One Sentence Media Reviews
Compared to the impeccable Parasite, Bong Joon Ho creates a new film totally different in setting and style and yet totally similar in pace and wackiness, absolutely delightful and political, a true celebration of the average midwit dude, and yet maybe not meant to be read into too deeply.
Not really a movie designed for me, since I’m not a big fan of baseball or related endeavors, but this was a poignant look at a small slice of a small town in a big small moment, and as such it felt really real.
It’s a mediocre action movie and perfect for scrolling through if that’s what your brain requires (and it gets kinda macabre by the end in a cool practical effects way), and also another mass media example of ex-special forces troops becoming criminals.
This Buster Keaton short has some classic moments and also makes no sense and is stressful but also I enjoyed every bit of it.
I’ve tried three times to get through this dumb netflix action thriller but the idiot plot repels me each time, like a magnet, so far I’m only at 45 minutes, but hopefully I stop trying.
This kind of old school engineer nerdiness was a lot more common 50s-80s then it is now, but I do recommend this quick read from 50 years ago for a funny and ironic look at why LLMs are not going to save the world.
I dunno why I watched this, the first one was bad, but hey sometimes a little pain is good for the soul, which is definitely what happened here.
exceedingly dumb movie that i think i watched once before but it was so forgettable i’m not even sure
This weird classic is great for being weird, great for being family-friendly but interesting, great for weirdly enough having a plot about an anti-tram pro-freeway conspiracy, and it’s funny it took me this long to see it for the first time.
Honestly this old thriller really pulled me in from the moment it started, then in the middle I thought it was getting a bit too dramatic, but it turned out I should have had more faith because by the end it made perfect sense and i loved it.
As horror movies go it’s so obvious and unoriginal, but on the other hand people doing creepy smiles is definitely the scariest thing ever, so if you like feeling scared it’ll probably do that.
mel gibson is a terrible director and nobody should watch this but if on the off chance you find yourself exhausted on a saturday afternoon and want something totally brainless to complain about to a loved one you could do worse.
Another hilariously bad movie from the Boonta Vista podcast extended movie lore universe, Pontypool is very Canadian and very silly, and I can't really recommend it because it doesn't work in any way, but I guess if you are like, drunk with friends and hoping for a dumb horror movie to watch that isn't very scary but does have some gore, you could do worse.
I really like Eisenberg and Stewart in American Ultra so I gave this a chance but really woody allen should’ve stopped in the 70s; this was short but felt long, just schlocky, overdone, boring, self-indulgent, unbelievable, and annoying.
It’s sad when a really creative, different approach to modern storytelling falls a little flat, since so many movies today are so cookie-cutter and I’d love to see more weird ones, but parts of this one definitely worked and it was truly creative so a mild round of applause is due.
Hilariously so-bad-it’s-good slasher horror flick with immaculate late 90s vibes that in 90 minutes somehow manages to create a very poorly explained lore around haunted traveling ships and a demon with soul quotas.
As a person of faceblind it’s hard for me to follow a movie with 2-3 identically haired/aged/raced/gendered people, but i hung in there and enjoyed this deep look at pope stuff - it’s true what everyone says, it seems like it would be boring, but if you watch it at 1.75x speed it really pulls you in.
Even though I guess in hindsight the whole "outsider coming to show us how our society is silly and helping people disconnect and appreciate creation" thing is a well-used trope, this 90s french film does it so so damn well, it's just gorgeous, and beautiful, and every moment of it was perfect and funny and nice, and I loved it.
I thought Greyhound was good but not great; I liked that it was taut and near real-time, but the narrative flow was a little janky and underwhelming, and by golly if this wasn’t the most serious movie, sheesh.