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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • Spider-Man: Brand New Day 3/5 - After the last movie brought in all of the people associated with Spider-Man I knew this was going to have to tone everything down and it did. It’s a good Spider-Man movie with an interesting villain, better than most of the MCU stuff right now

    Ice Cream Man (2026) 1.5/5 - It’s in the splatter horror genre like Terrifier which I’ve found to be disappointing in general. Usually there’s an emphasis on over the top gore but it often comes around to being cartoonish because it’s so unrealistic and that’s the case here. Add in AI scenes, child sexualization, and vague racism and there’s not much redeemable here

    The Hobbit (1977) 2.5/5 - Watched this in honor of the new magic set. It’s goofy as hell, but has a lot of hand drawn charm. It’s been a long time since I read The Hobbit but if you told me all the songs in the movie were from the book I’d believe it. The Gollum scene drags on for far too long, but overall I appreciate it as being pretty faithful, if not abridged

    Heat 4/5 - My first time seeing this and it was pretty good. I think an hour of build-up and character building is on the long side for what the movie needed, and the heist itself was a little simplistic for my tastes. Overall still very well executed

    SOULM8TE 2.5/5 - If you’re going to rip off movies like Companion and Ex Machina you gotta do something to differentiate yourself, and the opportunity was right there considering this is (supposedly) in the M3GAN universe. They don’t really bother taking advantage of the crossover and while there are some interesting kills and funny moments, overall they don’t really capitalize on the premise

    The Dink 4/5 - What if we made Challengers palatable for Republicans? I jest, it’s funny, pretty self aware, and manages just enough swerves to keep you engaged. I appreciated that the main character was a fucking moron and that they never redeem that. He is just so dumb. Also John McEnroe is fucking hilarious in every movie he’s in













  • Seven Samurai 3.5/5 - Look, I know that sounds crazy. The last hour of this really is incredible and I’m not opposed to a long or old movie. However before the intermission there’s a lot of retreading ground and hammering the premise into you. It doesn’t help I found several of the samurai annoying along with the constant whining of the villagers

    There Will be Blood 4/5 - This is one of the most American movies I’ve ever seen. Daniel almost immediately identifies Eli as being just as ruthless and craven as he is. They are constantly trying to exploit the other at the expense of everyone around them while both ultimately end up miserable and alone

    Tour de Pharmacy 4.5/5 - Short, hilarious, and everyone is totally fine taking the piss out of bicycling. The old/young versions being separate actors has some very funny payoffs

    A Few Good Men 4/5 - Sorkin is at his best when he’s writing and not writing/directing which is admittedly a pretty lukewarm take. I like the build up to give the court case the punch it needs to close the movie. I would personally move the “code red” scene to the beginning of the movie, it feels out of place as an unlabeled flashback

    M3GAN 3.5/5 - It’s good horror/comedy and does a better job at modernizing Child’s Play than Child’s Play does. I’m excited to see what SOULM8TE does in a few days

    The Matrix Revolutions 4/5 - I would love to sit down and really talk about this with someone. Neo descending to hell to confront the Merovingian (who may be a previous iteration of The One), the dual filming of both movies, where the messiah allegory stops/ends, the INCREDIBLE highway fight scene. There’s so much that’s just so interesting going into this it’s just a shame Reloaded and later Resurrections don’t quite land

    One Night Only 3/5 - Even ignoring the batshit premise of the film it still is held together by insane coincidences that it doesn’t really have the narrative strength to justify. It is funny for most of it, but it’s also surprisingly chaste for being an R rated movie about every single person in the country fucking for 12 hours. I think I saw a single woman’s nipple in the whole thing and neither of the main characters gets seriously nude in the entire thing