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Can't believe Wes Anderson made a movie about Benicio Del Toro funding Neom. 

Real heads know the to my family computer as a kid was "Benicio" and that my mom calls him my "future step-dad" so he kind of just delights me no matter what and seeing him as a lead for the first time in a while and in something so fun was great. 

Everyone talking about Michael Cera but the truth is Richard Ayoade is also a slam dunk Anderson player I can't believe wasn't brought in sooner, and even here I wish he'd gotten to do more.

Corey Michael Smith ... love that eerily beautiful white boy with a perfect porcelain face and endearing smarm

Watched on Sunday June 1, 2025.

Watched on Friday May 30, 2025.

Was vibing for it for a bit (it had some really fun shots and effects) until it felt repetitive and frustrating and really disliked the last 30 minutes... agonizingly slow and never ending idk I knew what was going on very early and then anything else interesting just felt like set dressing.

Broke my heart, I love Paul Reubens and Pee-Wee and his art so much, Big Adventure was a huge part of my childhood. What happened to him really was so cruel and unfair especially considering how many abhorrent abs and creeps were working in Hollywood completely unbothered (and still are). 

Also didn't know he was such close friends with David Arquette that warmed my heart immensely

Watched on Tuesday May 27, 2025.

Watched this finally after years of meaning to. Am currently a bit emotionally vulnerable and did get choked up at Jonah Hill showing Brad Pitt the game footage and "How can you not be romantic about baseball" ... exactly 🥲 

PSH incredible here as always and also Spike Jonze shows up wearing sandals for like 3 minutes what a film.

"Whether it has happened or not is irrelevant. It is true."

I love this movie so much... every time I watch it I become more and more aware of how much it has influenced so much of my entire personality and educational pursuits.... parapolitics! Using humor to send forward a genuine message about the global political elite and its machinations!! To me it is perfect idk what else to say.

Watching this while working on my thesis about how films reiterate deep state politics to audiences perhaps made me Too Woke.... no way they'd let the president get away with anything she does here she'd have gone the way of Mr Kennedy fr...

Even outside of that I truly got more emotional impact out of the ending of Ghost Protocol and how much these characters meant to each other... fun set pieces as always but man! Not the way I wanted to go out I'm still chasing the Fallout high!

Liked this a lot more on rewatch! Still started to drop for me towards the end despite the set pieces but I am so excited for Final Reckoning..... if anything happens to Benji you'll see me on the news

Starts to fall apart at the end here but I really did enjoy this a lot more than most people it seems... a lot to chew on here! Some crazy shit but lowkey fun!! Sorry!

Chekhov's transsexualism.

I love having a good fun time at the movies. Richard Harmon steals the show ... a Final Destination character for the books. 

So stupid in all the right ways! Genuinely funny! Maybe has some ugly lighting in parts and rough exposition to get the ball rolling but all in all such a great addition to the franchise that understands what makes them so enjoyable. 

also great needle drops and scene with my new pookie Richard Harmon had a Harry Nilsson song..... yay!

I just really love this film and it was a joy to show it to my favorite people as a belated birthday celebration :)

I cried once again during Costner's ending monologue and the final dedication. I just think Stone gets right to the heart of why this assassination, its investigation, and all the hidden truths behind it are so important. "What is past is prologue." 

My masters thesis is focused on shifting narratives of the assassination in fiction throughout the decades and investigating when films were their most critical and explicit in directly stating the existence of a deep state. This film is very central to this thesis and is a major part of what inspired my work. I owe it a great deal and believe it is an incredibly important and generational film. Films have the power to enact change, shift minds, and foster political action and personal reflection of one's own ideals! The power of cinema and art and truth through fiction! Love this movey :)

Yeah I just really love it....................

A movie that makes you want to call your mom after.

She forgot her meat loaf in the oven :(

Great first 40 minutes where it's a fast paced medical drama and George C Scott cooks. Then it just kind of falls miserably apart and becomes a total slog despite being barely over 90 minutes. 

Also has the issue of Scott repeating the same concepts and ideas over and over again merely minutes apart and making me feel actually insane. Not to mention the trap it falls into at the end of just infodumping its entire conclusion ..... truly boring, aggravating, and honestly stupid! Maybe it would've worked better in the hands of another director who could spin the absurdity into more of Altman's MASH but instead it's incredibly tonally confused here.

Damn so when you become a vampire it makes you Irish ...

As always, they should've kissed or jerked each other off at least one time.

Watched on Tuesday May 6, 2025.

Made me cry at the end when the old man read the poem and I'm a big stupid sap for a love story... 

It was simple and predictable but I still found it sweet and generally well written. Refreshing to watch a romance that is romantic! With chemistry!

People who watch this and see Belfort as some kind of role model (or alternatively that the film is praising and ing him) instead of Scorsese meditating on the same things he did in Goodfellas are goofy and dumb.

However, when I first saw this at age 17 I did really want to try a quaalude after...

Loved even more the second time around and getting to see it in a theater! No non-diegetic sound in this at all, and so many beautiful songs. On top of all of that, an anxiety around political leaders and assassinations and fame and ohhh the Kennedys!!

I love cinema scholarship I love revisiting this after learning so much more and having such a wider breadth of knowledge and context that allows me to look at the film differently!  We love to learn don't we folks!

Has the issues every Marvel movie has now and the stuff that interested me the most was cut short but ... Lewis Pullman is the absolute standout in this I'm kind of in love with him...

Kind of the perfect movie to watch after such an exhausting week. Have wanted to watch this for years and to see it on the big screen was so special. I love Townes of course but Guy Clark..... you've endeared yourself to me severely. 

The editing and camera work here is so dynamic and engaging it really is a beautiful film I'm shocked the director has not made much of anything else. Kudos to the editor too, this truly is one of my favorite documentaries I've seen.

Rarely has a movie made me roll my eyes this much and make me just...genuinely mad. Like man. Shut up.

Kicking myself fo every time I said Brain Damage was transsexual and someone told me Basket Case was possibly even easier to read that way and I didn't immediately go watch it because...Well, fellas, they were right.

"All I is feeling something sticky in my pants and then finding them covered in blood!"

Brian I Understand you.

Watched on Saturday April 26, 2025.

Liked much better the second time feel like I got much more out of it.... Still love the part where Connor O'Malley shouts happy birthday to me like 3 times

Cried once again... Watching this at 10 years old ruined my life now every man I fall for is an emo Mr Darcy without the money ... Also I know it can be annoying sometimes when people call explicitly heterosexual things queer or whatever but as a young child characters like Lizzy being so adamantly independent and refusing the life/relationships set out for them by their family, (on top of her then marrying Darcy despite his aunt's derision...) it spoke to little egg Charlie and still does...

WHEN WILL SOMEONE BE BEWITCHED BY ME BODY AND SOUL!!!! IN SPITE OF MY FAMILY AND PROSPECTS!!!

Can't really rate this in good conscience because some of it was a total mess but it is so indicative of my childhood... watched this soooo much as a kid!! And I can see the parts I loved and how they influenced my humor! But also the "ironic" part of the "ironic orientalism" is a bit of a stretch

This has been on my list to watch for like... over a decade and why did I wait so long!! A true masterpiece...

Is it gay to love god so much and then decide God is using a young precocious man as his vessel (instead of you) and be overcome with orgasmic catharsis when you read his work on the page and subsequently become obsessed with destroying his entire life simply to be directly connected to his life and work in some way? Yeah probably ...

I love this movie and it always makes me CRY what can I say!! The beauty of language and resistance! Nations are built by stories and stories are built by language!

A movie I always associate with my childhood that has such a tight script and is SIMPLY DELIGHTFUL!!

What can I even say except that this hit me like a bus

Watched on Tuesday April 1, 2025.

Better than I thought! Stupid but fun!

Watched on Friday March 28, 2025.

Well folks everyone was right that ending shot made me literally scream it's so good and perfect. 

Watched this with Ethan and there's an Ethan and a Charlie in this.

Absolute disaster full of sleaze so thick I felt unwell by the end. Baldwin and Toback come off as abysmally as they're presumed to be, they interview Polanski in 2013 and Baldwin talks about how much he loves Allen. They're insanely weird to the women they interview. Their film idea (Last Tango in Paris but in Iraq) is an absolute nightmare and Toback quickly and easily folds to industry officials suggesting changes just to get financed and yet proclaims over and over he's making a great piece of art... so weird, so extremely self-possessed... 

Also they have a shot of Coppola discussing Twixt and how it was about his feeling responsible for his son's death and then they just. Cut away to something else because there's no real story, theme, or goal here outside of showing us how intellectually and artistically important Baldwin and Toback are (despite Baldwin saying at the beginning this isn't an ego trip.... yeah ok). Watching this post Me-Too also interesting since many of them show up in droves here (including Toback).

The stars are for Scorsese, Gosling, and me being sappy seeing James Caan again now that's he's ed.

Sort of an integral film for me because I watched it at like 15 years old with my sister who was obsessed with it at the time and had never seen anything quite like it. Kind of still haven't! The camera as phallic object! As weapon and eye! All audience as peeping toms! Great to think about in relation to Arrebato and Blow Out ...

There was heart to this and moments that warmed my heart but Jack Black's character was so unbelievably grating and the schmaltz was a bit too high for me idk sorry...

Parts of the first two acts got chuckles out of me, particularly Will Poulter but boy does it all fall apart in the last act... could've been a tight 90 and a bit too many plot conveniences for my liking.

My favorite kind of Soderbergh! Loved the opening tracking shot! Loved the espionage! First movie I've seen that's explicitly used the war in Ukraine and has a much more interesting perspective on it and the role of interventionist intelligence agencies? All in all just an extremely Charlie movie... thank you SodyPapa

One of the best straight couples in recent cinema.

This review may contain spoilers.

Thinking about Robin Wood and apocalyptic horror and wondering if the monster truly was "defeated" if its creator (the US government and its interventionist policy) is still at large... Bong shows us at the very end that indeed no. The threat still looms and no lessons are learned.

Absolutely delightful time at the movies. Such a fun action romp! Laughed out loud a few times! Flinched! Whispered "swag" to myself at certain death scenes! I LOVE HAVING FUN AT THE MOVIES!!

Interesting ideas going on here that I love — pregnancy as an abject horror, the body itself as an abject that (especially when you're, say... transsexual) is at once you and not you. Something you cannot fully control no matter how hard you try. And man do you try!

Do I think it explores these ideas as concisely and well as I would have liked? Unfortunately no. Still glad I finally watched it though!

This film is far too sympathetic to that man...idgaf I'll say it: Harry Graham should be put down like a dog.

Words can't express the joy and delight on my face when Wayne Diamond appeared. Uncut Gems mini reunion in a delightfully ideosyncratic baseball indie that truly understands the spirit of the sport and those that love it.

The young girl telling her dad they'd save a baked potato for him at home and him replying he'd bring desert reminded me of going to my dad's softball games and moved me so tremendously.

1. Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie
2. Black Bag
3. Sinners
4. Final Destination Bloodlines
5. Novocaine
6. Eephus
7. Friendship
8. Mickey 17
9. Mountainhead
10. The Monkey

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Z
• Oh, Canada
• Hundreds of Beavers
• Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
• Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
• Persona
• Possession
• Heaven's Gate
• Unforgiven
• 3:10 to Yuma

...plus 94 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Nickel Boys
2. Challengers
3. Sing Sing
4. Anora
5. The Brutalist
6. Nosferatu
7. Hundreds of Beavers
8. Queer
9. Dune: Part Two
10. A Different Man

...plus 50 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

A list of Criterion films I physically own: I have no self control so this list is always growing

• Inside Llewyn Davis
• La Haine
• Eraserhead
• Scanners
• Shallow Grave
• The Darjeeling Limited
• Rushmore
• Bicycle Thieves
• Weekend
• A Hard Day's Night

...plus 106 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

This used to be my top 10...I just have too much love to go around.

Outside of what is in the top 10 vs overall top 20 these aren’t ranked because they are considered my all time faves for completely different and uncomparable reasons.

1. A Serious Man
2. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
3. Rosemary's Baby
4. Stop Making Sense
5. Jaws
6. The Godfather
7. Phantom Thread
8. The Devils
9. La Haine
10. The Player

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Films where every single shot, line, moment, instant feels perfectly placed and executed. Masterclasses. Opuses.

• All That Jazz
• Uncut Gems
• Eraserhead
• The Godfather
• Stop Making Sense
• Phantom Thread
• The Fall
• JFK
• Dawn of the Dead
• There Will Be Blood

...plus 16 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Josie and the Pussycats
2. House of Games
3. Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed
4. The Devils
5. American Fiction
6. All of Us Strangers
7. Anatomy of a Fall
8. Maggots and Men
9. Aftersun
10. Begin Again

...plus 219 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Uncut Gems
2. Parasite
3. Midsommar
4. Pain and Glory
5. Honey Boy
6. John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
7. The Beach Bum
8. The Lighthouse
9. The Last Black Man in San Francisco
10. Booksmart

...plus 31 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

These are movies that are very good but that definitely do not make me feel good at all in any way. They're upsetting and disturbing and make my whole body and mind feel strange afterwards. It's not necessarily that I wouldn't re-watch them but that I understand their motive isn't escapism or to make me feel better about anything. These are the kind of movies that make you look in on yourself at all the really nasty parts. If anything, the main emotions these films evoke are guilt, shame, and dread.
(Recommendations are welcome!)

• Paths of Glory
• Eraserhead
• Snowpiercer
• Man Bites Dog
• Possession
• Angst
• Perfect Blue
• Shame
• Brawl in Cell Block 99
• A Woman Under the Influence

...plus 34 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I really like watching movies with people and watching people watch movies and these are ones I could watch 100 times and think people need in their life. I would cut off my leg if that's what needed to happen for you to watch these movies with me

• Memento
• Ruby Sparks
• Snatch
• Harold and Maude
• Shallow Grave
• John Dies at the End
• La Haine
• A Scanner Darkly
• What We Do in the Shadows
• Being John Malkovich

...plus 13 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Movies that changed my life and my outlook or just played a significant part in my development. A timeline of my life, through film. In chronological order!

• Toy Story 2
• Spirited Away
• The Phantom of the Opera

  Eight years old

• West Side Story
• High School Musical 2
• The Social Network
• The Godfather
• Reservoir Dogs
• Videodrome

  Secretly watching it on the family desktop computer sophomore year of high school.

• Little Miss Sunshine

  Sophomore year of high school

...plus 30 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

[Progress: 14/35]
My watchlist officially has over 2k movies, I can't live like this anymore. So I took this challenge from here :) only thing I changed is that I chose things all currently streaming or owned by me so I can more efficiently clear out this list without having to go searching for an avenue to watch them.

Prompts
✅1. Watch the movie that was added first
2. Watch the movie that was added last
3. Watch the movie that is the longest
✅4. Watch the movie that is the shortest
5. Watch the movie that is rated highest
6. Watch the movie that is rated lowest
7. Watch a movie from the 1950s
8. Watch a movie from the 1960s
9. Watch a movie from the 1970s
✅10. Watch a movie from the 1980s
11. Watch a movie from the 1990s
✅12. Watch a movie from the 2000s
✅13. Watch a movie from the 2010s
✅14. Watch a movie from the 2020s
15. Shuffle your watchlist and watch the first movie that appears
16. Watch a movie from a director you haven’t watched anything from
✅17. Watch a movie that stars one of your favorite actors
18. Watch a movie that stars one of your favorite actresses
✅19. Watch the movie that is the most popular
✅20. Watch the movie that is the least popular
21. Watch the movie that was released the earliest
22. Shuffle your watchlist and watch the first movie that appears
23. Watch a movie from your favorite genre
✅24. Watch a movie from your least favorite genre
25. Watch the movie with the most beautiful poster
✅26. Watch the movie you have been anticipating watching most
✅27. Watch a movie from before you were born
✅28. Watch a movie recommended to you by someone
✅29. Watch a documentary
30. Shuffle your watchlist and watch the first movie that appears

Bonus
31. Happy birthday! Shuffle your watchlist and pick the film the corresponds with you day, month or year of birth (thank you Graham for submitting this prompt!)
32. A film with a full sentence for a title or the longest title you can find on your watchlist (thank you Crawlspace Dweller Matt [♥] for submitting this prompt!)
33. Watch the oldest movie nominated for an Academy Award in any category (thank you Lawrence M for submitting this prompt!)
34. Watch a movie you want to watch in theaters (thank you Shachar for submitting this prompt!)
35. Watch a movie with a person's name in the title (thank you Jurassiarkour for submitting this prompt!)

1. Gran Torino
2. The Painter and the Thief
3. Fear of Disclosure
4. Happy Hour
5. Harakiri
6. Dracula 2000
7. Good Morning
8. The Gospel According to Matthew
9. Aguirre, the Wrath of God
10. The Times of Harvey Milk

...plus 25 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Northman
2. Crimes of the Future
3. TÁR
4. The Fabelmans
5. Women Talking
6. Jackass Forever
7. Barbarian
8. Nope
9. Top Gun: Maverick
10. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

...plus 18 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. All of Us Strangers
2. May December
3. The Zone of Interest
4. BlackBerry
5. Killers of the Flower Moon
6. Poor Things
7. The Killer
8. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
9. Past Lives
10. Anatomy of a Fall

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

• A Serious Man
• Uncut Gems
• Fight Club
• Sky High
• In the Loop
• Jaws
• Fargo
• Braindead
• Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind

...plus 14 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Wes Anderson movies I've seen ranked. To be clear, I love them all and they can't really be compared fairly to each other but this is just my personal preference! Please don't fight me for how high up Darjeeling is on here.

1. Rushmore
2. The Royal Tenenbaums
3. Fantastic Mr. Fox
4. The Darjeeling Limited
5. The French Dispatch
6. Moonrise Kingdom
7. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
8. The Grand Budapest Hotel
9. Bottle Rocket
10. Asteroid City

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

• A Serious Man
• Blood Simple
• Inside Llewyn Davis
• Fargo
• The Big Lebowski
• No Country for Old Men
• O Brother, Where Art Thou?
• Miller's Crossing
• Raising Arizona
• The Hudsucker Proxy

...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Oasis: Knebworth 1996
2. C'mon C'mon
3. The Tragedy of Macbeth
4. The French Dispatch
5. Bo Burnham: Inside
6. Dune
7. The Suicide Squad
8. Licorice Pizza
9. West Side Story
10. The Green Knight

...plus 11 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Loverboy
• Nimic

1. The Father
2. Possessor
3. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
4. Shirley
5. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
6. Spree
7. Uncle Frank
8. Beastie Boys Story
9. Feels Good Man
10. I Carry You with Me

...plus 16 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Saw someone do this and thought it was brilliant? So here's a favorite movie from every year I've existed on this Earth.

• Hercules
• SLC Punk
• Fight Club
• O Brother, Where Art Thou?
• Y Tu Mamá También
• Punch-Drunk Love
• Oldboy
• Saw
• Rent
• Children of Men

...plus 13 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Blade Runner
• Eraserhead
• The Informant!
• Stalker
• Sorry to Bother You
• The Big Lebowski
• The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
• WR: Mysteries of the Organism
• Crank
• The Punisher

...plus 16 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. There Will Be Blood
2. Phantom Thread
3. Magnolia
4. Punch-Drunk Love
5. Boogie Nights
6. Inherent Vice
7. The Master
8. Hard Eight

• The Father
• Possessor
• Shirley
• Spree
• Uncle Frank
• Feels Good Man
• I Carry You with Me
• Horse Girl
• Disclosure
• Palm Springs

...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• A Kiss Before Dying
• The Trip to Spain
• The Cooler
• The Godfather
• To Die For
• Cocktail
• The Art of the Steal
• Badlands
• In the Loop
• While We're Young

...plus 190 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. You Were Never Really Here
2. Roma
3. The House That Jack Built
4. Won't You Be My Neighbor?
5. Blaze
6. The Favourite
7. Eighth Grade
8. Hereditary
9. Wildlife
10. The Miseducation of Cameron Post

...plus 62 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Killing of a Sacred Deer
• Gummo

1. Phantom Thread
2. Lady Bird
3. The Florida Project
4. The Shape of Water
5. Blade Runner 2049
6. Good Time
7. A Ghost Story
8. Baby Driver
9. I, Tonya
10. The Big Sick