Favorite films

Recent reviews

• 

  Goodbye, Mr. Chips 1969

  ★★ Watched 21 Mar 2025

  In the 1934 novelette, Kathie was a character with opinions and idealism, who changed Chips's entire personality. And then when they were adapting it into a movie, they got rid of that. Since they moved up the setting, I thought they would change her from an 1890s New Woman to a flapper, but they didn't do that. They entirely did away with her personality and had her simply moon after him as a follower. And that's the whole story.

  It's…

• 

  High Spirits 1988

  ★★½ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  A fun setup but it's ultimately one of those comedies from the 80s where everybody's screaming the whole time. After a while I really just wanted it to be over.

  However, it did get a laugh or two out of me

Popular reviews

• 

  Pachamama 2018

  ★★½ Added

  Here are the reasons why this movie should not have had conquistadores in it:

  1. They are superfluous to the plot, when you think about it.
  2. You basically never see movies set in Native cultures in the Americas without it being about them meeting Europeans at the end (The Emperor's New Groove oddly being a major exception). Like, the ostensible point of this project was to center Indigenous narratives, down to even the art style. But then it's about…

• 

  Ulysses 1967

  ½ Added 1

  This movie looks like shit and was edited like shit. Like imagine if James Joyce just had everything happen in Ulysses the novel exactly how it happened in Homer's Odyssey, but he set it in 1904. EVERYTHING is the same, including that you're apparently just allowed to murder people for mooching and moving in on your wife. Pretty ridiculous, right?

  So WHY did they have this movie set in 1967, and not change a SINGLE GODDAMN THING ABOUT THE STORY?!…

Following