MikeyTYBG

Favorite films

  • Big Daddy
  • Parasite
  • Hereditary

All
  • City of God

    ★★★★★

  • Sinners

    ★★★

  • 12 Angry Men

    ★★★★½

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★

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City of God

2002

★★★★★ Watched

I mean how often do you watch a movie that just straight up rocks? From start to finish man, just awesome. Another one where I had decent expectations just from what I’ve heard from Diego and Sam, but genuinely didn’t know anything about it. Didn’t know it was a crime related movie either, just knew it was Brazilian (or at least just South American).

This movie had it all. Cool story, great pacing, awesome and memorable characters, humor, emotion, the way the…

Sinners

2025

★★★ Watched

I mean it was alright lol. I’m pretty surprised at how much buzz this movie is getting / has gotten. And to preface, I will concede, maybe I let hype or expectations of a movie influence me a little bit (Dune 2 is the best example of this for sure), but still man I don’t know lol. Like several other movies with hype (like 12 Angry Men and Grave or Fireflies I just watched, but also like Parasite for example)…

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There Will Be Blood

2007

★★★★½ Watched

Yeah this one’s pretty legit. Love how the movie let scenes breathe. Really built up everything. Everything felt so natural and real and believable and just so honest. In hindsight now, nothing felt phony. Like sometimes when I watch a movie and something happens that’s a little unbelievable or unrealistic, you just kinda gotta go with the flow and go “I mean I guess” just to you know let the movie do what it’s supposed to do. Like that leads…

12 Angry Men

1957

★★★★½ Watched

Really solid movie. I like clever and mature type movies like this one with like a mystery or solving type thing like detective-adjacent stuff. Like Knives Out kinda, and this was similar. I really like the solving, the asking questions, the pointing out the holes in the story, and getting more and more people to question the murder. It all felt very cohesive and believable and flowed well, like every detail to the story had some sort of flaw that…