Jacob

Favorite films

  • Mad Max 2
  • The French Dispatch
  • Johnny Mnemonic
  • Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle

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  • The Phoenician Scheme

    ★★★★★

  • Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

    ★★★★

  • Donnie Darko

    ★★★★★

  • The Lady Vanishes

    ★★★★

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The Phoenician Scheme

2025

★★★★★ Liked Watched

all i’m ever leaving behind are my life’s dreams and the loved ones who somehow weren’t trampled by any of them

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

2025

★★★★ Liked Watched

everything is stripped and razor-honed to celebrate the Cult Of Ethan but goddamn man, this rips

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Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam

1985

★★★★½ Liked 1

Let’s say for a moment that I am Char.”

No one ever told me that all of the storytelling and world building that I love is encomed in Gundam. But it is, and I’m all the better for it. 

Zeta Gundam is the step-up the original Star Wars had to Empire Strikes Back. Its gorgeous, its tragic and it really explores humanity’s place in the universe and in warfare in the ways only the best sci-fi can. 

No, not perfect.…

Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team

1996

★★★★ Liked 5

"I want to live!"

Ah... a little break from Gundam, followed by what is now one of my favorite entries in the series!

This is the stuff dreams are made of, a grounded Gundam war-epic about a squadron of Gundam pilots fighting guerilla warfare during the OYW. This kicks ass! It also features that really cool, utilitarian military aesthetic reminiscent of the Vietnam War and the many Vietnam War films, without all the abject real-life horror.

War is bad! But…