movies

Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza League 5/5: WOW! This movie just oozes style, and for the fact that it opens up with a yakuza typhoon, it somehow all makes sense in the end. Way better than the first one

Justice League: Doom 4/5: I had mostly avoided DC movies outside the DC Animated Universe and Tomorrowverse but after Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza League I wanted more. Pretty good, I don't know the source but all of these felt like believable ways to stop the Justice League

I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) 1.5/5: It's a good thing everyone is hot in this because it's just kinda boring. The kills aren't super interesting and the plot is a little overly complex for a weak payoff

Jurassic World Rebirth 1/5: You can't just blast the Jurassic Park theme song anytime you want me to feel an emotion, it might work once or twice, but if you use it when we're supposed to be sad, happy, scared, and excited, it loses the punch. These stories also continue to make very little sense

For A Few Dollars More 4/5: Just classic western goodness. Obviously parts of this didn't age well but the story is good, and I like the kinda homoerotic tension between the leads. I didn't realize The Man With No Name used karate in fights

A Fistful of Dollars 3.5/5: I'm not a fan of having the bad guys stop beating the main character up before killing them for no reason other than they're the main character. The bad guys are all fine killing unarmed men they don't know, Clint screws them over and they just beat the shit out of him

The Iron Giant 4/5: This, like Batman Ninja vs Yakuza League, blends different animation styles as visual shorthand to tell you where the characters are originally from. I think it's a great technique that really pops on screen. It helps that the story is great and the characters are very well written

They Live 4/5: Really campy and fun. Roddy and Keith are hot but holy shit that fight in the middle of the movie is like 30 minutes long. It doesn't make sense but kinda in the same way The Substance doesn't, but it doesn't matter because it's clearly making one singular point. Also the message is 100% accurate