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It's basically fine. The Force Awakens and Rogue One of the Alien franchise. But ultimately it's just a bog standard Friday the 13th movie with the Xenomorph and better acting and production design.

However, the more I think about this, the more I dislike it. The Alien franchise is just eating its own tail at this point. This entry decides to continue plot threads from Prometheus and Covenant, while also redoing Alien Resurrection's ending.

It'd be fine if the film decided to do anything remotely interesting with the new creature it creates (even though it looks RI-FUCKING-DICULOUS), but now we run to do the whole air lock escape thing while a computer counts down to destruction again. The hybrid, engineer thing could be replaced by the Predalien or Mr. Potatohead for all that it matters.

Hot take: The first AvP -- which is a film comprised almost entirely of fan service is miles better.

I appreciate the ambition here and the acting, particularly Robbie and Pitt, is great. BUT I found this movie profoundly stupid. It couldn’t make up its mind on which tone it wanted to play — surreal satirical comedy about the industry like The Stunt Man or a mournful look at days gone by, or just Boogie Nights about the mainstream industry.

I didn’t hate it, but I didn’t like it either. It was truly all over the place and eventually came down to “The movie industry is built by exploited idiots, but at least we get Tron out of it.”

It's like a season of the John Wick anime and I mean that in the best possible way. Every action sequence is some other movie's climax. And anything with an extended "Warriors" homage gets at LEAST three stars in my book.

It’s like if Keita Amemiya made ET. This is a movie specifically made for me and I love it. “The heckin best!”

A sleazy bargain bin combination of Terminator, Blade Runner, and every cyberpunk anime. It’s incomprehensible and it rules!

Tons of fun, like the last one, but now with people piloting spaceships!

You know those DTV movies that have awesome posters and just totally fail to live up to them? This is the exact OPPOSITE of that. It’s like every awesome b-movie trope crammed into 90+ minutes. It fucking rules even BEFORE the guys from The Raid show up.

AND the closing credits are a gag reel of the monsters falling over and stuff.

Tons of fun all around!

This movie kicks all sorts of ass. Mark Dacascos and Kadeem Haridson have great chemistry. Brittany Murphy nearly walks away with the movie. The action slaps and everyone watches a show about a hyper intelligent Frog Doctor. It rules. Between this and Guyver 2, I wish someone would throw Steve Wang a ginormous budget to make whatever crazy thing he wanted.

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Everything that works and doesn't work about the Highlander franchise is here in a 90 minute package! This movie was also edited with a weed whacker -- sheesh, I swear it feels like Duncan teleports through a wall the way this thing is edited.

There are some interested concepts in here that are never explored or explained.

For the love of god why does this franchise return to this well of having an immortal seek his revenge by destroying a MacLeod's life?

When will this series ever figure out how to explain its own mythology? Like, what exactly is the prize? What happens with a quickening? Just how much magic is in this world?

Why are Methos and Joe here? You could have easily removed them and the movie would stay EXACTLY the same.

Why wasn't Amanda put in this movie as opposed to the Amanda stand in they went with?

Pretty terrible all around, at least it's short and has Donnie Yen.

This wasn’t bad! Fun in a low key way. Felt like a proto Justified.

It’s fine. I like it’s commitment to the R rating, and everything with Scorpion and Sub-Zero rules. But, the script is anemic and I don’t understand why they ditched the Enter the Dragon set up. That’s the easiest way IN to this world — instead we’re treated to an R-rated superhero origin story that feels both too long and too short at the same time. Again it’s not awful, but it could have been great.

It's fine. The fighting is good. But these monsterverse movies can't make their humans compelling in the slightest, and I guess to this movie's credit it doesn't even try. Which makes it all the more frustrating that when we do have to spend time with the humans all they do is exposit to one another without a shred of emotion. Look, I get it, having a movie who's stars can't talk is tough -- but could you at least spend SOME of the money on making your humans relatable, interesting or funny?

So yeah, this is the best of the Monsterverse, but that's really not saying much as all the other movies are varying degrees of boring and terrible.

This is 1000 times better than the theatrical release, which felt like something that had escaped from 2001. For better or for worse this is all Zack Snyder. The thing is, this highlights Snyder's true weakness as a filmmaker and it is this, while he has high minded thematic concerns, about the nature of power, how mythmaking defines us, and why we need heroes -- his artistic sensibilities are that of a 13 year old boy governed by "The Rule of Cool." So, whenever Snyder's thematic ideas come into conflict with his aesthetic, the rule of cool always wins out to the story's detriment.

The villain punches a guy so hard his head explodes, and then the dude's eyeballs are stuck to the villain's hands. This movie fucking rules.

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It’s like the “Backwards” episode of Red Dwarf mixed with the climax of the first Bill and Ted movie crossed with the emotional coldness of Michael Mann.

I didn’t love it, but I can’t stop thinking about it. Trying to figure out how many times R Patz goes backwards and forward in time in the climax might just give me a stroke.

But in the end, the real “Tenet” was the friends we made along the way.

This movie is goddamn perfect!

I love this movie so much.

The emotional core works so well, that everything that doesn't work can be ignored.

Maybe not as good as A New Hope and Empire, but it still rocks.

Movie rules.

I love the moment at the end when Chewy flips out when the hyperdrive doesn't work again.

The Death Star run and the Empire State Building attack in King Kong are two of the best sequences in all of fantasy filmmaking.

This is still the most watchable of the prequels. That being said, it's still pretty boring.

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This was good...a little thin, but I liked the conceit of structuring it like a Mr. Rogers episode.

Jeepers this was complicated.

Daniel Craig should be in jail for how much fun he's having here.

This movie rules!

I actually liked this...right up until the action became just CGI Blobs.

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G-G-Ghost!

I like how this movie telegraphs its twist within seconds and then pretends that's a mind blowing twist.

Movie is mediocre, but Clarke and Golding have good chemistry.

This was okay. The effects were cool. But the story was pretty rote.

Meh. I wanted this to be better. Too long, and kinda boring.

BLEEARK. Terrible. Worst film of 2019? Probably.

Zero stars.

This movie is not worth the controversy or the praise it's getting. A profoundly stupid movie that thinks it's very smart. Phoenix is acting his tits off, but in the service to an incredibly shallow movie. The cinematography is also very pretty.

But Joker's ultimate sin is this...it's boring.

How does a movie forget to include the most crucial emotional moment for the main fucking character?!?! The whole movie is leading up to her deciding she needs a divorce...but that moment if clarity is never dramatized. How does a movie do this? How?!?!

This is a truly bizarre movie. It’s charming and full of cheese. But again how do you miss that moment?!?!

Movie rules!

I hadn't watched this since it came out on video (I was 17 for those keeping track).

I appreciate the fact that because of the all the controversy surrounding "Dogma," Smith decided to just write a fun Zucker-bros style movie. A fun romp that's all about the gags. And that tone works for most up to a point. The problem the film has is when it decides to have a story with jewel thieves -- that shit is SO boring and for 15 minutes the movie grinds to a halt to deal with it.

The gay panic jokes don't exactly hold up.

Hadn't seen since I was sixteen...
There's so much good in here, that the bad really, really, REALLY sticks out. For one thing -- Linda Fiorentino looks like she'd rather be ANYWHERE else so the heart and soul of the movie just looks bored. The exposition Smith has written is not very good.

On the other hand -- the conversations about faith and purpose are all fascinating, and I think the climax leading into God showing up is some of the best writing and directing Smith has ever done. It's just getting there is a bit of slog.

It's one of Smith's best looking movies for sure, and it's been fun watching Jason Mewes become a better and better actor with each movie.

Hadn't watched since I was sixteen.

Of this Kevin Smith re-watch this was the one I was dreading the most. There's a lot in this movie that could be EXTREMELY problematic and dated. So, I was fairly surprised that the movie held up. It's a fairly interesting exploration of bisexuality, before that term had really become mainstream. I don't think Kevin Smith is really the person to talk about that issue per se, but the fact that the film has a nuanced and empathetic take on sexuality in general is fairly interesting.

What's even more fascinating is putting this in the context of Smith's entire career. To wit -- there's a subplot here all about Holden McNeil (the Kevin Smith insert) feeling like a sell out regarding his creations Bluntman and Chronic and how he'd rather have a project more personal to him, Jay and Silent Bob even take him to task for this...so what happens? Anytime the mainstream audience rejects what Smith is doing in his work he retreats to Bluntman and Chronic. I have no problem with artists selling out and being able to do whatever they want, but it's just interesting that that subplot is in this movie, easily Smith's most personal movie.

In general I'd love to see Smith go back to making movies like this -- smart movies with great characters about real things.

Again, hadn't watched this since I was sixteen.

It's interesting to watch Smith's indie sensibility crash into formulaic studio comedy. Even more interesting to see the same problems this movie has play out later in Kevin Smith's career like "Jersey Girl." That being said, the acting is leaps and bounds better than in "Clerks." Jason Mewes is becoming a better actor and Jason Lee freaking rules in this. It doesn't quite work as the plot kicks in, but on the whole it's a fun silly romp.

This movie is now older than the characters in it! I hadn't watched this since I was sixteen, it was so long ago that I hadn't seen this film in widescreen.

Anyway, it's a very shaggy movie. Obviously a first film, and created several indie movie cliches that are still with us. Strengths are obviously in the dialogue. It's well observed and very funny. So it still holds up.

This movie fucking rules. A slasher movie all about being a good person. It's like if Frank Capra directed "Scream."

This was really sweet and fun. Felt a little bit like a Richard Linklater movie.

This was lovely.

This was pretty good. Lots of fun. Definitely held up to my memory of it.

I hadn't seen this in about 16 years. And friends? This movie fucking rules.

I like how dorkily earnest this movie is. The problem is that the emotional story is fairly compelling but it stops dead every five minutes so the world can be explained to us. The film doesn't ENTIRELY work, but I enjoyed it.

Watched on Sunday February 10, 2019.

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This is what would happen if you stripped all the subtlety out of the Toy Story films.

It's...fine. It's fun, but the central metaphor felt so cloying and annoying it took all the stakes out of the story.

I had forgotten just how fucking looney tunes this movie is.

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Seeing these characters on the big screen was like a warm hug.

Bardock and Gogeta are two of my favorite Dragon Ball characters (but calling Gogeta a "character" might be a stretch) so it was fun to see them.

It has the usual DB problems of WAY too much fighting, but when it looks THIS good -- who can really complain?