Wrathamon

Wrathamon

Favorite films

  • Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
  • Hot Fuzz
  • The Transformers: The Movie
  • Kung Fu Hustle

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  • The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen

    ★★★

  • A Good Day to Die Hard

    ★★

  • Megamind

    ★★★★

  • Live Free or Die Hard

    ★★★½

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  • A Good Day to Die Hard

    A Good Day to Die Hard

    ★★

    It's just not a Die Hard film.

    I couldn't remember a single thing about this other than he had a young sidekick again, and I realize why that is now. It's an utterly forgettable movie, ugly to look at with an uninspired plot, bad pacing, and paper thin characters. It's like cargo cult John McClane, a hollow imitation run through the prism of cheap action hero clichés, ignoring all the fallibility and genuine painful emotion the character endured through the…

  • Live Free or Die Hard

    Live Free or Die Hard

    ★★★½

    Still fun, but it teeters too much on the edge between the usual Die Hard action and over the top dumb schlock until it just goes off the rails at the jet sequence. It also has enough of that post 9/11 dread mixed in with the ominous techno terrorism of the time that drains a bit of the fun out of the experience.

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  • Wishmaster

    Wishmaster

    ★★★½

    The Djinn looks like he's having a great time and I love that for him.

  • Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies

    Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies

    ★★

    "Some people don't like it, others do. And, you know, it was also a sequel to a movie that I thought wasn't a good movie at all."
    -Director/Writer Jack Sholder

    Brother, you wish this was Wishmaster 1.

    It just painfully lacks the energy, cleverness, and mirthfulness of the first. Divoff is still fun but his direction feels listless. The pacing and story structure are a mess, and we have to sit through the lead surfing the net for our mythology…