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Donnie Darko - 9/10 Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?

Good Will Hunting - 9/10 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - 10/10 Robin Williams and Jim Carrey are both brilliant in these movies, respectively.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit? - 9/10 This is one of those films I'd always been curious about. I'd seen references from it all over the place, namely from AVGN's review on the terrible video game. But I'd always assumed that the whole "toons in the real world" scenario would translate poorly on...

Nah, that's too expensive and Hollywood would rather do the safest thing possible anyhow.

Godzilla vs. Kong - 4/10 Braindead human characters mixed with unintelligent writing makes this a deplorable viewing experience. The final fight against one of the cooler Godzilla-verse monsters was cut short by human interference with one of the worst logical pulls ever. Don't bother watching...

Justice League: The Snyder Cut - 9/10 The original 2017 Justice League was a disappointing mishmash of reshoots and jumbled plot points that resulted in a flop at the box office. This was partly due to the primary director, Zack Snyder, having to step down due to a family tragedy, and Joss...

Sicario - 9/10 Sicario: Day of the Soldado - 8/10 Got my gritty federal agency fix with both of these films.

Princess Mononoke - 9/10 Should be called "Princess Ashitaka" because there was a certain lack of Mononoke throughout the film. But it was a good watch through and through, even with the rushed ending.

Speed Racer (2008) - 4/10 Trash overall, but the ending race sequences were pretty cool.

Waterworld - 7/10 Mad Max meets Pirates of the Caribbean meets Indiana Jones meets Treasure Planet meets The Day After Tomorrow? Interesting to see so many movies draw inspiration from one another.

Sword of the Stranger - 10/10 Saw this a few years back, but felt like rewatching it again and holy crap--this movie is an utter masterpiece. The animation is spectacular, the action sections are engaging, the soundtrack is stunning, and the final fight sequence is one of the greatest use of a...

The Three Musketeers (2011) - 7/10 Deja Vu - 9/10

One of my favorites.

Looper - 8/10 Arrival - 9/10 Source Code - 8.5/10

Watchmen - 8/10 Interesting superhero movie with awesome action sequences, wacky special effects at points, a cool noir setting, and an exorbitance of bareness (looking at you, Doc M; put some clothes on). Also, Rorschach is best Batman impersonator.

If by great you mean the last 15 minutes of the first film, then sure, that bit was awesome. But I found the rest of it disappointing since I went in to watch Godzilla wreck buildings with his tail and throw down some other monsters, not an overextended army mission. From the sound of it, King...

Star Wars marathon part 2: The Sequels Strike Back Episode IV: A New Hope - 6/10 There's really not a whole lot to say about this one, but it gets the job done as far as laying the foundation for the rest of the series. I found it hard to sit back and enjoy the film as a whole given the large...

Star Wars marathon part 1: Attack of the Prequels Episode I: The Phantom Menace - 6.5/10 The movie really does take a hit from Jar Jar Binks and his nonsensical jargon that'd be impossible to decipher without subtitles. Years ago, I'd considered this one of my favorites in the series, but now...

Round 1 of scary movie times: Texas Chainsaw Massacre + 3D: 6/10 - Basically the same movie. Nothing spells campy like a manic giant flailing a Doomsaw around. Blair Witch Project + BW16: 6/10 - Hard to believe that people actually fell for this back then, but the mockumentary aspect was...

Labyrinth - 8/10 How this film flew under my radar for so long is beyond me, but it no longer belongs to the ranks of the unwatched alongside Ghostbusters, Back to the Future, Gremlins, and other campy classics. The power of voodoo--errr, nostalgia--was immensely prominent as Labyrinth took...

The Lion King (2019) - 8.5 The king of animated films becomes the king of live action remakes, equally uplifting as the original while also stripping itself of some of the more enthralling aspects. As a result of using realistic animation to each of the beasts, the facial features were sadly...

2001: A Space Odyssey - 9/10 That acid trip right at the end, though. It's no wonder this is Kojima's favorite film, because the build up to that head-flip of an ending was a slow tension burn that's right up his alley. Space Odyssey is touted as one of the biggest must-watch films for a...

The Taken Trilogy over the last few days since John Wick also reached its conclusion. Liam Neeson is one tough nut to crack, and seeing him in action reminds me of Keifer Sutherland or Matt Damon pulling out all stops. Although the choreography and pacing felt a bit choppy at times, these movies...

The Book of Eli - 10/10 Such a completely inspiring masterpiece.

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor - 5/10 Please don't be the one Spirit was thinking of, I just remembered this one years later I'm not saying that Branden Fraser is a bad actor, I'm just saying that he's a bad actor... ...Or maybe it has more to do with the movies he's in overall and how...

Assassin's Creed (2016) - 6/10 The beginning of a seemingly non-interconnected trilogy, the film takes place during the Spanish Inquisition in the 1400s...kind of? Most of the events actually focus on modern day characters with the Assassin segments featuring incessant parkour and slicey-dicey...

Binged a lot of horror movies recently. It (2017) 9.5/10 - Faithful to the '80s setting and implements plenty of humor to balance out the horror elements. A Quiet Place 9/10 - Directed by none other than Jim from The Office, this film uses silence as a means of leaving viewers at the edge of...

300 - 8.5/10 Leonidas is a more down-to-earth version of Kratos. It was great to see the Spartan lifestyle fleshed out as it's never really covered in media. The action and set-pieces were immensely satisfying, additionally, although some of it was rushed through or drawn out in waves and waves...

Divergent - 9/10 Another dystopian future set after a time of war 100 years past where humanity has established factions to govern their respective values and responsibilities (a la Hunger Games)? The lead actress comes off as more natural than Katniss personally and, apart from some...

Black Panther The black sheep of the recent MCU films, and it doesn't rely on cookie-cutter witticisms to carry itself. My only complaint is that it gets a little repetitive, in the second half especially, but overall it's the best "origin story" in recent memory. 9.5/10

Justice League 9/10 A decent follow-up to the choppy 2015 film, Justice League's story and cast are more down to Earth and the humor is tolerable with some nice throwbacks added in. Although a certain circumstance around the 3/4 marker left something to be desired, each character received ample...

8.10/10 The best of both worlds. ;)

The Crow - 8/10 A very dark and gritty revenge atmosphere with a lot of awesome setpieces and enjoyable one-liners (for a change). Basically about a man who gains Wolverinesque regeneration after he's resurrected and he hunts down the killers of his fiancee. Felt like a good place to kick off...

Batman: Bad Blood 2/10 DC's latest animated Batman movie is an utter disappointment, attempting to recreate the Legend of Korra's cheesy one-liners and befuddling love interests and mix them with Hollywood's hackneyed action movie tropes. How the producers wanted to reproduce Korra's success by...

Fant4stic Four (2015) - 8/10 Surprisingly pleasing for a film that had little payoff. But unlike the original "origin story" (more like Random Escapades with the Nerds) this one didn't need to be padded down with next to no character growth involved. On the contrary it looked back on Reed...

The Avengers This movie is the paradigm of what I look for in modern-day films. There's a perfect balance of comedy, great dialogue (particularly when the Avengers are arguing in the airship), and epic action all the way through. The film was dynamic and had a great cast. The characters not...