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This is why I don’t like rollercoasters

 or any liquids on the floor or breezes whatsoever

Final Defenestration 2

The grim reaper is named Rube Goldberg and death is his Machine

This movie was pretty silly but also very fun with good stunts OH NO THIS IS WHAT THE ENTITY WAS COUNTING ON ME TO SAY I FELL RIGHT INTO THE TRAP

Does it count as “watched” if this was playing on my TV on mute while Gabs Robby Chloë and I played Terraforming Mars? Let’s say yes.

WE HAVE TO GO BACK, KATE NOT PENNYS BOAT DONT EVER TELL LOCKE WHAT HE CAN’T DO

Fun to watch this on the heels of Andor. KS-20 such a king. Hey I guess Star Wars can be good sometimes.

Everyone having a nice calm kinda silly time

I think it’s really irresponsible of Tom Cruise to continue to ride around on a motorcycle without a helmet in these movies. I don’t know why this makes me so upset, but it does. You’re a role model! Put on a dang helmet! It’s not a cool thing to not wear one!

What’s Up Doc-ass car chase in this one

You need to acquire the asset. It’s me. I’m the asset. Pick me up and take me to get some pie. If you choose to accept it.

Wow Henry Cavill really makes this movie

Watched on Friday May 23, 2025.

I like it when a movie has a character with the same name as me. Even though “Dave” was played by Simu Liu, I felt more connected to the story by everyone saying “Dave” the whole time. More movies should have characters named “Dave.”

I’ve been workshopping a theory that all MCU movies are exactly “fine” and the distance between a bad MCU movie and good MCU is rather minimal. But I forgot about Eternals. Crazy misstep on the whole Marvel team to think audiences wanted a movie about ancient space robots bickering with each other. Uniquely upsetting to watch amazing modern actors like Barry Keoghan, Brian Tyree Henry, and Gemma Chan say this horrible dialogue and flitter their hands around manipulating gold strands of CGI gak. I like the shooting style of close wide angle shots, they’re fun, but otherwise I hate this one.

Watched on Monday May 12, 2025.

Watched on Sunday May 11, 2025.

Watched on Friday May 9, 2025.

Watched on Thursday May 8, 2025.

Unpopular opinion but I like this one a lot. My favorite thing about the MCU is these longer crazier ones that feel like they have a 7-act structure and remind me of the experience of reading a comic book story thread through different individual issues and titles. I like all the Hawkeye stuff too haha. He’s real charming in this! Sue me!

Skate tapes are the most important art form next to starting a shitty little band with your friends

I’ve never actually seen this one before because of my loyalty to Eric Bana and Ang Lee’s Hulk but guess I decided to watch it last night maybe because I’m gonna watch Brave New World before I see Thunderbolts.

So funny how they start calling this green monster “Hulk” is because on the news one scatterbrained bystander trying to describe what he witnessed says “It was like a hulk” as if the word “hulk” by itself has any meaning whatsoever.

Wow, it’s crazy that I watched this movie less than 5 years ago and somehow forgot every little thing about it. It was like I’d actually never seen it. Every set piece, every scene, every character charge, positive or negative — washed away.

This is NOT an indication of my horrible memory but IS an indication of a big superhero movie’s ability to be perfectly fine and unremarkable.

Cheese-sandwich-ass movie. 🥪

A unique sickness I have is that when I get the itch that I might maybe see the new Marvel movie, I feel like I need to refresh myself to important piece of the “big story” (lol) that lead up to it, so I guess I watched this movie again trying to remind myself who the fuck “Ghost” is and what she is all about.

Fun fact, they just start calling her “Ghost” out of nowhere, they don’t even establish why — just in one scene about 45 mins into the movie Paul Rudd Ant Man goes “That must be where Ghost sleeps” and suddenly everyone is calling her Ghost.

Great lil movie. Love all the interview actors, charming bunch of folks, great casting.

Wow is The Yards which I’d never heard of before my new favorite movie? I can’t quite figure out why this one slipped so deeply through the cracks. Just a classically solid crime drama, takes itself very seriously, good cast. The tone is so heavy. Great brooding score. Maybe because this movie came out in 2000, the world had subconsciously decided it was done with this kind of movie and tone, leaving it behind with their memories of the nineties in order to fully embrace the new millennium?? But damn, pretty good.

Ok I finally watched the “Kevin James is a Nazi for some reason” movie. We got a child protagonist in this thing, so where I’d normally get mad at the main character for making horrible unnatural choices in a tense situation at least in this one I can say “well she is a dumb little kid so…”

This is the kind of movie I like to call “a tense talker” and this tense talker was tense and good

The thing about these kinds of movies is I love all the tense funny build up to the Big Action Set Pieces™ and I love all the little breaths and tension and humor between the Big Action Set Pieces™ but I do not think I like the Big Action Set Pieces™ and perhaps as a society we should allow Big Action Set Pieces™ to be 75% shorter. Good movie, though. I love all the guys. Thank you.

Very scary how long him legs were!!! Enjoyed this one a lot!!!

Peter saarsgard one of our finest crafters at the forefront of “sleepy-acting” He’s a dad and he’s sleepy, you simply must buy it

I’m so afraid of heights that this actually scared me in places, gave me that visceral jolt that looking out a tall window or rooftop can cause. So for that alone, was cool to watch. 

They shoulda attached the phone to the drone wtf.

I had never seen this one, and it is important to fill in all the Ver-holes. Unsettling and tense and funny and mostly good. A little sad to see Verhoeven relegated to flat dull RED Epic digital cinema image, but should just be happy he made another movie.

It’s based on a novel called “Oh…” and in the first half hour several characters say “Oh…” and that’s pretty cute.

Cyberpunk spaghetti western with poltergeist ghost as a robot?? Okay sure why not? It is 1990 after all.

Watched on Sunday March 9, 2025.

Wow JCVD plays such a sweet dummy in this. Maybe the most charmed I’ve ever been by that guy. At some point he steals a mechanic shirt that says “Joe” on it and he rips the sleeves off and that’s just what he wears the whole movie? Great time. Top tier Dolph Lundgren in this.

The important thing is this was the first movie of my brand new MOVIE WHEEL, in which I’ve compiled every movie on my watchlist of various streamers and it is 200+ movies long. To decide what to watch I put all the movies on a wheel and spin it! Universal Soldier came up tonight! Wow!

Watched on Thursday February 27, 2025.

A good example of cast and direction elevating the material. I thought the grocery store in the beginning was my local Albertsons until like the last wide shot then I felt DUMB and then they made it clear the movie takes place in Portland oops.

Watched on Saturday February 15, 2025.

No one needed this movie, least of all Luke Perry.

This kinda gave me “young adult book adapted into a Snapchat series” vibes. Uh-oh. Maybe I’ve actually crossed the threshold into being “old” and “out of touch.” My old ass.

When you really think about it, inside of us all there are two Jewish cousins on trip to Poland to grieve and honor their ancestors. Putting a rock here to say that I’ve watched this movie, I was here. 🪨

Hahah when Soderbergh was all “I’m done making movies” then tried to paint then immediately made two seasons of The Knick then started making movies again?? 

Here he is on his, what, 40th (??) movie and he’s just casually coming up with a whole different cinematic language in a quick little ghost story. We’re so lucky.

Wow finally someone is putting the word FUN back into the word CINEMA! Cinfunema. Cfunimea. Cinefunma.

I love that there was another version of The Poseidon Adventure for me to discover! I wish there was a bad, longer, made-for-tv-miniseries version of all of my favorite movies. A thrilling experience!

Watched over three nights to fall asleep.

Simply insane. Every choice a head scratcher, the plot is confusing, so many jokes that just don’t hit, no one does anything that makes any sense. Crazy movie, I’ll never forget it.

I in the early 2000s Alex Proyas had a pretty cool website but for whatever reason I never saw most of his movies was just like “Oh, neat website guess I’ll play some Mario Kart”

Defying Gravity a pretty good song, didn’t care for the other ones. I hope they sing Defying Gravity a couple more times in the second one. Weird movie.

Movie #2 (of the day)

I love melodramatic music movies! I live to watch actors pretend to write songs that are already written, hunting for the words. This movie is fun. Music is the closest thing we have to magic and movies, even silly ones, are close behind.

John Getz anguish face 😖

My favorite Christopher Reeve performances, ranked:

1. Clark Kent 
2. This movie
3. Superman

• (500) Days of Summer
• A Brighter Summer Day
• A Field in England
• Bigbug
• Brick
• Chinatown
• Clue
• Eyes Wide Shut
• Girl, Interrupted
• Good Time

...plus 28 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I don’t know what was on part one but this is part two

• Bad Education
• I Know Where I'm Going!
• Behind the Candelabra
• Behind the Curve
• Baby Doll
• Midnight Run
• Under the Silver Lake
• My Life as a Dog
• New Nightmare
• Palindromes

...plus 26 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

In order I think

• The Rescue
• Annette
• Bad Trip
• In the Heights
• The Beta Test
• The Green Knight
• No Sudden Move
• Benedetta
• Pig
• Licorice Pizza

...plus 23 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I didn’t see all the movies that came out this year, in fact, I only saw some! And these were my favorites, I think!

• Little Women
• Uncut Gems
• Marriage Story
• Booksmart
• Hail Satan?
• Midsommar
• Parasite
• The Death of Dick Long
• Knives Out
• The Lighthouse

...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.