Josh Carson

Favorite films

  • Back to the Future
  • Die Hard
  • Shaun of the Dead
  • Scream

All
  • Ballerina

    ★★★

  • Ballerina

    ★★★

  • Karate Kid: Legends

    ★★

  • Novocaine

    ★★½

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Ballerina

2025

★★★ Rewatched

Weird that Ana De Armas stole the entirety of “No Time to Die” and to capitalize off that: we get Diet Wick.

There’s some good action, but it gets repetitive and more than a little boring.

Karate Kid: Legends

2025

★★ Watched

When I start actively missing the last season of Cobra Kai.......ya' made a bad movie.

Weirdly -- the kid being the sensei and Josh Jackson being the student: That worked. That should've been the movie.

But then executive notes...

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Joker

2019

★½ Watched

Todd Phillips did not want to make a movie about the Joker.

He has famously said that he wanted to make a "real" crime movie, but the only thing that gets green lit is the superhero shit, so he'll Trojan Horse his "real" movie in a superhero disguise. He'll trick us all into seeing his "real" movie.

So -- take off the disguise. Remove all cursory references to the history of the character or the overall Gotham mythos. (It won't…

The Fabelmans

2022

★★★★★ Watched

Loved it. Unapologetically loved it.

Turned me back into the wide-eyed, film loving optimist I used to be instead of the jaded husk I became.

I want the sequel where this kid makes "FINS" or whatever it's going to be. Kushner will come up with something.

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