Zack Rippy Crew

Favorite films

  • Signs
  • E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
  • Rebecca

All
  • Wings

    ★★★★★

  • Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

    ★★★½

  • Mission: Impossible II

    ★★½

  • Mission: Impossible

    ★★★★½

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Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

2024

★★★★ Liked Watched

I believe a man could fly.

SpaceCamp

1986

★★★ Liked Watched

Watched with the the youngest today when storms canceled our afternoon plans. What a nostalgia rush! This movie was my childhood dream scenario. Without a doubt! Kids today do not get films like this. 

A couple random notes after my first complete viewing as an adult. 

- I don’t know how John Williams was persuaded to score SpaceCamp, but the music is glorious
- We absolutely do not give kids enough credit today nor trust them to grasp context. There…

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Wings

1927

★★★★★ Liked Watched

Blown away by this. The prototype for so many melodramas that came after, and yet it remains one of the best almost 100 years later. Why did it take me so long to finally watch this?

Mission: Impossible

1996

★★★★½ Liked Rewatched

Man, I forgot how great this is

Also, Dreams by The Cranberries exists in-universe.

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I Like Movies

2022

★★★★½ Liked 1

Terrific. Couldn’t have loved this film more. Instant favorite.

Also:

“Jimmy Fallon. Not funny at all. He breaks in every sketch, ruined the Weekend Update…I miss Norm.”

No truer words have ever been spoken on screen.

Barbie

2023

★★★ Watched

A visual wonder. I couldn’t dream up a better way to portray this world on screen. Barbieland here is a delightful spectacle and infinitely clever.

I have to say that if I never see Will Ferrell in another role like this again, it’ll be too soon - and I generally like him but here, he seemed to be playing a slightly more “grown up” version of Buddy the Elf. Huge misfire. He annoyed me every time he was on screen. Ferrell…