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Favorite films

  • La La Land
  • The Apartment
  • Blade Runner 2049
  • Carlito's Way

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  • A Perfect Getaway

    ★★½

  • Challengers

    ★★★½

  • Psycho Killer

  • Don't Worry Darling

    ★★½

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A Perfect Getaway
★★½ Watched

I couldn’t even describe those last thirty minutes, but holy exposition dump.

I mean, yeah I didn’t see it coming but that felt so completely out of left field that it’s not even plausible.. I can’t co-sign that.

Five minute later update: Okay, maybe I’m finally just taking in what I just watched, but the filmmaking alone near the end is still garbage and looks terrible.

S/o Steve Zahn

Challengers
★★★½ Rewatched

I don’t think those last fifteen minutes could be any longer if Luca tried to.. goodness gracious. He really starts to throw everything at the wall, which is unfortunate because I feel like it really takes away from the tension when you’re spammed with slo mo.

Josh O’Connor, I will continue to praise this performance for the rest of eternity.

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Backrooms
★★ Watched

Just a flat out terrible second half.

Everything from Renate taking lead and on just lacks what made the first half work. The score kicks up in the second half which was nice, but the rest did absolutely nothing for me. 

All non-POV/found footage stuff lacks any sort of tension and looked downright bad at times. Too much of the wide angle camera gives you way too much of a scope that you need, and just doesn’t give you the…

War of the Worlds
½ Watched

Imagine being a little buzzed and wanting to watch the 2005 Spielberg version late at night, but you end up on this movie cause you typed 2025 by accident.

The type of movie that Tubi wouldn’t even put on their platform.