While Tenet may be an action film with a pulse and grey matter, Nolan’s only priority seems to be convincing the viewer…