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      Agreed. I’ve only gone to the movies twice in the last 2-3 years and I am soo very glad I managed to drag the wife out for spiderman.

      It was fantastic. Recency bias completely but I really do think it’s better than the first.

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    Donnie Darko. It was cool tho I had to ask my partner to explain what happened at the ending lol

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    The Banshee of Inisherin, I really enjoyed it. Very odd and funny in an uncomfortable, uneasy way. I especially enjoyed Kerry Condon as Siobhán, her performance was a great emotional counter point to the dead pan comedy between Colm and Pádraic.

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      That was also mine, didn’t really have a clue about what it was going in (other than it had Nick Cage in) and enjoyed it pretty much all the way through, great movie!

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      When they’re tripping in the car, I was laughing my ass off. That movie was way better than it had any right to be.

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      I just watched it too. Really enjoyed it over the second and third.

      I felt they did a better job of setting the mood and scene than the previous ones.

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        Are you talking about the first one or the 4th? After I watched the third I gave up on the franchise, it was so bloody awful in every way. The first one was a good film and it had been going downhill since

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    Across the Spiderverse. I really like Mile’s story… But I was a little disappointed by how slow paced the story seemed to be imo. Nothing got resolved. The whole movie was a lead up for the ending. Really disappointed with how the studio overworked artists (although that’s par for the course these days) and how shitty the audio was before they finally fixed it. Music didn’t live up to the first movie. The first movie has music that works great as stand-alone songs, but the second movie’s soundtrack just sounds like a soundtrack.

    I still enjoyed it though. I’d give the first movie a 9/10 and the second a 7/10.

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    The latest Dungeons and Dragons film. I’ve never played the game and know nothing of the lore but found it to be pretty enjoyable.

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    I watched Tokyo Drift and Fast X back to back. Finished Tokyo Drift and loved it, felt like an actual movie with 3 acts. I made it a bit over an hour into Fast X before quitting, I honestly don’t know what I was expecting after the 9th one.

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    My dad had on Starship Troopers earlier and it was definitely much scarier to me a decade ago. I cannot say it’s the best sci-fi film I’ve ever seen, but it’s pretty decent.

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      It’s a pretty smart film in the context of when it was made and the political situation in the U.S. I remember when it was released a lot of people were pissed at it, it performed pretty poorly.

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    John Wick 4. Seemed like 2 uninterrupted hours of people shooting one-another in the face. I only made it 30 minutes.

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      It was probably a bit minimal in the story department, but I thought the cinematography was outstanding, especially in the last hour or so. That one-shot sequence in the building was probably one of my favourite sections in any movie I’ve seen recently.

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      I had another experience. The power of the first John wick movie was the very simple story of a man loosing his dog and his car, to an orgasmic vengeance bullet bukkake.

      Four is the other way around. The story is so complicated and, too be honest, weak, that all the fantastic fight choreography in the world can’t offset it. It gets boring as you’re not even remotely emotionally engaged.

      I will treat the wick saga like I did with the matrix. There is only one, shame they didn’t shoot a sequel.

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    The last one I saw in theaters was Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. It was gorgeously animated and detailed, and I’m excited for Beyond the Spider-Verse.

    Last night I torrented a camrip of The Flash. It wasn’t terrible, but the ending kinda dissappointed me. (I’m not sure how to put spoiler tags on Lemmy, so for now I’ll just leave this comment as it is.)

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    Last one I really liked was Valerian. Kind of a hokey sci-fi, but good story and engaging. I actually liked the lead characters a lot.

    Last one I can’t believe I watched was John Wick 4. I mean I knew what it was going to be like. Was almost three hours long with thirty minutes of actual story, the rest just shooting and fighting, but I had to see it, just like the three before it.

    One thing that was really cool about John Wick 4 is there’s a set of scenes where he’s driving a 1971 Plymouth 'Cuda. I had that exact car with all the performance options except the Hemi engine (had a 440 six pack engine). It’s by far the favorite of all cars I’ve owned. I found it in the mid 80’s wasting away in a garage and restored it. To this day I think I should have kept it, found a way to store it properly. The whole time I was thinking don’t you dare destroy that car, but it looks like they CG’d all the crashes. I’m sure the owner would never let them damage that priceless car.