Film Reviews

the idea of killing people with sex completely blew my 12 year old mind. now, as an adult, i find it completely normal and unsurprising of course

i’m so happy that they found a way to bring back fan favorite Resident Evil characters. including my favorite character, Laser Grid

I always wondered how this movie managed to fit the whole book into little more than two hours. Turns out it never could. Scenes go by so quickly and disjointedly that it feels more like watching a weird music video that’s left up to interpretation. If you take away all the dialogue and leave only the sound effects and Toto score, it probably works very nicely as a Heavy Metal-style psychedelic rock opera trip.

I didn’t think it was possible, but the ASMR whispers of characters’ thoughts managed to bring my least favorite aspect of Herbert’s writing to the big screen.

It’s fascinating how faithful to the original book it can get. Lynch was seemingly uninterested in, or unable to, bring his own flavor to the story, only really imprinting his personality on the aesthetics. And it seems to me like Lynch’s aesthetics turn really goofy when he is using them to illustrate a story that’s so clearly not his own.

couldn’t wait for the movie to end so i could open my internet browser and type in “sorcerer 1977 how did they do that”

i always wanted a full episode-length ITYSL sketch, but never thought feature-length could actually work. it did work, but felt a bit too constrained by the realities of Big Movie. giving myself galaxy brain by imagining this as a 20 minute ITYSL skit that never lets you catch your breath

not very relatable when the protagonist blows on a bottle to summon the empty man. highly relatable when the protagonist checks what the empty man is about on wikipedia

i don’t like playing armchair casting director but i feel pretty strongly that Tim Robinson would have been a good choice here

has nothing new to add in terms of sci-fi, lazily adding an iphone app on top of all the basic robot tropes. barely qualifies for the horror or comedy tags. could have been a fun Love, Death and Robots short

ELBOW ROCKET

I would have been way more excited about this movie from the get go if only the marketing mentioned why Mrs. Harris goes to Paris (obviously because of her ADHD)

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A beautiful puzzle box. Pieces fitting together so satisfyingly, I could practically hear the clicking sounds.

I really wish this series could just be its own thing outside the “marvel” “universe”

Creative team really should have given more control to whoever pitched “t-rex with big burly arms”

Ponyo fills my heart. It overflows.