William Crubaugh

William Crubaugh

Favorite films

  • Hot Fuzz
  • Arrival
  • The Prestige
  • Tropic Thunder

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  • Batman Begins

    ★★★★½

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★★

  • Flow

    ★★★½

  • La La Land

    ★★★★½

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  • Batman Begins

    Batman Begins

    ★★★★½

    Hot take: this might be my favorite movie of the whole trilogy.
    The Dark Knight is objectively a better movie but it's The Joker's movie.

    I like this movie because it's Batman's movie, you get to see Bruce deal with the trauma of the loss of his parents and go from seeking revenge tour to realizing what justice actually means and manifesting that by becoming a symbol, all while feeling fairly grounded (relative to the iterations of Batman that came…

  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★★

    I wish my girl was as passionate about sauces as much as Toni Collette's character was.
    I really enjoyed this movie despite sometimes not really understanding something or why some characters popped in and seemed really important only to essentially disappear later or vice versa. Rob Pat is great in this, and I really would've like more Steven Yeun.

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  • The Garfield Movie

    The Garfield Movie

    ½

    I feel like the writer(s?) slapped together a few AI prompts into something that might resemble the makings of a first draft (but only if you squint real hard) and then never revisited it again.

    I know I'm not the target audience for this, I can even forgive the plot for being nonsense (why would anyone want to make Garfield a heist story), but why bother shelling out $$$$ for the A-List cast for an audience who couldn't possibly care?…

  • Twisters

    Twisters

    ★★½

    This one is a weird one: it's somewhere between a vibes movie and trying to be something informative (while keeping a marvel climax). Unsurprisingly, it did the vibes much better than the science/safety aspect.

    I don't envy the task of having to remake Twister, but that doesn't matter because they did it anyway. That said, I think this is about as good as you could've done with the premise.

    Edit: I don't want to make a habit of doing this, but I'm bumping this down a half star after rewatching Twister.

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