{"user":"nil","url":"https://nil.moe/profile/nil","generatedAt":"2026-09-16T05:15:31.814Z","lists":[{"type":"films","title":"Films","count":1527,"entries":[{"id":"322682678021448268","title":"2001: A Space Odyssey","status":"Completed","score":10,"releaseYear":1968,"runtimeMinutes":149,"directors":["Stanley Kubrick"],"actors":["Keir Dullea","William Sylvester"],"genres":["Science Fiction","Mystery","Adventure"],"completedDate":"2012-02-29","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"2001 is one film never to forget. Whatever your opinion about the film is not so much a statement about the work but about your opinion on what enshrines good art. It is, in essence, an artistic statement. It begs you to question what exactly comprises excellent aesthetics, simple fundamental questions, chilling atmospheres, and one of the most infamous paces of all time.\n\nOne of the most prominent features in 2001 is its unholy atmosphere, violently surging throughout the work to remind you of the stark chaos of the universe. This is powerfully enhanced by its visuals, which is unlike anything I've ever seen. Similarly, its eerily crescendo'd arias are one of 2001's primary tools in leaving you in a state of shock and disarray. Combined with its sparse dialogue in comparison, the film keeps the broad detached view from humanity as the pivotal lens while interpreting the work.\n\nShadows and more generally lighting in its cinematography. Excellent emphases.\n\nI love that one of 2001's many ideas is to test our criteria for what forms a good narrative. However, literally spending 10 minutes in intervals watching simple events occur in slow motion is really quite trying, and I can't say that its exotic pace is what I find to be a strength of the film. In other words, I have mixed reception with how well this actually works on paper, i.e., are these intermissions really necessary? While I find the attempt at a bewildering pace praiseworthy, it is not something I would actually like to see in a film. Do they dilute the more focused content, or do they enhance and/or guide it? I must say I'm of the former opinion.\n\nOne of my main problems with this procedure is that if often fails to capture my attention. With 2 and a half hours of such slow moving objects, my mind runs rampant with thoughts about other going-ons in my life all completely irrelevant to the film. In other words, I occasionally forget that I'm even watching something because 2001 pulls in inordinate lengths of time for trivial events such as a spaceship docking, and a large amount of that time simply watching it descend (i.e., quite literally a vertical up-to-down motion; nothing very beautiful at that). Yes, I realize he's emphasizing the sheer beauty of the event (very well to be the case as from its luscious visuals). However, this only goes so far before you get tired of it, and I would have preferred the same slow pacing but not nearly as slow as it is currently. I may as well be looking at a still photograph rather than be watching a film which prioritizes motion and sequences of events over stillness and--henceforth to be caustic--stagnancy. Beauty from film should also incorporate and sometimes even prioritize aesthetics of motion; 2001 is empty of that. Remember the last portion of the show where it delves in madness and delusional paradoxes of age and interplanetary travel? Now that deserved its slow pace to accomplish, being one of the greatest moments in all of film history. Morevore, there is infinitely more beauty to marvel at within its motions. A spaceship docking? Not so much.\n\nAbsolutely adore the innovations in its science, whether they be sci-fi effects or even simple ideas regarding contemporary culture, clothing, and furniture.\n\nAnother element adding to the horror aspect of the show is that the monolith is so fundamentally grapsable yet mysterious at the same time. This goes hand in hand with cosmic horrors in Lovecraftian tales, where the central \"villain\" is something that remains an elementary, portentous concept. However because it is so universal, this is what guides our subconscious into feeling appalled.\n\nThe same goes with HAL, who despite the vast amounts of superintelligence imposed in his system, has a simple exterior featuring only a red light beaming out from a circular plexiglass. His very calm monotone is already unhinging enough. There's something human about his voice but it's also so technically mechanical it falls right into the pit of uncanny valley.\n\nAs with all Kubrick films, you can see how meticulously carved each shot of the work is, and this is so promptly necessary for a technical genre such as sci-fi. Unlike more objective sources as in comedy, Kubrick's very particular focus is perfect\n\nThe following are excerpts from articles I find thought-provoking and worthy to read.\n\nA quote from Wikipedia:\n\"In a subsequent discussion of the film with Joseph Gelmis, Kubrick said his main aim was to avoid \"intellectual verbalization\" and reach \"the viewer's subconscious.\" However, he said he did not deliberately strive for ambiguity- it was simply an inevitable outcome of making the film nonverbal, though he acknowledged this ambiguity was an invaluable asset to the film. He was willing then to give a fairly straightforward explanation of the plot on what he called the \"simplest level,\" but unwilling to discuss the metaphysical interpretation of the film which he felt should be left up to the individual viewer.\"\n\nI absolutely feel the same way about this work just as much as I do with similarly intensive art pieces: Tenshi no Tamago, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Serial Experiments Lain, the list goes on.\n\nHere is a quote from a source: http://whatculture.com/film/10-common-criticisms-of-2001-a-space-odyssey-and-why-they-have-no-validity.php, excerpted here:\n\"You miss what must, surely, be the core criticisms of the film: it is a sledgehammer, lacking subtlety, wit or real intelligence and that the most central question – the origin of intelligence – is bollocks. The film is dressed in philosopher’s clothes, but it’s fundamental premise is on the level of a stoned conversation between two freshmen students: “hey man, what if we only evolved because, like, aliens did it with monkeys?” Nonsense. A throw away idea in a five page story by a hack writer from the bad old days given the full Hollywood treatment.\n\nThe partnership of Kubrick and Clarke is one formed in story-telling hell. Both eschewed depth and characterization so the progeny of their union – 2001 – is full of shallow, badly drawn characters and HAL. You argue that this is a discourse on machine intelligence, but as such it is valueless, as neither Clarke nor Kubrick knew what such a thing would be like; we still don’t. As an investigation into created life 2001 offers up about as much as Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein. The anti-reductive message of that book is lost on modern, secular, audiences as Clarke’s notion of machine psychosis is lost. Sure, computers could go mad, but would they? Would computer madness look so much like human madness? If so, why? Without the whys a speculative work is just let’s pretend. Stripped of it’s cod philosophical trappings, that’s all 2001 is: let's pretend.\n\nI’ll accept that visually it’s quite pretty, but if you’re looking for painterly look at Tarkovsky (The Mirror especially). The pace is ponderous, but that’s an SK trademark; all his films are slow. As for it being pretentious, it really is. All that dreadful 19th century music crow-barred in to make it seem like art,what could be more pretentious than that?\n\nTop ten most over-rated films of all time, but still better than Star Wars.\"\n\nI don't exactly agree with this because I feel 2001 deals more with elementary concepts that subtly enter into one's subconscious, and as with all other pretentious-lite work which deal with simple themes, that is all it does. This is perhaps the most difficult task to accomplish well in art. However, I can certainly empathize with this point of view and it is not like I haven't thought this several times over the course of my viewing.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/62"},{"id":"322682678021423692","title":"Barry Lyndon","status":"Completed","score":10,"releaseYear":1975,"runtimeMinutes":188,"directors":["Stanley Kubrick"],"actors":["Wolf Kahler","Ryan O'Neal"],"genres":["Drama","History"],"completedDate":"2014-02-28","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Ebert calls Barry Lyndon \"aggressive in its cool detachment\". I'm bound to agree. It is elegant, sumptuous, but alien. Ultimately, it is about ambition---in all aspects of life, whether it be livelihood or romance---and this is why I likely attach to it so much. Barry Lyndon captures a story profoundly emotional yet distant. Coupled with an omniscient narrator, masterful cinematography, soundtrack, and arcting, the story has its share of satirical comedy, strong characters, and tragedy.\n\nMemories:\n\n+ One of the most touching presentations of a child's first love, and a deft way to add sly humor and culture into it.\n+ The satire in the grace that any brutality takes place in. Graceful dialogue to follow a robbery. Soldiers marching senselessly into fire in perfect lines. The sheer brilliance and order of every scene.\n+ The soundtrack, the eye fucking, the audience groans in the background over gambling, the caretaker taking notice and silently judging. The five years in the army really killed his romantic passion, thinking of no more than wealth and stature.\n+ The stillness of so many shots. Like a painting.\n+ The overture music, particularly at key moments like the eye fucking scene or Bryan's memorial or the staff credits. I've been partial to such music ever since Neon Genesis Evangelion\n\nI love the use of impersonations, travel, chance promotions, and change in setting.\n\nVery endearing narrative style. Reminds me much of David Copperfield in romance, youth, and lighted passion.\n\nI quite like Kubrick's spin on the ending rather than the original as well, the latter of which seems almost overkill for tragics.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/3175"},{"id":"322682678021378636","title":"Farewell My Concubine","originalTitle":"霸王別姬","status":"Completed","score":10,"releaseYear":1993,"runtimeMinutes":171,"directors":["Chen Kaige"],"actors":["Gong Li","Leslie Cheung"],"genres":["Drama"],"completedDate":"2014-12-19","updatedDate":"2022-02-06","notes":"Utterly sublime. From the most emotional backstory to to the sweet allegories soaring and weaving into their lives, to the way their trauma affects their livelihood—even the usage of paralleling current events as transitions in the play, and additional commentaries sweeped into the story.\n\nIt's also an insightful use of homosexuality and transexuality, creating an absolutely enthralling love triangle. I adore the emphasis on Dieyei's backstory to reinforce and better motivate the theme; as he became forced to the role, it forced his life up to the point of his sexuality.\n\nThe last half hour on the Cultural Revolution with Xiao Si was a bit trying, but who cares. It's envigorating with its brutality and atmosphere, capturing attention from beginning to end. It certainly shocked mine.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/10997"},{"id":"322682678021254732","title":"Stardust Memories","status":"Completed","score":10,"releaseYear":1980,"runtimeMinutes":89,"directors":["Woody Allen"],"actors":["Sharon Stone","Cynthia Gibb","Daniel Stern","Charlotte Rampling","Judith Roberts","Tony Roberts","Brent Spiner","Jessica Harper","John Doumanian","Woody Allen"],"genres":["Comedy","Drama","Romance"],"completedDate":"2017-02-04","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I love it in so many more ways than 8 1/2. Everything in the film captures an alement so touching to me personally. I feel like this is Woody Allen at its best. It depicts his comedy so well, with the various flashbacks and movie showings. And it continues in his tragedies, as he often murks around between what is truly Woody Allen and what is fiction—in this case, an affair between an older, more mature woman and a younger and attractive one. The realism, the surreliasm, life and death overtones, the jazz, the way the cinematography comes and goes as a focal point, I can't tell what I love most about the film.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/11337"},{"id":"322682678021331532","title":"3 Women","status":"Completed","score":9,"releaseYear":1977,"runtimeMinutes":124,"directors":["Robert Altman"],"actors":["Shelley Duvall","Sissy Spacek","Janice Rule","Belita Moreno","Mary Carver"],"genres":["Drama"],"completedDate":"2015-07-25","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"The allusions—Emma, Shiya—I don't know what to think. If I have any words to document my response, I can only say that I'm disturbed.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/41662"},{"id":"322682678021406284","title":"8 ½","originalTitle":"8½","status":"Completed","score":9,"releaseYear":1963,"runtimeMinutes":139,"directors":["Federico Fellini"],"actors":["Claudia Cardinale","Marcello Mastroianni","Barbara Steele","Anouk Aimée","Sandra Milo","Sonia Gessner"],"genres":["Drama"],"completedDate":"2014-03-02","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Cute dancing camera. Great use of space in every shot. Wonderful imagery and blend of the present, memories, and imagination.\n\nBasking in silent motion picture at times, pretty much akin to its Italian tradition of dubbing in voices during the edditing.\n\nGuido is a shameless man, and one lost in his thoughts to return to the womb. He has idealistic notions that never return true, and he is unable to accept it.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/422"},{"id":"322682678021199436","title":"A Brighter Summer Day","originalTitle":"牯嶺街少年殺人事件","status":"Completed","score":9,"releaseYear":1991,"runtimeMinutes":237,"directors":["Edward Yang"],"actors":["Chen Shiang-Chyi","Chang Chen","Wang Chi-tsan"],"genres":["Crime","Drama","Romance"],"completedDate":"2017-04-11","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"\"Here is a prime example of a film that defines itself, for better or worse, as a truth-telling spokes-work for an entire cultural state of youthful being.\" A Bright Summer Day is a powerful rendering of Taiwan at its time, viewed from the perspective of a boy coming-of-age, but also from characters around him. As a first-generation Vietnamese-American I often connect to its themes. On one side, there are those that affect all from individual to society at large: the disconnect and response to American versus native (mainland Chinese) culture as refugees, the general feeling of inferiority in response to the overall ongoing war and pursuit of identity, immigration. On the other, it's how these turmoils mix with coming of age: street gangs and bullying, friendship, security and turmoil in romance, the strive for education while handling a slew of other priorities such as helping friends and family, family communion. Friends come only through benefits and proximity; here, implicit that Si'r's best friend is due to him sitting next to him in night school and his relatively harmless persona. Si'r has a need to stand up for what's right—as instilled by his father's teachings—and can't stand the corrpution in his life even when he realizes just how unpure his previous romances might actually be.\n\nI love the multi-faceted characters, where no one is truly pure but a mixture of their environment's distillings. Ming becoming a needy woman who has multiple affairs fleshes her our more than the inert character she was before. Sly matures and owns up to his actions. I love their diversity, from the singers to the mature yet dangerous outcasts. It really emphasizes just how much one better appreciates life by sometimes needing to deviate from the prescribed standards. The ending, with Si'r's desire to findomsone he can latch onto and \"save\", just really appeals to my own overly idealistic tendencies, often pointing inward to my own selfish turmoils and neediness. I spent hours after the film just wandering around my apartment contemplating in all, a little even bawling.\n\nNovelistic. The film's length documents narrative more as a novel than a standard feature film. This provides so many more layers of depth and perspective in the film. It's films like this that leave me stupefied. I'm sitting here just unable to do anything but ponder my life and surroundings relative to the film. It basks you so much into the story of Taiwan you wonder what you can really get out of it. Fuck I'm depressed. Must all truly great films always do this to me?\n\nI love the motifs, residues that only subtly come up. As another reviewer puts it (http://www.movingimagesource.us/articles/endless-summer-20090518): \"A Brighter Summer Day is filthy with symbologies—Yang's strategy is offhand realism organically run through with thematically resonating details. Taiwan being Taiwan, virtually everything suggests fundamental dislocations: the residue of the Japanese (\"Eight years of war with Japan,\" Si'r's mother gripes, \"now we live in a Japanese house and have to listen to Japanese music\"), the ubiquitous American pop (the film's title is a line from Elvis Presley's \"Are You Lonesome Tonight?\"), the random passing of Army tanks, the frequent blackouts, the Americanized gang monikers (Honey, Threads, Sex Bomb, Underpants, etc.), the giant ice blocks seen long before we understand what they're for (suspected radicals are made to sit on them by state interrogators while writing their confessions), the movie being shot in the studio next to the school that never actually seems to get underway, the huge net of secrets maintained by virtually every character, and even the father's old tube radio, which must be tilted up on one side by books in order to receive a signal.\"\n\nI found it hard to keep track of the many characters. I paused many times to cross reference which specific character was doing what in certain scenes.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/15804"},{"id":"322682678021201484","title":"Apocalypse Now","status":"Completed","score":9,"releaseYear":1979,"runtimeMinutes":147,"directors":["Francis Ford Coppola"],"actors":["Harrison Ford"],"genres":["Drama","War"],"completedDate":"2017-04-10","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Wow. I love the ominous feeling in this film. The soundtrack. Dark tones. Grit. Unreliable mature characters. Absurdity of specific events. The purposefully glossed over tragedies and racism. The narrative structure. The context for the film is also amazing, released just 4 years after the end of the war.\n\nI love the somber, whiny music overlaying the narrative. Reminds me of Saya no Uta.\n\nI love the Odyssey feeling, and with Dennis Hopper playing essentially an apparition.\n\nThe whole monstrosity set from an American's perspective reminds me just how slanted much of my media's knowledge of the war is based on them. What about films more indigenous, from the native's perspective, or the losing side? And not necessarily about simply tragedy for families and friends lost. I feel like this is more appropriate than just a bunch of people who come over and get scarred even though they're on the winning side, with significant more technology, arms, backup, home support, letters to write and radio, etc.\n\nI watched the redux version. It's great. I like it how meanders, with the focus on Vietnam in a dreamy absurdism, taking individual episodes to point out particular concepts (such as the French plantation scene). That said, I can see how it detracts from the more gorey, raw essence that the film is better at with the condensed version","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/28"},{"id":"322682678021365324","title":"Chungking Express","originalTitle":"重庆森林","status":"Completed","score":9,"releaseYear":1994,"runtimeMinutes":103,"directors":["Wong Kar-Wai"],"actors":["Tony Leung Chiu-wai","Takeshi Kaneshiro","Brigitte Lin","Valerie Chow","Faye Wong"],"genres":["Drama","Comedy","Romance"],"completedDate":"2014-12-28","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Quirky, hilarious, surprisingly deep and representative of the youthful urban life. It's a smatter of emotion and liveliness, tossing us into thought by seeing the characters deal with love without being explicitly narrated. It isn't as ambitious in atmosphere as In the Mood for Love, and it doesn't aim to be as direct as Days of Being Wild. The work seeks to represent life as it goes on and it's hard to see such a better way to do so than this ephemeral yet cheerful film.\n\nLove the outfit that she has. It's like a costume as a different alias. There's also a freneticism to its energy. And a ceremony, with the passers-by and the ritualistic 12am feeling of the environments. Like it's about the city and situation more so than the individuals. The repeated songs.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/11104"},{"id":"322682678020470348","title":"Donnie Darko","status":"Completed","score":9,"releaseYear":2001,"runtimeMinutes":114,"directors":["Richard Kelly"],"actors":["Jake Gyllenhaal"],"genres":["Fantasy","Drama","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2017-08-13","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"The film captures angst very well. From atmosphere to day-to-day living in the suburbs in some state in America in the 80s. Even the transfer student trope, really sticking it John Hughes late 80s dramas. How real-world circumstances and his inability to control the oppression in his life leads to him to become detached from reality. The therapist says it best at 1:03:00. It's interesting how one-sided the story is in telling his perspective and with few ambiguities. It's clear he's a bright but disturbed child, willing to speak his mind against stupid teachings and ignorance. Even the slice of life is better than John Hughes dramas, with hilarious scenes such as Patrick Swayze giving these ridiculous instructional videos, or Donnie and his friends discussing the sexual situation with Smurfs.\n\nI enjoy the social commentary on philosophies of teaching, posing two polar opposites in education from the old stubborn lady to younger teacher. \"I am sorry that you have failed.\"\n\nAt the more abstract level, I just love its swaths of crazy, with time travel, the 6 foot tall talking bunny, the crime, the translucent worm hole things coming out of people's chests, that crazy lady.\n\nI love the soundtrack from choices in the pop to the original scores with more moody atmospheric. On a technical level, the film is very well shot, e.g., the meta shots with Jake staring at the camera. Or the students analyzing the role of the rabbits.Acting is also great: Jake Gyllenhaal is amazing as always, especially for such a young breakthrough time in his career. THe voiceover with the ominous imaginary friend is great. Maggie is quite pretty in this one. He has great parents too.\n\nWow, damn that unraveling at the ending with all the twists and turns. Eva style. Makes total sense that it's all a dream considering his delusions of grandeur, standing up to people he hates like the schoolteacher and the assemblyman. The girl to protect and fuck. With that said, the ending is a little too blatant.\n\n(I watched the director's cut.) I liked the commentary by Chris Stuckmann (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyePnQTYCG8).","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/141"},{"id":"322682678021418572","title":"Harakiri","originalTitle":"切腹","status":"Completed","score":9,"releaseYear":1962,"runtimeMinutes":135,"directors":["Masaki Kobayashi"],"actors":["Tatsuya Nakadai","Shima Iwashita","Yoshio Inaba"],"genres":["Action","Drama","History"],"completedDate":"2014-03-09","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Love the nonlinear technique, almost as if it's an even better polished Rashomon in both themes and narrative complexity. The ambiguity of truth in the storytelling is so wonderfully done in particular. There's always a bit of suspicion to be had at every one's actions. It is a simple backstory, perhaps intentionally in order to add suspicion to whether the man is lying or not, but it increasingly becomes more and more layered as the inevitable comparisons arise. Rooting for the man's death quickly goes the other way around when you start to realize the situation.\n\nDepth in the pictures and shadows. Excellent textures. The battle feels a little fake in its acting but it doesn't take too much from the grandeur of the film's impact.\n\nSituational ethics, the touting of the samurai code only when they have a proper bed and nutrition—Harakiri presents itself as an aggressive story pointing out the hypocrisy of it all. Even the counselor realizes this as he takes casualties as \"illness\", touting samurai honor only by name and not by reality. He realizes this of course, and can do nothing but look on as the film presents blood spilled on the Iyi symbol. They truly add evidence to the idea that samurai honor is a facade.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/14537"},{"id":"322682678021474892","title":"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest","status":"Completed","score":9,"releaseYear":1975,"runtimeMinutes":135,"directors":["Miloš Forman"],"actors":["Christopher Lloyd","Jack Nicholson","Brad Dourif","Danny DeVito","Louise Fletcher","Vincent Schiavelli","Anjelica Huston","Scatman Crothers","Michael Berryman"],"genres":["Drama"],"completedDate":"2013-11-21","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"\"What do you think you are, crazy or something?\"\n\nNicholson and crew play the greatest crazies in town. What's so psychologically profound about the whole film is the loose filter separating insanity from the sane. Each meticulous shot of the work presents another glimpse onto the characters' impact unto others as well as them selves.\n\nJack Nicholson's lead dynamic manages to keep the show on a fine balance between farcical nonsense and drolling dreck. There's so many disturbing elements to the work compounded onto the mundane; it breathes such soul into the work quite often on a mindbend driving the concept of life and reason itself.\n\nThe SS Crazy rumbles on, a patient fumbles to get on board clinging to the rial, and blissful bubbles of music pour on through as the ship drives on by.\n\nWhat's so great about this film are each of the small slices of scenes taking a trivial event and blowing it up to something so visually and mentally enthralling. The oppression reigns over the work and glops you into its ending. A bit of a shame the comedic route made its later ending just a bit too questionable.\n\n\"The edgy nature of the film extends into the score, giving it a profoundly disturbing feel at times -- even when it appears to be relatively normal. The music has a tendency to always be a little off-kilter, and from time to time it tilts completely over into a strange little world of its own ...\"","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/510"},{"id":"322682678021507660","title":"Psycho","status":"Completed","score":9,"releaseYear":1960,"runtimeMinutes":109,"directors":["Alfred Hitchcock"],"actors":["Janet Leigh","Alfred Hitchcock","Simon Oakland","Anthony Perkins","Virginia Gregg","Patricia Hitchcock","John Gavin","Martin Balsam"],"genres":["Horror","Thriller","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2007-09-30","updatedDate":"2024-04-04","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/539"},{"id":"185ccbab-9e37-4156-814f-20ace019fb87","title":"Pulse","originalTitle":"回路","status":"Completed","score":9,"releaseYear":2001,"runtimeMinutes":119,"directors":["Kiyoshi Kurosawa"],"actors":["Koji Yakusho","Jun Fubuki","Koyuki","Kiyoshi Kurosawa","Kumiko Aso","Shun Sugata","Kenji Mizuhashi","Show Aikawa"],"genres":["Horror","Thriller","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2017-02-18","updatedDate":"2024-04-04","notes":"That dreamy state, those unnerving long and zoomed out shots. Kiyoshi is so good at capturing an other worldly horror. Eerie rackets, abrupt scene shifts. The isolation is done really well, separating out the cast from anything aside from its cold, hard buildings and technoshit. No surprise element whatsoever. Subtlety is its forte.\n\nRegarding visuals alone, man oh man it's so good. It takes a filtered grungy hue for the majority of the film, with select elements highlighted for emphasis such as the foreboding red tape locking the Forbidden Room.\n\nYabe-kun saying 'Help me' at ~59:00. Holy fuck, that's so scary with earphones on. It sounds like someone really breathing down and whispering it into your ear. I got goosebumps.\n\nNarrative-wise it is excellent, interweaving two different storylines really well. Pacing is excellent; it's very Japanese to start slow and quickly devolve into chaos. I love how it shifts from a ghost story to apocalypse at large. Subtle clues and symptoms percolated in. Brief expositions. Everything just follows through naturally.\n\nThe commentary on social isolationism in the era of millenial Japan is so well-depicted. I would love this film even if I didn't find it so damn scary. It's the combination that forces its horror. The internet as a place to try to connect with others but ultimately producing the opposite effect is ahead for its time.\n\nIn reading online discussion about the film, I dislike how others seem to characterize it as a horror film, or rather if the film succeeds or fails because it is meant to horrify you. I think the film does so much more than this, and the atmospheric sort of nightmare feeling—akin to Miike but more masterful, Lynch but more coherent, Kubrick but horrifying—is what sets this film apart.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/27324"},{"id":"322682678021440076","title":"Raise the Red Lantern","originalTitle":"大紅燈籠高高掛","status":"Completed","score":9,"releaseYear":1991,"runtimeMinutes":125,"directors":["Zhang Yimou"],"actors":["Gong Li"],"genres":["Drama"],"completedDate":"2013-12-14","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Wow. The film is silent at most times and yet their glares and simple movements have such powerful character to them.\n\nIts allegorical nuances with its red lanterns and strict customs are astounding, and the resolute oppression is truly graspable. Deep red under turgid musty walls of dirt; the knocking of the feet message. This is what a film's glorious audiovisuals can do no other medium cannot.\n\nAwe-inspiring visuals and its use of sound effects. Sumptuously textured and musically paced objects.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/10404"},{"id":"322682678020350540","title":"Shoplifters","originalTitle":"万引き家族","status":"Completed","score":9,"releaseYear":2018,"runtimeMinutes":120,"directors":["Hirokazu Kore-eda"],"actors":["Moemi Katayama","Yuki Yamada","Kengo Kora","Mayu Matsuoka","Sakura Ando","Aju Makita","Kairi Jyo","Chizuru Ikewaki","Sosuke Ikematsu"],"genres":["Drama","Crime","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2019-02-12","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"What a heartbreaking story. I did not expect I would like this movie as much as I did when I started it. What a slow burn. The girl's slow reveals of her abuse just punches you in the heart. Nobody goes to school. Osamu's accident during his construction work is treated lightly but with rather daunting implications about the dangers they live in. The injury isn't \"enough\" for compensation. The ending is just too sad. Contemporary Japan just can't understand their situation. Sakura Ando is a stellar actress. The cast overall is great, but she really has the greatest performances.\n\nAnd yet, beyond the surface-level unfortunatities, they live happier as a family than most you can say in Japan. It's a ragtag bunch bonded by their moments and secrets than filial ones. It's a surreal experience. The only major ties are Osamu and his wife Nobuyo, and her younger sister. They bond through all the little things regardless of their situation.\n\nhttps://www.thedailybeast.com/prize-winning-shoplifters-japans-pm-hates-this-movie-because-its-just-too-true: \"As the film gradually unfolds, you began to understand how these “family” members are all connected and the secrets they keep from each other. It also shows something very rare in Japanese films and in modern Japanese life — an almost happy family. The father comes home for dinner, he talks to his son and daughter. Mom and Dad have mutual affection, they have conversations with each other —and when the kids are away, they even have rambunctious sex. (Some surveys show that 50 percent of married couples in Japan are sexless.)  When the boy reads a book out loud, the family listens.\"\n\nThis post linking Shoplifters in the context of Japan is insightful (https://www.reddit.com/r/japan/comments/a5a96a/explain_shoplifters_to_me_in_a_japanese_context/ebl7jjo/). In particular, it refutes Japan's notion of strong blood ties, simple-minded evil criminals (shoplifying, illegally living off a pension, technically abducting a child, working at a peep shop), and the recession.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/505192"},{"id":"322682678021443148","title":"The Godfather Part II","status":"Completed","score":9,"releaseYear":1974,"runtimeMinutes":202,"directors":["Francis Ford Coppola"],"actors":["James Caan","Al Pacino","Robert Duvall","Robert De Niro","Diane Keaton","Talia Shire","John Cazale","Kathleen Beller","Ivonne Coll","Sho Kosugi"],"genres":["Drama","Crime"],"completedDate":"2013-12-10","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Excellent sense of cultural identity and through its span of many discrete cities all of which are resplendent in their own diversity.\n\nStronger character progression also coming from what we are aware of from The Godfather I.\n\nLack of diverser cast and its establishment of supporting roles, which slightly weakens the impact of such people as Vito Corleone's past, or with Michael's family.\n\nMichael's ruthlessness is phenomenally pictured here, especially with the conflicts running in his head. You can truly feel with him as he has no one else, whether it be his wife who no longer loves him or his even more depressed and few remaining siblings.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/240"},{"id":"322682678021492300","title":"There Will Be Blood","status":"Completed","score":9,"releaseYear":2007,"runtimeMinutes":158,"directors":["Paul Thomas Anderson"],"actors":["Paul Dano","Ciarán Hinds","Kevin J. O'Connor","Daniel Day-Lewis","Kevin Breznahan","Dillon Freasier"],"genres":["Drama"],"completedDate":"2007-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-02-06","notes":"I watched it again on 2020-08-07 with Danny, Sanky, Mom, and Dad. Most noticeable are the cinematography, excellent pacing and character story with the tragedy that is Daniel Plainview, excellent acting (including Eli), and horrifying soundtrack to define tension. Daniel Day Lewis' gripping acting in key scenes are so excelltn: beating down Eli, the baptism, the final scenes. I like the repeated speeches: the rehearsed speech about being a family man at the beginning toward later during the oil rendering with the Sunday family; and the confession from Daniel to Eli at the final scene.\n\nI love the dialogue scenes, with Daniel clearly being miserly in the way he relays information to others. And I love the series of betrayals with the way he latches onto H.W., then his supposed brother, and then back onto H.W. Eli as a preacher is an excellent foil to him.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/7345"},{"id":"322682678021384780","title":"Ugetsu","originalTitle":"雨月物語","status":"Completed","score":9,"releaseYear":1953,"runtimeMinutes":96,"directors":["Kenji Mizoguchi"],"actors":["Machiko Kyō","Kinuyo Tanaka","Masayuki Mori"],"genres":["Fantasy","Drama","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2014-12-14","updatedDate":"2022-02-06","notes":"Disturbing, lovely lighting, amazing sound effects. Ugetsu is a haunting experience. My few complaints come only from its very structured storytelling.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/14696"},{"id":"322682678021380684","title":"A City of Sadness","originalTitle":"悲情城市","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":1989,"runtimeMinutes":158,"directors":["Hou Hsiao-hsien"],"actors":["Tony Leung Chiu-wai","Tai Bo","Chin Shih-Chieh"],"genres":["Drama","History"],"completedDate":"2014-12-18","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Incredible. It's astounding in its recording of Taiwan's terror. Bliss transcendence in short moments such as Hinome and Wen-ching listening to a German folk song. Use of culture, language, and rigid shots. Incredibly understated and subtle, particularly with the mute and the long distant shots leaving things unsaid and implied.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/49982"},{"id":"322682678021485132","title":"A Clockwork Orange","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":1971,"runtimeMinutes":137,"directors":["Stanley Kubrick"],"actors":["Malcolm McDowell","Richard Connaught","Katya Wyeth","Gillian Hills","Vivienne Chandler","Miriam Karlin","Warren Clarke"],"genres":["Science Fiction","Crime"],"completedDate":"2011-09-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/185"},{"id":"7ae7b15a-5569-498a-922e-bdab80c72bf2","title":"Addams Family Values","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":1993,"runtimeMinutes":94,"directors":["Barry Sonnenfeld"],"actors":["Christina Ricci","Joan Cusack","Anjelica Huston","Christopher Lloyd","Raúl Juliá","Christine Baranski","David Krumholtz","Carol Kane","Carel Struycken","Tony Shalhoub"],"genres":["Comedy","Family","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"2022-12-14","updatedDate":"2022-12-15","notes":"Comedic and an adventure all the way through. It's not high brow, but the style is on point. You can also see why Wednesday is such a favorite. She gets all the precocious and smartass joke lines.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/2758"},{"id":"322682678021368396","title":"Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":1972,"runtimeMinutes":95,"directors":["Werner Herzog"],"actors":["Klaus Kinski","Helena Rojo","Edward Roland"],"genres":["History","Adventure","Drama"],"completedDate":"2014-12-27","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Great colors and composition, excellent pacing and storytelling, with precisely carved conflicts among themselves, nature, and Indians. Aguirre is an enigmatic and interesting [main character who is also the villain]","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/2000"},{"id":"322682678021499468","title":"Amadeus","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":1984,"runtimeMinutes":160,"directors":["Miloš Forman"],"actors":["Cynthia Nixon","Simon Callow","F. Murray Abraham","Vincent Schiavelli","Jeffrey Jones","Elizabeth Berridge","Tom Hulce","Dana Vávrová","Kenneth McMillan"],"genres":["Drama","History","Music"],"completedDate":"2011-09-30","updatedDate":"2022-03-19","notes":"Rewatched it on March 18. Boy does it age well, and I appreciate it even more in its story.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/279"},{"id":"322682678021500492","title":"Annie Hall","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":1977,"runtimeMinutes":93,"directors":["Woody Allen"],"actors":["Sigourney Weaver"],"genres":["Comedy","Drama","Romance"],"completedDate":"2011-09-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/703"},{"id":"322682678020255308","title":"Apocalypto","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":2006,"runtimeMinutes":139,"directors":["Mel Gibson"],"actors":["Rudy Youngblood","Gerardo Taracena","Iazua Larios","Dalia Hernández","Morris Birdyellowhead","Raoul Max Trujillo","Antonio Monroy","María Isabel Díaz Lago","Abel Woolrich"],"genres":["Action","Drama","Thriller","History"],"completedDate":"2020-06-16","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I love the visual imagery of both the original jungle-like areas followed by the stark contrast of colors and desolate ruins of Mayan society. The story is a standard one but gripping. And that it's all explained by imagery and action, not with exposition. The idea of starting from the decline of Mayan society is great: and the depictions of disease, dry crops, and range of society (slaves to poor to royalty). The waterfall scene. The slow-mo scenes.\n\nIt clearly has Western influence, particularly in its cinematography and way the story is told.\n\nThe pregnant woman and child stuck in the well seemed like unnecessary maiden to save bullshit. Or the eating tapir balls.\n\nDamn. They got some running endurance.\n\nI'm surprised by the mixed to negative reception of the film, and lack of awards. It's clearly influenced by Mel Gibson himself being such a character. But the artistry in the film is great.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1579"},{"id":"322682678020356684","title":"Ballad of Buster Scruggs","originalTitle":"The Ballad of Buster Scruggs","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":2018,"runtimeMinutes":132,"directors":["Joel Coen","Ethan Coen"],"actors":["Liam Neeson"],"genres":["Western","Comedy","Drama"],"completedDate":"2019-01-25","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Miserable but whimsical. Classic Coen Brothers. I love the wordlessness of the many short stories. THey're all so well-done in setting, characters, narrative. I love the sparse dialogue in general for each story, whether it be zero words for a character or with just a focus on 2 at most in a story.\n\nTake \"The Girl wWho Got Rattled\" for example. The prequel(?) scene setting up funny dialogue. The brother suddenly dying. The Chekhov's gun with the dog. The majority of the dialogue setting up a dynamic between Alice and Bill. The Indian action resolving the dog scene and with an unfortunate second death.\n\nA highlight of the movie: the banker wrapped in pans in \"Near Algodones\"; Tom Waits shouting \"Good night Mr. Pocket!\" in \"All Gold Canyon\"; the trapper's monologue in \"The Mortal Remains\"; the hilarious dialogue of \"The Mortal Remains\", as if to compensate for the sparse dialogue elsewhere in the film.. and with its purgatorial allusions.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/537996"},{"id":"bc689989-19e3-4e33-b597-f574bc21059e","title":"Barbarian","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":2022,"runtimeMinutes":103,"directors":["Zach Cregger"],"actors":["Bill Skarsgård"],"genres":["Horror","Mystery","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2022-10-31","updatedDate":"2022-11-01","notes":"This was a real surprise from me. Hadn't expected anything and thought from the premise that it would be a run of the mill horror flick. I didn't know there would be solid actors and directing. It was a joy ride in narrative breaks.\n\nDetails\n\n+ It was quite fun to watch the movie's mix of horror and comedic elements. It's like an American take on a South Korean thriller tradition.\n+ The police inaction. Now that's some realism.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/913290"},{"id":"442ad056-31ae-4671-9deb-1457caf86d4f","title":"Barbie","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":2023,"runtimeMinutes":114,"directors":["Greta Gerwig"],"actors":["Ryan Gosling","Margot Robbie"],"genres":["Comedy","Adventure","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"2023-10-15","updatedDate":"2023-10-17","notes":"Comedy is great.\n\n+ It's easy to see why this is a top grossing movie given how it appeals to all ages and yet still has various film connoisseur appeal with its various references and excellent cinematography.\n+ Casting Ryan Gosling as a Ken bimbo is hilarious.\n+ I like the reverse twist of Barbie land and the real world, where the real world is dominated with patriarchy and Barbie land being the reverse.\n+ It's also surprisingly direct, for example, the girl explicitly calling out Barbie's usual flaws with its rampant consumerism and unrealistic body portrayals.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/346698"},{"id":"322682678021236300","title":"Barking Dogs Never Bite","originalTitle":"플란다스의 개","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":2000,"runtimeMinutes":110,"directors":["Bong Joon Ho"],"actors":["Kim Roi-ha","Bae Doo-na","Lee Sung-jae","Byun Hee-bong","Kim Ho-jung"],"genres":["Comedy","Crime","Drama"],"completedDate":"2017-03-11","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"fuck thats an amazing slice of life. the dark elements, the hilarity, the sojourning of off chance characters kn their own off kilter antics. running as a motif. what an amazing film. the play back to previous storytelling devices such as the conversation about dogs, the car ear. god damn, those weird ass characters such as the hobo or the janitor. everything comes together so well.the jazz tones. i love them especially during the action scenes","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/21531"},{"id":"322682678021447244","title":"Barton Fink","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":1991,"runtimeMinutes":117,"directors":["Joel Coen","Ethan Coen"],"actors":["John Goodman","Steve Buscemi","Frances McDormand","William H. Macy","John Turturro","Judy Davis","John Mahoney","Richard Portnow","Tony Shalhoub","Jana Marie Hupp"],"genres":["Comedy","Drama","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2013-12-04","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Excellent portrayal of isolation. The Barton Fink hotel is simply iconic. Its staged such that you only are ever shown his room, the hallway, and the one time he visits the lobby room to register. Other hotel residents are implied to exist by the various noises constanty interrupting Barton's thoughts, but you never see any indication of them past the noises or the shoes always littered in the hallway. The aura of the hotel is as if on the brink of life and death, stuck in time with damp, murky green colors and a drippy ambience. It feels like a living and breathing motel, basically a ghost ship.\n\nStolid progression\n\nstrong character development\n\nBarton Fink is full of sly humor. Barton seems shy and hesitant at first, and yet begins to rant passionately about his work and then ironically begins to intimidate Charlie instead. The mosquito bites as well are a subtle way of implied actions as well as bagged eyes, and simple glances at the ruined walls. Or when Charlie keeps on slapping Barton when he passes out.\n\nI love how its storytelling always remains concentrated and yet it had the ability to fluidly enter so many genres.\n\nGreat acting by both main characters.\n\nCostume designs are great too, with Barton wearing a drab brown mono-color suit at all times, and with a plain white undershirt to state his mundanity.\n\nThe lashes at several themes are all consistently strongly themed, e.g., the noir element, Fink's craving for the \"common man\". Love of the irony lashing of Barton's egotism.\n\nHollywood deception and great lines by that guy.\n\nNihilistic anticlimactic ending.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/290"},{"id":"322682678021340748","title":"Black Coal, Thin Ice","originalTitle":"白日焰火","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":2014,"runtimeMinutes":106,"directors":["Diao Yinan"],"actors":["Gwei Lun-mei","Liao Fan"],"genres":["Drama","Crime","Mystery","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2015-02-22","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Love the pacing and solemn vibe.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/255756"},{"id":"322682678021435980","title":"Blade Runner","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":1982,"runtimeMinutes":118,"directors":["Ridley Scott"],"actors":["Harrison Ford"],"genres":["Science Fiction","Drama","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2013-12-28","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"One of the first aspects one may notice from Blade Runner is its outstanding lighting effects, which very much preserves its dark and interrogative atmosphere. It is noir as much as science fiction, with the shadows taking the most attention in its overall presentation, and the crime and character motives being the most important component of the story. The vacant sound in its effects, scores, and dialogue also makes Blade Runner feel empty and soulless, complemented by its slow pacing.\n\nIt is highly detailed design in its scifi setting—grunge and metropolitan from its diverse peoples, clothing, architecture, and shops. I also adore the cyberpunk nuances which wields a stark contrast in futuristic designs and rusted older objects. The setting as a whole is extremely urban and the dystopian mood is forever looming from the handle of crime by the police. Natural environments and animals as well are all replaced by artificial ones. Earth is machinated, hinted even further as being a subprime location brimming in poverty and where only those unable to afford the commute remain there.\n\nThe dystopian premise is a bit stereotypical but likely because of its own seminal influence. The story's setup is rather generic with Deckard being a retired detective, known as a \"Blade Runner\" here, being forced to resume his job.  Fortunately, its meticuluous script layers its simler setup especially with its subtle mechanical dialogue and character expressions.\n\nThe implications of what it means to be human is very implicit from the many discussions coming from the humans and Replicants and the morality, particularly Rachel questioning her emotions or in the main Replicant's desire to elongate his life and his anger causing him to kill his \"father\". The ambiguity of Deckard's genetics continues to drive this question as well, though not nearly delved as well here as in the novel. The maniacal nature of the villain and sorrowful Rachel certainly expresses more emotion than ever exerted by any human in the film.\n\nA bit too slow-moving in its pacing, dialogue, and more generally, its consequential nonhappenings, e.g., without anyone to feed dialogue to Deckard or extras much of the mood is left to be implied from the atmosphere. Usually this is excused for, for example its slow panoramas excused by its extreme detail in its culture, but it still feels a bit lacking in this aspect.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/78"},{"id":"322682678021203532","title":"Bottle Rocket","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":1996,"runtimeMinutes":91,"directors":["Wes Anderson"],"actors":["Owen Wilson","James Caan","Luke Wilson","Lumi Cavazos","Andrew Wilson","Julio Cedillo"],"genres":["Comedy","Crime","Drama"],"completedDate":"2017-04-08","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Wes Anderson's style shines through, a literary chic comedy with character-driven drama and quirks to drive the plot. His use of flat, colorful texturs gives it a fun idiosyncrasy, alongside chapters to break the narrative, symmetrical shots. I love it. (A shame he often repeats this gimmick for his later films with little new. This is certainly the least gimmicky of them all.) A good example is his use of perspective: I love the shots where Anthony is talking to his little sister. And the repeated use of the bathrobe.\n\nThe characters are all unique, with their own quirks and sense of style. The simplemindedness adds to their charm. I would watch a whole TV show about their adventures. Their dynamics are just so amazing. Each can play up their own ridiculousness, while Anthony can also play as the straightman. I've never seen comedy like this before. It's like the humor comes deadpan non-delivery and absurd situations.\n\nThings like the climax make this film head over heels better than other Anderson films.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/13685"},{"id":"322682678021494348","title":"Casino","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":1995,"runtimeMinutes":179,"directors":["Martin Scorsese"],"actors":["Sharon Stone","James Woods","Joe Pesci","Robert De Niro","Claudia Haro","Steve Schirripa","Joseph Bono","Richard Riehle","L. Q. Jones","Melissa Prophet"],"genres":["Crime","Drama"],"completedDate":"2010-10-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/524"},{"id":"322682678021429836","title":"Chinatown","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":1974,"runtimeMinutes":130,"directors":["Roman Polanski"],"actors":["Jack Nicholson","Faye Dunaway","Diane Ladd","Bruce Glover","James Hong","Burt Young"],"genres":["Crime","Mystery","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2014-02-25","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Great role for Jack Nicholson, and his repeated drive in pursuit of a conflict he's had to fight over previously.\n\nCool motif of impersonation, from a woman pretending to be Mrs. Mulwray to Gittes pretending to be Deputy Chief. Also the underpinning of the water supply as a nuanced rape.\n\nThe pace is solidly driven to give a splendid mystery. The story as a whole is visually and audibly enthralling. Love the ending too. I swear if I weren't so bothered by the one-sidedness of the villain, the film would be the crime drama, not Scorsese's Casinos.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/829"},{"id":"8e8dbd5c-5cf7-465d-ba28-7cea1131f033","title":"Cure","originalTitle":"キュア","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":1997,"runtimeMinutes":111,"directors":["Kiyoshi Kurosawa"],"actors":["Koji Yakusho","Yoriko Doguchi","Ren Osugi","Makoto Togashi","Masato Hagiwara","Denden","Yukijiro Hotaru","Shôgo Suzuki","Tarô Suwa"],"genres":["Crime","Horror","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2016-04-29","updatedDate":"2024-04-04","notes":"Horrifying in a lurid distant way.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/36095"},{"id":"322682678021416524","title":"Days of Being Wild","originalTitle":"阿飛正傳","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":1990,"runtimeMinutes":94,"directors":["Wong Kar-Wai"],"actors":["Tony Leung Chiu-wai","Carina Lau","Anita Mui","Maggie Cheung","Leslie Cheung","Andy Lau","Jacky Cheung"],"genres":["Crime","Drama","Romance"],"completedDate":"2014-03-10","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Love the lurking feelings in each scene. Very homey atmosphere. It's remarkable to see just how well certain characters' backstories ground their current personality. The whole film feels like it's drifting ever so painfully from one scene to the next. Days of Being Wild portrays that lone emotion we've all faced before, and under brilliant light.\n\nOne way it does this is vacant silence suffocating the rooms. The other is the single interactions, conversations rarely with more than two people in the room. The film itself is shot so beautifully in this musk tone and unsteady framing.\n\nThe narrative itself is all too weak, almost just like Shinkai's works in forms of strength and weaknesses. The work would have founded these emotions better had it portrayed the complexity grounding these characters' emotions more than the simple premises it lays down. Yet, the ending feels so powerful and resounds into our emotions.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/18311"},{"id":"3ba71eb0-720e-4bab-92c6-ea06005ebc5a","title":"Decision to Leave","originalTitle":"헤어질 결심","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":2022,"runtimeMinutes":139,"directors":["Park Chan-wook"],"actors":["Tang Wei","Go Min-si","Park Hae-il","Go Kyung-pyo","Jung Yi-seo","Lee Jung-hyun"],"genres":["Thriller","Mystery","Romance"],"completedDate":"2022-12-23","updatedDate":"2022-12-24","notes":"Excellent police procedural as expected of Park Chan-Wook. It also combines intrigue with romance and a longer timeline. The timeline with multiple mysteries kind of reminds me of Pentiment.\n\nDetails I liked:\n\n+ The insomnia motif. I love these types of character details. Same with the woman's Chinese background and the use of her phone to translate specific sayings.\n+ The food motif in the beginning during the courting and later with the corndog.\n+ The police sidekicks. Their relationship with the main character is always hilarious.\n+ Scene transitions. These really quite creative.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/705996"},{"id":"322682678021212748","title":"Deconstructing Harry","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":1997,"runtimeMinutes":96,"directors":["Woody Allen"],"actors":["Elisabeth Shue","Tobey Maguire","Kirstie Alley","Paul Giamatti","Jennifer Garner","Robin Williams","Demi Moore","Tony Sirico","Bob Balaban","Julie Kavner"],"genres":["Comedy","Drama"],"completedDate":"2017-04-02","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Deconstructing Harry is a centerfold in Woody Allen's drama. It demonstrates his layered understanding of human psychology to create memorable, connectable, dispassionate characters. With Woody Allen's razor-sharp humor and rambling monologues he can make an insightful work of art addressing nuanced issues troubling individuals in modern society. I really connect with the protagonist's self-centered, narcissitic attitude to life. It's classic Woody Allen drama but with unique devices to showcase it. The use of flashbacks and introspection is great, and I love how well-written his various distances from relationships are (some purely professional and alien, such as with hookers, and others more warming but highly variable, such as with his significant others). The bleaker dark humor shines through, and emphasis on brilliance through writing over joy in life is blatant.\n\nThe various characters that play pieces of his life, the fact that the written stories are his own wish for how the scenes actually play out—these all add layers to how to he perceives his relationships. It goes a long way to understanding Harry: his quirks, lack of faithfulness, phobias, everything. I especially love how mixed fiction and reality are, like in the scene when he first meets Fay, and how the names continue to be mixed. How even the small stories such as the blur transition into other pieces of his relationship—I love it.\n\nThe comedy is low-key but amazing. This is the comedy I live for. In one scene, Woody Allen, a dead body, his soon, and a hooker are in a car headed to honor Woody. The setup is bananas. How they arrived at that situation is so well done too: the script makes it deliberate just all the various paths that led to this scenario, with him inviting various people due to his neediness for companionship.\n\n'Are you fuckin' nuts?' Love the Woody Allen accent of Brookyn Jews. The movie is quotable all the way through. 'Tradition is the illusion of permanence.' 'So why are you making a fuss? Some bury; some burn; I ate.'","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/2639"},{"id":"322682678975461964","title":"Dune","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":2021,"runtimeMinutes":155,"directors":["Denis Villeneuve"],"actors":["Zendaya","Rebecca Ferguson","Jason Momoa","Javier Bardem"],"genres":["Science Fiction","Adventure"],"completedDate":"2022-04-30","updatedDate":"2022-05-01","notes":"What a faithful adaptation. Having read the book recently, it's interesting to see how Villeneuve portrays its scene, and which of the many details in the book to streamline for the sake of a 2.5 hour film. It's hard for me to judge the movie's pacing since I already know the story and its worldbuilding from the book. The book's early pacing was atrocious.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/438631"},{"id":"322682678020328012","title":"Eat Drink Man Woman","originalTitle":"飲食男女","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":1994,"runtimeMinutes":123,"directors":["Ang Lee"],"actors":["Gua Ah-leh","Yang Kuei-Mei","Wu Chien-Lien","Chen Chao-jung"],"genres":["Comedy","Drama","Romance"],"completedDate":"2019-04-01","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Love the 90s fashion, cultural family values, and what they find sexually appealing. I think it's a riot. It really adds perspective to how circumstantial a lot of what we value today in 2019 is. I love how different the three sisters are each of which challenge traditional Chinese culture: the oldest Jia-Jen is being mature and pious as a high-school teacher, mending a broken heart; the middle child Jia-Chien is career motivated and independent; and the youngest child Jia-Ning is in college just sorting out romance and with a part-time job. Mr. Chu is a widower who pampers a family friend woman's daughter. The Sunday dinner table is just ripe for interpretation as it evolves from the traditional setting to topics the parents can no longer provide assistance with. There's so much depth to each character. Mrs. Liang acts like a lot of my aunts and uncles. She's brutal in her lectures about husbandry, age, not knowing family member names, etc. Jesus.\n\nThe way the first two daughters leave the family. LOL. I'm so surprised it's the middle one that ends up being the most developed and relatable. Then the reveal with Mr. Chu and Jin-Rong. Then Jia-Jen's husband is baptized. Mr. Chu truly breaks family traditions, fooling us to think of the grandfatherly relationship to Shah-Shah.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/10451"},{"id":"322682678021412428","title":"Fantasia","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":1940,"runtimeMinutes":124,"directors":["Samuel Armstrong","James Algar","Bill Roberts","Paul Satterfield","Hamilton Luske","Jim Handley","T. Hee","Wilfred Jackson","Ben Sharpsteen","Norman Ferguson","David Hand","Ford Beebe Jr."],"actors":["Walt Disney"],"genres":["Animation","Family","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"2013-11-27","updatedDate":"2024-03-16","notes":"Not particularly keen on the abstract imagery, which does not generally match with the music as much it can. The Sorcerer's Apprentice is maybe the greatest short, and the fact that the music was created for the animation means a whole lot here. Everything in the scene breathes the music, whereas Fantasia's remaining shorts are little more than fluffy decorations. Still, I admire the inventiveness that Fantasia tries for, and it works several times, for instance when they use the spectrum line to imagine the music.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/756"},{"id":"322682678020351564","title":"First Reformed","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":2018,"runtimeMinutes":113,"directors":["Paul Schrader"],"actors":["Amanda Seyfried","Ethan Hawke","Cedric the Entertainer","Michael Gaston","Christopher Dylan White","Victoria Hill"],"genres":["Drama"],"completedDate":"2019-02-10","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"What a striking character drama. I love the spartan look. What a beautiful place. Reminds me of my own places. :-) His outcry at Esther after the scheduling for the gastroscopy is hilarious. Love his reliance on introspection and alcohol. Even his bathroom looks pitiful. Tiny toilet. Small sink and mirror hunched in a corner. The shots of Ethan Hawke warded in a Reverand's clothing and a suicide vest is so interesting. The shots were just so still. I love the lighting in the film overall too. That ending with the song playing as they passionately kiss.. Then the cutout. I just smiled gleefully as it went on at how well-done that is. Story-wise, I can see Toller's descent towards extremism, and an almost peculiar take on environmentalism as a stance for him to continue hating himself.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/458737"},{"id":"322682678021511756","title":"Full Metal Jacket","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":1987,"runtimeMinutes":117,"directors":["Stanley Kubrick"],"actors":["Vincent D'Onofrio","Ed O'Ross","Stanley Kubrick","Adam Baldwin","Arliss Howard","Tim Colceri","Matthew Modine","David Palffy"],"genres":["Drama","War"],"completedDate":"2002-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/600"},{"id":"322682678020474444","title":"Gone Girl","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":2014,"runtimeMinutes":149,"directors":["David Fincher"],"actors":["Rosamund Pike"],"genres":["Mystery","Thriller","Drama"],"completedDate":"2017-08-11","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Narrative is great. The diary to tell her perspective and with Nick as thep protagonist establishes both sides really well. The characters are all well-established with the ongoing mystery leading to more knowledge about their relationship. Like Prisoners and Zodiac, I love how suspects constantly come and go, inverting audience's expectations. The twists in the story. The ending from the end shot contrasted to the first. It's all so amazing.\n\nThe under-the-surface feeling of her going beyond Amazing Amy, both uncovering hidden aspects of their marriage. The theme of relentless media and their biased viewpoint.\n\nThe sprinklings of comedy across the film really take you for a roller-coaster. Reminds me of Japanese horror.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/210577"},{"id":"322682678020266572","title":"Good Time","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":2017,"runtimeMinutes":102,"directors":["Benny Safdie","Josh Safdie"],"actors":["Robert Pattinson"],"genres":["Crime","Thriller","Drama"],"completedDate":"2020-03-20","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"The Safdie brothers sure know how to portray tension and surprise. Frontal shots. Anxiety-ridden scenario one after the other. Point of view of a few singular characters. Characters you can feel for. Getting the wrong prisoner out of the hospitla is a hilarious fuck-up. I can't believe half of the film is about the consequences of that.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/429200"},{"id":"322682678020495948","title":"Goodfellas","originalTitle":"GoodFellas","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":1990,"runtimeMinutes":145,"directors":["Martin Scorsese"],"actors":["Kevin Corrigan","Samuel L. Jackson"],"genres":["Drama","Crime"],"completedDate":"2017-07-08","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Very much like Casino.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/769"},{"id":"322682678021453388","title":"Hannah and Her Sisters","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":1986,"runtimeMinutes":107,"directors":["Woody Allen"],"actors":["Michael Caine","Barbara Hershey","Dianne Wiest","Mia Farrow","Julie Kavner","Carrie Fisher","Daniel Stern","Max von Sydow","Tony Roberts","John Turturro"],"genres":["Comedy","Drama"],"completedDate":"2013-11-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Excellently crafted homely atmosphere, really digging into the mundanity of their lives and their pursuit for happiness. Hannah and Her Sisters is redolent of all those slow, drifting moments you've experienced in your life, jutting out conflict after conflict while never certain if the means are even heading anywhere. The family is intelligent, and their urban environment stems them toward romantic flings and solemnly darker drama. The film portrays every character's problems, even ones otherwise insignificant in the storyline such as Hannah's mother and father, under its neutral discerned light.\n\nI absolutely love just how well each person's story meshes with the rest of the family's. The branches in the storyline make for excellent subplots standalone and yet they go even further in meshing together phenomenally. Woody Allen in particular playing a hypochondriac is so fitting. His whiny tone, his panic attacks, everything. It's priceless the way his scenes play out, almost as an intermission between the drama brewing among the sisters. The NTR romance is fantastic too. All the characters are so meticulously constructed, whether it range from all the sisters to Michael Caine's clumsily hilarious lines.\n\nThe monologues by all the various characters at different times and the single sentence sprawled onto the screens once in a while. The brooding pace and lazy camera. All of these are so great in painting the picture. Also love its integration of music to help define the characters.\n\nMy only complaint is that Hannah and Her Sisters spends so much time building up its drama through meandering plots that it has no time to release its pent smoothly. Solutions are eventually forced to appear out of thin air (e.g. Lee finds someone else and marries within a year later, Mickey just happens to meet Holly and marry within a year later to squeeze by as a role at the end, and Elliot falls back in love with Hannah because, well, why not right?). While it also addresses the big question with Hannah that she's simply too giving and rarely shares her own problems with others, the film never made the next step in showing how Hannah overcomes this. It simply passes by just as with the rest of the story, and it could have unified the various branches more strongly had the film spent a little more time characterizing Hannah as well as it does the rest of her sisters.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/5143"},{"id":"322682678021314124","title":"Hateful Eight","originalTitle":"The Hateful Eight","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":2015,"runtimeMinutes":188,"directors":["Quentin Tarantino"],"actors":["Samuel L. Jackson"],"genres":["Drama","Mystery","Western"],"completedDate":"2016-04-01","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I watched the extended version (TV release) in 2021. What a joy this film is!","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/273248"},{"id":"322682678020231756","title":"Hell or High Water","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":2016,"runtimeMinutes":102,"directors":["David Mackenzie"],"actors":["Taylor Sheridan"],"genres":["Western","Crime","Drama"],"completedDate":"2020-12-01","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"This is some hillbilly Texan stuff: cowboys and indians, casual Native American and mexican racism, divorced cowboy and his exconvict brother robbing banks for frontier justice to pay back, lots of beer, sassiness. The overall depiction of the story from scene to scene and pacing is excellent. The point about banks taking land away from whites being analogous to whites taking it away from Native American is a good one, civilians with guns, church sermons, the brutalness of the violence, folks not selling out the brothers to be against the banks such as their lawyer or car seller, Dr. Pepper. The actors are all excellent.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/338766"},{"id":"322682678021527116","title":"Inglourious Basterds","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":2009,"runtimeMinutes":153,"directors":["Quentin Tarantino"],"actors":["Brad Pitt","Mike Myers","Samuel L. Jackson","Michael Fassbender"],"genres":["Drama","Thriller","War"],"completedDate":"2009-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"So many scenes are on point: the scalping, all the scenes with Christoph Waltz, especially the one where he just laughs at Brigitte's face when she claims she got the new cast from mountain-climbing; the bar scene; the Hans Landa negotiation; the cinema fire. Tarantino is also so good at enrichening his brutal action with comedy. And unpredictable deaths. That's half what makes Tarantino films so good.\n\nI like how in the end it represents three plot thread perspectives: the Americans, the British, and Shoshanna representing the European Jewish. The ending is also pretty representative of the three cultures: the Americans take over the British's plan, almost fail entirely, and take all the glory; the British devised the plan but incur all the casualties; and the Jewish trekked it alone and will go through history unnoticed.\n\nI also like the more subtle aspects: for example, Shoshanna's real love interest being a black Frenchman; Hans Landa possibly being gay with the radio operator (was this deliberate? \"I made a deal with your general for that man's life!\"); and the noose scar on Aldo's neck.\n\nTo me, this is the like the typical Tarantino film with its iconic ramp-up in brutality, acting bravado with especially memorable scenes, peculiar fetishisms, and homage to a particular culture or industry. Almost like Coen Brothers and Wes Anderson, Tarantino films to me are like the best film for a college student, or for watching as a dinner movie. They don't get all that deeper or sadder than their surface appearance. It's mostly fun, often brainless albeit truly well-shot, action.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/16869"},{"id":"da657e7d-78d2-4bbd-94ff-bed8a9c62089","title":"Jackie Brown","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":1997,"runtimeMinutes":154,"directors":["Quentin Tarantino"],"actors":["Samuel L. Jackson"],"genres":["Crime","Drama","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2024-03-31","updatedDate":"2024-03-31","notes":"Solid heist and plot twists. I didn't expect a happy ending in a Tarantino movie.\n\nSlow but still good. Not super gratuitous to be well-known among Tarantino movies. Still some feet. And it's a story about aging criminals.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/184"},{"id":"322682678020298316","title":"John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":2019,"runtimeMinutes":131,"directors":["Chad Stahelski"],"actors":["Keanu Reeves"],"genres":["Action","Thriller","Crime"],"completedDate":"2019-12-02","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Lore and symbology of the various items is anime-ish and great as usual. But I love the fight scenes especially in the film. Killing a guy with a book. The glasses arsenal scene next in the antique store (possibly the best fight in the film). The hotel fight was also great; John Wick killing the enemies felt like fighting OP mobs. Love the variety of fights from combats to weapons. And the comedy.\n\nI don't know about Halle Berry in the action scenes. She's rather clunky. The fight scene in Morocco was not good.\n\nHoly shit. The Raid stars??\n\n\"In the first two movies you hear about him killing people with a pencil, then they go ahead and show you it in action. In this one they are like, \"ok how can we top that\", then they kick things off with him killing someone with a book. 10/10 film\" Yes! https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/bp20f1/official_discussion_john_wick_chapter_3_parabellum/?sort=top","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/458156"},{"id":"322682678021345868","title":"Kagemusha","originalTitle":"影武者","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":1980,"runtimeMinutes":180,"directors":["Akira Kurosawa"],"actors":["Tatsuya Nakadai","Kaori Momoi"],"genres":["Action","Drama","History","War"],"completedDate":"2015-02-14","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Incredible musical scores, exciting narrative. Powerfully rendered scenes.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/11953"},{"id":"322682678020290124","title":"Knives Out","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":2019,"runtimeMinutes":131,"directors":["Rian Johnson"],"actors":["Ana de Armas","Joseph Gordon-Levitt"],"genres":["Comedy","Crime","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2020-01-14","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I adore the characters (excellent acting all across), the well-paced mystery rife with funny bits and a family charm, the accents. I don't think I've ever seen comedy so well intermixed with the mystery. Daniel Craig and Ana de Armas particularly stand out. I love how the story almost evolves Death Note-style with the nurse following Daniel Craig's character. Completely did not expect Marta to stand out so much, and for the story to take such a feel-good approach. Daniel Craig plays such a goofy Sherlock Holmes, but clearly knew it all: He stated from the beginning we would work the case as a passive observer, following a Gravity's Rainbow analogy. And further illustrated with his conversation with Nana. And he was right all along in it ultimately arriving to the truth.\n\nLove the story quirks of an early reveal to play a reverse Clue of whodunnit, and Marta's quirk of vomiting for any lie.\n\nSome amazing shots.\n\nDetails I like:\n\n+ Comedic jabs at political personas: the SJW, the Nazi child masturbating joylessly in the bathroom to pictures of dead deer, the Trump anti-Mexican, the faux upper class liberal.\n+ All the underlevel insults to Marta: calling her by random nationalities, praising the virtues of immigrants while handing Marta a dirty plate as if a nurse is the same as a housekeeper, how they all wanted her at the funeral but were outvoted.\n+ Marta being good at Go by not playing the same and simply making \"beautiful patterns\".\n+ The donut analogy and the ingenious word play: a donut hole in a donut's hole; the donut hole has a hole in its center; donut hole, hole in the donut, whole donut.\n\"I read a tweet about a New Yorker article about you.\"\n+ The passing around of the baseball when the husband throws out the window until by the end of the film, his wife throws it at him so he has a black eye.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/546554"},{"id":"322682678021427788","title":"Lawrence of Arabia","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":1962,"runtimeMinutes":228,"directors":["David Lean"],"actors":["Anthony Quinn","Omar Sharif","Alec Guinness","Peter O'Toole","Claude Rains","Jack Hawkins"],"genres":["Adventure","History","War"],"completedDate":"2014-02-26","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Lawrence is one of the greatest epic heroes of all time. He plays the fine line of perfectly eccentric (and intriguing) but never so that the plot trifles through mere conveniences as Gary Stus like Yang Wenli tend to do. What's more, he's flawed, with sadomasochistic tendencies, a huge ego, and diminishing resolve as the story progresses.\n\nExcellent cinematic scores. Beautiful landscapes, culture, and resplendent costumes under extreme detail with the sand.\n\nThe Sun Anvil scene is one of the most climactic yet naturally engaging conflicts I've seen. What a way to pit man versus desert.\n\nMy only complaint that doesn't lend itself well into authenticity is the lack of languages. It is also a bit glorified and simplistic with single war waging heroes, although somewhat compensated by the reality of the tribe's leaders. Yet, Lawrence still does too much, while there are few influencing figures in the military.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/947"},{"id":"322682678021299788","title":"Let the Right One In","originalTitle":"Låt den rätte komma in","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":2008,"runtimeMinutes":115,"directors":["Tomas Alfredson"],"actors":["Kåre Hedebrant","Tom Ljungman"],"genres":["Horror","Drama"],"completedDate":"2016-05-27","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/13310"},{"id":"322682678020322892","title":"License to Live","originalTitle":"ニンゲン合格","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":1999,"runtimeMinutes":110,"directors":["Kiyoshi Kurosawa"],"actors":["Hidetoshi Nishijima","Kumiko Aso","Ren Osugi","Yoriko Douguchi","Show Aikawa"],"genres":["Drama","Comedy"],"completedDate":"2019-05-18","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Really powerful stuff as is typical of his dramas, and done in a subtle and always so supernatural way. The acting as a 14-year old is great. The circumstances, friends, and family around him were all great.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/48341"},{"id":"322682678020247116","title":"Lighthouse","originalTitle":"The Lighthouse","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":2019,"runtimeMinutes":109,"directors":["Robert Eggers"],"actors":["Robert Pattinson"],"genres":["Drama","Fantasy","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2020-09-09","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"There's some remarkably good scenes of just dialogue, with little to build the tension aside from the two actors. Now that's hardcore. All the suspense-building with gaslighting. Farts. Poop. Masturbating. The curse Triton speech. The relationship with father-son, homoeroticism, loneliness and enraged drunkiness. The ending with it potentially being an endless loop. Comedy and horror mixes well here, and in in Robert Eggers' own style with juvenile farting sailor humor unlike Korean horrors.\n\nSpecific memories: William Dafoe deeply affended that Robert Pattinson didn't like his lobster. LOL. That whole scene mixes horror and comedy. The whipping around the sea gull against the rock.\n\nDamn I love the imagery. The mythic painting poses. The slimes. The sex mermaid scene.\n\nDirected by the person whos debut was The Witch (2015)? Definitely want to see this! Pacing is slow, but ultimately watched when Sodapoppin started a watch party.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/503919"},{"id":"322682678021355084","title":"Love & Pop","originalTitle":"ラブ&ポップ","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":1998,"runtimeMinutes":112,"directors":["Hideaki Anno"],"actors":["Tadanobu Asano","Megumi Hayashibara","Yukie Nakama","Akira Ishida","Kotono Mitsuishi","Asumi Miwa"],"genres":["Drama"],"completedDate":"2015-01-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Love & Pop consists of similar themes prevalent in all of Anno's works and even in the transition from animation to live action the atmosphere remains consistent—angst for the undecided future, interweaving yet distant friendships, a predilection for classical scores superimposed on violently disturbing events. Even subtler moves are used to preserve this atmosphere such as the the bizarre shots angled from below and capturing a young girl's legs or the black slides with white text, serving as a transition and with a blank, almost soulless feel to their meaning.\n\nIt even has a bit of that Monogatari flair and yet quite a few unique inventions. A first for Anno it takes a cultural phenomena without direct criticism and merely displays it for the world to see. Further, it adds additional symbolism that Anno unusually wields: train tracks, red lights, and memories.\n\nWhile in a fractured and unsatisfying state (or perhaps because it is in such a state), Love & Pop presents what I love most about all of Anno's works. It enshrines drama in its most pure form and seeks deeply to the point that it knowingly is lost inside it.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/70846"},{"id":"322682678021324364","title":"Mad Max: Fury Road","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":2015,"runtimeMinutes":121,"directors":["George Miller"],"actors":["Tom Hardy","Charlize Theron"],"genres":["Action","Adventure","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2015-10-12","updatedDate":"2023-12-04","notes":"Bad story but incredibly thrilling. The visuals are really quite the beauty. It's so ambitious that it's effectively two car chases for the entire movie.\n\nRewatched on 2023-12-02. Still holds up.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/76341"},{"id":"322682678020423244","title":"Magnolia","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":1999,"runtimeMinutes":189,"directors":["Paul Thomas Anderson"],"actors":["Tom Cruise"],"genres":["Drama"],"completedDate":"2018-02-17","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"What an epic. I love the rolling tides in the music seamless fusing all the stories. And the thin threads connecting them all together. Two \"smart kids\", two emcees each facing early or late cancer. Several children and spouses. Love how losers are the main cast. And how they're humanized.\n\nI like the miscellaneous focuses throughout the film. Like the keys going into doors and Donnie Smith's zip keyring.\n\nStellar performance by many. I love ensemble casts. But Tom Cruise especially shined through.\n\nThe raining frogs at the end is hilarious. I love it as adding a level of meta to the otherwise purely tragic story. Brings it back to self-awareness just like the narrators, the characters all singing to a song in narrative, Claudia's smile at the end.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/334"},{"id":"322682678021463628","title":"Manhattan","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":1979,"runtimeMinutes":96,"directors":["Woody Allen"],"actors":["Meryl Streep","Frances Conroy","Diane Keaton","Wallace Shawn","David Rasche","Mariel Hemingway","Mark Linn-Baker","John Doumanian","Woody Allen","Karen Allen"],"genres":["Comedy","Drama","Romance"],"completedDate":"2013-11-26","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I don't think I've ever had such conflicting emotions from beginning to end of a film. 30 minutes in and here was what I was writing: \"The yuppie droll. Full of pseudointellectuals and Woody Allen's cheeky remarks, Manhattan unironically portrays its generation under an unfashioned light. And it is shameful: half of it is Allen's poorly strung along collection of jokes in each scenario, the other half from a barebones plot.\"\n\nA little longer into it and I start to grow fond of Allen's witicisms and the film's very urbanite attitude. The landscape is so sumptuous, and Woody Allen does a fine job at building character into a live city. I love the diverse relationships in the story as well (the affair with Isaac's best friend who's married, or his half-serious love with a 17-year-old girl). The lack of facial closeups keeps you aware of the surroundings and therefore the environment of all their development, but at a detached distance to keep the show from becoming overly dramatic.\n\nThere is also something irrevocable alien and lonely with the way these yuppies are approaching life. They throw around their psychiatrists as cute memories, their very many exboyfriends, girlfriends and divorces as if they are a regular portion of all their lives. Surely there's something wrong with this situation? Where's the simplicity in love? What's that hypocrisy fumbling about with half-hearted intellectual pursuits, aiming for happiness, and being so flippant and ninny about each other's relationships?\n\nIsaac's very depthful progression throughout the story as well as all the relationships. And I love that at the end, Allen makes direct notice that he believes these people get so involved with such neurotic and insignificant problems so that they can avoid thinking of the deeper, more lonesome questions of life.\n\nManhattan's strengths are its ability to capture the city so blissfully (thank god for wonderful cinematography), its greatly personable characters and relationship progressions. Allen's Manhattan feels purposely like an unfinished product, lost without a particular direction other than to say \"here is life, in happiness and in grief\".","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/696"},{"id":"322682678020274764","title":"Marriage Story","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":2019,"runtimeMinutes":137,"directors":["Noah Baumbach"],"actors":["Scarlett Johansson"],"genres":["Drama"],"completedDate":"2019-02-21","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Both excellent actors. There's no way I could go through such intense arguments and still remain friendly!","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/492188"},{"id":"322682678021202508","title":"Mean Streets","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":1973,"runtimeMinutes":112,"directors":["Martin Scorsese"],"actors":["Harvey Keitel","Robert De Niro","David Carradine","Martin Scorsese","Richard Romanus","David Proval","Robert Carradine","Jeannie Bell"],"genres":["Drama","Crime"],"completedDate":"2017-04-09","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Love the authenticity, with family, crime, character-driven drama. Unfiltered violence and culture such as black racism. Descent to madness given a need to help others. Catholic guilt and redemption. Dying religiosity. Self-destruction. The way the story is both about nothingness and also about debts his stupid friend must pay is amazing. I found the frequent voiceovers awkward and strange that they would even happen.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/203"},{"id":"322682678021292620","title":"Memories of Murder","originalTitle":"살인의 추억","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":2003,"runtimeMinutes":131,"directors":["Bong Joon Ho"],"actors":["Kim Roi-ha","Park Hae-il","Kim Joo-ryoung","Song Kang-ho","Jung In-sun","Park Jin-woo","Kim Sang-kyung","Jeon Mi-seon","Lee Jae-eung","Yoo Seung-mok"],"genres":["Crime","Drama","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2016-08-05","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Moral ambiguity. Lack of conclusion. Asian culture of humor during very serious moments.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/11423"},{"id":"322682678020208204","title":"Minari","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":2021,"runtimeMinutes":115,"directors":["Lee Isaac Chung"],"actors":["Will Patton","Han Yeri","Tina Parker","Youn Yuh-jung","Scott Haze","Steven Yeun"],"genres":["Drama"],"completedDate":"2021-03-26","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Minari is a perfect blending of family life, culture clash, character development (particularly in its depiction of family, across all characters), and some comedy. Several characters stand out in particular: the dad's ambition in wanting some success in his life which at the worst of times may transcend even family, the wife ever so worrying (for good reason) about their funds, the boy growing up in a mix of cultures and growing from bitterness to loving of his grandma, the grandma.\n\nSome scenes I find particularly memorable: the beating stick, finding a spot for minari, the fire climax.\n\nI like the just-a-tad of racism that isn't violent, but makes an impact that you're not one of them. It's not about racism, it's just a minor element.\n\nI like its anti-ending. It really feels like a continuation of their lives and we just took a snapshot of it.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/615643"},{"id":"322682678021301836","title":"Nightcrawler","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":2014,"runtimeMinutes":118,"directors":["Dan Gilroy"],"actors":["Jake Gyllenhaal"],"genres":["Crime","Drama","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2016-04-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"The writing is excellent. Really good thriller. Love the sociopath character and acting that is Jake Gyllenhaal. THe pacing is good. The development of him from unemployed and uneducated to finding his passion. The themes about modern employment and voyeurism. A big part of it is also LA and cars, that red mustang.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/242582"},{"id":"322682678021505612","title":"No Country for Old Men","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":2007,"runtimeMinutes":122,"directors":["Joel Coen","Ethan Coen"],"actors":["Javier Bardem"],"genres":["Crime","Thriller","Western"],"completedDate":"2007-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"The silent suspense is so good. The coin flip. I love the tension in these action movies. The lights. The sound. Looking at marks on the ground. And the multiple perspectives, including each one taking dirty hits. The offstage death. The fear in Tommy Lee Jones' eyes when looking at the blasted door lock. The mystery behind all the action and the role of the sherriff. It's an interesting Coen Brothers film when the supporting character villain Anton Chigurh takes on the spotlight even more so than the sherriff and the protagonist (although both also well-acted).","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/6977"},{"id":"8f76d781-27c4-4556-a000-74edb60e57f2","title":"No Other Choice","originalTitle":"어쩔수가없다","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":2025,"runtimeMinutes":139,"directors":["Park Chan-wook"],"genres":["Comedy","Crime","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2026-03-09","updatedDate":"2026-03-11","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/639988"},{"id":"322682678020297292","title":"Once Upon a Time in Hollywood","originalTitle":"Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":2019,"runtimeMinutes":162,"directors":["Quentin Tarantino"],"actors":["Sydney Sweeney","Brad Pitt","Leonardo DiCaprio","Dakota Fanning","Margot Robbie"],"genres":["Comedy","Drama","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2019-12-07","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I like the aura of the show. This film sure has charisma. And the symbols/pieces: hippy/color/western -> rugged culture; propping feet up. The lackadaisical paising just works. The narrative takes are all great: weird 5 minute flashbacks, narration later in the film for no reason. You just know something is going to happen Pulp Fiction-style, and that fourth walling foreshadowing is so strange yet endearing.\n\nI love the tense scenes. Ending was more anticlimactic than I thought given the brutality of the actual murders. I feel like Quentin Tarantino did that on purpose.. The visit to see George Spahn at the ranch.\n\nBrad Pitt and Leonardo di Caprio are both excellent in this.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/466272"},{"id":"322682678020302412","title":"Parasite","originalTitle":"기생충","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":2019,"runtimeMinutes":133,"directors":["Bong Joon Ho"],"actors":["Cho Yeo-jeong","Park So-dam","Jung Yi-seo","Choi Woo-shik","Park Seo-jun","Jung Ji-so","Song Kang-ho","Anna Elisabeth Rihlmann","Park Keun-rok","Lee Sun-kyun"],"genres":["Comedy","Thriller","Drama"],"completedDate":"2019-09-09","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Dark comedy. Disparity in social classes. Drama. Excellent ensemble cast. The genre shift. The sad ending reminds me of Shoplifters. Jesus.\n\nWatching it again on 2/15/20, I'm especially astonished by how well the crescendos in the classical music appear. And the verticality with the rain dripping. The genre shift from comedy to thriller reminds me of a more polished Audition.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/496243"},{"id":"54dd33b8-075a-4836-a098-18fc9ead2d37","title":"Perfect Days","originalTitle":"PERFECT DAYS","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":2023,"runtimeMinutes":124,"directors":["Wim Wenders"],"actors":["Koji Yakusho","Yumi Asou","Hairi Katagiri","Inuko Inuyama"],"genres":["Drama"],"completedDate":"2024-04-07","updatedDate":"2024-04-07","notes":"What an idyllic movie. It feels almost boring, but I understand its appeal. Every day is a perfect day, taking fun from the little details. The various hiccups in a day don't bother you. It's the most slice of life story I've seen usually common in anime and now in film.\n\nI don't think I've seen Koji Yakusho play such a satisfied, humble man before. Man he is truly perfect lol: quiet, simple and minimalist lifestyle, takes appreciation of the little things in life, cheerful, artistic in photography and excellent musical taste, doesn't let the various struggles and annoyances bother him at all.\n\nThat ending scene with his mixed feelings of happiness and crying. I got goosebumps with how well he portrayed that feeling.\n\nI love the vibe and culture in the movie.\n\n+ He folds his bed and immediately cleans up after waking up.\n+ I'm envious of his apartment and various items, e.g., his bed with a single hanger for his work uniform, his bike.\n+ A place for food and drinks he regularly visits is not for the food. But for the cheerful vibe and owner.\n+ He reads a book in bed at night until he falls asleep.\n+ Dunking his head up to his eyes in the bath.\n+ The lack of opportunity for growth or change. I couldn't deal with the monotony of such a lifestyle.\n+ His room is just tatami mats, shelves of books, and cassette tapes. Damn. And his closet is timestamped archives of all the photos he's taken.\n+ I like his attire. Brownish no-logo clothes. Often a tee with a unbuttoned button up shirt and chinos.\n+ He's the cool uncle that his sister's daughter would go to if she were to run away from home.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/976893"},{"id":"17398100-3167-4b1c-be7f-7375e0dd684d","title":"Police Story","originalTitle":"警察故事","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":1985,"runtimeMinutes":99,"directors":["Jackie Chan"],"actors":["Charlie Cho Cha-Lee","Jackie Chan"],"genres":["Action","Crime","Comedy"],"completedDate":"2000-01-01","updatedDate":"2026-06-25","notes":"Classic. One of the best movies from Jackie. Martial arts movies have bad stories though.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/9056"},{"id":"99233e6c-1ddc-4c3e-a805-0791e63fc66b","title":"Poor Things","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":2023,"runtimeMinutes":141,"directors":["Yorgos Lanthimos"],"actors":["Emma Stone"],"genres":["Science Fiction","Romance","Comedy"],"completedDate":"2024-06-30","updatedDate":"2024-06-30","notes":"Watched with Marisa. The most bizarre yet from Yorgos.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/792307"},{"id":"322682678021408332","title":"Raging Bull","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":1980,"runtimeMinutes":129,"directors":["Martin Scorsese"],"actors":["Joe Pesci","Robert De Niro","Martin Scorsese","Michael Badalucco","Cathy Moriarty","John Turturro","Joseph Bono"],"genres":["Drama","History"],"completedDate":"2014-03-15","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"It's amazing the amount of emotional duress he feels under pressure. Despite the amount of triumph he undergoes in the ring, his personal life is plain terrible—incredibly possessive and controlling, and people allow him to act that way because of his successes in his career. His only dream is something that he aims to achieve but doesn't care to retain, and it's tragic just how fleeting his life's philosophy is.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1578"},{"id":"322682678021449292","title":"Ran","originalTitle":"乱","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":1985,"runtimeMinutes":160,"directors":["Akira Kurosawa"],"actors":["Tatsuya Nakadai","Shinnosuke Ikehata"],"genres":["Action","Drama","History"],"completedDate":"2013-12-02","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Ran is premised on an archetypal base storyline but it's astonishing to note the level of detail Kurosawa goes to in order to mark the kindgom's collapse, event after event.\n\nExcellent struggle in succession, particularly in the roles each of the sons vy for the throne. I also love the court jester who keeps speaking in riddles. Easily the best character, except for Lady Kaede of course, who unlike most \"supporting\" characters has established motives and we continue to see her ambitious actions to pursue them. Remember that scene where she grabs Jiro by the throat and convinces who's seemingly the Great Leader with her amazing abilities? Holy shit is she good. She's even better than Lady Macbeth.\n\nAn also phenomenal character study on a foolish ruler who believes that everything has been solved for once he abdicates his throne. He makes a mistake after mistake and the detached viewer easily sees the poor moves by Hidetora, e.g., when he decides to move to the Third Castle despite objections made those who proved him wrong already (what an idiot..).\n\nGreat pauses in its script, the silence in general during dialogue, excellent cinemotraphic feats with palettes (e.g. the reds in the blood emphasized while mixed with dirt in the backgrounds when Hidetora's people are massacred), awesome scores by the London Symphony Orchestra.\n\nFantastic overall samurai culture, especially in its mixed time period with western weaponry. The army formations, etc.\n\nSteadily improved themes, like a Japanese King Lear in film format: succession, vanity and greed, senility, invocations to a non-existent God, etc.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/11645"},{"id":"322682678021419596","title":"Rear Window","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":1954,"runtimeMinutes":113,"directors":["Alfred Hitchcock"],"actors":["James Stewart"],"genres":["Thriller","Mystery","Drama"],"completedDate":"2014-03-02","updatedDate":"2024-04-04","notes":"Uncanny examination of people's lives, with the content itself wholly engaging and interesting. A lot of gossip and hearsay in splendid form. Love the fact that it's ambiguous almost the entire film. Great climactic change where it zooms in onto Stewart's fear.\n\nA little too hypothetical though, somehow with the assumption that Jefferies is an observer for which no one else notices him. Also there are all the conveniences, that so much happens under open windows including all the major actions voluntarily done near one. It is also peculiar in its Grace Kelly fanservice, and a very cheesy ending at that.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/567"},{"id":"322682678021298764","title":"Reservoir Dogs","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":1992,"runtimeMinutes":99,"directors":["Quentin Tarantino"],"actors":["Harvey Keitel","Steve Buscemi","Quentin Tarantino","Michael Madsen","Tim Roth","Laurie Lathem","Chris Penn"],"genres":["Crime","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2016-05-28","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/500"},{"id":"322682678021287500","title":"Rushmore","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":1998,"runtimeMinutes":93,"directors":["Wes Anderson"],"actors":["Connie Nielsen","Bill Murray","Brian Cox","Olivia Williams","Alexis Bledel","Jason Schwartzman","Luke Wilson","Andrew Wilson","Wallace Wolodarsky"],"genres":["Comedy","Drama"],"completedDate":"2016-09-03","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Now that was cool..","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/11545"},{"id":"322682678021509708","title":"Saving Private Ryan","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":1998,"runtimeMinutes":169,"directors":["Steven Spielberg"],"actors":["Tom Hanks","Matt Damon","Vin Diesel"],"genres":["War","Drama","History"],"completedDate":"2002-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/857"},{"id":"322682678020323916","title":"Secret Sunshine","originalTitle":"밀양","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":2007,"runtimeMinutes":143,"directors":["Lee Chang-dong"],"actors":["Song Kang-ho","Jeon Do-yeon","Lee Hee-jun","Oh Man-seok","Go Seo-hee","Lee Sung-min","Jang Hye-jin","Park Myung-shin","Kim Min-jae"],"genres":["Drama"],"completedDate":"2019-05-18","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Actress is phenomenal. The kidnapping took me by surprise for a single-mother family drama. I love the escapism plots afterwards. Never the story feel like it become stale or slow-moving. Song Kang-ho is great as always.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/2015"},{"id":"322682678021257804","title":"Shin Godzilla","originalTitle":"シン・ゴジラ","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":2016,"runtimeMinutes":120,"directors":["Shinji Higuchi","Hideaki Anno"],"actors":["Satomi Ishihara","Jun Kunimura","Kengo Kora","Shingo Tsurumi","Issey Takahashi","Mikako Ichikawa","Kimiko Yo","Ken Mitsuishi","Ren Osugi","Yutaka Takenouchi"],"genres":["Action","Science Fiction","Horror"],"completedDate":"2017-01-21","updatedDate":"2023-12-26","notes":"I love the soundtrack and playbacks to Evangelion, both in the visuals, sound, and even in some of the scenes. The girl's spunk is like a playback to Misato, with her english pieces like from Asuka. Symphonies, scores in general, played during the action is so amazing. Damn I love Anno's style. It's these bombastic climaxes that I live for in cinematography; it's personally just so much more memorable and enticing to me than subtler feelings that endure through a film (contrast Anno's style with, say, Shohei Imamura).\n\nI like the farcical approach to telling the story. I enjoyed the lack of individual characters and the focus on Japan (represented through the bureaucrats) as a collective entity.\n\nThe numerous text cutbacks, speed talking, and pompour during dialogue-heavy scenes reminds me of Monogatari.\n\nThere's an unncanny valley aspect to the CGI and man-costume-like depiction of Godzilla and destruction in the film. Somehow I feel some of this is purposeful as a way to continue refering back to the original film and without going too far with special effects.\n\nThe overacting and expressions during the meetings can be a bit much.\n\nJesus, the moment Godzilla starts breathing flames and a purpled beam it really feels like an Evangelion moment. I started getting goosebumps. It's so clear how much kaiju plays a role in Evangelion's Angels.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/315011"},{"id":"322682678020173388","title":"Snatch","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":2000,"runtimeMinutes":104,"directors":["Guy Ritchie"],"actors":["Jason Statham","Brad Pitt","Jason Flemyng","Guy Ritchie","Stephen Graham","Benicio del Toro","Vinnie Jones","Ewen Bremner","Lennie James","Rade Šerbedžija"],"genres":["Crime","Comedy"],"completedDate":"2021-08-21","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"An all-star cast paired with the charismatic director style of Guy Ritchie. The seemingly random moments are hilarious. Guy Ritchie really knows how to depict chaos. Both the comedy and action are so on point. Every character in the ensemble cast shows so much personality.\n\nWas fun watching this with chat during Sodapoppin's stream.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/107"},{"id":"13529393-4c7f-4d05-9fd9-4ac0f8193674","title":"Sound of Metal","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":2020,"runtimeMinutes":121,"directors":["Darius Marder"],"actors":["Olivia Cooke","Riz Ahmed","Mathieu Amalric","Chris Perfetti","Lauren Ridloff"],"genres":["Drama","Music"],"completedDate":"2023-07-21","updatedDate":"2023-07-21","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/502033"},{"id":"322682678021240396","title":"Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance","originalTitle":"복수는 나의 것","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":2002,"runtimeMinutes":129,"directors":["Park Chan-wook"],"actors":["Bae Doo-na","Song Kang-ho","Jung Jae-young","Shin Ha-kyun","Lee Dae-yeon","Han Bo-bae","Ryoo Seung-wan"],"genres":["Action","Drama","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2017-03-08","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"The drama in the beginning was very real, somewhat banal, but touching in such a dramtically sad way. The scene for example revealing the suicide is so well-done. An immediate fortune-turned-disaster done so casually. That to me stood out as the most violent scene in the film. I especially like how subtle all the storytelling is: lack of dialogue, and omission of key action sequences like the girl falling into the river, or the attack against the girlfriend once she opens the door, or the final murder of the organ dealer.\n\nAnd then the way the story unravelled is just genius. The continued depression, the anticlimax and vengenance vs vengeance. That retard at the river! I love that the story has basically no theme about it. It was never about people against others. To me it really just seems like an unfortunate consequence of events, brought about by slightly wrong decisions one after the other. This is certainly my favorite film from Park Chan-Wook at the moment. Unlike the rest, it has (had?) actual meaning to it before it devolved into hilariously enjoyable chaos.\n\nOne would argue that Tarantino distinguishes his violence films from Chan-wook's primarily as a form of satire and comedy; but I totally disagree. The entire plot of this film for example is a comedy in and of itself. That the story would be set up in a completely artificial way to construe revenge against revent. Chan-wook has subtleties Tarantino doesn't.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/4689"},{"id":"b5370eaf-3b66-4335-9acc-cef3dcc02914","title":"TÁR","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":2022,"runtimeMinutes":158,"directors":["Todd Field"],"actors":["Mark Strong","Cate Blanchett","Alec Baldwin","Nina Hoss","Noémie Merlant","Vincent Riotta","Sydney Lemmon"],"genres":["Music","Drama"],"completedDate":"2023-02-26","updatedDate":"2023-07-01","notes":"+ Cate Blanchett is a wonderful actor.\n+ The classical pretension is on point. Old money intellectual conversations masturbating about history in german and french about mozart's bars being similar to a beethoven symphony. What a weird ass life to live if you think this is accomplishment.\n+ I am undecided on the inclusion of modern elements. For example, text message displays. Or showing emails. Or the wokeism lecture at Juilliard.\n+ Are there people that actually have an accomplished life, are physically fit and attractive, and maintain a good life eg with a significant other?\n+ lmao. When I watched this I didn't realize this would be more Black Swan than Amadeus.\n+ HOLY SHIT the opening credits with Monster Hunter. And i was wondering why that popped up.. i thought it was just a diverse funding/production thing\n+ \"I actually liked that we didn’t get that full backstory except in the piecemeal form of vague hallucinatory flashbacks, news reports, rumors & conversations, and glimpses of emails. It de-personalizes the tragedy from Lydia’s point of view and presents it to us as something she has already compartmentalized and mostly moved on from, now popping back up mainly as an obstacle to her career that only becomes a personal moral dilemma and source of increasing paranoia when she is forced to grapple with it by external pressures. We learn a lot about her character this way and it underscores the line her wife says about how every relationship she has, save for that with her daughter, is transactional.\" [reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/yb4nox/official_discussion_t%C3%A1r_spoilers)\n+ [This point](https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/yb4nox/official_discussion_t%C3%A1r_spoilers/j9rutth/) about Lydia Tar actually faking being Bernstein's protege makes no sense. Sure, the director can make up all the backstory they want about what they originally intended. But in the film as it's shown, that's simply not possible.\n\nI think the part that's most between fantasy and real is the scene where she drops off Olga at a derelict building. Then Tar goes inside looking for her.When I watched it, I was thinking of two possibilities: (a) [real] Olga is just being dropped at a place so that Tar doesn't learn where she lives. It's still a strange ass place to pick being dropped off. (b) [fantasy] Originally, I thought the reveal would be that Olga would be Krista all along and that it was some weird ghost/hallucination shit. A slightly more grounded interpretation is that that specific scene with dropping off never happened but everything else did.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/817758"},{"id":"322682678021489228","title":"The Big Lebowski","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":1998,"runtimeMinutes":117,"directors":["Joel Coen","Ethan Coen"],"actors":["John Goodman","Steve Buscemi","Julianne Moore","Peter Stormare","David Thewlis","Jeff Bridges","Asia Carrera","Mark Pellegrino","Philip Seymour Hoffman","Tara Reid"],"genres":["Comedy","Crime"],"completedDate":"2012-04-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/115"},{"id":"322682678021311052","title":"The Eel","originalTitle":"うなぎ","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":1997,"runtimeMinutes":117,"directors":["Shōhei Imamura"],"actors":["Ken Mitsuishi","Teresa Saponangelo","Show Aikawa"],"genres":["Drama","Crime"],"completedDate":"2016-04-25","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"The repression is deep in this one..","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/20506"},{"id":"322682678020230732","title":"The Elephant Man","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":1980,"runtimeMinutes":124,"directors":["David Lynch"],"actors":["Anthony Hopkins","Anne Bancroft","David Lynch","John Hurt","Dexter Fletcher","Lesley Dunlop","Freddie Jones"],"genres":["Drama","History"],"completedDate":"2020-12-11","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Man what a drama is this. The horror and sadness of it all, especially for a man actually brilliant in mind to have processed the atroicities he faces. The connections between his days of being stared at in a circus vs stared at in London society are not unexpected. I also like the more abstract parts of The Elephant Man, such as with the elephant scenes or with the drunken folk barging into his room at night to harrass him. Plot-wise, I don't get why they don't just involve the police: he's literally been kidnapped. John speaks volumes by merely existing with his experiences. Lynch really sells how well he can tell a subdued story, primarily enhanced by its audiovisuals.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1955"},{"id":"322682678020286028","title":"The Farewell","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":2019,"runtimeMinutes":100,"directors":["Lulu Wang"],"actors":["Awkwafina","Tzi Ma"],"genres":["Comedy","Drama"],"completedDate":"2020-01-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Love the comedy drama. Conversations are especially the gem, along with the great acting by both Awkwafina and the grandmother.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/565310"},{"id":"990168ce-bf22-4b69-94cd-db97968522d8","title":"The Furious","originalTitle":"火遮眼","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":2026,"runtimeMinutes":113,"directors":["Kenji Tanigaki"],"actors":["Xie Miao"],"genres":["Action","Crime","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2026-06-21","updatedDate":"2026-07-04","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1280738"},{"id":"322682678021444172","title":"The Godfather","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":1972,"runtimeMinutes":175,"directors":["Francis Ford Coppola"],"actors":["James Caan","Al Pacino","Robert Duvall","Diane Keaton","Marlon Brando","Talia Shire","John Cazale","Simonetta Stefanelli","Frank Sivero","Richard S. Castellano"],"genres":["Drama","Crime"],"completedDate":"2013-12-07","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Interwoven highly intricate storytelling. Excellent pacing and character progression, from an essential outsider's view all the way to the pivotal leadership. It also keeps great analytical perspectives about the director's POV of the state. Simply brilliant.\n\nConsiderable depth on the psychological state of every character and their reasons for action\n\nItalian culture and emphasis on family unity, highly ethnic-based, gender stereotypes. Strongly reminiscent and accurate of its culture.\n\nIntimidating Marlon Brando\n\nGreat outsider's view from Michael\n\nRefined cinematography\n\nIf any minor nitpick, I have a problem with how the plot becomes more simplistic as it ages and the conflict dealing away with the Five Families simply disappears (same way it portrays their war). Several scenes also lack context that are properly dealt with in the book/outside resources, and in fact many scenes are simply much more powerful when knowing their context. For example, the significance of Sonny's affair, how Sonny knows it was Paulie who sold Vito out, \"the other Five Families\" actually meaning that there is 5 and not 6 (5 including Corleones), why Carlo would set up Sonny's murder (the vengeance angle is not as clear until someone explains it), why no one punishes Carlo for beating Connie, why Michael is so quick to be boss, the hand at bluffing Carlo to get him to confess to be 100% sure before killing him, etc. I'm not sure how much to fault the film for this however and how much could have been better gleaned upon through multiple rewatches.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/238"},{"id":"322682678021473868","title":"The Graduate","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":1967,"runtimeMinutes":107,"directors":["Mike Nichols"],"actors":["Katharine Ross","William Daniels","Anne Bancroft","Dustin Hoffman","Richard Dreyfuss"],"genres":["Drama","Romance","Comedy"],"completedDate":"2013-11-18","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"The Graduate is one of the most hilarious romantic comedy satires. Dustin Hoffman plays a stupidly weak individual that slowly builds onto his own eccentricities. Every scene becomes a riot due to the dry undercasted humor.\n\nThe film ends up playing Scarborough Fair so often it ends parodying itself.\n\n\"We-we may as well have just been shaking hands.\"","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/37247"},{"id":"322682678021495372","title":"The Green Mile","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":1999,"runtimeMinutes":189,"directors":["Frank Darabont"],"actors":["Tom Hanks"],"genres":["Fantasy","Drama","Crime"],"completedDate":"2006-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/497"},{"id":"322682678022362700","title":"The Hunchback of Notre Dame","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":1996,"runtimeMinutes":91,"directors":["Kirk Wise","Gary Trousdale"],"actors":["Jason Alexander","Demi Moore","Debi Derryberry","Jim Cummings","David Ogden Stiers","Frank Welker","Dana Hill","Kevin Kline","Mickie McGowan","Bill Fagerbakke"],"genres":["Drama","Animation","Family"],"completedDate":"1996-12-31","updatedDate":"2026-05-18","notes":"Rewatched it with Marisa on 2026-05-17. Amazing underrated movie. Bells of Notre Dame, next song sung by Quasimodo, and Hellfire are so good. I love choruses and also these archetypes. The gargoyles potentially not being real is very dark.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/10545"},{"id":"322682678020282956","title":"The Irishman","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":2019,"runtimeMinutes":209,"directors":["Martin Scorsese"],"actors":["Jesse Plemons","Al Pacino","Harvey Keitel","Joe Pesci","Robert De Niro","Stephen Graham","Marin Ireland","Ray Romano","Bobby Cannavale","John Cenatiempo"],"genres":["Crime","Drama","History"],"completedDate":"2020-02-06","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"The Irishman portrays the gangster genre in a novel light: one of guilt, loneliness, regret, mortality, and consequences. I like the delivery of so many lines. The style shots of dialogue when introduced to a new character of how they die is so cool.\n\nThe watermelon scene is hilarious.\n\nWhat a great epic with pacing that never feels old. I love all the indirect communication, and where Frank is the middleman. It feels so authentic and yet so comedic. THat whole scene from Hoffa's eventual demise to Frank flying the plane, Russ taking his sunglasses, he goes and kills him, and then flies back, all with silence.\n\nJoe Pesci, Robert De Niro, and Al Pacino are all excellent. I especially love how opposite the role Joe Pesci typically plays.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/398978"},{"id":"322682678020499020","title":"The King of Comedy","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":1982,"runtimeMinutes":109,"directors":["Martin Scorsese"],"actors":["Robert De Niro","Martin Scorsese","Diahnne Abbott","Katherine Wallach","Kim Chan","Paul Simonon","Liza Minnelli","Victor Borge"],"genres":["Drama","Comedy"],"completedDate":"2017-06-19","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I love it. The message is so dark, keeping in atmosphere as Raging Bull but on the other end from the starstruck side. Its nothing that really stands out in particular from the film—the characters, the brooding atmosphere, and the way the plot thickens. All of it just makes for a really intense, darkly comedic film. Two psychopaths meet and kidnap a star. Scorsese's portrayal of the industry reminds me of Robert Altman's.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/262"},{"id":"322682678021297740","title":"The Light Shines Only There","originalTitle":"そこのみにて光輝く","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":2014,"runtimeMinutes":120,"directors":["Mipo O"],"actors":["Masaki Suda","Go Ayano","Chizuru Ikewaki","Hiroko Isayama"],"genres":["Drama"],"completedDate":"2016-06-04","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/287778"},{"id":"322682678021248588","title":"The Long Goodbye","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":1973,"runtimeMinutes":112,"directors":["Robert Altman"],"actors":["Arnold Schwarzenegger"],"genres":["Mystery","Drama","Crime"],"completedDate":"2017-02-16","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Love the noir play, easily my favorite noir mysteries alongside Chinatown. Totally a Big Lebowski in theme, but the cinematography is out of the world. Great use of framing, some of the shots are really creative, such as the reflection of the window to see Marlow skipping over the ocean waves while the husband and wife have a tiny spat.\n\nMarlowe, what a character. A fictional idealist man of a previous era stuck in this one. The opening scene characterizes him perfectly, especially as it segues into the thick of the plot. Guillble twat. His murmurs are great—reminds me McCabe.\n\nSide note: The naked hippie neighbor paradise is a hilarious side joke. All the jokes throughout the show and incredibly casual pace (man, that opener of him feeding his cat) is excellent. 'It's okay with me.' as the cool phrase. That SoCal neo noir vibe is so fun to bathe in.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1847"},{"id":"322682678021523020","title":"The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":2001,"runtimeMinutes":179,"directors":["Peter Jackson"],"actors":["Sean Bean","Cate Blanchett","Liv Tyler","Hugo Weaving","Marton Csokas","Elijah Wood","Viggo Mortensen","John Rhys-Davies","Peter Jackson","Dominic Monaghan"],"genres":["Adventure","Fantasy","Action"],"completedDate":"2001-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-08-20","notes":"Most of the iconic scenes of the trilogy come from just one film: this one. The prologue introducing the One Ring. The Shire. The ring wraiths. The fellowship. The Balrog. Boromir. It's the adventure to all these locations and where they're all together.\n\nContribution-wise, Legolas is clearly too strong relative to the others in the crew with the highest kill count and utility (long range, expert short range such as killing the ogre). Gandalf is always underutilized in the movies.\n\nRewatched it on 2022-08-19 when Sodapoppin streamed a Hobbit-LOTR marathon.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/120"},{"id":"322682678021251660","title":"The Player","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":1992,"runtimeMinutes":124,"directors":["Robert Altman"],"actors":["Bruce Willis"],"genres":["Mystery","Drama","Thriller","Comedy","Crime"],"completedDate":"2017-02-09","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"That opening shot. Damn.\n\nThe filmography, especially the shots from a window to give it an alien feel as if we're watching from afar is great. Feels so David Lynch. Love it in its surrealism and mix of vintage culture just as much as 3 Women. love the satire, comedy, and mix of thriller. Hilarious that the executives in thier mind want to produce real films 'like Hitchock' but can't think of anything beyond American directors, and are terribly ignorant of what are good films beside the mainstream good ones (and at best, just their titles). The references to Bicycle Thief for example.\n\nThe story is ad hoc and weaves around basically in some incoherent manner. Plot threads are forgotten about and revived. This is meta, on purpose to take a pass at the making of Hollywood films.\n\nThe passing shots to paintings and shots. E.g., the thiller scene ending at the cut to Hitchock's portrait. The weird music during the sex scene, was this mean to be satirizing that it was necessary and this was their of way of making it not sexy? Easily one of the more disturbing scenes.\n\nAs an aside, I thought the fax scene in the car is hilarious. Who has a fax in a car!?","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/10403"},{"id":"322682678021424716","title":"The Seventh Seal","originalTitle":"Det sjunde inseglet","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":1957,"runtimeMinutes":96,"directors":["Ingmar Bergman"],"actors":["Max von Sydow","Mona Malm","Inga Gill","Gunnar Björnstrand","Gunnel Lindblom","Maud Hansson"],"genres":["Fantasy","Drama"],"completedDate":"2014-02-16","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Nihilistic and authentic with a powerful set of characters and presentation, but also roughly devoid of development and a true goal. It is metaphorical as well as allegorical, with a strong uncanny connect toward reality.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/490"},{"id":"322682678021493324","title":"The Shawshank Redemption","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":1994,"runtimeMinutes":142,"directors":["Frank Darabont"],"actors":["Morgan Freeman"],"genres":["Drama","Crime"],"completedDate":"2013-11-16","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"What an emotionally cathartic journey. The Shawshank Redemption is one film I'd have a hard time describing what distinguishes so evanescently from everything else, even though its appeal is so natural and universally applicable that just about everyone adores it.\n\nInsightful about prison structure and life, ranging alll the way from entrance to exit with Brook's.\n\nExcellent cinematography\n\nOne of the greatest relatable yet enigmatic MC, as well as a good sidekick to boot. Tim Robbins plays one of the most charismatic characters there is in film, with bright shining eyes that look so forwardly into your own.\n\nI love the span of the film as it meanders about with all the different routes from supporting characters and goes slows as balls.\n\nFreeman's narration is strongly redolent of misery, regret, some deeper desire to find the soul and be content with it.\n\nMy only complaint? The incredibly cheesy closer (just like the director in the trivia notes state, it would have been better to conclude slightly more ambiguously, where Red is on the bus looking for Andy), and the general positive way it ended in how he even escapes.\n\ntaken from imdb:\n\"In its Oscar year, Shawshank Redemption (written and directed by Frank Darabont, after the novella Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, by Stephen King) was nominated for seven Academy Awards, and walked away with zero. Best Picture went to Forrest Gump, while Shawshank and Pulp Fiction were \"just happy to be nominated.\" Of course hindsight is 20/20, but while history looks back on Gump as a good film, Pulp and Redemption are remembered as some of the all-time best. Pulp, however, was a success from the word \"go,\" making a huge splash at Cannes and making its writer-director an American master after only two films. For Andy Dufresne and Co., success didn't come easy. Fortunately, failure wasn't a life sentence.\n\nAfter opening on 33 screens with take of $727,327, the $25M film fell fast from theatres and finished with a mere $28.3M. The reasons for failure are many. Firstly, the title is a clunker. While iconic to fans today, in 1994, people knew not and cared not what a 'Shawshank' was. On the DVD, Tim Robbins laughs recounting fans congratulating him on \"that 'Rickshaw' movie.\" Marketing-wise, the film's a nightmare, as 'prison drama' is a tough sell to women, and the story of love between two best friends doesn't spell winner to men. Worst of all, the movie is slow as molasses. As Desson Thomson writes for the Washington Post, \"it wanders down subplots at every opportunity and ignores an abundance of narrative exit points before settling on its finale.\" But it is these same weaknesses that make the film so strong.\n\nFirstly, its setting. The opening aerial shots of the prison are a total eye-opener. This is an amazing piece of architecture, strong and Gothic in design. Immediately, the prison becomes a character. It casts its shadow over most of the film, its tall stone walls stretching above every shot. It towers over the men it contains, blotting out all memories of the outside world. Only Andy (Robbins) holds onto hope. It's in music, it's in the sandy beaches of Zihuatanejo; \"In here's where you need it most,\" he says. \"You need it so you don't forget. Forget that there are places in the world that aren't made out of stone. That there's a - there's a - there's something inside that's yours, that they can't touch.\" Red (Morgan Freeman) doesn't think much of Andy at first, picking \"that tall glass o' milk with the silver spoon up his ass\" as the first new fish to crack. Andy says not a word, and losing his bet, Red resents him for it. But over time, as the two get to know each other, they quickly become the best of friends. This again, is one of the film's major strengths. Many movies are about love, many flicks have a side-kick to the hero, but Shawshank is the only one I can think of that looks honestly at the love between two best friends. It seems odd that Hollywood would skip this relationship time and again, when it's a feeling that weighs so much into everyone's day to day lives. Perhaps it's too sentimental to seem conventional, but Shawshank's core friendship hits all the right notes, and the film is much better for it.\n\nIt's pacing is deliberate as well. As we spend the film watching the same actors, it is easy to forget that the movie's timeline spans well over 20 years. Such a huge measure of time would pass slowly in reality, and would only be amplified in prison. And it's not as if the film lacks interest in these moments. It still knows where it's going, it merely intends on taking its sweet time getting there. It pays off as well, as the tedium of prison life makes the climax that much more exhilarating. For anyone who sees it, it is a moment never to be forgotten.\n\nWith themes of faith and hope, there is a definite religious subtext to be found here. Quiet, selfless and carefree, Andy is an obvious Christ figure. Warden Norton (Bob Gunton) is obviously modeled on Richard Nixon, who, in his day, was as close to a personified Satan as they come. But if you aren't looking for subtexts, the movie speaks to anyone in search of hope. It is a compelling drama, and a very moving film, perfectly written, acted and shot. They just don't come much better than this.\n\nOVERALL SCORE: 9.8/10 = A+ The Shawshank Redemption served as a message of hope to Hollywood as well. More than any film in memory, it proved there is life after box office. Besting Forrest and Fiction, it ran solely on strong word of mouth and became the hottest rented film of 1995. It currently sits at #2 in the IMDb's Top 250 Films, occasionally swapping spots with The Godfather as the top ranked film of all time -- redemption indeed. If you haven't seen it yet, what the hell are you waiting for? As Andy says, \"It comes down a simple choice, really. Either get busy living, or get busy dying.\"#\"","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/278"},{"id":"322682678021504588","title":"The Shining","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":1980,"runtimeMinutes":144,"directors":["Stanley Kubrick"],"actors":["Jack Nicholson","Shelley Duvall","Danny Lloyd","Joe Turkel","Lia Beldam","Barry Nelson","Scatman Crothers","Tony Burton"],"genres":["Horror","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2010-06-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/694"},{"id":"24843aac-ea03-41c8-a6c5-1b1e0c41585f","title":"The Substance","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":2024,"runtimeMinutes":141,"directors":["Coralie Fargeat"],"actors":["Margaret Qualley","Demi Moore","Dennis Quaid","Oscar Lesage","Hugo Diego Garcia","Vincent Colombe"],"genres":["Horror","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2024-10-21","updatedDate":"2024-10-22","notes":"+ stylistic vibe | minimal dialogue, saturwted colors, camera distortion such as fish eye lens and close ups, postprocessed smooth skin\n+ drugs being equitable and theme on uaer and pressure\n+ the oacing to become completely unhinged and ramp up body horror\n+ some standars tropes and weird pacing like the witch cooking","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/933260"},{"id":"322682678020336204","title":"Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":2018,"directors":["Martin McDonagh"],"actors":["Woody Harrelson","Frances McDormand","Sam Rockwell","Peter Dinklage","Martin McDonagh"],"genres":["Documentary"],"completedDate":"2019-03-27","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Love the hilbilly stupidity. The politics become a fun mix of drama and lighthearted-humor for such a serious topic. Excellent example of Dark Comedy if I've ever known one. It's like Fargo. The main protagonist is clearly a smart one but within an unfortunate destructive family. I love how everyone's flawed. I also like the additional dimension that Willoughby is the most caring and thought-out of the cops, and is additionally dying. Even Willoughby's suicide was heartwarming. And goddamn that ending.. What a flurry of emotions both sad and thrilling. The string of events is a little too coincidental but I still had a blast.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/604847"},{"id":"322682678021373516","title":"To Live","originalTitle":"活着","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":1994,"runtimeMinutes":94,"directors":["Brian Smrz"],"actors":["Paul Anderson","Ethan Hawke","Nathalie Boltt","Rutger Hauer","Tanya van Graan","Xu Qing","Liam Cunningham"],"genres":["Action","Science Fiction","Thriller","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2014-12-20","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Oh wow, the disturbing presence of communism just cropping up in every shot, not exactly to be criticized or praised in any sense. It's a intriguing backdrop. Incredibly creepy how it seeps into the story. Outstanding development, particularly with the way they are able to cope with tragedy after tragedy.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/470114"},{"id":"322682678021245516","title":"Tokyo Sonata","originalTitle":"トウキョウソナタ","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":2008,"runtimeMinutes":120,"directors":["Kiyoshi Kurosawa"],"actors":["Tao Tsuchiya","Teruyuki Kagawa"],"genres":["Drama"],"completedDate":"2017-02-25","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"This film goes to show the diverse talents of Kiyoshi Kurosawa. This is such a powerful movie in so many ways. I felt so entrenched in its deep turmoils, identifying with each character to some degree and understanding their actions but wallowing in their despair as they can't quite fix their flaws. I really cried in this film: it was really that moving, both in the end when they finally show case the talent of the youngest child, and in the middle when they go through their roughest period with domestic violence. The intermission where each of the three go through ridiculously fantastical stories was surreal. Kurosawa made it clear just how much this family drama borders beyond realism. As the audience, we all knew how the story would end, and we only hoped it would arrive there sooner and with fewer troubles.\n\nThe tension is unrelenting and honest. No shortcuts were made, and no topics were filtered.\n\nNot only is the family drama so well depicted, but it seamleslly integrates as a canvas for the story. Global economic depression and unemployment, patriarchal pressure for fathers to remain authoritative powers, housewives, and adolescent coming-of-ages. The film covers so many themes so harmoniously you'd have trouble spotting them out with looking for key discrete topics.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/8937"},{"id":"7e738d31-4154-4816-a6e5-1570cd9aeee3","title":"Triangle of Sadness","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":2022,"runtimeMinutes":147,"directors":["Ruben Östlund"],"actors":["Harris Dickinson","Woody Harrelson","Charlbi Dean","Zlatko Burić","Malte Gårdinger","Dolly de Leon","Jean-Christophe Folly","Stefan Gödicke"],"genres":["Comedy","Drama"],"completedDate":"2022-11-24","updatedDate":"2022-11-25","notes":"Hilarious in its satire of rich people. You really do sympathize with the crew. Then it goes awry and the whole power dynamic flips. You can really see how the message is that it's the power system, not the people, that causes this behavior.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/497828"},{"id":"322682678020254284","title":"Truman Show","originalTitle":"The Truman Show","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":1998,"runtimeMinutes":103,"directors":["Peter Weir"],"actors":["Jim Carrey","Natascha McElhone","Laura Linney","Paul Giamatti","Ed Harris","Noah Emmerich","Philip Baker Hall","Heidi Schanz","Peter Krause","Joel McKinnon Miller"],"genres":["Comedy","Drama"],"completedDate":"2020-06-19","updatedDate":"2023-07-01","notes":"The premise is like that of a thriller or horror. But Jim Carey and the general execution makes it surprisingly both dramatic and comedic. All of the various dramatic irony jokes:\n\n+ Product placement.\n+ Heartfelt reunion.\n+ Director closely guarding his own privacy.\n\nI rewatched this on 2023-07-01. What a blast. Still an excellent combination of comedy and drama. All because I saw a Youtube recommendation for a movie clip.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/37165"},{"id":"727efa83-0175-42cc-8cf9-d98097dbf926","title":"Wicked","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":2024,"runtimeMinutes":162,"directors":["Jon M. Chu"],"actors":["Ariana Grande","Cynthia Erivo","Michelle Yeoh","Kristin Chenoweth","Peter Dinklage","Jeff Goldblum","Idina Menzel","Colin Michael Carmichael","Jonathan Bailey","Ricardo Ludgero Souza"],"genres":["Drama","Romance","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"2024-11-22","updatedDate":"2024-11-23","notes":"like the perfect disney movie. its got it all: comedy, tragedy, action. school setting and best friends works well for mas mucb as it could do.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/402431"},{"id":"322682678021361228","title":"Woman in the Dunes","originalTitle":"砂の女","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":1964,"runtimeMinutes":147,"directors":["Hiroshi Teshigahara"],"genres":["Drama","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2014-12-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Love the close-up skin shots, the eerie music, the ominous sand over the ominous peoples, the alarming seductress as representative of evils; a little superficial but haunting and allegoric","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/16672"},{"id":"322682678021383756","title":"Yellow Earth","originalTitle":"黃土地","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":1984,"runtimeMinutes":91,"directors":["Chen Kaige"],"actors":["Wang Xueqi"],"genres":["Drama","Music","History"],"completedDate":"2014-12-15","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Sumptuous—dark blank gazes, panoramic shots of deep lost barren grounds, the cacophonic music plays on. The use of water and very self-contained narrative and cast make the film incredibly endearing and graspable. Incredible description of the peasant life, through reinforcement of their hard labor and their folk songs, and through ambiguity and untold expressions.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/92990"},{"id":"322682678020475468","title":"Zodiac","status":"Completed","score":8,"releaseYear":2007,"runtimeMinutes":157,"directors":["David Fincher"],"actors":["Robert Downey Jr.","Jake Gyllenhaal"],"genres":["Crime","Mystery","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2017-08-11","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"All the plot points are on point: the police angle, the press with Jake Gyllenhaal and Robert Downey Jr, the killer and the off-kilter scenes all across the film. I love the time skips. I love the open-endedness. The depiction of 1969-1970s San Franciscan era is amazing.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1949"},{"id":"322682678020267596","title":"10 Cloverfield Lane","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2016,"runtimeMinutes":104,"directors":["Dan Trachtenberg"],"actors":["Bradley Cooper"],"genres":["Thriller","Science Fiction","Drama","Horror"],"completedDate":"2020-03-19","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I liked the ambiguity in the beginning. It's rather dumb that he wouldn't just let her try to call or provide actually compelling evidence. It's also clear how much more he opened up as a character after the proof with the decaying woman.\n\nJohn Goodman plays psycho, friendly father, and conspiracy theorist all in one package so well. And then psycho again with the reveal about Megan. Even the various acts he's playing like the card game.\n\nReally? A single Molotov cocktail?","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/333371"},{"id":"322682678020168268","title":"12 Years A Slave","originalTitle":"12 Years a Slave","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2013,"runtimeMinutes":134,"directors":["Steve McQueen"],"actors":["Benedict Cumberbatch","Paul Dano","Brad Pitt","Michael Fassbender","Sarah Paulson","Storm Reid","Paul Giamatti","Lupita Nyong'o","Scoot McNairy","Garret Dillahunt"],"genres":["Drama","History"],"completedDate":"2021-09-10","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"The systemitized cruelty of it all is what makes so astonishing. Acting is astonishing here.\n\nDetails I don't like:\n\n+ Rubs me the wrong way that Brad Pitt gets to play as the white saviour. Of course such an A-list actor wouldn't ruin his reputation by playing a more difficult and respectable role as a racist villain or of dubious origins like Michael Fassbender or Paul Dano.\n+ Chiwetel Ejiofor has a Shakespeare-like English voice. Very weird for a North Englander.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/76203"},{"id":"322682678020272716","title":"1922","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2017,"runtimeMinutes":102,"directors":["Zak Hilditch"],"actors":["Neal McDonough","Molly Parker","Thomas Jane","Kaitlyn Bernard","Nikolai Witschl","Tanya Champoux","Roan Curtis","Dylan Schmid"],"genres":["Horror","Crime","Drama","History"],"completedDate":"2020-03-08","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Wow what a premise. I love the eerieness that is the well. And the rats as the well was not yet filled. And how they handle it with killing a cow to avoid suspicion. It adds to the sinisterness of it all. The rat scenes make me squeamish. God that's so gross. The scene where he's reaching in the closet, it bites him, and then he stomps on it is gut wrenching.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/452507"},{"id":"c90ce8ae-f4db-4b65-aaed-d14eebca6e85","title":"28 Years Later","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2025,"runtimeMinutes":115,"directors":["Danny Boyle"],"actors":["Jodie Comer","Aaron Taylor-Johnson","Ralph Fiennes","Cillian Murphy","Edvin Ryding","Jack O'Connell","Erin Kellyman"],"genres":["Horror","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2025-06-22","updatedDate":"2025-06-22","notes":"Excellent atmosphere with its edits, sounds, and unique phone cinematography. The story and overall movie gets rather bogged down from the middle to the end when it focuses more on the mother and grief rather than the more interesting survival horror elements. It also veers into campiness, leading a tonal mess.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1100988"},{"id":"322682678020468300","title":"A Bittersweet Life","originalTitle":"달콤한 인생","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2005,"runtimeMinutes":119,"directors":["Kim Jee-woon"],"actors":["Kim Roi-ha","Lee Byung-hun","Oh Dal-su","Jung Yu-mi","Shin Min-a","Lee Ki-young","Jeon Kuk Hwan","Eric Mun","Kim Sung-oh","Hwang Jung-min"],"genres":["Action","Drama","Crime"],"completedDate":"2017-08-19","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Very interesting exploration of an enforcer's life as he goes through internal struggles and how the life around him forces him into increasing troubles. Very much a lone wolf, doesn't drink or obsessed with girls, sleeps on a couch turning on/off his lamp's light switch as he contemplates. I love how it very much emphasizes his ability to react and the consequences of his actions, from the premise setting up how just one action can lead everything to go downhill to how he handles the increasing gang conflict with a useless boss' son, how he watches and reacts to the girl along with her affair.\n\nAnd the violence. I love it. Kim Jee-woon can surely be creative. MC digging himself out a muddy grave. The story is simple but what great is the untold subtext and the random comedy like when he tries to buy a gun. How he constantly misses with the gun. Gets shivved a bunch of times during a simple revenge scene. And the side stories with the girl just happening semi-regularly even though it was the catalyst to everything, and the arms dealer connections ultimately leading to his death.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/11344"},{"id":"322682678021343820","title":"À bout de souffle","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1960,"runtimeMinutes":90,"directors":["Jean-Luc Godard"],"actors":["Jean-Paul Belmondo","Jean-Luc Godard","Jean Seberg"],"genres":["Drama","Crime","Romance"],"completedDate":"2015-02-20","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Interesting bicker with senseless love and theft.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/269"},{"id":"322682678021270092","title":"A Gentle Breeze in the Village","originalTitle":"天然コケッコー","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2007,"runtimeMinutes":121,"directors":["Nobuhiro Yamashita"],"actors":["Kaho","Masaki Okada","Elisa Yanagi","Yui Natsukawa"],"genres":["Comedy","Drama","Romance"],"completedDate":"2016-11-25","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I love its depiction of adolescence from the stupidity, gags, miscommunication and angst, and love. It dabbles so well with a lively cast, none outshining the other and really bringing out the simple fun life that it is.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/83214"},{"id":"322682678020157004","title":"A Nightmare in Elm Street","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":10,"runtimeMinutes":91,"directors":["Wes Craven"],"actors":["Johnny Depp","Heather Langenkamp","Lin Shaye","John Saxon","Amanda Wyss","Robert Englund","Mimi Craven","Ronee Blakley"],"genres":["Horror"],"updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/377"},{"id":"83822c66-45ae-4144-a833-9bbc909e169c","title":"A Quiet Place Part II","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2021,"runtimeMinutes":97,"directors":["John Krasinski"],"actors":["Emily Blunt"],"genres":["Science Fiction","Thriller","Horror"],"completedDate":"2021-05-29","updatedDate":"2024-06-02","notes":"Watched with family. Too many action sets that felt a bit too forced at times. Great cinematography.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/520763"},{"id":"322682678020177484","title":"A Serbian Film","originalTitle":"Srpski film","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2010,"runtimeMinutes":104,"directors":["Srđan Spasojević"],"actors":["Srđan Todorović","Ana Sakić","Katarina Žutić"],"genres":["Crime","Horror","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2021-07-26","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Thriller going deep in sex and exploitatism. It's actually not as bad as I thought---it's like a hectic murder film but replaced with gruesome sexual acts. It's about a man reentering an industry and getting drugged to do gruesome acts as he tries to understand what's he getting into. For film in extreme cinema, it's surprisingly high production value and with a compelling plot. It's not complex; it at least displays more depth than other thrillers like Saw and Ichi the Killer.\n\nThe more iconic scenes:\n\n+ A man having sex with a newborn baby. They actually don't really show anything. It's more the idea that's revolting than the visual act.\n+ It's doggy style raping a women then beating her on the back and cutting her head off with a machete. A scene where he gets sodomized by a bodyguard.\n+ The porn actress that got him into this kidnapped, pulled her teeth out, and then forced a blowjob.\n+ Him fucking his overdosed son while his brother has sex with his wife. And then a violent shootout as he takes vengeance followed by other over-the-top acts like him fucking a guy's eye..","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/73861"},{"id":"322682678020426316","title":"A Taxi Driver","originalTitle":"택시운전사","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2017,"runtimeMinutes":138,"directors":["Jang Hoon"],"actors":["Thomas Kretschmann","Song Kang-ho","Um Tae-goo","Yoo Hae-jin","Jeon Hye-jin","Ryu Jun-yeol","Jung Jin-young","Heo Jung-do","Choi Gwi-hwa","Lee Jung-eun"],"genres":["Action","Drama","History"],"completedDate":"2018-01-13","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Song Kang Ho makes this film. Another example of why he's one of the greatest actors, easily balancing comedy, humility, and darkness to give diversity to the film. Song Kang Ho plays a good-hearted man, with the film setting up his story well as he jumps into a political affair. The way it plays out is excellent, seeping in details and showing what it's really like to live in such censored, battle-ready times. As a taxi driver, he runs all across perspectives, from the dumb students to soldiers and to the reporters themselves.\n\nMy only complaint is its tendency for an overdramatic flair, and sometimes with less of a grounding in why things were the way they were. The Fast and Furious scene at the end.. Quoting Reddit: \"It's the same thing that Korean movies with any kind of conflict always seem to do, and it drives me up the wall. The movie will be compelling, tell a great story, cinematography and acting are fantastic... and then the final 20 minutes they can't just let it end appropriately. There has to be a big dramatic showdown with the villain, who keeps coming back.\" https://www.reddit.com/r/korea/comments/6yf2oc/a_taxi_driver_nominated_for_the_oscars_best","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/437068"},{"id":"322682678021487180","title":"Alice in Wonderland","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1951,"runtimeMinutes":75,"directors":["Clyde Geronimi","Wilfred Jackson","Hamilton Luske"],"actors":["Heather Angel","Kathryn Beaumont"],"genres":["Animation","Family","Fantasy","Adventure"],"completedDate":"1996-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/12092"},{"id":"322682678020463180","title":"Alien: Covenant","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2017,"runtimeMinutes":122,"directors":["Ridley Scott"],"actors":["Michael Fassbender"],"genres":["Horror","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2017-08-22","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Ridley Scott's done it again! Big fan of all his Alien films. Spectacles and special effects, body horror, strong Ripley-like female protagonists, world-building, and lurking deeper themes.\n\nMichael Fassbinder is the clear star of Prometheus and also this film. Glad the director put him to good use. Bestial incarnations with a lack of thought are not sinister. It's when augmented with intelligence like that of Fassbinder's character David. No character really shined through except for both of Fassbinder's.\n\nThe plot was paced well. I enjoyed how certain moments were left unknown such as what David precisely did with Elizabeth Shaw. Or why he really was so ruthless in destroying the Engineers' civilization. That said, plot devices can be questionable as usual with Ridley's Alien films. For example, when the med officer shoots around the ship to kill a newborn alieen and someone one shot ends up blowing the whole ship. Or how a captain would stick his face over an alien-like egg after watching David cry as he killed an alien. Or how there are no proper environmental suits, quarantine zone, and medical procedures when they explore a new planet.\n\nI've always liked the overarching themes of mankind in Ridley Scott's work. And as they expand, he explores 2104 as we attempt to colonize, consequently exploring artificial intelligence, extraterrestrial life, genetic programming and xenobiology, and the technical challenges in colonization (at the surface level, sometimes unrealistic but still at least he does). These latter include chemical and geological composition of habital planets, ecology, and agriculture. When they enter a potentially habitable planet, I like how it almost ends uup feeling like Star Trek as they investigate mysteries of the planet: nice shrubbery and wheat at immediate glance; but no animals, not even bugs; and toppled trees indicating some huge life form or object destroyed them. On AI, it's both humanoid and the ship itself.\n\nRant: I still find it strange whenever AI is depicted as exactly humanoid. For example, a robot using a keyboard to interact with a computer; or two Michael Fassbinders communicating through chatting rather than just syncing up through cable or wirelessly. It's ironic: surely, there's more efficient mediums of communication when we don't restrict robots to have only 5 senses. On another level, I find it strange because by the time we have such strong AI, there's a high probability that we'll know precisely the inner mechanics of them, their success and failure modes.\n\nA specific memory: When the Alien is born out of the captain's stomach, I love how it just played symphonic music, as if they were any other blissful situation. And it would be to humans if weren't jutting out killing its host and arriving out of blood with bare fangs and Geiger phaluses and spittals of corrosive acid. I also find it strange that we take tacitly that David destroyed most all the Engineer race when he destroyed a city within a single world at best; and they're most likely a multiterresterial species if they have such grand schemes has mutating humans who live so far away.\n\nI also enjoyed the short prologue released by the studios: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeMVrnYNwus.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/126889"},{"id":"6e758ae5-7b35-4617-bbcb-5b67772fb469","title":"Alien: Romulus","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2024,"runtimeMinutes":119,"directors":["Fede Álvarez"],"actors":["Isabela Merced","Cailee Spaeny","Archie Renaux"],"genres":["Science Fiction","Horror","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2024-08-15","updatedDate":"2024-08-18","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/945961"},{"id":"322682678021353036","title":"All About Lily Chou-Chou","originalTitle":"リリイ・シュシュのすべて","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2001,"runtimeMinutes":146,"directors":["Shunji Iwai"],"actors":["Yu Aoi"],"genres":["Drama","Crime"],"completedDate":"2015-02-08","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Sophomoric use of faded black all-text scenes at times, but quite potent in its drama. While the characters tend to lack much characterization, there is a certain aura pervasive in the films that the audience can attach themselves too.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/16664"},{"id":"322682678021533260","title":"American History X","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1998,"runtimeMinutes":119,"directors":["Tony Kaye"],"actors":["Beverly D'Angelo","Edward Norton","Ethan Suplee","Fairuza Balk","Christopher Masterson","Elliott Gould","Edward Furlong","Paul Le Mat","Nicholas R. Oleson","Stacy Keach"],"genres":["Drama"],"completedDate":"2005-08-15","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/73"},{"id":"322682678021490252","title":"American Psycho","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2000,"runtimeMinutes":102,"directors":["Mary Harron"],"actors":["Willem Dafoe","Jared Leto","Christian Bale","Reese Witherspoon","Stephen Bogaert","Josh Lucas","Chloë Sevigny","Justin Theroux","Bill Sage","Blair Williams"],"genres":["Thriller","Drama","Crime"],"completedDate":"2008-12-31","updatedDate":"2024-09-08","notes":"Rewatched it on 2024-09-08 with Marisa. Ages well. Very comedic and pointed.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1359"},{"id":"6f3df382-8c07-410c-8899-64f7b9ce5970","title":"Anatomy of a Fall","originalTitle":"Anatomie d'une chute","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2023,"runtimeMinutes":151,"directors":["Justine Triet"],"actors":["Sandra Hüller","Swann Arlaud","Camille Rutherford","Samuel Theis","Milo Machado-Graner","Antoine Reinartz","Jehnny Beth","Arthur Harari"],"genres":["Thriller","Mystery","Crime"],"completedDate":"2024-07-01","updatedDate":"2024-07-01","notes":"Solid story. Not that interesting cinematography or themes. I don't know why this won Cannes other than that it is a French film.\n\nI like the idea of the story's structure. A judge/judicial case in order to reveal the underlying drama behind a family's relationships and struggles.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/915935"},{"id":"50b63098-495f-4056-8e88-09824bc00991","title":"Anora","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2024,"runtimeMinutes":139,"directors":["Sean Baker"],"actors":["Mikey Madison","Karren Karagulian","Lindsey Normington","Yura Borisov","Mark Eidelstein","Ivy Wolk","Aleksey Serebryakov"],"genres":["Drama","Comedy","Romance"],"completedDate":"2025-01-25","updatedDate":"2025-01-26","notes":"Fun, not much to it. Surprised it won the Cannes. The theme is most close to White Lotus.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1064213"},{"id":"8fc74fa7-91db-4287-ab85-f9b649afd390","title":"Another Round","originalTitle":"Druk","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2020,"runtimeMinutes":117,"directors":["Thomas Vinterberg"],"actors":["Mads Mikkelsen"],"genres":["Comedy","Drama"],"completedDate":"2026-09-06","updatedDate":"2026-09-13","notes":"Vinterberg + Mads banger.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/580175"},{"id":"322682678020306508","title":"Apostle","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2018,"runtimeMinutes":129,"directors":["Gareth Evans"],"actors":["Michael Sheen","Kristine Froseth","Dan Stevens","Lucy Boynton","Elen Rhys","Rhian Morgan","Annes Elwy","Bill Milner"],"genres":["Horror","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2019-07-06","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Overall, a film with flawed writing wandering all over the place in plot but excellent atmosphere, direction, and core premise.\n\nThe man plays a depraved addict on recovery while in search of his lost sister really well. What an actor is Dan Stevens---clearly not an outlier that he does so well in Legion. The characters in the story feel a little too prototypical. But the story remains fun with the mystery of the island and teh creeping horrors. The lighting. The music They make the good characters seem overly good to appeal to the audience for example; e.g., Andrea who serves as a potential love interest is also sympathetic to the kidnapee and acts somewhat against the cult ideals.. A few too many tropes though. Like an abusive evil guy. And two people who supposedly died from an attack but wake up later in scenes. Corny B-rated death scene with the main vaillain and the goodbye scene.\n\nMost major plot hole: the creature feeding the goddess was never explained even if everything else was so told out explicitly. And if it were a guardian, it apparently was never around when the three prisoners first arrived.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/424121"},{"id":"59e3a7c9-822b-4d96-954d-ba801fa33134","title":"Army of Shadows","originalTitle":"L'Armée des ombres","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1969,"runtimeMinutes":145,"directors":["Jean-Pierre Melville"],"actors":["Nathalie Delon","Simone Signoret","Lino Ventura","Paul Crauchet","Jean-Pierre Cassel","Paul Meurisse","Serge Reggiani"],"genres":["War","Drama","Thriller","History"],"completedDate":"2024-08-24","updatedDate":"2024-08-24","notes":"Solidly paced and good storyline.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/15383"},{"id":"322682678020471372","title":"Arrival","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2016,"runtimeMinutes":116,"directors":["Denis Villeneuve"],"actors":["Amy Adams","Jeremy Renner","Forest Whitaker","Abdelghafour Elaaziz","Tzi Ma","Joe Cobden","Frank Schorpion","Mark O'Brien","Michael Stuhlbarg","Abigail Pniowsky"],"genres":["Drama","Science Fiction","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2017-08-13","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Love the realistic scientific investigation starting with language. The mathematica shots help make it realistic. I wonder how plausible this analysis is to be honest. How they think, their instinctive vs more individualistic behavior with names, how they eat, their purpose, their technology, response via emotions. What are all the sorts of primitives we should investigate?\n\nI like the inevitability of the human's response. Destruction is always so much an easier primitive than learning, trade, communication.\n\nI found it strange that they didn't consider linguistics/language a science. It is absolutely a field of science.\n\nLove that the reveal is a weapon for traveling time. Stays cosmic in scale. And I like how it meshes well with the storytelling structure.\n\none thing i wonder given the limited expertise in science from directors is that the aim is generally limited to broad philosophical questions or otherwise provide overly simplistic understandings and meanings behind the scifi story. arrival is one the most layered science fictions but can still suffer from the overly simplistic storytelling trend to focus on one character, one perspective, one ego and how this somehow has such dramatic effects on the plot. the story could so better from a more layered, systematic exploration, and not end with the nice albeit naive reveal that language is what they wanted to teach humans all along.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/329865"},{"id":"e8cf47ae-53db-468f-84d8-3b056e287933","title":"Audition","originalTitle":"オーディション","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1999,"runtimeMinutes":115,"directors":["Takashi Miike"],"actors":["Renji Ishibashi","Tatsuo Endō","Jun Kunimura","Miyuki Matsuda","Eihi Shiina"],"genres":["Horror","Drama"],"completedDate":"2016-04-27","updatedDate":"2024-10-04","notes":"I love the lull from the first half; unlike typical horror films which set it up as a formula you can follow, Takashi Miike really lets it seep in as a traditional (and quite good) romantic comedy. Then the immediate change in atmosphere. The deadpan ending is just the best. I feel the idiots watching this film with the immediate expectation that it's a horror film are misguided. It isn't a horror film in any usual sense.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/11075"},{"id":"322682678020449868","title":"Baby Driver","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2017,"runtimeMinutes":113,"directors":["Edgar Wright"],"actors":["Jon Bernthal","Lily James"],"genres":["Action","Crime"],"completedDate":"2017-09-28","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Really funky with the way the songs synchronize with the action: from dialogue to car doors to even being meta with the humor such as when a scene explicitly doesn't happen until Baby has his song rewinded to direct action such as his ipod getting shot. Also love the characterization. And that the main character can be relatively mute for an audiovisual medium. Courting in a laundromat. Even the supporting cast was all really good: Jammie Foxx, Mon Hamm, Kevin Spacey, etc. The long tracking shot where Baby gets coffee. Love it.\n\nOnly thing I didn't really like in the film was the forced romance subplot.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/339403"},{"id":"322682678021204556","title":"Bananas","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1971,"runtimeMinutes":82,"directors":["Woody Allen"],"actors":["Sylvester Stallone"],"genres":["Comedy"],"completedDate":"2017-04-06","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Bananas is a funny indicator of Woody Allen's humor not quite at its signature yet, just like how Kubrick took a bit to find his common grounding in narrative. But it's a wonderful testament to his diversity. Self-deprecating nebbish with a deadpan delivery—always typecasted but always played well—combined with sociopolitical commentary and slapstick a la Bob Hope. I also find it just how amazing in the timelessness of the story to have much relevant content even in 2017.\n\nThe content here is slapstick, often with the goal to carry out small-time jokes and laughter throughout the film. His signature films derive humor more from characters and narratively built contexts, rather than as two-bit sort of A -> B scenarios. I think this is why I don't like slapstick in general. But I enjoyed the others.\n\nAs Bananas gets into the heart of the film, its humor becomes a lot more story-oriented which is excellent. For example, Woody going back to America after having been thought dead, and now the President of San Marcos, and disguised as a rabbi. The accent as the interpreter was hilariously on point about the blurry line between languages, and executed as a slapstick. Its straight man act and zany music reminds me of Arrested Development. The plot itself is totally a wacky thing you'd expect from a Futurama episode.\n\nThe whole social commentary gives his joke content a unique element to mock political organization and the US. 'Let me be vice-president. Now that's a real idiot's job.'\n\nWoody Allen's hate on pseudointellectuals is a clear indication in as early a film as this one.\n\nSide comment: (1) Woody Allen is surprisingly athletic, which you wouldn't expect from his frequent self-deprecation. (2) I like how the New York apartments are exactly the same as they are now. The doors, white plaster all across the walls. (3) '[...] of all races and creeds'. Like sure likes that phrase. I should use it too! (4) The court scene of Woody Allen acting as himself as the defendant and prosecutor is hilarious. Easily my favorite scene.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/11302"},{"id":"322682678021321292","title":"Bande à Part","originalTitle":"Bande à part","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1964,"runtimeMinutes":97,"directors":["Jean-Luc Godard"],"actors":["Anna Karina","Sami Frey"],"genres":["Crime","Drama","Comedy"],"completedDate":"2015-10-22","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/8073"},{"id":"322682678021530188","title":"Batman Begins","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2005,"runtimeMinutes":140,"directors":["Christopher Nolan"],"actors":["Morgan Freeman","Gary Oldman","Katie Holmes","Liam Neeson"],"genres":["Drama","Crime","Action"],"completedDate":"2005-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/272"},{"id":"322682678021425740","title":"Ben-Hur","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1959,"runtimeMinutes":212,"directors":["William Wyler"],"actors":["Charlton Heston","Frank Thring","Hugh Griffith","Enzo Fiermonte","Jack Hawkins","Stephen Boyd"],"genres":["History","Drama","Adventure"],"completedDate":"2014-02-27","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Ben-Hur is grand and majestic as it is has become known for, but rather disappointing in its progression of the themes and its character development. It is also overly dramatic and theatrical in its acting at times. They act as if more than human and as if large heroes, with grandiloquent lines and large exaggerations in gestures.\n\n1:00:50 extra playing a dead body that moves. Still rather simplistic in its structure, prime example being Masala wearing all black and weaponry in order to win the chariot race.\n\nExcellent choreography, music, and shadows.\n\nThe Jesus bit is contrived. It's like an ugly cameo with Muhammad-type face covering, and unlike Lawrence of Arabia, the theme of faith lacks any hard work to it. Suddenly a deus ex machina (literally) occurs and they're no longer lepers! And Ben-Hur no longer wants vengenance! Of course they now believe in God, as if living in years of torment within a dungeon and then within the valley of lepers hasn't also been God's choice.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/665"},{"id":"330891138905932368","title":"Black Christmas","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1974,"runtimeMinutes":98,"directors":["Bob Clark"],"actors":["Keir Dullea","Andrea Martin","Art Hindle","Olivia Hussey","John Saxon"],"genres":["Horror","Mystery","Crime"],"completedDate":"2022-05-06","updatedDate":"2022-05-06","notes":"Olivia Hussey and Margot Kidder portray particularly good characters. It's also interesting to see the film as effectively a proto-slasher genre film, and with clear inspirations from the derangements from killers like in Psycho (1960).\n\nThe biting commentary about police ineptness is a funny and real jab. The idea that the killer is in the residence all along is a trope that this movie may have actually started.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/16938"},{"id":"322682678976450124","title":"Black Mirror: Bandersnatch","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2018,"runtimeMinutes":90,"directors":["David Slade"],"actors":["Will Poulter","Jonathan Aris","Fionn Whitehead","Alice Lowe","Tallulah Haddon","Rochenda Sandall"],"genres":["Thriller","Science Fiction","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2025-04-20","updatedDate":"2025-05-04","notes":"Good premise. Bad conclusion, it doesn't know where to go.\n\nMotivated because it's a thriller. Premise seemed interesting.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/569547"},{"id":"322682678020352588","title":"BlackkKlansman","originalTitle":"BlacKkKlansman","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2018,"runtimeMinutes":136,"directors":["Spike Lee"],"actors":["Robert John Burke","Alec Baldwin","Adam Driver","Ryan Eggold","Jasper Pääkkönen","Laura Harrier","Paul Walter Hauser","Topher Grace","John David Washington","Damaris Lewis"],"genres":["Crime","Comedy","Drama","History"],"completedDate":"2019-02-09","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Not only poignant but hilarious. My favorite type of comedy. It pinpoints the various aggressions caused to black people during a period shortly after Brown vs Board of Education.\"With the right white man, you can do anything.\" Love that line.\n\nThe scenarios are great: John Washington playing a white man on phone calls, Adam Driver playing a black guy playing a white man in person. My only problem is it ends almost too cleanly in its story (even the racist cop is charged). What a great ending though! It's Spike Lee's way of saying that what we just watched may not be so much fiction after all.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/487558"},{"id":"322682678020427340","title":"Blade Runner 2049","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2017,"runtimeMinutes":164,"directors":["Denis Villeneuve"],"actors":["Ryan Gosling","Harrison Ford","Ana de Armas"],"genres":["Science Fiction","Drama"],"completedDate":"2017-12-29","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Attesting to Villeneuve himself, Blade Runner 2049's greatest streak is its atmosphere---a minimal soundtrack (if any) and creeping cinematography. The reinforced themes of artificial intelligence, as illustrated with the main character being an improved replicant and his spouse a house-engineered model. Also how K reads the human genome like any other machine code. Goddamn. That human hologram syncing is out of this world. Love the uncanny valley. And the way Elvis and Marilyn Monroe just blink in and out, singing only later to emphasize the unrealness of it all.\n\nThe story carries itself well, and the atmosphere only further deepens. I liked the reversal of K not being the child. The specific reveal for the daughter though is rather corny, as if they have to shoehorn all threads in the narrative toward this. It would have been more believable if she was a random person.\n\nThe spin on Blade Runner's Turing Test is trippy. Loved it.\n\nThe overarching story of a single child born from a replicant and human is a little trope-y, and a little disappointing. Action scenes are not Villeneuve's strong suit. But I did like the water setting. The amount of A-stars in this is a distracting and pulls you out of the world. I fucking hate Jared Leto especially.\n\nReal-world dispelling from an AI expert: However much fiction likes concentrating on individuals to romanticize them and concentrate human effort, I cannot believe a single person could single-handedly turn over the world with synthetic farming and then engineer everyone; inspecting outputted models purely by looking at their skin and moments of their birth is not useful at all (imagine, e.g., how we inspect current systems; it's through a huger variety of internals and not I/O of specific examples); robots (replicants) enhanced just with the 5 senses more than humans seems unlikely, I can imagine so many more use cases; cars? please...; also surprised humans haven't engineered the weatehr yet; sites for garbage disposal? surprised we haven't solved renewable energy yet; if we can bioengineer AI that good I don't see how it's unlikely we can't build machines that can reproduce as the premise makes it believe seems unbelievable; there is no such things as a soul, and it doesn't matter if your program was reproduced deliberately or indirectly through biological means—they're both a means of production.\n\nVarious sci-fi ideas I liked: + holograms with live-world immersion, as Joi steps out in the rain; a house model; new tools for machines: replicants hunting down replicants, machines as pleasure models or hardy workforces where concepts such as intelligence, attachment, and appeal are additional features that cost extra (an extension of current technology as tools for various industries and consumers) and robots can be interrupted/deactivated at will; a roughly decentralized government (or lack thereof) headed by corporations; macabre, sleek styles with seedy cities with a lack of evolutionary/natural biology in favor of always deliberate bioengineering; a penchant for real vs synthetic hologramic girls (similar to otaku fascination of anime girls); pinpoint missles controlled by an AI; multilanguages spoken like nothing. I would gladly live in Blade Runner's world. :)","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/335984"},{"id":"322682678020418124","title":"Blair Witch Project","originalTitle":"The Blair Witch Project","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1999,"runtimeMinutes":81,"directors":["Daniel Myrick","Eduardo Sánchez"],"genres":["Horror","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2018-03-15","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Love it. Lore could be better, like Noroi. The setup in getting lost was real good. Kept it unknown the whole time how they might get out, their various options, how things slowly collapsed.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/2667"},{"id":"322682678020194892","title":"Bo Burnham: Make Happy","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2016,"runtimeMinutes":60,"directors":["Bo Burnham","Christopher Storer"],"actors":["Bo Burnham"],"genres":["Comedy"],"completedDate":"2021-06-04","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I like the honesty. He really does absurdist blunt comedy well. It's a lot of attention-grabbing by swapping to different skits with props and music which I'm mostly okay with. Clearly it comes from his Youtube origins.\n\nIt's truly more of a one-man show than a one-man standup in the traditional sense of a mic and stool. And I think that's what makes it so exciting. It pushes the boundary of typical comedy as a meta-performance with good elements in it. Every one of his shows talks a lot about him, and he's very blunt about not just his style but the themes.\n\nNot all the jokes land with me. They're all original at least. And I do like when I like it mixes into social commentary.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/400608"},{"id":"322682678020193868","title":"Bo Burnham: what","originalTitle":"Bo Burnham: What.","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2013,"runtimeMinutes":60,"directors":["Bo Burnham","Christopher Storer"],"actors":["Bo Burnham"],"genres":["Comedy"],"completedDate":"2021-06-04","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/244001"},{"id":"322682678021382732","title":"Boat People","originalTitle":"投奔怒海","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1982,"runtimeMinutes":28,"directors":["Spencer Nakasako","Vincent DiGirolamo"],"completedDate":"2014-12-16","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Cheesy ending and rather forced plots at times but nevertheless powerfully evoking.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/713501"},{"id":"322682678021570124","title":"Boiler Room","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2000,"runtimeMinutes":119,"directors":["Ben Younger"],"actors":["Vin Diesel"],"genres":["Crime","Drama","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2013-11-13","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Exctellent main character with class A acting. One of the most down-to-earth, relatable protagonists I can really empathize with.\n\nBoiler Room households phenomenal progression and makes the whole conflict a seemingly natural storyline. Each character faces the same morality questions that MC does, and the various ways they cope with that is quite astounding.\n\nPretty cheesy romance as well as the dad blip.\n\nGreat dance with the moralism affair, especially with how his friend continues to ground him in it.\n\nMy only complaints is the rather high-strung, exaggerated action along with the neeed to close the firm so violently and leave such a sordid message with everything inconclusive.\n\n\"It isn't going to win too many awards; it is simplistic, slapdash and a little goofy. But it captures the swagger and the patter of the young obnoxious stock-hawkers perfectly.\"","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/14181"},{"id":"322682678020466252","title":"Boogie Nights","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1997,"runtimeMinutes":156,"directors":["Paul Thomas Anderson"],"actors":["Mark Wahlberg","Nina Hartley","Heather Graham","Alfred Molina","Julianne Moore","Burt Reynolds","Veronica Hart","Philip Seymour Hoffman","Thomas Jane","Luis Guzmán"],"genres":["Drama","Comedy"],"completedDate":"2017-08-19","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I love the dynamic shots. A very interesting look into the 70s and 80s of the porn industry, shot primarily from a young stud's rise in stardom. The mansion with all the porn stars and their daily lives is so interesting. His young naivety, enthusiasm, and his physique bring around everyone. And then his drug addiction coupled with his fall due to the switch to low-budget video production. And how it goes away from scripted films to ad-hoc situations such as Rollergirl in a car picking up a stranger.\n\nThe ensemble cast is very good, almost quite the level of Robert Altman in entertaining each character as a fully realized person.\n\nI find it hilarious PTA can shoot a film so much revolving around a huge cock but can never show it (until the end). I love how they do the bad acting and budget scenes in the porn films. And how blandly generic the Asian culture comes off to influence Dirk Diggler in karate. How stupid these people are are clearly reflected in their dull, stuttered conversations. PTA's neutral look really makes it anshow as an obvious consequence of their druggy environment, with little value on education.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/4995"},{"id":"322682678020243020","title":"Borat Subsequent Moviefilm","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2020,"runtimeMinutes":96,"directors":["Jason Woliner"],"actors":["Tom Hanks","Maria Bakalova","Miroslav Tolj"],"genres":["Comedy"],"completedDate":"2020-10-22","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Hilarious. More scripted scenes but still fun. The girl actress does surprisingly well.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/740985"},{"id":"6af119d4-84ce-4e4a-879f-3e0542005374","title":"Border","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2018,"completedDate":"2026-06-26","updatedDate":"2026-06-28"},{"id":"322682678021194316","title":"Bram Stoker's Dracula","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1992,"runtimeMinutes":128,"directors":["Francis Ford Coppola"],"actors":["Keanu Reeves","Gary Oldman","Monica Bellucci"],"genres":["Romance","Horror"],"completedDate":"2017-04-15","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Coppola really makes the adaptation his own, with brilliant ways to capture horror through film tricks: for example, Dracula's eyes overcast on the cloud, shadows to portray an independent life almost sucking the sole of others, the way he just drifts in the air as he moves not showing his legs during the shots. The colors are sumptuous to contrast the bland. Sex and mystery is high. The journal dialogues to set the narrative keep it novelistic. The individual eccentrics keep the fun high, what with the pure maiden and Johnathon, Dracula himself, the mad man, the wolverine. It's fun seeing what happens next even when we know the general ending. I love the heft of the relaxed speech and mannerisms. It does suffer from the novel's dated style of narrative. For example, the beginning which sets up Dracula is cheesy. Helsin himself is a fun character, let alone his nemesis and the beasts. Johnathon Harker's character is dull though, doing little for the story save for the beginning.\nAs with the novel, I like the parallels of sex, purity, and evil.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/6114"},{"id":"8b3c7356-5626-4c59-8cdd-687d1a79c35f","title":"Bring Her Back","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2025,"runtimeMinutes":104,"directors":["Michael Philippou","Danny Philippou"],"genres":["Horror"],"completedDate":"2025-07-28","updatedDate":"2025-07-29","notes":"Excellent thriller.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1151031"},{"id":"5e7af3dd-d59e-42cc-805c-dc231733859b","title":"Burning","originalTitle":"버닝","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2018,"runtimeMinutes":148,"directors":["Lee Chang-dong"],"actors":["Steven Yeun","Ok Ja-yeon","Yoo Ah-in","Jun Jong-seo","Lee Bong-ryeon","Moon Sung-keun"],"genres":["Mystery","Drama","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2019-06-29","updatedDate":"2023-08-31","notes":"This is Murakami alright. It's like I'm personally being cuckolded by watching this lol. The cute girl. The spirit of amibiguity. The feeling of inferiority. The surrealism then of her disappearance and the obvious analogy to the mystery man's predilection to burn down greenhouses. The passive and very Japanese protagonist. Obssessed with even pathetic masturbating scenes. A touching anecdote that apparently never happened. Cats. End of the movie: i don't get it.. Is there a reason things happened---some underlying message---or is just for fun?\n\n> [t]he degree to which Burning succeeds will depend largely on one's capacity to identify with the unspoken but strongly conveyed sense of jealousy and frustration its lower-class protagonist feels\n\nI feel this. This is something that didn't really happen in Barn Burning and feels distinctively Korean. I loved the layering: from a love triangle to the layer of social criticism against class differences to the struggles around Jongsu as a person with his troubled family and lackadaisical nature (e.g., the calf, his father's problems). I especially loved the burning motif across the film: the sun reflecting light toward Haemi's apartment, Jongsu and his father's rage, the physical burning of greenhouses and the car.\n\nI rewatched it on 2023-08-30 as part of Will Neff's stream.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/491584"},{"id":"322682678021262924","title":"Café Society","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2016,"runtimeMinutes":97,"directors":["Woody Allen"],"actors":["Kristen Stewart","Steve Carell","Jesse Eisenberg","Parker Posey","Kelly Rohrbach","Tony Sirico","Corey Stoll","Sheryl Lee","Blake Lively","Anna Camp"],"genres":["Comedy","Drama","Romance"],"completedDate":"2016-12-13","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I loved the narrative.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/339397"},{"id":"330504271811314241","title":"Candyman","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1992,"runtimeMinutes":100,"directors":["Bernard Rose"],"actors":["Virginia Madsen","Xander Berkeley","Ted Raimi","Kasi Lemmons","Carolyn Lowery"],"genres":["Drama","Horror","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2022-05-01","updatedDate":"2022-05-02","notes":"Story's pacing and development of the killer is surprisingly good. Having it be steeped in racial contexts is also interesting. The plot developing to where the protagonist is the suspect is tropey.\n\n__Details I don't like:__\n\n+ Candyman kills with a hook. She gets framed with a knife. Why would police think the knife is the murder weapon?","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/9529"},{"id":"322682678021553740","title":"Casablanca","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1943,"runtimeMinutes":102,"directors":["Michael Curtiz"],"actors":["Humphrey Bogart","Ingrid Bergman","Peter Lorre","Hans Heinrich von Twardowski","Claude Rains","Sebastian Cabot","George J. Lewis"],"genres":["Drama","Romance"],"completedDate":"2006-05-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/289"},{"id":"322682678021595724","title":"Catch Me If You Can","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2002,"runtimeMinutes":141,"directors":["Steven Spielberg"],"actors":["Tom Hanks","Leonardo DiCaprio"],"genres":["Drama","Crime"],"completedDate":"2008-12-31","updatedDate":"2023-07-22","notes":"It's a lovely wish-fulfillment story.\n\nThe real story is complete bullshit. Still a great story though. I agree with this perspective: [post](https://www.reddit.com/r/entertainment/comments/11qoe8h/catch_me_if_you_can_conman_frank_abagnale_jr_lied/jc5dn4i).","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/640"},{"id":"322682678021392972","title":"Catch-22","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1970,"runtimeMinutes":121,"directors":["Mike Nichols"],"actors":["Bob Balaban","Martin Sheen","Anthony Perkins","Orson Welles","Paula Prentiss","Jon Voight","Richard Benjamin","Bruce Kirby","Austin Pendleton","Bob Newhart"],"genres":["War","Comedy"],"completedDate":"2013-12-23","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Riotous and black in the slick charming way that the novel portrays. If only the individual plot episodes were better wrapped together, and if Yossarian wasn't straight man sometimes and eccentric the next. Some things the film does better: the dark tone, the splendid background shots, the grittier texture of the visuals.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/10364"},{"id":"9f4d55fa-e7d7-4194-bbe2-cfbc21ae25cc","title":"Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc","originalTitle":"チェンソーマン レゼ篇","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2025,"runtimeMinutes":100,"directors":["Tatsuya Yoshihara"],"genres":["Animation","Action","Romance","Fantasy","Horror"],"completedDate":"2025-10-25","updatedDate":"2025-10-26","notes":"OK writing. Brilliant sakuga. But sometimes hard to follow. Inconsequential movie in character or plot growth.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1218925"},{"id":"0ba87159-73e1-4a28-879c-a15b78d7e718","title":"Challengers","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2024,"runtimeMinutes":132,"directors":["Luca Guadagnino"],"actors":["Zendaya"],"genres":["Drama","Romance"],"completedDate":"2024-04-25","updatedDate":"2024-04-27","notes":"Watched it on a date with Kay.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/937287"},{"id":"322682678021243468","title":"Charisma","originalTitle":"カリスマ","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1999,"runtimeMinutes":104,"directors":["Kiyoshi Kurosawa"],"actors":["Hiroyuki Ikeuchi","Ren Osugi","Yoriko Douguchi"],"genres":["Mystery","Drama","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2017-02-26","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"That was quite the bizarre film. I liked the `eco-horror` elements and the absolutely wacky way the story presents itself.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/72490"},{"id":"322682678021280332","title":"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2005,"runtimeMinutes":115,"directors":["Tim Burton"],"actors":["Helena Bonham Carter","Johnny Depp","Freddie Highmore","Missi Pyle","Noah Taylor","AnnaSophia Robb","Jordan Fry","Christopher Lee","Annette Badland","Adam Godley"],"genres":["Adventure","Comedy","Family","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"2016-11-05","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Quirky, simple, fun. I like the Michael Jackson-esque persona.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/118"},{"id":"322682678021302860","title":"Cidade de Deus","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2002,"runtimeMinutes":129,"directors":["Fernando Meirelles"],"actors":["Alice Braga","Leandro Firmino","Phellipe Haagensen","Graziella Moretto","Alexandre Rodrigues"],"genres":["Drama","Crime"],"completedDate":"2016-05-24","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/598"},{"id":"01885ae6-31b7-4f4a-b566-ae5e9bd0bc08","title":"Coco","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2017,"runtimeMinutes":105,"directors":["Lee Unkrich"],"actors":["Benjamin Bratt","John Ratzenberger","Gael García Bernal","Alanna Ubach","Jaime Camil","Edward James Olmos","Cheech Marin","Gabriel Iglesias","Lombardo Boyar","Alfonso Arau"],"genres":["Family","Animation","Music","Adventure"],"completedDate":"2024-09-01","updatedDate":"2024-09-02","notes":"+ Excellent world.\n+ More unique culture for a Disney movie.\n+ Excellent characters, from the main to the relatable family who effectively serve as the villains.\n+ Musical pieces are memorable.\n+ The way it brings back family, death, and age is bittersweet. This is the most memorable theme for sure.\n+ Great final ending. I was getting teary for sure.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/354912"},{"id":"322682678020191820","title":"Coherence","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2014,"runtimeMinutes":89,"directors":["James Ward Byrkit"],"actors":["Emily Baldoni","Maury Sterling","Aqueela Zoll","Nicholas Brendon"],"genres":["Thriller","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2021-06-09","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"The mystery of it all is pretty fun. Once you get in the logic with the branching paths, which to some extent propagates to before even the comet event itself or just within the house with the flashing lights rather than just in the street dark spot, it makes sense. And it makes for many fun surreal moments. They do some weird plot holes.\n\nThe moment they mentioned Schrodinger's Cat, I felt so much cringe. The pseudoscience and layman pop culture sceience take away from the immersion. It's also a little weird how much they take as fact to keep the story progressing.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/220289"},{"id":"322682678020262476","title":"Cold Fish","originalTitle":"冷たい熱帯魚","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2011,"runtimeMinutes":146,"directors":["Sion Sono"],"actors":["Megumi Kagurazaka","Asuka Kurosawa","Lorena Koto","Masaki Miura"],"genres":["Drama","Thriller","Crime","Horror"],"completedDate":"2020-06-05","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"What a message on the meek Japanese man stereotype. Clear descent in chaos in the most brutal way. Overly sexual for a thriller. Clearly Sion Sono. Weird ending and a little too slow paced for me though.\n\nInspired to watch this due to its serial killer presence, and I'm hankering for serial killing and mystery thillers (think Na Hong-jin, Bong Joon Ho, Kim Jeewoon, David Fincher). I saw a clip of Se7en on Youtube. Seeing Sion Sono's take to the subgenre ought to be interesting.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/68341"},{"id":"322682678020293196","title":"Contagion","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2011,"runtimeMinutes":106,"directors":["Steven Soderbergh"],"actors":["Jennifer Ehle","Matt Damon"],"genres":["Drama","Thriller","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2020-01-11","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Love the cold documentary-like feel. That adds realism. Also the treament of the infection from facilities to software. Growing the virus in a lab, then the vaccine. Stocks in pharma, funeral grief, nurse unions, blogosphere pseudoscience. THe real language: R-nought, index patient.\n\nThe many storylines felt a little too incomplete.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/39538"},{"id":"5450db56-b998-4f95-b655-f133e413cf1c","title":"Coraline","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2009,"runtimeMinutes":100,"directors":["Henry Selick"],"actors":["Dakota Fanning"],"genres":["Animation","Family","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"2024-10-17","updatedDate":"2024-10-19","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/14836"},{"id":"322682678021230156","title":"Creepy","originalTitle":"クリーピー　偽りの隣人","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2016,"runtimeMinutes":68,"completedDate":"2017-03-15","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Kurosawa is truly the master of horror. Not horror in the way we typically think of it from slasher films, but horror in the deeply disturbing, gut-wrenching mood. I like the hsif tin moond and style of presenting the interrogations. The main character has interesting peculiarities to help distinguish him, such as the guilty pleasure in delving into these mysteries. I also really like the subplot with his wife's encounters with a neighbor—terrifying to think how it relates to the story. One of the pleasures of Kurosawa's films is how casually he tosses in contemporary life—family, technology, hobbys—all while unnerving and unhinging the story.\n\nI love how casually they just revealthe murder, and moreover continued to satiate us by unraveling more and more mysteries behind each problem—rather than one major climcatic event: the neighbors, why Yasuko is calling someone, why Yasuko is afraid of Nishino, the needles, the fake daughter, the burnt corpses and plastic wraps. From the beginning Kurosawa sets the theme of order and chaos from serial killers and continues. We know how that the neighbor's the killer from the beginning—we just want to know how the story unravels.\n\nMy only complaint is the infuriating plot convenience that the cops don't ever believe the main character, and that people keep walking into Nishino's house to their demise, without consequences happening for their disappearance. And the inhuman way the victims start to turn on each other, with little but atmosphere carrying the logic. But holy shit is it an amazing motif. The door. It reminds me of Pulse. We know that once they go in, they'll die.\n\nI love its return to form to the subtle, unraveling horror that defines Kurosawa's auteurism. But I also love how it's different: it's less phantasmic and more gritty and in plain sight.\n\nThe theme of bullying and brainwashing that's endemic in Japan is so great here.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/660150"},{"id":"322682678021452364","title":"Crimes and Misdemeanors","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1989,"runtimeMinutes":104,"directors":["Woody Allen"],"actors":["Frances Conroy","Daryl Hannah","Mia Farrow","Mercedes Ruehl","Claire Bloom","Anjelica Huston","Jerry Orbach","Rebecca Schull","Caroline Aaron","Woody Allen"],"genres":["Comedy","Drama","Crime"],"completedDate":"2013-11-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Crimes and Misdeamnors features a slendidly done split story, which I personally find makes it more focused and not as discombobulated as Hannah and Her Sisters occasionally is. Woody Allen and Martin Landau both play involved characters in their own stories, and I find Allen's in particular phenomenal in relating us to his situation. While Landau's has the benefit of silent immersible flashbacks (a cute cinematographic trick I'm rather fond of), I find his moral conflict self-righteous and, to be frank, lame. There is not enough to empathize with Rosenthal's (Landau) situation because he chooses to commit very self-aware sins, and yet he then arbitrarily believes he does not deserve what the woman could do to him in revenge. A heavier emphasis on his backstory would make this move less questionable.\n\nWhile not a major portion of this story, I still did find the environment Landau lives in to be decently portrayed. The pace is great too. However, with the trite premise that his evil-doing brother could make it all \"disappear\", the film allows Rosenthal to face the very bare morality question without any complications. What a drolling conflict. While lacking in its explanation Crimes and Misdemeanors still does deserve praise in how well the acting is done and how well Rosenthal faces the consequences. I like its anticlimax too.\n\nI love Clifford's (Allen's) POV, as it manages to portray a wide portion of his life, i.e., happiness in treating his niece, his financial needs and thus serving his brother in law, and his suffering marriage. The progression feels wholsome and fresh, e.g., when Clifford spends several seconds in pure anxiety wondering whether Halley is actually out with his brother in law or not (the acting in that scene is fantastic).\n\nOverall I'm not a fan any of the moralizing, whether it be in Rosenthal's conflict or indirectly througn the mouth of some old Russian fart. Or how barebones the two storylines even manage to merge.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/11562"},{"id":"68f1bde9-3a3f-4a4b-9e25-692bc1ffc3e5","title":"Crimson Peak","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2015,"runtimeMinutes":119,"directors":["Guillermo del Toro"],"actors":["Charlie Hunnam","Jessica Chastain","Jim Beaver","Leslie Hope","Tom Hiddleston","Burn Gorman","Doug Jones","Mia Wasikowska","Mitzi McCall","Joanna Douglas"],"genres":["Horror","Mystery","Romance","Drama","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2024-09-26","updatedDate":"2024-09-27","notes":"I watched it high with Marisa. Very fun. I treated it like a mystery whodunnit the whole way. I also like the aesthetic.\n\nI'm surprised this was directed by Guillermo del Toro. Did not expect british gothic horror would fit him.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/201085"},{"id":"322682678022366796","title":"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon","originalTitle":"臥虎藏龍","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2000,"runtimeMinutes":120,"directors":["Ang Lee"],"actors":["Michelle Yeoh","Chow Yun-Fat","Zhang Ziyi","Cheng Pei-Pei","Chang Chen"],"genres":["Adventure","Drama","Action","Romance","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"2000-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/146"},{"id":"326628113622499921","title":"Cyrano","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2021,"runtimeMinutes":122,"directors":["Joe Wright"],"actors":["Haley Bennett","Peter Dinklage","Ben Mendelsohn","Kelvin Harrison Jr.","Tim McMullan","Richard McCabe","Peter Wight"],"genres":["Drama","Romance"],"completedDate":"2022-03-19","updatedDate":"2022-03-20","notes":"What surprised me most is that even the non-signing scenes are poignant. The acting and overall script is done well enough that this movie would be wildly successful without the musical and benefits the more with it.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/730047"},{"id":"322682678021513804","title":"Dead Poets Society","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1989,"runtimeMinutes":129,"directors":["Peter Weir"],"actors":["Lara Flynn Boyle","Robin Williams","Robert Sean Leonard","Alexandra Powers","Ethan Hawke","Melora Walters","Dylan Kussman","Welker White","Josh Charles","Kurtwood Smith"],"genres":["Drama"],"completedDate":"2010-09-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/207"},{"id":"322682678020349516","title":"Deadpool 2","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2018,"runtimeMinutes":120,"directors":["David Leitch"],"actors":["Brad Pitt","Ryan Reynolds","Matt Damon","Morena Baccarin","Bill Skarsgård"],"genres":["Action","Comedy","Adventure"],"completedDate":"2019-02-27","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Lots of great comedy scenes. This was surprisingly even better than Deadpool---possibly my favorite recent Marvel super hero film in the franchise; it really stands out in its strengths and takes advantage of its AAA status. X-Men cameo. Ryan Reynolds clearly defines Deadpool. Love their audacity of keeping Deadpool's mask off for much of it; they're not afraid to show his hideousness and make fun of it. Dubstep. Deadpool failing to block an array of bullets with his dual swords. X-force deaths. Massive amount of pointless destruction. The moment Deadpool and Cable says holy shit when the big guy Juggernaut attacks them. Juggernaut ripping Deadpool in half. Domino's luck. Deadpool with baby legs. Cable actually teaming up with Deadpool. Linkedin and diversity jokes. Typical fourth wall jokes. Wilhelm Scream. Love the jokes at the contrived writing, e.g., Cable only able to time travel twice, and the lucky 7 too get the prison neckchain off. The credits ending. Killing X-men Origins Deadpool and Ryan Reynolds as Green Lantern. Even the famous cameos were done well such as Brad Pitt showing up and immediately dying.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/383498"},{"id":"322682678021300812","title":"Django Unchained","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2012,"runtimeMinutes":165,"directors":["Quentin Tarantino"],"actors":["Leonardo DiCaprio","Samuel L. Jackson"],"genres":["Drama","Western"],"completedDate":"2016-05-27","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Jamie Foxx is okay as an actor but doesn't reign among the top actors in Tarantino films, and those stars are what really make his films shine. Christoph Waltz carries this film for example more than Django. The story is also a little too feelgood for me in its ending.\n\nThe black exploitation culture that the film builds on is clearly evident. The homage is great, although it is still a little weird to have Quentin Tarantino be so successful as the primary fetishizer who mainstream all this while being a white man who knows nothing of the actual source, just derivatives. I also find the hip hop to be very off-putting for such a pre-civil war film.\n\nMandingo fighting, dogs eating a black man, the beatings, the black man savior empowerment, Uncle Tom.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/68718"},{"id":"322682678020224588","title":"Doctor Sleep","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2019,"runtimeMinutes":152,"directors":["Mike Flanagan"],"actors":["Rebecca Ferguson"],"genres":["Horror","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"2021-03-06","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"It's not the Shining, and I like that it's a departure. It's about a good as a sequel as you could expect in modern times. The director excels at character-building more so than horror elements. The story overall is grander in scale. It's almost too grand in approaching a X-Men-like style. The pacing is a little off---sometimes too slow, sometimes too fast. And it's a bit too in-your-face with the references.\n\nMotivated because it's a thriller and sequel to one of my favorite horror films.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/501170"},{"id":"322682678021389900","title":"Doctor Zhivago","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1965,"runtimeMinutes":200,"directors":["David Lean"],"actors":["Omar Sharif","Geraldine Chaplin","Alec Guinness","Rita Tushingham","Ingrid Pitt","Klaus Kinski","Julie Christie","Tom Courtenay","Rod Steiger","Aldo Sambrell"],"genres":["Drama","Romance","War"],"completedDate":"2014-07-20","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Grand epic in the classical sense, with occasionally melodramatic gestures and an overemphasis on romance over a backdrop of war.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/907"},{"id":"322682678020337228","title":"Dragged Across Concrete","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2019,"runtimeMinutes":159,"directors":["S. Craig Zahler"],"actors":["Mel Gibson","Jennifer Carpenter","Thomas Kretschmann","Vince Vaughn","Laurie Holden","Cardi Wong","Michael Jai White","Noel Gugliemi","Clare Filipow","Don Johnson"],"genres":["Crime","Action","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2019-03-26","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I love the duo detective dynamic. Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn sold it, as did the urban thugs and generic cold-blooded Germans. Clearly they have history, and I love how they carry off the investigation without explicitly having to loop in the audience. Love the mystery. The duke-off at the end is so thrilling. I loved every second of it. Zahler clearly knows his brutality. The story has a tendency to overstay its welcome, and I've seen this be a common style flaw in all his films.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/438674"},{"id":"322682678021291596","title":"Dragon Tattoo","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2011,"runtimeMinutes":158,"directors":["David Fincher"],"actors":["Joel Kinnaman","Daniel Craig","Embeth Davidtz","Élodie Yung","Joely Richardson","Robin Wright","Julian Sands","David Dencik","Rooney Mara","Julia Rose"],"genres":["Thriller","Crime","Mystery","Drama"],"completedDate":"2016-08-14","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"From reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/336sg1/opinions_on_david_finchers_girl_with_the_dragon/\n\nWell, it seems no one has answered your question so I'll give it a go. I admire David Fincher's work, I have read the Millennium trilogy and have only watched the first entry in the Swedish adaptations. I went to see Fincher's version opening day and the most surprising thing about it was that I didn't love it.\n\nIt's a solid and above average film by all standards. The performances are great (Mara is intense and I loved the subversion of expectations by casting the current Bond as the vulnerable Blomkvist), the cinematography was excellent as expected and the score coming from Reznor and Ross was amazing. So what happened?\n\nI didn't feel Fincher in it at all. I felt he was just on auto-pilot during the entire time. There's only one moment where he took a creative liberty when Blomkvist is tied up in Vanger's basement and Enya plays in the background, this created a very effective and unnerving sequence. It was in this moment where Fincher shone through at all in a two and half hour film.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/65754"},{"id":"8f0762be-8e34-49b4-90aa-701b80f6b0b2","title":"Dream Scenario","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2023,"runtimeMinutes":102,"directors":["Kristoffer Borgli"],"actors":["Nicolas Cage"],"genres":["Comedy","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"2024-01-07","updatedDate":"2024-01-08","notes":"Bizzarely weird and comical. The shots are so good. I wish the story went somewhere a bit more.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/823482"},{"id":"322682678021288524","title":"Drive","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2011,"runtimeMinutes":100,"directors":["Nicolas Winding Refn"],"actors":["Ryan Gosling"],"genres":["Drama","Thriller","Crime"],"completedDate":"2016-08-27","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Love the silence. The long shots. The soundtrack. Excellent pick-me-up, reminiscent of Nightcrawler in its grittiness. The storyline was cliche and lacking, the romance felt too unnatural.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/64690"},{"id":"322682678021576268","title":"Drunken Master II","originalTitle":"醉拳二","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1994,"runtimeMinutes":91,"directors":["Liu Chia-Liang"],"actors":["Simon Yam","Andy Lau","Bradley James Allan","Michelle Reis","Gordon Liu Chia-Hui"],"genres":["Action","Thriller"],"completedDate":"1998-12-31","updatedDate":"2023-04-27","notes":"I rewatched it on 2023-04-24. Dam the action comedy is on point. It is easily one of the best from Jackie Chan.\n\nThe stepmother is surprisingly a standout character in the movie. Witty and funny, has a heart of gold and cares deeply about Jackie. Easily the most multifaceted personality in the movie.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/66018"},{"id":"f320a445-06ad-416e-bfe5-4e2f33a241cb","title":"Dune: Part Two","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2023,"runtimeMinutes":167,"directors":["Denis Villeneuve"],"actors":["Rebecca Ferguson","Florence Pugh","Zendaya","Javier Bardem","Dave Bautista","Timothée Chalamet","Christopher Walken","Josh Brolin","Stellan Skarsgård","Léa Seydoux"],"genres":["Action","Adventure","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2024-04-07","updatedDate":"2024-04-08","notes":"Overall excellent plot progression in the saga and some iconic moments, particularly as it blares its soundtrack.\n\nSome silly writing at points. Still fun.\n\n+ The silly fight where the Harkonnens run into an ambush by firing at the dunes, completely shrouding themselves and their field of view, causing them to be nearly wiped out. They're incompetent. When Feyd-Rautha takes over, his genius strategy is to blow up the north home base with air warfare, where they are defenseless. As if they couldn't do that before..\n+ The point the Emperor's daughter makes about not applying direct force to a religious figure. Then praise from the Mother as if this is the most sage wisdom of all time.\n+ It can be more space opera and fantasy at times with its more archetypal villains and rise to throne.\n+ The story is overly superficial sometimes, and a bit cliche: \"In other words, your father was a weak man.\"\n+ Hand to hand fights are too artificial, I laughed.\n\nSpecific details I like the most:\n\n+ The depiction of the Sandworm. The large hole and the teeth, the crackling skin.\n+ The vibrating sound effect of the thumper.\n+ The voice sound effect during Bene-Gesserit jedi mind control.\n+ Giede Prime. Black sun, devoid of flora and fauna, a world of diegetic greyscale, smooth and hairless inhabitants.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/693134"},{"id":"9bdf0951-4b4d-4369-80e8-14d22117afd2","title":"Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2023,"runtimeMinutes":134,"directors":["John Francis Daley","Jonathan Goldstein"],"actors":["Bradley Cooper"],"genres":["Adventure","Fantasy","Comedy"],"completedDate":"2023-05-18","updatedDate":"2023-05-19","notes":"Hot damn. That was surprisingly good. All the world lore elements that go behind DnD are what elevate it so much. This film just goes to show much potential exists using the DnD world given a well-told story.\n\nComedy is on point too.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/493529"},{"id":"322682678020432460","title":"Dunkirk","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2017,"runtimeMinutes":107,"directors":["Christopher Nolan"],"actors":["Kenneth Branagh","Tom Hardy"],"genres":["War","Action","Drama"],"completedDate":"2017-12-25","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"What a fun way to display war: trying to escape, and all the failed and miserable ways to try to get back home. I liked the focus on the event and the minimal dialogue, and lack of a personable evil figure—just a massive urge to escape, possibly against your own allies. And the three perspectives: land, sea, and air. The timeline was a little confusing: a week on shore, a day on boat, an hour on planes.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/374720"},{"id":"322682678021551692","title":"Edward Scissorhands","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1990,"runtimeMinutes":105,"directors":["Tim Burton"],"actors":["Anthony Michael Hall"],"genres":["Fantasy","Drama","Romance"],"completedDate":"1999-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/162"},{"id":"c44a8c5d-ba0e-4d7e-af46-e527ba795eed","title":"El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2019,"runtimeMinutes":123,"directors":["Vince Gilligan"],"actors":["Jesse Plemons","Bryan Cranston","Krysten Ritter","Jonathan Banks","Aaron Paul","Matt Jones","Tess Harper","Larry Hankin","Kevin Rankin","Tom Bower"],"genres":["Crime","Drama","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2023-06-11","updatedDate":"2023-06-11","notes":"It's a slow movie. Inconsequential, with cameo scenes that don't do much beyond guest star and add some extra backstory. But still enjoyable, truly as a coda.\n\nDetail I like: the juxtaposition from Mike's advice in the beginning, and Walt's at the end, and whose advice Jesse ends up [taking](https://www.reddit.com/r/breakingbad/comments/dgbdi5/official_discussion_el_camino_a_breaking_bad_movie/f3fasyn).","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/559969"},{"id":"322682678020445772","title":"Election","originalTitle":"黑社會","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2005,"runtimeMinutes":101,"directors":["Johnnie To"],"actors":["David Chiang","Louis Koo","Simon Yam","Tony Leung Ka-fai","Nick Cheung","Wong Tin-lam","Paul Che Biu-law"],"genres":["Crime","Drama","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2017-10-14","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Election only involves two contenders and they're of fairly opposite personalities. It keeps the plot fairly simplistic and focused more on the style of crime rather the accurate depiction of organized crime. And there are some pretty noteworthy scenes: Big D telling a mobster to eat the spoon to which he actually smashes it against his plate and grinds up the porcelain to chew on it; the black comedy scene where a mobster is wailing at another with a log to get the Baton; then cue phone calls with switching sides; then them just agreeing. The car chase scene with the martial artist mobster delivering the Baton while Jimmy cases another mobster in a garbage can. The second-to-last scene with backstabbing on backstabbing and where the bosses are the ones that actually take machetes to hack at another one. Then the even cruder final scene where the head bashes another boss with a big rock and then kills the wife with a shovel and suffocates her while a backdrop of monkeys are prancing around.\n\nPlot-wise, it was hard for me to follow who was with who. I had to resort to Wikipedia plot summary often.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/18747"},{"id":"322682678020425292","title":"Election 2","originalTitle":"黑社會:以和爲貴","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2006,"runtimeMinutes":92,"directors":["Johnnie To"],"actors":["Louis Koo","Simon Yam","Nick Cheung","Wong Tin-lam","Mark Cheng","Andy On"],"genres":["Drama","Crime","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2018-01-15","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Love how ambitious this film takes it. Far more cinematic than the previous.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/15077"},{"id":"322682678020486732","title":"Elite Squad","originalTitle":"Tropa de Elite","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2007,"runtimeMinutes":115,"directors":["José Padilha"],"actors":["Wagner Moura"],"genres":["Drama","Action","Crime"],"completedDate":"2017-08-05","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I like its potrayal of systematic corruption, culture, and poverty from the ground up, e.g., impoverished families, local drug dealers, the cartels, ranks of cops, stduents. And all the examples: cops moving bodies, cops selling parts from the department's cars, lack of government funding so they contract work towing, more well-off students paying for drugs in turn funding the drug operations. The derlicht living situations. Low-paid cops needing more cash by offering protection money and working with the gangsters.\n\n1:13:45. Matias falls asleep during a training camp lecture. Nascimento gives him a grenade to hold onto while he removes the trigger. Contrast this scene with the Jazz scene in Whiplash. The action here is so much more emphasized (if he falls asleep again, the grenade will blow and kill everyone) and yet also much more plainly executed because it's just one of many events in the film. With that said, this does seem needlessly violent and exaggerated.\n\nShaky cam, very disorienting during the action.\n\nProbably the most disappointing is that the story builds up a lot but never really goes anywhere.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/7347"},{"id":"322682678020472396","title":"Enemy","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2014,"runtimeMinutes":91,"directors":["Denis Villeneuve"],"actors":["Jake Gyllenhaal"],"genres":["Thriller","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2017-08-12","updatedDate":"2024-07-27","notes":"Love the soundtrack most of all. And juxtaposed to the deadly silence. Pale yellow color. Love the ominous feeling. Very slow, which both helps and hurts. About 1 hour in and still not much has happend. Blueberries. The way they just swap lives and speak through actions, not words. The way it keeps whether the double identity is schizophrenia being ambiguous.\n\nRewatched it with Marisa on 2024-07-26. Still really fun.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/181886"},{"id":"0e0bf219-a673-4d2f-a38e-420851f5f1a5","title":"Escape from New York","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1981,"runtimeMinutes":99,"directors":["John Carpenter"],"actors":["Kurt Russell","Donald Pleasence","Jamie Lee Curtis","Ernest Borgnine","Lee Van Cleef","Adrienne Barbeau","John Carpenter","Nick Castle","Debra Hill","Harry Dean Stanton"],"genres":["Action","Thriller","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2023-09-30","updatedDate":"2023-10-01","notes":"The subtext in the lore with everyone knowing Snake is so cool.\n\n## Resources and Miscellanea\n\nThis film inspired Metal Gear Solid, Neuromancer, and Cyberpunk 2077's Phantom Liberty DLC.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1103"},{"id":"dfbcabcd-9555-49d8-8b2d-486a4a29a4a3","title":"Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2004,"runtimeMinutes":108,"directors":["Michel Gondry"],"actors":["Kate Winslet","Kirsten Dunst","Elijah Wood","Mark Ruffalo","Tom Wilkinson","Jane Adams","Jim Carrey","David Cross","Deirdre O'Connell"],"genres":["Science Fiction","Drama","Romance"],"completedDate":"2023-07-02","updatedDate":"2023-07-03","notes":"I like it. Though too abstract for me. It goes off the rails too quickly and for too long. The subplot with the workers themselves didn't make much sense.\n\nTrope of a classic reclusive writer lost in his own narrative who meets a manic pixie girl.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/38"},{"id":"59e677fc-9228-46d9-b6fa-4e4075d793e0","title":"Eternity","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2025,"runtimeMinutes":114,"directors":["David Freyne"],"genres":["Romance","Comedy","Drama"],"completedDate":"2026-05-16","updatedDate":"2026-05-18","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1259102"},{"id":"322682678020151884","title":"Event Horizon","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1997,"runtimeMinutes":96,"directors":["Paul W. S. Anderson"],"actors":["Joely Richardson","Jason Isaacs","Laurence Fishburne","Sam Neill","Jack Noseworthy","Kathleen Quinlan","Richard T. Jones","Sean Pertwee","Noah Huntley"],"genres":["Horror","Science Fiction","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2021-11-05","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"The cinematography with the various set pieces is excellent. Great pacing. Great approach to the horror of not a creature but something otherworldly.\n\nThe humans being possessed like Weir as the instrument for the rest of the crew's demise is a little dumb though. It's never clear how much of this just Weir being a nutjob or somehow this phenomena or being is controlling this. The ending is bad.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/8413"},{"id":"c5c1a970-1bf8-48ea-9f74-74a6c1d6b8da","title":"Exhuma","originalTitle":"파묘","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2024,"runtimeMinutes":134,"directors":["Jang Jae-hyun"],"actors":["Kim Go-eun"],"genres":["Mystery","Horror","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2024-05-06","updatedDate":"2024-05-06","notes":"Solid mystery, pacing, and characters each with a backstory given their jobs. Some parts are fairly standard and by the beat such as the happy ending and various people in the hospital but surviving.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/838209"},{"id":"322682678021422668","title":"Eyes Wide Shut","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1999,"runtimeMinutes":159,"directors":["Stanley Kubrick"],"actors":["Nicole Kidman","Tom Cruise"],"genres":["Drama","Thriller","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2014-02-28","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Sexually charged and slick.\n\nRather odd in its set of conveniences pressing onto the theme. Sort of anticlimactic and lame after all that slow suspense.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/345"},{"id":"322682678021362252","title":"Fallen Angels","originalTitle":"堕落天使","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1995,"runtimeMinutes":98,"directors":["Wong Kar-Wai"],"actors":["Charlie Yeung","Takeshi Kaneshiro","Karen Mok","Michelle Reis"],"genres":["Action","Romance","Crime"],"completedDate":"2014-12-29","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Absolutely pointless but incredibly stylistic, creative, and hilarious.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/11220"},{"id":"322682678021486156","title":"Fantasia 2000","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2000,"runtimeMinutes":74,"directors":["James Algar","Gaëtan Brizzi","Paul Brizzi","Hendel Butoy","Francis Glebas","Eric Goldberg","Don Hahn","Pixote Hunt"],"actors":["Steve Martin","James Earl Jones","Angela Lansbury","Bette Midler"],"genres":["Animation","Family","Music"],"completedDate":"2000-11-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/49948"},{"id":"322682678021547596","title":"Fargo","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1996,"runtimeMinutes":98,"directors":["Joel Coen"],"actors":["Steve Buscemi","Frances McDormand","Peter Stormare","William H. Macy","John Carroll Lynch","Bruce Campbell","Harve Presnell","Melissa Peterman","Steve Park"],"genres":["Crime","Drama","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2013-11-16","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"A precisely done film detailing colossal failures at its best. IT's so excellent at filming all that mediocrity. From their behaviorisms, accents, food, everything. Half the film being \"Oh yeah. Yeah!\" gets hilarious but also pretty tiresome.\n\nThe amount of unsaid, wallowing pity is so much.\n\nI don't get the point of the film though. It sort of just moves on at its own pace with its own failures to no real reason or theme.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/275"},{"id":"322682678021546572","title":"Ferris Bueller's Day Off","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1986,"runtimeMinutes":103,"directors":["John Hughes"],"actors":["Kristy Swanson","Mia Sara","Louie Anderson","Jennifer Grey","Alan Ruck","Edie McClurg","Charlie Sheen","Jeffrey Jones","Matthew Broderick","Max Perlich"],"genres":["Comedy"],"completedDate":"2010-09-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/9377"},{"id":"322682678021503564","title":"Fight Club","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1999,"runtimeMinutes":139,"directors":["David Fincher"],"actors":["Brad Pitt"],"genres":["Drama","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2002-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/550"},{"id":"322682678020292172","title":"Ford v. Ferrari","originalTitle":"Ford v Ferrari","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2019,"runtimeMinutes":153,"directors":["James Mangold"],"actors":["Jon Bernthal","Matt Damon"],"genres":["Drama","History","Action"],"completedDate":"2020-01-12","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Charming characters. Rather trivial story with corporate suits being obviously the bad guys. And very American.. it feels so cheesy at times. Wish it involved technique, e.g., what GT40 was good at, actually understanding how much was preparation for riding skill. Lots of technicalities that seem more important, e.g., Enzo Ferrari not being a bad guy as the corporate sell-out Beebe, and the re-pitted brake assembly possibly playing a bigger role than the car itself, and Miles somehow being a genius driver.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/359724"},{"id":"322682678021502540","title":"Forrest Gump","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1994,"runtimeMinutes":142,"directors":["Robert Zemeckis"],"actors":["Tom Hanks"],"genres":["Comedy","Drama","Romance"],"completedDate":"2011-09-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/13"},{"id":"2eeee173-8a49-461c-b95e-ecab4e1bcc25","title":"Frankenstein","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2025,"runtimeMinutes":150,"directors":["Guillermo del Toro"],"actors":["Jacob Elordi"],"genres":["Drama","Fantasy","Horror"],"completedDate":"2025-11-07","updatedDate":"2025-11-09","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1062722"},{"id":"322682678021561932","title":"Gattaca","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1997,"runtimeMinutes":107,"directors":["Andrew Niccol"],"actors":["Uma Thurman","Elias Koteas","William Lee Scott","Jude Law","Maya Rudolph","Ethan Hawke","Xander Berkeley","Dean Norris","Una Damon","Ken Marino"],"genres":["Science Fiction","Drama"],"completedDate":"2009-11-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/782"},{"id":"dd4e619f-23f7-4139-9b4c-5aba020eb253","title":"Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2022,"runtimeMinutes":140,"directors":["Rian Johnson"],"actors":["Jessica Henwick","Joseph Gordon-Levitt"],"genres":["Comedy","Crime","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2022-12-24","updatedDate":"2022-12-25","notes":"Too slow in the beginning. Characters too one note here. Overall the story is still quite fun though.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/661374"},{"id":"0a2b7966-7732-440a-88c7-6a4eb81d56d0","title":"Godzilla Minus One","originalTitle":"ゴジラ-1.0","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2023,"runtimeMinutes":125,"directors":["Takashi Yamazaki"],"actors":["Yuki Yamada","Ryunosuke Kamiki","Sakura Ando","Munetaka Aoki","Kuranosuke Sasaki","Hidetaka Yoshioka"],"genres":["Science Fiction","Horror","Action"],"completedDate":"2023-12-25","updatedDate":"2023-12-26","notes":"Well-paced movie, gripping in action, and full of strong character development and drama. Importantly, it’s the type of Godzilla movie where the monster is representative of a key struggle that the protagonist overcomes. There are many connections to Neon Genesis Evangelion that I enjoyed: the overwhelming sense of dread personified through a big and awesome monster, government nonse, personal turmoil and cowardice, and overcoming personal struggles by defeating this monster through bombastic scenes.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/940721"},{"id":"322682678021566028","title":"GoldenEye","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1995,"runtimeMinutes":130,"directors":["Martin Campbell"],"actors":["Pierce Brosnan"],"genres":["Adventure","Action","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2000-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/710"},{"id":"322682678021536332","title":"Good Will Hunting","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1997,"runtimeMinutes":127,"directors":["Gus Van Sant"],"actors":["Matt Damon"],"genres":["Drama"],"completedDate":"2009-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/489"},{"id":"322682678020334156","title":"Green Book","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2018,"runtimeMinutes":130,"directors":["Peter Farrelly"],"actors":["Mahershala Ali","Viggo Mortensen","Linda Cardellini","Geraldine Singer","Don DiPetta","Don Stark","Daniel Greene","Brian Stepanek","Maggie Nixon","Ninja N. Devoe"],"genres":["Drama","Comedy","History"],"completedDate":"2019-03-28","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Love the down-to-earth protagonist, almost like he's straight out of a Martin Scorsese film. The tonal narrative and progression through the country is so good. It saunters in the music, and just alludes to the troubles of the genius, racism, and homosexuality. Love how they bond over KFC. I didn't expect Vigo Mortenssen to play a comedian so much given his hardass character. This is a wholesome film. A little idealistic without nuance on the racism, cops, and the ending; and with the character-switch from the hard racist I expected in the beginning to a surprisingly very easy-to-convince Italian. But still wholesome as fuck.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/490132"},{"id":"322682678020442700","title":"Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2017,"runtimeMinutes":137,"directors":["James Gunn"],"actors":["Laura Haddock","Zoe Saldaña","Bradley Cooper","Vin Diesel","Sylvester Stallone"],"genres":["Science Fiction","Adventure","Action"],"completedDate":"2017-10-28","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Loved it. Honestly I think this is the apex of Marvel+Hollywood that could be achieved: hilarious high-budget action comedy where it's fun all the way through, and with minimal drama and emphasis on the hackneyed storyline. Still wish the God/father drama went a little further in potential.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/283995"},{"id":"5e156acf-d82d-40b6-b47c-70f427fe2742","title":"Guy Ritchie's The Covenant","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2023,"runtimeMinutes":123,"directors":["Guy Ritchie"],"actors":["Jake Gyllenhaal"],"genres":["War","Action","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2023-05-21","updatedDate":"2023-05-21","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/882569"},{"id":"913e5ecc-a821-4900-a2ae-71c9f3cc9282","title":"Hamilton","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2025,"runtimeMinutes":160,"directors":["Thomas Kail"],"actors":["Anthony Ramos","Jonathan Groff","Lin-Manuel Miranda","Christopher Jackson","Leslie Odom Jr.","Daveed Diggs","Okieriete Onaodowan","Ariana DeBose","Renée Elise Goldsberry","Phillipa Soo"],"genres":["History","Drama"],"completedDate":"2024-07-07","updatedDate":"2024-07-10","notes":"+ King George is my favorite character, easily.\n+ Got a bit bored of the musical around the time when the son dies.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/556574"},{"id":"322682678021348940","title":"Hana and Alice","originalTitle":"花とアリス","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2004,"runtimeMinutes":135,"directors":["Shunji Iwai"],"actors":["Yu Aoi"],"genres":["Drama","Comedy","Romance"],"completedDate":"2015-02-13","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I love the dreamy sensation with the lagging camera, dream pop filters, and saturated colors. and the very natural acting. The whole thing feels comedic and soothing. The clutzy girl, the pretty and morose one, and the eccentric boy. I also like the irony in that one girl is scouted to act and does poorly, and yet that's what they do the entire film.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/27799"},{"id":"322682678020251212","title":"Heat","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1995,"runtimeMinutes":170,"directors":["Michael Mann"],"actors":["Al Pacino","Ted Levine","William Fichtner","Danny Trejo","Robert De Niro","Val Kilmer","Natalie Portman","Hank Azaria","Diane Venora","Ashley Judd"],"genres":["Crime","Drama","Action"],"completedDate":"2020-06-21","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"The characters are all pretty good, particularly De Niro and Val Kilmer. I like how it digs a bit into each character, going beyond the heist genre to dig more in-depth at their drama. The story's pacing is okay, but too many events seem to happen making the story too busy: a first heist that leads to a betrayal by a corporate guy that wants them back; then the police are onto them which they discover on a second heist; and then they still want to go with a third heist. Simultaneously, the guy who fucked up the first heist is head-bashing black prostitutes. Then the detective Hanna's daughter slits her wrists.\n\nAll the actors are stellar. But I don't like Al Pacino in this. He singlehandedly defines the police squadron. And his theatrics are so overblown. He's so overly cool and macho. And I found the final scene just dumb.\n\nWow the gun sound effects in the climax. So loud, so real.\n\nWhat an all-star cast. This is surprisingly more drama than mystery/heist. It's clear it's a classic for how trope-y action it is, and likely how much it influenced other action heist films.\n\nMotivated because it's a thriller.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/949"},{"id":"322682678021325388","title":"Her","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2013,"runtimeMinutes":126,"directors":["Spike Jonze"],"actors":["Scarlett Johansson"],"genres":["Romance","Science Fiction","Drama"],"completedDate":"2015-10-11","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Heart-warming, and a guilty watch. I'm marvelling at what needes to be done in machine learning research. Cliched story. I'm a fan of the saturated colors and appeal of the setting. Structure of the story was still enjoyable and the small things hilarious.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/152601"},{"id":"322682678020332108","title":"Hereditary","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2018,"runtimeMinutes":128,"directors":["Ari Aster"],"actors":["Toni Collette","Ari Aster","Mallory Bechtel","Gabriel Byrne","Alex Wolff","Kathleen Chalfant","Ann Dowd"],"genres":["Horror","Mystery","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2019-03-29","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Love the subtleties. Dream sequences, encounters that may not actually have happened, a sequence of hereditary mental illness problems. Love as usual that supernatural things may or may not be explained as just one person: there's the seance sequence with the family, and then the visions by just the son, and then audience-only illusions like moving clothing. It makes you suspect that it's a supernatural phenomenon altogether. Naked smiling people. Miniatures.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/493922"},{"id":"322682678022372940","title":"Hero","originalTitle":"英雄","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2002,"completedDate":"2002-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30"},{"id":"322682678020239948","title":"His House","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2020,"runtimeMinutes":93,"directors":["Remi Weekes"],"actors":["Matt Smith","Wunmi Mosaku","Sope Dirisu","Javier Botet","Emily Taaffe"],"genres":["Horror","Drama"],"completedDate":"2020-11-13","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"His Houses adds a very real presence about the struggles of refugee life, which is too underexposed in media. I would enjoy the flm just in seeing those elements. But it also has a great story, from initial premise to characters and the story behind the horors they see. Main cast is outstanding. The core story really solidifes the horror. The horror-building is a little obvious sometimes with its various suspense-building and jumpscare elements: doors opening, dolls, dark holes. I especially like that it takes from African horror. It certainly has some Jordan Peeley vibes with Us in the outsider's perspective to a foreign land; it's not as big a part as the refugee premise.\n","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/575774"},{"id":"517fde0d-e06b-4cee-b127-d7fd457b5055","title":"Hokum","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2026,"runtimeMinutes":108,"directors":["Damian McCarthy"],"genres":["Horror"],"completedDate":"2026-06-14","updatedDate":"2026-06-14","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1430077"},{"id":"322682678021569100","title":"Hotel Rwanda","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2004,"runtimeMinutes":122,"directors":["Terry George"],"actors":["Jean Reno","Joaquin Phoenix","Nick Nolte","Don Cheadle","Sophie Okonedo","David O'Hara","Cara Seymour","Fana Mokoena"],"genres":["Drama","History","War"],"completedDate":"2006-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/205"},{"id":"322682678021411404","title":"House of Flying Daggers","originalTitle":"十面埋伏","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2004,"runtimeMinutes":44,"directors":["Zhang Yimou"],"genres":["Documentary"],"completedDate":"2014-03-14","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"This is what martial arts films should be. Wuxia's strength is its combination of inventive choreography, gorgeous cultural presentation, and a solid narrative. Not only is House of Flying Daggers' action splendid, its cultural immersion is truly profound, and its characters take simple roles but slightly more deviant personalities.\n\nThe film feels passionate with its kinetic motion, and presented so emotionally with beautiful arias and soft melodies. A critic I've read says it well when he describes the slow-mo on the flying dagger as awe-inspiring as watching someone catch a hummingbird. The colors are also quite amazing.\n\nUnfortunately, the film starts to turn into a soppy melodrama by the middle. First Mei's not actually blind, then she was tricking them all along and the House of Flying Daggers knew, then Mei isn't actually Mei, then Leo is a mole, then Leo is in love with Mei and that it's a love triangle, then that Mei really is Mei, then that Mei has to kill Jin, then that she lets him go, then that Leo kills Mei, then that Mei isn't actually dead yet, then she's dead.. Holy shit, right?","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/726775"},{"id":"322682678021605964","title":"How to Train Your Dragon","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2010,"runtimeMinutes":98,"directors":["Chris Sanders","Dean DeBlois"],"actors":["David Tennant","Kristen Wiig","T. J. Miller","Gerard Butler","America Ferrera","Jay Baruchel","Jonah Hill","Ashley Jensen","Craig Ferguson","Christopher Mintz-Plasse"],"genres":["Fantasy","Adventure","Animation","Family"],"completedDate":"2010-03-31","updatedDate":"2025-01-20","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/10191"},{"id":"322682678020276812","title":"Hunt for the Wilderpeople","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2016,"runtimeMinutes":101,"directors":["Taika Waititi"],"actors":["Taika Waititi","Sam Neill","Julian Dennison","Rachel House","Rhys Darby"],"genres":["Adventure","Comedy","Drama","Family"],"completedDate":"2020-02-14","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Poignant and not as biting in its comedy as the Vampires or Jojo Rabbit. But I still enjoyed its comedy bits nevertheless.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/371645"},{"id":"322682678021430860","title":"Husbands and Wives","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1992,"runtimeMinutes":108,"directors":["Woody Allen"],"actors":["Liam Neeson"],"genres":["Comedy","Drama","Romance"],"completedDate":"2014-02-24","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Great insight into the married urban life. It's funny what being too comfortable means, and it's no better explored than in Allen's filmmaking. You can notice that the more educated people are, the more they tend to be unhappy with their surroundings and less content with what they already have. It feels lonesome the way the characters approach their lives, and aptly so for the culture.\n\nThe shifting camerawork makes it feel purposely \"unprofessional\" and concentrated on the characters' inner turmoils. The blatant character analysis provided from other characters' perspectives feels extremely genuine. What makes this particularly interesting is that once they point out certain faults, things just click and all the little nitpicks become immediately clear. The documentary style is preeeetty cool, and the fourth walling at the end is hilarioiusly sardonic. My only problem of the film is that it's too direct with its message, and it causes the story to feel too streamlined.\n\n\"You always get sexual at the oddest times...You use sex to express every emotion except love.\"\n\nThe MC is again just Allen in self-insertion, but perfect for the role.\n\nThe satire is excellent as usual.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/28384"},{"id":"0a9303ca-0ea0-4b4e-b5b6-30961c653401","title":"I, Tonya","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2017,"runtimeMinutes":120,"directors":["Craig Gillespie"],"actors":["Mckenna Grace","Margot Robbie"],"genres":["Drama","Comedy"],"completedDate":"2023-10-13","updatedDate":"2023-10-14","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/389015"},{"id":"322682678021415500","title":"In the Mood for Love","originalTitle":"花樣年華","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2000,"runtimeMinutes":99,"directors":["Wong Kar-Wai"],"actors":["Tony Leung Chiu-wai","Maggie Cheung","Paulyn Sun"],"genres":["Drama","Romance"],"completedDate":"2014-03-11","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Stylish, suave. I love the lingering frames and signature violin score. Also the fact that they don't show the faces of the spouses. Wong Kar-Wai really likes to not dig into much character development.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/843"},{"id":"322682678021519948","title":"Inception","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2010,"runtimeMinutes":148,"directors":["Christopher Nolan"],"actors":["Leonardo DiCaprio","Tom Hardy","Elliot Page","Joseph Gordon-Levitt"],"genres":["Action","Science Fiction","Adventure"],"completedDate":"2010-06-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/27205"},{"id":"322682678020380236","title":"Incredibles 2","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2018,"runtimeMinutes":118,"directors":["Brad Bird"],"actors":["Samuel L. Jackson","Isabella Rossellini","Jonathan Banks","Sophia Bush","Bob Odenkirk","Holly Hunter","Catherine Keener","Barry Bostwick","Eli Fucile","John Ratzenberger"],"genres":["Action","Adventure","Animation","Family"],"completedDate":"2018-10-28","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"This film is outstanding. It remains classic Disney in pushing fmailiarl values and kid-friendly action stories. But its execution remains so well-detailed and executed. The comedy is classic Incredibles. And everyone you might want to have a cameo does so in a way that really pushes them, and not mindless fanservice (e.g., the black guy, Edna the wardrobe snidey woman). I also love the way they give quality time into individual superheros so you can really appreciate them: this time, Elastigirl and the baby. 'I have no baby facilities. I am an artist.' The way that's said is so hilarious.\n\nI also do like the theme of pushing a political agenda (here, making superheroes legal), and the moral dilemma of doing so by creating your very own supervillain. And motivating business ventures to help fund for this. I wish it went as deep as that and not the cop-out with the sister. But perhaps that's too dark for a children's film.\n\nSome of the shots are so incredibly more realistic than others. It's astounding. Like when Mr. Incredible wakes up at 1:14:50 and pans around. That immersion with procedural graphics(?) is amazing.\n\nChris Stuckmann's points are accurate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKZ7BqwbyPg. The animation and action are excellent. The poignant story is great. The villain is not so interesting but okay.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/260513"},{"id":"322682678976453196","title":"Infection","originalTitle":"感染","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2004,"runtimeMinutes":98,"directors":["Masayuki Ochiai"],"actors":["Mari Hoshino"],"genres":["Horror","Drama"],"completedDate":"2023-07-20","updatedDate":"2023-07-21","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/32171"},{"id":"322682678021403212","title":"Inside Llewyn Davis","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2013,"runtimeMinutes":105,"directors":["Ethan Coen","Joel Coen"],"actors":["Oscar Isaac","John Goodman","Carey Mulligan","Adam Driver","F. Murray Abraham","Max Casella","Justin Timberlake","Robin Bartlett","Helen Hong"],"genres":["Drama","Music"],"completedDate":"2014-04-08","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Somber and unpolished, but profoundly emotional. Great use of his music as a motif for the character's expression of his feelings. I only wish it continued to explore his own development.\n\nGrey slush desaturated colors.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/86829"},{"id":"072941a9-0371-467b-af0c-638264562630","title":"Interstellar","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2014,"runtimeMinutes":169,"directors":["Christopher Nolan"],"actors":["Anne Hathaway","Matt Damon","Matthew McConaughey"],"genres":["Adventure","Drama","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2024-03-17","updatedDate":"2024-03-18","notes":"The overall story is great with grounded characters and space setting and focus on time and various imagery. The story with its time makes Interstellar like a significantly more successful Tenet.\n\nThat said, while the film is relatively high in concept compared to most scifi movies of its time, it still suffers from dumbly relatable ideas that I don't like: the father-and-daughter relationship with American family values; the backstab PvP conflict; the conflict of trying to pilot a station while it was drifting and rotating away.\n\n+ The tidal wave planet is the best. It executes the high concept and makes a conflict terrifying through nature and science alone, not artificial tropes. Here, it's the miles high waves, time passing relatively (with reveals such as the initial astronaut actually only dying recently as they land; and them trying to escape but getting stuck causing time to pass 23 years).\n+ Some of the science talk is too pseudoscience-y and pop science. Like their discussion around love. Or that they need manned travel over vehicles because they can't program survival extinct. Or the overall implausibility of certain scenarios.\n+ Of course a random Matt Damon appears in the middle of the movie as a cast member.\n+ Lots of various scifi conflicts that are relatable and not too high concept: time passing by visiting a planet close to the black hole (although their decision to choose this one first is questionable); love as a conflict of interest; the desire to find a path for existing human life vs populating a new colony; Dr. Mann touted as the best of them all as a backstabber.\n+ The setting is a nice one as scifi: a blight as an extinction event for Earth and benevolent AI in the form of morphous metal cubes (albeit more in a support role rather than the more likely scenario of, say, being able to take over space travel far more effectively and scalably than manned space travel).\n+ Stereotypically American in its farmer life, family values, and a focus on a strong feminine hero but everyone's still white.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/157336"},{"id":"322682678020174412","title":"Invisible Man","originalTitle":"The Invisible Man","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2020,"runtimeMinutes":124,"directors":["Leigh Whannell"],"actors":["Storm Reid","Elisabeth Moss","Michael Dorman","Harriet Dyer","Oliver Jackson-Cohen","Aldis Hodge","Zara Michales","Renee Lim","Benedict Hardie","Amali Golden"],"genres":["Thriller","Science Fiction","Horror"],"completedDate":"2021-08-20","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/570670"},{"id":"322682678020441676","title":"It","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2017,"runtimeMinutes":135,"directors":["Andy Muschietti"],"actors":["Bill Skarsgård"],"genres":["Horror","Thriller","Drama"],"completedDate":"2017-11-02","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Love its style. Very 90s in John Hughes adolescent style. But all bat shit in not too many jump-scare ways in turning a town against a gang of boys and a girl. Each boy in the gang adds an interesting piece to the gang. The comedic relief verbal kid is especially great. The beginning with Georgie losing his arm set up the film's tone really well. Humor in the film serves as a fun balance not unlike humor in Korean thrillers. Tracking shots and effects are also very innovative. Muschietti made it feel much more like a dark fantasy adventure than a horror flick. All the adults were villains.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/346364"},{"id":"322682678020218444","title":"It Follows","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2015,"runtimeMinutes":101,"directors":["David Robert Mitchell"],"actors":["Maika Monroe","Keir Gilchrist","Jake Weary","Daniel Zovatto","Lili Sepe","Ele Bardha"],"genres":["Horror","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2021-03-12","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Surprisingly eerie for such a simple horror premise of something always following you. It also uses typical coming of age romance tropes as a foundation. Story-wise, I wish it were more based on no one believing you, which adds to the fear. Here, the friends just up-and-willy spend their whole days helping the girl run away.\n\nAs a side note, it's hilarious to imagine the film as a giant kiting fest: you have sex to tag the next person, and now they have to kite the NPC for the rest of their life until they pass it on. It's also great watching in the background to see if you can spot the person.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/270303"},{"id":"322682678021562956","title":"Jarhead","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2005,"runtimeMinutes":123,"directors":["Sam Mendes"],"actors":["Jake Gyllenhaal"],"genres":["Drama","War"],"completedDate":"2006-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/25"},{"id":"322682678021277260","title":"John Wick","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2014,"runtimeMinutes":101,"directors":["Chad Stahelski"],"actors":["Keanu Reeves"],"genres":["Action","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2016-11-12","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Excellent anime choreography, love the untold world building such as with the coins. No shaky cam, wide angle shots, constant reloading, double tapping, the knowing of John Wick's that even the villains are afraid.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/245891"},{"id":"322682678020281932","title":"Jojo Rabbit","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2019,"runtimeMinutes":108,"directors":["Taika Waititi"],"actors":["Scarlett Johansson"],"genres":["Comedy","War","Drama"],"completedDate":"2020-02-08","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Love the mix of satire, drama, and cuteness. Script reads like a Wes Anderson film. Thought the ending where they dance was great.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/515001"},{"id":"322682678020299340","title":"Joker","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2019,"runtimeMinutes":122,"directors":["Todd Phillips"],"actors":["Joaquin Phoenix","Zazie Beetz","Robert De Niro","Frances Conroy","Brian Tyree Henry","Brett Cullen","Hannah Gross","Justin Theroux","John Cenatiempo","Bill Camp"],"genres":["Crime","Thriller","Drama"],"completedDate":"2019-11-29","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Joaquin Phoenix makes this film. What an act this guy can do.. His sad laughter. His look. His physiology. The clown way he runs. His stage persona when on the Murray Franklin show.\n\nPlot itself is decent in the first half but not really that great. The riot scenes seem implausible. It stalls in pacing most of all but I actually like it. I do like the character study in general. The specific setup of his laugh being an affliction, and commonly when he's unhappy/crying.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/475557"},{"id":"322682678021410380","title":"Ju Dou","originalTitle":"菊豆","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1990,"runtimeMinutes":95,"directors":["Zhang Yimou"],"actors":["Gong Li"],"genres":["Drama"],"completedDate":"2014-03-14","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Like Red Sorghum, but its characters are better represented. The story is more complex, and feels almost like Vertigo in its change in the characters' behaviors. You can see their malicient desires in keeping the man imprisoned, and not simply forgetting about him and moving on with their lives. The son's turn of personality is wholly representative of the environment he's in: repressed, secretive, lurking. The son is like evil incarnate, whose values stuck with the cruel uncle's since birth.\n\nStunning motifs of water and fire, sumptuous colors as usual with Zhang Yimou.\n\nThere's something ironically deadpan with the fact that one of the funeral rites is that the two must pretend to try calling back the uncle. The scene is an absolute riot, but also painstakingly familiar, thus visceral in its reaction in harking the two's emotions about the aftermath.\n\nLike Raise the Red Lantern, there is also the potential for viewing the story as an allegory for government. In particular, the defiance of the old guard vs the new.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/41821"},{"id":"322682678020448844","title":"Key of Life","originalTitle":"鍵泥棒のメソッド","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2012,"runtimeMinutes":128,"directors":["Kenji Uchida"],"actors":["Ryoko Hirosue","Miwako Kakei","Teruyuki Kagawa","Masato Sakai"],"genres":["Comedy","Crime"],"completedDate":"2017-09-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Distinctly japanese. Love how the various subplots intersect with all their eccentricities. How acting later becomes part of Kondo's impersonator pretending to die; and there's an elongated scene of the real Kondo teaching the actor. How the real Kondo starts to smoke. Teruyuki Kagawa is such a great actor especially.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/128113"},{"id":"322682678020381260","title":"King and the Clown","originalTitle":"왕의 남자","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2005,"runtimeMinutes":121,"directors":["Lee Joon-ik"],"actors":["Lee Joon-gi","Yoo Hae-jin","Jung Jin-young","Woo Hyeon"],"genres":["Drama","History","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2018-10-26","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"So fascinating, especially as I consantly make the parallel comparisons to Farewell My Concubine. The depth of the characters is not so important. Rather, it's the pacing and depravity. I also love how it pushes on similar themes, such as homosexuality, but also how it introduces new motifs such as the childish King.\n\nI love its sympathetic light across all three: the King and the two clowns.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/45035"},{"id":"8dd63bf5-1b0c-4f0c-996a-6298af42c5f4","title":"Kiss Kiss Bang Bang","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2005,"runtimeMinutes":103,"directors":["Shane Black"],"actors":["Robert Downey Jr."],"genres":["Comedy","Crime","Mystery","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2023-10-08","updatedDate":"2023-10-09","notes":"I wasn't sure what I was expected, but I didn't expect this to turn out to be a detective neo-noir film. The comedy is great. Also, Michelle Monaghan is a bombshell.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/5236"},{"id":"322682678022369868","title":"Kung Fu Hustle","originalTitle":"功夫","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2004,"runtimeMinutes":99,"directors":["Stephen Chow"],"actors":["Stephen Chow"],"genres":["Action","Comedy","Crime","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"2004-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-07-25","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/9470"},{"id":"322682678020258380","title":"Kung Fury","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2015,"runtimeMinutes":32,"directors":["David Sandberg"],"actors":["Jorma Taccone","David Hasselhoff","Eleni Young"],"genres":["Action","Comedy","Science Fiction","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"2020-06-11","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Surprisingly good. Watched on Sodapoppin's stream.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/251516"},{"id":"322682678021360204","title":"Kwaidan","originalTitle":"怪談","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1965,"runtimeMinutes":183,"directors":["Masaki Kobayashi"],"actors":["Tatsuya Nakadai","Michiyo Aratama","Hideyo Amamoto"],"genres":["Horror","Fantasy","Drama"],"completedDate":"2014-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Excellently told with a haunting spell. I am especially fascinated by the third story, which provides the perspective of both the enchanted and the enchanter. It sings, it tells, it's an excellent story within a story. The stories in general are more less straightforward as are classic tales. It is the powerfully evocative sound and visual production that elevates these tales to a whole new level.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/30959"},{"id":"6db59e85-6e8b-4f94-841c-17c9f0cace77","title":"L.A. Confidential","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1997,"runtimeMinutes":138,"directors":["Curtis Hanson"],"actors":["Simon Baker"],"genres":["Crime","Mystery","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2024-03-17","updatedDate":"2024-03-17","notes":"LA Noire the movie. Quite good in story and strong characters all around. The story is stereotypical noire.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/2118"},{"id":"322682678021366348","title":"Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2001,"runtimeMinutes":122,"directors":["Jean-Pierre Jeunet"],"actors":["Audrey Tautou","Isabelle Nanty","Yolande Moreau","Jamel Debbouze","Lorella Cravotta","Mathieu Kassovitz","Dominique Pinon","Clotilde Mollet"],"genres":["Comedy","Romance"],"completedDate":"2014-12-28","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Life is in the details, and Amelie is a loving telling of how to cherish it. Gorgeous scenery and landscapes. Quirky attitude. A beautiful tale of romance for Parisians. It feels just a little artificial in its lack of insight, development, and painstaking attempts at hitting cliches to the tee.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/194"},{"id":"322682678020453964","title":"Leon the Professional","originalTitle":"Léon","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1994,"runtimeMinutes":111,"directors":["Luc Besson"],"actors":["Gary Oldman"],"genres":["Crime","Drama","Action"],"completedDate":"2017-09-17","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I like the lolita adult-romantic tensions. And that actually culminates into something real instead of prancing around murky issues.\n\nThe sprinkling of humor is great. And both main characters are excellently acted.\n\nIt's also just a fun watch because of the anime-like premise and the way it executes himeslf, wholly unrealistic but still very fun to watch unfold. Even the villain with his calm before the storm motif and perversion to symphonies as an allegory for his killings.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/101"},{"id":"322682678021516876","title":"Les Misérables","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1998,"runtimeMinutes":134,"directors":["Bille August"],"actors":["Liam Neeson"],"genres":["Crime","Drama","History","Romance"],"completedDate":"2011-09-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/4415"},{"id":"322682678020339276","title":"Like Father Like Son","originalTitle":"そして父になる","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2013,"runtimeMinutes":120,"directors":["Hirokazu Kore-eda"],"actors":["Jun Kunimura","Machiko Ono","Yo Yoshida","Masaharu Fukuyama","Tomoya Nakamura","Arata Iura"],"genres":["Drama"],"completedDate":"2019-03-20","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I love how it depicts the various subleties of parenting: style, socioeconomic background, outside family, jobs, and depicted across the individual parents as well as the two children. I love how different the parents act---one reserved and strict, and another more playful but unsuccessful---and how it influences the children, and how unrelenting the camera is in its steady depiction. Finding fault within themselves or the child.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/177945"},{"id":"322682678020212300","title":"Lincoln","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2012,"runtimeMinutes":94,"directors":["Timur Bekmambetov"],"actors":["Mary Elizabeth Winstead","Marton Csokas","Jimmi Simpson","Anthony Mackie","Alan Tudyk","Benjamin Walker","Rufus Sewell","Dominic Cooper","Teri Wyble","Joseph Mawle"],"genres":["Action","Fantasy","Horror"],"completedDate":"2021-03-24","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Daniel Day-Lewis is stellar. The movie has a good blockbuster style plot, pacing, and cinematography as you'd expect from a Spielberg film. Knowing nothing of Lincoln, I'm surprised the film treats him so much like an old geezer, adding unrelated musings and stories to all his answers as if an old sage. I wonder how much of that is actually true. He's bestowed another level compared to the more human characters around him. He does make several grave more human compromises, e.g., impeachable offenses, bordering too much on federal power with patronage appointments.\n\nI also found it pretty surprising how many A-list supporting actors are in the movie. They all do pretty well too.\n\nI find it ironic that the film portrays Thaddeus Stevens on one side as the idealist and Abraham Licoln on another side as the pragmatist. In modern society, we would greatly have preferred Thaddeus Stevens' approach, enabling, e.g., significantly more economic growth opportunities for the freed slaves by redistributing slave owner land to them over the traitors. Jim Crow wouldn't have happened. That said, by giving Thaddeus Stevens such an excellent actor as Tommy Lee Jones, it's great to see that he shines so much in the movie. Another gripe I have is that they elevate Licoln by stating that the people love him. But public pools doesn't determine how good a president is: everyone at that time is racist after all. It's easy to appeal to the current public than it is to appeal to the future, better one.\n\nGreat to see all the compromises to get the 13th Amendment taken. Legal equality between white and black races, not social or political equality. Lincoln even has quotes that \"while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race\".","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/72331"},{"id":"a9d4fa86-f5d6-44a1-9250-6ff896506d7e","title":"Little Women","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2019,"runtimeMinutes":135,"directors":["Greta Gerwig"],"actors":["Florence Pugh","Emma Watson"],"genres":["Drama","Romance"],"completedDate":"2025-12-27","updatedDate":"2026-01-27","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/331482"},{"id":"322682678020437580","title":"Logan","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2017,"runtimeMinutes":137,"directors":["James Mangold"],"actors":["Hugh Jackman","Daniel Bernhardt","Dafne Keen","Boyd Holbrook","Patrick Stewart","Eriq La Salle","Richard E. Grant","Stephen Merchant","Elizabeth Rodriguez","Alison Fernandez"],"genres":["Action","Drama","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2017-11-05","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Really strong characterization. Felt very not X-men like. More pathetic and interesting. Love the mute girl and decrepit man combo.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/263115"},{"id":"81d0ab53-c544-4c9f-9040-293f0e51adda","title":"Love Actually","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2003,"runtimeMinutes":135,"directors":["Richard Curtis"],"actors":["Liam Neeson"],"genres":["Comedy","Romance","Drama"],"completedDate":"2025-06-26","updatedDate":"2025-06-27","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/508"},{"id":"322682678021371468","title":"M","originalTitle":"M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1931,"runtimeMinutes":110,"directors":["Fritz Lang"],"actors":["Peter Lorre"],"genres":["Drama","Thriller","Crime"],"completedDate":"2014-12-22","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Interesting analysis of mafia vs serial killers, e.g., the need to kill vs the profession to kill; also the incorporation of politics","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/832"},{"id":"322682678976452172","title":"Mandy","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2018,"runtimeMinutes":122,"directors":["Panos Cosmatos"],"actors":["Nicolas Cage"],"genres":["Fantasy","Action","Horror"],"completedDate":"2025-06-01","updatedDate":"2026-01-27","notes":"Motivated because it's a thriller. I like the singular vision. Like Mad Max in chaos.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/460885"},{"id":"322682678021211724","title":"Manhattan Murder Mystery","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1993,"runtimeMinutes":104,"directors":["Woody Allen"],"actors":["Diane Keaton","Zach Braff","Anjelica Huston","Wendell Pierce","John Doumanian","Woody Allen","Alan Alda","Jerry Adler"],"genres":["Comedy","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2017-04-03","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I like the whole bizare menialness, basically a need to find adrenaline in a boring middle-aged life as Diane Keaton says. As a 24 year old, I can't believe I'm saying that I thought it was hilarious. Such a subtle way of describing a marriage slowly falling apart, with two people finding different interests in life. Woody in this film is such a total cuck lol, totally oblivious to the advances of the other woman while Diane Keaton seems to be getting action both ways. I like the extent to which persons in the story are on board with the crazy mystery, the more appealing they are in the eyes of others. And the way it actually substantiates is hilarious.\n\nAs an aside, this film opened me up to the wonders of tuna casserole. It looks amazing.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/10440"},{"id":"322682678021565004","title":"Margin Call","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2011,"runtimeMinutes":107,"directors":["J.C. Chandor"],"actors":["Simon Baker"],"genres":["Thriller","Drama"],"completedDate":"2013-11-14","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Hilariously dry and scathing. But also so dry that the pacing can get tiresome. It goes on for so long you forget the film actually is one.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/50839"},{"id":"322682678021252684","title":"MASH","originalTitle":"M*A*S*H","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1970,"runtimeMinutes":116,"directors":["Robert Altman"],"actors":["Sylvester Stallone"],"genres":["Comedy","Drama","War"],"completedDate":"2017-02-09","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"The cast can be pretty cruel in realism, castigating Hot Lips and that preachy bad surgeon. I do see their shenanigans and cruelty as human, fully embracing the way they react to stitching back together dying soldiers for 12 hours a day.\n\ndam, beyond the timeless comedy, the scenograph is excellent. even the credits remains to be hilarious. i love the format of the story too, being a miscellaneous collection of antics as the they come and go","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/651"},{"id":"322682678021253708","title":"Match Point","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2005,"runtimeMinutes":124,"directors":["Woody Allen"],"actors":["Scarlett Johansson"],"genres":["Drama","Romance","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2017-02-04","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Wow. What a film. That really does not feel like a Woody Allen film at all. Maybe close to Crimes and Demeanors, but honestly I don't really remember it. The temptation, the entire draw to the lust and greed, the playback from the start to the main character's ambition. It's all drawn powerfully well. Love the play on Crime and Punishment, and the inversion of luck in the ending. Maybe the Crime and Punishment shot was a little heavy-handed and a touch of repetitiveness in the middle drags on in the film to further the exhaustion by the main character.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/116"},{"id":"322682678021249612","title":"McCabe & Mrs. McMiller","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1971,"directors":["Robert Altman"],"completedDate":"2017-02-13","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Love his ramblings. Crazy son of a bitch. The ambushes and reversals of immediate more gloriful combat is excellent. For example, the use of a Derringer after his rifle is taken from him by a priest especially after the bounty hunter exclaims that he couldn't have killed anyone after hearing it was this gun. Love the metaphor of the Presbyterian church burning—the only substantial building in the saloon area—to symbolize the fight. So much more human and real than fictionalized Westerns."},{"id":"322682678021260876","title":"Midnight in Paris","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2011,"runtimeMinutes":94,"directors":["Woody Allen"],"actors":["Tom Hiddleston","Owen Wilson","Adrien Brody","Rachel McAdams","Léa Seydoux","Marion Cotillard","Michael Sheen","Kathy Bates","Alison Pill","Corey Stoll"],"genres":["Fantasy","Comedy","Romance"],"completedDate":"2016-12-14","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"It could went too corny very quickly but it didn't. I loved it.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/59436"},{"id":"322682678020283980","title":"Midsommar","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2019,"runtimeMinutes":147,"directors":["Ari Aster"],"actors":["Florence Pugh"],"genres":["Horror","Drama","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2020-02-01","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Cinematography and cresendos with the unsettling music interspersed with silence. I like the setup with a person grieving and a relationship falling apart. The folkish lore is introduced well. All the foreshadowing: the love story with the spell and pubes in food; the bear and then later on the wall a scribing of a bear on fire. I especially like how each character gets assimilated with the folks and how you can start to imagine all their downfalls. I'm honestly more fascinated by the lore than I am horrified. Climax and ending was sort of whatever. But bravo for keeping me so invested in a 3 hour film that I diddn't even realize it was 2.5 hours!\n\nThe animalistic grief scenes are done so well. The depictions of drugs by having inanimate objects weave back and forth as if alive. And that one scene where she's crying in the sleeping house and all the maids around her wail in sync. Or the unsettling sex scene: the girl singing into Christian's hand, the old naked lady pumping Christian's butt inside.\n\nChristian steeling Josh's thesis. That sealed the deal for me on my judgment of him lol.\n\n\"Ari Aster really has a thing for close-up shots of mutilated heads. And for deformed children. And people burning alive.\"https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/c7y18a/official_discussion_midsommar_spoilers/?sort=top. Yes. Those are a few of the symbols..","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/530385"},{"id":"322682678021446220","title":"Miller's Crossing","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1990,"runtimeMinutes":115,"directors":["Joel Coen"],"actors":["Steve Buscemi","Frances McDormand","Marcia Gay Harden","Sam Raimi","Michael Badalucco","Olek Krupa","Gabriel Byrne","John Turturro","Mario Todisco","John McConnell"],"genres":["Drama","Thriller","Crime"],"completedDate":"2013-12-07","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Great identifiable characters. Story takes on a simple premise and structurally adds on more and more threads as it progresses.\n\nMiller's Crossing has some of the greatest mobster action scenes I've seen. The oldie Leo killing four hitmen, shooting down a vehicle running away with a Thompson, and succeeding(!) is simply badass is one to keep for the books.\n\nSame goes with its plays at spinning control.\n\nGalish music scores at the perfectly opportuned times.\n\nExcellent cinematography, especially with the iconic forest at Miller's Crossing.\n\nNot much character development but given the gangster genre it's to be expected. Moreover, the whole of the story is simply fantastic, and it was a smart move to have focused on it while sticking with Tom's POV. If only he had changed however, the film is only a smaller portion of his overall life.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/379"},{"id":"322682678021512780","title":"Moneyball","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2011,"runtimeMinutes":134,"directors":["Bennett Miller"],"actors":["Brad Pitt"],"genres":["Drama"],"completedDate":"2011-11-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/60308"},{"id":"e7d3622a-5999-4ee3-9fa4-8eb769cbfb96","title":"Monster","originalTitle":"怪物","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2023,"runtimeMinutes":125,"directors":["Hirokazu Kore-eda"],"actors":["Yuko Tanaka"],"genres":["Mystery","Thriller","Drama"],"completedDate":"2024-04-14","updatedDate":"2024-04-14","notes":"It's a drama wrapped in a mystery plot. I like it. It also adds various perspectives so you can really sympathize with their feelings and actions. From each point of view, you can see what causes their conflicts, who they view as the monster, and what actions they take. This narrative device reminds me of Rashomon.\n\nIt's a series of misfortunes and miscommunications.\n\n+ \"they were just jealous because Hoshikawa had such immaculate fits\". LOL he really does have the best fits.\n+ Motifs: Fire in the beginning, rain in the end.\n+ Plot: It feels a little exaggerated sometimes. Like Minato being so depressed and compassionate for his friend that he would do lots of random seemingly senile activities like falling out of a car. And Hoshikawa supposedly a good hearted person just burning down a hostess bar because his dad was there. And I still don't get why Minato lied about Mr. Hori being a bully. He literally did nothing wrong, and it helps Minato and Hoshikawa in no way in getting Mr. Hori punished?","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1050035"},{"id":"322682678021290572","title":"Moonrise Kingdom","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2012,"runtimeMinutes":94,"directors":["Wes Anderson"],"actors":["Bruce Willis"],"genres":["Comedy","Drama","Romance"],"completedDate":"2016-08-15","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/83666"},{"id":"322682678020220492","title":"Mortal Kombat","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2020,"runtimeMinutes":80,"directors":["Ethan Spaulding"],"actors":["Jennifer Carpenter","Jordan Rodrigues","Joel McHale","Grey DeLisle","Kevin Michael Richardson","Fred Tatasciore","Robin Atkin Downes"],"genres":["Animation","Action","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"2021-03-09","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Story is structured and animated like a Cartoon Network show. The gore is absolutely brutal and true to the Mortal Kombat name though. The cutscenes showing the internal damage is especially great, appealing to the modern Mortal Kombat style of brutality. I really like it.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/664767"},{"id":"167b6af5-413e-45fe-9a07-d05baf283a5a","title":"Mother","originalTitle":"마더","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2009,"runtimeMinutes":129,"directors":["Bong Joon Ho"],"actors":["Lee Jung-eun","Chun Woo-hee","Jin Goo","Yoon Je-moon","Jeon Mi-seon","Won Bin","Jo Moon-ee","Go Gyu-pil","Lee Mi-do","Kim Hye-ja"],"genres":["Crime","Drama","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2017-03-10","updatedDate":"2024-09-20","notes":"What an absurd film. A detective story told through a mother, and through intensely impoverished environments. The anticlimax is amazing. I really did not see that coming—but it totally makes sense in retrospect. The rather conventional (although well-spun) storyline was making me curious given the director. I love the motifs of memory and maternal relationships at play.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/30018"},{"id":"322682678021369420","title":"Mùi đu đủ xanh","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1993,"runtimeMinutes":104,"directors":["Tran Anh Hung"],"genres":["Drama","Romance"],"completedDate":"2014-12-26","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Astounding visuals, lush greens and browns in an escapable capture of the Vietnamese life, grating music scores. Amazingly slow pace. The Buddha-like smile and energy from a bright beautiful young girl, working under durress of an oppressing drama. So much told from actions over words. The lush visuals and natural sounds are enough to delight viewers through the slow, carefully thought out storytelling. Incredibly symbolic and hidden under subtleties.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/19552"},{"id":"322682678021293644","title":"Mulholland Drive","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2001,"runtimeMinutes":147,"directors":["David Lynch"],"actors":["Bonnie Aarons","Naomi Watts","Laura Harring","Mark Pellegrino","Melissa George","Robert Forster","Justin Theroux","Katharine Towne","Lori Heuring","Geno Silva"],"genres":["Thriller","Drama","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2016-08-03","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1018"},{"id":"322682678020368972","title":"Mumon: The Land of Stealth","originalTitle":"忍びの国","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2017,"runtimeMinutes":125,"directors":["Yoshihiro Nakamura"],"actors":["Satomi Ishihara","Jun Kunimura","Yuna Taira","Shinnosuke Mitsushima","Yusuke Iseya"],"genres":["War","Action","History","Romance"],"completedDate":"2018-12-28","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"The comedy is great. And the action sets itself with the comedy reminding me of Kungfu Hustle in its choreography. I love the narrative setup with an overpowered character who's lazy like One Punch Man, who's stingy, and who's ultimately dominated by his beautiful, disciplined wife. A land of powerful men. And the dark comedy---I love it.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/461211"},{"id":"322682678021250636","title":"Nashville","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1975,"runtimeMinutes":160,"directors":["Robert Altman"],"actors":["Jeff Goldblum","Scott Glenn","Geraldine Chaplin","Shelley Duvall","Keith Carradine","Elliott Gould","Robert DoQui","Julie Christie","Keenan Wynn","Ned Beatty"],"genres":["Drama","Comedy","Music"],"completedDate":"2017-02-13","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Wow, boy is this film ambitious. The massive ensemble is able to describe the culture and setting in Nashville so well. One interesting comparison is to Manhattan, a similarly titled film by a great director, but so different in its way of storytelling, from mood, acts of humor, depression. Some of the characters are so hilariously wacky here: Opal for one (I love her unabashed racism), Haven. Others are straightforward depressing and serious (in a good way, to really show off the diversity of Nashville) such as Mary or Tom's way of women. Others realistic, such as Barbara Jean's husband Barnett. The politics sounding over the screenplay is clearly something Altman would do.\n\nThe film does so much better on a rewatch when you're familiar with all the characters, and can see the clear cues such as the silent Tricycle Man, acting to connect different scenes.\n\nI have conflicting feelins about such a large cast. It takes away time to really delve into one or small set of characters, although I understand Altman's reason for doing the opposite here. It really plays to his strength of naturalistic aesthetic films.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/3121"},{"id":"326702256814555728","title":"Nightmare Alley","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2021,"runtimeMinutes":151,"directors":["Guillermo del Toro"],"actors":["Bradley Cooper"],"genres":["Crime","Drama","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2022-03-21","updatedDate":"2022-03-21","notes":"The story is interesting throughout. The backstabbing at the end is a little cliche.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/597208"},{"id":"322682678020447820","title":"Nocturnal Animals","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2016,"runtimeMinutes":116,"directors":["Tom Ford"],"actors":["Jake Gyllenhaal"],"genres":["Drama","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2017-10-06","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Love the intersection of stories. The books' was gut-wrenching, and just how much it was contemplated to have really meant in two characters' own relationship. Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams are both amazing. I love how their stories never interact in-person and never actually revealing this until Adams is stood up to the end..\n\nLighting was great as was the soundtrack.\n\nThe whole first scene in the book, in its unknown, without guns, and wholly foreboding realism. It was the threat of violence that horrified the scene moreso than the actual violence. Then it impacting the rest of the story.\n\nI enjoyed the commentary by Tom Ford (https://www.nytimes.com/video/t-magazine/100000004799437/tom-ford-on-nocturnal-animals.html). It didn't say anything new but it was still interesting to hear the words come out in Tom Ford's way.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/340666"},{"id":"338653363262456401","title":"Nope","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2022,"runtimeMinutes":130,"directors":["Jordan Peele"],"actors":["Keke Palmer","Daniel Kaluuya","Keith David","Steven Yeun","Michael Wincott","Oz Perkins","Wrenn Schmidt","Donna Mills","Barbie Ferreira","Terry Notary"],"genres":["Horror","Science Fiction","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2022-12-18","updatedDate":"2022-12-18","notes":"Compelling chararacters, their background, the film's overall style and use of motifs. The overarching story is a little boring and inconsequential.\n\nThe Angel design is superb. You can definitely see it when Peele says they were inspired by Neon Genesis Evangelion.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/762504"},{"id":"322682678021214796","title":"Noroi: The Curse","originalTitle":"ノロイ","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2005,"runtimeMinutes":115,"directors":["Koji Shiraishi"],"actors":["Maria Takagi"],"genres":["Horror","Mystery","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2017-03-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"i like the father reshadowing and running elements, with the audience to slowly piece together the pieces as they unravel snd merge. the crazy lady neihbor and crying babies, the weird knots, the dotted line drawings, the pidgeons, the man murmuring and stepping sounds. all so subtle and mystifying. love the slow pacing. japanese horror really know how to set up stories. betond the horror, i think it worked really well as somply a mystery film almost akin to the mixes of dragon tattoo and shutter island. Excellent ensemble, wide spanning setting and lore building. I love the diversity of mediums, not only hand held but news outlets, alternative cameras, interviews, variety tv shows, and investigative journalism.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/21506"},{"id":"322682678021501516","title":"Norwegian Wood","originalTitle":"ノルウェイの森","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2010,"runtimeMinutes":134,"directors":["Trần Anh Hùng"],"actors":["Rinko Kikuchi","Kengo Kora","Reika Kirishima","Kenichi Matsuyama","Eriko Hatsune","Kiko Mizuhara","Tokio Emoto"],"genres":["Drama","Romance"],"completedDate":"2011-09-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/57703"},{"id":"ecfb3dca-1163-49de-b6b5-1ea7557bcf1d","title":"Nosferatu","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2024,"runtimeMinutes":133,"directors":["Robert Eggers"],"actors":["Willem Dafoe","Bill Skarsgård","Aaron Taylor-Johnson","Ralph Ineson","Nicholas Hoult","Emma Corrin","Lily-Rose Depp","Simon McBurney"],"genres":["Drama","Fantasy","Horror"],"completedDate":"2025-05-03","updatedDate":"2025-05-04","notes":"Acting is too theatrical for my tastes. It's similar to the original in this regard, but the original is purposefully exaggerated as it needs to be for a silent movie.\n\nI wish it were more auteristic in cinematography, lighting, narrative, camera, etc. It feels a bit too polished and uncontroversial.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/426063"},{"id":"322682678977552972","title":"Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1922,"runtimeMinutes":94,"directors":["F.W. Murnau"],"genres":["Drama","Fantasy","Horror"],"completedDate":"2025-01-04","updatedDate":"2025-01-05","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/653"},{"id":"322682678975457868","title":"O Brother, Where Art Thou?","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2000,"runtimeMinutes":107,"directors":["Joel Coen"],"actors":["John Goodman","George Clooney","Stephen Root","Michael Badalucco","Holly Hunter","Tim Blake Nelson","John Turturro","Ray McKinnon","Wayne Duvall","Charles Durning"],"genres":["Adventure","Comedy","Crime"],"completedDate":"2013-11-17","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Hilarious dry, sarcastic style with thick southern accents as usual.\n\nGenerally undeveloped, stupid ass trio but perfect for their role.\n\nThe quests are heroic and a fun parallel to Homeric proportions of adventure. The aftermath of the sirens for example is one of the most hilarious moments in the film. \"We gotta find some.. wizard to change him back\"\n\nI love the use of music to keep the harmonious atmosphere.\n\nSuper cheesy ending, but the lighthearted comedic tone of the series is appropriate with it.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/134"},{"id":"7621a3f2-ed3d-4c75-ab9d-37ad505c6e93","title":"Obsession","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2026,"runtimeMinutes":109,"directors":["Curry Barker"],"actors":["Inde Navarrette"],"genres":["Horror","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2026-07-22","updatedDate":"2026-07-23","notes":"Fun movie, not all that innovative. The main motifs in the horror are shadow, jumpscares, shouting, and uncanny expressions. Given the theme, could've amped up the sexual appeal and codependence in the relationship.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1339713"},{"id":"322682678020493900","title":"Okja","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2017,"runtimeMinutes":120,"directors":["Bong Joon Ho"],"actors":["Jake Gyllenhaal","Giancarlo Esposito"],"genres":["Adventure","Drama","Science Fiction","Action"],"updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Rather potent satire against the food industry and general media tendencies (but of course without a solution). I did enjoy it more as a comedy with rather curious events.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/387426"},{"id":"322682678020260428","title":"Oldboy","originalTitle":"올드보이","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2003,"runtimeMinutes":120,"directors":["Park Chan-wook"],"actors":["Yoo Ji-tae","Oh Dal-su","Kang Hye-jung","Yoon Jin-seo","Kim Byung-ok","Yoo Yeon-seok","Lee Dae-yeon","Choi Min-sik","Park Myung-shin"],"genres":["Thriller","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2020-06-09","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"The mix of revenge thriller and comedy intermixed is classic Korean cinema. Choi Min-sik plays the eccentric ex-prisoner so well: his mannerisms, way of speaking, forboding nature.\n\nThe plot is more contrived than typical Korean films, and it's clear it comes from manga: hypnotism, early confrontation with the killer, fictitious sinister organizations, meeting his daughter and the plot twist.\n\nThe octopus scene is iconic. And the single shot corridor dirty fight sequence. And the tooth scene. Holy fuck. This is torture more than action.\n\nI had seen clips of the movie close to 5 years ago from now watching this movie to completion. I had also read the manga. Only after rewatching Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance did I start to forget details and want to finally watch Oldboy.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/670"},{"id":"322682678020422220","title":"Onibaba","originalTitle":"鬼婆","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1964,"runtimeMinutes":105,"directors":["Kaneto Shindō"],"actors":["Jitsuko Yoshimura"],"genres":["Horror"],"completedDate":"2018-02-18","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Love the barabarism in the perspective of two villagers simply striving to eat. It really contextualizes it all with the draft, meaningless slaughter, and the need to pay for food. I also love the entrance of the male into the picture. It reminds me of The Skin I Live In. Love the random act of finding and eating anything. Love how many scenes just involve stares and eating. The scene where the demon mask samurai comes at the Onibaba, and she kills him through smarts---really powerful.\n\nPeculiar ending.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/3763"},{"id":"100d4138-82c6-45ae-b72d-959cc370ce8c","title":"Oppenheimer","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2023,"runtimeMinutes":181,"directors":["Christopher Nolan"],"actors":["Robert Downey Jr.","Matt Damon","Florence Pugh","Kenneth Branagh","Emily Blunt","Gary Oldman"],"genres":["Drama","History"],"completedDate":"2023-12-09","updatedDate":"2023-12-09","notes":"Details:\n\n+ Even Nolan can't get away from the academic genius cliches: as if speaking multiple languages is impressive, anecdotes like that he learned Dutch in 6 weeks in order to give a lecture on quantum mechanics, that he looks at the stars and imagines gravities blowing up, that he throws glass cups at the corner of a room when stuck.\n+ \"Can you run the calculations yourself?\" Oppenheimer requests Einstein. Lol, thinking you need senior people to check a math proof. Major eye rolling at the scientific dialogue.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/872585"},{"id":"322682678021498444","title":"Pan's Labyrinth","originalTitle":"El laberinto del fauno","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2006,"runtimeMinutes":118,"directors":["Guillermo del Toro"],"actors":["Ivana Baquero","Maribel Verdú","Iván Massagué","Doug Jones","Ariadna Gil"],"genres":["Fantasy","Drama","War"],"completedDate":"2006-11-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"It made a big impression as a child as an entrance to mystical realist films and fiction more broadly. I loved it, although looking back I can't say it stacks up to the significant innovators in the genre.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1417"},{"id":"322682678021391948","title":"Picnic at Hanging Rock","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1975,"runtimeMinutes":107,"directors":["Peter Weir"],"actors":["Jacki Weaver"],"genres":["Drama","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2014-05-24","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"So spooky!  It's excellent storytelling to present so much emotion with so little writing, and at a trying pace that really emphasizes the mystery of it all. Yet, it's too slow and pressuring on an atmosphere for little character development. I also have mixed feelings about the swan motif, and the two orphans being related is a clumsy plot twist.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/11020"},{"id":"322682678020484684","title":"Prisoners","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2013,"runtimeMinutes":153,"directors":["Denis Villeneuve"],"actors":["Jake Gyllenhaal"],"genres":["Drama","Thriller","Crime"],"completedDate":"2017-08-05","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Interesting dual perspective for a mystery crime. Like Sicario, I like all the implications of violence being the most gruesome parts. All the suspects, the connections, even the abduction as the climax.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/146233"},{"id":"b3ebf75e-8c24-49a7-9382-49d7070db8d6","title":"Project Hail Mary","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2026,"runtimeMinutes":157,"directors":["Christopher Miller","Phil Lord"],"actors":["Ryan Gosling","Sandra Hüller","Milana Vayntrub"],"genres":["Science Fiction","Adventure","Drama"],"completedDate":"2026-04-13","updatedDate":"2026-04-14","notes":"Fun and captures the light hearted science mood of Andy Weir's style. But drifts too far away from the engineer style problem solving that at least was done somewhat well in the Martian adaptation. It also has a tendency to feature Marvel quips that I intensely dislike.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/687163"},{"id":"322682678021528140","title":"Prometheus","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2012,"runtimeMinutes":124,"directors":["Ridley Scott"],"actors":["Charlize Theron","Michael Fassbender"],"genres":["Science Fiction","Mystery","Horror"],"completedDate":"2012-11-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/70981"},{"id":"322682678021520972","title":"Pulp Fiction","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1994,"runtimeMinutes":154,"directors":["Quentin Tarantino"],"actors":["Samuel L. Jackson","Bruce Willis"],"genres":["Thriller","Crime","Comedy"],"completedDate":"2010-09-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"All that meandering dialogue is both Pulp Fiction's greatest strength and weakness. At times it feels extremely redundant, superficial, and gimmicky. On all the other occasions, the rhythm of the work's mocks at the audience to build suspense is wildly entertaining. Excellent monologue overall as well as how (most of) all the nonlinear stories converge. Trying to the irregular story and the adventures of the duo is something that's plainly fun and active. The film's mood feels homey, totally at rest with how it tells its story.\n\nGreat cinematography in trailing characters and following people's dufferent possibilities. Vacant sound to lend to the atmosphere.\n\nAfter having experienced quite a few foreign films (Chinese and Korean especially) with the original tone Tarantino seeks after, I can really depreciate this film. These foreign films have so much more authenticity and creativity in them. Their raw emotions—for example, Sympathy for Vengeance's violence—is so much more shocking yet palatable than Pulp Fiction's, even if Sympathy was made afterwards.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/680"},{"id":"f49c0839-4abf-4a99-9f7c-5d66d0868930","title":"Pusher","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1996,"runtimeMinutes":110,"directors":["Nicolas Winding Refn"],"actors":["Mads Mikkelsen"],"genres":["Action","Crime","Drama"],"completedDate":"2026-09-09","updatedDate":"2026-09-13","notes":"Same director as Drive (2011).","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/2061"},{"id":"2fb28fa7-5ba6-445f-bb64-28ffbadb2b24","title":"Puss in Boots: The Last Wish","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2022,"runtimeMinutes":103,"directors":["Joel Crawford"],"actors":["Wagner Moura","Florence Pugh"],"genres":["Animation","Adventure","Fantasy","Comedy","Family"],"completedDate":"2024-09-29","updatedDate":"2024-09-30","notes":"Excellent animation. What a visual sight.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/315162"},{"id":"322682678021460556","title":"Rashōmon","originalTitle":"羅生門","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1950,"runtimeMinutes":88,"directors":["Akira Kurosawa"],"actors":["Minoru Chiaki","Machiko Kyō","Toshirō Mifune","Masayuki Mori"],"genres":["Crime","Drama","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2013-11-27","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Rashomon's raw energy truly brings out ferocity of mankind. The bandit's perspective, as well as the disconsonant blaring by those horns, keeps you aloof from the situation. Similarly, the brash faces, emphasis on motion, and the lack of major dialogue keep its atmosphere surging throughout the film. I love the use of minimalism here, where they pull out any extras such as the policemen in order to exaggerate each person's testimonial like its own performance, and where it leaves absent any accompaniment with only the bare necessities of crops to make the film.\n\nThe flashbacks give a detached judgment sort of feel, where you're analyzing a past action instead of seeing it work out in the present. The masterful use of lighting and more general cinematographic feats with respect to its staging are all present.\n\nUnfortunately my interest with the film waned less than an hour in, and my thoughts of its rather campy production values and overacting started to lose its appeal. While I admire its presentation, the story as well as its moral ambiguity does not serve a very strong theme. Rashomon leans too much toward its stylistic content, believing this would service nicely toward its thin outline of a story. Still, there is a lot to be said of its style and I think the film is certainly quite good because of it.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/548"},{"id":"dc081449-e7df-40b3-8d69-2bac11585377","title":"Ready or Not: Here I Come","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2026,"runtimeMinutes":108,"directors":["Matt Bettinelli-Olpin","Tyler Gillett"],"actors":["Shawn Hatosy"],"genres":["Horror","Comedy"],"completedDate":"2026-04-20","updatedDate":"2026-04-20","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1266127"},{"id":"322682678020222540","title":"Revenge","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2017,"runtimeMinutes":89,"directors":["David Gere"],"actors":["Michael Madsen","Tom Sizemore","Robert LaSardo","Sully Erna"],"genres":["Horror"],"completedDate":"2021-03-07","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I like the idea of the film. Although it's still weirdly highly sexualized, but supposedly done in a way to give female empowerment even though it appeals to male fantasies more so than female power fantasies. The fixation on just three people to take vengeance on, and less on the unknown that the woman has to battle, makes it less interesting.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/784217"},{"id":"322682678020223564","title":"Rosemary's Baby","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1968,"runtimeMinutes":138,"directors":["Roman Polanski"],"actors":["Mia Farrow","Charles Grodin","Victoria Vetri"],"genres":["Drama","Horror","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2021-03-06","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/805"},{"id":"322682678020492876","title":"Scott Pilgrim vs. the World","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2010,"runtimeMinutes":113,"directors":["Edgar Wright"],"actors":["Mary Elizabeth Winstead","Chris Evans","Brie Larson","Aubrey Plaza","Mae Whitman","Brandon Routh","Kieran Culkin","Michael Cera","Bill Hader","Jason Schwartzman"],"genres":["Action","Comedy","Romance"],"completedDate":"2017-07-22","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Love the quirkiness. Wright enshrines the comic well in audiovisual format. Anamanaguchi is really really good. The story's a little incoherent at times (especially with Scott's characterization). That said, I enjoyed the seamless transitions. The combination of video game fantasy and slice of life makes it a unique contribution to films. It's less like traditional storytelling and more a fun ride with music. I like the twin battle the most. The fighting scenes are just silly.\n\nWatched it again on 8/10/20. Soundtrack is bitching. Love all the songs they play. And the mix of gimmicks keeps the story engaging. Like Anamanaguchi.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/22538"},{"id":"322682678021535308","title":"Se7en","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1995,"runtimeMinutes":127,"directors":["David Fincher"],"actors":["Brad Pitt","Morgan Freeman"],"genres":["Crime","Mystery","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2006-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Rewatching in 2021, I can really appreciate the cinematography and atmosphere more than when I first watched it. What elevates the film above a solid serial killer thriller is its use of both graphic imagery and suggestive imagery (Lust and the climax), as well as the film concentrating well around the characters, with a larger narrative around apathy and sin.\n\nPlot hole-wise, it's a little contrived for them to be able to comb through multiple crime scenes and even the main apartment without finding a single fingerprint or DNA sample. They don't even collect eyewitness samples of what the guy looks like from the multiple victims or witnesses that survived.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/807"},{"id":"5c9cf0b7-c627-4e07-b813-57e4f32743a2","title":"See How They Run","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2022,"runtimeMinutes":99,"directors":["Tom George"],"actors":["Harris Dickinson","Saoirse Ronan","Adrien Brody","Sam Rockwell","Shirley Henderson","Ruth Wilson","David Oyelowo","Jacob Fortune-Lloyd","Angus Wright"],"genres":["Mystery","Comedy","Crime"],"completedDate":"2022-11-19","updatedDate":"2022-11-20","notes":"Characters all have on-point dialogue with unique attributes. Story is paced well. The quirky comedy is excellent. It's Wes Anderson-like in camera composition and the quirkiness.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/766475"},{"id":"338144315800814161","title":"Shaolin Soccer","originalTitle":"少林足球","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2001,"runtimeMinutes":113,"directors":["Stephen Chow"],"actors":["Stephen Chow","Cecilia Cheung"],"genres":["Action","Comedy"],"completedDate":"2022-07-25","updatedDate":"2022-07-25","notes":"Not quite as good as Kung Fu Hustle, but all the elements in the action comedy, ensemble cast, and poor meets evil story are all ripe here. Shaolin Soccer particularly stands out in its interesting use cases of kung fu choreography in soccer settings.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/11770"},{"id":"322682678021354060","title":"Shiki-Jitsu","originalTitle":"式日","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2000,"runtimeMinutes":128,"directors":["Hideaki Anno"],"actors":["Megumi Hayashibara","Shunji Iwai","Ayako Fujitani"],"genres":["Drama"],"completedDate":"2015-01-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Intriguing visuals although I feel its reveal of the mystery ruins the appeal of their suffering in the first place.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/39056"},{"id":"322682678020487756","title":"Sicario","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2015,"runtimeMinutes":122,"directors":["Denis Villeneuve"],"actors":["Jon Bernthal","Emily Blunt"],"genres":["Action","Crime","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2017-08-04","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"This was much darker, grittier, and entertaining than I imagined for a relatively mainstream film. The sexual appeal with Emily Blunt and various escapades didn't really seem necessary except to curl more bloodboiling in this show. I like how the film takes a somewhat outsider's perspective to both the drug cartel and the operations, and never focuses too explicitly on one, based from Emily Blunt/FBI's perspective to the more sociopathic operations conducted according to the CIA. And they also don't show explicit violence all that much but rather befor and after to leave things with the imagination. It is very Apocalypse Now in feeling. Especially the soundtrack.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/273481"},{"id":"322682678020500044","title":"Silence","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2016,"runtimeMinutes":161,"directors":["Martin Scorsese"],"actors":["Liam Neeson"],"genres":["Drama","History"],"completedDate":"2017-06-18","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Enthralling. I can tell Scorsese's atheistic tendencies given his very neutral storytelling. I love how persecution is such a heavy motif in the work, and that Christianity serves as a storytelling device to drive forward the characters. And on a political level, I love how no morality messages are necessarily shoved at the audience's throat. This is a religious film I can enjoy.\n\nThe juxtaposition of very devout Christian followers and terrible persecutions reminds me that the strongest faiths are often a result of incredibly evil opposites. Contrast that with, say, the modern times, where there is a lack of such disgusting persecution. But as a result, there also seems to be a lack of purely devout followers who would necessarily be able to face these trials like those in this film.\n\nI really like how the characters are so often juxtaposed by the destruction they seem to bring with them. And that there's still the longer narrative of trying to find Padre Ferria. I also like how Kichijiro is like a Gollum figure. He and Inoue stand out as narrative symbol pieces representing more than their literal purpose.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/68730"},{"id":"322682678021282380","title":"Sing Street","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2016,"runtimeMinutes":105,"directors":["John Carney"],"actors":["Maria Doyle Kennedy","Aidan Gillen","Lucy Boynton","Jack Reynor","Ferdia Walsh-Peelo"],"genres":["Romance","Drama","Music","Comedy"],"completedDate":"2016-10-28","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/369557"},{"id":"53098de9-3dc1-4d04-9012-4344ad9f6d75","title":"Sinners","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2025,"runtimeMinutes":138,"directors":["Ryan Coogler"],"genres":["Horror","Action","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2025-07-21","updatedDate":"2025-07-22","notes":"I liked the period drama more than the action.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1233413"},{"id":"322682678020152908","title":"Sleepy Hollow","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1999,"runtimeMinutes":105,"directors":["Tim Burton"],"actors":["Johnny Depp","Christina Ricci","Michael Gambon","Christopher Walken","Casper Van Dien","Miranda Richardson","Claire Skinner","Christopher Lee","Richard Griffiths","Michael Gough"],"genres":["Drama","Fantasy","Thriller","Mystery","Horror"],"completedDate":"2021-10-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"What a classic duo of Tim Burton and Johnny Depp. The overall story and aesthetic is clearly Tim Burton's style. Johnny Depp is excellent as the leading actor here, clearly with a unique personality. The detective monologues are annoying though.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/2668"},{"id":"322682678020167244","title":"Sorry to Bother You","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2018,"runtimeMinutes":112,"directors":["Boots Riley"],"actors":["Lily James"],"genres":["Fantasy","Science Fiction","Comedy"],"completedDate":"2021-09-14","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I'm a fan of this type of comedy mixed with political satire. All the characters are depicted well too. The overall rise-up-in-ranks story is great, especially as it deals with his moral dilemma.\n\nThe abstract visuals at times is great. Delivers the comedy or message more broadly especially well for the film medium.\n\nThe ending with the conflict resolution is rushed and too broadly swept over though.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/424781"},{"id":"49e12c34-252f-47a0-a290-4e6378e7a504","title":"Speak No Evil","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2022,"runtimeMinutes":98,"directors":["Christian Tafdrup"],"actors":["Fedja van Huêt"],"genres":["Horror","Thriller","Drama"],"completedDate":"2026-06-06","updatedDate":"2026-06-21","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/833339"},{"id":"ee91363d-980a-4954-8f9d-0cbbf69b4942","title":"Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2023,"runtimeMinutes":140,"directors":["Justin K. Thompson","Kemp Powers","Joaquim Dos Santos"],"actors":["J.K. Simmons"],"genres":["Animation","Action","Adventure","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2023-10-01","updatedDate":"2023-10-01","notes":"The quality of the animation is something you don't really see anymore in modern anime. I haven't seen smooth animation and wildly imaginative scenes like in this film since maybe Redline. To name examples:\n\n+ The various Spider-Man renditions, especially Spider-Man 2099.\n+ The villain renditions.\n+ Dimensions including Mumbattan, watercolor in Gwen Stacy's universe, wild west, noir, Insomniac games universe, typeface, real life, virtual avatar, Spider Byte.\n+ The film cameos are a bit much. It reminds me of what happened in The Flash, which was hilariously bad.\n\nOther comments:\n\n+ The light-hearted and comedic takes from the villain keeps him to be likeable and not the generic tragic figure they're usually made out to me.\n+ Whlie this series is in the multiverse cliche that defines so many films ever since Avengers: Endgame, it still pull it off really well. Sure, many deaths are effectively nullified with multiverses still though. It's generally cheap writing that automatically resolves plot holes, mitigates tragic events by bringing back characters from the dead, and lets you cameo previous fan favorite renditions of characters from past films.\n+ The writing is sappy at times. Partially because it tries to do so much, partially because it's a dumb multiverse story, partially because it tries to appeal as a kid's hollywood-style show.\n+ The Spider-Man pointing at Spider-Man meme. So good.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/569094"},{"id":"322682678020241996","title":"Spider-Man: Far From Home","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2019,"runtimeMinutes":129,"directors":["Jon Watts"],"actors":["Tom Holland","Zendaya","Jake Gyllenhaal","Samuel L. Jackson","J.K. Simmons"],"genres":["Action","Adventure","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2020-10-24","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"As a film in the MCU, it's gotten the standard tropes of action, comedy, and a blockbuster story with a committee-written script. Clearly made for youths with the high school romance plot. But I still found it engaging. Jake Gyllenhaal is what really sealed the deal to watch this. He's amazing in his all films, and it shows even for a blockbuster like this with both his charisma as a hero and later as a villlain. The scenery changes are also nice: love the non-typical locations with Netherlands in particular. It ain't just New York all over again. On a technology side, it's pretty interesting to see a script written based on prospectives of the future of drone technology; but the security on those glasses is plot-like terrible. It's an example of modern scifi to that extent. Illusion CGI is obvious. Truly flexes their creative arm like Through the Spiderverse.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/429617"},{"id":"322682678020347468","title":"Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2018,"runtimeMinutes":117,"directors":["Bob Persichetti","Peter Ramsey","Rodney Rothman"],"actors":["Nicolas Cage"],"genres":["Animation","Action","Adventure","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2019-03-04","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Love the animation. Really adds unique spins on the dimension-turning as well as the integration with comics. This is easily the most passionate of the Marvel films. Love the humored failures under the pressure. Certainly the most down-to-earth of the Spiderman films. Love the alternate universe and variants of heros and villains. It gives so much more creative freedom. The mix with more Brooklyn/Queens and the hip-hop. Meta jokes. Epilogue's such a nice touchback on previous animation attempts.\n\nThe latino protagonist and white female feels like pushing an agenda.. It just makes me uncomfortable. Gwen Stacey should also be significantly older than the high school kid. nit: Why does Peter Parker's face look like a blonde gym bozo? It pushes weird expectations on today's society.. I don't think the angst portion of the film is necessary. It just slows down what makes the rest of the film so fun.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/324857"},{"id":"bb2b1e66-8ca1-469f-b75b-65bbcab92d4c","title":"Stalker","originalTitle":"Сталкер","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1979,"runtimeMinutes":162,"directors":["Andrei Tarkovsky"],"actors":["Anatoliy Solonitsyn"],"genres":["Science Fiction","Drama"],"completedDate":"2024-01-12","updatedDate":"2024-01-13","notes":"I feel this sometimes. Tarkovsky, Bergman, and Jean-Luc Godard (among others like Fellini) appeal to the peak pretentious crowd and require a certain appetite to really enjoy. Tarkovsky in particular is like the James Joyce of cinema.\n\nI find some scenes such as the first one almost intentionally too slow. There's no point to the film in keeping it to be so long.\n\nThe philosophical musings and exposition feel a bit banal for me watching in 2024. I don't see new insights.\n\nhttps://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/hslhvj/til_that_upon_its_release_stalker_a_film_by/fybt9xd/\n\nI think I'm more into the pretentious art of films like Angel's Egg where there's bombastic music on top of the symbology. And while slow, still somewhat manageable.\n\nThe still shots and color palette are what appeal most to me.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1398"},{"id":"322682678021295692","title":"Stanford Prison Experiment","originalTitle":"The Stanford Prison Experiment","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2015,"runtimeMinutes":122,"directors":["Kyle Patrick Alvarez"],"actors":["Ezra Miller","Billy Crudup","Ki Hong Lee","Olivia Thirlby","Johnny Simmons","Logan Miller","Moisés Arias","Tye Sheridan","Miles Heizer","Matt Bennett"],"genres":["Thriller","Drama","History"],"completedDate":"2016-06-11","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"A horror film. Makes you sick to the stomach. Although it's unrealistic and like other historical non-fictions is only very loosely related to reality. Felt longer and it should. Purposely claustrophobic and ungrating.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/308032"},{"id":"322682678021515852","title":"Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1982,"runtimeMinutes":113,"directors":["Nicholas Meyer"],"actors":["Kirstie Alley","Ricardo Montalban","DeForest Kelley","George Takei","Bibi Besch","Merritt Butrick","William Shatner"],"genres":["Action","Adventure","Science Fiction","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2011-09-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Best film of all Star Trek time and arguably the best story too.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/154"},{"id":"322682678021525068","title":"Star Wars","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1977,"runtimeMinutes":121,"directors":["George Lucas"],"actors":["Harrison Ford"],"genres":["Adventure","Action","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"1997-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/11"},{"id":"322682678021539404","title":"Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1980,"runtimeMinutes":124,"directors":["Irvin Kershner"],"actors":["Harrison Ford","Treat Williams","Mark Hamill","Alec Guinness","Carrie Fisher","James Earl Jones","John Ratzenberger","Michael Culver","Joe Johnston","Anthony Daniels"],"genres":["Adventure","Action","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"1997-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1891"},{"id":"322682678020446796","title":"Steve Jobs","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2015,"runtimeMinutes":123,"directors":["Danny Boyle"],"actors":["Michael Fassbender"],"genres":["Drama","History"],"completedDate":"2017-10-13","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Very well-directed and fluid, with the key focus being the character of Steve Jobs and his focus on success and himself. It's very interesting how the film is literally played inside three preparations for product announcements, going from preluds in the beginning such as a never-shown Dan Kokke to his rise and dispute with John Sculley to his relationship with Steve Wozniak, his assistant, his daughter and her mother, and Andy. The director really displays the ego, passion, and eccentricity of Steve Jobs well. Even acknowledging that he doesn'concretely t do anything---design, programming, but rather the 'direction' with all its faults like a closed source and closed system design ('he plays the orchestra'), customizability vs a single option, and the current direction in Apple with secrecy even among employees. Not surprised that so many would try to copy Steve Jobs, even the extent of young naive billionaires like the Snapchat CEO. And the total hack that is NexT without any OS but just hacking away to show presentation. Or how Steve built a building for the school of gifted children so Lisa would get in. I love the film all the more for describing Steve Jobs so accurately as a flawed megalomaniac, but one whose vision for better or worse has left us where we are now. Awfully dramatic for having to be so dense as a film for so many years of Apple such as fights between Jobs and Wozniak in the middle of a crew setting up for the iMac launch.\n\nAlways a fan of Michael Fassbinder. He's done it again. :) And for a movie that's literally just dialogue, Boyle's filmmaking makes it feel so much more energetic and dramatic.\n\nFor own tracking, interesting patterns related to Apple:\n+ The Steve Jobs persona of egomania, perfectionism, always having your own vision to see through it all (see also George Lucas, the less idolized but still similar in status Bill Gates). Examples: no plates on his car, parking in handicap, homeopathic treatment to treat cancer.\n+ Open vs closed systems: from open vs closed source code, open vs secret company culture, purely closed end-to-end I/O and compatibility with alternative proprietary or open hardware, from targeting users and hackers to force everyone to use more Apple.\n+ Defaults vs customizability.\n+ The dynamic duo of Wozniak and Jobs: genius builder to the promoter and more known endearer to the public, and subsequently promoting images like Einstein, Muhammad Ali as opposed to Turing in setting up the Apple stage.\n+ Apple: The single word company name based on a concept.\n+ Apple vs Microsoft, and stealing from Xerox Parc.\nPremium prices like the initial Macintosh and even Apple Watch to more budget-friendly options; similarly, the specific demographic of rich surbanites to truly everyone and specific subdemographics such as education or users and developers.\n+ Lawsuit obssession, regardless of its relevance, simply for personal aggressions and to put pressure.\nThe power of commercial marketing and branding: possibly Jobs' key asset. Even taking over names to take credit such as Airport over wifi, bootcamp over dual boot.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/321697"},{"id":"322682678020497996","title":"Still Walking","originalTitle":"歩いても 歩いても","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2008,"runtimeMinutes":114,"directors":["Hirokazu Kore-eda"],"actors":["Yui Natsukawa","Yoshio Harada"],"genres":["Drama","Family"],"completedDate":"2017-06-20","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Lyrical is the most fitting description. Think Aria but in a modern familial setting, and with some drama and slightly more adult themes. I can relate to much of it when as a child, save for more of an emphasis on digital and the compacification of many situations in one very stereotypical family (dead brother, second eldest marrying a widow with a child, second eldest being more rebellious against the wishes of the father, a slightly naggy younger sister). Save for some of the embarassing angsty acting, the cast captures awkwardness, nuanced conversations, and generally family relationships really well. I especially like the framed shots, often including nature.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/25050"},{"id":"322682678021305932","title":"Suicide Club","originalTitle":"自殺サークル","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2000,"runtimeMinutes":89,"directors":["Rachel Samuels"],"actors":["Paul Bettany","David Morrissey","Jonathan Pryce"],"genres":["Drama"],"completedDate":"2016-04-29","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I like the way of presentation and the disorganized presentation. Incredible way of saying so much about Japanese culture, especially group identity, without saying anything. The incoherence is its strength.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/223432"},{"id":"0565400d-1e67-4aa0-a7f8-8b62186b4e19","title":"Superman","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2025,"runtimeMinutes":130,"directors":["James Gunn"],"actors":["Isabela Merced","Nathan Fillion"],"genres":["Action","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2025-10-31","updatedDate":"2025-12-01","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1061474"},{"id":"322682678020273740","title":"Superman Red Son","originalTitle":"Superman: Red Son","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2020,"runtimeMinutes":84,"directors":["Sam Liu"],"actors":["Jason Isaacs"],"genres":["Science Fiction","Animation","Action"],"completedDate":"2020-03-04","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"\"If Superman is so powerful, why can't he stop genocides and wars ? Why can't he stop terrorism? Why can't he make the world a better place ? In this comic, Superman does exactly that. He essentially uses his powers to solve all of the worlds problems. But this isn't a fundamentally good thing.\" https://www.reddit.com/r/superman/comments/astjsq/superman_red_son_effectively_addresses_almost/. That premise sets the stage very well.\n\nI like the depth into politics of social inequality, feminism, sexuality. I like how Lex's manipulation of Superman plays into this. A lot of the morals plays out like a choice of two lesser evils like the Witcher. \"Poverty, disease, and ignorance have been virtually eliminated in the Warsaw Pact states.\" Batman as a vengeful terrorist. Superman re-living the roles and naivety ultimately becoming Stalin. Different heroes and supervillains taking different stances in the Cold War duality.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/618355"},{"id":"322682678020235852","title":"Suspiria","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2018,"runtimeMinutes":152,"directors":["Luca Guadagnino"],"actors":["Chloë Grace Moretz","Tilda Swinton","Dakota Johnson","Mia Goth","Vanda Capriolo","Sylvie Testud","Jessica Harper","Angela Winkler","Greta Bohacek"],"genres":["Horror","Mystery","Drama"],"completedDate":"2020-11-27","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Direction with the choreography and haunting music is on par. I love the idea of making the witches known early in the film. The audience is now more interested in understanding more what will happen in details, and not a binary question of whether things are real. The dream sequences are terrifying. The divided Berlin setting is excellent with uprisings along with its cultural mix of English, German, and French. The dancing sequences do body horror real well. Also its sexual behavior, particularly with grasping, panting, straps, and nipples showing through shirts.\n\nOh my god. The climax is like Japanese horror movie crazy. Not the absurdity of pianos eating people, but at that extreme of its subgenre of horror.\n\nI watched this back in late 2019 but never got around to finishing it until now. It could just be me getting into it agian, and partially why I never got around to finishing it in the first go, but I agree that the story meanders quite a bit. It doesn't 2.5 hours.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/361292"},{"id":"322682678021550668","title":"Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2007,"runtimeMinutes":116,"directors":["Tim Burton"],"actors":["Helena Bonham Carter","Johnny Depp","Jamie Campbell Bower","Timothy Spall","Alan Rickman","Anthony Stewart Head","Jayne Wisener"],"genres":["Drama","Horror"],"completedDate":"2010-09-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/13885"},{"id":"2ed53047-ef12-4b0e-8f1c-6312d0f89635","title":"Talk to Me","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2023,"runtimeMinutes":95,"directors":["Danny Philippou","Michael Philippou"],"actors":["Miranda Otto","Zoe Terakes","Alexandra Jensen","Otis Dhanji","Sophie Wilde"],"genres":["Horror"],"completedDate":"2023-09-20","updatedDate":"2023-09-21","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1008042"},{"id":"322682678021472844","title":"Taxi Driver","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1976,"runtimeMinutes":114,"directors":["Martin Scorsese"],"actors":["Harvey Keitel","Robert De Niro","Cybill Shepherd","Peter Boyle","Martin Scorsese","Albert Brooks","Debbi Morgan","Jodie Foster","Diahnne Abbott"],"genres":["Crime","Drama"],"completedDate":"2013-11-22","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Taxi Driver is Scorsese's most famous dark, gritty film: filled to the brim with decadence, and a protagonist so astoundingly lost in his need to make justice of it all. For this, the film brings insight upon insight regarding the metropolitan state, shocking viewers at just how dark humanity can get. Taxi Driver's setting is easily its best element.\n\nTravis however wields mixed merits. His jumbled words for instance often leave the dialogue lacking. This is attributed to his poor education for sure, but it also makes his service into the role quite lackluster as we would like him to state something holding more weight, but he is unable to communicate his thoughts. When he tries to comment about the city's state toward others for example, there's so much to be said and yet he hesitates and continues to stutter on with incomprehensible meanings and slang. This is similar to a lot of other uneducated characters in the story, and while it makes sense logically it weakens the overall impact and precision in the film. What remains excellent at least is De Niro's excellent potrayal of such a pathetic and paranoid individual.\n\nHis stating relationship with Betty is quite questionable purpose-wise as well as how it even develops in the first place. This goes hand in hand with how his relationship with Iris feels so fleeting and leaves so much more to be desired.\n\nThe decrecendos and dissonance in the jazz, those soulful whimpers so attuned toward the decadence that the film portrays, builds up phenomenal atmosphere in the work.\n\nUnfortunately Taxi Driver feels unnecessarily lost in its own narrative, seeping deeper and deeper into Travis' insanity and paranoia so much that you forget the purpose of Taxi Driver anymore. When Travis seeks to assassinate senator Palantine (and ultimately fails), and then kills the pimp because he has no one else to kill, the film tries to add in a spin on media criticism, indicating that despite the very polar stances the media would take if he had killed the senator instead, it turns to be some half-assed ironic gesture, something that was not displayed in prior events in the film. Also you can't help being left with a sour taste in your mouth as the relationships with Betty and Iris feel so brief, and the film as a whole quite inconclusive.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/103"},{"id":"322682678020246092","title":"Ted and Bill Face the Music","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2020,"completedDate":"2020-09-10","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Stoner, wholesome, blockbuster. What a great comedy. Music was mediocre. But the dialogue was hilarious."},{"id":"b1597d24-7d17-495d-8835-5f2bf8043e47","title":"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2023,"runtimeMinutes":100,"directors":["Jeff Rowe"],"actors":["Jackie Chan","Giancarlo Esposito"],"genres":["Animation","Comedy","Action","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2023-10-07","updatedDate":"2023-10-08","notes":"The writing is solid. All the pop culture references and Gen-Z way that the turtles speak works well given TMNT's story.\n\n+ The milking running joke is great.\n+ It's particularly incredible how natural the dialogue is among the TMNT quartet. They really do act like teenagers.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/614930"},{"id":"0c6fece8-4489-4c2b-8ea7-f06707873eeb","title":"Terrifier","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2018,"runtimeMinutes":84,"directors":["Damien Leone"],"actors":["David Howard Thornton","Katie Maguire","Samantha Scaffidi","Jenna Kanell","Catherine Corcoran","Pooya Mohseni"],"genres":["Horror"],"completedDate":"2022-11-02","updatedDate":"2022-11-02","notes":"Great setup and characters. The pacing keeps the story told well along with the various cinematic scenes. The style it's shot in and the kills are all fun.\n\nThe actions by the heroines are rather stupid at times. They get away multiple times with a striking blow but never seal the deal. They hit him on at least 5 different occasions.kk","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/420634"},{"id":"322682678021393996","title":"Tess","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1979,"runtimeMinutes":172,"directors":["Roman Polanski"],"actors":["Nastassja Kinski","Suzanna Hamilton","Arielle Dombasle","John Bett","Peter Firth","Lesley Dunlop"],"genres":["Drama","Romance"],"completedDate":"2014-05-11","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Visibly enchanting, Tess is another best by Polanski. Looming bright landscapes and hardened characters of the setting—Tess is a beautifully crafted film to offer the written narrative a visual alternative. The film forgoes longer narrations as the novel tends to do, and Polanski decides to tell the story by its actions.\n\nThe result is a more omniscient, neutral POV. It would take several minutes just basking in the setting and people's routine actions, such as milking cows or collecting hay. What a perfect way for immersion. I just love it.\n\nThe temptation for the film to go beyond and antipicate false moments is awesome. It goes through sheer striking visuals to encapsulate dark characters such as Durbeyfield.\n\nThe drama to lead Tessa's wedding seem contrived. And oh my god the ending.. It's like Dickens and English people's refusal to have their characters be happy. They would go such lengths as to stir more melodrama at the expense of their poor poor characters and lack of growth.\n\nSide-note about super huge irony: Tess is about rape from a girl's mindset, and at the time of production Polanski was hiding in Europe from US feds because he had raped a 13 year old girl. !!!","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/11121"},{"id":"1e6fa5df-3022-4e3e-9c9b-3bcc3a6b7476","title":"The Addams Family","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1991,"runtimeMinutes":100,"directors":["Barry Sonnenfeld"],"actors":["Christina Ricci","Christopher Lloyd","Anjelica Huston","Raúl Juliá","Dan Hedaya","Carel Struycken","Mercedes McNab","Dana Ivey","Jimmy Workman","Judith Malina"],"genres":["Comedy","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"2022-12-12","updatedDate":"2022-12-13","notes":"Nails a charm and comedy.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/2907"},{"id":"f67e67d0-0791-4ed7-a527-1fdfc5d0d845","title":"The Alpinist","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2021,"runtimeMinutes":93,"directors":["Nick Rosen","Peter Mortimer"],"actors":["Reinhold Messner"],"genres":["Documentary","Adventure"],"completedDate":"2024-04-23","updatedDate":"2024-04-24","notes":"Insanity, more dangerous than Free Solo. Less interesting in terms of the story and camera, largely because Marc Andre is so antisocial.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/682587"},{"id":"322682678021275212","title":"The Babadook","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2014,"runtimeMinutes":94,"directors":["Jennifer Kent"],"actors":["Essie Davis","Noah Wiseman","Hayley McElhinney"],"genres":["Drama","Horror"],"completedDate":"2016-11-17","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/242224"},{"id":"322682678976449100","title":"The Batman","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2022,"runtimeMinutes":177,"directors":["Matt Reeves"],"actors":["Robert Pattinson"],"genres":["Crime","Mystery","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2022-04-25","updatedDate":"2022-04-26","notes":"The grunge is fantastic. It's melodramatic in a good wy. I really like how well-shot the movie is in portraying darkness. It's not a blockbuster in the Nolan style. It's brooding.\n\nDetails I like:\n\n+ The performances are so good. Paul Dano is stellar as is Robert Pattison.\n+ Truly Emo Batman. The eye mascara, the brooding, the casting of Robert Pattinson, the dark stares and sadness, Nirvana. It's not a bad portrayal either.\n+ The sad charisma that Bruce Wayne has and everyone being nice to him, cops and gang members included. Not super realistic but I like the implied emotional atmosphere.\n+ Paul Dano's singing. Damn that's good falsetto.\n+ The sound track and its sound effects slaps.\n\nThe livestreaming and influenced fans is hamfisted, not unlike other scenes in the movie.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/414906"},{"id":"337230033595662927","title":"The Black Phone","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2022,"runtimeMinutes":103,"directors":["Scott Derrickson"],"actors":["Ethan Hawke","Jeremy Davies","Mason Thames","Madeleine McGraw","James Ransone","Michael Banks Repeta","Brady Hepner"],"genres":["Horror","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2022-07-14","updatedDate":"2022-07-15","notes":"Trite characters but solid execution. Finney's growth is solid, and it's particularly nice to see how well all the various ideas from the kids came together to execute the final plan. It also adds that the scene is brutal, alongside an excellent portrayal of a sinister villain from Ethan Hawke. His brooding scenes where he holds the belt is particularly evocative.\n\nThe characters are solid throughout the story, particularly with the sibling bond that holds them together so well, with mystical realism elements. I love that the father is such a complicated figure; he's portrayed surprisingly well given how little screen time he has.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/756999"},{"id":"322682678021420620","title":"The Bridge on the River Kwai","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1957,"runtimeMinutes":162,"directors":["David Lean"],"actors":["Alec Guinness","William Holden","Jack Hawkins"],"genres":["Drama","History","War"],"completedDate":"2014-03-01","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Descriptive of the state of war, but simplistic in its battle of attrition between the British Lieutenant Colonel Nicholson and the Japanese Colonel Saito. For example, there are no display of others save for the Japanese starting to give in despite the insanity of it all. Is the Corporal shown any weakness at all? I say this feels almost entirely chauvinistic. The soldiers never defy the colonel despite his more estranged commands such as sending those from the sick bay to go back to work.\n\nThe storytelling is diegetic and austere, but slightly pompous and plain in its clean structure. Also weirdly masculine in that the women serve disparately subservient roles and behaviors even for the time. The female soldier for example fawning over the main character, or the various villagers for him.\n\nGreat presentation and cinematic score. The pacing is measured. The climax is absolutely fabulous.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/826"},{"id":"b8fd2bbb-79e4-44f4-85af-9d80f605c70a","title":"The Brutalist","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2024,"runtimeMinutes":215,"directors":["Brady Corbet"],"actors":["Adrien Brody","Felicity Jones","Guy Pearce","Joe Alwyn","Raffey Cassidy","Alessandro Nivola","Stacy Martin","Jonathan Hyde","Michael Epp","Isaach de Bankolé"],"genres":["Drama"],"completedDate":"2025-03-19","updatedDate":"2025-03-20","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/549509"},{"id":"322682678021195340","title":"The Conversation","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1974,"runtimeMinutes":115,"directors":["Francis Ford Coppola"],"actors":["Harrison Ford"],"genres":["Crime","Drama","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2017-04-14","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Brimming with class. I love its slow pace, nudging the audience with hints of mystery as a way to give the psychological experience of being followed rather than only routines of the job. Harry is a great case study enshrined in privacy, fully realized with a history slowly unfolded. The teases for a desire of curiosity is great. The reversal in the ending makes for a great thriller.\n\nThe shots are excellent. And the music (particularly the piano scores and saxophone cries) sell the film.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/592"},{"id":"322682678021554764","title":"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2008,"runtimeMinutes":166,"directors":["David Fincher"],"actors":["Brad Pitt"],"genres":["Drama","Fantasy","Romance"],"completedDate":"2010-07-31","updatedDate":"2023-07-03","notes":"Rewatched it on 2023-07-02. It has a Hollywood-esque narrative in charm, drama, and romance. The life tale is wondrous. The early days in the retirement home are the best.\n\n+ The aging CG surprisingly aged well in 2023 (no pun intended).\n+ The almost-perfect benevolence of Queen and Benjamin didn't bother me.\n+ I did find it a little weird how the story never really includes Queenie's children. They would be closest siblings he would have, especially when he came back home after the war.\n+ Ben leaving his child and wife is a little too contrived. Realistically, he only needs to be able-bodied until the child is 18.\n+ The present story timeline is useful as a plot device for the journal point of view and abrupt time shifts. However, it largely feels like filler. I somehow feel the story would be more impactful if it was just the base story, and where time shifts are either treated normally or with scene cards followed by silence and with some bold white font.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/4922"},{"id":"322682678021506636","title":"The Departed","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2006,"runtimeMinutes":151,"directors":["Martin Scorsese"],"actors":["Kevin Corrigan","Matt Damon","Leonardo DiCaprio"],"genres":["Drama","Thriller","Crime"],"completedDate":"2006-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1422"},{"id":"322682678020387404","title":"The Descent","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2005,"runtimeMinutes":100,"directors":["Neil Marshall"],"actors":["MyAnna Buring","Nora-Jane Noone","Shauna Macdonald","Natalie Mendoza","Alex Reid","Saskia Mulder","Molly Kayll"],"genres":["Adventure","Horror"],"completedDate":"2018-08-25","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I loved the claustrophobia. went a bit too zombie crazy and a bit generic. i liked the atmosphere in the beginning more so than just a generic hole of bomes. The revenge scene and a forced affair are unnecessary. The action fight scenes have too many jump cuts.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/9392"},{"id":"322682678020378188","title":"The Devil's Candy","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2016,"runtimeMinutes":80,"directors":["Sean Byrne"],"actors":["Ethan Embry","Leland Orser","Kiara Glasco","Shiri Appleby","Pruitt Taylor Vince","Tony Amendola"],"genres":["Horror","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2018-11-28","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"That's some wonderful atmosphere. Love the mix with metal.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/354216"},{"id":"322682678020164172","title":"The Disaster Artist","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2017,"runtimeMinutes":104,"directors":["James Franco"],"actors":["Jacki Weaver","Josh Hutcherson"],"genres":["Comedy","Drama"],"completedDate":"2021-09-16","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"The comedy is on-point with the drama. I'm pleasantly surprised how human they made Tommy. I think the artistic decision to focus on their friendship worked well even if it wasn't true to real life. There are some iconic lines in this movie not unlike The Room.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/371638"},{"id":"322682678021376588","title":"The Emperor and the Assassin","originalTitle":"荆轲刺秦王","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1998,"runtimeMinutes":162,"directors":["Chen Kaige"],"actors":["Gong Li","Zhou Xun","Chen Kaige"],"genres":["History","Drama"],"completedDate":"2014-12-20","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Outstanding development. Somewhat long and taxing however.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/10387"},{"id":"322682678021560908","title":"The Emperor's New Groove","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2000,"runtimeMinutes":78,"directors":["Mark Dindal"],"actors":["Wendie Malick","John Goodman","Patrick Warburton","Eartha Kitt","David Spade","Mickie McGowan","Kellyann Kelso","Tom Jones","Bob Bergen","Miriam Flynn"],"genres":["Adventure","Animation","Comedy","Family","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"1997-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/11688"},{"id":"322682678020383308","title":"The Face Reader","originalTitle":"관상","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2013,"runtimeMinutes":140,"directors":["Han Jae-rim"],"actors":["Lee Jong-suk","Lee Jung-jae","Song Kang-ho","Kim Eui-sung","Jeong Gyu-su","Kim Hye-soo","Kim Tae-woo","Baek Yoon-sik","Cho Jung-seok"],"genres":["Drama","History"],"completedDate":"2018-10-23","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Oh my god I love Song Kang Ho. He really makes this comedic adventure what it is. When I started, I thought this would be a tragic epic. But the way this is supun is what makes this uniquely an Asian film as a comedy fantasy. It intentionally plays itself off for fun, often resorting to unreasonable antics when it knows it can. A country bumpkins rise story.\n\nAt first I thought the climactic twists were a little much, from blaming the eye loss on the Tiger and then to the reveal that it was the Wolf all along. But in the end, I still really like the film. It really pushed the bad ending very well!","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/220176"},{"id":"322682678020205132","title":"The Favourite","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2018,"runtimeMinutes":120,"directors":["Yorgos Lanthimos"],"actors":["Emma Stone"],"genres":["History","Comedy","Drama"],"completedDate":"2021-03-28","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Remarkably similar to Barry Lyndon, which I adore. Brilliant costumes and tapestry, comedic elements, the rise from poverty to brilliance to decadence. I also enjoy the differences: for example, the less singular focus on the girl Abigail and larger light on both her victim (Queen Anne) and the prior party Sarah Churchill. I find Abigail's character development to be less focused, and unfortunately to make a lot of the scenes in her transitions less impactful.\n\nPretty how whimsical power is based on an autocrat.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/375262"},{"id":"1d7b1e3f-7e58-4289-96ea-4c04d1e2e646","title":"The Fifth Element","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1997,"runtimeMinutes":126,"directors":["Luc Besson"],"actors":["Gary Oldman","Bruce Willis"],"genres":["Science Fiction","Action","Adventure"],"completedDate":"2024-03-17","updatedDate":"2024-03-17","notes":"Campy, funny, and so unique in its various ideas in aesthetic and scifi culture. This setting effectively serves as a backdrop to an otherwise fairly standard 'save the world' affair with a mystery girl, retired soldier everydayman, and cosmic and corporate villains. The overall conventional story is done well, largely benefiting from its comedy and unique setting.\n\nDetails I like:\n\n+ Chris Tucker is emblematic of Fifth Element's campy and funny vibe.\n+ All the details in its setting: fashion, various planets, various races. The stellar costume design by Jean Paul Gautier and production design by comic artists French bandes dessinées artists show.\n+ The otherworldly opera performance.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/18"},{"id":"322682678020211276","title":"The Fly","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1986,"runtimeMinutes":96,"directors":["David Cronenberg"],"actors":["Jeff Goldblum","Geena Davis","Joy Boushel","David Cronenberg"],"genres":["Horror","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2021-03-25","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"For a Cronenberg film, I'm surprised how standard the story is in tropes but polished in its presentation. It especially is a master of body horror.\n\nScifi-wise, I find it funny that the computer took an unknown input and decided to roll with it instead of raising an error (type checking) or at the least a warning. That's the result of bad software design! :)","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/9426"},{"id":"322682678021329484","title":"The French Connection","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1971,"runtimeMinutes":104,"directors":["William Friedkin"],"actors":["Gene Hackman","Roy Scheider","Frédéric de Pasquale"],"genres":["Action","Crime","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2015-08-06","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Incredible car chase. The rest can be suffered through. It's like the boring foreplay necessary to get the fun of it all. The search is also excellent and so is the ending. The characters and actual storyline is pretty forgiveable because the scenes shot are done so excellently.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1051"},{"id":"322812284261892687","title":"The French Dispatch","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2021,"runtimeMinutes":108,"directors":["Wes Anderson"],"actors":["Timothée Chalamet","Adrien Brody","Owen Wilson","Willem Dafoe","Bill Murray","Léa Seydoux","Benicio del Toro","Frances McDormand","Jeffrey Wright","Saoirse Ronan"],"genres":["Comedy","Drama","Romance"],"updatedDate":"2022-02-06","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/542178"},{"id":"322682678020265548","title":"The Gentlemen","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2020,"runtimeMinutes":113,"directors":["Guy Ritchie"],"actors":["Matthew McConaughey"],"genres":["Action","Comedy","Crime"],"completedDate":"2020-04-09","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"The ensemble cast with A-listers are all excellent in their own way. The whole scene with Charlie Hunnam at a council estate is hilarious. Hugh Grant and Colin Farrell both shine in every scene. I'm impressed not only by the film's pacing but also its ability to assimilate so many different gruops. It's like a mob film but hilarious. The meta aspect at the end of the film is hilarious.\n\nSome of the Asian comedy felt really dull though. The license/ricense joke, the Phuc name joke, and the Chinaman slur.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/522627"},{"id":"322682678020183628","title":"The Gift","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2015,"runtimeMinutes":108,"directors":["Joel Edgerton"],"actors":["Rebecca Hall","Jason Bateman","Joel Edgerton","Beau Knapp","David Denman","Allison Tolman","Susan May Pratt","Wendell Pierce","Busy Philipps","Adam Lazarre-White"],"genres":["Thriller","Mystery","Drama"],"completedDate":"2021-06-27","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Never have I seen a film where I so desperately want the villain to win. And how much I hate Jason Bateman. I love the overall pacing in how it turns you on the protagonists.\n\nFaults:\n\n+ The ending is corny with the motif of poisoning people with ideas, and with Jason Bateman one-sidedly being such a bully in showing his colors (bullying Gordo drunkenly, promoting at the cost of firing a guy to the point that he would throw rocks at his house's windows, being so adamantly against Gordo). \n+ The actor doesn't portray social anxiety and awkwardness very well. It's like how you would expect a socially apt Hollyowod actor to portray awkwardness.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/328425"},{"id":"322682678021342796","title":"The Grand Budapest Hotel","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2014,"runtimeMinutes":100,"directors":["Wes Anderson"],"actors":["Willem Dafoe","Ralph Fiennes","Owen Wilson","Adrien Brody","Jeff Goldblum","Edward Norton","Harvey Keitel","Bill Murray","Léa Seydoux","Tilda Swinton"],"genres":["Comedy","Drama"],"completedDate":"2015-02-21","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Great storytelling with its eccentric charm.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/120467"},{"id":"322682678021258828","title":"The Handmaiden","originalTitle":"아가씨","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2016,"runtimeMinutes":145,"directors":["Park Chan-wook"],"actors":["Kim Tae-ri","Lee Dong-hwi","Kim Min-hee","Moon So-ri","Kim Hae-sook","Cho Jin-woong","Ha Jung-woo","Jeong Ha-dam","Lee Yong-nyeo"],"genres":["Thriller","Drama","Romance"],"completedDate":"2017-01-21","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I loved the cinematography, and especially the mix of horrors and pleasures throughout the narrative. The plot twist was great at first; the second one was a little too much to be honest. The basement is amazing and not overplayed. The Japanese, Korean, and western elements have a surreal mix—there is no better example in the film than the mansion.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/290098"},{"id":"322682678021239372","title":"The Host","originalTitle":"괴물","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2006,"runtimeMinutes":120,"directors":["Bong Joon Ho"],"actors":["Kim Roi-ha","Bae Doo-na","Oh Dal-su","Park Hae-il","Song Kang-ho","Ra Mi-ran","Park Jin-woo","Yoon Je-moon","Go Ah-sung","Lee Jae-eung"],"genres":["Horror","Drama","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2017-03-09","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Now that's an excellent Hollywood style movie if I ever saw one. Humor, drama, dumb witty political teases and absurd events, suspense. The absurdism is so great—I literally laughed out loud in my apartment many times throughout the film.\n\nThe whole theme of family, especially bonded through communion, is really touching here. The cinematics and pallette is excellent.\n\nI love that they are not drawing back any punches. They're willing to kill off characters as the story untangles. It draws at superficial Hollywood elements in capturing everything, but really goes deeper in its themes. The lobotomy is horrifying. The terrible policing element brought in by international relations dominating opinions in Korea is prevalent. Communion as a motif is excellent. A quote I like from Letterboxd (https://letterboxd.com/film/the-host/):\n\n'man do US writers/directors need to take a look at the styles of Asian directors like Bong Joon-ho, Park Chan-wook, Tsui Hark, Sion Sono and the like, directors who can take ridiculous premises such as genderbending rebels, Catholic vampires, panty snapping ninjas and virus carrying monsters and infuse their characters with a level of seriousness so the stakes are not only believable, but devastating when things don't work in the favor of our heroes - also, unlike Hollywood films, in Asian cinema, things almost never work out 100% for our heroes.'","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1255"},{"id":"322682678020307532","title":"The House That Jack Built","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2018,"runtimeMinutes":152,"directors":["Lars von Trier"],"actors":["Uma Thurman","Yoo Ji-tae","Adolf Hitler","Riley Keough","Matt Dillon","Ed Speleers","Sofie Gråbøl","Jeremy Davies","David Bailie","Johannes Bah Kuhnke"],"genres":["Drama","Horror","Crime","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2019-07-05","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Fascinating in-depth tale of the inner workings of an obsessive compulsive---if not overly tropy---serial killer. I like how the film desensitized us to the deaths, and I find it funny how I found the animal cruelty shots far more wincing than I was of watching humans. Maybe it's because media dramatizes humans death so much already. It felt interesting just how it made murder almost routine, and which especially seemed reasonable given the other circumstances in the world such as deaths in hen houses, factories, the trophy parades, taxidermy. His approaches to humans via common practices of other animals raises public concern that I find useful. The surrealism in the ending is great, but I feel like it dabbles almost too much in philosophy that it detracts from the character and story. It's almost as if Lars von Trier simply uses the storytelling to provide a very explicit detailing of his philosophy.\n\nAs usual, psychopaths are interesting because they raise the usual questions: purposes of emotions and empathy; social cues. Decomposition of life. It seems unusually hipster though: clearly pulling from Lars von Trier's passions without an inkling of an explanation to why the serial killer just happense to like what a typical film director would: Glenn Gould, photography, art as the pinnacle of life, desert wine.\n\nThe transitions with the signs are great. So is Glenn Gould. And the narrator.\n\nI love the lamppost illustration.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/398173"},{"id":"322682678021542476","title":"The Incredibles","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2004,"runtimeMinutes":115,"directors":["Brad Bird"],"actors":["Samuel L. Jackson"],"genres":["Action","Adventure","Animation","Family"],"completedDate":"2003-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/9806"},{"id":"d05616ef-1604-4da2-9b43-aa052919344a","title":"The Killer","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2023,"runtimeMinutes":118,"directors":["David Fincher"],"actors":["Michael Fassbender"],"genres":["Crime","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2023-11-25","updatedDate":"2023-11-26","notes":"Nothing mindblowing. Just a solid thriller.\n\n+ The Killer's strive for perfection, and the various mistakes and his reactions to them, are great.\n+ The use of modern pleasantries is funny. Amazon, Google Maps. Working in a Wework space. McDonald's for protein.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/800158"},{"id":"a8e6433e-ab96-4f53-b646-4c1930c7826f","title":"The King","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2019,"runtimeMinutes":140,"directors":["David Michôd"],"actors":["Robert Pattinson"],"genres":["Drama","History","War"],"completedDate":"2024-06-03","updatedDate":"2024-06-03","notes":"+ Solid story. Characters are grounded well. It has just enough of political intrigue and motivation behind the various events.\n+ Historical inaccuracies. Basically a movie to treat as fiction.\n+ Timothee Chalamet as King Henry. Robert Pattinson as the Dauphin. Lol what an ironic casting.\n\nDiscovered it from this YT video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_YKnVyUJgQ. Didn't actually watch the video as I thought the plot and shooting was interesting. So I stopped the video midway and decided to watch the movie.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/504949"},{"id":"326541597283975759","title":"The Magic Flute","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2003,"completedDate":"2022-03-19","updatedDate":"2022-03-20","notes":"I watched the 2003 Royal Opera House production starring Diana Dimrau. I found Dimrau's performance enchanting as I saw clips of it, with her dramatic nature more immersive than other performances. It took finding an obscure torrent to watch it with subtitles, and where the files are in DVD (BUP, IFO, VOB) format so I watched on VLC player.\n\nThe song performances are all stunning, especially whenever Queen of the Night appears. The story itself to provide context between the songs is not particularly interesting. It's fairly trite and with weird contrivances such as Tamino not able to speak so Pamina takes it as if he doesn't love her anymore; love at first sight.\n\nUnfortunately, finding good Operas online is hard: it has to have been recorded, is accessible online, and has English subtitles. This is a shame because even if you follow the libretto English translation, you lose a lot of nuance from the line-by-line translations as the libretto can really only give you the paraphase of what a person is emoting at a given time."},{"id":"322682678021332556","title":"The Man Who Wasn't There","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2001,"runtimeMinutes":116,"directors":["Joel Coen","Ethan Coen"],"actors":["Scarlett Johansson"],"genres":["Crime","Drama"],"completedDate":"2015-06-16","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Great story, if a trying pace at times and mediocre supporting cast.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/10778"},{"id":"322682678020462156","title":"The Martian","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2015,"runtimeMinutes":141,"directors":["Ridley Scott"],"actors":["Matt Damon"],"genres":["Science Fiction","Drama","Adventure"],"completedDate":"2017-08-22","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I really enjoyed it as a outer-planetary Man vs Wild in drama and Survivorman in (mostly) authenticity. The survival challenges and solutions presented are all intriguing: from the initial presentation of the challenge to shimmying water by extracting hydrogen through rocket fuel and ; growing cops through manure, potatoes, and much more. The classic revisit to the Pathfinder. Hexadecimals. I love the realism in communication. First, NASA finds out throw sattelite photos; second, they can only receive most fine-grained through the Pathfinder and send via turning its head; which then allows them to communicate via the Rover. And the physiological changes to Matt Damon; wow. I also enjoyed the intentially bad jokes.\n\nAs a film, it lacks well-developed characters, a deeper story both in plot and world-building politics, and audiovisual atmosphere. But in terms of diversity in casting and well-played characters, they got everyone from a female captain, Kapoor as a head in NASA, a Chinese man heading JPL, and the only romance being between minor characters and appearing in 3 scenes with minimal words and at most a total airtime of 30 seconds. Even the head of NASA—the most villainy in the film—makes reasonable actions in the long term pursuit of space travel development.\n\nI like the overall goody feely nature of the film, inspiring confidence and enthusiasm in the general populace for further space travel and funding in NASA-type programs. Fiction is great that way in that it lets us think just a bit long term and how we might approach such future challenges for mankind. While there are criticisms with some of its technical accuracy and grade-school level thumbs up to science, it never delves into futuristic solutions as they are all capable in 2015; as physicist Brian Cox watching the film put it, \"The Martian is the best advert for a career in engineering I've ever seen\". Overall it's about presenting science as hard, real work and not magic. The whole film is about engineers, scientists, and the occasional higher-up politician talk.\n\nMinor complaint: That scene when Donald Glover complains about the alignment between Earth and Mars being a bad time to launch now, and then suddenly SPARK! a genius idea is so annoying. C'mon, at least stick to realism in the storytelling and genius portrayals and not just survival mechanics. The drama to get at him the end was a little much too.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/286217"},{"id":"322682678021390924","title":"The Master","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2012,"runtimeMinutes":137,"directors":["Paul Thomas Anderson"],"actors":["Jesse Plemons","Amy Adams","Rami Malek","Joaquin Phoenix","Fiona Dourif","Philip Seymour Hoffman","Kevin J. O'Connor","Melora Walters","Ambyr Childers","Madisen Beaty"],"genres":["Drama"],"completedDate":"2014-05-25","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"What an amazing portrayal of deep suffering. I love the subtle dynamics between the Master and Freddy especially. Their foil pairing is simply outstanding with the way they reinforce each other's character so well—Lust, self-control, pondering life, everything. One technique of Anderson's I admire is to portray a significant action by one person, for example Freddy relapsing into violence and assaulting the Master's publisher, and then to portray a comparable action by the other person, in this case the Master flying in outburst against a woman asking him questions about inconsistent teachings.\n\nJoacquin Pheonix is particularly phenomenal in this film, with a constant shifty and awkward stupor. I also love how Peggy is always in the shadows and subverts the major \"Master\" relationship.\n\nMy only major complaint is that the film lasts too long in its (purposefully) stagnant pace. The point could better be expressed in maybe 20 or so less minutes.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/68722"},{"id":"48f94ebd-8bce-4c08-9cd3-4497a70166a5","title":"The Odyssey","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2026,"runtimeMinutes":173,"directors":["Christopher Nolan"],"actors":["Tom Holland","Anne Hathaway","Zendaya","Jon Bernthal","Robert Pattinson","Matt Damon","Charlize Theron","Elliot Page"],"genres":["Adventure","Action","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"2026-08-14","updatedDate":"2026-08-15","notes":"Too streamlined. Its grand failure is that it did not feel like an epic. It feel rushed with a flurry of the main beats. No standout characters or understanding of growth.\n\nScenes I enjoyed:\n+ The best scene is the cyclops. Most screentime spent to it, shows one of the iconic attributes of cunning, mythical elements. Still not perfect, could have spent even more time.\n+ Talking to the dead.\n+ Bow twing.\n\nMixed opinions:\n+ The too contemporary fashion forwardedness of the war uniforms. Especially Agamemnon.\n\nPortrayal of gods is a missed opportunity, could have appeared more. Also inconsistent with abstractions for Poseidon, Zeus; but not Athena. And little use for Athena.\n\nVery little is memorable about this movie thinking years later. The most is perhaps the monster designs.\n\nA-list actors felt too out of the world with their own iconic connotations to be placed as these characters who are themselves so iconic.\n\nSeveral scenes felt too out of place: especially the scene between Odysseus' son and mom where they shout at each other about something feminism related.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1368337"},{"id":"322682678021555788","title":"The Phantom of the Opera","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2004,"runtimeMinutes":141,"directors":["Joel Schumacher"],"actors":["Patrick Wilson","Ciarán Hinds","Simon Callow","Gerard Butler","Miranda Richardson","Minnie Driver","Emmy Rossum","Chris Jarvis","Sebastien Torkia","James Fleet"],"genres":["Thriller","Drama","Romance"],"completedDate":"2006-05-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/9833"},{"id":"322682678021552716","title":"The Pianist","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2002,"runtimeMinutes":150,"directors":["Roman Polanski"],"actors":["Adrien Brody","Thomas Kretschmann","Emilia Fox","Andrew Tiernan","Katarzyna Figura","Morgane Polanski","Richard Ridings","Michal Zebrowski","Valentine Pelka"],"genres":["Drama","War"],"completedDate":"2009-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/423"},{"id":"322682678021531212","title":"The Prestige","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2006,"runtimeMinutes":130,"directors":["Christopher Nolan"],"actors":["Scarlett Johansson"],"genres":["Drama","Mystery","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2006-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Still my favorite Nolan film, and certainly my favorite role for MC actor in Nolan films. Nolan makes for excellent plots/mysteries and plot twists. Really edgy and shit, and I love it despite only decent character progression and values.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1124"},{"id":"322682678021557836","title":"The Pursuit of Happyness","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2006,"runtimeMinutes":117,"directors":["Gabriele Muccino"],"actors":["Will Smith","Jaden Smith","Dan Castellaneta","Thandiwe Newton","George Cheung","Kurt Fuller"],"genres":["Drama"],"completedDate":"2005-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1402"},{"id":"322682678020362828","title":"The Quiet Family","originalTitle":"조용한 가족","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1998,"runtimeMinutes":101,"directors":["Kim Jee-woon"],"actors":["Song Kang-ho","Lee Ki-young","Jung Jae-young","Choi Min-sik","Jung Woong-in","Na Moon-hee","Choi Cheol-ho"],"genres":["Horror","Comedy","Crime"],"completedDate":"2018-01-06","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Song Kang Ho and Choi Min-sik pre-stardom. Kim Jee Woon's directorial debut. This is a sight to see. I love the offkilter Korean comedy, mixed with quirky, authentic characters and an plot that unravels in surrealism. Choi Min-sik chasing after a couple while in ragged clothes, a gaity posture, and holding a spatula and saw in both hands (39:18). I also love the family conversation about this. \"Digging is becoming a job now. Now everyon'e s ap or. It took us several hours to bury the first one. But today, Young-min only took 30 minutes to dig a hole. It was like a custom-tailored hole for the body.\" And now they're praising it. I love that at the end of all the moribidity, and the hints, it turns out that there was nothing wrong to begin with: no hauntings, just unfortunate coincidences.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/74336"},{"id":"322682678021336652","title":"The Royal Tenenbaums","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2001,"runtimeMinutes":110,"directors":["Wes Anderson"],"actors":["Owen Wilson","Bill Murray","Danny Glover","Alec Baldwin","Gene Hackman","Wes Anderson","Luke Wilson","Ben Stiller","Anjelica Huston","Gwyneth Paltrow"],"genres":["Comedy","Drama"],"completedDate":"2015-03-11","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Love the framing and colors. The story is average.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/9428"},{"id":"322682678021471820","title":"The Silence of the Lambs","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1991,"runtimeMinutes":119,"directors":["Jonathan Demme"],"actors":["Ted Levine","Scott Glenn","Anthony Hopkins","Frankie Faison","Jodie Foster","Brooke Smith","Diane Baker","Chris Isaak","Ted Monte","Brent Hinkley"],"genres":["Crime","Thriller","Drama"],"completedDate":"2013-11-22","updatedDate":"2023-08-06","notes":"Well ain't that some nice atmosphere and a cute Moriarty. Clarice on the other hand is a little boring given her stock archetype; so is the setting, and anything else save for the occasional behavioral study dialogue on the serial killers which reinforce the impact of their actions. Honestly however Silence of the Lamb is not very exciting given so much I've seen from previous serial killer works and Sherlock/Moriarty figures. The pace goes back and forth between a study on Lecter and one on the case at large, which is a ambitious allocation of time given just how lame Buffalo Bill's side is. He's so poorly clarified and contrasted drastically by Hopkin's stupendous performance as Lecter, that much of the thrill regarding this main story is thrown out the door. Hannibal escaping from confinment is the climax, not Foster killing Buffalo Bill.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/274"},{"id":"322682678021514828","title":"The Sound of Music","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1965,"runtimeMinutes":174,"directors":["Robert Wise"],"actors":["Julie Andrews","Nicholas Hammond","Charmian Carr","Christopher Plummer","Kym Karath","Eleanor Parker","Angela Cartwright"],"genres":["Drama","Family","Music","Romance"],"completedDate":"2000-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/15121"},{"id":"322682678020213324","title":"The Thing","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1982,"runtimeMinutes":109,"directors":["John Carpenter"],"actors":["Adrienne Barbeau","Kurt Russell","Keith David","John Carpenter","Richard Masur","Charles Hallahan","Donald Moffat","David Clennon","Wilford Brimley"],"genres":["Horror","Mystery","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2021-03-20","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1091"},{"id":"322682678975459916","title":"The Tragedy of Macbeth","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2021,"runtimeMinutes":105,"directors":["Joel Coen"],"actors":["Denzel Washington"],"genres":["Drama"],"completedDate":"2022-02-04","updatedDate":"2022-02-05","notes":"It's an interesting choice: an emphasis on wording with minimal set pieces inspired by play acting and black and white. Tries to appeal to the more raw Shakespeare sensibilities. Cinematography with lighting is excellent.\n\nThis is an intensive movie. As it's real-time, it's very hard to understand the script unless you parse the text carefully or are recently familiar with the scenes beforehand. It's due to a combination of archaic English and poetry. I felt scenes were much more enjoyable to watch after rewatching them as certain lines are too dense. I had to pay a significant amount of attention at each line to make sure I understood its intent.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/591538"},{"id":"322682678020198988","title":"The Trial of the Chicago Seven","originalTitle":"The Trial of the Chicago 7","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2020,"runtimeMinutes":130,"directors":["Aaron Sorkin"],"actors":["Alice Kremelberg","Michael Keaton","Joseph Gordon-Levitt","Eddie Redmayne","Yahya Abdul-Mateen II","Caitlin Fitzgerald","Jeremy Strong","Mark Rylance","Kelvin Harrison Jr.","Ben Shenkman"],"genres":["Drama","History"],"completedDate":"2021-06-01","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Actually a very engaging law procedural. The characters and overall storytelling are all great. You can tell from Aaron Sorkin's snappy dialogue and the brilliant performances. Sacha Baron Cohen is a surprisingly good actor!\n\nI agree with others that the ending is Disney-esque hamfisted. I completely agree this viewpoint about Aaron Sorkin also omitting the [Vietnamese names.](https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/lvudoi/trial_of_chicago_7s_ending_is_so_disappointing/gpeevox)","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/556984"},{"id":"322682678021269068","title":"The Twilight Samurai","originalTitle":"たそがれ清兵衛","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2002,"runtimeMinutes":129,"directors":["Yoji Yamada"],"actors":["Hiroyuki Sanada","Rie Miyazawa","Ren Osugi","Min Tanaka","Miki Ito"],"genres":["Drama","Romance"],"completedDate":"2016-11-25","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Jesus. Protagonist's edge level is really something. The girl of his dreams wants her but he thinks he's not good enough. I can really see where the submissiveness of Japanese men takes off. A real Mary sue with modern ideals, that one. I like the generic analysis of a hearty family placed in a rigid and traditional system. I, however, prefer another analysis: that angst and lack of ambition brought their doom more than anything. A protagonist who is so deeply concerned about others that his thoughts consume him with inaction, even when opportunities such as marriage and happiness are present to him from one word: Yes.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/12496"},{"id":"322682678021218892","title":"The Wailing","originalTitle":"곡성","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2016,"runtimeMinutes":156,"directors":["Na Hong-jin"],"actors":["Jeon Bae-soo"],"genres":["Horror","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2017-03-29","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Excellent mix of suspense/thriller and police procedural mystery---alongside strong cinematography and Korean black comedy quips. Wasn't sure where the story was going. I like how Asian cinema can often devolve in story genres, and here it's also the case. First, the police procedural is a big part of the storyline, and then afterwards they never appear again. Unlike other Korean/Japanese thrillers, the suspects were difficult to follow making the story somewhat convoluted just because of the story structure. I can see why the directory tried to convey the difficulty of discrening a good truth from an evil lie, but the plot itself was hard to follow and not just the deeds from which one must make a decision. For example, the young lady turning out to be a shaman, but giving all sorts of cryptic hints that would naturally lead Jong-Goo to suspect her: she wears the victims' clothes, and gives a weird reason why he sinned.\n\nLike all Korean thrillers I like that it mixes well with comedy and stupid characters lacking in education. For example, the friend policeman not immediately reporting out that he old man is likely the killer. Usually they would just arrest him at that moment and collect the evidence. But the batshit craziness of it all throws all rationale from the man's head.\n\nI like the motifs of photographs and foreshadowing of events, especially with how it all connected to together (e.g., the early dream sequences). And I like the subtle references to Christian allegories, such as the woman casting stones at the sinless man, or the locusts thrown at the shaman.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/293670"},{"id":"1321e575-3b03-496b-aad6-84db32573620","title":"The Whale","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2022,"runtimeMinutes":117,"directors":["Darren Aronofsky"],"actors":["Sadie Sink"],"genres":["Drama"],"completedDate":"2023-03-18","updatedDate":"2023-03-18","notes":"The story is rather by the backs for a oscar bait drama. The ending and resolution is especially soppy. Solid characters, story, and acting though.\n\nI think the obesity in certain details is depicted well. His positive mentality and clear foresight seems a little too separate from his obesity. I feel like there should've been a closer tie to shut-in syndrome and the like.\n\nIn retrospect, upon reading that this was originally a play, this makes a lot of sense. So that's why the melodrama and various character enter/exits appear so often in the single location.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/785084"},{"id":"f78cbf89-dffa-441e-8550-8ebe50b144c9","title":"The Wild Robot","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2024,"runtimeMinutes":102,"directors":["Chris Sanders"],"actors":["Pedro Pascal"],"genres":["Family","Animation","Science Fiction","Adventure"],"completedDate":"2024-09-27","updatedDate":"2024-09-30","notes":"One of the best animations in an animated movie I’ve see . Some shots were just incredible and only lasted a few seconds.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1184918"},{"id":"322682678020154956","title":"The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2021,"runtimeMinutes":83,"directors":["Han Kwang-il"],"actors":["Mary McDonnell","Theo James","Lara Pulver","Dee Bradley Baker","Graham McTavish","Nolan North","Fred Tatasciore","Kari Wahlgren","Jennie Kwan"],"genres":["Animation","Action","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"2021-10-29","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Surprisingly great storytelling. It clearly benefits from the excellent worldbuilding from the Witcher series. It even captures the core themes behind the Witcher such as its dirty gray morals. Good animation as well.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/666243"},{"id":"322682678021544524","title":"The Wizard of Oz","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1939,"runtimeMinutes":102,"directors":["Victor Fleming"],"actors":["Judy Garland","Adriana Caselotti","Margaret Hamilton","Ray Bolger","Clara Blandick"],"genres":["Adventure","Fantasy","Family"],"completedDate":"1997-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/630"},{"id":"7cf4a51a-54f9-4dd3-b992-f3c355a20b99","title":"The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2023,"runtimeMinutes":39,"directors":["Wes Anderson"],"actors":["Ralph Fiennes","Ben Kingsley","Benedict Cumberbatch","Richard Ayoade","Dev Patel","Jarvis Cocker"],"genres":["Fantasy","Adventure","Drama"],"completedDate":"2023-12-01","updatedDate":"2023-12-02","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/923939"},{"id":"322682678021261900","title":"the world of kanako","originalTitle":"渇き。","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2014,"runtimeMinutes":118,"directors":["Tetsuya Nakashima"],"actors":["Nana Komatsu","Jun Kunimura","Ai Hashimoto","Mahiro Takasugi","Fumi Nikaido","Miki Nakatani","Hiroya Shimizu","Aoi Morikawa","Satoshi Tsumabuki","Asuka Kurosawa"],"genres":["Mystery","Crime","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2016-12-13","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Love the mix of shoujo with gritty humanness. And the corny 70s music and black humor. Shocked me that they would kill Ogata 2.0. And that the protagonist is shown killing and raping people.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/251981"},{"id":"322682678021227084","title":"Thirst","originalTitle":"박쥐","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2016,"runtimeMinutes":87,"directors":["Greg Kiefer"],"actors":["Jes Macallan"],"genres":["Action","Thriller","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2017-03-17","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Brisk yet decent setup; love the cinematics and sound. Song Kang Ho is astounding as always, and Kim Ok-bin plays the depraved role perfectly. The film is simplistic and pays tribute to archetypes, but it services its main ideas well. I like its mix of genres, of drama, passion, and horror. This is one of the fewer violent-based horror films that I enjoy, because it blends it well with purpose (in this case, sex and sins).","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/409366"},{"id":"339556571254096465","title":"Thirteen Lives","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2022,"runtimeMinutes":147,"directors":["Ron Howard"],"actors":["Viggo Mortensen","Tom Bateman","Colin Farrell","Joel Edgerton","Teeradon Supapunpinyo","Sahajak Boonthanakit","Sukollawat Kanarot","Vithaya Pansringarm"],"genres":["Drama","Thriller","History"],"completedDate":"2022-08-09","updatedDate":"2022-08-09","notes":"Surprisingly well-told. The technical challenges are one strength. The story is also paced well and displays pretty well the massive amount of collaboration involved.\n\nI watched it on Sodapoppin's stream.\n\nTense moments:\n\n+ The claustrophobia, particularly at the narrow tunnels where they have to remove their scuba tank to cross.\n+ The gauntness of the Thai boys, where they don't eat for over 10 days. The coach teaches them meditation in order for them to survive so long.\n+ Death of Saman Guran.\n+ The anesthetic applied that balances between respiratory failure and waking up in the middle of 5 hour swim. They also tie the boys' hands and feet together.\n+ The tense moments where the Thai boys might wake up.\n\nMisc:\n+ While the film tries to stray away from the white savior moment at times (at least according to press), it's still quite the white savior in who actually brings out the boys, and the focus of movie stars on the British cave divers.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/698948"},{"id":"1770c360-4f08-4e09-bbcd-8b228e8b1605","title":"Titane","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2021,"runtimeMinutes":108,"directors":["Julia Ducournau"],"genres":["Drama","Thriller","Horror"],"completedDate":"2025-04-25","updatedDate":"2025-05-01","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/630240"},{"id":"322682678021312076","title":"Together","originalTitle":"和你在一起","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2002,"runtimeMinutes":90,"directors":["Nikole Beckwith"],"actors":["Evan Jonigkeit","Ed Helms","Nora Dunn","Sufe Bradshaw","Fred Melamed","Rosalind Chao","May Calamawy","Ithamar Enriquez"],"genres":["Comedy"],"completedDate":"2016-04-23","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/776515"},{"id":"322682678021497420","title":"True Grit","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2010,"runtimeMinutes":110,"directors":["Ethan Coen","Joel Coen"],"actors":["Matt Damon","J.K. Simmons"],"genres":["Drama","Adventure","Western"],"completedDate":"2010-09-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/44264"},{"id":"322682678020316748","title":"Unbreakable","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2000,"runtimeMinutes":106,"directors":["M. Night Shyamalan"],"actors":["Samuel L. Jackson","Bruce Willis"],"genres":["Thriller","Drama","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2019-06-01","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Now this is what a superhero film is like at the hands of creative freedom. I love the dark realism in its depiction of superheroness. Some parts do feel implausible plot-wise to make one skeptical of it all however, pulling one out of the immersion. For example, they realized that the protagonist could lift basically any weight, even up to 700 lb when he had never even done 500 lb before. Clearly they can test more in that angle in terms of limits without going so extreme as to test whether he can die from a gunshot.. That said, I love how it flounders in the audience really knowing for sure.\n\nThe canonical storyline. But its dark execution with both the hero and the villain. It strives not only in its pacing but in its deep dives into the two characters.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/9741"},{"id":"322682678021428812","title":"Vertigo","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1958,"runtimeMinutes":128,"directors":["Alfred Hitchcock"],"actors":["James Stewart"],"genres":["Mystery","Romance","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2014-02-26","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Plot hole! If she was really Carlotta, then how does she still retain muscle memory like knowing how to drive? Moreover, how does she as Carlotta still know where all the places are when driving there? Surely she could not recognize any of this without looking it up as too much has changed.\n\nStory itself is also quite simplistic, but cool Hitchcock plot twists I guess.\n\nThe film score is a little overbearing, and far too self-conscious and flamboyant for the film. Cinematography at the least is very very good.\n\nGreat acting and characters and especially the insanity that the MC reaches. Awesome second plot twist at the end and a fucking scary ass nun sillhouette. Still corny overall though, and Midge is the best character!","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/426"},{"id":"322682678020210252","title":"Videodrome","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1983,"runtimeMinutes":88,"directors":["David Cronenberg"],"actors":["James Woods","Jayne Eastwood","Debbie Harry","David Cronenberg"],"genres":["Horror","Science Fiction","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2021-03-26","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I like the standard horror narrative baked with surrealism. It works pretty well, noting sex with violence and using video technology as the motif.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/837"},{"id":"322682678021567052","title":"Wall Street","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1987,"runtimeMinutes":126,"directors":["Oliver Stone"],"actors":["James Spader","Paul Guilfoyle","Sean Young","John C. McGinley","Daryl Hannah","Terence Stamp","Michael Douglas","Anna Levine","Martin Sheen","Oliver Stone"],"genres":["Crime","Drama"],"completedDate":"2013-11-09","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Occasionally cheesy with Art of War quotes. Not that it's really unexpected given the low cuilture that financial analysts bask in their literature.\n\nSame goes with parlor trick quotes, and the cheesiest fabicrated dialogue. Some really awkward acting with Sheen trying to deceive others. I'm not sure whether to attribute that to Sheen's own lacluster acting or the fictional character's.\n\nExcllent command of morality, human superiority, and the reckoning of greed.\n\nAlso the need to localize to one person's problems.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/10673"},{"id":"322682678021465676","title":"When Harry Met Sally...","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1989,"runtimeMinutes":96,"directors":["Rob Reiner"],"actors":["Meg Ryan","Carrie Fisher","Billy Crystal","Michelle Nicastro"],"genres":["Comedy","Romance","Drama"],"completedDate":"2013-11-26","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"\"You made a woman meow??\"\n\nOh god, how have I not seen this before? The romance is simply adorable, the dialogue so cheeky, the atmosphere so blaise. There are so many priceless scenes I can imagine myself quoting this film's script for the rest of my life.\n\nThere are some really cheesy generalizations with \"men\" and \"women\" but I love the film's cheesiness so much I'm willing to look past its dummy side. It's pretty shallow in characterization and inconsistent as hell; Sally being an uptight lady suddenly having the nads to fake an orgasm in the middle of a restaurant? But god dammnit, it's so good at what it does.\n\nEverything about When Harry Met Sally is just so perfect. The pace is golden, and those cute little breaks with an elderly couple telling how they first met is simply endearing. No romance deserves a happy ending so much as this. I know I'll be cherishing this film forever.\n\nFor posterity, a more critical opinion I agree with but am so so much more willing to let its faults fly:\nhttp://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1989-07-21/lifestyle/8907203048_1_woody-allen-harry-met-met-sally","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/639"},{"id":"322682678021333580","title":"Whiplash","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2015,"runtimeMinutes":45,"genres":["Documentary"],"completedDate":"2015-05-13","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Great soundtrack, amazing visuals and choreography. The story is very bare and the characters left unremarkable.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/355450"},{"id":"322682678020159052","title":"Wicker Man","originalTitle":"The Wicker Man","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":1973,"runtimeMinutes":93,"directors":["Robin Hardy"],"actors":["Britt Ekland","Christopher Lee","Ingrid Pitt"],"genres":["Horror"],"completedDate":"2021-10-12","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"The worldbuilding with its culture and imagery is iconic. The twists in the story itself has some interesting twists but is farely standard.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/16307"},{"id":"322682678020308556","title":"Widows","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2018,"runtimeMinutes":129,"directors":["Steve McQueen"],"actors":["Jacki Weaver","Jon Bernthal","Liam Neeson"],"genres":["Drama","Crime","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2019-06-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Great at drama. Great at the random politics bullshit and gang war. Great at character development. Great at the execution. Loved the diversity of the four women.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/401469"},{"id":"322682678020237900","title":"Wind River","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2017,"runtimeMinutes":107,"directors":["Taylor Sheridan"],"actors":["Jon Bernthal"],"genres":["Crime","Mystery","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2020-11-26","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"The intensity is excellent in all those high-octane scenes. Great undertreated topic. I like its focus on the victim's suffering, the the lacking bureaucracy with lacking indian reserve policing and the officialness required for FBI intervention, the brutal living conditions in Indian reservations, and the focus on tracking over typical police procedure. It's all a cause of a litany of poor circumstances: poverty, drugs, weather conditions, communal property with true title to land ownership and well-equipped police jurisdiction. Also, Elizabeth Olsen.\n\nFor a film aiming to bring light to the plight of Native Americans, the duo white protagonists is a strange casting choice.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/395834"},{"id":"123fa1f7-7a3b-433a-8003-a2bbd721af02","title":"Woman of the Hour","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2024,"runtimeMinutes":95,"directors":["Anna Kendrick"],"actors":["Anna Kendrick","Max Lloyd-Jones","Matt Visser","Daniel Zovatto","Darcy Laurie","Tony Hale","Dylan Schmid","Matthew Kevin Anderson","Jedidiah Goodacre","Kathryn Gallagher"],"genres":["Crime","Drama","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2024-10-20","updatedDate":"2024-10-21","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/835113"},{"id":"322682678021197388","title":"Yī Yī","originalTitle":"一一","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2000,"runtimeMinutes":174,"directors":["Edward Yang"],"actors":["Kenjiro Tsuda","Jonathan Chang","Edward Yang","Shu-shen Hsiao","Wang Chi-tsan"],"genres":["Drama"],"completedDate":"2017-04-13","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I think this film most succeeds in capturing how humans try to understand their state of being, and their overall purpose in serving out their lives. It portrays it through an ensemble from a family unit, with a young boy, a teenage daughter, and the father. Each has varying levels of interaction with others, where some are more open, openly wailing and asking much help from others, while others take it all within themselves. As with life, the film is awash in sorrow, bits of dry humor, and happiness.\n\nI love the subtle characterizations, such as Yang-Yang seeing the girl swimming and then him dumping his head in a sink full of water to try to experience it. 'You can't see it for yourself, so I help you.' Holy cow that's subtle. I love how that connects to their previous conversation about only seeing half a truth.\n\nI enjoy the various intermezzos with music. It must be Edward Yang's style.\n\nThe cinematography is mostly subtle and serves to reinforce the narrative. Few moments it stands out in excellence, such as mirror shots and a backdrop of lightning (01:25:40). Distant shots during remorse.\n\nOta stands as a good contrast. Not only is he physically a foreigner to the film (he is Japanese in a Taiwanese setting) but is he completely relaxed and understanding of his place in life. This stands as a clear role model to NJ, disatisfied with his work and juggling familial duties.\n\nI like the use of time, from marriage to death to newborns.\n\nThank you random blogger for summarizing the film (http://frogurtalsocursed.blogspot.com/2008/05/yi-yi-summary.html). The subtleties made it difficult for me to follow the plot sometimes.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/25538"},{"id":"322682678020197964","title":"You Were Never Really There","status":"Completed","score":7,"releaseYear":2019,"directors":["Disney"],"completedDate":"2021-06-03","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"The movie depicts his anxiety and loneliness really well. The sparse script works wonders as is the sparse action. It's all about Joe's angst, which Joaquin Phoenix portrays so well. The preparation and aftermath of violence is always shown, as are past childhood memories.\n\nIt's unfortunately the very superficial story that doesn't elevate the movie. The character could have done anything else to show his angst other than a prototypical script."},{"id":"322682678021459532","title":"(500) Days of Summer","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2009,"runtimeMinutes":95,"directors":["Marc Webb"],"actors":["Joseph Gordon-Levitt"],"genres":["Comedy","Drama","Romance"],"completedDate":"2013-11-27","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Some great lines once in a while; otherwise piling cliches on cliches, 500 Days of Summer is exactly what you would expect from a work adored by young stereotype-adoring troglodytes. The film's dumb generic conversation makes for realistic conversation, but it's also extremely boring and unfit for filming because they wave their arms around with the most mundane and generic beliefs: love at first sight, falling in love from such few commonalities, conflicts spurring from commitment issues which in turn stem from divorces, etc. Neither does having some wise young little sister or generic two best friends make for cute humor.\n\nThe characters are as shallow as their concept of love (or perhaps more harshly, as shallow as Deschanel's beauty and bland, snarky drolling tone). sheer pandering with her. At least Gordon-Levitt's clumsy pickup lines make for a riot at times. His cloyingness is believable (and expected), but it's also not very interesting to watch because it's hardly founded upon.\n\nUnlike When Harry Met Sally, 500 Days of Summer lacks its excellent atmosphere coupled by all the small things such as the charismatic yet relatable Billy Crystal, the adorably pampered Meg Ryan, the cute little intermissions, the amazingly quotable dialogue, the list goes on. This is what distinguishes the film and makes the comedy so priceless. I admire 500 Days of Summer's pace and use of past, present, and future time lapses just as with When Harry Met Sally, but the chemistry between Deschanel and Gordon-Levitt is stale, likely a result of Deschanel's poorer acting (\"This is fun... you're funny~~\" welp). Given that this is the primary focus in 500 Days of Summer, it is only natural then that the story is simply not very great. Still love the bittersweet ending though, however lost it gets in its melodrama.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/19913"},{"id":"330270792014103105","title":"[REC]","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2007,"runtimeMinutes":78,"directors":["Jaume Balagueró","Paco Plaza"],"actors":["Manuela Velasco","Javier Botet"],"genres":["Horror","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2022-04-29","updatedDate":"2022-04-29","notes":"Not what was I expecting when I watched it but it was decent. It's a found footage zombie movie with a decent pacing. The plot revealing requires suspending your disbelief.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/8329"},{"id":"322682678021629516","title":"13 Assassins","originalTitle":"十三人の刺客","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2010,"runtimeMinutes":141,"directors":["Takashi Miike"],"actors":["Masataka Kubota","Takayuki Yamada","Megumi Kagurazaka","Yusuke Iseya","Ken Mitsuishi","Seiyo Uchino","Mitsuki Tanimura","Arata Furuta","Ittoku Kishibe","Kazue Fukiishi"],"genres":["Adventure","Drama","Action"],"completedDate":"2012-02-29","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/58857"},{"id":"322682678020280908","title":"1917","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2019,"runtimeMinutes":119,"directors":["Sam Mendes"],"actors":["Benedict Cumberbatch","Richard Madden","George MacKay","Mark Strong","Andrew Scott","Nabhaan Rizwan","Dean-Charles Chapman","Colin Firth","Claire Duburcq","Adrian Scarborough"],"genres":["War","Drama","History"],"completedDate":"2020-02-09","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Gripping but standard fanfare with war films. Not my cup of tea.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/530915"},{"id":"322682678020364876","title":"1987: When the Day Comes","originalTitle":"1987","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2017,"runtimeMinutes":129,"directors":["Jang Joon-hwan"],"actors":["Kim Tae-ri","Oh Dal-su","Park Hee-soon","Park Kyung-hye","Yeo Jin-goo","Kim Eui-sung","Sol Kyung-gu","Moon So-ri","Lee Hee-jun","Yoo Hae-jin"],"genres":["Drama","History","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2019-01-02","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Pacing is great. Love the different perspectives. Kim Yoon-seok who plays Commissioner Park Cheo-won shows a deep vengeance and character. He clearly has his own motives, in taking care of his own and fighting against commies despite any injustice. It was not righteousness or justice that serves the student protest torture but a last strike in avalanching for middle class protesting for more rights. It's dramatized a bit.. to much at ties (e.g., the confrontation at 1:10:00 when the own Commissioner has a gun to someone's head to threaten him).\n\nThe switch to the unnamed college girl seems unnecessary. I can see why they tried to go for multiple perspectives.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/437103"},{"id":"322682678021364300","title":"2046","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2004,"runtimeMinutes":128,"directors":["Wong Kar-Wai"],"actors":["Gong Li","Tony Leung Chiu-wai","Carina Lau","Zhang Ziyi","Maggie Cheung","Takuya Kimura","Chang Chen","Dong Jie","Faye Wong"],"genres":["Drama","Science Fiction","Romance"],"completedDate":"2014-12-28","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Strange and a little curious as to the point of the sci-fi element. Also him as a lady's man is offputting not because of his actions but because it strikes as off from the character we perceived in previous films.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/844"},{"id":"322682678020385356","title":"8 Mile","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2002,"runtimeMinutes":111,"directors":["Curtis Hanson"],"actors":["Anthony Mackie","Evan Jones","Michael Shannon","Kim Basinger","Brittany Murphy","Eugene Byrd","Omar Benson Miller","Xzibit","Eminem","Mekhi Phifer"],"genres":["Drama","Music"],"completedDate":"2018-09-16","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I appreciate all the character-building and the actual defocus on rapping. But it also makes you wonder just where he gets his skill. It's as if rapping comes purely from life experience. And whereas I can see that pervade deeper themes and content, and get to the roots of much anguish in hip=hop culture. It also doesn't really show much and makes it seem like rap is a much less honed art than other mediums which require years of studying and practicing.\n\nI do like the combination of denial, dream-focused individuals who tend to restaurants, construction, and/or are simply unemployed and waiting on settlement checks. I love the betrayal in his love life. Making enemies with his friends and crew. The machissimo pride of indpendence, drug, sex. It's still rather idealistic in its underdog story, pushing for revenge against all other odds throuhg a simple rap battle. As if one could achieve carthasis.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/65"},{"id":"322682678021510732","title":"A Beautiful Mind","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2001,"runtimeMinutes":135,"directors":["Ron Howard"],"actors":["Jennifer Connelly"],"genres":["Drama","Romance"],"completedDate":"2008-09-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/453"},{"id":"322682678020216396","title":"A Cure for Wellness","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2017,"runtimeMinutes":146,"directors":["Gore Verbinski"],"actors":["Jason Isaacs"],"genres":["Horror","Mystery","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2021-03-14","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I like the horror motifs: water, eels, teeth, and cleanliness. They distinguish the film from others in the standard mental asylum trope. Story-wise, the lead makes some stupid decisions. Like running away followed by trying to notify local authorities (additional people you can't trust), or the second time when he realizes his cast was fake all along and going further to try to uncover the truth instead of running away again. The story drags around and just lacks in really going anywhere. The end reveal suffers from so many plot holes: why the lead doctor somehow has survived not only the villager persecution but lasted for 200 years; how the patients get brainwashed by getting eels shoved down their throat; why the staff was masturbating when they're all supposedly in on it.\n\nMia Goth is hot with her iconic face structure and lack of eyebrows.. She definitely carries the film.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/340837"},{"id":"bfb6e054-7c32-4ede-9dee-4b25be8f6314","title":"A Dark Song","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2016,"runtimeMinutes":100,"directors":["Liam Gavin"],"actors":["Mark Huberman","Catherine Walker","Steve Oram"],"genres":["Horror","Fantasy","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2024-05-21","updatedDate":"2024-05-22","notes":"Too slow, uneventful, and didn't progress to anything scary. I watched it due to spontaneous planning with a date, Krystal. It was not a good movie for a date, though it was slow enough for us to just make out the whole movie lol.\n\nSaw it recommended here:\n\n+ https://www.reddit.com/r/horror/comments/1cnvqym/what_is_the_best_horror_movie_reddit_recommended","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/409297"},{"id":"77ed5070-3592-4d3f-ba7c-0e989a42b3bb","title":"A Quiet Place: Day One","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2024,"runtimeMinutes":100,"directors":["Michael Sarnoski"],"actors":["Djimon Hounsou","Alex Wolff","Joseph Quinn","Lupita Nyong'o"],"genres":["Horror","Science Fiction","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2024-06-27","updatedDate":"2024-08-22","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/762441"},{"id":"322682678020467276","title":"A Tale of Two Sisters","originalTitle":"장화, 홍련","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2003,"runtimeMinutes":115,"directors":["Kim Jee-woon"],"actors":["Im Soo-jung","Yum Jung-ah","Moon Geun-young","Lee Dae-yeon","Park Mi-hyeon"],"genres":["Drama","Horror","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2017-08-19","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Eery premise, mystery in understanding the characters, mysteries with the family Edgar Allen Poe-style, classic horror elements trickling in as the plot develops. In particular as shifts in antanogists and keeps it ambiguous from the stepmother to the house to the sister.\n\nThe slow development can feel lethargic, especially at the beginning. Hate the jump scares, especially with the audio jumps, which is most of the film. And there isn't much payoff in the various reveals. It plays out like a weird mix of family drama and horror. Far too many twists particularly at the end: Sooyeon isn't real, the stepmother isn't either, but the ghost is real!\n\nThe actresses in this film are beautiful and portray a lurking instability very well.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/4552"},{"id":"322682678020476492","title":"Age of Shadows","originalTitle":"밀정","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2016,"runtimeMinutes":140,"directors":["Kim Jee-woon"],"actors":["Gong Yoo","Lee Byung-hun","Han Ji-min","Park Hee-soon","Song Kang-ho","Um Tae-goo","Choi Yu-hwa","Shingo Tsurumi","Heo Sung-tae","Han Soo-yeon"],"genres":["Action","Thriller","History"],"completedDate":"2017-08-10","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I thought the different plays at information and various characters were all interesting. I'm kind of disappointed at its lack of strong character-building. Also something overall about it feels a little underwhelming, while I did enjoy it. Another lacking aspect could be the lack of detail in the resistance vs Japanese government. Another is the lack of symbols, where the fake vs true sculpture could have lasted longer.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/363579"},{"id":"322682678021350988","title":"Ai no mukidashi","originalTitle":" 愛のむきだし","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2008,"runtimeMinutes":237,"directors":["Sion Sono"],"actors":["Go Ayano","Mayu Matsuoka","Rika Kawamura","Sakura Ando","Motoki Fukami","Yoriko Douguchi"],"genres":["Comedy","Drama","Romance"],"completedDate":"2015-02-09","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Awkwardly enjoyable. It's hilarious in the campy way but also incredibly trying, redundant, and yet also a bit satisfactory.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/28422"},{"id":"322682678021619276","title":"Aladdin","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1992,"runtimeMinutes":91,"directors":["Ron Clements","John Musker"],"actors":["Robin Williams","Debi Derryberry","Gilbert Gottfried","Jim Cummings","Frank Welker","Mickie McGowan","Lea Salonga","Scott Weinger"],"genres":["Animation","Family","Adventure","Fantasy","Romance"],"completedDate":"1996-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/812"},{"id":"322682678021272140","title":"Alice in Wonderland","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2010,"runtimeMinutes":108,"directors":["Tim Burton"],"actors":["Anne Hathaway"],"genres":["Family","Fantasy","Adventure"],"completedDate":"2016-11-19","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/12155"},{"id":"322682678021398092","title":"Alien","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1979,"runtimeMinutes":117,"directors":["Ridley Scott"],"actors":["Sigourney Weaver"],"genres":["Horror","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2014-04-10","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Well-produced suspense.\n\nNot much scifi as much as just a setting for a slasher/thriller.\n\nA bit improbable in several plot events, for example, even the premise of just less than a dozen maintaining such a large ship is something only in science fiction.\n\nThe android plot twist was pretty much out of nowhere.\n\nThe thrill given by the pacing and atmosphere is strong, but the plot and characters themselves plain and unengaging.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/348"},{"id":"322682678020452940","title":"Aliens","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1986,"runtimeMinutes":137,"directors":["James Cameron"],"actors":["Sigourney Weaver"],"genres":["Action","Thriller","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2017-09-17","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"How boring that Ridley is literally the only sane, rational person in the mess and that everoyne else is either (a) military fodder for action and deaths; (b) stereotypical corporate man that represents all evil oof mankind (namely, greed) only emphasizing this; (c) a child to play off innocence. Interesting uses of technology and setting; not totally sure how innovative it is with respect to its time in the history of storytelling. For example, augmented mecha for carrying docks, sentry guns, terraformers.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/679"},{"id":"73c22988-b617-47c4-a527-c7d7f04114a5","title":"Anna Karenina","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2012,"runtimeMinutes":129,"directors":["Joe Wright"],"actors":["Emily Watson","Bill Skarsgård"],"genres":["Drama","Romance","History"],"completedDate":"2024-12-02","updatedDate":"2024-12-03","notes":"Beautifully shot. Clearly very precisely written for its themes. Not a big fan.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/96724"},{"id":"322682678020341324","title":"Annihilation","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2018,"runtimeMinutes":115,"directors":["Alex Garland"],"actors":["Oscar Isaac","Benedict Wong","Jennifer Jason Leigh","Tuva Novotny","Tessa Thompson","Natalie Portman","Sonoya Mizuno","Gina Rodriguez","David Gyasi"],"genres":["Science Fiction","Horror"],"completedDate":"2019-03-15","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Fun bestiary and unraveling of the mystery. Fairly dumb in science, but I do like that its horror thrills at least try to be based on a bit more science than your standard ghost story. The shimmer humanoid was amazing. Body horror overall is spot-on. I thought the bear scene was a little sleepy---I'm confident I've seen that idea before (can't pinpoint from where), and it was a little silly that it had to wait for a reaction in order to kill.. Also typical in some horror tropes. I think it would have been better if it didn't end with conclusions about aliens and the refaction unifying everything Evangelion-style; would be better more ambiguous.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/300668"},{"id":"6861ba1c-fdcc-47de-b80b-9b752f7d29de","title":"Army of Darkness","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1992,"runtimeMinutes":81,"directors":["Sam Raimi"],"actors":["Bill Moseley","Bruce Campbell","Angela Featherstone","Embeth Davidtz","Sam Raimi","Bridget Fonda","Patricia Tallman","Ian Abercrombie","Ted Raimi","Bruce Thomas"],"genres":["Fantasy","Horror","Comedy"],"completedDate":"2023-09-13","updatedDate":"2023-09-14","notes":"The iconic B horror movie. Hilarious, cheesy, some great cinematic moments.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/766"},{"id":"322682678020320844","title":"As Tears Go By","originalTitle":"旺角卡門","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1988,"runtimeMinutes":98,"directors":["Wong Kar-Wai"],"actors":["Maggie Cheung","Andy Lau","Jacky Cheung","Alex Man"],"genres":["Drama","Crime","Romance"],"completedDate":"2019-05-21","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Too melodramatic for me. The conflicts also scream too much generic bad-boy protecting his younger innocent and stupider boys.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/24163"},{"id":"322682678020331084","title":"Atomic Blonde","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2017,"runtimeMinutes":115,"directors":["David Leitch"],"actors":["Bill Skarsgård","Charlize Theron"],"genres":["Action","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2019-03-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Everything I was expecting for an action flick: overly stylish camera shots and editing; 80s Berlin music; sex appeal. The fights are a lot dirtier than I thought. Liked it, and may have been the only lasting impression of the film. Plot kind of unravels unfortunately. Double and triple agents..","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/341013"},{"id":"322682678022405708","title":"Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1997,"runtimeMinutes":89,"directors":["Jay Roach"],"actors":["Mike Myers"],"genres":["Comedy","Crime"],"completedDate":"2001-12-31","updatedDate":"2023-08-16","notes":"Rewatched in 2023-08-16. Instantly funny and quotable. Ages well.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/816"},{"id":"322682678020229708","title":"Autopsy of Jane Doe","originalTitle":"The Autopsy of Jane Doe","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2016,"runtimeMinutes":86,"directors":["André Øvredal"],"actors":["Brian Cox","Emile Hirsch","Ophelia Lovibond","Olwen Catherine Kelly","Michael McElhatton"],"genres":["Horror","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2020-12-16","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Surprisingly more character-oriented on the corners than I had expected. I like the overall mystery. I especially liked the setup and mystery-building. However, it too often uses horror jumpscares as a crutch, as a simple tease to the audience even if inconsequential. It's weird that the game is effectively a histakes autopsy where they search for the cause of death. Then the climactic scenes of the film becomes too cheap as a fast-paced survival horror.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/397243"},{"id":"322682678020296268","title":"Avengers: Endgame","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2019,"runtimeMinutes":181,"directors":["Joe Russo","Anthony Russo"],"actors":["Tom Holland","Scarlett Johansson","Zoe Saldaña","Robert Downey Jr.","Bradley Cooper","Samuel L. Jackson","Vin Diesel","Chris Hemsworth"],"genres":["Adventure","Science Fiction","Action"],"completedDate":"2019-12-07","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I thought it was good overall. Weird diversity cards but probably good for the overall industry. And overly cheesy without much that can be more experimental given the size of this blockbuster.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/299534"},{"id":"322682678020415052","title":"Avengers: Infinity War","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2018,"runtimeMinutes":149,"directors":["Anthony Russo","Joe Russo"],"actors":["Tom Holland","Scarlett Johansson","Zoe Saldaña","Robert Downey Jr.","Kenneth Branagh","Bradley Cooper","Samuel L. Jackson","Vin Diesel","Chris Hemsworth"],"genres":["Adventure","Action","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2018-04-28","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Ambitious, and a bit of a mess with every super star trying to have a say. Lots jam-packed into the film that it's mindboggingly dense and too epic. I liked the ambition though, and that they gave more character to Thanos.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/299536"},{"id":"322682678020369996","title":"Bad Times at the El Royale","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2018,"runtimeMinutes":141,"directors":["Drew Goddard"],"actors":["Chris Hemsworth"],"genres":["Thriller","Mystery","Crime","Drama"],"completedDate":"2018-12-27","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I love the storytelling---from the setup with mystery characters to individual character portryals. It's polished style.  What makes you excited to see more the constant character reversals and unraveling of the mystery. Reminds me of vintage noir films in the storytelling more than the actual setting, which is a pointer to film direction done well. I can't quite figure out its related inspirations. And There Were None (1939), Murder on the Orient Express (1934), Hateful Eight (2015), Barton Fink (1991).\n\nThe pedophilia in this is funny.\n\nIt's interesting that the sex fanservice is actually a male (Chris Hemsworth) intead of females: numerous body shots.\n\nThe mid-to-end pacing is lacking. I swear Denise singing and affecting others in her soull has happened at least three times. The drama with the soldier and ending is too much for a stylish mystery film. The cultish standoff would have gone better if it included the original interesting mystery of how the FBI got involved via John Hamm's character.\n\nAgainst my surprise, there was no serial killer trope! I also certainly didn't expect the two who surived to be the ones who made it out.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/446021"},{"id":"322682678021572172","title":"Battlestar Galactica: The Plan","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2009,"runtimeMinutes":112,"directors":["Edward James Olmos"],"actors":["Tricia Helfer","Lucy Lawless","Katee Sackhoff","Leah Cairns","Grace Park","Lymari Nadal","Kandyse McClure","Kate Vernon","Dean Stockwell","Edward James Olmos"],"genres":["Science Fiction","Action","Drama"],"completedDate":"2011-09-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/105077"},{"id":"ec567023-0c03-4ec6-bb5e-bd7a453e656b","title":"Beau Is Afraid","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2023,"runtimeMinutes":179,"directors":["Ari Aster"],"actors":["Bill Hader","Richard Kind","Parker Posey","Amy Ryan","Joaquin Phoenix","Zoe Lister-Jones","Nathan Lane","Kylie Rogers","Denis Ménochet","Patti LuPone"],"genres":["Comedy","Adventure","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"2024-04-27","updatedDate":"2024-04-28","notes":"Weird ass movie, too slow and abstract for my tastes. And not horrifying in the way I want it to be. I dropped it after 45 minutes.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/798286"},{"id":"322682678020459084","title":"Bedevilled","originalTitle":"김복남 살인사건의 전말","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2010,"runtimeMinutes":117,"directors":["Jang Cheol-soo"],"actors":["Hwang Geum-hee","Seo Young-hee","Jo Deok-jae","Bae Sung-woo","Park Jeong-hak"],"genres":["Thriller","Crime","Drama","Horror"],"completedDate":"2017-08-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"What a great setup. A really nice portrayal of an imperfect world with abuse and a woman distrustful of others and simply trying to get by through her own efforts. Honestly the main part of the film features brutal scenes after brutal scenes with everyone out against them. This had a very gnawing injustice, but I also can't help but roll my eyes with how blatantly designed this seems to be: an island remote from any communication beyond a boat and a single telephone on the island; protagonist and victim being woman; even the daughter being killed and raped; the victim raped ever since she was little. That said, I can see a lot of this actually being true with impoverished small communities really ganing up against outcasts like this.\n\nI don't understand what the protagonist is there for aside from being a shining light for the victim. Honestly I feel she's portrayed just like Korean films portray cops: completely incompetent and selfish. To even betray her best friend, it goes to levels of disgust I can't even fathom or emphathize with any longer. She's one of the most evil villains in the film: society.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/59421"},{"id":"3e42915c-b99e-42bd-ac2a-7a0c8f9bbc08","title":"Beetlejuice","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1988,"runtimeMinutes":92,"directors":["Tim Burton"],"actors":["Tony Cox","Michael Keaton","Alec Baldwin","Winona Ryder","Catherine O'Hara","Geena Davis","Maree Cheatham","Jeffrey Jones","Glenn Shadix","Robert Goulet"],"genres":["Fantasy","Comedy"],"completedDate":"2024-10-17","updatedDate":"2024-11-26","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/4011"},{"id":"322682678020155980","title":"Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2006,"runtimeMinutes":92,"directors":["Scott Glosserman"],"actors":["Angela Goethals","Kate Miner","Robert Englund","Zelda Rubinstein"],"genres":["Comedy","Horror","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2021-10-28","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/10961"},{"id":"322682678021341772","title":"Birdman","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2014,"runtimeMinutes":120,"directors":["Alejandro González Iñárritu"],"actors":["Emma Stone","Edward Norton","Michael Keaton","Lindsay Duncan","Zach Galifianakis","Amy Ryan","Andrea Riseborough","Naomi Watts","Merritt Wever","Bill Camp"],"genres":["Drama","Comedy"],"completedDate":"2015-02-21","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Obviously defined objectives and villains. Strangely Hollywood even in its metastance against it. It's too blatant and lacking in subtlety.As far as the editing goes, I love the continous take.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/194662"},{"id":"b5648ec6-ea30-4eeb-bbb0-123a3370b8bd","title":"Black Dog","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2024,"runtimeMinutes":6,"directors":["Alex Anderson"],"genres":["Horror"],"completedDate":"2025-04-29","updatedDate":"2025-08-04","notes":"Too slow for me. Great character development and world though.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1485372"},{"id":"322682678021529164","title":"Black Swan","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2010,"runtimeMinutes":108,"directors":["Darren Aronofsky"],"actors":["Sebastian Stan","Mila Kunis","Vincent Cassel","Winona Ryder","Natalie Portman","Barbara Hershey","Janet Montgomery","Toby Hemingway","Ksenia Solo","Mark Margolis"],"genres":["Drama","Thriller","Horror"],"completedDate":"2010-08-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/44214"},{"id":"322682678020367948","title":"Blade of the Immortal","originalTitle":"無限の住人","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2017,"runtimeMinutes":140,"directors":["Takashi Miike"],"actors":["Chiaki Kuriyama","Erika Toda","Takuya Kimura","Sota Fukushi","Hana Sugisaki","Shinnosuke Mitsushima","Takashi Kitadai","Kazuki Kitamura","Min Tanaka","Wataru Ichinose"],"genres":["Action","Fantasy","Adventure","Drama"],"completedDate":"2018-12-29","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"The gorey scenes and shots are clearly Takashi Miike. I love it. And the narrative is great--I think except for pacing it's done even better than the manga. The line-by-line boss fights reminds me of Katanagatari more than Blade of the Immortal. I love the character designs. It really does the zaniness of their characters good service. Just like Takashi Miike's Ichi the Killer. I like how structureless the narrative is at times with Manji ignoring people and betraying all except her. Both the lead actor and actress are excellent. The massive fight scene with the crowd at 1:55 is just a clusterfuck of stormtrooper effect. Not fun at all. I was worried just watching Rin and seeing the implausibility of no one going after her. For a high-budget film, it still as its campy B-rated death scenes and gore that makes it Takashi Miike. At the end it just unraveled.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/426284"},{"id":"322682678020405836","title":"Blue Ruin","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2014,"runtimeMinutes":90,"directors":["Jeremy Saulnier"],"actors":["Eve Plumb"],"genres":["Crime","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2018-06-27","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Too slow. I liked the Green Room more. But I definitely like the vengeance and brutal violence theme prevalent in this director's works. It's like some Korean directors such as Park Chan-wook and Kim Jee-woon.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/188166"},{"id":"322682678020434508","title":"Bluebeard","originalTitle":"해빙","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2017,"runtimeMinutes":117,"directors":["Lee Soo-youn"],"actors":["Kim Joo-ryoung","Yoon Se-ah","Lee Chung-ah","Kim Dae-myung","Cho Jin-woong","Yoon Da-kyung"],"genres":["Thriller"],"completedDate":"2017-11-25","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I love how the interactions keep lingering. The doctor tries to walk away, but the butcher keeps pulling in with small talk or sticking around when social cues keep pointing to him not being wanted. I love the probing questions and all the subtle jabs: the old man describing how to hide body parts, Filipino wife with the term 'ran away' and then a sudden correction, the gifts of food and jabs at human diaphragm vs tripe. The unreliable narrator approach is great, with dream sequences, individual character dialogues which might be imaginary. The way the story drifts at the latter half is a little stale and predictable, losing much of its edge. It could also have ended a lot earlier rathern than spend more and more time explaining the obvious. The final final reveal with the butchers also being serial killers and the girl still stealing is a little overkill; not really necessary to play the card of _both_ sides being killers. I guess the final takeaway was the the protagonist killed the woman he borrowed from; the butchers killed the ex-wife.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/435809"},{"id":"322682678020192844","title":"Bo Burnham: Inside","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2021,"runtimeMinutes":87,"directors":["Bo Burnham"],"actors":["Bo Burnham"],"genres":["Comedy"],"completedDate":"2021-06-07","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Some banger songs. Admirable production for a mostly solo production---I'm envious of his instagram photos. I like the introspective nature and taking advantage of the visual and editing elements closer to a film than a stand-up. The lack of transitions, mostly focus on a discrete set of songs, feels jarring---not in the alienation way that the special does well, but just in the awkward way.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/823754"},{"id":"a16cecb1-e893-4fc4-9f45-cd7f332565a8","title":"Bodies Bodies Bodies","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2022,"runtimeMinutes":94,"directors":["Halina Reijn"],"actors":["Lee Pace","Amandla Stenberg","Pete Davidson","Rachel Sennott"],"genres":["Comedy","Mystery","Horror"],"completedDate":"2023-10-01","updatedDate":"2023-10-02","notes":"A24 Among Us. The writing is silly with how everyone turns on everyone to the point that they even try to kill one another and then ally with each other again. The characterization tries to get serious when the movie is more fun with its action/horror sequences.\n\nThe ending redeemed the movie slightly. lol.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/520023"},{"id":"322682678020353612","title":"Bohemian Rhapsody","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2018,"runtimeMinutes":135,"directors":["Bryan Singer"],"actors":["Mike Myers"],"genres":["Music","Drama"],"completedDate":"2018-02-07","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Freddie Mercury. What a larger-than-life character. I love him: his flamboyant personality, gaudy fashion, sexuality. The actor does him really really well. The gestures with his stage persona are spot on in particular. As a biopic, it's fairly conservative. The film follows the standard formula of rise, anguish, and contemplation as a character who overcame challenges. The sexuality piece is done naively and with the nervous hands as expected for a blockbuster. The whole Bohemian Rhapsody is played as if they already knew who iconic it would be. That's a little unfortunate that it does touch on more complexities, from other albums that aren't just highlights to the deviants and bands that influence Queen.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/424694"},{"id":"322682678020402764","title":"Bone Tomahawk","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2015,"runtimeMinutes":133,"directors":["S. Craig Zahler"],"actors":["Patrick Wilson","Lili Simmons","Evan Jonigkeit","Sean Young","Kurt Russell","Matthew Fox","Zahn McClarnon","Sid Haig","David Midthunder","Jay Tavare"],"genres":["Drama","Horror","Western"],"completedDate":"2018-06-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I'm enjoying the witty dialogue and funny banter lingo. It's like the Minnesota accents and stereotypes from Frago.\n\n35:00. That's an amazing stage-portraited situation! Stage left. Stage left. Dialogue. Stage left. Dialogue. I love how the director fixes the camera to keep so still you recognize things like this. The witty humor is certainly like that.\n\nI swear I saw a movie before with invincible black-tinned savage indians and also a lone cowboy roaming through the lands by himself. Maybe it was The Revenant. Maybe it was Hateful Eight. I loved the perfunctory gory scene with the guy's scalp skinned off, then a dagger to pin it to the back of this throat, and then a complete vertical to smash his junk down to split him in half.\n\nStrangely noneventful. Brutal pacing for a 2 hour film recording a terribly long journey. The bloody introduction wasn't necessary as it could have just skipped to the guy burying his goods. The Mexican encounter seemed unnecessary.\n\n\"You can tell the director is a writer since there's way too much dialog and he doesn't really do anything interesting with the camera.\" https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/3qsdqt/official_discussion_bone_tomahawk_spoilers/?sort=top\n\nHah! Yes.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/294963"},{"id":"322682678021401164","title":"Bonnie and Clyde","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1967,"runtimeMinutes":111,"directors":["Arthur Penn"],"actors":["Gene Hackman","Faye Dunaway","Dub Taylor","Denver Pyle","Warren Beatty"],"genres":["Crime","Drama"],"completedDate":"2014-04-09","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Lacking development but very well told story.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/475"},{"id":"322682678020401740","title":"Brawl in Cell Block 99","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2017,"runtimeMinutes":132,"directors":["S. Craig Zahler"],"actors":["Marc Blucas"],"genres":["Action","Crime","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2018-06-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Trite beginning, with a very Mary Sue like beginning. It was only nice in its depiction and slow pacing, with a very quiet somber portrayal.\n\nFuck that's slow and brutal burn. Zahler really improved his directing skills since Bone Tomahawk. This one's strength is in the slow burn—which you seen indeed in Bone Tomahawk—but crucially doesn't have to rely on witty dialogue to keep it entertaining. The overall plot remains stale though—just enough to keep the film rolling and me intrigued but not enough to have me amazed. Like Bone Tomahawk I love the especially brutal scenes. Here: a skull smash and drag, then a total chin removal by stepping on someone, then a complete reveral in someone's knee cap.\n\nOh wow. I hadn't realized until reading comments after the film that the guy he was assigned to kill never existed. It was just a ruse to get the drug boss to have revenge on him. And also that the drug boss just paid his way for the visit and isn't actually in the cell. That explains why he's equipped with a cell phone and luxuries. I actually sort of wished it's the opposite, that he did have the real option but just never executed it. But maybe it goes against a subtle, running theme in the whole film that he never had a choice and that it's been forced to him one step at a time.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/398175"},{"id":"322682678021454412","title":"Breakfast at Tiffany's","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1961,"runtimeMinutes":115,"directors":["Blake Edwards"],"actors":["Audrey Hepburn","George Peppard","Patricia Neal","Beverly Powers","Martin Balsam","Richard Wyler","Joan Staley"],"genres":["Comedy","Romance","Drama"],"completedDate":"2013-11-29","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I love the subtle humor engrained in every one of the actions.\n\nThe Manhattan socialite Holly is obnoxious to the point of drawing out every one of her vowels and being exhaustingly clingy--pretty iconic of the standard bitch of the time. I mean, what the hell? You cheer yourself up by going to Tiffany's?? What kind of materialistic whore are you..? The actress at least plays the role marvelously. The male of the relationship Paul is far more down to earth and adds a splendid dynamic toward the zanier high-strung attitudes of upper class New York. He's a character more built-up and less questionable given the premise of the story. Love the Cracker Jack ring despite its cliche end and I like the end message about happiness transcending cheap thrills, although the movie set up so much promoting the very opposite (its cultural significance does so too).\n\nNot sure how I feel about that blatantly racist Japanese stereotype. That really hurts :\n\nThe saturated lighted during the drama/romance is irksome.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/164"},{"id":"322682678020321868","title":"Bright Future","originalTitle":"アカルイミライ","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2003,"runtimeMinutes":115,"directors":["Kiyoshi Kurosawa"],"actors":["Tadanobu Asano","Tatsuya Fuji","Kenichi Matsuyama"],"genres":["Drama","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2019-05-21","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Too stagnant in pacing. The vision of the film often floundered.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/26886"},{"id":"322682678020271692","title":"Bruno","status":"Completed","score":6,"runtimeMinutes":96,"directors":["Carlos Carrera"],"actors":["Marina de Tavira","Mercedes Hernández"],"genres":["Animation","Adventure","Family"],"completedDate":"2020-03-11","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Some great scenes. A lot more low brow comedy. THe reactions to his shock answers are the best parts in this film.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/265339"},{"id":"f4e0a5e6-5fbb-4245-81af-51235e38d5ae","title":"Bugonia","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2025,"runtimeMinutes":119,"directors":["Yorgos Lanthimos"],"actors":["Emma Stone"],"genres":["Science Fiction","Thriller","Comedy"],"completedDate":"2026-03-21","updatedDate":"2026-03-22","notes":"I just watched a movie about kidnapping and torturing a woman, from a mentally ill man. Reminds me of Martyrs. Not that enjoyable or intellectually there.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/701387"},{"id":"3c59e2c6-dc38-4f80-87e0-847d8a08fe5c","title":"Bullet Train","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2022,"runtimeMinutes":126,"directors":["David Leitch"],"actors":["Sandra Bullock","Brad Pitt","Ryan Reynolds","Joey King"],"genres":["Action","Comedy","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2023-02-20","updatedDate":"2023-02-20","notes":"* Choreography is pretty bad, bad for even Hollywood standards. I think of the movie as a generic stylish action movie.\n* Pacing is bad.\n* I dig the characters and dialogue at times. Other times I cringe.\n* Some moments are funny like the water bottle.\n* The cameos are standard Hollywood but it was funny.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/718930"},{"id":"322682678021222988","title":"Burn After Reading","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2008,"runtimeMinutes":96,"directors":["Ethan Coen","Joel Coen"],"actors":["Brad Pitt","J.K. Simmons"],"genres":["Comedy","Drama"],"completedDate":"2017-03-25","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I love it being an absurd clusterfuck of nonsense. Really enjoyed being surprised at random corners of the story.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/4944"},{"id":"322682678020398668","title":"Cabin in the Woods","originalTitle":"The Cabin in the Woods","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2012,"runtimeMinutes":95,"directors":["Drew Goddard"],"actors":["Chris Hemsworth","Sigourney Weaver","Kristen Connolly","Anna Hutchison","Amy Acker","Jodelle Ferland","Rukiya Bernard","Jesse Williams","Patrick Sabongui","Bradley Whitford"],"genres":["Horror","Comedy","Fantasy","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2018-07-07","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I like the play on tropes. I love how Marty plays the fourth wall a lot and gets meta as the straight man. The revealed synopsis is funny. It reminds me of Dead by Daylight's lore.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/22970"},{"id":"322682678021462604","title":"Caddyshack","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1980,"runtimeMinutes":98,"directors":["Harold Ramis"],"actors":["Bill Murray","Cindy Morgan","Chevy Chase","Douglas Kenney","Brian Doyle-Murray","John Murray","Rodney Dangerfield"],"genres":["Comedy"],"completedDate":"2013-11-27","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Caddyshack features hilarious heckling by some nouveau riche and cheeky remarks by Chevy Chase, but otherwise it plays pretty straight as far as its story, comedy, and romance is concerned. Still, there's an admirable ingenuity with how well every scene is performed, and you can't help but root for the main character as it tries to find funds to get into college.\n\nThe gopher bit is an odd sidetrack and not one I personally found anything funny. It's a distraction from the better executed story. Bill Murray's acing as a mental retard is simply out of place.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/11977"},{"id":"322682678021263948","title":"Captain Fantastic","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2016,"runtimeMinutes":119,"directors":["Matt Ross"],"actors":["Steve Zahn"],"genres":["Drama","Comedy"],"completedDate":"2016-12-05","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/334533"},{"id":"322682678020317772","title":"Captain Marvel","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2019,"runtimeMinutes":124,"directors":["Ryan Fleck","Anna Boden"],"actors":["Scarlett Johansson","Mckenna Grace","Samuel L. Jackson"],"genres":["Action","Adventure","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2019-06-01","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Easily it's at its most fun when playing with old technology, e.g., Blockbuster scene. And when Brie Larson tries to find Pancho's Bar using a computer. And loading a CD-ROM. Conversations with cultural and technology prequisite knowledge always bugs me, e.g., even knowing how to navigate on a computer or understanding Nick Fury's joke at offering a urine sample or cheek swab. But I guess it's okay in the name of comedy and filler action.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/299537"},{"id":"322682678020188748","title":"Captain Phillips","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2013,"runtimeMinutes":134,"directors":["Paul Greengrass"],"actors":["Tom Hanks","Max Martini","Catherine Keener","John Magaro","Barkhad Abdi","Chris Mulkey"],"genres":["Action","Drama","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2021-06-11","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Somehow I find it eye-rollingly exaggerated how competent they make our military seem in both their responsiveness and their tactics. They also heavily exaggerate Tom Hanks' heroism. The portrayal of Somali is also quite evil: they should have portrayed them in a more human light.\n\nThis is the kind of movie that promotes the military, pushing more funding and heroics to the guys that further weapons rather than solve the problems that caused this scenario in the first place. It especially hurts that the real Captain Phillips is a scumbag that shouldn't be a hero, both recklessly being too close to the Somali coast in the first place and having taken no role in the heroism as levied by former crew members. It would have been an even more interesting story if instead of portraying a Mary Sue hero, they portrayed a flawed individual just like the Somalian captain---but that's too nuanced for Hollywood.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/109424"},{"id":"322682678021558860","title":"Casino Royale","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2006,"runtimeMinutes":144,"directors":["Martin Campbell"],"actors":["Eva Green","Mads Mikkelsen","Alessandra Ambrosio"],"genres":["Adventure","Action","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2009-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/36557"},{"id":"322682678021235276","title":"Cast Away on the Moon","originalTitle":"김씨 표류기","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2009,"directors":["Lee Hae-jun"],"completedDate":"2017-03-11","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"great comedy, story felt forced and drama shoved in to ifit the storyline. the story in general was wholesome and enjoysble. despit unrealistic aspects such as the hikkikomori girl being actually really pretty and with perfect dentals. even the characterization as following a rigid schedule is not really accurate."},{"id":"322682678021318220","title":"Caught in the Web","originalTitle":"搜索","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2010,"runtimeMinutes":108,"directors":["Annie Goldson"],"genres":["Documentary"],"completedDate":"2015-11-07","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"A soap drama if you ever saw one. It was quite thrilling however.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/438471"},{"id":"322682678020461132","title":"Children of Men","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2006,"runtimeMinutes":109,"directors":["Alfonso Cuarón"],"actors":["Charlie Hunnam","Julianne Moore","Clive Owen","Michael Caine","Pam Ferris","Peter Mullan","Chiwetel Ejiofor","Clare-Hope Ashitey","Danny Huston","Jacek Koman"],"genres":["Science Fiction","Thriller","Action"],"completedDate":"2017-08-25","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Interesting world-building. Sort of a bored premise. The action scenes are pretty well choreographed. Continuous shots are really awesome although can feel gimmicky during the climax when it tracks Clive Owen. It's kind of hilarious that Clive Owen and/or the baby get to get away because others are fighting so often.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/9693"},{"id":"322682678020201036","title":"Chronicle","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2012,"runtimeMinutes":84,"directors":["Josh Trank"],"actors":["Michael B. Jordan","Dane DeHaan","Michael Kelly","Alex Russell","Ashley Grace","Paul Pape"],"genres":["Science Fiction","Drama","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2021-06-01","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"A surprisingly well-told superhero origins. I think the found footage adds novelty, albeit gimmicky at times in how forced the scenario must be to warrant a camera. The development from the troubled childhood with being a lone child with an abusive father, mother figure that he can't do much to help, being bullied, and being alone is all so realistic. I also enjoyed the escalation in crimes. The end with the mental patient piece escalated a bit too much with the main actor not being very convincing.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/76726"},{"id":"322682678020170316","title":"Columbus","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2017,"runtimeMinutes":104,"directors":["Kogonada"],"actors":["Rory Culkin","Haley Lu Richardson","Parker Posey","Michelle Forbes","John Cho"],"genres":["Drama"],"completedDate":"2021-09-10","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Fairly inconsequential drama. I like the natural dialogue and cinematography. Not very interesting to watch as a film though.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/414453"},{"id":"839a7e2d-8a0d-4cb2-8c88-f04ce5844555","title":"Companion","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2025,"runtimeMinutes":97,"directors":["Drew Hancock"],"genres":["Horror","Science Fiction","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2026-01-18","updatedDate":"2026-01-27","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1084199"},{"id":"322682678020268620","title":"Compliance","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2012,"runtimeMinutes":90,"directors":["Craig Zobel"],"actors":["Bill Camp","Dreama Walker","Pat Healy","Ann Dowd","Matt Servitto"],"genres":["Drama","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2020-03-19","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"It was fun for the first half hour or so. Then it got rather stale with its pacing. I just put it on fast forward after 45 minutes. Kind of disappointing they didn't depict the worst part of it that explicitly: the blowjob!","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/84188"},{"id":"322682678976503372","title":"Contempt","originalTitle":"Le Mépris","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1963,"runtimeMinutes":103,"directors":["Jean-Luc Godard"],"actors":["Jean-Luc Godard","Fritz Lang","Michel Piccoli"],"genres":["Drama","Romance"],"completedDate":"2017-01-01","updatedDate":"2023-07-17","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/266"},{"id":"322682678021265996","title":"Corpse Bride","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2005,"runtimeMinutes":77,"directors":["Mike Johnson","Tim Burton"],"actors":["Tracey Ullman","Emily Watson"],"genres":["Romance","Fantasy","Animation"],"completedDate":"2016-12-02","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Lovely lyrics and setting.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/3933"},{"id":"322682678020270668","title":"Creed","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2015,"runtimeMinutes":133,"directors":["Ryan Coogler"],"actors":["Sylvester Stallone"],"genres":["Drama"],"completedDate":"2020-03-18","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"It's a great modern take of boxing. Well-told narrative. HBO and commentating. Experimental music. Philly. And he didn't win!\n\nI like the call cards when introducing boxers. Reminds me of the Irishman (2019): it's a nice way of adding style and exposition. Self-made.\n\nMontage scenes are as fun as usual.\n\nRocky having cancer? What a dumb subplot.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/312221"},{"id":"322682678020394572","title":"Creepy","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2014,"directors":["Laura Gross"],"actors":["Dakota Fanning","Teri Hatcher"],"genres":["Documentary"],"completedDate":"2018-07-15","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"A little awkward in the set up but still very fun regardless. Not implausible. Later parts are a little weird—like him still recording, and not going to the police after the mail threats. My favorite part was the first meet as well as when he puts on the mask and blocks the door.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/613234"},{"id":"322682678020363852","title":"Curse of the Golden Flower","originalTitle":"满城尽带黄金甲","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2006,"runtimeMinutes":114,"directors":["Zhang Yimou"],"actors":["Gong Li","Chow Yun-Fat","Jay Chou","Qin Junjie","Li Man","Liu Ye","Ni Dahong"],"genres":["Action","Drama","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"2019-01-05","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"This movie is a sequence of conversations, each with powerful dialogue and acting. How surprising for a period drama that it takes place purely in an opulent palace for drama, not action or movement. It felt stagnant however, with unnecessary action, a youngest son, and no depth besides the great acting of Chow Yun-fat.\n\nOpulent. What a magnificent set and costume design. There are tracking shots of gold lining the walls, floors, and ceilings. The costumes and sets are clearly too theatrical to be an accurate depiction. I find that it fits the drama well instead. 1:26:00 with Gong Li standing over Prince Wan surrounded by a golden florescent red palace. That shot summarizes this film well: Gong Li, filiel betrayal, drama, Zhang Yimou.\n\nAs always, Gong Li plays an amazing femme fatale, one with charaisma and a vengeance in her acting.\n\nThe single tear event happens a few times in this film.. I was never a fan of that prop. It looks too artificial and cheapens the scene. The action scenes seem out of place and seem like fanservice. The multiple shot scene when they revealed that Crown Prince Wan is the Imperial Doctor's wife's son: that felt B-rated and laughable. You have to feel bad for him though. First he has an illicit romance with his step-mother. Then it's his half-sister.\n\nThe shocking scene where the young Prince Yu suddenly stabs Wan and goes crazy-eyed.. Welp I did not expect that. I thought this would be a tragedy with him telling the king, followed by everyone dying except for Prince Yu who is shocked at the truth but follows along with it. I feel like that would have been much better. [after watching the ending] It looks like it did happen! Thank you. That scene just like the action seemed unnecesary overall. I did like the resultant shot of the golden army being trampled over, as if they were chrysanthemums.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1494"},{"id":"322682678020209228","title":"Dark Water","originalTitle":"仄暗い水の底から","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2002,"runtimeMinutes":101,"directors":["Hideo Nakata"],"actors":["Asami Mizukawa","Hitomi Kuroki"],"genres":["Horror","Mystery","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2021-03-26","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"The film is eeffectively a drama with horror elements. It portrays divorce and the act of raising a child alone quite well, particularly in the living conditions. I don't quite understand the message for the ending. It just feels like portrarying the mother as self-sacrificing.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/12205"},{"id":"322682678020289100","title":"Dark Waters","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2019,"runtimeMinutes":127,"directors":["Todd Haynes"],"actors":["Anne Hathaway"],"genres":["Drama","Thriller"],"updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Solid narrative and legal thriller scenes. Fairly by the books in its presentation though. Anne Hathaway and the marital/household problems thread seem marginalized.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/552178"},{"id":"322682678021573196","title":"David Copperfield","originalTitle":"The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1935,"runtimeMinutes":130,"directors":["George Cukor"],"actors":["Arthur Treacher","Maureen O'Sullivan","Basil Rathbone","Elsa Lanchester"],"genres":["Drama","Romance","Adventure"],"completedDate":"2009-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/43899"},{"id":"322682678021556812","title":"District 9","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2009,"runtimeMinutes":112,"directors":["Neill Blomkamp"],"actors":["Nathalie Boltt","Sharlto Copley","Vanessa Haywood","Neill Blomkamp","Brandon Auret"],"genres":["Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2010-04-21","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/17654"},{"id":"322682678020145740","title":"Don't Look Up","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2021,"runtimeMinutes":138,"directors":["Adam McKay"],"actors":["Leonardo DiCaprio","Jennifer Lawrence"],"genres":["Comedy","Science Fiction","Drama"],"completedDate":"2021-01-08","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Surprisingly realistic satire. I laughed at all the details that they got right. The one-bitness and lack of subtlety in constantly reinforcing \"We're all going to die!\" is a bit tiring. Pacing is also kind of bad at second half, where it drags out and there wasn't much else to see. Some details I don't like: the focus almost exclusively on the American government; and the lack of power from the entire scientific community.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/646380"},{"id":"322682678021571148","title":"Drunken Master","originalTitle":"醉拳","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1978,"runtimeMinutes":111,"directors":["Yuen Woo-ping"],"actors":["Jackie Chan"],"genres":["Action","Comedy"],"completedDate":"2000-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/11230"},{"id":"322682678020338252","title":"Edge of Tomorrow","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2014,"runtimeMinutes":114,"directors":["Doug Liman"],"actors":["Tom Cruise","Emily Blunt"],"genres":["Action","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2019-03-25","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"That was a fun manga adaptation. They really did the core themes very well, and translated it to a Western film. The three packets of sugar for example was nice. And Groundhog day-style comedy over the more serious nature of the original source. Tom Cruise did it really well.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/137113"},{"id":"322682678020485708","title":"Elite Squad: The Enemy Within","originalTitle":"Tropa de Elite - O Inimigo Agora é Outro","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2010,"runtimeMinutes":115,"directors":["José Padilha"],"actors":["Wagner Moura"],"genres":["Drama","Action","Crime"],"completedDate":"2017-08-05","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Grander scale but also more lacknig in its grittiness, multiple perspectives, and general characterization.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/47931"},{"id":"322682678022251084","title":"Enter the Dragon","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1973,"runtimeMinutes":102,"directors":["Robert Clouse"],"actors":["Jackie Chan"],"genres":["Action"],"completedDate":"2003-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/9461"},{"id":"322682678021630540","title":"Equilibrium","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2002,"runtimeMinutes":107,"directors":["Kurt Wimmer"],"actors":["Emily Watson"],"genres":["Action","Science Fiction","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2003-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/7299"},{"id":"327871506432393809","title":"Everything Everywhere All at Once","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2022,"runtimeMinutes":140,"directors":["Daniel Scheinert","Daniel Kwan"],"actors":["Michelle Yeoh","Jenny Slate","James Hong","Ke Huy Quan","Jamie Lee Curtis","Harry Shum Jr.","Sunita Mani"],"genres":["Action","Adventure","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2022-05-30","updatedDate":"2022-05-30","notes":"I liked its ambition and some of the story, particularly early in. The absurdist comedy didn't ring for me.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/545611"},{"id":"322682678020424268","title":"Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1972,"runtimeMinutes":88,"directors":["Woody Allen"],"actors":["Burt Reynolds","John Carradine","Louise Lasser","Woody Allen"],"genres":["Comedy"],"completedDate":"2018-02-17","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"They vary in quality. The third on why do women reach orgasms was boring where the entire premise revolved around sex in public and it wasn't executed well. I liked the first where Woody played as a fool and tried to lay the queen.\n\nThis would be a great title of a survey paper. It reminds me of andrews garden of forking paths.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/11624"},{"id":"322682678021304908","title":"Ex Machina","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2015,"runtimeMinutes":23,"directors":["Gabraz Sanna"],"completedDate":"2016-05-06","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Pedestrian presentation of artificial intelligence. Fun as a thriller.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/369801"},{"id":"9c039e7a-794a-4cbc-ba4c-7c70f808ab86","title":"Exit 8","originalTitle":"８番出口","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2025,"runtimeMinutes":95,"directors":["Genki Kawamura"],"genres":["Horror","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2026-04-16","updatedDate":"2026-04-16","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1408208"},{"id":"322682678020279884","title":"Extreme Job","originalTitle":"극한직업","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2019,"runtimeMinutes":111,"directors":["Lee Byeong-heon"],"actors":["Lee Dong-hwi","Jung Won-chang","Kim Eui-sung","Oh Jung-se","Lee Ha-nee","Lee Joong-ok","Shin Ha-kyun","Heo Joon-seok","Ryu Seung-ryong"],"genres":["Action","Comedy","Crime"],"completedDate":"2020-02-10","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/567646"},{"id":"6b8769ed-c99e-4d39-b762-31f2d19df071","title":"F1","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2025,"runtimeMinutes":156,"directors":["Joseph Kosinski"],"actors":["Brad Pitt","Javier Bardem"],"genres":["Action","Drama"],"completedDate":"2026-06-09","updatedDate":"2026-06-10","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/911430"},{"id":"322682678020430412","title":"Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them","originalTitle":"Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2016,"runtimeMinutes":133,"directors":["David Yates"],"actors":["Gemma Chan","Johnny Depp","Zoë Kravitz","Ezra Miller","Colin Farrell","Ron Perlman","Eddie Redmayne","Bart Edwards","Katherine Waterston","Dan Fogler"],"genres":["Fantasy","Adventure"],"completedDate":"2017-12-27","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Predictable story but I liked it very much. I did like that they were willing to kill the Obscurial even after all that abuse, and that they didn't pale away just because the film is a blockbuster. The beasts were a delight to watch. The politics was trite and tiresome. The character dynamics were all really good. Colin Farrel turned Johnnie Depp seemed a little unnecessary. I guess it's like a Marvel hint, but in the film instead post-credits to watch the sequel.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/259316"},{"id":"2f501fa8-2fc8-464b-9009-4adb360233c2","title":"Fatal Attraction","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1987,"runtimeMinutes":119,"directors":["Adrian Lyne"],"actors":["Anne Archer","Glenn Close","Jane Krakowski","Fred Gwynne","Michael Douglas","Lois Smith","James Eckhouse","Anna Thomson","Stuart Pankin","Ellen Foley"],"genres":["Thriller","Drama","Romance"],"completedDate":"2024-01-10","updatedDate":"2024-01-11","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/10998"},{"id":"a3a3e906-a634-46dd-b070-3b1598590f3a","title":"Fist of Legend","originalTitle":"精武英雄","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1994,"runtimeMinutes":103,"directors":["Gordon Chan"],"genres":["Action"],"completedDate":"2026-06-24","updatedDate":"2026-06-25","notes":"Schoolboy Jet Li and some wirefighting. Classic. Writing is too simple for me. I do like the fight scenes, I just fast forward through the rest.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/17809"},{"id":"cfd7250f-2028-4f7f-bf8a-b879891094a4","title":"Flow","originalTitle":"Straume","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2024,"runtimeMinutes":85,"directors":["Gints Zilbalodis"],"genres":["Animation","Fantasy","Adventure"],"completedDate":"2025-02-08","updatedDate":"2025-03-08","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/823219"},{"id":"322682678022306380","title":"Forgetting Sarah Marshall","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2008,"runtimeMinutes":111,"directors":["Nicholas Stoller"],"actors":["Paul Rudd","Kristen Bell","Mila Kunis","Jason Bateman","Kristen Wiig","Bill Hader","Jason Segel","William Baldwin","June Diane Raphael","Jonah Hill"],"genres":["Comedy","Romance","Drama"],"completedDate":"2011-09-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/9870"},{"id":"322682678020318796","title":"Free Solo","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2018,"runtimeMinutes":100,"directors":["Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi","Jimmy Chin"],"genres":["Documentary","Adventure"],"completedDate":"2019-05-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Alex Honnold seems like a very down-to-earth person. Clearly the person you would want to hang out with and feel relatable and still have conversations with, while being the top-class in his field. The climb itself was a little anticlimactic, so I liked the narrative focus on the preparation and Alex Honnold as a person moreso than the technical details of the climb.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/515042"},{"id":"328446799085830735","title":"Fresh","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2022,"runtimeMinutes":114,"directors":["Mimi Cave"],"actors":["Daisy Edgar-Jones","Sebastian Stan","Charlotte Le Bon","Brett Dier"],"genres":["Horror","Thriller","Comedy"],"completedDate":"2022-04-09","updatedDate":"2022-04-09","notes":"Plot is a little cliche and you have to suspend your disbelief at many times. But I found it built the thrill sufficiently enough for you to want to find out how they escape.\n\nPlot holes/contrivances that annoy me\n+ The opulence of his house and tools suggests a much bigger operation than what he can do on a per-girl person, with only 3 there.\n+ That there are actually clients that eat beautiful girls. I imagine they would actually prefer delicious meat, and which would likely veer towards fatter women.\n+ Using a real credit card? That's too amateur for someone so good at what he does.\n+ Not once but __twice__, they beat down Steve but never confirm the kill. He just gets up again to continue the rampage.\n+ The timing of the escape with the simultaneous arrival of the black guy and the wife/transporter.\n+ Disappointing ending.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/787752"},{"id":"322682678021267020","title":"Frozen","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2013,"runtimeMinutes":102,"directors":["Chris Buck","Jennifer Lee"],"actors":["Kristen Bell","Ciarán Hinds","Alan Tudyk","Jonathan Groff","Annaleigh Ashford","Josh Gad","Jack Whitehall","Scott Menville","Idina Menzel","Robert Pine"],"genres":["Animation","Family","Adventure","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"2016-11-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Surely one of the more dull Disney films I've seen. I liked the songs though.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/109445"},{"id":"322682678020250188","title":"Full Sequence","originalTitle":"The Human Centipede 2","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2011,"runtimeMinutes":91,"directors":["Tom Six"],"actors":["Ashlynn Yennie","Laurence R. Harvey","Dominic Borrelli"],"genres":["Drama","Horror","Crime"],"completedDate":"2020-07-28","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"You watch it for the sexploitation, and it delivers on the imagery. Masturbating wrapped with sand paper. The erotica and also grotesuqness of waste passing from one person the other. The meta of it based on a rabid fan of the first film reminds me of found footage. Snipping tendons digging into the knee to get them. The forcefeeding funnel. Barbed wire rape. Centipede in asshole. Goes away from your typical horror thriller and straight to exploitation.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/74997"},{"id":"322682678021481036","title":"Futurama: Bender's Big Score","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2007,"runtimeMinutes":89,"directors":["Dwayne Carey-Hill"],"actors":["Dawnn Lewis","Mark Hamill","Katey Sagal","Tom Kenny","David Herman","Frank Welker","Sarah Silverman","Tress MacNeille","Coolio","Phil LaMarr"],"genres":["Animation","Comedy","Science Fiction","Romance"],"completedDate":"2010-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/7249"},{"id":"322682678021483084","title":"Futurama: Bender's Game","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2008,"runtimeMinutes":88,"directors":["Dwayne Carey-Hill"],"actors":["Katey Sagal","David Herman","Frank Welker","Tress MacNeille","George Takei","Phil LaMarr","Maurice LaMarche","John DiMaggio"],"genres":["Animation","Comedy","Science Fiction","Action","Fantasy","Adventure"],"completedDate":"2010-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/13253"},{"id":"322682678021482060","title":"Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2009,"runtimeMinutes":90,"directors":["Peter Avanzino"],"actors":["Dawnn Lewis","Katey Sagal","David Herman","Tress MacNeille","Phil LaMarr","Snoop Dogg","Maurice LaMarche","John DiMaggio","Seth MacFarlane"],"genres":["Animation","Comedy","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2010-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/15060"},{"id":"322682678020340300","title":"Game Night","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2018,"runtimeMinutes":100,"directors":["John Francis Daley","Jonathan Goldstein"],"actors":["Jesse Plemons","Jeffrey Wright","Rachel McAdams","Jason Bateman","Kyle Chandler","Chelsea Peretti","Billy Magnussen","Natasha Hall","Kylie Bunbury","Michael C. Hall"],"genres":["Mystery","Comedy","Crime"],"completedDate":"2019-03-15","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Cheesy comedy but great character dynamics. The scene with Rachel McAdams and Jason Bateman taking out a bullet wound was especially great.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/445571"},{"id":"322682678021612108","title":"Gangs of New York","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2002,"runtimeMinutes":168,"directors":["Martin Scorsese"],"actors":["Leonardo DiCaprio","Liam Neeson","Ottaviano Dell'Acqua"],"genres":["Drama","History","Crime"],"completedDate":"2002-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/3131"},{"id":"322682678020465228","title":"Get Out","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2017,"runtimeMinutes":104,"directors":["Jordan Peele"],"actors":["Betty Gabriel","Stephen Root","Lakeith Stanfield","Caleb Landry Jones","Catherine Keener","Daniel Kaluuya","Jordan Peele","Allison Williams","Erika Alexander","Bradley Whitford"],"genres":["Mystery","Thriller","Horror"],"completedDate":"2017-08-21","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Charged social endeavor. Exaggerated reverse racism and micro-aggressions, both blunt in delivery and more subtler such as when he picks cotton to free himself; like Gone Girl, it's a fun reversal playing on social expectations. The film is an interesting one-trick-pony idea, helpful both in the comedy and in the subtle horror. The plot is weak: I find it a little strange there's nothing in the film except this specific conflict, as if they have nothing else to distinguish them—just a sacrifice you have to pay when a feature film. Just like how the protagonist's mother trauma becomes so recurring and mainstream. That said, I find the film works as a funny little satirical piece more so than a horror. From the start we already know who the villains are: middle-class white liberals. It's just a matter of learning about the details and precisely what they'll do that makes it exciting. The girlfriend plays like Debra Morgan does from Dexter both in her look and her general rambuctious attitude.\n\nI'm always skeptical when stores go into hypnotism. The premise is a bit exhausting and the point it's so weak is because no one can believe for a second that it's realistic, just like when we see ghost movies we are immediately taken into the fantastical, a world separate from ours. It breaks realism. Then the whole idea that he could be dating a girl for 4-5 months and not know she was just fucking trying to hypnotize him when getting through. Yeah, right. Talk about lack of suspending belief. And that a simple flash takes it all away. Interesting though afterwards that after the reveal it didn't just end in climax. The protagonist actually ended up saving himself!\n\nLove the Eyes Wide Shut reference.\n\nI think beyond the commentary and interesting fusion of social commentary, comedy, and horror, the stand-out is the protagonist being able to save himself, and his black best friend pulling out some hilarious meta-jokes. I like that they ended the film with a joke rather than end more seriously. (Honestly things don't look good for him even with the happy unrealistic ending choice. After some cover-up by the neighborhood it'll just like he came in and killed a bunch of people.)\n\nI like the subtler pieces of the film. For example, the party on another glance is most likely a bunch of auctioneers eager to take Chris' body. And it explains the bingo scene. It brings so much more meaning behind the racially charged dialogue when they ask him if he has a better golf swing or performs better in sex. Real takeaway from the film: Only thing I can trust is the TSA! All the revelations pointed out in the Reddit thread are great (https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/5vv1qh/official_discussion_get_out_spoilers/?sort=top). I also agree with redditors that it was a very good secret that Rose was not just hypnotized but rather in on it the whole time; Peel adds enough excuses to make her innocence more plausible (both in the film's plot and our assumptions about their relationship) (https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/5vv1qh/official_discussion_get_out_spoilers/de6rz5h/?utm_content=permalink). That said, it makes the film clear that there's not much deeper beyond plot trivia.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/419430"},{"id":"04f83e35-8e18-418b-8383-c313c054a024","title":"Ghost Killer","originalTitle":"ゴーストキラー","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2025,"runtimeMinutes":105,"directors":["Kensuke Sonomura"],"genres":["Action","Comedy","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"2026-08-09","updatedDate":"2026-08-10","notes":"A bit too zany, boring anime premise. Action not as good as The Furious.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1330435"},{"id":"322682678021534284","title":"Gladiator","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2000,"runtimeMinutes":155,"directors":["Ridley Scott"],"actors":["Connie Nielsen","Joaquin Phoenix","Richard Harris","Spencer Treat Clark","Russell Crowe","Tommy Flanagan","Tony Curran","David Hemmings","Djimon Hounsou","David Bailie"],"genres":["Action","Drama","Adventure"],"completedDate":"2002-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/98"},{"id":"322682678020314700","title":"Glass","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2019,"runtimeMinutes":129,"directors":["M. Night Shyamalan"],"actors":["Anya Taylor-Joy","Samuel L. Jackson","Bruce Willis"],"genres":["Thriller","Drama","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2019-06-15","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Love the pacing. It's a little standard in hype and how the story unravels in the begininng-middle when they escape. But the film is unique enough in not being so overly formulaic like Marvel and DC films that it's very fun. It's especially amazing how the powers begin to grow and are rooted from classics (not in style/culture but in the basic tropes). James McAvoy is incredible as always in playing two-bit characters but doing so in such a brilliant way. I love how all the heroes are each paired with a side character. Not sure how I feel about the ending though. I like that it was ambitious in killing them all. But the plausibility of the reveal to the world seems dubious since it's video.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/450465"},{"id":"322682678022249036","title":"Goldfinger","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1964,"runtimeMinutes":110,"directors":["Guy Hamilton"],"actors":["Lois Maxwell","Sean Connery","Margaret Nolan","Shirley Eaton","Honor Blackman","Nadja Regin","Lesley Langley"],"genres":["Adventure","Action","Thriller"],"completedDate":"1998-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/658"},{"id":"322682678021242444","title":"Gosford Park","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2001,"runtimeMinutes":137,"directors":["Robert Altman"],"actors":["Emily Watson"],"genres":["Drama","Mystery","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2017-03-03","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I liked the strong characterization throughout; Altman's ensemble is always great. I also liked the strong theme of servanthood, with the majority of the film growing through gossip and the livelihood of the background. But the underlying mystery was lackluster. I'm not sure if it was made to be this purposefully anticlimactic and forced, with it all being revealed (even with the forced motivation) all at the end.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/5279"},{"id":"322682678021217868","title":"Gozu","originalTitle":"極道恐怖大劇場　牛頭　ＧＯＺＵ","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2003,"runtimeMinutes":130,"directors":["Takashi Miike"],"actors":["Kimika Yoshino","Hitoshi Ozawa","Tamio Kawachi","Masaya Kato","Show Aikawa","Kenichi Endo"],"genres":["Horror","Comedy","Crime","Thriller","Mystery","Drama"],"completedDate":"2017-03-29","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"The 'It's complimentary' piece is a nice running thrilling piece. I love in general how slow-paced Miike makes its films, really setting up the whole atmosphere for an absolutely incredible takedown. Milk, sexuality (both hetero, sibling-like and homo), yakuza, weird people.  A guy caught pooping. Aniki becoming a woman. The boss needing a ladle up his ass to get an erection. I think he wrote it purposefully to not make sense. The opening scene is IMO the best illustration of Gozu's strength.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/12487"},{"id":"322682678020406860","title":"Green Room","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2016,"runtimeMinutes":95,"directors":["Jeremy Saulnier"],"actors":["Imogen Poots","Alia Shawkat","Patrick Stewart","Joe Cole","Anton Yelchin","Callum Turner"],"genres":["Horror","Crime","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2018-06-27","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I love the spontaneity of at all, from the brutality to the random violence to the random deaths. Hard to tell what's going next. I love the lack of explanation and use of terminology. Reminds me of John Wick in keeping in universe. The realism of the fights.\n\nEnding was okay. I wish it actually ended up with them dying at some point earlier. The 'Big Movie' moments, like coincidentally two people with a fixed number of cartridges was a little embarassing.\n\nRewatched on September 2021. Still holds up!","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/313922"},{"id":"322682678021464652","title":"Groundhog Day","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1993,"runtimeMinutes":101,"directors":["Harold Ramis"],"actors":["Bill Murray","Chris Elliott","Michael Shannon","Andie MacDowell","Hynden Walch","Harold Ramis","Willie Garson","David Pasquesi","Tom Milanovich","Stephen Tobolowsky"],"genres":["Romance","Fantasy","Comedy"],"completedDate":"2013-11-26","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"One of the most popularly spun off plot devices in the sci-fi genre, Groundhog Days offers some very clever ideas as to how to approach its problem. Learning is #1, and it seems he simply hasn't gone through enough iterations to realize the futility in his change in morality. (Apparently, the film holds the sappy belief that sage wisdom brings about benevolence and charity. pls. moar like totally neutral nihilism amirite?)\n\nWhile I love the idea, there are a lot of things they could have improved upon. The character/setting for one, and avoiding all the more seriously dark elements does make the film rather Hollywood-ish. Bill Murray plays an excellent prima donna but I only wish the writers set up a more intelligent main character. This would allow us to explore far far more into the potential of the plot device, either in cranking out nirvana or fleshing out any themes related toward it. Instead it takes the humility and romantic approach, which has been fine but not nearly as interesting or insightful.\n\nFor what it's worth however, I still love Bill Murray's acting here, and I think his chemistry with MacDowell has been strong but there's way too many hiccups with its sappy storyline (and plot holes).","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/137"},{"id":"322682678021216844","title":"Hail, Caesar!","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2016,"runtimeMinutes":106,"directors":["Joel Coen","Ethan Coen"],"actors":["Scarlett Johansson"],"genres":["Comedy","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2017-03-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Man that's high brow satire. Slower paced and lacked characterization more so than I would've liked. Didn't seem to go beyond surface depth. Too much setup with little payoff. That said, I liked (most of) the ensemble. Suffered from a case of trying too shoot as many A-list actors as possible.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/270487"},{"id":"322682678020400716","title":"Halloween","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1978,"runtimeMinutes":91,"directors":["John Carpenter"],"actors":["Kyle Richards","Jamie Lee Curtis","Nick Castle","P.J. Soles","Peter Griffith","John Carpenter","Sandy Johnson","Barry Bernardi","Nancy Kyes","Donald Pleasence"],"genres":["Horror","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2018-07-07","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Love the soundtrack. A bit corny in special effects and really tame on the slasher aspect. Very upfront about nudity which makes sense for a late 70's beginning of the slasher fanatic era.\n\nVery corny in that he gets up 3 times from impossible wounds.\n\nI love the leery angle shots and glooming music. Really sets the atmosphere.\n\nSide note: Laurie's stumbling run after she gets slashed in the arm was hilarious. The animation looked very similar to the run when injured in Dead by Daylight.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/948"},{"id":"322682678021352012","title":"Hana-bi","originalTitle":"はなび","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1997,"runtimeMinutes":103,"directors":["Takeshi Kitano"],"actors":["Takeshi Kitano","Ren Osugi"],"genres":["Crime","Drama"],"completedDate":"2015-02-09","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Doesn't explore their relationship seeing as the wife doesn't actually do much, although I see the intention in leaving her silent. The protagonist suffers too much from his archetype. Great mood regardless for such a simple story, but it doesn't really come to much in terms of cohesion other than the guy constantly being an asshole in order to make his wife laugh.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/5910"},{"id":"322682678021309004","title":"Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai","originalTitle":"一命","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2011,"runtimeMinutes":128,"directors":["Takashi Miike"],"actors":["Eita Nagayama","Takehiro Hira"],"genres":["Drama","History"],"completedDate":"2016-04-27","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Not as powerfully driven in suspense.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/85836"},{"id":"9158e5e0-2596-42c0-865b-40665c711d20","title":"Hardcore Henry","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2015,"runtimeMinutes":97,"directors":["Ilya Naishuller"],"genres":["Action","Adventure","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2026-06-27","updatedDate":"2026-06-28","notes":"Too blurry and shakycam. Great action though.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/325348"},{"id":"322682678021600844","title":"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2010,"runtimeMinutes":146,"directors":["David Yates"],"actors":["Emma Watson","Jason Isaacs"],"genres":["Adventure","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"2010-07-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/12444"},{"id":"322682678021200460","title":"Hearts of Darkness","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1991,"runtimeMinutes":96,"directors":["Fax Bahr","George Hickenlooper","Eleanor Coppola"],"actors":["Robert Duvall","Laurence Fishburne","Marlon Brando","George Lucas","Martin Sheen","Dennis Hopper","Francis Ford Coppola","Gian-Carlo Coppola"],"genres":["Documentary"],"completedDate":"2017-04-10","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Great documentary, although overly emphasizing the shooting and conflicts, not focusing at all on editing challenges.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/4539"},{"id":"322682678020178508","title":"Hell House LLC","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2015,"runtimeMinutes":93,"directors":["Stephen Cognetti"],"genres":["Horror","Mystery","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2021-07-23","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"It excels most in its pacing slowly adding to the horror and keeping it as a mystery. It's a little too trope-y at times.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/359246"},{"id":"330972682315104847","title":"Hellraiser","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1987,"runtimeMinutes":93,"directors":["Clive Barker"],"actors":["Clare Higgins","Ashley Laurence","Andrew Robinson"],"genres":["Horror","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2022-05-06","updatedDate":"2022-05-07","notes":"Interesting body horror. Story itself is pretty good.\n\nThe effects are campy due to its time.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/9003"},{"id":"2ef95770-8f7d-4dc7-b5d2-97accb233fc1","title":"Heretic","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2024,"runtimeMinutes":111,"directors":["Scott Beck","Bryan Woods"],"genres":["Horror","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2025-07-01","updatedDate":"2025-07-02","notes":"Good overall. Some tropey elements and gamey. Hugh Grant as a villain is a funny premise and did quite well, especially for this role where he acts as a charming monologue-heavy man.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1138194"},{"id":"322682678021196364","title":"High and Low","originalTitle":"天国と地獄","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1963,"runtimeMinutes":142,"directors":["Akira Kurosawa"],"actors":["Tatsuya Nakadai","Minoru Chiaki","Toshirō Mifune","Tatsuya Mihashi","Masahiko Shimazu","Yoshio Tsuchiya"],"genres":["Drama","Crime","Thriller","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2017-04-14","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Plays out as a moral exercise and also as an in-depth mystery willing to leave out realism. The significant amount of detail as the police investigate is very welcome. I enjoy how it sort of just saunters in its storytelling. The comedy it plays out like is fun, with Gondo essentially playing like a Christ figure makin unnreasonable sacrifices and continuing to do so throughout the film while executives are cast as money-makers. And the way the police are just head over heels for Gondo's heroics, as if they have nothing else to do but help save this one man. In this way it's as light-hearted as Seven Samurai. And as with Seven Samurai, the shots are great.\n\nI can certainly see parallels to a Shakespearean-like rendition, with a discrete act structure and pivotal characters. That said, I think the film suffers a lot from what Kurosawa films often suffer from in Shakespeare-inspired adaptations, which is poor characterization in favor of higher-level symbolisms and morality questions, with a tendency to tell using simple ideas—rather than using the narrative as a way to flesh out the characters and better portray a more nuanced reason. Shakespeare plays get away with simpler characters only through excellent prose that establishes so much more in their moods and contexts. The audiovisuals here help frame the simple ideas but do not do any more to bring richer detail to the story.\n\nAs a side note, I love that the only color in the film is the pink hue from burning the briefcase.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/12493"},{"id":"322682678020219468","title":"Hold the Dark","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2018,"runtimeMinutes":126,"directors":["Jeremy Saulnier"],"actors":["Jeffrey Wright","Alexander Skarsgård","Riley Keough","James Badge Dale","Tantoo Cardinal","Jonathan Whitesell","Savonna Spracklin"],"genres":["Thriller","Mystery","Crime"],"completedDate":"2021-03-12","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Brutal scenes. Jeremy Saulnier really knows how to depict the violence scene-by-scene really well. The mystery behind it all holds up well. You can tell the story takes some brutal paths purely for the sake of brutality, like the gunman scene. It's a shame the story doesn't really go anywhere. If it only it was like a Brutal mod of Wind River.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/395841"},{"id":"322682678020501068","title":"House","originalTitle":"ハウス","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1977,"runtimeMinutes":85,"directors":["Alexandre Bustillo","Julien Maury"],"actors":["Camille Rowe","Eric Savin"],"genres":["Horror"],"completedDate":"2017-04-26","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I like the use of visual techniques as an experiment in telling the story, for telling different memories, for providing a way of making emotions explicit. Feels like a funny mix of Gainax-type or Ikuhara-type anime (certainly in the nicknames given to each girl) in flashing out a bunch of random devices. With the music and high school setting, I certainly got a Kare Kano vibe. Oversaturated, poppy Beach Boys-type music. The retro fashion is rad.\n\nIts surrealism crosses so many boundaries. It's purposefully over the top to the extent that the viewer is cognizant that this is a film. Other times it's more subversive to show an effect that the girls are experiencing but just don't realize. But most of the time it plays it weird tone to the max (like the karate). The way it goes from slightly over the top but great to complete over-the-top reminds me of Audition.\n\nThe girl reminds me of Shiya but with slightly sharper, more refined features. Beautiful skin, distinctive face shape, the way she smiles.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/672582"},{"id":"322682678020162124","title":"House of 1000 Corpses","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2003,"runtimeMinutes":89,"directors":["Rob Zombie"],"actors":["Rainn Wilson","Sid Haig","Walton Goggins","Erin Daniels","Sheri Moon Zombie","Bill Moseley","Matthew McGrory","Rob Zombie"],"genres":["Horror"],"completedDate":"2021-09-18","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I like its zaniness. Like a late 90s MTV combined with good acting, sets, and over the top dialogue. The editing is just too much for me at times though as I feel it overpowers a lot of the other crazier elements (e.g., the negative contrast shots). For all its setup and introduction of characters, I also wish the story had a closer-to-real wrapup.\n\nI love the soundtracks. They rock hard.\n\nWatched it on Sodapoppin's stream.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/2662"},{"id":"6066df7f-f5f6-4552-8e47-cc2f7f78b82e","title":"How the Grinch Stole Christmas","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2000,"runtimeMinutes":105,"directors":["Ron Howard"],"actors":["Christine Baranski","Q'orianka Kilcher","Taylor Momsen","Anthony Hopkins","Bryce Dallas Howard","Jim Carrey","Frank Welker","Landry Allbright","Jeffrey Tambor","Clint Howard"],"genres":["Family","Comedy","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"2022-12-25","updatedDate":"2022-12-26","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/8871"},{"id":"5f45c850-a94f-4943-9389-4261d7a9870e","title":"How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2003,"runtimeMinutes":116,"directors":["Donald Petrie"],"genres":["Comedy","Romance"],"completedDate":"2025-06-30","updatedDate":"2025-07-02","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/9919"},{"id":"3f16b88c-3a65-4448-8daa-29f5aaa3037c","title":"How to Train Your Dragon","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2025,"runtimeMinutes":125,"directors":["Dean DeBlois"],"actors":["Gerard Butler","Mason Thames","Nico Parker","Bronwyn James","Julian Dennison","Nick Frost","Ruth Codd"],"genres":["Fantasy","Adventure","Family"],"completedDate":"2025-06-12","updatedDate":"2025-06-13","notes":"Some good beats. Nothing is better in it than the original.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1087192"},{"id":"322682678021370444","title":"How to Train Your Dragon 2","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2014,"runtimeMinutes":102,"directors":["Dean DeBlois"],"actors":["Cate Blanchett","Kristen Wiig","T. J. Miller","Gerard Butler","America Ferrera","Jay Baruchel","Jonah Hill","Djimon Hounsou","Gideon Emery","Kit Harington"],"genres":["Fantasy","Action","Adventure","Animation","Family"],"completedDate":"2014-12-24","updatedDate":"2025-01-20","notes":"A rather strange moral in this one... people can (not) change? Protect your own? The plot also gets blown out of proportion and too many plot devices carry forth to have much weight individually.\n\nI rewatched it with Marisa on 2025-01-19 and enjoyed it more.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/82702"},{"id":"322682678021587532","title":"Hulk","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2003,"runtimeMinutes":138,"directors":["Ang Lee"],"actors":["Jennifer Connelly"],"genres":["Science Fiction","Adventure","Action","Drama"],"completedDate":"2004-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1927"},{"id":"322682678020458060","title":"Hwayi: A Monster Boy","originalTitle":"화이: 괴물을 삼킨 아이","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2013,"runtimeMinutes":125,"directors":["Jang Joon-hwan"],"actors":["Lee Yoo-mi","Yeo Jin-goo","Jang Hyun-sung","Yoo Yeon-seok","Park Hae-jun","Kim Sung-kyun","Cho Jin-woong","Kim Young-min","Nam Ji-hyun"],"genres":["Action","Thriller","Crime"],"completedDate":"2017-09-01","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"It's like a mash of anime with the setup in tropes and Korean thiller, slightly melodrama in atmosphere. Love it.\n\nNote: Around 1:29:30 there's a pin-the-guy-down-reload-and-shoot scene. John Wick 2 did it better.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/214910"},{"id":"322682678021613132","title":"I Am Legend","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2007,"runtimeMinutes":101,"directors":["Francis Lawrence"],"actors":["Charlie Tahan","Will Smith","Emma Thompson","Alice Braga","Dash Mihok","Marin Ireland","Salli Richardson-Whitfield","Willow Smith","April Grace","Caitlin McHugh"],"genres":["Drama","Science Fiction","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2007-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/6479"},{"id":"322682678021229132","title":"I Saw The Devil","originalTitle":"악마를 보았다","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2010,"runtimeMinutes":144,"directors":["Kim Jee-woon"],"actors":["Lee Byung-hun","Um Tae-goo","Oh San-ha","Choi Moo-seong","Jeon Kuk Hwan","Cheon Ho-jin","Choi Min-sik","Nam Bo-ra","Lee Jun-hyuk","Park Seo-yeon"],"genres":["Thriller","Horror"],"completedDate":"2017-03-16","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Wholly enjoyable. The actors make this, as well as how the torture is played out. Like Dexter but ramped up anime-style. The premise is totally absurd and has an anime-only quality to it. Directing is mediocre.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/49797"},{"id":"322682678020240972","title":"I'm Thinking of Ending Things","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2020,"runtimeMinutes":135,"directors":["Charlie Kaufman"],"actors":["Jesse Plemons","Oliver Platt","Jessie Buckley","Toni Collette","David Thewlis","Gus Birney","Colby Minifie","Abby Quinn","Jason Ralph"],"genres":["Mystery","Thriller","Drama"],"completedDate":"2020-10-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":" The monologues. This must be what they mean by being a distinctive Charlie Kaufman film; this is my first. Toni Collette really makes the film in her scenes. I like the various mystery with the plot paced well with the dinner scenes as the pinnacle. And with all the various hints about time progressing not as one would expect. The various repeating things that are not traditionally horrifying: dog shaking to get rid of his wet fur; shouting up from the stairs where people are hidden. Then the progressing sense of merged identity with first a childhood photo, then later her paintings and constant change in his parents. The car driving scene in the middle of the film was boring. The continued then meandering and unravelling was also just boring to me. I felt like the idea of relishing a fantasy and constantly revising it is an interesting one for a thriller. It was not executed well though.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/500840"},{"id":"326517446068404816","title":"Immortal Beloved","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1994,"runtimeMinutes":121,"directors":["Bernard Rose"],"actors":["Gary Oldman"],"genres":["Drama","Music","Romance"],"completedDate":"2022-03-19","updatedDate":"2022-03-19","notes":"Excellent acting by Gary Oldman. The pacing of the story itslelf, the wild inaccuracies, and the somewhat trite plot reveals makes it too much of a soap opera unfortunately. I'd much rather a continuous story of Beethoven than this in-memory current and past approach to storytelling.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/13701"},{"id":"f3f34f5f-dfd4-4afa-a132-114bd673f506","title":"Infinity Pool","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2023,"runtimeMinutes":118,"directors":["Brandon Cronenberg"],"actors":["Mia Goth","Alexander Skarsgård","Cleopatra Coleman","Thomas Kretschmann","Amanda Brugel"],"genres":["Horror","Science Fiction","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2023-02-19","updatedDate":"2023-02-20","notes":"Not absurdist enough. Pacing is too drawn out.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/667216"},{"id":"322682678021337676","title":"Inherent Vice","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2014,"runtimeMinutes":149,"directors":["Paul Thomas Anderson"],"actors":["Josh Brolin","Owen Wilson","Joaquin Phoenix","Emma Dumont","Reese Witherspoon","Jena Malone","Katherine Waterston","Maya Rudolph","Benicio del Toro","Eric Roberts"],"genres":["Drama","Mystery","Comedy"],"completedDate":"2015-03-07","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Lax and hilarious, although overly complicated plot that drags on with no purpose. Excellent monologues.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/171274"},{"id":"322682678021286476","title":"Inside Out","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2015,"runtimeMinutes":95,"directors":["Pete Docter"],"actors":["Dawnn Lewis","Bill Hader","Diane Lane","Kyle MacLachlan","Carlos Alazraqui","Phyllis Smith","Rashida Jones","Amy Poehler","Mickie McGowan","Richard Kind"],"genres":["Animation","Family","Adventure","Drama","Comedy"],"completedDate":"2016-09-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/150540"},{"id":"322682678020187724","title":"Insidious","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2011,"runtimeMinutes":103,"directors":["James Wan"],"actors":["Patrick Wilson","Rose Byrne","Ty Simpkins","Barbara Hershey","Leigh Whannell","Lin Shaye","Angus Sampson","Andrew Astor","Joseph Bishara","Kelly Devoto"],"genres":["Horror","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2021-06-11","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I like the overall story. You can definitely see its influence on the Conjuring: the whole structure of haunting tropes followed by the arrival of an expert with lots of lore. I always find it funny how highly ineffectual the tools are that these supposed experts have.\n\nWay too many jumpscares though. It's hard to appreciate the film when the volume can peak so highly so I just constantly leave it at low volume. ","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/49018"},{"id":"a6071742-a2db-4d23-b706-bc0debd889ec","title":"Ip Man 2","originalTitle":"葉問2","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2010,"runtimeMinutes":108,"directors":["Wilson Yip"],"actors":["Donnie Yen","Sammo Hung","Simon Yam","Huang Xiaoming"],"genres":["Action","History","Drama"],"completedDate":"2023-04-21","updatedDate":"2023-04-22","notes":"Very standard story.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/37472"},{"id":"322682678020375116","title":"Isle of Dogs","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2018,"runtimeMinutes":101,"directors":["Wes Anderson"],"actors":["Scarlett Johansson"],"genres":["Adventure","Comedy","Animation"],"completedDate":"2018-12-22","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I like the Wes Anderson treatment to a stop motion. His style complements the quirky animation style, and this film clearly showcases his style very well. But the narrative is one of his worsts.\n\nThe way of handling Japanese translations is done playfully and remarkably well. The real animation at 1:09:00ish is especially nice. This is a snippet of what it's like if Wes were to direct an anime.\n\nI like how its a film all about trash and it's not scared of showing dogs in an unfortunate state. It's something you couldn't show with live-action. I also like that romance isn't a big emphasis in the story.\n\nI liked Chief's pack. It's unfortunate they sort of get lost in the story as it starts to focus on Chief and the mainland Japan story. Their dynamics were clearly more alive and evolving. The supporting characters overall were underutilized.\n\nThe story's conclusion is a mix of deus ex machina and implausibility. First, Kobayashi has a change of heart despite the ongoing conspiracies against dogs. And the hacker kid too easily saved the day.\n\nUnfortunately there was nothing distinctly Japanese about the film: no artistic/film-like styles from renowned Japanese directors; no Japanese culture; no Japanese-like humor or structured narrative. It felt more like a \"decoration\" in the standard way of a white man's perspective of foreign countries. Similarly, the 'White Savior' trope is... annoying. Tracy is the stereotypical American who feels the need to vocalize her opinion and make it be heard. She doesn't completely save it the day as she helps but it's ultimately the efforts of Atari (minus the serum). that saves the day. She and Nutmeg are unfortunately unnecessary to the whole film.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/399174"},{"id":"322682678021207628","title":"Ivan's Childhood","originalTitle":"Ива́ново де́тство","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1962,"runtimeMinutes":95,"directors":["Andrei Tarkovsky"],"actors":["Valentina Malyavina","Nikolay Burlyaev"],"genres":["Drama","War"],"completedDate":"2017-04-05","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I love the textures. Tarkovksy is the master at making cinematography almost palapable. Stillness and photography is very clear here. The story moves at a snail's pace. I kind of wish there were overtures and a soundtrack in general, although I can see why he chose not to for much of the film due to the bareness of war. The approach to war here is based on austere nothingness as a contrast to a child's flashbacks to more rich times. The depiction of horrors through the aftermath of destruction, especially the ending, is excellent.\n\nThe subplot of romance didn't really seem that necessary; it didn't have enough time to be all that substantiated.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/31442"},{"id":"322682678020204108","title":"Jacob's Ladder","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1990,"runtimeMinutes":113,"directors":["Adrian Lyne"],"actors":["Jason Alexander","Tim Robbins","Eriq La Salle","Ving Rhames","Patricia Kalember","Macaulay Culkin","Scott Cohen","Anthony Alessandro","Pruitt Taylor Vince","Danny Aiello"],"genres":["Drama","Mystery","Horror"],"completedDate":"2021-03-28","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/2291"},{"id":"322682678021611084","title":"Jaws","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1975,"runtimeMinutes":124,"directors":["Steven Spielberg"],"actors":["Steven Spielberg"],"genres":["Horror","Thriller","Adventure"],"completedDate":"2001-12-31","updatedDate":"2023-10-06","notes":"I rewatched it on 2023-10-02. I think it's overrated. Potentially it has Seinfeld syndrome. But I also find it not as horrifying as anyone has really claimed it to be. Even for movies around its time, there are standout horror classics that truly attest to that genre. This is more action-adventure with light thriller elements. It's hard to hold someone's testament to this movie much when there's both nostalgia and mainstream popularity that swings in its favor.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/578"},{"id":"322682678021628492","title":"Jiro Dreams of Sushi","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2011,"runtimeMinutes":82,"directors":["David Gelb"],"genres":["Documentary"],"completedDate":"2012-02-29","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/80767"},{"id":"322682678020496972","title":"John Wick: Chapter 2","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2017,"runtimeMinutes":122,"directors":["Chad Stahelski"],"actors":["Keanu Reeves","Ottaviano Dell'Acqua"],"genres":["Action","Thriller","Crime"],"completedDate":"2017-07-07","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Fight scenes are pretty fun. John Wick takes quite a few blows. I like how anime-ish it is in portrayal, cinematography, and choreography. It makes me notice just how generic most action scenes are otherwise. How all assassins cover the same tactics, kill the same way, and escape the same way. The hard-cut rules really let it dive more into fictional storytelling than other action stories can (for example, a fight scene being interrupted because they're now in the Continental, thus leading to a discussion). The coins and their amount don't often correspond very well to things they purchase.\n\nI really enjoy the settings. Futuristic New York MTA/Port Authority looks really clean and ad free. :)","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/324552"},{"id":"322682678021226060","title":"Joint Security Area","originalTitle":"공동경비구역 JSA","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2000,"runtimeMinutes":108,"directors":["Park Chan-wook"],"actors":["Lee Byung-hun","Lee Young-ae","Song Kang-ho","Shin Ha-kyun","Kim Tae-woo","Lee Dae-yeon"],"genres":["Drama","Thriller","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2017-03-18","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"The bro is heavy in this one. Kind of disappointed this film has such a heavy political agenda, with a subtle put deep Southern agenda of union and trade in particualr. All great acting though. And it's an interesting although glossy/superficial way to present a mystery.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/2440"},{"id":"338304880914465361","title":"Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons","originalTitle":"西游·降魔篇","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2013,"runtimeMinutes":110,"directors":["Stephen Chow"],"actors":["Shu Qi","Tang Yixin","Xing Yu","Huang Bo","Chrissie Chau","杨迪","Chen Bing Qiang"],"genres":["Action","Fantasy","Adventure","Comedy"],"completedDate":"2022-07-26","updatedDate":"2022-07-27","notes":"Surprisingly fun action adventure with lots of comedy elements. Not really that good fight scenes. It's the characters, comedy, and set pieces that make the film. I wish it had more action than the romance elements.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/170657"},{"id":"322682678020244044","title":"Ju-On: The Curse","originalTitle":"呪怨","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2000,"runtimeMinutes":70,"directors":["Takashi Shimizu"],"actors":["Chiaki Kuriyama","Yoriko Douguchi","Asumi Miwa"],"genres":["Horror","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2020-09-25","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"More creepy than scary. The low-budget aspects of the film make it feel often a little corny, pulling you out of the immersion. Can make it feel like bad acting, or envisioning the silliness of taking a child actor and making him try to appear scary.\n\nI like the various audio cues that add to the creepiness though. I can easily see where the classic attitude of this film comes from. The stares. The paleness. The immediateness of death.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/32250"},{"id":"322682678020503116","title":"Jules et Jim","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1962,"runtimeMinutes":106,"directors":["François Truffaut"],"actors":["Jeanne Moreau"],"genres":["Drama","Romance"],"completedDate":"2017-04-22","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I like the still shots and general use of creative language for cinema. It reminds me of the Monogatari style.\n\nWeird setup in bringing a love triangle. Remind sme of general anime in which the story revolves around eccentricities from a picky girl, and this girl is symbolic of many fetishes for men at the time. The idle nothingness of upper class youth Bohemians. It seems the style of French New Wave cinema to not substantiate characters with backstory, growth, etc. It all seems slightly superficial. Some next lvl netorare/netori. Are the relationships really this blaise for Bohemians? It's like they spend no time ever getting truly angry and lashing out. The sequence of letters thing at the end was really weird.\n\nShe's quite the attention whore. A 'queen' is only a nice way to put it. Even the ending is a little stupid.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1628"},{"id":"322682678021543500","title":"Juno","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2007,"runtimeMinutes":96,"directors":["Jason Reitman"],"actors":["Elliot Page","J.K. Simmons"],"genres":["Comedy","Drama","Romance"],"completedDate":"2009-08-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Believable main character and who purely makes the film so good. The Hollywood drama however is...not very good.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/7326"},{"id":"322682678021599820","title":"Jurassic Park","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1993,"runtimeMinutes":127,"directors":["Steven Spielberg"],"actors":["Samuel L. Jackson"],"genres":["Adventure","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"1998-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/329"},{"id":"dde14456-8065-4990-8466-4303b8ebc890","title":"Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2013,"runtimeMinutes":81,"directors":["Jay Oliva"],"actors":["Ron Perlman","Michael B. Jordan","Nathan Fillion","Cary Elwes","C. Thomas Howell","Danny Huston","Michael Beach","Dana Delany","Justin Chambers","Kevin Michael Richardson"],"genres":["Animation","Action","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2023-07-09","updatedDate":"2023-07-10","notes":"I started this to get into the best [DC animated films](https://www.reddit.com/r/DCcomics/comments/j760o4/what_are_the_best_dc_animated_films). This one is the start to the [DC Animated Movie Universe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC_Animated_Movie_Universe).","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/183011"},{"id":"322682678021581388","title":"Kick-Ass","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2010,"runtimeMinutes":118,"directors":["Matthew Vaughn"],"actors":["Nicolas Cage"],"genres":["Action","Crime"],"completedDate":"2010-05-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/23483"},{"id":"94191ba1-fe15-41f5-8bd7-aa2536c0001b","title":"Killers of the Flower Moon","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2023,"runtimeMinutes":206,"directors":["Martin Scorsese"],"actors":["Leonardo DiCaprio"],"genres":["Crime","History","Drama"],"completedDate":"2023-12-29","updatedDate":"2023-12-30","notes":"Too slow in pacing, not that great in character development. A C or B film from Scorsese.\n\nThe radio play is a nice delivery at the end. It at least shows some self-awareness about the white perspective told to entertain an audience about the plight of native americans.\n\nI'm not too into the political undertones of racial tragedy and misfortunes. Ironically a movie about the plight of native americans has white actors De Niro and DiCaprio having the most screentime. Lily Gladstone is the only major native american actor. It's a story about native americans rather than a story by or from the perspective of native americans. In fact, the main perspective is Ernest (DiCaprio's character) rather than, say, Mollie and her family's.\n\n+ https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20231025-killers-of-the-flower-moon-does-it-do-right-by-native-americans","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/466420"},{"id":"322682678021521996","title":"King Kong","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2005,"runtimeMinutes":188,"directors":["Peter Jackson"],"actors":["Jack Black","Colin Hanks"],"genres":["Adventure","Drama","Action"],"completedDate":"2005-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/254"},{"id":"322682678021274188","title":"Kubo and the Two Strings","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2016,"runtimeMinutes":102,"directors":["Travis Knight"],"actors":["Charlize Theron","Matthew McConaughey"],"genres":["Animation","Adventure","Family"],"completedDate":"2016-11-18","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/313297"},{"id":"322682678021327436","title":"La Grande Illusion","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1937,"runtimeMinutes":114,"directors":["Jean Renoir"],"actors":["Jean Gabin","Dita Parlo"],"genres":["Drama","History","War"],"completedDate":"2015-08-08","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"An interesting perspective of the war front by not displaying war at all, at least for its time in which now it's a standard setting. The romantic idealism portrayed in the characters, and the clear-cut boundaries by country, by social class, and by gender remain imminent and overblown.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/777"},{"id":"322682678020428364","title":"La La Land","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2016,"runtimeMinutes":129,"directors":["Damien Chazelle"],"actors":["Ryan Gosling","Emma Stone","J.K. Simmons"],"genres":["Comedy","Drama","Romance"],"completedDate":"2017-12-28","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"First an angsty jazz film in New York, which is great. Then a classic musical in Los Angeles filled with all the machissimo and stereotypial feminism at the time. The settings are depicted well, though I don't really like the setting. Story was also rather staler and more blockbuster than Whiplash's. Sort of the idyllic movie for date night: totally inoffensive, partially artistic, budding romance in the air. No real delving into their relationship beyond what you can infer from their impression.\n\nWhat was up with the Youtube piece? I had thought this was set in an older time given the culture and the classical L.A. musical relationship.\n\nI liked the reversal with the bittersweet ending, although still somewhat happy with them achieving their dreams. Even I find that one unbelievable.\n\nMy favorite part of the film is probably the sweeping cinematography.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/313369"},{"id":"322682678021413452","title":"Ladri di biciclette","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1948,"runtimeMinutes":89,"directors":["Vittorio De Sica"],"actors":["Sergio Leone","Enzo Staiola","Eolo Capritti","Lamberto Maggiorani"],"genres":["Drama"],"completedDate":"2014-03-14","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Archetypal and while grounded in Italian culture, the story itself is not so rich as critics are lead to believe, often in use of sentimentalism to evoke sympathy for the man's troubles.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/5156"},{"id":"322682678020360780","title":"Legend of the Demon Cat","originalTitle":"妖猫传","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2017,"runtimeMinutes":129,"directors":["Chen Kaige"],"actors":["Zhang Tian'ai","Liu Haoran","Huang Xuan","Shota Sometani","Keiko Matsuzaka","Kitty Zhang","Qin Hao","Sandrine Pinna","Peiqi Liu","Mason Lee"],"genres":["Fantasy","Adventure","Family"],"completedDate":"2019-01-08","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"What a zany story. I like the monk as a character. The way the unravels is kind of weird. In particular it all occurs as flashbacks, which seems unnecessary for a story already based in a period drama.\n\nThe CGI is seamless and I especially loved how authentic it felt to watch an acting CGI cat. The scenes sometimes felt too braggy with its visuals, showing expensive visuals for no other reason. Overall, the high budget did not feel very artistic in conveying any emotions; it was only used to make the film feel more hyper-realistic, which tends to be the case for blockbusters. This certainly doesn't follow any auteristic style from Chen Kaige.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/434221"},{"id":"322682678020504140","title":"Les Quatre Cents Coups","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1959,"runtimeMinutes":99,"directors":["François Truffaut"],"actors":["Jeanne Moreau","Jean-Pierre Léaud","Jean-Claude Brialy"],"genres":["Drama"],"completedDate":"2017-04-22","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I can see the multiple perspectives in framing his adolescence, initial state of laziness, and how it more broadly tries to reflect the French rebellious generation of the time. Often a misunderstood child with not much attention from his parents, and a poor background, it's clear why he's such a truant and why it only escalates without help. However, I see the film as roughly inconsequential. There's no sense of action to force drama or characterization. I get it's all about inaction that develops the plot. But I wish there were something that brought out the troubles each person has under more light, eithe rin the plot itself, the cinematography, the various pauses and emphases on certain scenes, etc. You can even see the parents try but not enough. There's neither as much focus onto its themes as there could be (contrast, say, with a Bright Summer Day and Asian cinema's take in general).","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/147"},{"id":"322682678020245068","title":"Logan Lucky","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2017,"runtimeMinutes":119,"directors":["Steven Soderbergh"],"actors":["LeAnn Rimes","Katie Holmes"],"genres":["Comedy","Crime","Action","Drama"],"completedDate":"2020-09-14","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Watched it on Twitch with Sodapoppin, immediately after Midsommar. Stellar A-star actors. I'm a big fan of Daniel Craig and his southern accent from Knives Out. Also Riley Keough is sexy. The hillbilly setting is hilarious. Dumb ending. Tons of weird plot lines, but it's still fun for the action comedy. The Monroe warden. The raceway owner. Over the top acting. It seems like everyone is on the robbery, with the exception of the insurance companies.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/399170"},{"id":"322682678020207180","title":"Lola rennt","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1998,"runtimeMinutes":80,"directors":["Tom Tykwer"],"actors":["Franka Potente","Heino Ferch","Moritz Bleibtreu"],"genres":["Action","Drama","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2021-03-26","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Reminds me of UncUt Gems in its constant thrill but with its own direction. The soundtrack is on point. I think \"experimental\" fits the movie well with its weird cuts, angles, and blurring with animation. The anti-climax is perhaps the best ending in its scenario.\n\nI thought the three attempts were all fairly boring: first, ask dad; then, rob dad (probably the most exciting) but somehow ruined by getting run over; then, win it in a 1/20 two times in a row.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/104"},{"id":"843112fd-44e6-4339-b98f-14634f8698d3","title":"Longlegs","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2024,"runtimeMinutes":101,"directors":["Osgood Perkins"],"actors":["Nicolas Cage"],"genres":["Crime","Horror","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2024-07-13","updatedDate":"2024-07-13","notes":"+ Good vibes, bad writing. Plot holes and weird plot devices stringed along.\n+ Nicolas Cage is appropriately creepy. I liked a lot of specific scenes.\n+ The reveal of Satan and dolls is too trope-y. If I were doing this movie, I would push more on longlegs. If it had to be biblical, make it a Daddy Longlegs demon with your own lore rather than satanic symbols and goats. It was also a missed opportunity with longlegs symbolism and motifs such as daddy longlegs spiders, tall creatures, etc.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1226578"},{"id":"322682678021405260","title":"Looking for Richard","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1996,"runtimeMinutes":112,"directors":["Al Pacino"],"actors":["Kenneth Branagh"],"genres":["Documentary"],"completedDate":"2009-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/42314"},{"id":"322682678020502092","title":"Love and Honor","originalTitle":"武士の一分","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2006,"runtimeMinutes":121,"directors":["Yoji Yamada"],"actors":["Takuya Kimura","Kaori Momoi"],"genres":["Drama","Romance"],"completedDate":"2017-04-26","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Same themes as the rest of the trilogy, with lower class samurai and how they make a living. Strict social castes, weird honor restrictions, gender imbalances, family duties and the importance of connections. The modern lens was a little insufferable (before the protagonist goes blind, he promises to leave the system and start a dojo to teach children how to fight, regardless of caste). Fortunately there was not much of it. The ending is also a little corny and bird cage metaphor obvious.\n\nI like the nuanced relationships and steady pacing. Really helps establish the drama. The long shots set the atmosphere quite well. This is what I think sets the film away from a more mediocre presentation as in the second of this trilogy.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/20527"},{"id":"322682678021347916","title":"Love Letter","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1995,"runtimeMinutes":65,"directors":["Robert Rodriguez","Patrick Osborne"],"actors":["Finneas O'Connell"],"genres":["Music","Animation"],"completedDate":"2015-02-14","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Romantic and rather sappy. Still enjoyable nevertheless. I enjoyed the open-endedness of many of its characters.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/853088"},{"id":"9d53b064-a694-404e-ae96-f958235f300e","title":"Love on Delivery","originalTitle":"破壞之王","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1994,"runtimeMinutes":97,"directors":["Lee Lik-Chi"],"actors":["Stephen Chow"],"genres":["Comedy","Action"],"completedDate":"2023-02-17","updatedDate":"2023-02-20","notes":"Too cheesy for me. The bad quality and audio desync also didn't help.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/53163"},{"id":"322682678020180556","title":"Luca","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2021,"runtimeMinutes":95,"directors":["Enrico Casarosa"],"actors":["Jack Dylan Grazer","Jacob Tremblay","Maya Rudolph","Giacomo Gianniotti","Jim Pirri"],"genres":["Animation","Comedy","Family","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"2021-07-03","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"A very standard Pixel film, mediocre by their standards.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/508943"},{"id":"a4b5e4e9-b605-4b11-8e85-fc42c58f5c72","title":"Maestro","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2023,"runtimeMinutes":129,"directors":["Bradley Cooper"],"actors":["Bradley Cooper"],"genres":["Drama","Romance","Music"],"completedDate":"2024-01-20","updatedDate":"2024-01-21","notes":"I dropped it 1 hour in.\n\nOscar bait in many ways with its story choice and cinematography. Still an enjoyable ride.\n\nThe focus on Leonard Bernstein's closeted bisexuality feels overstated relative to both his true life and the more interesting point of music. Here, Cooper takes the approach of music more as a backdrop to describe Bernstein's life rather than put it in center stage. Instead it's about Bernstein's love life.\n\nThe accents feel too feigned.\n\nNot much is really explored about Bernstein's trials and tribulations itself. You don't get much out of the film.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/523607"},{"id":"322682678021540428","title":"Memento","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2000,"runtimeMinutes":113,"directors":["Christopher Nolan"],"actors":["Carrie-Anne Moss","Joe Pantoliano","Guy Pearce","Thomas Lennon","Jorja Fox","Callum Keith Rennie","Stephen Tobolowsky","Mark Boone Junior","Larry Holden","Kimberly Campbell"],"genres":["Mystery","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2010-10-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/77"},{"id":"322682678021606988","title":"Men in Black","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1997,"runtimeMinutes":98,"directors":["Barry Sonnenfeld"],"actors":["Sylvester Stallone","Steven Spielberg"],"genres":["Action","Adventure","Comedy","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"1997-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/607"},{"id":"23b59714-e3ab-4fda-ac4f-59c1d0de8285","title":"Mickey 17","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2025,"runtimeMinutes":137,"directors":["Bong Joon Ho"],"actors":["Robert Pattinson","Naomi Ackie","Toni Collette","Mark Ruffalo","Holliday Grainger","Steven Yeun","Angus Imrie","Anamaria Vartolomei","Thomas Turgoose","Steve Park"],"genres":["Science Fiction","Fantasy","Comedy"],"completedDate":"2025-03-06","updatedDate":"2025-03-07","notes":"i rightjly predicted the movie woth low standards because its an enlgihs language feature, despite how much i love bong joon ho, his english movies never thr. out as well. i predict for several reasons:\n\n+ different production staff\n+ too much creative freedom\n+ no ability to put in iconic korean motifs and styles he excels in. for example, family, poor backgrounds, and black comedy.\n\nothers\n\n+ they sis ateven yuen and koreans kore broadly, dirty. no role to really shine\n+ i always find it ironic a big indie director is famous enough that all the a list actors want to with them. but then the movie is not newrly as good anymore, partially because of these actors\n+ writing is perhaps its weakest point and failed the movie as its foundation. obvious from the very atart when they exposit the premise at you and dont give any artistic or good opener.\n+ themes too surface level. something common in all of bong joon hos movies, but at least the plot or characters such as the families in the host and parasite are what drive the movie.\n+ robert pattinson was a great actor and the movies highest sellling point.\n+ female empowerment was a big selling point. but ultimately its still a movie theough the lens of robert pattinson. its corporate feminism.\n+ some good comedic elements. although its more loke okja and hollywood comedy than his signature korean black comedy.\n+ cinematic but not necessarily in any artistic way. very conservative like his netflix features\n\n“There were so many interesting themes raised but then never fully extrapolated - cloning, personhood, capitalism, religion, politics, genesis, colonialism. Tons of irrelevant subplots that added chaos but no value - Kai (awful actress, btw), gambling debt collectors in space, drug dealing, the committee.\n\nIt tried to do a little with too much and the results were chaotic. I feel like this plot would have worked much better as a mini series where there is time to unfold all the layers.”\n\nhttps://www.reddit.com/r/movies/s/qlB3BjfuSw\n\nhttps://www.reddit.com/r/movies/s/BlBS9nU2gG","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/696506"},{"id":"322682678020469324","title":"Misery","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1990,"runtimeMinutes":107,"directors":["Rob Reiner"],"actors":["James Caan","Kathy Bates","J. T. Walsh","Frances Sternhagen","Richard Farnsworth","Lauren Bacall","Rob Reiner"],"genres":["Drama","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2017-08-17","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I must say turning Misery into a film is a real challenge, considering its greatest strengths come into Paul Sheldon's inner monologues---none of which can necessarily be told in a film medium. It changes the story to make it more plausible and chilling in different ways; the sheriff is a main character for one. It lacks for example his paranoia, his drug addiction, his pain. The music is pretty cheesy 80s-90s symphonies and emphasize the note of crazy Annie a little too obviously. It should better emphasize visuals and sound.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1700"},{"id":"f8a71d73-eebb-4b1d-9b5e-799a8ebe3874","title":"Missing","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2023,"runtimeMinutes":111,"directors":["Will Merrick","Nicholas D. Johnson"],"actors":["Storm Reid","Nia Long","Joaquim de Almeida","Jasmin Savoy Brown","Ken Leung","Amy Landecker","Megan Suri","Thomas Barbusca","Daniel Henney","Tim Griffin"],"genres":["Drama","Mystery","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2023-03-12","updatedDate":"2023-03-12","notes":"The details in how social media is used and plausible tracking of the various technologies is quite good. The writing is tacky and forced.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/768362"},{"id":"e051ba21-3390-42ce-8344-f32be7420a95","title":"Molly's Game","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2017,"runtimeMinutes":141,"directors":["Aaron Sorkin"],"actors":["Kevin Costner","Jessica Chastain","Jeremy Strong","Idris Elba","Joe Keery","Michael Cera","Chris O'Dowd","Graham Greene","Jon Bass","Natalie Krill"],"genres":["Drama","Crime"],"completedDate":"2023-10-07","updatedDate":"2023-10-07","notes":"Fun overall story. The writing feels exaggerated and written like a overly obnoxious novella. I can't stand Aaron Sorkin's pretentiousness. It has the expected stages and makes the protagonist too selfless. Makes them less interesting than they actually could be. Builds on a lot of exaggeration (famous celebrities and people that they wouldn't want to name, secrets they don't want to uncover). Heavily stylized and ignores details such as Molly claiming she did not actually know she was at the center of Russian mobsters who were effectively using her games to launder money. And there's a whole therapy reveal that the real reason Molly ran the game was not because of the money but because they had a deep father issue and they wanted to rule over powerful men.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/396371"},{"id":"322682678020436556","title":"Murder on the Orient Express","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1974,"runtimeMinutes":128,"directors":["Sidney Lumet"],"actors":["Jacqueline Bisset","Sean Connery","Vanessa Redgrave","Ingrid Bergman","Anthony Perkins","Martin Balsam","Michael York","Lauren Bacall","Jean-Pierre Cassel"],"genres":["Drama","Thriller","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2017-11-07","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Fun whodunnit. Like the humor during the investigation. Unfortunately only the detective really stands out as a character. Reminds me of Sympathy to Mrs. Lady Vengeance. Maybe the latter was inspired by this one.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/4176"},{"id":"322682678020277836","title":"Nameless Gangster","originalTitle":"범죄와의 전쟁","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2012,"runtimeMinutes":133,"directors":["Yoon Jong-bin"],"actors":["Ma Dong-seok","Park Byung-eun","You Chea-myung","Kim Hye-eun","Kim Sung-kyun","Cho Jin-woong","Ha Jung-woo","Choi Min-sik","Kim Min-joo","Kim Yeong-seon"],"genres":["Crime","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2020-02-13","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I'm both amazed by how weak Choi Min-sik is and how many connections he has, almost as if he's making them up. I swear half of this film is elaborate as fuck dinners and gifts passed over an ostentatious display of food.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/89501"},{"id":"322682678021466700","title":"National Lampoon's Animal House","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1978,"runtimeMinutes":109,"directors":["John Landis"],"actors":["Donald Sutherland","Bruce McGill","Tim Matheson","Kevin Bacon","Peter Riegert","John Landis","Mark Metcalf","John Belushi","Tom Hulce","Karen Allen"],"genres":["Comedy"],"completedDate":"2013-11-25","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"A few gaggy characters, but in general it's pretty fun cheesy stuff. Right in with generic frat spirit. Others are hilariously brilliant. Terrible acting at times but intentionally enough to be stupidly funny.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/8469"},{"id":"c482af3d-8cf5-40b3-b60e-bea1961aa484","title":"Nimona","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2023,"runtimeMinutes":99,"directors":["Troy Quane","Nick Bruno"],"actors":["Chloë Grace Moretz","Riz Ahmed","Frances Conroy","Lorraine Toussaint","Indya Moore","RuPaul","Eugene Lee Yang","ND Stevenson","Beck Bennett"],"genres":["Animation","Family","Fantasy","Adventure","Science Fiction","Action"],"completedDate":"2023-07-16","updatedDate":"2023-07-17","notes":"It's a stock children's fantasy premise but with Nimona to shine. Nimona both in character and powers is fun. The dialogue is great. The animation is on point. I also like its setting mixing urban technology and medieval.\n\nThe drama and not believing things is kind of dumb.\n\nI like the kaiju monster design. It's a shadow amorphous husk in black and white, and where attacks, multiple slit eyes, and openings are in white.\n\n> So great that Disney pat itself on the back yet again with the first non binary character on Elemental with only 10 seconds of screentime\n> \n> Meanwhile Nimona has a gay protagonist with a love interest, they freaking kissed at the end, the title character is gender-fluid, the text is unapologetically queer and the villain is a conservative who hates minorities and want to preserve their way of life\n>\n> No wonder why Disney didn't want to release it ([source](https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/14o5h2z/official_discussion_nimona_spoilers/jqbfvxc))\n\nMotivated to watch because it looks like a fun animated movie, with super heroes and from an indie comic.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/961323"},{"id":"322682678020179532","title":"No Sudden Moves","status":"Completed","score":6,"completedDate":"2021-07-10","updatedDate":"2022-01-30"},{"id":"322682678020200012","title":"Nobody","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2021,"runtimeMinutes":91,"directors":["Ilya Naishuller"],"actors":["Michael Ironside","Christopher Lloyd","Connie Nielsen","Daniel Bernhardt","Bob Odenkirk","Adam Hurtig","Humberly Gonzalez","Billy MacLellan","J.P. Manoux","Aleksey Serebryakov"],"genres":["Action","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2021-06-01","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Fun in the John Wick style. It's less interesting fight choreography and more just interesting because of the overall story and jokes. Fights are a bit cornier especially in the climax.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/615457"},{"id":"b2a21752-7fa2-45aa-815e-a0554de0233d","title":"Normal","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2026,"runtimeMinutes":92,"directors":["Ben Wheatley"],"genres":["Action","Crime","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2026-05-24","updatedDate":"2026-05-25","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1242332"},{"id":"322682678021247564","title":"North by Northwest","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1959,"runtimeMinutes":137,"directors":["Alfred Hitchcock"],"actors":["Alfred Hitchcock","Eva Marie Saint","Jessie Royce Landis","Cary Grant","Leo G. Carroll","Martin Landau","James Mason","Doreen Lang","Josephine Hutchinson"],"genres":["Thriller","Adventure"],"completedDate":"2017-02-17","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"This is easily one of the more cliche and trite Hitchock films. I enjoyed the Hitchock general feel of you vs the world at the beginning. Music is fun, and I like some of the shots. But the storyline and suspense quickly devolved into banality.\n\nThe flirting with that women is so incredibly aggressive. I can't think that's real, and that he would just fall for it! The plot twists are very unlike western films and more like terrible cliches. First she's a helpful bystander extremely attracted to Thornhill; then she's an agent for the evil organization; then she's the undercover agent for the government. Everything gets cleaned up so the storyline progresses without inconsistency or loose holes, such as making sure that they realize that she's undercover so that Thornhill can go ahead and save her. Damsel in distress.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/213"},{"id":"ae54d3d0-8b26-4c32-b718-60a675dc68aa","title":"Notting Hill","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1999,"runtimeMinutes":124,"directors":["Roger Michell"],"actors":["Julia Roberts"],"genres":["Romance","Comedy"],"completedDate":"2025-06-28","updatedDate":"2025-07-02","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/509"},{"id":"322682678021615180","title":"Ocean's Eleven","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2001,"runtimeMinutes":116,"directors":["Steven Soderbergh"],"actors":["Brad Pitt","Matt Damon"],"genres":["Thriller","Crime"],"completedDate":"2006-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/161"},{"id":"5f9f3b50-8a5f-4d9a-9ce8-6abfbd2a545e","title":"One Battle After Another","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2025,"runtimeMinutes":162,"directors":["Paul Thomas Anderson"],"actors":["Leonardo DiCaprio"],"genres":["Thriller","Crime","Comedy"],"completedDate":"2025-11-27","updatedDate":"2025-11-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1054867"},{"id":"322682678020357708","title":"Outrage","originalTitle":"アウトレイジ","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2010,"runtimeMinutes":109,"directors":["Takeshi Kitano"],"actors":["Takeshi Kitano","Jun Kunimura","Eihi Shiina","Masaki Miura","Tokio Emoto"],"genres":["Action","Crime","Thriller","Drama"],"completedDate":"2019-01-12","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I like the culture and the story's pacing. The yakuza violence easily varies from cutting one's finger to slashing a gang leader's face to the actual violence. The escalation is what I find interesting, and the dynamics between members of the overall organization. I also like how various Yakuza are valued in their worth by the attractiveness of their spouse (e.g., Otomo (Takeshi Kitano)'s wife, the underling cut off his finger's girlfriend). I like how it even touches on gambling in an embassy lol.\n\nUltimatley, the story just chugs along without a particular meaning. It's like day of the highlighted stream life of a Yakuza overthrow lol.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/45284"},{"id":"1e03a658-5706-42b8-b76c-00bff38c8c1a","title":"Paddington 2","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2017,"runtimeMinutes":104,"directors":["Paul King"],"actors":["Nicholas Woodeson"],"genres":["Adventure","Comedy","Family"],"completedDate":"2025-02-14","updatedDate":"2025-02-15","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/346648"},{"id":"322682678020248140","title":"Palm Springs","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2020,"runtimeMinutes":90,"directors":["Max Barbakow"],"actors":["J.K. Simmons"],"genres":["Comedy","Romance","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2020-08-27","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Standard fanfare in the overall Groundhog Day plot. I do like Andy Samberg's miscellaneous comedy.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/587792"},{"id":"85bf351c-bf4d-4785-855d-c0ce31535b80","title":"Past Lives","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2023,"runtimeMinutes":106,"directors":["Celine Song"],"actors":["Greta Lee","John Magaro","Choi Won-young","Teo Yoo","Yoon Ji-hye","Hwang Seung-eon"],"genres":["Drama","Romance"],"completedDate":"2024-06-16","updatedDate":"2024-06-16","notes":"Too inconsequential.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/666277"},{"id":"322682678021326412","title":"Pastoral: To Die in the Country","originalTitle":"田園に死す","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1974,"runtimeMinutes":101,"directors":["Shūji Terayama"],"actors":["Keiko Niitaka","Yoshio Harada"],"genres":["Fantasy","Drama"],"completedDate":"2014-03-22","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Clock as unifying motif of individuality and where \"home\" lies.\n\nInteresting culture.\n\nPurposefully dense and stupid at times, like the witch dancing around for so long. Pretty much a hipster film.\n\nWould have been better without the extra meta layer on the writer having writer's block in making the film.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/104251"},{"id":"322682678021359180","title":"Paths of Glory","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1957,"runtimeMinutes":88,"directors":["Stanley Kubrick"],"actors":["Joe Turkel","Richard Anderson","Kirk Douglas","Christiane Kubrick","George Macready"],"genres":["War","Drama"],"completedDate":"2015-01-02","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"A sophomoric attempt. Interesting exposition from the higher level corruption to the bottom level--rather one-sided however and quite vicious in its attack on dumb and obvious corruption and quite fanboyish over Kirk Douglas. Kubrick's cinematography, particularly the reverse shot is intriguing, along with the overall trial.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/975"},{"id":"322682678021206604","title":"Play It Again, Sam","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1972,"runtimeMinutes":85,"directors":["Herbert Ross"],"actors":["Diane Keaton","Tony Roberts","Woody Allen"],"genres":["Comedy","Romance"],"completedDate":"2017-04-05","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"First time I've seen such cringe-humor from Woody. The overarching romance plot is cheesy as well as the soundtrack. The individual jokes are fun and I love the script and also how Humphrey Bogart the fantasies appear in various scenes. Clearly a play adaptation.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/11610"},{"id":"c4bc10cf-35e0-4960-8000-67f6e731e23e","title":"Predator: Badlands","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2025,"runtimeMinutes":107,"directors":["Dan Trachtenberg"],"actors":["Elle Fanning","Ross Duffer"],"genres":["Action","Science Fiction","Adventure"],"completedDate":"2025-11-30","updatedDate":"2025-11-30","notes":"I like the new world and monsters.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1242898"},{"id":"339403833073467985","title":"Prey","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2022,"runtimeMinutes":100,"directors":["Dan Trachtenberg"],"actors":["Amber Midthunder","Michelle Thrush","Julian Black Antelope","Samuel Marty"],"genres":["Thriller","Action","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2022-08-07","updatedDate":"2022-08-08","notes":"Typical story. Atypical culture. Fairly fun action scenes.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/766507"},{"id":"72bd6950-e3e7-4567-ac3f-67d1b1709c13","title":"Pride & Prejudice","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2005,"runtimeMinutes":127,"directors":["Joe Wright"],"genres":["Drama","Romance"],"completedDate":"2025-07-07","updatedDate":"2025-07-07","notes":"I didn't realize how much of a tropey chick flick this movie is.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/4348"},{"id":"322682678020226636","title":"Promising Young Woman","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2020,"runtimeMinutes":114,"directors":["Emerald Fennell"],"actors":["Clancy Brown","Alfred Molina","Carey Mulligan","Alison Brie","Jennifer Coolidge","Max Greenfield","Adam Brody","Bo Burnham","Connie Britton","Christopher Mintz-Plasse"],"genres":["Thriller","Crime","Drama"],"completedDate":"2021-03-05","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I love the idea of the movie: pushing on a socially unaware issue and having a predator that goes around to take vengeance---maybe one of the more realistic examples of why they're there! What a weird mix of genres: part romance and part thriller. I like the thriller elements, and I like the idea of having the romance enhance the thriller as it is ultimately sexual-driven. But it's a little too hamfisted for me.\n\nI wish the movie were actually darker. But it's also about moving on, and drama. Boring.. If someone had fucked up my life that much, I would just kill them. It's easy. And the ending is supposed to be a message but that makes for a boring movie.\n\nSome of the shots are really good. They stand out.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/582014"},{"id":"322682678020416076","title":"Psychokinesis","originalTitle":"염력","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2018,"runtimeMinutes":101,"directors":["Yeon Sang-ho"],"actors":["Jung Yu-mi","Ye Soo-jung","Tae Hang-ho","Shim Eun-kyung","Jung Young-ki","Yoo Seung-mok","Kim Do-yoon","Ryu Seung-ryong","Kim Yeong-seon","Woo Jung-kook"],"genres":["Fantasy","Action","Comedy"],"completedDate":"2018-04-27","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Although banal and clearly black and white, I liked the absurdist comedy at times that's mixed with the drama and super power nonsense. Some against-corporations as usual, but also some biting commentary against police.. lol how usual of Korean films. You have to worry just how corrupt the police are there.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/452015"},{"id":"322682678021559884","title":"Rain Man","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1988,"runtimeMinutes":134,"directors":["Barry Levinson"],"actors":["Tom Cruise"],"genres":["Drama"],"completedDate":"2011-09-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/380"},{"id":"322682678021616204","title":"Ratatouille","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2007,"runtimeMinutes":111,"directors":["Brad Bird"],"actors":["Patton Oswalt","Will Arnett","James Remar","Brad Garrett","Brian Dennehy","Peter O'Toole","John Ratzenberger","Lou Romano","Brad Bird"],"genres":["Animation","Comedy","Family","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"2007-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/2062"},{"id":"322682678020253260","title":"Ready or Not","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2019,"runtimeMinutes":96,"directors":["Matt Bettinelli-Olpin","Tyler Gillett"],"actors":["Samara Weaving","Andie MacDowell","Melanie Scrofano","Hanneke Talbot","Adam Brody","Henry Czerny","Daniela Barbosa","Elyse Levesque","Mark O'Brien","Nat Faxon"],"genres":["Horror","Comedy"],"completedDate":"2020-06-20","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Motivated because thriller and premise and hot girl. I thought it was fun to watch. Not quite as good in terms of ensemble crazy family's characters as Knives Out. Or the push on silliness and comedy of the premise as The Hunt. I like the subversion of the groom here and him also turning out evil.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/567609"},{"id":"322682678020373068","title":"Ready Player One","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2018,"runtimeMinutes":140,"directors":["Steven Spielberg"],"actors":["Mckenna Grace"],"genres":["Adventure","Action","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2018-12-24","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I liked the overall story from premise to general narrative. The story overall and grapihcs isn't as great as Tron: Legacy though, which benefited from catering to a more mature audience and having the amazing soundtrack done by Daft Punk. It was cliche in ways you would expect.\n\nIt showed the world more through exposition than via the film itself. To convince viewers, for example, of the power of virtual reality and the deceiving romance, it should show it by making the audience fall in love with this.\n\nI liked that the romance was one-sided with him falling in love with an idea. I wish it came out that she was an older woman (or even an engineered older man) who faked it. The fact that the disappointment was a minor birthmark is laughable. Of course everyone in real life is basically the same as their in-game avatar, no one is socially awkward or an outcast, and everyone happens to live in the same location. There's a clear-cut villain with a single person who's made to look like a jackass. The \"resistance\" is bare-bones with just the romantic lead and a bunch of nameless people. Everyone plays a humanoid. The very idea of a bunch of puzzles isn't really what virtual reality and video gaming is about. THe heavy-handed politics at the end is eye-rolling: shutting off Oasis on Tuesday and Wednesday..\n\nThe premise is interesting---that all humans have left to virtual reality and the real world is a steampunk shitshow. I agree with this prediction. But I think the reasons and features virtual reality is far more than what they show. It's not just above video gaming with your favorite heros. It's offering many instances of reality---including the real world augmented with physics-breaking conveniences like teleportation; worlds within worlds; lack of any need for needless teleportation and waiting; lack of actual work as there aren't finite resources so everyone can be happy. I fully expect this reality to come to fruition if there weren't other technologies competing, e.g., immortality, breaking physics within the real world itself.\n\nI like all of the pop culture references. That must have been a licensing nightmare.. They even got the Shining music.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/333339"},{"id":"f31ec8e8-c0a7-40f8-95a9-5600b4f687d8","title":"Rebel Ridge","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2024,"runtimeMinutes":131,"directors":["Jeremy Saulnier"],"actors":["AnnaSophia Robb","Don Johnson","James Cromwell","Dana Lee","Emory Cohen","David Denman","James Badge Dale","Aaron Pierre","Terence Rosemore","Al Vicente"],"genres":["Crime","Action","Thriller","Drama"],"completedDate":"2024-11-20","updatedDate":"2024-11-21","notes":"Great setup. I have mixed feelings about the nonlethal. I think this is the type of movie you watch for a high body count. The subdued action puts more pressure on the story and characters and acting to do well. And it's not the kind of plot where this shines.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/646097"},{"id":"322682678021303884","title":"Red Cliff","originalTitle":"赤壁","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2008,"runtimeMinutes":145,"directors":["John Woo"],"actors":["Tony Leung Chiu-wai","Song Jia","Hu Jun","Zhao Wei","Takeshi Kaneshiro","Lin Chiling","Chang Chen","Tong Dawei","Shido Nakamura"],"genres":["Adventure","Drama","History","Action","War"],"completedDate":"2016-05-24","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/12289"},{"id":"322682678021439052","title":"Red Sorghum","originalTitle":"紅高粱","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1988,"runtimeMinutes":91,"directors":["Zhang Yimou"],"actors":["Gong Li"],"genres":["Drama","Romance","History"],"completedDate":"2013-12-16","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Charming with the raw authenticity you wouldn't expect in other films. Unfortunately as much as I enjoy its cinematography and scene-by-scene play, the plot is a bit incoherent. First it's the woman's strife, then it's red sorghum, and then it's with the Japs. It's only unified by the sorghum fields as a motif, and the common people as its cultural setting, and I can't say this holds it together as well as I'd like. A parable of China it may be, but Red Sorghum doesn't hold itself to presenting anything in particular. Why it's in the grandson's narrative, for example.\n\nStill, Red Sorghum does just about everything else well--the visuals, the rich culture and emotions, and some decent character progression. I could easily see the novel doing better with a stronger exploration into its narrative and more detailed contexts given the prose. Its peasant life setting too is something truly remarkable and I find Zhang's portrayal of the society right on target.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/42006"},{"id":"322682678021585484","title":"Requiem for a Dream","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2000,"runtimeMinutes":102,"directors":["Darren Aronofsky"],"actors":["Jennifer Connelly"],"genres":["Crime","Drama"],"completedDate":"2011-11-27","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/641"},{"id":"8663973c-ade3-4bd0-b9c5-9548f9675cbe","title":"Revelations","originalTitle":"계시록","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2025,"runtimeMinutes":122,"directors":["Yeon Sang-ho"],"genres":["Thriller","Crime","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2026-08-16","updatedDate":"2026-08-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1210938"},{"id":"322682678020215372","title":"Ring","originalTitle":"リング","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1998,"completedDate":"2021-03-18","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Subdued and still excellent storytelling with its low-budget, like Grudge. There are few \"scary scenes\". I found the American film more intensely scary, but it's hard to compare since I watched it so long ago, particularly as an impressionable child, and with the novelty of the story. The copy reveal at the end is also a weird cop out."},{"id":"322682678020489804","title":"Rise of the Planet of the Apes","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2011,"runtimeMinutes":105,"directors":["Rupert Wyatt"],"actors":["Tom Felton","Brian Cox","James Franco","B. J. Harrison","Tyler Labine","Ty Olsson","Andy Serkis","John Lithgow","Tracy Spiridakos","Freida Pinto"],"genres":["Thriller","Action","Drama","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2017-07-27","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Very unoriginal and bland formula. Totally predictable from the get go, with the only unique aspect being it's a betrayal-love story with apes. I only wish Caesar remained as intelligent as he was in the first film.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/61791"},{"id":"322682678020291148","title":"Robocop","originalTitle":"RoboCop","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2014,"runtimeMinutes":118,"directors":["José Padilha"],"actors":["Jennifer Ehle","Samuel L. Jackson","Gary Oldman"],"genres":["Action","Science Fiction","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2020-01-13","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Surprisingly modern and realistic. As an AI researcher, I can very meech see this level of bio-computer interaction, and the politics that goes into deploying human vs machine-only. I especially love the HUDs in forensics and fights. The politics at the end devolved too easily to point Sellars as the bad guy where there should really be a grey sea of morality. Ending was underwhelming.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/97020"},{"id":"322682678021617228","title":"Rocky","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1976,"runtimeMinutes":120,"directors":["John G. Avildsen"],"actors":["Sylvester Stallone"],"genres":["Drama"],"completedDate":"2005-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1366"},{"id":"322682678022248012","title":"Rounders","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1998,"runtimeMinutes":121,"directors":["John Dahl"],"actors":["Matt Damon"],"genres":["Drama","Crime"],"completedDate":"2007-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/10220"},{"id":"322682678022395468","title":"Rumble in the Bronx","originalTitle":"紅番區","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1995,"runtimeMinutes":106,"directors":["Stanley Tong Gwai-Lai"],"actors":["Jackie Chan"],"genres":["Crime","Action","Comedy","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2002-12-31","updatedDate":"2023-04-24","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/33542"},{"id":"322682678020184652","title":"Run","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2020,"runtimeMinutes":90,"directors":["Aneesh Chaganty"],"actors":["Sarah Paulson","Tony Revolori","B. J. Harrison","Erik Athavale","Pat Healy","Onalee Ames"],"genres":["Thriller","Horror","Drama"],"completedDate":"2021-06-25","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/546121"},{"id":"322682678021319244","title":"Sacrifice","originalTitle":"赵氏孤儿","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2010,"runtimeMinutes":66,"directors":["Lucifer Valentine"],"actors":["Ameara Lavey"],"genres":["Horror"],"completedDate":"2015-11-07","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Rather weak storyling.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/68610"},{"id":"322682678020225612","title":"Saint Maud","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2020,"runtimeMinutes":85,"directors":["Rose Glass"],"actors":["Jennifer Ehle"],"genres":["Horror","Mystery","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2021-03-05","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Slow but interesting through the way. I don't get where the horror was going though.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/575776"},{"id":"322682678020221516","title":"Salo","status":"Completed","score":6,"runtimeMinutes":117,"directors":["Pier Paolo Pasolini"],"actors":["Antiniska Nemour","Paolo Bonacelli","Aldo Valletti"],"genres":["War","Drama","Horror"],"completedDate":"2021-03-08","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Ultimately I think Salo is a bit overrated. It serves its job well, particularly as one of the founders of extreme cinema. And unlike other notorious shock horror films, Salo uses the shock horror to tell a visceral message. But I think the shock horror is done more interestingly in other films where there's more identifiable characters and story progression to make the shock more visceral.\n\nThe structure in the arcs, the storyteller, and various forms of employment, are interesting. More disgusting in its shock horror but not as bad as other films. The worse parts for me are: eating bread with nails; eating shit; pissing on people; the offscene torture scenes to kill them while being raped and after it all. It's actually not that gorey. I wish it had closer to horror elements. They do cover quite a lot of fetishes though. The blistering ending sends a dark message. You can tell that Salo is a surrealist satire that tries its best to portray the magnitude in which fascists in the 1919-1946 defiled, murdered, and raped their population.\n\nThere isn't really any interesting character. The four fascists are all quite similar, and similarly the victims, which I found made it rather unremarkable.\n\nThe editing is weird sometimes. There are a lot of audio voice-overs that take you out of the film as you see no mouths moving.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/5336"},{"id":"322682678021349964","title":"Sansho the Bailiff","originalTitle":"山椒大夫","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1954,"runtimeMinutes":124,"directors":["Kenji Mizoguchi"],"actors":["Kinuyo Tanaka"],"genres":["Drama"],"completedDate":"2015-02-09","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Rather boring, cookie cutter just like Ugetsu's story but lacking in a strong execution to render the scenes more powerful. I did enjoy the latter portion where he tries to find his family again and everyone is gone however, and also the statue as a motif. It would do better with more characterization but I guess this is not for such old tales. The miserable ending is certainly quite nice.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/20532"},{"id":"322682678020480588","title":"Save the Green Planet!","originalTitle":" 지구를 지켜라!","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2003,"runtimeMinutes":117,"directors":["Jang Joon-hwan"],"actors":["Kim Roi-ha","Ye Soo-jung","Shin Ha-kyun","Baek Yoon-sik"],"genres":["Comedy","Science Fiction","Crime"],"completedDate":"2017-08-07","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"The insanity serial killing is pretty fun. The cloying drama at the climax and also the hard-ass police cop are really annoying. They literally prevent the story from progressing. The ending is hilarious. I also like that the good guys lose.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/11297"},{"id":"322682678022342220","title":"Saw","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2004,"runtimeMinutes":103,"directors":["James Wan"],"actors":["Tobin Bell","Danny Glover","Dina Meyer","Cary Elwes","Ken Leung","Monica Potter","Shawnee Smith","Leigh Whannell","Makenzie Vega Norfolk","Michael Emerson"],"genres":["Horror","Mystery","Crime"],"completedDate":"2004-12-31","updatedDate":"2023-10-14","notes":"Rewatched it on 2023-10-14. Nothing amazing in terms of cinematography. It's the idea of the horror via the games and influencing people that makes the series brainlessly fun. The various plot twists aren't always logical. For example:\n\n+ Adam's game is barely a game. The only way for him to escape was immediately ruined the second he woke up. It's clear this was an unwinnable situation.\n+ Other games are not nearly well-suited in terms of their just deserts. Like the haphazard game against the police.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/176"},{"id":"322682678021508684","title":"Schindler's List","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1993,"runtimeMinutes":195,"directors":["Steven Spielberg"],"actors":["Liam Neeson"],"genres":["Drama","History","War"],"completedDate":"2009-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Conventionally depressing.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/424"},{"id":"322682678975454796","title":"Scream","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1996,"runtimeMinutes":112,"directors":["Wes Craven"],"actors":["Courteney Cox","Skeet Ulrich","Neve Campbell","Matthew Lillard","Liev Schreiber","Jamie Kennedy","Drew Barrymore","Rose McGowan","Linda Blair","Henry Winkler"],"genres":["Crime","Horror","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2002-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-03-24","notes":"Too cringe in being self-aware about its parodying. I don't remember much of the first movie but it wasn't like this. This is closer to Scary Movie.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/4232"},{"id":"322682678021241420","title":"Seance","originalTitle":"降霊","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2001,"runtimeMinutes":88,"directors":["John Preston"],"actors":["Corey Feldman","Adam West"],"genres":["Horror"],"completedDate":"2017-03-04","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I liked the usual naturalistic horror Kurosawa weaves, and how the haunting was only an element into the overall story of banality. Given this, I wish it sauntered on a little bit less into getting to its point. I do appreciate its slow pacing, especially with how it treated haunting in the daily activities.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/340033"},{"id":"322682678020354636","title":"Searching","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2018,"runtimeMinutes":102,"directors":["Aneesh Chaganty"],"actors":["Thomas Barbusca","John Cho","Colin Woodell","Debra Messing","Sean O'Bryan"],"genres":["Drama","Mystery","Thriller"],"updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I like the pacing and how it unravels. What's particularly impressive is not only the sleuithing with social media but also the many implications of the searches without having to dumb down the audience by spelling it out. I also liked its general messages about abductions resulting from a root of loneliness, and a huge variety of selfishness as others act as if they were related to it.\n\nIt's a little heavyhanded in delivery though. It also unravels to be a little too psycho, pulling out all the tricks: a girl streaming and possibly getting psyched out by a user; attacked by chance while in middle of night at a lake by an ex-convict; incest from uncle; even the detective being in on it. It turns out the detective is in on it? Please. And that she survived all along? Come on. Other examples of heavy-handedness: the mom having Leukemia and dying. The beginning and end text message of whether John Cho's character would text that \"Mom would be proud too.\"\n\nAs trivia, this is a decent film starring Asian-Americans but doesn't ever make note or rely on them being Asian Americans. Yes!","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/489999"},{"id":"322682678021387852","title":"Searching for Bobby Fischer","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1993,"runtimeMinutes":110,"directors":["Steven Zaillian"],"actors":["Ben Kingsley","Laura Linney","Laurence Fishburne","Joan Allen","David Paymer","Joe Mantegna","William H. Macy","Dan Hedaya","Hal Scardino","Austin Pendleton"],"genres":["Drama"],"completedDate":"2014-12-04","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Cloying but good lighting.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/14291"},{"id":"322682678021608012","title":"Serenity","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2005,"runtimeMinutes":119,"directors":["Joss Whedon"],"actors":["Morena Baccarin"],"genres":["Science Fiction","Action","Adventure","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2006-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/16320"},{"id":"322682678020172364","title":"Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2021,"runtimeMinutes":132,"directors":["Destin Daniel Cretton"],"actors":["Awkwafina","Ben Kingsley","Benedict Wong","Brie Larson","Tony Leung Chiu-wai","Simu Liu","Michelle Yeoh","Yuen Wah","Mark Ruffalo","Fala Chen"],"genres":["Action","Adventure","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"2021-09-04","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I'm surprised that a movie about asian american culture literally made it into marvel mainstream. i thought it was just going to pander to china. but it's got your asian american tropes instead, eg starring awkwafina. there's a handful of mainstream asian american films these days: searching, crazy rich asians, the farewell, minari. maybe parasite helped too? (or im just overthinking as film production for shang chi must have been many years before parasite went viral).","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/566525"},{"id":"322682678020377164","title":"Shape of Water","originalTitle":"The Shape of Water","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2017,"runtimeMinutes":123,"directors":["Guillermo del Toro"],"actors":["Michael Shannon","Sally Hawkins","Octavia Spencer","Lauren Lee Smith","Wendy Lyon","Martin Roach","Doug Jones","Michael Stuhlbarg","Richard Jenkins","Nick Searcy"],"genres":["Drama","Fantasy","Romance"],"completedDate":"2018-12-08","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Implausible plot. I did like the characters and general pacing. Also the mix of musicality.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/399055"},{"id":"322682678020355660","title":"Shinjuku Swan","originalTitle":"新宿スワン","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2015,"runtimeMinutes":139,"directors":["Sion Sono"],"actors":["Yuki Sakurai"],"genres":["Action","Crime","Drama"],"completedDate":"2019-01-25","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Great mix of comedy and story. I also like how revealing it is about the true nature of scouting---even from the beginning as the girls are fooled into massage parlors, the descent into drugs and taking on debts.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/262650"},{"id":"322682678021320268","title":"Shutter Island","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2010,"runtimeMinutes":138,"directors":["Martin Scorsese"],"actors":["Leonardo DiCaprio"],"genres":["Drama","Thriller","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2015-10-29","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Predictable but fun.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/11324"},{"id":"322682678020372044","title":"Sicario: Day of the Soldado","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2018,"runtimeMinutes":122,"directors":["Stefano Sollima"],"actors":["Josh Brolin","Isabela Merced","Ian Bohen","Jeffrey Donovan","Benicio del Toro","Catherine Keener","Christopher Heyerdahl","David Castañeda","Shea Whigham","Manuel Garcia-Rulfo"],"genres":["Action","Crime","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2018-12-25","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I agree with the critics that it has excellent style but lacks in narrative and character-building. The betrayal and Benicio del Toro's character favoring the daughter is a bit tiresome. Would have been even better if his character had actually died. The overall subplot with the kid becoming a Sicario is lacking. The story lacks, and the actor is boring. First half is great; second half is aimless.\n\n39:10:00 is a well-shot scene. The choreography and silence in the glances are awesome. Then a girl crying while Benicio del Toro zips up his DEA jacket. Style overall tends to favor lack of dialogue, which is particularly impressive for a film based a bit on politics.\n\nIt's overly stylistic at times. Case and point: 1:10:50. Matthew Modine's character makes an immediate decision and cuts off his video cam to end the meeting, as if it were a power move to show domination. The rest of the cast stand staring at the black screen for several seconds wordless. This felt too ingenuine.\n\n1:14:00 is a great scene of potential character-building between Benicio del Toro's character and Josh Brolin's. It's probably one of the greater strengths of the film. This could have been pushed further.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/400535"},{"id":"322682678020189772","title":"Sinister","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2012,"runtimeMinutes":110,"directors":["Scott Derrickson"],"actors":["Vincent D'Onofrio","Ethan Hawke","James Ransone","Clare Foley","Cameron Ocasio"],"genres":["Horror","Thriller","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2021-06-11","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Very unsettling with a mix of horror and true crime mystery. Setup is a little contrived. And some horror scenes have dumb payoffs like jump scares and tricks like their son having night terrors. They pay too much to tropes making them feel derivative such as child drawings.\n\nThe children talking to ghosts, the paintings, the cameras at night turning on. And none of that is somehow a red flat to get the fuck out of the place. Ending was just dumb in how coincidental it happened the night of. As if police wouldn't have found that suspicious. And the jump scare at the very end: what the fuck.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/82507"},{"id":"d14bc6b0-a58a-417b-b3c2-452800f6a1ba","title":"Sisu","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2022,"runtimeMinutes":91,"directors":["Jalmari Helander"],"actors":["Jorma Tommila","Mimosa Willamo","Aksel Hennie","Onni Tommila","Jack Doolan","Pekka Huotari","Max Ovaska"],"genres":["Action","War","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2023-05-20","updatedDate":"2023-05-21","notes":"Stock power fantasy vengeance in John Wick style. Some really cool ideas: sucking oxygen from a slit throat, setting yourself on fire to scare away dogs, impaling yourself at an intermediate spot to avoid hanging to death.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/840326"},{"id":"322682678021622348","title":"Sixteen Candles","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1984,"runtimeMinutes":93,"directors":["John Hughes"],"actors":["Anthony Michael Hall"],"genres":["Comedy","Romance"],"completedDate":"2010-09-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/15144"},{"id":"322682678021213772","title":"Sleeper","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1973,"runtimeMinutes":87,"directors":["Woody Allen"],"actors":["Diane Keaton","Woody Allen"],"genres":["Comedy","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2017-04-01","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Love the Grouch Marx slapstick. I like its deliberate campiness. The general weirdness of its comedy is hard to appreciate as it seems very specific for 1970s Manhattan socialites. I view it more as a bare bones setting for a bunch of SNL-like skits. I heard Woody Allen give that dog rabies joke so many times, e.g., at interviews and stand-up; he must really like it to have immortalized it in film. The required jokes for his wife Diane Keaton at the time feel very forced and boring. It's clear Woody Allen wrote the film since he gets all the good jokes. But then again, he's also the only one that can deliver those sort of jokes well.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/11561"},{"id":"322682678021458508","title":"Sleepless in Seattle","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1993,"runtimeMinutes":105,"directors":["Nora Ephron"],"actors":["Tom Hanks"],"genres":["Comedy","Drama","Romance"],"completedDate":"2013-11-28","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Just the right spoonful of soppy romance and a tinge of clever quips, Sleepless in Seattle is easily cherished given very strong perfomances by Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. The radio premise is a great encapsulation of Sleepless in Seattle's strengths and flaws: on one hand slightly original and brilliant with its drama, most other times dreadfully dull because of sticking with so many cliches and not doing good with all of them.\n\nThe setup is a little generic, and the development to the end romance is contrived as hell. However what I love about Loveless in Seattle is that a significant portion of the work is not about a romance between one guy and one girl, but a matured progression given two people stuck in the middle of their lives trying to find the meaning of it all. Still, way way way too cheesy of an ending and all those deus ex machina coincidences are practically on the level of Tokyo Godfathers. I also wished it would have built the two duo's character more, especially in grounding their individual problems past the simple guideline of their premise.\n\n\"Because I'm younger and purer, so I'm more in touch with cosmic forces!\"","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/858"},{"id":"f8db7cd2-5cb4-49e6-ae3d-94432f5f2932","title":"Smile 2","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2024,"runtimeMinutes":127,"directors":["Parker Finn"],"genres":["Horror","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2025-07-20","updatedDate":"2025-07-22","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1100782"},{"id":"322682678022246988","title":"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1938,"runtimeMinutes":83,"directors":["David Hand","Ben Sharpsteen","William Cottrell","Larry Morey","Perce Pearce","Wilfred Jackson"],"actors":["Purv Pullen","Adriana Caselotti"],"genres":["Fantasy","Animation","Family"],"completedDate":"1996-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/408"},{"id":"322682678021238348","title":"Snowpiercer","originalTitle":"설국열차","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2013,"runtimeMinutes":127,"directors":["Bong Joon Ho"],"actors":["Jamie Bell","Chris Evans","Tilda Swinton","Ed Harris","Alison Pill","Song Kang-ho","Octavia Spencer","Go Ah-sung","Luke Pasqualino","Marcanthonee Reis"],"genres":["Action","Science Fiction","Drama"],"completedDate":"2017-03-10","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Very American and Blockbuster, and very disappointing given the director. I can see some of his style permeating the film, but only loosely. Too many caricatures. I liked the interplay of Korean and Aemerican elements, most of which was shown explcitly through the rather dichotomous cast of American and Korean actors.Song Kang-ho helped save this film.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/110415"},{"id":"322682678021610060","title":"Source Code","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2011,"runtimeMinutes":93,"directors":["Duncan Jones"],"actors":["Jake Gyllenhaal"],"genres":["Thriller","Science Fiction","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2010-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/45612"},{"id":"322682678020450892","title":"Spiderman: Homecoming","originalTitle":"Spider-Man: Homecoming","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2017,"runtimeMinutes":133,"directors":["Jon Watts"],"actors":["Tom Holland","Zendaya","Robert Downey Jr.","Jennifer Connelly"],"genres":["Action","Adventure","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2017-09-28","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Very kid-humor and a kid's movie: angst, irresponsibility, romance, totally manipulative storyline crafted for a single child (such as being offered and then immediately denying an Avengers offer). Peter as portrayed by Tom HOlland is more high-schoolish than I've seen in other Spiderman films. I also findi t weird they theytried to include every race to be purposfully diverse: fat asian best friend; black female romantic interest; indian girl who also likes Peter; indian as Flash. Inteeresting intersection of Spiderman with modern technology such as shooter settings. And in particular, the content overlap with Ironman and the Avengers. The costume cameos were probably my favorite part: brought me fond memories of my childhood playing Spiderman games with those special costumes.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/315635"},{"id":"322682678020454988","title":"Split","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2016,"runtimeMinutes":90,"directors":["Jamie Buckner"],"genres":["Comedy","Romance"],"completedDate":"2017-09-02","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Fun suspense overall, predictable plot twists and the occasional plot holes or disbelief due to very illogical actions. I did like the reveal of the history of abuse in the girl protagonist. I like how the clean OCD guy serves as a plot device to justify titillating fanservice by having the girls gradually remove slightly dirty clothes as the film progresses. And the ending with the girl ultimately going back to the uncle.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/409583"},{"id":"322682678021255756","title":"Spotlight","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2015,"runtimeMinutes":129,"directors":["Tom McCarthy"],"actors":["Rachel McAdams","Michael Keaton","Paul Guilfoyle","Billy Crudup","Liev Schreiber","Mark Ruffalo","Neal Huff","John Slattery","Stanley Tucci","Martin Roach"],"genres":["Drama","History"],"completedDate":"2017-01-27","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Something about it likes the generic film for the usual Academy Award winning films. It tries to play somewhere inbetween a documentary and a true fiction with interesting and well-woven storylines. But it often deviates too much. I do enjoy watching how it continues to expand its search, especially how it starts to interact with the investigator's personal life. Following more of the documentation trail, investigative mysteries aren't so much there and it smoothly operates without real problems. The 'conflicts' here it seems to rely on the testimonial of just one person, and that chain of events culminating in such a way is so improbable; and the way they fold in purely through ethics makes no sense.\n\nAt 1:03:00, when the music plays while they search for suspicious priests from the book, I laughed really hard. This is basically a database search, filtering to all priests who have been cateogrized on sick leave or absence, etc. It's a human database search!\n\nI agree with this quote from reddit: 'Mostly, I think Spotlight is just much less interesting than most of the other films nominated for best picture. It's completely mundane, and there are no twists and turns. No suspense. It's not artistically ambitious. The only compelling performance in the movie came from Mark Ruffalo. This isn't even the most interesting investigative journalism movie I've seen (David Fincher's Zodiac is much better).'https://www.reddit.com/r/Catholicism/comments/48mr5w/oscar_hangover_special_why_spotlight_is_a/","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/314365"},{"id":"322682678022259276","title":"Stand and Deliver","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1988,"runtimeMinutes":103,"directors":["Ramón Menéndez"],"actors":["Andy García","Lou Diamond Phillips","Edward James Olmos","Rosanna DeSoto","Rosanna DeSoto","Estelle Harris","Daniel Villarreal"],"genres":["Drama"],"completedDate":"1998-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/29154"},{"id":"322682678021545548","title":"Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1983,"runtimeMinutes":135,"directors":["Richard Marquand"],"actors":["Harrison Ford","Mark Hamill","Warwick Davis","Alec Guinness","Carrie Fisher","Felix Silla","Tony Cox","James Earl Jones","Ian McDiarmid","Daniel Frishman"],"genres":["Adventure","Action","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"1997-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1892"},{"id":"322682678021445196","title":"Starship Troopers","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1997,"runtimeMinutes":129,"directors":["Paul Verhoeven"],"actors":["Clancy Brown","Amy Smart","Michael Ironside","Dina Meyer","Denise Richards","Casper Van Dien","Timothy Omundson","Dean Norris","Neil Patrick Harris","Jake Busey"],"genres":["Adventure","Action","Thriller","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2001-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/563"},{"id":"322682678020384332","title":"Steel Rain","originalTitle":"강철비","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2017,"runtimeMinutes":139,"directors":["Yang Woo-seok"],"actors":["Jung Woo-sung","Kim Eui-sung","Jang Hyun-sung","Park Eun-hye","Jo Woo-jin","John D. Michaels","Andreas Fronk","Park Sun-young"],"genres":["Action","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2018-10-22","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Some stereotypes like a family, a backstabbing, and a South Korean political fetish for re-unification and a bias for telling off North Koreans as propagandists via two close friends who team up. And it's always the North that succumbs to the South's position, without consequence, as if it can be done that quickly and without compromise. I like the political investigations and the pacing. Overall, it's a clearly polished film and was entertaining throughout.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/435841"},{"id":"322682678022250060","title":"Super Size Me","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2004,"runtimeMinutes":100,"directors":["Morgan Spurlock"],"genres":["Documentary"],"completedDate":"2004-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/9372"},{"id":"322682678020391500","title":"Super Troopers 2","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2018,"runtimeMinutes":99,"directors":["Jay Chandrasekhar"],"actors":["Emmanuelle Chriqui","Brian Cox","Tyler Labine","Damon Wayans Jr.","Fred Savage","Paul Walter Hauser","Lynda Carter","Will Sasso","Seann William Scott","Rob Lowe"],"genres":["Comedy","Crime","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2018-07-17","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Pretty classic followthrough of Super Troopers.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/50022"},{"id":"322682678021210700","title":"Take the Money and Run","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1969,"runtimeMinutes":85,"directors":["Woody Allen"],"actors":["Louise Lasser","Woody Allen"],"genres":["Comedy","Crime"],"completedDate":"2017-04-04","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I can really see how this is one of his earlier amateur films when he's still figuring out his strengths and style. It takes very much from his comic days when there's an overarching narrator and he's more a slapstick comedian. His signature monologues aren't quite there. His persona of a bumbling, anxious, nerdy Jew is there as in his comic days, but it's less him and more a concoction of him and a general character. Same with the subgenre of jazz. Lots of great one-liners.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/11485"},{"id":"322682678020325964","title":"Tampopo","originalTitle":"タンポポ","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1985,"runtimeMinutes":115,"directors":["Jūzō Itami"],"actors":["Ken Watanabe","Hitoshi Takagi","Rikiya Yasuoka","Yoriko Douguchi","Mariko Okada"],"genres":["Comedy"],"completedDate":"2019-04-04","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"This is some next level comedy. Like Monty Python and Dr. Strangelove, I find it amusing but often not hilarious. The vignettes are interesting. The primary erotic subplot was weird. I just couldn't find myself 'getting' Tampopo.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/11830"},{"id":"322682678021604940","title":"Tangled","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2010,"runtimeMinutes":100,"directors":["Byron Howard","Nathan Greno"],"actors":["Ron Perlman","Mandy Moore","Zachary Levi","Scott Menville","Brad Garrett","Hynden Walch","Byron Howard","Fred Tatasciore","M.C. Gainey","Richard Kiel"],"genres":["Animation","Family","Adventure"],"completedDate":"2010-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/38757"},{"id":"322682678020361804","title":"Teiichi: Battle of Supreme High","originalTitle":"帝一の國","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2017,"runtimeMinutes":118,"directors":["Akira Nagai"],"actors":["Masaki Suda","Mei Nagano","Jun Shison","Ryoma Takeuchi","Shuhei Nomura","Shotaro Mamiya"],"genres":["Comedy","Drama"],"completedDate":"2019-01-08","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"The politics are absurd and hilarious. The fashion is extravagant. I'm surprised it all works well in live action, even the yaoi. I love that the romance already involves them dating. The only weird aspect is how the adults got involved and somehow that his dad went to prison for a year..","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/410223"},{"id":"322682678021602892","title":"Terminator 2: Judgment Day","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1991,"runtimeMinutes":137,"directors":["James Cameron"],"actors":["Robert Patrick","Arnold Schwarzenegger","Linda Hamilton","Xander Berkeley","Dean Norris","Edward Furlong","Joe Morton","Nikki Cox","Robert Winley","DeVaughn Nixon"],"genres":["Action","Thriller","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"1999-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/280"},{"id":"148dbd48-326b-4b72-9f13-51e9e594e63c","title":"Terrifier 2","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2022,"runtimeMinutes":138,"directors":["Damien Leone"],"actors":["Lauren LaVera","David Howard Thornton","Katie Maguire","Samantha Scaffidi","Elliott Fullam","Griffin Santopietro","Catherine Corcoran","Scout Taylor-Compton","Felissa Rose","Chris Irvine"],"genres":["Horror"],"completedDate":"2022-11-02","updatedDate":"2022-11-02","notes":"A fuller narrative and slower paced. Story goes a little too savior girl at the end that I got pulled out of the movie. Truly B rated territory. The story also goes through way too many story lines that it ends up rather incoherent at times (e.g., the teen drama with the various scenes of Jonathan at school; or the dead father; or the mysteries such as the candles).\n\nThe scenes with murder remain great both in cinematography and the soundtrack.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/663712"},{"id":"deb9cf23-517c-4cbc-9d84-d170a7a7963a","title":"Terrifier 3","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2024,"runtimeMinutes":125,"directors":["Damien Leone"],"actors":["Jason Patric","Daniel Roebuck","Tom Savini","Lauren LaVera","David Howard Thornton","Chris Jericho","Margaret Anne Florence"],"genres":["Horror"],"completedDate":"2025-08-05","updatedDate":"2025-08-06","notes":"I like that it pushes more on the campy side. So good. Not as many horror scenes although still fun.\n\nThe demon writing is bad. Also hate Art the Clown having a female accomplice. The third portion is rushed with a lot happening off screen.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1034541"},{"id":"322682678021198412","title":"Terrorizers","originalTitle":"恐怖分子","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1986,"runtimeMinutes":109,"directors":["Edward Yang"],"actors":["Chin Shih-Chieh"],"genres":["Drama","Crime","Mystery","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2017-04-12","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Slow. Almost too much to the point of being soporific. Three lives played out concurrently is always a fun storytelling device. But it never really came and went together much. Not much insight is brought to better understand their characters, the context of their lives, or much else. I thought the irony of the novel was a great idea and patiently executed. The other side stories didn't really pick up though.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/78450"},{"id":"43d0ddc6-3db0-4d58-9701-f0db1938c6f5","title":"Tetris","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2023,"runtimeMinutes":118,"directors":["Jon S. Baird"],"actors":["Taron Egerton","Toby Jones","Sofia Lebedeva","Rick Yune","Roger Allam","Ben Miles"],"genres":["Thriller","History","Drama"],"completedDate":"2023-04-01","updatedDate":"2023-04-01","notes":"+ The Nintendo analogies when talking to the CEO is cringe.\n+ Classic Soviet Union as villains.\n+ The pressure to have more action in the movie is too cheesy. There's even a car chase lol.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/726759"},{"id":"322682678021568076","title":"Thank You for Smoking","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2005,"runtimeMinutes":92,"directors":["Jason Reitman"],"actors":["Katie Holmes","J.K. Simmons"],"genres":["Comedy","Drama"],"completedDate":"2008-02-29","updatedDate":"2023-07-07","notes":"I rewatched bits and pieces on 2023-07-07. Boy this movie did not age well rewatching as an adult. The debate scenes I admired aren't all that good. And the story's plot is generic.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/9388"},{"id":"322682678021289548","title":"The Assassin","originalTitle":"刺客聶隱娘","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2015,"runtimeMinutes":80,"directors":["Guy Patton"],"genres":["Thriller","Action","Crime"],"completedDate":"2016-08-26","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Sumptuous but too lazy.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/345991"},{"id":"322682678021224012","title":"The Beauty Inside","originalTitle":"뷰티 인사이드","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2015,"runtimeMinutes":127,"directors":["Baek Jong-yeol"],"actors":["Lee Jin-wook","Lee Dong-wook","Lee Dong-hwi","Park Seo-jun","Do Ji-han","Lee Hyun-woo","Seo Kang-joon","Park Shin-hye","Han Hyo-joo","Lee Beom-soo"],"genres":["Fantasy","Romance"],"completedDate":"2017-03-22","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Fun gimmick, some forced drama and soporific themes. I like that they never dug more into the science of it all. Also found it strange that they're all homogenously Korean, although I guess that's for logistical reasons.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/338729"},{"id":"322682678021631564","title":"The Book of Eli","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2010,"runtimeMinutes":118,"directors":["Allen Hughes","Albert Hughes"],"actors":["Denzel Washington","Gary Oldman"],"genres":["Action","Thriller","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2008-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/20504"},{"id":"322682678021221964","title":"The Chaser","originalTitle":"추격자","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2008,"runtimeMinutes":125,"directors":["Na Hong-jin"],"actors":["Kim Sun-young"],"genres":["Crime","Thriller","Action"],"completedDate":"2017-03-25","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I enjoyed the thriller, especially with the off-kilter structure. Not sure what the point was though. Seemed to meander for no reason. Boy do Korean films know ho to arrange suspense/procedurals though. Carried often about the incompetence of police, although it wasn't so much about competence but the weight of the situation and unfortunate consequences. I liked the focus on the pimp though.\n\n\"The experience of watching this movie is akin to having your emotions scraped out with an ice cream scoop. The movie ended and I just sat there feeling empty.\" Yes. The film excelled in keeping me at the edge of my seat. Drawn out for sure though.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/13855"},{"id":"322682678020397644","title":"The Conjuring","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2013,"runtimeMinutes":112,"directors":["James Wan"],"actors":["Patrick Wilson","Vera Farmiga","Joey King","Mackenzie Foy","Lili Taylor","Sterling Jerins","Hayley McFarland","Shannon Kook","Joseph Bishara","Ron Livingston"],"genres":["Horror","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2018-07-07","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"In terms of real-life horror stories, I'm always surprised that ghosts/demons/paranormals can interact with human technology. It requires some skill to be able to generate white noise from a TV! I suppose there's also some intelligence beyond typical animals to be able to close doors. And communicate in written English. It's also funny how they always set themselves up for scary moments, like dead animals, playing hide-and-seek, revealing all the little symtoms like clocks no longer working, sleep walking, people accumulating bruises after sleeping.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/138843"},{"id":"322682678021518924","title":"The Dark Knight","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2008,"runtimeMinutes":152,"directors":["Christopher Nolan"],"actors":["Morgan Freeman","Gary Oldman","Anthony Michael Hall"],"genres":["Action","Thriller","Crime"],"completedDate":"2007-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/155"},{"id":"322682678021335628","title":"The Dark Knight Rises","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2012,"runtimeMinutes":165,"directors":["Christopher Nolan"],"actors":["Anne Hathaway","Joey King","Morgan Freeman","Tom Hardy","Gary Oldman","Liam Neeson","Juno Temple","Joseph Gordon-Levitt"],"genres":["Action","Crime","Drama","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2015-03-20","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Enjoyable in a guilty way but at all times cliche and representative of the dull-minded modern society.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/49026"},{"id":"322682678020228684","title":"The Devil All the Time","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2020,"runtimeMinutes":138,"directors":["Antonio Campos"],"actors":["Tom Holland","Robert Pattinson","Bill Skarsgård"],"genres":["Crime","Drama","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2020-12-17","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I like the ensemble cast. And the overall pacing with the development of different characters. It meanders to often for its own good however, not having as focused a story. Tons of A-listed actors that actually show great performances here. Too bad it's squandered by the script.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/499932"},{"id":"322682678020344396","title":"The Drug King","originalTitle":"마약왕","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2018,"runtimeMinutes":139,"directors":["Woo Min-ho"],"actors":["Ji Eun-seo","Bae Doo-na","Park Kyung-hye","Song Kang-ho","Lee El","Lee Hee-jun","Yoon Je-moon","You Chea-myung","Lee Joong-ok","Kim Dae-myung"],"genres":["Crime","Action","Drama"],"completedDate":"2019-03-11","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Song Kang Ho makes this film. Not only is it well-made, but his acting is just phenomenal. Excellent mix as usual of comedy and sinisterism that very much makes a Korean film. The fashion is amazing. He's such a down-to-earth loveable person that you can't help celebrate his rise. The relationship with the wife is just solid---love their dynamic. Oh my god Bae Doona too. I wish it stayed wholesome though; it gets weirdly Hollywood dark in the second half. I wish it didn't cut the ensemble that makes a Korean film Koreanly wholesome: the wife, the dumb cousin Doo Hwan. As much as I like Bae Doona, her character marks a turning point. There's an obvious shot of Doo Hwan's first shot of the drug. An overly dramatic first murder scene (something I wouldn't expect in a Korean film not produced by Netflix).","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/497370"},{"id":"c6c1ff03-ec8d-42cb-ab8c-b8ef3ad47217","title":"The Fabelmans","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2022,"runtimeMinutes":151,"directors":["Steven Spielberg"],"actors":["Seth Rogen","Paul Dano","Julia Butters","Michelle Williams","David Lynch","Gabriel Bateman","Gabriel LaBelle","Judd Hirsch","Oakes Fegley","Greg Grunberg"],"genres":["Drama"],"completedDate":"2023-03-05","updatedDate":"2023-03-05","notes":"Very by the books in cinematography and story. Oscar bait. Still enjoyable though.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/804095"},{"id":"322682678020431436","title":"The Foreigner","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2017,"runtimeMinutes":114,"directors":["Martin Campbell"],"actors":["Jackie Chan","Pierce Brosnan"],"genres":["Action","Thriller","Crime"],"completedDate":"2017-12-25","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Didn't even realize this was action-intense. What a fun thriller, with less on kung fu and more on revene a la Transporter or any other style. I like the Jackie focuses more on bombs! Albeit simple, I like the contrast of two men and how they use their past powers, Chan and Brosnan. Story and cinematography is a little stale. Pieces of the story focus so much on the internal conflict and Brosnan that arround 1:00:00-1:17:00 I completely forgot Jackie Chan was part of the movie. I love how the girl just indiscriminately died without warning. Fuck yeah tropes!","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/379149"},{"id":"322682678020419148","title":"The Founder","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2016,"runtimeMinutes":115,"directors":["John Lee Hancock"],"actors":["Patrick Wilson","Michael Keaton","Nick Offerman","Linda Cardellini","B.J. Novak","John Carroll Lynch","Laura Dern","Wilbur Fitzgerald"],"genres":["Drama","History"],"updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"First half was good. Then it went downhill in a one-sided story.\n\nA very solo affair. At points he wanted it to be a team but very committed to his own pursuits. Rejects other ideas, including his wife's. It's easy to see his rise and character as he follows business pursuits.\n\nIt's a little one-sided in portraying the McDonald's brothers. Steals ideas. Miniscule revenue stream. No cash reserves. Albatross of a contract that requires slow approval process. It is very much to the founder's credit for franchising and making McDonald's a successful business model. Not unlike more examples in history of inventor vs business.\n\nLove ideas. Innovation in the restaurant itself from 3-item menu, paper bags, people walking up to get a bite, 30-second Speedee system overhauling the drive-in one. Then innovations in the business model such as leasing to owners to maintain control and immediate revenue, and without any control from the restaurant itself. Cutting down on ingredients to save revenue to continue expansion.\n\nHe becomes so heartless in the end of the film it's a bit eyerolling. For example, him walking up to the Dick while he's in the hospital and giving him a blank check to buy the brand. It's a pretty slanted perspective to him. Even the way he steals another man's wife. It makes it clear how many social norms he breaks.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/310307"},{"id":"322682678021627468","title":"The Fugitive","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1993,"runtimeMinutes":131,"directors":["Andrew Davis"],"actors":["Harrison Ford"],"genres":["Action","Thriller","Drama"],"completedDate":"2006-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/5503"},{"id":"322682678021375564","title":"The Go Master","originalTitle":"呉清源 極みの棋譜","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2007,"runtimeMinutes":104,"directors":["Tian Zhuangzhuang"],"actors":["Ayumi Ito","Huang Yi","Chang Chen","Keiko Matsuzaka","Teruyuki Kagawa"],"genres":["Drama"],"completedDate":"2014-12-20","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Beautiful visuals, but a lack of proper developent leading to a rather meandering plot serving not much purpose as he personally follows no suitable characterization.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/38181"},{"id":"322682678021233228","title":"The Good, the Bad, the Weird","originalTitle":"좋은 놈, 나쁜 놈, 이상한 놈","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2008,"runtimeMinutes":130,"directors":["Kim Jee-woon"],"actors":["Kim Sun-young"],"genres":["Action","Adventure","Comedy","Western"],"completedDate":"2017-03-11","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Ridiculous, rather shallow, but fun. I thought the action scenes were quite fluid, although there was still a tendency to the shaky cam.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/15067"},{"id":"322682678020175436","title":"The Green Knight","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2021,"runtimeMinutes":130,"directors":["David Lowery"],"actors":["Barry Keoghan","Alicia Vikander","Ralph Ineson","Joel Edgerton","Sarita Choudhury","Dev Patel","Kate Dickie","Sean Harris","Atheena Frizzell"],"genres":["Adventure","Drama","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"2021-08-18","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"The abstraction in the different trials representing the virtues of the five-pointed star are interesting but somewhat surface thin. The cinematography is excellent but the story just is serviceable.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/559907"},{"id":"92892045-8ce6-4c37-836f-9de3fcdd6736","title":"The Guest","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2014,"runtimeMinutes":101,"directors":["Adam Wingard"],"actors":["Dan Stevens","Maika Monroe","Lance Reddick","Joel David Moore","Ethan Embry","Candice Patton","Leland Orser","Sheila Kelley","Matthew Page"],"genres":["Mystery","Thriller","Action"],"completedDate":"2023-03-11","updatedDate":"2023-03-11","notes":"Really only watched this because Dan Stevens. He's a great actor.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/241848"},{"id":"322682678020158028","title":"The Guilty","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2021,"runtimeMinutes":89,"directors":["Antoine Fuqua"],"actors":["Jake Gyllenhaal"],"genres":["Drama","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2021-10-21","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"The amount of phone calls picked up from the victim and assaulter kind of ruins the immersion. So does the unnecessary plot twist from victim to murderer. It ws intense throughout, and which is especially surprising given the very little budget they needed. Jake's overacting was a bit much at times though.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/567748"},{"id":"322682678021268044","title":"The Hidden Blade","originalTitle":"隠し剣 鬼の爪","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2004,"runtimeMinutes":132,"directors":["Yoji Yamada"],"actors":["Takako Matsu","Min Tanaka","Chieko Baisho","Toshiki Ayata","Hidetaka Yoshioka"],"genres":["Drama","Romance"],"completedDate":"2016-11-26","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Wow this is basically the Twilight Samurai. It reminds me of mangas of the basically same story retold over and over again.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/34019"},{"id":"322682678022242892","title":"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2005,"runtimeMinutes":109,"directors":["Garth Jennings"],"actors":["Bill Nighy","Kelly Macdonald","John Malkovich","Helen Mirren","Warwick Davis","Edgar Wright","Sam Rockwell","Anna Chancellor","Martin Freeman","Stephen Fry"],"genres":["Adventure","Comedy","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2008-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/7453"},{"id":"322682678021397068","title":"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2012,"runtimeMinutes":169,"directors":["Peter Jackson"],"actors":["Benedict Cumberbatch","Cate Blanchett","Luke Evans","Lee Pace","Hugo Weaving","Elijah Wood","Manu Bennett","Richard Armitage","Peter Jackson","Ian McKellen"],"genres":["Adventure","Fantasy","Action"],"completedDate":"2014-04-19","updatedDate":"2022-08-20","notes":"Lush landscrapes and excellent coordination to the details.\n\nInteresting way of presentation through exposition then flashbacks.\n\nAmazing orchestra but a bit obtrusive as it\n\nVery typical and streamlined for a mainstream audience, particularly with Bilbo's constant Hollywood angst in leaving and returning, instead of going further in Tolkien lore and exploring all the worldbuilding. Stormtrooper effect in battles and glorifying the trek with little basis on realistic ventures. Subpar characterization of all the dwarves in favor of sticking to Bilbo and Thorin with a key antagonist figure\n\nit could also do without the simpleton English humor, which sort of breaks the immersion of Middle Earth.\n\nI find fantasy strangely racist in that the elves are practically the exotic Europeans, while the beasts always hideous\n\nPace is so deliberate and rushed.\n\nRewatched it on 2022-08-19 when Sodapoppin streamed a Hobbit-LOTR marathon.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/49051"},{"id":"330525997019431504","title":"The House of the Devil","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2009,"runtimeMinutes":95,"directors":["Ti West"],"actors":["Dee Wallace","Greta Gerwig"],"genres":["Horror","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2022-05-01","updatedDate":"2022-05-02","notes":"Plays out in the end almost like a worse Rosemary's Baby or House of 1000 Corpses. A lot of the shots are stylistic. The overall plot and horror is not quite there.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/25983"},{"id":"33f8f742-1721-4af6-8288-a0dae8696829","title":"The Housemaid","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2025,"runtimeMinutes":131,"directors":["Paul Feig"],"actors":["Sydney Sweeney","Michele Morrone"],"genres":["Mystery","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2026-03-01","updatedDate":"2026-03-01","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1368166"},{"id":"322682678020269644","title":"The Hunt","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2020,"runtimeMinutes":90,"directors":["Craig Zobel"],"actors":["Betty Gilpin","Ike Barinholtz","Ethan Suplee","Hilary Swank","Justin Hartley","Emma Roberts","Teri Wyble","Glenn Howerton","Wayne Duvall","Vince Pisani"],"genres":["Action","Thriller","Horror"],"completedDate":"2020-03-19","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I love the mix of humor and suspense/action. The main actress is excellent; she's clearly autistic and depicts it well. I also liked the beginning in how presumable leads died so quickly.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/514847"},{"id":"322682678021614156","title":"The Hurt Locker","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2008,"runtimeMinutes":131,"directors":["Kathryn Bigelow"],"actors":["Ralph Fiennes","Jeremy Renner","Evangeline Lilly","Anthony Mackie","David Morse","Guy Pearce","Sam Spruell","Brian Geraghty"],"genres":["Drama","Thriller","War"],"completedDate":"2008-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/12162"},{"id":"322682678021588556","title":"The Incredible Hulk","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2008,"runtimeMinutes":114,"directors":["Louis Leterrier"],"actors":["Robert Downey Jr."],"genres":["Science Fiction","Action","Adventure"],"completedDate":"2009-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1724"},{"id":"322682678020190796","title":"The Invitation","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2016,"runtimeMinutes":100,"directors":["Karyn Kusama"],"actors":["Michiel Huisman","Logan Marshall-Green","John Carroll Lynch","Tammy Blanchard","Aiden Lovekamp","Toby Huss"],"genres":["Thriller"],"completedDate":"2021-06-10","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"That's some lovely tension. All the mystery about what's real and isn't is done quite well. All the small signals that make you uncomfortable. It's obvious something's afoot, and it's just exciting watching what comes next.\n\nThe more coincidental things like the coyote in the beginning or Choi being late are too much of a coincidence, but I'll allow it for the storytelling. The mutiple red lanterns at the ending is also a little too stupid.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/306947"},{"id":"322682678021205580","title":"The Killing","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1956,"runtimeMinutes":85,"directors":["Stanley Kubrick"],"actors":["Joe Turkel","Jay C. Flippen","Sterling Hayden","Rodney Dangerfield","Joe Sawyer"],"genres":["Crime","Thriller","Drama"],"completedDate":"2017-04-06","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Sort of a decent, fun action noir but not much more. You wouldn't think this is done by Kubrick. The most interesting characters are the timid, cuckold bank teller and his vicious wife. The order of presentation of each character was interesting, along with all the variety of mishaps that just might happen. Really love how Kubrick imagines their modes of failure before it happens.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/247"},{"id":"322682678020148812","title":"The Last Duel","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2021,"runtimeMinutes":153,"directors":["Ridley Scott"],"actors":["Matt Damon"],"genres":["Drama","History","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2021-12-10","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"The excellent story and pacing works well, although I find the duplicate scenes in telling multiple perspectives can be dull even if it's done artistically for emphasis. The overarching themes dilly-dallies---first about the evolution of two friends through betrayal. Later, a large portion devoted to romance and woman's rights as property and the victim as the villain. It's effectively two stories in one, and that meandering weakens the film.\n\nGreat acting. Decent setting. Characters can be a little too one-bit at times (e.g., the miserly mother in law, the libertine ruler, the young and excited king).\n\nI find it a little unbelievable that a seasoned knight is fighting so equally with a squire that has little battle experience. Makes for good action I suppose, including the finale where they try to have him confess.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/617653"},{"id":"322682678021586508","title":"The Lion King","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1994,"runtimeMinutes":89,"directors":["Roger Allers","Rob Minkoff"],"actors":["Whoopi Goldberg","Moira Kelly","Jeremy Irons","Rowan Atkinson","Jim Cummings","James Earl Jones","Frank Welker","Cheech Marin","Matthew Broderick","Madge Sinclair"],"genres":["Animation","Family","Drama"],"completedDate":"1996-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/8587"},{"id":"322682678021532236","title":"The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2003,"runtimeMinutes":201,"directors":["Peter Jackson"],"actors":["Sean Bean","Cate Blanchett","Liv Tyler","Miranda Otto","Hugo Weaving","Marton Csokas","Brad Dourif","Elijah Wood","Karl Urban","Viggo Mortensen"],"genres":["Adventure","Fantasy","Action"],"completedDate":"2003-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/122"},{"id":"322682678021541452","title":"The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2002,"runtimeMinutes":179,"directors":["Peter Jackson"],"actors":["Sean Bean","Cate Blanchett","Liv Tyler","Miranda Otto","Hugo Weaving","Brad Dourif","Elijah Wood","Karl Urban","Viggo Mortensen","John Rhys-Davies"],"genres":["Adventure","Fantasy","Action"],"completedDate":"2002-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/121"},{"id":"322682678022244940","title":"The Lost World: Jurassic Park","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1997,"runtimeMinutes":129,"directors":["Steven Spielberg"],"actors":["Steven Spielberg"],"genres":["Adventure","Action","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"1998-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/330"},{"id":"322682678020396620","title":"The Loved Ones","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2010,"runtimeMinutes":84,"directors":["Sean Byrne"],"actors":["Jessica McNamee","Richard Wilson","Robin McLeavy","Xavier Samuel"],"genres":["Horror"],"completedDate":"2018-07-13","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/46420"},{"id":"322682678022253132","title":"The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1977,"runtimeMinutes":74,"directors":["John Lounsbery","Wolfgang Reitherman"],"actors":["Clint Howard","John Fiedler","Sebastian Cabot"],"genres":["Animation","Family","Adventure"],"completedDate":"1996-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/250480"},{"id":"322682678021526092","title":"The Matrix","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1999,"runtimeMinutes":136,"directors":["Lana Wachowski","Lilly Wachowski"],"actors":["Keanu Reeves"],"genres":["Action","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"1999-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/603"},{"id":"33875b62-9364-4a68-9483-4a077f8267b4","title":"The Medium","originalTitle":"ร่างทรง","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2021,"runtimeMinutes":131,"directors":["Banjong Pisanthanakun"],"actors":["Narilya Gulmongkolpech","Poon Mitpakdee"],"genres":["Horror","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2026-08-02","updatedDate":"2026-08-04","notes":"Some dumb character decisions. Overdrawn out ending. Could have more horror tropes. I liked the setting and culture most of all.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/745881"},{"id":"322682678022243916","title":"The Men Who Stare at Goats","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2009,"runtimeMinutes":94,"directors":["Grant Heslov"],"actors":["Robert Patrick"],"genres":["Comedy","War"],"completedDate":"2009-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/10313"},{"id":"88a2ae3b-e4be-4625-b7ab-2c2573b4b10e","title":"The Menu","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2022,"runtimeMinutes":107,"directors":["Mark Mylod"],"actors":["Anya Taylor-Joy"],"genres":["Comedy","Horror"],"completedDate":"2023-01-14","updatedDate":"2023-02-27","notes":"I like the pace, seeing where the story was going. This movie was not what I expected it to be lol. I thought it was a drama, maybe with some suspense, about the inner workings of being a chef at a classy restaurant.\n\nThe story is overly cheesy. The cast of characters is too stereotypical. The ending is eye-rolling.\n\nI find the theme of preferring homely dishes made with love to be so hypocritical. Here the starlet is an A-list actress with stunning good looks, and she's supposed to portray the average outsider.\n\nthe movie has a24 vibes. stylish horror/suspense movie that's a lot of fun. once you dig into the details it's a bit corny and not very deep. so try not to\n\nmy favorite suspense reveal was when the date turned out to be a batshit insane villain. I liked it because I thought he was going to be one of 2 main characters. sort of like a danganropa reveal or something \n\none thing i'm still confused by is the idea of hospitality. OK so it turns out the invited guests were all terrible guests. so now the chefs are going to kill them? like what. isn't there also an implied hospitality of, you know, not killing your guests and giving them good food?","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/593643"},{"id":"322682678020234828","title":"The Mist","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2007,"runtimeMinutes":126,"directors":["Frank Darabont"],"actors":["Alexa Davalos","Toby Jones","Nathan Gamble","Marcia Gay Harden","Thomas Jane","Laurie Holden","Buck Taylor","Andre Braugher","Melissa McBride","Kelly Collins Lintz"],"genres":["Horror","Science Fiction","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2020-11-29","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I like the idea of a kaiju film as more of a horror. The NPCs in this movie are genre-trope levels of infuriating. A stupid son who just stands in the middle who almost dies as the flying insect moves to eat him, just for the tension. Doomsayer. Histrionics.\n\n[Originally movitade to watch this because I'm thirsty for kaiju.](https://www.reddit.com/r/horror/wiki/top_kaiju)","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/5876"},{"id":"322682678020359756","title":"The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji","originalTitle":"土竜の唄 潜入捜査官 REIJI","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2013,"runtimeMinutes":130,"directors":["Takashi Miike"],"actors":["Takayuki Yamada","Riisa Naka","Ren Osugi","Toma Ikuta"],"genres":["Action","Comedy","Crime"],"updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Love the comedy, the main character, the pacing, the story unfolding. The most hilarious scene may have beeen where he forgets his lines at a critical ceremony. And the blunder is so wholly attributed to his well-defined character as a moralistic idiot. And then he goes ahead and eats the porcelain.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/199926"},{"id":"322682678021278284","title":"The Nice Guys","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2016,"runtimeMinutes":116,"directors":["Shane Black"],"actors":["Robert Downey Jr.","Ryan Gosling"],"genres":["Comedy","Crime","Action"],"completedDate":"2016-11-12","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"love the comedy-action. and also the use of many trinkets","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/290250"},{"id":"322682678020153932","title":"The Nighthouse","status":"Completed","score":6,"completedDate":"2021-10-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I liked the overall pacing. The end's unraveling and reveal was a little dumb. A lot of the scary scenes were fairly trope-y. Disconnected and didn't give a sense of anything truly haunting."},{"id":"322682678021583436","title":"The Nightmare Before Christmas","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1993,"runtimeMinutes":76,"directors":["Henry Selick"],"actors":["Catherine O'Hara","Tim Burton","William Hickey","Chris Sarandon"],"genres":["Fantasy","Animation","Family"],"completedDate":"1999-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/9479"},{"id":"331610236954608208","title":"The Northman","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2022,"runtimeMinutes":137,"directors":["Robert Eggers"],"actors":["Nicole Kidman","Anya Taylor-Joy"],"genres":["Action","Adventure","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"2022-05-13","updatedDate":"2022-05-14","notes":"Cinematic. Bland story.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/639933"},{"id":"322682678020264524","title":"The Platform","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2019,"runtimeMinutes":101,"directors":["Jeffrey Eugene Hoch"],"completedDate":"2020-04-10","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I like the setup, although gimmicky it fits well with a thriller. Lots of exposition dump in the beginning though.\n\nOh holy shit. It actually features cannibalism. Weird conclusion though.\n\nOh wow. That's so interesting. https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/fmcj54/the_platform_theories_spoilers/flq0dkj/","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/660295"},{"id":"89ca1ee5-7962-4208-8c94-6ef6bd4aac10","title":"The Power of the Dog","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2021,"runtimeMinutes":127,"directors":["Jane Campion"],"actors":["Benedict Cumberbatch","Jesse Plemons","Thomasin McKenzie","Kirsten Dunst","Keith Carradine","Adam Beach","Frances Conroy","Karl Willetts","Kodi Smit-McPhee","Sean Keenan"],"genres":["Drama","Western"],"completedDate":"2023-07-16","updatedDate":"2023-07-16","notes":"It's melodramatic and too slow in pacing. You can easily tell it's a novel adaptation, like something from Jane Austen. Another key example: the deathly ill and sad wife.\n\nThe reveal of the son's strength is subtle and wonderfully done.\n\nWeird how mysteriously absent Jesse Plemons is. Doesn't take of either his wife or his son.\n\nMotivated if only because I had recently watched Breaking Bad and really enjoy Meth Damon aka Jesse Plemons.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/600583"},{"id":"62892f30-c2e0-481c-9e8f-67b7da657666","title":"The Promised Land","originalTitle":"Bastarden","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2023,"runtimeMinutes":127,"directors":["Nikolaj Arcel"],"actors":["Mads Mikkelsen"],"genres":["Action","Drama","History"],"completedDate":"2024-03-17","updatedDate":"2024-03-17","notes":"Overall story is fun, particularly in its frontier establishment and historical Danish setting. But it’s one note in its characters and conflicts.\n\n+ Villain is too caricaturized.\n+ The racism subplot with the girl adds unnecessary tension.\n+ The romance love square is rather nonsensical.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/980026"},{"id":"322682678021259852","title":"The Purple Rose of Cairo","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1985,"runtimeMinutes":82,"directors":["Woody Allen"],"actors":["Dianne Wiest","Mia Farrow","Jeff Daniels","Glenne Headly","Deborah Rush","Danny Aiello","Edward Herrmann","Irving Metzman"],"genres":["Fantasy","Comedy","Romance"],"completedDate":"2016-12-14","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I didn't find its surrealness all that inviting. More campy than fun.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/10849"},{"id":"322682678020304460","title":"The Raid 2","originalTitle":"The Raid 2: Berandal","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2014,"runtimeMinutes":150,"directors":["Gareth Evans"],"actors":["Iko Uwais","Julie Estelle","Ryuhei Matsuda","Kazuki Kitamura","Cecep Arif Rahman","Zack Lee","Donny Alamsyah","Kenichi Endo","Marsha Timothy"],"genres":["Action","Crime","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2019-07-19","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I liked the mafia plot. It's unnecessarily gratuitious.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/180299"},{"id":"322682678020305484","title":"The Raid Redemption","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2011,"runtimeMinutes":101,"directors":["Gareth Evans"],"actors":["Iko Uwais","Joe Taslim","Alfridus Godfred","Donny Alamsyah"],"genres":["Action","Thriller","Crime"],"completedDate":"2019-07-07","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"God damn that's the best action-thriller combination I've ever seen along the lines of Takashi Miike's Ichi the Killer and Park Chan-wook's Oldboy. Now that's how you take something that sounds suited for a graphic novel/manga and build up the direction in both the ridiculously gorey action scenes as well as the thriller of it all shrouded in mystery and slowly built up. Boring ending though. Seems banal and like action flicks to be so terrible in plot development.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/94329"},{"id":"322682678021315148","title":"The Revenant","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2015,"runtimeMinutes":157,"directors":["Alejandro G. Iñárritu"],"actors":["Leonardo DiCaprio","Tom Hardy"],"genres":["Western","Drama","Adventure"],"completedDate":"2016-02-29","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Very visious but rather unsubstantiating","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/281957"},{"id":"322682678020421196","title":"The Ritual","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2017,"runtimeMinutes":94,"directors":["David Bruckner"],"actors":["Robert James-Collier","Rafe Spall","Maria Erwolter","Arsher Ali","Hilary Reeves"],"genres":["Horror","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2018-02-23","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Like a mainstream The Witch with a slightly better pacing, modern setting. The MC's background story is stale. And the characters are all very killable. But I still liked the setup. What I most likely uniquely in this film was its blending of horror with the forest environment.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/433808"},{"id":"322682678020482636","title":"The Road","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2009,"runtimeMinutes":111,"directors":["John Hillcoat"],"actors":["Charlize Theron"],"genres":["Adventure","Drama"],"completedDate":"2017-08-06","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"A bleak apocalypse—absolutely true to the word, unlike stories such as The Last of Us and The Walking Dead which display a decaying but not yet totally dead world. The son is so fucking annoying. I get that the tries to symbolize the rest of humanity. But jesus fuck with his whining all the time. The kid should die or grow up; and life should keep on lasting. Nothing much happens and nothing much progresses. I hate the ending. Cinematography and atmosphere is excellent. I feel like this would be better in novel form as narration could more heavily detail the events. For example, the significance of the Man's choices such as running away from the bunker, or his cynical view.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/20766"},{"id":"322682678021409356","title":"The Road Home","originalTitle":"我的父親母親","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1999,"runtimeMinutes":88,"directors":["Craig Clyde"],"actors":["Mary Elizabeth Winstead","T.J. Lowther","Michael Ansara"],"genres":["Drama","Family"],"completedDate":"2014-03-15","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Such cute courting. Oh my gawd.\n\nGorgeous pastures and natural landscapes. Great presentation yet again of the common people by Zhang Yimou.\n\nFocuses very much on craftmanship, particularly looming, cooking, and pottery.\n\nOften sentimental and cloying. If only it went further in its story and/or characters. It also sacrifices bolder visual techniques that Zhang Yimou is known for and settles with several generic frames in attempts to appeal to one's pathos rather than discomfort it.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/114533"},{"id":"9036fb4b-61b8-40c3-b66e-05bb0d3d99fe","title":"The Second","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2024,"runtimeMinutes":16,"directors":["Taylor Ramos","Tony Zhou"],"actors":["Paul Sun-Hyung Lee"],"genres":["Drama"],"completedDate":"2025-05-04","updatedDate":"2025-05-05","notes":"I like the premise. Writing is decent. Acting is bad at times. The green screen is noticeably awful. Editing feels choppy at times.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1293563"},{"id":"322682678021480012","title":"The Simpsons: Movie","originalTitle":"The Simpsons Movie","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2007,"runtimeMinutes":87,"directors":["David Silverman"],"actors":["Tom Hanks"],"genres":["Animation","Comedy","Family"],"completedDate":"2008-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/35"},{"id":"322682678021603916","title":"The Sixth Sense","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1999,"runtimeMinutes":107,"directors":["M. Night Shyamalan"],"actors":["Bruce Willis"],"genres":["Mystery","Thriller","Drama"],"completedDate":"2010-09-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/745"},{"id":"322682678020464204","title":"The Skin I Live In","originalTitle":"La piel que habito","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2011,"runtimeMinutes":120,"directors":["Pedro Almodóvar"],"actors":["Antonio Banderas","Elena Anaya","Blanca Suárez","Ana Mena","Jan Cornet","Fernando Cayo","Carmen Machi","Susi Sánchez"],"genres":["Drama","Horror","Mystery","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2017-08-21","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Beginning is overly cheesy. Transgenesis is played as a whole mainstreamed concept, with little beyond this to treat the film with depth. Typical to mad scientists, what he experiments with is illegal for no particular stated reasons, giving him morally ambiguous justification that he should indulge in the forbidden affair because of its potential benefits. The whole plot in general silly. It rapidly swaps messages when going from a classic unknown horror-kidnapping to a transgender sexual question without any of its depth.\n\nCharacter-wise, I do like the mad doctor contrasted this rape-y burglar dude. And the execution of turning any other guy to become a woman. Still unbelievable that he never attempted any escape or that there was violence of any form. The lacking in how precisely he forgot all his mannerisms and just picked up feminine ones seems... off.\n\nI do like the shots. The rape scene was done very matter of factly and not made to be super sexual in appeasing viewers at all. I found that very interesting.\n\nWas kind of obvious from the beginning that the girl isn't his wife, but likely made out to be his wife. After unfortunately reading a review by a triggered trans-woman out to fold all life events under her own sexual agenda, I got fucking spoiled under the mere preface of pondering what kind of stupid movies would such a feministic socially charged activist would want to watch. And it made me guess that it's some guy who queried Antonio Banderas to become a woman and thus became his accomplice. God damn it's fucking stupid: critique the film as it is, don't go prefacing your fucking reviews as if they were personal insults against and thus preface your reviews with shit like 'Still digesting this, but I can't wrap my head around this in any way that doesn't come up the same: transmisogynistic and general misogynistic garbage. Feel free to disagree in the comments if you're a trans woman, non-binary, or, for the non-trans misogyny, a cis woman.'","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/63311"},{"id":"322682678021574220","title":"The Spy Who Loved Me","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1977,"runtimeMinutes":125,"directors":["Lewis Gilbert"],"actors":["Caroline Munro","Lois Maxwell","Roger Moore","Michael Billington","Nicholas Campbell","Barbara Bach","Richard Kiel","Sue Vanner","Valerie Leon","Olga Bisera"],"genres":["Adventure","Action","Thriller"],"completedDate":"1999-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/691"},{"id":"ff7ea6e5-eb51-41a1-9487-d631939883a2","title":"The Super Mario Bros. Movie","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2023,"runtimeMinutes":93,"directors":["Michael Jelenic","Aaron Horvath"],"actors":["Chris Pratt","Anya Taylor-Joy","Jack Black","Fred Armisen","Khary Payton","Eric Bauza","Charlie Day","Kevin Michael Richardson","Seth Rogen","Keegan-Michael Key"],"genres":["Adventure","Animation","Comedy","Family","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"2023-05-20","updatedDate":"2023-05-21","notes":"The movie is like a AAA compilation of cameos and iconic Nintendo scenes, music, characters, the whole gamut. The writing feels just barely there to keep it all together, effectively like porn. There's so much happening all the time it's designed for an ADHD world. Needs less set pieces and more of its own voice.\n\nMiscellaneous comments:\n\n+ Pop songs like Take on Me. Yuck, why even add them.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/502356"},{"id":"322682678021575244","title":"The Sword in the Stone","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1963,"runtimeMinutes":79,"directors":["Wolfgang Reitherman"],"actors":["Sebastian Cabot"],"genres":["Animation","Family","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"1997-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/9078"},{"id":"322682678020176460","title":"The Terminal","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2004,"runtimeMinutes":128,"directors":["Steven Spielberg"],"actors":["Tom Hanks","Zoe Saldana","Catherine Zeta-Jones","Diego Luna","Chi McBride","Michael Nouri","Stanley Tucci","Mark Ivanir","Sasha Spielberg","Rini Bell"],"genres":["Comedy","Drama"],"completedDate":"2021-08-14","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Clearly over-Americanized and with clear characters as romance, antagonists, and friends. It's still quite enjoyable though as a Hollwood streamlined film. It's a perfect film to watch with Twitch chat (I did with Sodapoppin's watch party). It's weird unfortunately that it just devolves into a romcom, detracting from the main plot, and with arbitrarily constructed problems to drive conflict. The end is clearly a Hollywood feelgood but doesn't deserve it with real characterization.\n\nStalker Enrique suddenly gets married?","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/594"},{"id":"322682678020345420","title":"The Terror Live","originalTitle":"더 테러 라이브","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2013,"runtimeMinutes":97,"directors":["Kim Byung-woo"],"actors":["Kim Dae-myung","Ha Jung-woo","Jeon Hye-jin","Kim Hong-pa"],"genres":["Crime","Drama","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2019-03-10","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I had fun watching it unfold. The amount of corrpution in Korean politics/job-ladder rising is hilarious. This must speak of Korean culture itself that it really is this bad.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/209764"},{"id":"322682678020366924","title":"The Third Murder","originalTitle":"三度目の殺人","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2017,"runtimeMinutes":125,"directors":["Hirokazu Kore-eda"],"actors":["Masaharu Fukuyama","Suzu Hirose","Mikako Ichikawa","Aju Makita","Shinnosuke Mitsushima"],"genres":["Drama","Mystery","Crime"],"completedDate":"2018-12-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I love how the narrative evolves. It unravels naturally. I also like the realism of the trial, from maintaining their own professions rather than the sole naivety of finding the truth. The pacing is kind of a slow burner, and a bit anticlimactic unfortunately. Maybe I'm just disappointed in that I watched this expecthing a mystery thriller rather just a crime mystery.\n\nI like the confrontation shots with the intense zoom-ins on the actor or actress' face. It's fairly intense.\n\nI don't know much to believe in the question of who has agency to judge moral. It seemed a little heavy-handed, especially because we established the justice system over hundreds of years of revisement. It's not perfect, but it continues to improve.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/434775"},{"id":"322682678020433484","title":"The Throne","originalTitle":"사도","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2015,"runtimeMinutes":126,"directors":["Lee Joon-ik"],"actors":["So Ji-sub","Seo Yea-ji","Yoo Ah-in","Park So-dam","Song Kang-ho","Jin Ji-hee","Kim Hae-sook","Moon Geun-young","Park Won-sang","Jung Hae-kyun"],"genres":["Drama","History"],"completedDate":"2017-12-13","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"A little longer than needed. I liked the drama though, although somewhat melodramatic and very scheduled in its tear sessions.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/315439"},{"id":"322682678020238924","title":"The Town","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2010,"runtimeMinutes":125,"directors":["Ben Affleck"],"actors":["Rebecca Hall","Jeremy Renner","Jon Hamm","Ben Affleck","Chris Cooper","Blake Lively","Victor Garber","Titus Welliver","Pete Postlethwaite","Owen Burke"],"genres":["Crime","Drama","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2020-11-26","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I started watching this thinking it would be a fun thriller/horror. It's actually more romance and drama than I expected.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/23168"},{"id":"322682678020483660","title":"The Tunnel","originalTitle":"터널","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2011,"runtimeMinutes":90,"directors":["Carlo Ledesma"],"actors":["Luke Arnold","Renee Lim"],"genres":["Horror","Thriller","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2017-08-06","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I liked the criticisms of bueaucracy. A little overdramatic sometimes with as many events packed into it as possible: another person, limited water bottles, urine, a dog, a tunnel he tries to escape from himself, a construction worker dying from an accident. More realistically, very few people in the world would care. He would be fired from his job, etc. I think a more explicit ending would ended with him saving himself.\n\nThe amount of money paid to save one human seems a little unrealistic—maybe possible if it really spurred into a media fest. This implies that the reporters are actually good guys in forcing governmental intervention and avoiding other situations such as future construction, more budget onto finding him, etc.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/46221"},{"id":"7f36854e-ea39-4eb9-a4d7-d476926952bc","title":"The Ugly Stepsister","originalTitle":"Den stygge stesøsteren","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2025,"runtimeMinutes":109,"directors":["Emilie Blichfeldt"],"genres":["Horror","Comedy","Fantasy","Drama"],"completedDate":"2025-11-01","updatedDate":"2026-01-27","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1284120"},{"id":"335300367356002897","title":"The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2022,"runtimeMinutes":107,"directors":["Tom Gormican"],"actors":["Pedro Pascal","Nicolas Cage"],"genres":["Action","Comedy","Crime"],"completedDate":"2022-06-23","updatedDate":"2022-06-23","notes":"Got boring in the middle as it turns into an action flick. The beginning is the funniest.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/648579"},{"id":"322682678021231180","title":"The Usual Suspects","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1995,"runtimeMinutes":106,"directors":["Bryan Singer"],"actors":["Giancarlo Esposito"],"genres":["Drama","Crime","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2017-03-13","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I like the way it unravels—isn't nearly as complicated as critics make it out to be. And the soundtrack. Very 1990's American in style. Predictable, although maybe it's because this film set the standard for so many alike it.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/629"},{"id":"322682678020182604","title":"The Vast of Night","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2019,"runtimeMinutes":91,"directors":["Andrew Patterson"],"actors":["Sierra McCormick"],"genres":["Drama","Mystery","Science Fiction","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2021-06-28","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"What a weird movie. It's like a high school mystery movie set in the olden days in a town. And a significant portion of the film is just hearing testimonials.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/565743"},{"id":"322682678020261452","title":"The Villainness","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2017,"completedDate":"2020-06-07","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"The first person action sequence right at the beginning is awesome. Too much shaky cam. But otherwise I'm gushing at the integration of realism and video gaming. It seems like a very real future for video games with the amount of extra detail in player control, enemy movesets, environment interaction, and VR immersion. It'd be so realistic that murder in video games would feel almost repulsive.\n\nI really like the way the story unravels in the beginning half hour.\n\nAlso it features Shin Ha Kyun who's an actor I really adore.\n\nThe romance parts of the story are tedious. This film has too many genre elements. The plastic surgey bit swapping actresses is also weird: I prefer the original action-oriented one than the melodramatic one. It unravels too much into drama rather than action. And the plot is so intermixed at the end it's so confusing. What a shame.\n\nAnd the end fight starts as a cover shooter! Man, fuck cover shooters. They're so boring in their mechanics. The first fight was way better."},{"id":"322682678020259404","title":"The Wild Goose Lake","originalTitle":"南方车站的聚会","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2019,"runtimeMinutes":113,"directors":["Diao Yinan"],"actors":["Wan Qian","Zeng Meihuizi","Gwei Lun-mei","Huang Jue","Liao Fan"],"genres":["Crime","Drama","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2020-06-10","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"The apartment complex scene is excellent. Sort of lackadasical in character development, setting, and plot however.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/575428"},{"id":"322682678020460108","title":"The Witch","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2016,"runtimeMinutes":92,"directors":["Robert Eggers"],"actors":["Anya Taylor-Joy"],"genres":["Horror","Drama","Mystery","Fantasy","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2017-08-26","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Too slow-paced for me and lacking of deep characters. I like the atmosphere, the soundtrack especially. And also I love the choice of evil characters and Christian symbolism under the guidance of various themes: initial pride from staying with the exile; coming of age; corruption of innocence. The little mystery in who specifically broke convenant and how the witch follows some rules of Christianity is most interesting. From the get-go, it always was about the supernatural and religion.Subtlety is its strength, e.g., the Witch in the very beginning mashing up the baby (unclear upon first view) to lather herself as a flying unguent, the Devil turning into a handsome man as he/she convinces Thomasin to sign his book. I found this article very insightful on the lore (http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2016/02/23/the_witch_director_robert_eggers_on_the_real_history_behind_the_movie_s.html).\n\nUnfortunately I can't say the atmosphere offers much alongside the soundtrack and the occasional visceral gore. This is unlike, say, Angel's Egg which also benefits from powerful female choruses and crescendos to silence. Most importantly, I think given the choice of setting (an isolated family, one dog, one horse, one gun), there's just too much general inaction.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/310131"},{"id":"322682678976457292","title":"The Witcher Series","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2017,"directors":["noclip"],"completedDate":"2021-01-01","updatedDate":"2022-02-05"},{"id":"7576c127-6f66-42b3-aced-735f77c4133b","title":"The Wolf House","originalTitle":"La casa lobo","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2018,"runtimeMinutes":75,"directors":["Cristóbal León","Joaquín Cociña"],"genres":["Animation","Horror","Drama"],"completedDate":"2025-07-06","updatedDate":"2025-08-04","notes":"Like Mad God. It's an art project more than a coherent movie.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/499537"},{"id":"322682678021432908","title":"The Wolf of Wall Street","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2013,"runtimeMinutes":180,"directors":["Martin Scorsese"],"actors":["Jon Bernthal","Leonardo DiCaprio","Matthew McConaughey","Margot Robbie"],"genres":["Crime","Drama","Comedy"],"completedDate":"2014-02-15","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Highly stylized and hilarious debauchery.\n\nWildly inaccurate portrayal of Wall Street and a typical Hollywood slander of the business.\n\nThere is no real character development, no insight on Belfort, no story beyond cheap thrills. So what is it trying to say? The presentation is still out of the world, especially the climactic scene with the Lemons and how drugs are actually like.\n\nThe one insightful scene is a subway ride. X looks at the newspaper then the camera peels around to show his unsatisfied face in a mediocre life. And he just sits there.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/106646"},{"id":"322682678020275788","title":"The World's End","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2013,"runtimeMinutes":109,"directors":["Edgar Wright"],"actors":["Rosamund Pike","Pierce Brosnan"],"genres":["Comedy","Action","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2020-02-14","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Zany comedy.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/107985"},{"id":"322682678020414028","title":"Thor: Ragnarok","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2017,"runtimeMinutes":131,"directors":["Taika Waititi"],"actors":["Matt Damon","Chris Hemsworth"],"genres":["Action","Science Fiction","Comedy","Adventure"],"completedDate":"2018-05-03","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Somewhat bad acting and synthetic setups. Blindly obvious transitions like black for evil, forced comedy sometimes or demonstrations like the beginning to demonstrate Thor's awesomeness. Human jokes. The guy jumping off the ship to protect the citizens even though they already gotten rid of the spike to begin with.\n\nBut I like the comedy. MCU really got its place in mixing comedy and drama.\n\nI like the lack of most romance in this film.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/284053"},{"id":"322682678021215820","title":"Throne of Blood","originalTitle":"蜘蛛巣城","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1957,"runtimeMinutes":108,"directors":["Akira Kurosawa"],"actors":["Hitoshi Takagi","Minoru Chiaki","Toshirō Mifune","Yoshio Tsuchiya","Yoshio Inaba"],"genres":["Drama","History"],"completedDate":"2017-03-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Terribly slow setup. I like the Shakespearean inspiration although I wish the film proceeded more quickly. The equivalent of Macbeth's wife is great. I only think Ran did it so much better with the sheer horror via chaotic symphonies and deathly gazes. I like the slight differences, in that here she takes a more active role in controlling the kingdom. Great ending scene though.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/3777"},{"id":"322682678020150860","title":"Time to Die","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2021,"runtimeMinutes":163,"directors":["Cary Joji Fukunaga"],"actors":["Ana de Armas","Ralph Fiennes","Jeffrey Wright","Daniel Craig","Rami Malek","Léa Seydoux","Ben Whishaw","Billy Magnussen","Christoph Waltz","Rory Kinnear"],"genres":["Adventure","Action","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2021-11-23","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/370172"},{"id":"322682678021580364","title":"Titanic","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1997,"runtimeMinutes":194,"directors":["James Cameron"],"actors":["Leonardo DiCaprio"],"genres":["Drama","Romance"],"completedDate":"1997-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/597"},{"id":"87ef7107-15ab-43d0-bb66-97be678ef6d1","title":"Together","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2025,"runtimeMinutes":102,"directors":["Michael Shanks"],"actors":["Alison Brie"],"genres":["Horror","Romance"],"completedDate":"2026-05-12","updatedDate":"2026-05-13","notes":"Cheesy, somewhat bad writing, funny.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1242011"},{"id":"322682678978553420","title":"Top Gun","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1986,"runtimeMinutes":110,"directors":["Tony Scott"],"actors":["Tom Cruise"],"genres":["Action","Drama","Romance"],"completedDate":"2023-06-29","updatedDate":"2023-06-30","notes":"What a classic white American 80s movie. It's so emboldened with the various stereotypes and tropes that go into America and white supremacy today that it's hard to truly appreciate. I can imagine this is every frat boy's dream.\n\nAction sequences are cheesy and disorienting. So many shot transitions it's hard to follow what's even happening.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/744"},{"id":"322682678021601868","title":"Toy Story","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1995,"runtimeMinutes":81,"directors":["John Lasseter"],"actors":["Tom Hanks"],"genres":["Family","Comedy","Animation","Adventure"],"completedDate":"1997-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/862"},{"id":"322682678021624396","title":"Toy Story 2","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1999,"runtimeMinutes":92,"directors":["John Lasseter"],"actors":["Tom Hanks"],"genres":["Animation","Comedy","Family"],"completedDate":"2001-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/863"},{"id":"322682678021589580","title":"Toy Story 3","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2010,"runtimeMinutes":103,"directors":["Lee Unkrich"],"actors":["Tom Hanks"],"genres":["Animation","Family","Comedy"],"completedDate":"2010-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/10193"},{"id":"322682678020420172","title":"Trollhunter","originalTitle":"Trolljegeren","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2010,"runtimeMinutes":104,"directors":["André Øvredal"],"actors":["Johanna Mørck"],"genres":["Fantasy","Horror"],"completedDate":"2018-03-11","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I like how they don't tease with the trolls. They show them directly and offer a nice point of view as they understand an official. It takes the kaiju subgenre away from horror/thriller and feature it more like a documentary that goes wrong. That said, it drags on more than it should and shows too many shots of fjords. It's obvious troll lore is the most interesting aspect of the film: they should have continued it. For example: individual trolls, their intelligence, what they eat, how they live in packs or alone, their territories.\n\nA mix of found footage, dry Norwegian humor, almost World-of-Warcrafty in exploring territory and monsters.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/46146"},{"id":"322682678021596748","title":"TRON: Legacy","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2010,"runtimeMinutes":126,"directors":["Joseph Kosinski"],"actors":["Serinda Swan"],"genres":["Adventure","Action","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2010-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"9 years later on June 6 2020, I'm still thinking about this movie due its amazing soundtrack.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/20526"},{"id":"322682678021609036","title":"Tropic Thunder","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2008,"runtimeMinutes":107,"directors":["Ben Stiller"],"actors":["Tom Cruise","Robert Downey Jr.","Jack Black","Matthew McConaughey"],"genres":["Action","Comedy","War"],"completedDate":"2007-09-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/7446"},{"id":"f6177b7b-f62c-4f3f-9f78-82fa96838889","title":"Tuner","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2026,"runtimeMinutes":107,"directors":["Daniel Roher"],"genres":["Crime","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2026-07-18","updatedDate":"2026-07-19","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1340206"},{"id":"322682678020285004","title":"Uncut Gems","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2019,"runtimeMinutes":136,"directors":["Benny Safdie","Josh Safdie"],"actors":["Adam Sandler","Tilda Swinton","Pom Klementieff","Lakeith Stanfield","Keith Williams Richards","Idina Menzel","The Weeknd","Natasha Lyonne","Julia Fox","Judd Hirsch"],"genres":["Drama","Thriller","Crime"],"completedDate":"2019-01-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"The movie is unnecessaarily busy. It has a tendency to have multiple conversations going on at once in order to cause chaos. They depict the gambling junkie really well. The story sort of rambles though.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/473033"},{"id":"8682d1e7-7a18-4c1d-9841-7abcb68c5bf0","title":"Under the Skin","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2014,"runtimeMinutes":108,"directors":["Jonathan Glazer"],"actors":["Scarlett Johansson"],"genres":["Thriller","Science Fiction","Drama"],"completedDate":"2024-03-21","updatedDate":"2024-03-22","notes":"That was an interesting movie... minimal dialogue, a bit of scifi, mostly symbolic. It feeds on Scarlett Johansson's sexual appeal. The hidden camera sequences go for seemingly too long and the story doesn't go very far.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/97370"},{"id":"322682678021549644","title":"Up","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2009,"runtimeMinutes":96,"directors":["Pete Docter"],"actors":["Delroy Lindo","Mickie McGowan","Pete Docter","Teresa Ganzel","John Ratzenberger","Ed Asner","Elie Docter","Bob Bergen","Christopher Plummer","Jess Harnell"],"genres":["Animation","Comedy","Family","Adventure"],"completedDate":"2009-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/14160"},{"id":"322682678020196940","title":"Upgraded","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2018,"runtimeMinutes":120,"genres":["Comedy"],"completedDate":"2021-06-03","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Predictable story. Fun action sequences. The detective and police subplot is the most useless part of the story. Even the final reveal with STEM is stupid.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/205430"},{"id":"322682678021517900","title":"V for Vendetta","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2006,"runtimeMinutes":132,"directors":["James McTeigue"],"actors":["Imogen Poots","Hugo Weaving","Natalie Portman","Eddie Marsan","Stephen Fry","Rupert Graves","John Hurt","Sinéad Cusack","Chad Stahelski","Mary Stockley"],"genres":["Action","Thriller","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2005-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/752"},{"id":"322682678021421644","title":"Viskningar och rop","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1972,"runtimeMinutes":95,"directors":["Ingmar Bergman"],"actors":["Marianne Aubert","Liv Ullmann","Harriet Andersson","Inga Gill","Ingrid Thulin"],"genres":["Drama"],"completedDate":"2014-03-01","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Beautiful colors and narrative technique, albeit too slow to be as emotive as it truly can be. The flashbacks don't connect very well together, too little occurs to flesh out their relationships.\n\nSteady soleful camera usage, assaulting silent scenes with raw emotion. It is because of Bergman's authenticity in its presentation that I only wish Cries and Whispers had done more to ground their stories.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/10238"},{"id":"e4e8adc7-08ff-4dd7-9304-e8ee79c7e95b","title":"Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2025,"runtimeMinutes":145,"directors":["Rian Johnson"],"actors":["Joseph Gordon-Levitt"],"genres":["Thriller","Mystery","Comedy"],"completedDate":"2025-12-15","updatedDate":"2026-01-27","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/812583"},{"id":"322682678021488204","title":"Walk the Line","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2005,"runtimeMinutes":136,"directors":["James Mangold"],"actors":["Robert Patrick"],"genres":["Drama","Music","Romance"],"completedDate":"2009-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/69"},{"id":"335403862345122385","title":"Watcher","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2022,"runtimeMinutes":96,"directors":["Chloe Okuno"],"actors":["Maika Monroe","Burn Gorman","Madalina Anea","Karl Glusman"],"genres":["Horror","Mystery","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2022-06-24","updatedDate":"2022-06-25","notes":"Fairly typical of a Hitchcock clone.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/807356"},{"id":"322682678020479564","title":"Welcome to Dongmakgol","originalTitle":"웰컴 투 동막골","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2005,"runtimeMinutes":133,"directors":["Bae Jong"],"actors":["Kang Hye-jung","Jung Jae-young","Shin Ha-kyun","Yoo Seung-mok","Lee Yong-nyeo"],"genres":["Comedy","Drama","War"],"completedDate":"2017-08-08","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"The farcical nature is nice. Some of the drama is cloying.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/14968"},{"id":"322682678020278860","title":"What We Do in the Shadows","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2014,"runtimeMinutes":86,"directors":["Taika Waititi","Jemaine Clement"],"actors":["Taika Waititi","Jemaine Clement","Morag Hills","Jonny Brugh","Rhys Darby","Chelsie Preston Crayford"],"genres":["Comedy","Horror"],"completedDate":"2020-02-10","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Sort of my comedy but also not. I appreciate its quirkiness though.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/246741"},{"id":"4562b09d-c0b5-4913-bce3-68ad6cded0a9","title":"When Evil Lurks","originalTitle":"Cuando acecha la maldad","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2023,"runtimeMinutes":99,"directors":["Demián Rugna"],"genres":["Horror","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2023-12-10","updatedDate":"2023-12-11","notes":"Overall good pacing and story. It's unfortunate that the story doesn't really go anywhere. This, and the actions that the characters take don't really make much sense despite all the obvious consequences that have appears so far.\n\n+ The children deaths are brutal. I'm glad they're willing to go those lengths that western cinema wouldn't.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/744857"},{"id":"322682678021228108","title":"Why Don't You Play in Hell?","originalTitle":"地獄でなぜ悪い","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2013,"runtimeMinutes":130,"directors":["Sion Sono"],"actors":["Jun Kunimura","Fumi Nikaido","Megumi Kagurazaka","Riko Narumi","Motoki Fukami","Nanoka Hara"],"genres":["Drama","Action","Comedy"],"completedDate":"2017-03-17","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"So many absurd scenes I can't believe the producers would even put up with it, let alone the actors. It dip in quality a lot. Some are just mediocre. And others that are pure genius. For example, 1:20:00 in the car date scene. Hiroki Hasegawa plays a hilarious eccentric. And the cocaine vision.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/134350"},{"id":"a940549f-5ad5-4ef8-b215-3681e1a9da6b","title":"Wicked: For Good","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2025,"runtimeMinutes":137,"directors":["Jon M. Chu"],"genres":["Fantasy","Adventure","Romance"],"completedDate":"2026-07-18","updatedDate":"2026-07-19","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/967941"},{"id":"a9bf0bf2-ef69-46c3-b335-1ea7130c5b59","title":"Wild Things","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1998,"runtimeMinutes":108,"directors":["John McNaughton"],"actors":["Kevin Bacon","Neve Campbell","Denise Richards","Bill Murray","Matt Dillon","Robert Wagner","Jeff Perry","Daphne Rubin-Vega","Theresa Russell","Marc Macaulay"],"genres":["Mystery","Thriller","Drama"],"completedDate":"2024-05-05","updatedDate":"2024-05-05","notes":"Goofy in having so many plot twists. Great acting and overall pacing though. A good movie for a date.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/617"},{"id":"322682678021478988","title":"Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1971,"runtimeMinutes":100,"directors":["Mel Stuart"],"actors":["Julie Dawn Cole"],"genres":["Family","Fantasy","Comedy"],"completedDate":"2002-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/252"},{"id":"322682678021338700","title":"Winter Sleep","originalTitle":"Kış Uykusu","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2014,"runtimeMinutes":196,"directors":["Nuri Bilge Ceylan"],"actors":["Melisa Sözen","Haluk Bilginer","Tamer Levent"],"genres":["Drama"],"completedDate":"2015-02-26","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Interesting narrative told through its introspection and harsh dialogue. Rather taxing however.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/265169"},{"id":"322682678020440652","title":"Wolverine","originalTitle":"The Wolverine","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2013,"runtimeMinutes":126,"directors":["James Mangold"],"actors":["Famke Janssen","Hugh Jackman","Will Yun Lee","Hiroyuki Sanada","Tao Okamoto","Ian McKellen","Patrick Stewart","Svetlana Khodchenkova","Rila Fukushima","Tess Haubrich"],"genres":["Action","Science Fiction","Adventure"],"completedDate":"2017-11-04","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"A dated story and it shows with its American fetishes of a bulky American man sweeping a Japanese girl as damsel in distress and with a cute Japanese sidekick. But on the story itself, I thought it was well-executed. The brooding nature is a little overkill but it was fun with its action scenes and great story. The betrayal at the end was needless.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/76170"},{"id":"322682678021209676","title":"Woody Allen: A Documentary","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2011,"runtimeMinutes":193,"directors":["Robert B. Weide"],"actors":["Scarlett Johansson"],"genres":["Documentary"],"completedDate":"2017-04-04","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Love the accurate backtrace, and sprawling comprehensiveness of his many collaborators' perspectives, some rose-tinted and a little insufferable in compliments, but most very honest. Unfortunate it glosses over his many failures, controversies, and avoids asking the tougher questions that always are at the root of his films and make them what they are.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/81167"},{"id":"322682678020236876","title":"Wreck-it Ralph","originalTitle":"Wreck-It Ralph","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2012,"runtimeMinutes":101,"directors":["Rich Moore"],"actors":["Stefanie Scott","Alan Tudyk","Rachael Harris","Ed O'Neill","Jane Lynch","Scott Menville","Elizabeth Daily","Dennis Haysbert","Debi Derryberry","Jack McBrayer"],"genres":["Family","Animation","Comedy","Adventure"],"completedDate":"2020-11-27","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"The movie's the most fun at its animated reincarnations of video game tropes. I wish it explored more gaming worlds than stuck to a girl-glitch drama in a racer world. That drama is where it fell apart for me. Even if it kept the alien virus taking over video game worlds plot, but removed the girl altogether, the film would be so much better narratively speaking. The retroactive fitting that Vanellope was the ruler all along just fits everyone in perfectly as a deus ex machina.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/82690"},{"id":"322682678020439628","title":"X-Men: Days of Future Past","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2014,"runtimeMinutes":132,"directors":["Bryan Singer"],"actors":["Fan Bingbing","Michael Fassbender","Elliot Page","Jennifer Lawrence"],"genres":["Action","Adventure","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2017-11-04","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Loved the film's launching fight. Set up the teamwork well with bulky fighters, ranged, support such as teleportation, and miscellaneous such as Rogue. It really showcases X-Men as a fantastic ensemble of unique superheroes. The story was very wacky like X3 and not afraid to show many deaths. And I like its ambition for that.\n\nThe Quicksilver scene saving Magneto and running in a circle around a metal enclave was amazing. Very well choreographed.\n\nI watched the Rogue Cut.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/127585"},{"id":"322682678021579340","title":"X-Men: First Class","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2011,"runtimeMinutes":30,"directors":["Tim Postins"],"actors":["James McAvoy","Zoë Kravitz","Michael Fassbender","Nicholas Hoult","Jason Flemyng","Kevin Bacon","Matthew Vaughn"],"completedDate":"2012-10-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/691677"},{"id":"4a47ba04-3597-4ecc-8adb-ca2213112b73","title":"Yes Man","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2008,"runtimeMinutes":104,"directors":["Peyton Reed"],"actors":["Bradley Cooper"],"genres":["Comedy","Romance"],"completedDate":"2023-07-01","updatedDate":"2023-07-01","notes":"Motivated to watch this because I recently rewatched Truman Show and I enjoyed Jim Carrey's acting again.\n\nSimple romcom but fun.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/10201"},{"id":"322682678021417548","title":"Yojimbo","originalTitle":"用心棒","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":1961,"runtimeMinutes":110,"directors":["Akira Kurosawa"],"actors":["Tatsuya Nakadai","Toshirō Mifune","Yoshio Tsuchiya","Hideyo Amamoto"],"genres":["Drama","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2014-03-10","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Mifune always playing the ragged hero in Kurosawa's films is grating. I can't stand the amount of self-insertion and moralizing here. For example, the man decides that killing 6 people to get a mother with his child and husband is right, and the film seeks to approve such behavior along the assumption that bad guys are bad and that the worth of 6 lives is ethically and unquestionably the right choice. Every character is two-bit—a few worth saving, everyone else worth dying.\n\nIt is still at least quite humorous in its portrayal of greed in a small town neighborhood.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/11878"},{"id":"322682678020181580","title":"You're Next","status":"Completed","score":6,"releaseYear":2013,"runtimeMinutes":95,"directors":["Adam Wingard"],"actors":["Kate Lyn Sheil","Barbara Crampton","Sharni Vinson","Margaret Laney","Amy Seimetz","Wendy Glenn"],"genres":["Horror","Thriller","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2021-07-02","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Gruesome kills, dark humor, badass yet vulnerable protagonist. Love all the action. The plot twists are all corny.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/83899"},{"id":"9cbc74b2-553a-4286-8215-1df32a85b781","title":"\"Wuthering Heights\"","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2026,"runtimeMinutes":136,"directors":["Emerald Fennell"],"actors":["Jacob Elordi","Margot Robbie"],"genres":["Romance","Drama"],"completedDate":"2026-04-10","updatedDate":"2026-04-11","notes":"Bad writing. Style no substance.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1316092"},{"id":"322682678020161100","title":"#Alive","originalTitle":"Alive","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2018,"runtimeMinutes":91,"directors":["Rob Grant"],"actors":["Angus Macfadyen","Zoe Marlett"],"genres":["Horror","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2021-10-08","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I think the overall premise was executed well. The ending with a human traitor was unecessary as are the romance elements.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/492414"},{"id":"129496d9-8f7b-452d-9b59-5f0ed94b0860","title":"28 Years Later Part 2: The Bone Temple","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2026,"directors":["Nia DaCosta"],"actors":["Cillian Murphy","Aaron Taylor-Johnson","Jack O'Connell"],"genres":["Horror","Science Fiction","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2026-05-08","updatedDate":"2026-05-09","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1272837"},{"id":"322682678021404236","title":"A Better Tomorrow","originalTitle":"英雄本色","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1986,"runtimeMinutes":95,"directors":["John Woo"],"actors":["Chow Yun-Fat","Shing Fui-On","Ti Lung","Leslie Cheung","Waise Lee","John Woo","Tsui Hark","Kenneth Tsang","Emily Chu Bo-Yee"],"genres":["Action","Crime","Drama"],"completedDate":"2014-03-22","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Really cheesy 80's. The music is incredibly sappy and the whole thing overacting and generic. It's also amusingly masculine in fitting with the era, with only one female role that's totally not as submissive as possible. I love the music, especially the electric beat which remins me of Patlabor. There's also an obligatory explosion, pretty much any stereotype you'd like. Still, for an action series it's quite entertaining.\n\nPlot holes and melodrama aboard! It's not exactly clear how a man beaten up by his brother in the rain is seen in the next clip assumably having watched the sunrise in dry clothes. People get shot and recover the very next scene. Emotional turmoils are formulas.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/11471"},{"id":"322682678021623372","title":"A Bug's Life","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1998,"runtimeMinutes":95,"directors":["John Lasseter"],"actors":["Hayden Panettiere","Hayden Panettiere","Debi Derryberry","Bonnie Hunt","Ashley Tisdale","Brad Garrett","Andrew Stanton","Christina Milian","Carlos Alazraqui","Denis Leary"],"genres":["Adventure","Animation","Comedy","Family"],"completedDate":"2000-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/9487"},{"id":"322682678020481612","title":"A Hard Day","originalTitle":"끝까지 간다","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2014,"runtimeMinutes":111,"directors":["Kim Seong-hun"],"actors":["Lee Ji-hoon","Park Bo-gum","Shin Dong-mi","Lee Sun-kyun","Jeong Man-sik","Jang In-sub","Cho Jin-woong","Heo Jung-eun","Ju Seok-tae"],"genres":["Crime","Thriller","Mystery","Action"],"completedDate":"2017-08-07","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"A little stupid at times with the way the story unravels. But thrilling. I always love how Korean thrillers insert comedy into the scenes.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/269494"},{"id":"322682678022353484","title":"A History of Violence","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2005,"runtimeMinutes":96,"directors":["David Cronenberg"],"actors":["William Hurt","Ed Harris","Maria Bello","Viggo Mortensen","Greg Bryk","Stephen McHattie","Aidan Devine"],"genres":["Drama","Thriller","Crime"],"completedDate":"2006-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/59"},{"id":"322682678022277708","title":"A Nightmare on Elm Street","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2010,"runtimeMinutes":95,"directors":["Samuel Bayer"],"actors":["Kyle Gallner"],"genres":["Horror","Mystery","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2003-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/23437"},{"id":"322682678020395596","title":"A Quiet Place","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2018,"runtimeMinutes":91,"directors":["John Krasinski"],"actors":["Emily Blunt"],"genres":["Horror","Drama","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2018-07-15","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"That's a lot of... jump scares. And a lot of situational things just happenning at the same time. The implausibility is ridiculous, from a nail in wood to an early pregnancy to the pregnancy itself to the drama to the sudden reveal of their weakness. I don't even get the setup. How do they have electricity without a noisy generator? Or others but no community?\n\n> you're telling me a monster who can hear a picture frame shatter in a basement several miles away at night time with a lot of background noise can't hear people breathe or hear their hearts beat 3 ft away from it? https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/8a5qdo/official_discussion_a_quiet_place_spoilers/?sort=top\n\nlol yes.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/447332"},{"id":"322682678022376012","title":"Ace Ventura 2: When Nature Calls","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1995,"directors":["Steve Oedekerk"],"completedDate":"2005-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30"},{"id":"322682678022334028","title":"Ace Ventura: Pet Detective","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1994,"runtimeMinutes":86,"directors":["Tom Shadyac"],"actors":["Jim Carrey","Courteney Cox","Sean Young","Udo Kier","Rebecca Ferratti","Randall 'Tex' Cobb","Tiny Ron Taylor","Mark Margolis","Troy Evans","John Capodice"],"genres":["Comedy","Crime","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2005-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/3049"},{"id":"322682678022373964","title":"Air Force One","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1997,"runtimeMinutes":124,"directors":["Wolfgang Petersen"],"actors":["Harrison Ford","Gary Oldman"],"genres":["Action","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2001-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/9772"},{"id":"322682678021271116","title":"Alice through the Looking Glass","originalTitle":"Alice Through the Looking Glass","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2016,"runtimeMinutes":113,"directors":["James Bobin"],"actors":["Anne Hathaway"],"genres":["Adventure","Family","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"2016-11-23","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/241259"},{"id":"322682678020382284","title":"Along With the Gods: The Two Worlds","originalTitle":"신과함께-죄와 벌","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2017,"runtimeMinutes":139,"directors":["Kim Yong-hwa"],"actors":["Ma Dong-seok","Lee Jung-jae","Oh Dal-su","Kim Su-an","Kim Ha-neul","Ju Ji-hoon","Kim Hae-sook","Kim Dong-wook","Ye Soo-jung","Jung Hae-kyun"],"genres":["Action","Adventure","Drama","Fantasy","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2018-10-24","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"It's like a Korean anime. Needlessly flashy with action. Lots of events that sort of happen that you don't know why. But it was a fun setup even though much lacked coherent content.\n\nIt also has totally weird ways to push morals down your throat, like what it means to be a good person, their 'revisions' over the Korean justice system like a lack of a statute of limitations, and good vs evil in terms of intentions and selfishness. Whether sins are forgiven are judged in the afterlife.\n\nWhat a tearjerker in so many setups lol.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/397567"},{"id":"322682678020309580","title":"Andhadhun","originalTitle":"अंधाधुन","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2018,"runtimeMinutes":139,"directors":["Sriram Raghavan"],"actors":["Radhika Apte","Rashmi Agdekar","Ashwini Kalsekar"],"genres":["Crime","Mystery","Thriller","Comedy"],"completedDate":"2019-06-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"This may be the first Indian film I watched seriously. Kind of mediocre. Has a weirdly sinister Indian cultural feeling to it. Interesting mix of Hindu and English. And pop culture. I thought the synopsis was hilariously weird though.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/534780"},{"id":"322682678021281356","title":"Ant-Man","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2015,"runtimeMinutes":117,"directors":["Peyton Reed"],"actors":["Paul Rudd","Sebastian Stan","Chris Evans","Evangeline Lilly","Anthony Mackie","Hayley Atwell","Judy Greer","Stan Lee","Abby Ryder Fortson","Michael Peña"],"genres":["Science Fiction","Adventure","Action"],"completedDate":"2016-10-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/102899"},{"id":"322682678975422028","title":"Antz","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1998,"runtimeMinutes":83,"directors":["Eric Darnell","Tim Johnson"],"actors":["Sylvester Stallone"],"genres":["Animation","Comedy","Family"],"completedDate":"1999-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/8916"},{"id":"104ed180-5461-4a62-837a-e1e4fbd5a99a","title":"Arahan","originalTitle":"아라한 장풍 대작전","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2004,"runtimeMinutes":114,"directors":["Ryoo Seung-wan"],"actors":["Ryoo Seung-bum","Lee Dae-yeon","Yoon Joo-sang","Yang Ik-june","Ahn Kil-kang"],"genres":["Fantasy","Action","Comedy","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2023-11-27","updatedDate":"2024-01-13","notes":"The special effects are so dumb. Funny movie though. I feel it got boring after the progression around midway. It just became a generic evil villain taking over the world.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/13970"},{"id":"322682678020312652","title":"Argo","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2012,"runtimeMinutes":120,"directors":["Ben Affleck"],"actors":["John Goodman","Bryan Cranston","Kyle Chandler","Ben Affleck","Adrienne Barbeau","Scoot McNairy","Rory Cochrane","Taylor Schilling","Zeljko Ivanek","Clea DuVall"],"genres":["Drama","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2019-06-20","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Overly Hollywood and American patriotic. I liked the overall depth but it still feels a little too clean. It makes a lot of trope-y scenes more dramatic than they ought to be, and which therefore removes the tension from the crises that are actually dramatic. For example, phone calls from Bryan Cranston's character to each the president of the united states to get the go-ahead, and this happens simultaneously as the 6 hostages and Ben Affleck's character rush to the hospital. Please. And once this happens, this scene transitions to the terrorists and a kid who just happens to finish revealing one of the escapee pictures. And then the plane tailing scene... It's not even historically accurate. Textbook amount of plot. I only liked it for its high production and decent by-the-book acting. Everything is naturally concluded, from all the minor scuff dialogues to the separated family to the office politics. [Jimmy Carter's perspective](http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/hendrikhertzberg/2013/02/argo-the-jimmy-carter-experience.html)","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/68734"},{"id":"322682678022379084","title":"Around the World in 80 Days","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2004,"runtimeMinutes":120,"directors":["Frank Coraci"],"actors":["Jackie Chan","Arnold Schwarzenegger"],"genres":["Action","Adventure","Comedy"],"completedDate":"2004-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/10204"},{"id":"331324710619972177","title":"As Above, So Below","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2014,"runtimeMinutes":93,"directors":["John Erick Dowdle"],"actors":["Perdita Weeks","Ben Feldman"],"genres":["Horror","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2022-05-10","updatedDate":"2022-05-11","notes":"A weird story in terms of pacing and lots of suspension of disbelief. The mystery solving aspects in the beginning are also awkwardly placed as the rest of the movie goes into horror exploration. The number of things that you just have to take as fact is so hilarious. Somehow they don't question the crawling through a narrow tunnel with loose bones (why not just remove all the bones before crawling through?); the guy who lived in the Catacombs for two years and blindly follow him without stopping to interrogate; or the rotting body as a massive red flag.\n\nIf anything, I did like the journey and some pieces depicting the descent to hell.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/256274"},{"id":"322682678021363276","title":"Ashes Of Time","originalTitle":"東邪西毒","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1994,"runtimeMinutes":98,"directors":["Wong Kar-Wai"],"actors":["Tony Leung Chiu-wai","Carina Lau","Charlie Yeung","Tony Leung Ka-fai","Maggie Cheung","Leslie Cheung","Collin Chou","Jacky Cheung","Liu Xun","Brigitte Lin"],"genres":["Drama","Action"],"completedDate":"2014-12-29","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Cryptic, and overly so.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/40751"},{"id":"322682678022324812","title":"Austin Powers in Goldmember","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2002,"runtimeMinutes":94,"directors":["Jay Roach"],"actors":["Tom Cruise","Mike Myers","Steven Spielberg"],"genres":["Comedy","Crime"],"completedDate":"2002-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/818"},{"id":"322682678022267468","title":"Avatar","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2009,"runtimeMinutes":162,"directors":["James Cameron"],"actors":["Zoe Saldaña","Sigourney Weaver"],"genres":["Science Fiction","Action","Adventure"],"completedDate":"2009-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/19995"},{"id":"322682678020443724","title":"Avengers: Age of Ultron","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2015,"runtimeMinutes":141,"directors":["Joss Whedon"],"actors":["Scarlett Johansson","Robert Downey Jr.","Samuel L. Jackson","Chris Hemsworth"],"genres":["Action","Adventure","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2017-10-27","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Somewhat crafted Hollywood film with key agendas for every character. The action scenes were a lot of fun. It was really like watching the Justice League DC cartoon envisioned in real life without crazy budget concerns in enabling it. The artificial intelligence angle was a droll.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/99861"},{"id":"322682678022270540","title":"Back to the Future","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1985,"runtimeMinutes":116,"directors":["Robert Zemeckis"],"actors":["Christopher Lloyd","Billy Zane","Crispin Glover","Michael J. Fox","Robert Krantz","Thomas F. Wilson","Lea Thompson","Claudia Wells","Maia Brewton","Casey Siemaszko"],"genres":["Adventure","Comedy","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"1999-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/105"},{"id":"5b5e2c26-af1d-4c35-bc15-290454a407a5","title":"Backrooms","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2026,"runtimeMinutes":111,"directors":["Kane Parsons"],"genres":["Horror","Mystery","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2026-07-18","updatedDate":"2026-07-19","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1083381"},{"id":"322682678020263500","title":"Bacurau","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2019,"runtimeMinutes":131,"directors":["Juliano Dornelles","Kleber Mendonça Filho"],"actors":["Udo Kier","Karine Teles","Antonio Saboia","Silvero Pereira","Bárbara Colen"],"genres":["Mystery","Western","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2020-04-11","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Setup for the first hour and fifteen is too slow for me. But I did enjoy the mystery in figuring out exactly what's happening. Plays out like the Hunt but worse execution.\n\nAmerican foreigners wiping out a village? That's such bizarre xenophobia to see in a film.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/446159"},{"id":"322682678022245964","title":"Bambi","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1942,"runtimeMinutes":70,"directors":["David Hand"],"actors":["Donnie Dunagan"],"genres":["Animation","Drama","Family"],"completedDate":"1996-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/3170"},{"id":"322682678022297164","title":"Batman","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1989,"runtimeMinutes":126,"directors":["Tim Burton"],"actors":["Jack Nicholson","Michael Keaton","Kim Basinger","Michael Gough","Jerry Hall","Billy Dee Williams","Amir M. Korangy"],"genres":["Fantasy","Action","Crime"],"completedDate":"2001-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/268"},{"id":"322682678021625420","title":"Batman Forever","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1995,"runtimeMinutes":121,"directors":["Joel Schumacher"],"actors":["Nicole Kidman"],"genres":["Action","Crime","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"1998-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/414"},{"id":"322682678021626444","title":"Batman Returns","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1992,"runtimeMinutes":126,"directors":["Tim Burton"],"actors":["Michael Keaton","Michelle Pfeiffer","Danny DeVito","Christopher Walken","Felix Silla","Michael Gough","Vincent Schiavelli","Doug Jones","Sean Whalen","Michael Murphy"],"genres":["Action","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"1998-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/364"},{"id":"322682678021537356","title":"Battle Royale","originalTitle":"バトル・ロワイアル","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2000,"runtimeMinutes":113,"directors":["Kinji Fukasaku"],"actors":["Takeshi Kitano","Chiaki Kuriyama","Tatsuya Fujiwara","Ko Shibasaki","Masanobu Ando","Aki Maeda","Anna Nagata","Eri Ishikawa"],"genres":["Drama","Thriller","Action"],"completedDate":"2011-11-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/3176"},{"id":"322682678021538380","title":"Battlestar Galactica: Razor","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2007,"runtimeMinutes":88,"directors":["Félix Alcalá"],"actors":["Mary McDonnell","Tricia Helfer","Katee Sackhoff","Michelle Forbes","Grace Park","James Callis","Kandyse McClure","Jamie Bamber","Stephanie Jacobsen","Edward James Olmos"],"genres":["Science Fiction","Action","Drama","Thriller","TV Movie"],"completedDate":"2011-09-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/69315"},{"id":"322682678022304332","title":"Beauty and the Beast","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1991,"runtimeMinutes":84,"directors":["Gary Trousdale","Kirk Wise"],"actors":["David Ogden Stiers","Frank Welker","Robby Benson","Angela Lansbury","Mickie McGowan","Mary Kay Bergman","Jerry Orbach","Tony Jay"],"genres":["Romance","Family","Animation","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"1996-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/10020"},{"id":"322682678020365900","title":"Before We Vanish","originalTitle":"散歩する侵略者","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2017,"runtimeMinutes":129,"directors":["Kiyoshi Kurosawa"],"actors":["Masami Nagasawa","Mahiro Takasugi","Ryuhei Matsuda","Shinnosuke Mitsushima","Yuri Tsunematsu","Ken Mitsuishi","Masahiro Higashide"],"genres":["Science Fiction","Drama","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2019-01-01","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Rather zany. Weirdly horrific in a way I imagine Kiyoshi Kurosawa is best at. Weirdly ambitious and eccentric in narrative structure as well. I lvoe the mix of science fiction, romantic comedy, and apocalyptic thriller. Reminds me of Save the Green Planet! (2003). It's an interesting concept, to have three actors walk around with half-completed human selves better understanding specificc concepts. I didn't really understand where it was goign with all this however. The horrific beginning also seems to fool the audience in thinking it's a genre that it actually isn't.\n\nThe fighting and the romantic scene between Shinji and that girl seem poorly acted. It's inauthentic.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/446164"},{"id":"322682678022327884","title":"Big Daddy","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1999,"runtimeMinutes":93,"directors":["Dennis Dugan"],"actors":["Leslie Mann","Steve Buscemi","Adam Sandler","Jackie Sandler","Jared Sandler","Rob Schneider","Cole Sprouse","Kristy Swanson","Dylan Sprouse","Joey Lauren Adams"],"genres":["Comedy","Drama"],"completedDate":"2003-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/9032"},{"id":"322682678021276236","title":"Big Hero 6","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2014,"runtimeMinutes":102,"directors":["Don Hall","Chris Williams"],"actors":["Genesis Rodriguez"],"genres":["Adventure","Family","Animation","Action","Comedy"],"completedDate":"2016-11-13","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I like the San Francisco-Tokyo hybrid and also the excellent setup (until the conflict). Boring story.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/177572"},{"id":"322682678022293068","title":"Black Hawk Down","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2001,"runtimeMinutes":145,"directors":["Ridley Scott"],"actors":["Tom Hardy","Jason Isaacs"],"genres":["Action","War","History"],"completedDate":"2003-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/855"},{"id":"322682678020417100","title":"Blair Witch","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2016,"runtimeMinutes":89,"directors":["Adam Wingard"],"actors":["Valorie Curry","Callie Hernandez","Corbin Reid"],"genres":["Thriller","Horror"],"completedDate":"2018-03-15","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Blair Witch Project succeeded by having none of vanilla filmism in favor of more naturalism through found footage. On the other hand, this is a mix of found footage and real cinema, which can make it hard to tell sometimes. This is important because they act differently if on footage vs not. It's also unlikely that the witch has the power to turn off electricity and make arbitrary GPS and a flashlight turn off.. I wish these sorts of myseteries were more plausible. The fake found footage-style even when they're not recording is irritating more than scary, like when the black guy starts running away from the noises, then the footage glitches out when the tree hits him. They also added the CCTV paranormal activity style so we can more easily watch things creep on them.\n\nJumpscares are very annoying.. And trees crashing and tents flying. It lacks any subtlety, which is true for all of the film. This is true disadvantage alongside the lack of genuity in the characters, where BWP's slow build helped establish them.\n\nFrom Reddit: \"Or just have her facing the corner (figuratively) forever, afraid to turn around or do anything. End the film with her knowing there's nothing left to do, no hope, only an inevitable fate that can only be prolonged by standing in the corner and not turning around. Roll credits. A tormenting ending.\" This is an example of a more powerful horror that's less blatant than everyone just dying.\n\nVarious subplots were boring: two locals experiencing a 5-day timelapse; the cut-in-the-foot with a parasite; the immediate setup of voodoo dolls; the rocks; the drone which had zero impact on the narrative. The time motif was interesting but could have continued. Really lacked any new delving into the lore.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/351211"},{"id":"322682678021548620","title":"Brave","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2012,"runtimeMinutes":93,"directors":["Brenda Chapman","Mark Andrews"],"actors":["Emma Thompson","Kelly Macdonald","Julie Walters","Robbie Coltrane","Kevin McKidd","Craig Ferguson","John Ratzenberger","Billy Connolly","Sally Kinghorn"],"genres":["Adventure","Animation","Family","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"2012-11-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/62177"},{"id":"322682678020313676","title":"Brightburn","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2019,"runtimeMinutes":91,"directors":["David Yarovesky"],"actors":["Jennifer Holland","Elizabeth Banks","Michael Rooker","Meredith Hagner","David Denman","Steve Agee","Jackson A. Dunn","Emmie Hunter","Matt Jones","Gregory Alan Williams"],"genres":["Horror","Science Fiction","Drama"],"completedDate":"2019-06-18","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I liked the beginning development. Very cliche in execution though. Sort of boring in how it unraveled. I did like the setup but the tropes in what he can do, the scariness in the individual scenes, all of it is very boring. Lots of jump scares. Lots of potential in its premise and budget but did not execute well. Not subtle at all.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/531309"},{"id":"322682678020403788","title":"Cabin Fever","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2003,"runtimeMinutes":93,"directors":["Eli Roth"],"actors":["Cerina Vincent","Rider Strong","Eli Roth","Tim Parati","Jordan Ladd","Joey Kern"],"genres":["Horror"],"completedDate":"2018-06-29","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Lol i like the various people and their consequences. Especially the cautious guy who just hermited for a good subset of the movie while drinking bottled beer. The nigger reversal was pure satire. Eli Roth at another level lol. Winston the creepy deputy is funny.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/11547"},{"id":"322682678975421004","title":"Chicken Run","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2000,"runtimeMinutes":84,"directors":["Peter Lord","Nick Park"],"actors":["Mel Gibson","Imelda Staunton","Miranda Richardson","Julia Sawalha","Timothy Spall","Jane Horrocks","Tony Haygarth","Wyatt Shears"],"genres":["Animation","Comedy","Family"],"completedDate":"2007-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/7443"},{"id":"322682678022363724","title":"Cinderella","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1950,"runtimeMinutes":74,"directors":["Hamilton Luske","Clyde Geronimi","Wilfred Jackson"],"actors":["Helene Stanley","Ilene Woods","June Foray","Betty Lou Gerson"],"genres":["Family","Fantasy","Animation","Romance"],"completedDate":"1996-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/11224"},{"id":"322682678021426764","title":"Citizen Kane","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1941,"runtimeMinutes":119,"directors":["Orson Welles"],"actors":["Agnes Moorehead","Orson Welles","Joseph Cotten","Everett Sloane","Nat King Cole","Suzanne Ridgeway","Arthur O'Connell","Ray Collins"],"genres":["Mystery","Drama"],"completedDate":"2013-12-12","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Drolling. What an uninteresting documentary style, mostly because it follows predictable triumphs and losses too structurally, leaving little to flow naturally. There is also all that yellow journalism and greed from little motivation other than growing up as a pampered individual. The whole story seeks to victimize the man when he's simply morose from not enjoying what he already has. How long must it take Citizen Kane to reach this point? What characterization really is there in such a cookie cutter plot? What slow pacing for no reason.\n\nThere may be some innovative shots in its time, and all around great shadows and details, but the story itself is too dry and the character too unengaging. Compare him to, say, Lawrence from Lawrence of Arabia.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/15"},{"id":"322682678022329932","title":"Cloverfield","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2008,"runtimeMinutes":85,"directors":["Matt Reeves"],"actors":["Odette Annable","Mike Vogel","Lizzy Caplan","T. J. Miller","Jessica Lucas","Ben Feldman","Matt Reeves","Liza Lapira","Theo Rossi","Charlyne Yi"],"genres":["Action","Thriller","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2007-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/7191"},{"id":"fe0bde39-8d7e-483f-af2b-d78ea77dba3d","title":"Cocaine Bear","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2023,"runtimeMinutes":95,"directors":["Elizabeth Banks"],"actors":["Keri Russell","Ray Liotta","O'Shea Jackson Jr.","Kristofer Hivju","Christian Convery","Alden Ehrenreich","Isiah Whitlock Jr.","Matthew Rhys","Hannah Hoekstra","Margo Martindale"],"genres":["Thriller","Comedy","Crime"],"completedDate":"2023-03-26","updatedDate":"2023-03-26","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/804150"},{"id":"322682678020257356","title":"Confession","originalTitle":"告白","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2010,"runtimeMinutes":26,"directors":["Tanel Toom"],"genres":["Drama","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2020-06-12","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"What a peculiar way of telling the story in the first half hour. It's like Assassination Classroom. It's very Japanese specific in high school drama with its mob mentality, prevalent bullying, and inability/lack of care by teachers and police authority to solve the matter.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/132239"},{"id":"322682678020379212","title":"Crazy Rich Asians","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2018,"runtimeMinutes":121,"directors":["Jon M. Chu"],"actors":["Gemma Chan","Awkwafina","Michelle Yeoh","Sonoya Mizuno","Henry Golding","Ken Jeong","Harry Shum Jr.","Jimmy O. Yang","Constance Wu","Chris Pang"],"genres":["Comedy","Romance"],"completedDate":"2018-11-24","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Somethings don't translate well to film, such as the opening sequence which was played and dramatized better to get the weight of it all. I do like that all the actors here are indeed Asian (Thank God Hollywood..). It's unfortunate they couldn't get a good enough mix of talent within the right age though. As much as I like Constance Wu as an actress, she's too old to play the part of a high 20's/low 30's assistant profressor in Economics at NYU (she's 35 at time of filming). Same goes for Astrid who should be at the same age (Gemma Chan is 34 at time of filming). I do like that they got the detail that all Singaporeans speak English pretty fluently, and British English at that.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/455207"},{"id":"322682678020393548","title":"Creepy 2","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2017,"runtimeMinutes":96,"directors":["Zhang Jianchun","Jiang Hanqing"],"actors":["Qin Junjie"],"genres":["Mystery","Horror"],"completedDate":"2018-07-15","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Not anything as good as the first. I like the self-awareness though.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/789622"},{"id":"322682678022341196","title":"D2: The Mighty Ducks","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1994,"runtimeMinutes":106,"directors":["Sam Weisman"],"actors":["Marguerite Moreau","Kathryn Erbe","Colombe Jacobsen-Derstine","Vincent Larusso","Emilio Estevez","Elden Henson","Kenan Thompson","Kareem Abdul-Jabbar","Garette Ratliff Henson","Joshua Jackson"],"genres":["Comedy","Action","Family","Drama"],"completedDate":"1997-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/11164"},{"id":"322682678021283404","title":"Deadpool","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2016,"runtimeMinutes":108,"directors":["Tim Miller"],"actors":["Ryan Reynolds","Morena Baccarin"],"genres":["Action","Adventure","Comedy"],"completedDate":"2016-10-26","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Run of the mill superhero Hollywood film, with a dash of Deadpool-style fourth walling.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/293660"},{"id":"322682678022265420","title":"Despicable Me","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2010,"runtimeMinutes":95,"directors":["Pierre Coffin","Chris Renaud"],"actors":["Steve Carell","Miranda Cosgrove","Danny McBride","Kristen Wiig","Will Arnett","Jason Segel","Ken Jeong","Scott Menville","Julie Andrews","Jack McBrayer"],"genres":["Animation","Comedy","Crime","Science Fiction","Family"],"completedDate":"2010-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/20352"},{"id":"322682678022357580","title":"Die Another Day","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2002,"runtimeMinutes":133,"directors":["Lee Tamahori"],"actors":["Rosamund Pike","Pierce Brosnan"],"genres":["Adventure","Action","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2003-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/36669"},{"id":"322682678020330060","title":"Don't Breathe","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2016,"runtimeMinutes":89,"directors":["Fede Álvarez"],"actors":["Dylan Minnette","Stephen Lang","Jane Levy","Emma Bercovici","Christian Zagia","Daniel Zovatto"],"genres":["Horror","Thriller","Crime"],"completedDate":"2019-03-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Loved certain aspects like the lingering shots on tools to be used later. Guy wasn't as bat shit insane as I thought. The cum Turkey baster scene was hilarious. The amount of almost-died death scenes was a little much.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/300669"},{"id":"322682678021328460","title":"Double Indemnity","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1944,"runtimeMinutes":107,"directors":["Billy Wilder"],"actors":["Barbara Stanwyck"],"genres":["Crime","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2015-08-07","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"The gag with the two's cigar lighting comes on a little too strong. No subtlety.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/996"},{"id":"322682678022365772","title":"Dr. No","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1962,"runtimeMinutes":110,"directors":["Terence Young"],"actors":["Jack Lord","Lois Maxwell","Sean Connery","Ursula Andress","Eunice Gayson","Yvonne Shima","Joseph Wiseman","Michel Mok"],"genres":["Adventure","Action","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2003-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/646"},{"id":"322682678021469772","title":"Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1964,"runtimeMinutes":95,"directors":["Stanley Kubrick"],"actors":["Peter Sellers","George C. Scott","James Earl Jones","Keenan Wynn","Sterling Hayden","Slim Pickens"],"genres":["Comedy","War"],"completedDate":"2013-11-22","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Dr. Strangelove is terribly boring and dull, features poorly paced progression, and Peter Sellers playing all those roles is significantly campy. Overall the whole affair plays too unevenly between realism and absurdist comedy, e.g., the overacting in the war room.\n\nTake Dr. Strangelove the character as a case study for what is so unfunny about the series. With a thick accent and a stereotyped role, there is nothing to simply laugh from.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/935"},{"id":"322682678022258252","title":"Dumbo","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1941,"runtimeMinutes":64,"directors":["Ben Sharpsteen"],"genres":["Animation","Family"],"completedDate":"1996-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/11360"},{"id":"322682678021598796","title":"Easy A","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2010,"runtimeMinutes":93,"directors":["Will Gluck"],"actors":["Emma Stone"],"genres":["Comedy"],"completedDate":"2010-07-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/37735"},{"id":"0c22f548-5e3c-47c4-ac82-036da319a6ec","title":"Elf","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2003,"runtimeMinutes":97,"directors":["Jon Favreau"],"actors":["James Caan","Jon Favreau","Amy Sedaris","Will Ferrell","Peter Dinklage","Mary Steenburgen","Brenda Crichlow","Zooey Deschanel","Faizon Love","Lorin Heath"],"genres":["Comedy","Family","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"2023-12-23","updatedDate":"2023-12-24","notes":"Very typical holiday film.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/10719"},{"id":"1cd5c6a9-4f47-42d2-9420-e9c6af468cb8","title":"Emilia Pérez","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2024,"runtimeMinutes":132,"directors":["Jacques Audiard"],"actors":["Zoe Saldaña"],"genres":["Drama","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2025-04-29","updatedDate":"2025-05-01","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/974950"},{"id":"322682678022358604","title":"Enemy of the State","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1998,"runtimeMinutes":132,"directors":["Tony Scott"],"actors":["Jack Black"],"genres":["Action","Drama","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2003-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/9798"},{"id":"f13dc345-e596-4a91-a715-d49c0e941500","title":"Evil Dead Rise","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2023,"runtimeMinutes":96,"directors":["Lee Cronin"],"actors":["Alyssa Sutherland","Lily Sullivan","Morgan Davies","Bruce Campbell","Gabrielle Echols","Nell Fisher","Anna-Maree Thomas"],"genres":["Horror","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2023-05-19","updatedDate":"2023-05-20","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/713704"},{"id":"49b28b86-2cbe-483e-b0fd-5d4bf8644f0a","title":"Final Destination Bloodlines","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2025,"runtimeMinutes":110,"directors":["Adam B. Stein","Zach Lipovsky"],"genres":["Horror","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2026-06-09","updatedDate":"2026-06-10","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/574475"},{"id":"322682678020249164","title":"Final Sequence","originalTitle":"The Human Centipede 3","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2015,"runtimeMinutes":103,"directors":["Tom Six"],"actors":["Eric Roberts","Jay Tavare","Tom 'Tiny' Lister Jr.","Laurence R. Harvey","Robert LaSardo"],"genres":["Horror"],"completedDate":"2020-07-28","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Lots of weird setup like traditional exploitation films, comedy, and over the top boring acting. I miss the horror and thriller elemnets. And so little actual horror exploitation. I do appreciate the trilogy's ambition to change it up for each film, not only story-wise but style.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/94365"},{"id":"322682678022281804","title":"Finding Nemo","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2003,"runtimeMinutes":100,"directors":["Andrew Stanton"],"actors":["Willem Dafoe","Laura Marano","Geoffrey Rush","Vanessa Marano","Elizabeth Perkins","Stephen Root","Allison Janney","Eric Bana","Albert Brooks","Bruce Spence"],"genres":["Animation","Family","Adventure"],"completedDate":"2003-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/12"},{"id":"322682678020295244","title":"forgotten","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2017,"runtimeMinutes":91,"directors":["Grey Rich"],"genres":["Horror","Mystery","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2019-12-14","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Rather cheesy.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/857308"},{"id":"322682678020149836","title":"Free City","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2021,"runtimeMinutes":113,"directors":["Spike Lee"],"actors":["Anthony Mackie","Marguerite Moreau","Ken Leung","Omari Hardwick","Kathy Baker","James Hong","Laura Allen","George Cheung"],"completedDate":"2021-11-29","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"It's corny and clearly out-of-touch in using outdated gamer vocabulary at times. They also learly deal with in-universe things when a GM could easily just teleport an offendable person. And something about Ryan Reynolds' corny but good looking formula irritates me.\n\nI did enjoy it overall though. I also like Taika Waiti overall even though he's basically a boomer and way too overemphatic.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/65724"},{"id":"322682678022325836","title":"Friday the 13th","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1980,"runtimeMinutes":95,"directors":["Sean S. Cunningham"],"actors":["Kevin Bacon","Robbi Morgan","Peter Brouwer"],"genres":["Horror"],"completedDate":"2003-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/4488"},{"id":"322682678020376140","title":"From Dusk Til Dawn","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1996,"runtimeMinutes":108,"directors":["Robert Rodriguez"],"actors":["Harvey Keitel","Juliette Lewis","Danny Trejo","Quentin Tarantino","Salma Hayek","George Clooney","Kelly Preston","John Saxon","Robert Rodriguez","Cheech Marin"],"genres":["Horror","Action","Thriller","Crime"],"completedDate":"2018-12-08","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Boy did I not expect the campy genre switch when they arrived in Mexico. Reminds me of Pulse. I quite liked the kidnapping setup with the kidnappers. It seemed to go pretty well in defining two crazy characters with Seth and Ritchie. I'm okay with genre switches as long as it's done well like Pulse. But the campiness and bad acting just makes not very enjoyable. I literally could not stand it. Just watched it on fast forward.\n\nI'm so glad I wasn't spoiled by this.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/755"},{"id":"322682678021484108","title":"Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2008,"runtimeMinutes":90,"directors":["Peter Avanzino"],"actors":["David Cross","Katey Sagal","Brittany Murphy","Dan Castellaneta","David Herman","Tress MacNeille","Phil LaMarr","Maurice LaMarche","John DiMaggio"],"genres":["Animation","Comedy","Science Fiction","Romance"],"completedDate":"2010-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/12889"},{"id":"322682678022333004","title":"Ghostbusters II","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1989,"runtimeMinutes":108,"directors":["Ivan Reitman"],"actors":["Sigourney Weaver"],"genres":["Comedy","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"2011-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/2978"},{"id":"322682678021294668","title":"Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo","originalTitle":"巨神兵東京に現わる","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2012,"runtimeMinutes":10,"directors":["Shinji Higuchi"],"actors":["Hayao Miyazaki","Megumi Hayashibara"],"genres":["Science Fiction","Horror","Action","Animation"],"completedDate":"2016-07-02","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/188541"},{"id":"316c8c1f-05c8-447d-bea7-be7c882ea4e6","title":"Gladiator II","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2024,"runtimeMinutes":148,"directors":["Ridley Scott"],"actors":["Pedro Pascal","Joseph Quinn","Denzel Washington","Connie Nielsen","Matt Lucas","Tim McInnerny","May Calamawy","Derek Jacobi","Peter Mensah","Paul Mescal"],"genres":["Action","Adventure"],"completedDate":"2024-11-22","updatedDate":"2024-11-23","notes":"Feels like a disney star wars esque show. too much reference bacm to the old movie. bad writing. the story is an exact clone. somw fun set pieces though.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/558449"},{"id":"518d29ca-6fe3-428d-b277-dfe36df7c3e5","title":"GOAT","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2026,"runtimeMinutes":100,"directors":["Tyree Dillihay"],"genres":["Animation","Comedy","Family"],"completedDate":"2026-04-14","updatedDate":"2026-04-15","notes":"All style. Bad writing across pacing, core plot, and worldbuilding.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1297842"},{"id":"322682678020233804","title":"Godzilla","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2014,"runtimeMinutes":123,"directors":["Gareth Edwards"],"actors":["Elizabeth Olsen","Bryan Cranston","Sally Hawkins","Aaron Taylor-Johnson","Ken Watanabe","Eli Goree","Ty Olsson","Toby Levins","Patrick Sabongui","David Strathairn"],"genres":["Action","Drama","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2020-11-29","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Some epic fights. Godzilla humanized as a superhero saving the balance in the world? That's some weird Hollywood shit for you.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/124905"},{"id":"322682678022288972","title":"Gran Torino","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2008,"runtimeMinutes":116,"directors":["Clint Eastwood"],"actors":["Clint Eastwood"],"genres":["Drama"],"completedDate":"2010-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/13223"},{"id":"322682678021402188","title":"Gravity","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2013,"runtimeMinutes":91,"directors":["Alfonso Cuarón"],"actors":["Sandra Bullock"],"genres":["Science Fiction","Thriller","Drama"],"completedDate":"2014-04-08","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Way too many action events and implausible string of nastiness. Character development is a bit shoddy and some of the visuals too corny in following generic Hollywood conventions (\"appreciating Earth as it is\"). Camera shots were at least really good, especially in enacing duress with POV shots.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/49047"},{"id":"322682678022300236","title":"Green Lantern","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2011,"runtimeMinutes":114,"directors":["Martin Campbell"],"actors":["Ryan Reynolds"],"genres":["Adventure","Action","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2012-11-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/44912"},{"id":"322682678021285452","title":"Guardians of the Galaxy","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2014,"runtimeMinutes":121,"directors":["James Gunn"],"actors":["Laura Haddock","Zoe Saldaña","Bradley Cooper","Vin Diesel"],"genres":["Action","Science Fiction","Adventure"],"completedDate":"2016-10-01","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/118340"},{"id":"322682678020329036","title":"Halloween","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2018,"runtimeMinutes":106,"directors":["David Gordon Green"],"actors":["Will Patton","Dylan Arnold","Judy Greer","Jamie Lee Curtis","Andi Matichak","Nick Castle","P.J. Soles","Miles Robbins","Virginia Gardner","James Jude Courtney"],"genres":["Horror","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2019-03-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/424139"},{"id":"322682678020315724","title":"Happy Death Day","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2017,"runtimeMinutes":97,"directors":["Christopher Landon"],"actors":["Jessica Rothe","Israel Broussard","Ruby Modine","Blaine Kern III","Rachel Matthews","Billy Slaughter","Jimmy Gonzales"],"genres":["Comedy","Horror","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2019-06-07","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Generic story. Hot typical sorority girl. But also acts well to add charm to the story.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/440021"},{"id":"322682678020288076","title":"Happy Death Day 2U","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2019,"runtimeMinutes":100,"directors":["Christopher Landon"],"actors":["Jessica Rothe","Israel Broussard","Ruby Modine","Blaine Kern III","Rachel Matthews","Sarah Yarkin","Suraj Sharma","Jimmy Gonzales","Lindsey G. Smith"],"genres":["Comedy","Horror","Science Fiction"],"updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I liked some of the twists to keep it fresh. Still boring though.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/512196"},{"id":"322682678022315596","title":"Happy Gilmore","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1996,"runtimeMinutes":92,"directors":["Dennis Dugan"],"actors":["Julie Bowen","Adam Sandler","Carl Weathers","Ben Stiller","Kevin Nealon","Will Sasso","Christopher McDonald","Richard Kiel","Ellie Harvie"],"genres":["Comedy"],"completedDate":"2000-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/9614"},{"id":"322682678022292044","title":"Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2004,"runtimeMinutes":141,"directors":["Alfonso Cuarón"],"actors":["Gary Oldman","Emma Watson"],"genres":["Adventure","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"2009-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/673"},{"id":"322682678022266444","title":"Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2001,"runtimeMinutes":152,"directors":["Chris Columbus"],"actors":["Emma Watson","Daniel Radcliffe","Tom Felton","Richard Harris","Harry Melling","Rupert Grint","Maggie Smith","Warwick Davis","Bonnie Wright","Fiona Shaw"],"genres":["Adventure","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"2001-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/671"},{"id":"322682678022311500","title":"Hellboy","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2004,"runtimeMinutes":122,"directors":["Guillermo del Toro"],"actors":["Ron Perlman","Selma Blair","Guillermo del Toro","John Hurt","Doug Jones","Winter Ave Zoli","Biddy Hodson","Karel Roden","David Hyde Pierce","Jeffrey Tambor"],"genres":["Fantasy","Action"],"completedDate":"2005-05-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1487"},{"id":"322682678022344268","title":"Hellboy II: The Golden Army","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2008,"runtimeMinutes":120,"directors":["Guillermo del Toro"],"actors":["Ron Perlman","Selma Blair","Luke Goss","Guillermo del Toro","John Hurt","Doug Jones","Jimmy Kimmel","Judit Viktor","Anna Walton","Jeffrey Tambor"],"genres":["Fantasy","Action"],"completedDate":"2008-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/11253"},{"id":"322682678022303308","title":"Hercules","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1997,"runtimeMinutes":93,"directors":["Ron Clements","John Musker"],"actors":["James Woods","Danny DeVito","Charlton Heston","Matt Frewer","Debi Derryberry","Rip Torn","Keith David","Tate Donovan","Jim Cummings","Roger Bart"],"genres":["Animation","Family","Fantasy","Adventure","Comedy","Romance"],"completedDate":"1998-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/11970"},{"id":"322682678020404812","title":"Hostel Part II","originalTitle":"Hostel: Part II","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2007,"runtimeMinutes":93,"directors":["Eli Roth"],"actors":["Lauren German","Jay Hernandez","Edwige Fenech","Heather Matarazzo","Richard Burgi","Barbara Nedeljáková","Derek Richardson","Jana Kadeřábková","Vera Jordanova","Bijou Phillips"],"genres":["Horror"],"completedDate":"2018-06-29","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Bijou Philips is hot.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1691"},{"id":"322682678020294220","title":"Hot Fuzz","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2007,"runtimeMinutes":121,"directors":["Edgar Wright"],"actors":["Cate Blanchett","Bill Nighy","Simon Pegg","Timothy Dalton","Peter Jackson","Edgar Wright","Nick Frost","Rafe Spall","Jim Broadbent","David Bradley"],"genres":["Crime","Action","Comedy"],"completedDate":"2019-11-25","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Not my type of humor. But I can appreciate pieces of it.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/4638"},{"id":"322682678020435532","title":"Human Centipede","originalTitle":"The Human Centipede (First Sequence)","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2009,"runtimeMinutes":92,"directors":["Tom Six"],"actors":["Ashlynn Yennie"],"genres":["Horror"],"completedDate":"2017-11-23","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Not as stupid as Human Centipede was hyped up to be. Sort of just surreal and standardly executed.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/37169"},{"id":"322682678020195916","title":"Hush","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2018,"runtimeMinutes":82,"directors":["Justin Copeland"],"actors":["Peyton List","Jennifer Morrison","Rebecca Romijn","Peyton List","Rainn Wilson","Tara Strong","Vanessa Williams","Jason O'Mara","Hynden Walch","Jason Spisak"],"genres":["Science Fiction","Crime","Animation","Mystery","Action"],"completedDate":"2021-06-04","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"What an unrealistically contrived premise, somehow losing all communication, isolated, and deaf.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/537056"},{"id":"322682678022307404","title":"I Love You, Man","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2009,"runtimeMinutes":105,"directors":["John Hamburg"],"actors":["J.K. Simmons"],"genres":["Comedy","Romance"],"completedDate":"2010-11-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/16538"},{"id":"322682678022252108","title":"Ice Age","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2002,"runtimeMinutes":81,"directors":["Chris Wedge"],"actors":["Jack Black"],"genres":["Animation","Comedy","Family","Adventure"],"completedDate":"2002-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/425"},{"id":"322682678021374540","title":"Ikiru","originalTitle":"生きる","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1952,"runtimeMinutes":143,"directors":["Akira Kurosawa"],"actors":["Minoru Chiaki","Bokuzen Hidari"],"genres":["Drama"],"completedDate":"2014-12-20","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"So transparent and obvious. Love the cinematography, especially the lighting as Kurosawa is always so masterful at, but the narrative is plainly bad. The aftermath is an interesting storytelling technique, but not one that's very exciting.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/3782"},{"id":"322682678021356108","title":"In Bruges","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2008,"runtimeMinutes":108,"directors":["Martin McDonagh"],"actors":["Ralph Fiennes","Ciarán Hinds","Colin Farrell","Clémence Poésy","Brendan Gleeson","Anna Madeley","Zeljko Ivanek","Thekla Reuten","Jordan Prentice","Eric Godon"],"genres":["Comedy","Drama","Crime"],"completedDate":"2015-01-24","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Contrived in overall storytelling; some funny scenes in dry British humor.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/8321"},{"id":"322682678021219916","title":"In the Realm of the Senses","originalTitle":"愛のコリーダ","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1976,"runtimeMinutes":102,"directors":["Nagisa Ōshima"],"actors":["Meika Seri","Tatsuya Fuji","Eiko Matsuda","Akiko Koyama"],"genres":["Drama","Romance"],"completedDate":"2017-03-27","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Welp. The plot was awful. The experimental 'porn' was, well, interesting. Feels like it could have gone deeper into exploring eroticism and their dynamic.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/5879"},{"id":"322682678022291020","title":"Independence Day","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1996,"runtimeMinutes":145,"directors":["Roland Emmerich"],"actors":["Bill Pullman","Will Smith","Mary McDonnell","Jeff Goldblum","Mae Whitman","Kiersten Warren","Margaret Colin","Lisa Jakub","James Duval","Randy Quaid"],"genres":["Action","Adventure","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"1997-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/602"},{"id":"322682678020346444","title":"Innocent Thing","originalTitle":"가시","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2014,"runtimeMinutes":117,"directors":["Kim Tae-gyun"],"actors":["Jang Hyuk","Jo Bo-ah","Yoo Ji-yeon","Sun Woo-sun"],"genres":["Thriller","Romance"],"completedDate":"2019-03-10","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"The premise is sufficient, with a sheltered rich girl and an anxious older man who got looped into marriage and feels emasculated from getting a job from his wife's family connections. The escalation however is a little hilarious in stupidity. Many encounters seem easy to resolve just by making the wife apparent at the craziness. It just spirals out of control, and is partially excusable by the idea that the man actually does want this. Nevertheless, I found watching it pretty enjoyable if only to anticipate the next ridiculousness. Yanderes.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/267466"},{"id":"322682678021317196","title":"Ip Man","originalTitle":"葉問","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2008,"runtimeMinutes":106,"directors":["Wilson Yip"],"actors":["Donnie Yen","Simon Yam","Hiroyuki Ikeuchi","Xing Yu","Fan Siu-Wong","Dennis To Yue-Hong"],"genres":["Drama","Action","History"],"completedDate":"2015-09-20","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/14756"},{"id":"bceebe33-7851-41ac-bc15-7ebbe7e81a01","title":"It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1966,"runtimeMinutes":25,"directors":["Bill Melendez"],"genres":["Family","Animation","TV Movie","Comedy"],"completedDate":"1997-12-31","updatedDate":"2024-09-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/13353"},{"id":"322682678020287052","title":"Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2017,"runtimeMinutes":119,"directors":["Jake Kasdan"],"actors":["Dwayne Johnson","Jack Black","Colin Hanks"],"genres":["Adventure","Comedy","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"2019-01-29","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Jack Black playing a teenage girl is the best thing in this film. It's hilarious. The penis scene. Him teaching Martha how to seduce guards. Boring story though.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/353486"},{"id":"322682678020371020","title":"Justice League","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2017,"runtimeMinutes":120,"directors":["Zack Snyder","Joss Whedon"],"actors":["Gal Gadot","Henry Cavill","Jason Momoa","J.K. Simmons"],"genres":["Action","Adventure","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2018-12-26","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Ezra Miller's a great actor. He gets the lines to be self-aware in the film in the same way Spiderman is in the Avengers. The Joss Whedon comedy lines are okay. It feels more like following the style of the Avengers and Marvel's success more than carving its own franchise path. First, it was dark. Now, it's slightly less dark.\n\nWhat's with the Audi and Mercedes Benz advertisements? Very distracting. It's like they're showing two sexy bodies: the actors/actresses (particularly, Gal Gadot who's the equivalent of Scarlett Johansson, Jason Momoa who's the equivalent of Chris Hemsworth, Henry Cavill who's the equivalent of Chris Evans) and the cars.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/141052"},{"id":"08e05f6b-f626-4fd4-83db-ddd6b5bcbaf0","title":"Justice League: War","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2014,"runtimeMinutes":79,"directors":["Jay Oliva"],"actors":["Michelle Monaghan","Christopher Gorham","Ioan Gruffudd","Shemar Moore","Sean Astin","Alan Tudyk","George Newbern","Jason O'Mara","Dee Bradley Baker","Justin Kirk"],"genres":["Animation","Action"],"completedDate":"2023-07-10","updatedDate":"2023-07-11","notes":"I like the idea of a reboot and changing things up. Keeps things fresh.\n\nStory itself was okay. It for good reasons had to shine spotlight on the lease interesting heroes (Cyborg and Shazam).\n\n+ You got to feel bad for Martian Manhunter. They literally added Cyborg for black diversity reasons. This is all because [Geoff Johns wanted to keep Hal Jordan instead of John Stewart as Green Lantern](https://www.reddit.com/r/CharacterRant/comments/utnxgi/i_dont_understand_why_cyborg_was_suddenly_a). I agree with many others that I view Cyborg as representative of Teen Titans, not Justice League. Diversity plays can in fact make sense just like in Claremont's X-Men. But the characters have to be well-written.\n+ Shazam sometimes replaces Aquaman to better appeal to kids. That one just doesn't make much sense. Superman is literally just a stronger Shazam. Their powers overlap too much.\n+ A romance between Wonder Woman and Superman? Eww. What a weird power couple. At least Wonder Woman and Batman wasn't so stereotypical even if it's a white slightly offkilter power couple.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/217993"},{"id":"322682678021346892","title":"Kamikaze Girls","originalTitle":"下妻物語――ヤンキーちゃんとロリータちゃん","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2004,"runtimeMinutes":102,"directors":["Tetsuya Nakashima"],"actors":["Kyoko Fukada","Mayuko Fukuda","Ryoko Shinohara","Eiko Koike","Anna Tsuchiya","Yuichi Kimura"],"genres":["Comedy"],"completedDate":"2015-02-14","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Zany and quite fun.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/26275"},{"id":"322682678020451916","title":"Kingsman: The Secret Service","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2015,"runtimeMinutes":129,"directors":["Matthew Vaughn"],"actors":["Samuel L. Jackson"],"genres":["Crime","Comedy","Action"],"completedDate":"2017-09-28","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Samuel L. Jackson is overrated. He's literally the same character in every movie. No need for him to be the villain in this film. THe Oxford/Cambridge bullies during training also was unnecessary. Technicolor headworks and the church scene were really fun.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/207703"},{"id":"9ca550fb-0d44-4837-8a82-f2dab072b3cb","title":"Knock at the Cabin","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2023,"runtimeMinutes":100,"directors":["M. Night Shyamalan"],"actors":["Dave Bautista","Rupert Grint","M. Night Shyamalan","Jonathan Groff","Nikki Amuka-Bird","Abby Quinn","Ben Aldridge"],"genres":["Horror","Mystery","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2023-03-17","updatedDate":"2023-03-18","notes":"Shit story. It went nowhere and didn't really resolve anything.\n\nIt never felt real as consequences always appeared through the TV. The cabin-focused setting stilted plot development.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/631842"},{"id":"322682678020491852","title":"Kong: Skull Island","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2017,"runtimeMinutes":118,"directors":["Jordan Vogt-Roberts"],"actors":["Samuel L. Jackson"],"genres":["Action","Adventure","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"2017-07-23","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Lots of explosions and unnecessary action. Fluffy action film with trigger-happy military. The cast focuses on just a select few with very generic roles. Not much individual characterization, but not surprising since it's such an old screenplay. I don't like Samuel L Jackson in this role—it shouts too much Hollywood and fakeness about the whole fair.\n\nThat said, I like the hi-def visuals (it really screams BUDGET) and the artwork around the creatures outside Kong. Great that it focused so much more on kaiju than silly character development and what could otherwise have been much more screentime on sappy romance.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/293167"},{"id":"322682678020256332","title":"Kundo: Age of the Rampant","originalTitle":"군도: 민란의 시대","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2014,"runtimeMinutes":137,"directors":["Yoon Jong-bin"],"actors":["Ma Dong-seok","Han Yeri","Nam Da-reum","Kim Byung-ok","Kim Hae-sook","Yoon Kyung-ho","Kim Sung-kyun","Jeong Man-sik","Gang Dong-won","Cho Jin-woong"],"genres":["Action","Drama"],"completedDate":"2020-06-15","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/281780"},{"id":"322682678022338124","title":"Kung Fu Panda","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2008,"runtimeMinutes":90,"directors":["Mark Osborne","John Stevenson"],"actors":["Jackie Chan","Angelina Jolie","Jack Black"],"genres":["Action","Animation","Comedy","Family"],"completedDate":"2008-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/9502"},{"id":"322682678021244492","title":"Lady Vengeance","originalTitle":"친절한 금자씨","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2005,"runtimeMinutes":115,"directors":["Park Chan-wook"],"actors":["Kim You-jung","Yoo Ji-tae","Lee Young-ae","Oh Dal-su","Kang Hye-jung","Song Kang-ho","Yoon Jin-seo","Ra Mi-ran","Kim Byung-ok","Choi Hee-jin"],"genres":["Drama","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2017-02-26","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Campy, and to be candid, disappointing. I had expected a bit more from Park Chan-wook but this one is truly zany with all style and little substance. He tends to this approach but often there's a least a bit cooler presentation or that the cinematic style is just so amazing (a la Takashi Miike) that nobody cares if the plot and characterization is just nonsense. I enjoyed the climax with the families bundling together to do a riduculous witch hunt. The rest (and that drama) was overbearing.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/4550"},{"id":"322682678020147788","title":"Last Night in Soho","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2021,"runtimeMinutes":117,"directors":["Edgar Wright"],"actors":["Anya Taylor-Joy"],"genres":["Horror","Mystery","Drama","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2021-12-16","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"What a dumb plot. This man can't write a thriller very well. The sappy romance, bullying, and plot twist with the murder all were too forced. It's a teen drama turned weird horror thriller.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/576845"},{"id":"ffafd4fc-ba53-4bac-a736-b27697471ea0","title":"Late Night with the Devil","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2024,"runtimeMinutes":93,"directors":["Cameron Cairnes","Colin Cairnes"],"actors":["Ingrid Torelli","David Dastmalchian","Michael Ironside","Christopher Kirby","Georgina Haig","Fayssal Bazzi","Laura Gordon","Rhys Auteri","Ian Bliss","Steve Mouzakis"],"genres":["Horror"],"completedDate":"2024-04-27","updatedDate":"2024-04-28","notes":"Not very horrifying. Writing is standard.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/938614"},{"id":"9a2aaafa-ce8a-41a6-a9a9-b034caefac89","title":"Lee Cronin's The Mummy","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2026,"runtimeMinutes":133,"directors":["Lee Cronin"],"genres":["Horror","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2026-09-12","updatedDate":"2026-09-13","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1304313"},{"id":"322682678020494924","title":"Letters from Iwo Jima","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2006,"runtimeMinutes":141,"directors":["Clint Eastwood"],"actors":["Ken Watanabe","Ryan Carnes","Shido Nakamura","Tsuyoshi Ihara","Kazunari Ninomiya"],"genres":["Action","Drama","War"],"completedDate":"2017-07-19","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Rather bland to be honest. One-sided in portrayal of character development. Not very comprehensive either in battle tactics, politics, what have you.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1251"},{"id":"322682678022367820","title":"Licence to Kill","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1989,"runtimeMinutes":133,"directors":["John Glen"],"actors":["Timothy Dalton","Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa","Benicio del Toro","Priscilla Barnes","Talisa Soto","Robert Davi","Anthony Zerbe","Christopher Neame","Edna Bolkan","Wayne Newton"],"genres":["Adventure","Action","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2000-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/709"},{"id":"322682678021264972","title":"Mad Dogs","status":"Completed","score":5,"runtimeMinutes":97,"directors":["Henry Cole"],"actors":["C. Thomas Howell","Claire Bloom","Jeremy Brett"],"genres":["Romance","Drama","Thriller","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2016-12-02","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Rather cliche. I like that one pot stock market film better.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/109401"},{"id":"213b0336-053a-4ebc-8dcb-4707176bcc38","title":"Mad God","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2021,"runtimeMinutes":84,"directors":["Phil Tippett"],"genres":["Animation","Fantasy","Horror","Science Fiction","War"],"completedDate":"2024-10-12","updatedDate":"2024-10-19","notes":"Too dense.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/846867"},{"id":"322682678020166220","title":"Malignant","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2021,"runtimeMinutes":111,"directors":["James Wan"],"actors":["Annabelle Wallis","Mckenna Grace"],"genres":["Horror","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2021-09-15","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"What terrible acting. There are so many cheesy deliveries in the game. Just a ton of cliches with the horror approaches. I wish the horror would abide by its rules instead of having doors open and close by themselves for example, or the suspect appear in and out of frames for the shock, or the ability to dodge a million bullets. The core power here is electricity, not a general sense of mystifying ghostiness. The contortionist body adds well to the creep factor, and I do admire that they show the villain from the beginning instead of obscuring them. The idea behind the reveal is so zany that it's actually pretty creative.\n\nDetails I don't like:\n\n+ Photo aging technology? Please.\n+ Chase and action fight sequence. I thought this movie was supposed be a horror movie. I guess this turned from a horror to an action-thriller midway through the film.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/619778"},{"id":"e2cf4555-bf85-4484-b961-f5a207dae5d7","title":"Marty Supreme","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2025,"runtimeMinutes":150,"directors":["Josh Safdie"],"actors":["Robert Pattinson"],"genres":["Drama","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2026-05-31","updatedDate":"2026-06-25","notes":"Dropped it midway, lost interest because I was looking forward to a good sports ping pong movie similar to the ping pong anime and with the frenetic energy of the Safdie brothers. Turns out ping pong is a backdrop and it's a drama.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1317288"},{"id":"330882833646092865","title":"Martyrs","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2008,"runtimeMinutes":99,"directors":["Pascal Laugier"],"actors":["Mylène Jampanoï","Xavier Dolan"],"genres":["Horror","Drama","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2022-05-05","updatedDate":"2022-05-06","notes":"Boy did I not expect this movie to be so graphic. The darkness I'm okay with. The violence porn is at the level of exploitation films (even at the shock level of films like A Serbian Film and Salo). I'm surprised it's not tagged that way on various databases. The story falls flat and effectively performs a genre change mid-way.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/9539"},{"id":"bf7bad62-40a2-4738-84b3-2c5bf68a6d63","title":"Materialists","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2025,"runtimeMinutes":116,"directors":["Celine Song"],"actors":["Pedro Pascal"],"genres":["Romance","Drama"],"completedDate":"2025-08-03","updatedDate":"2025-08-04","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1136867"},{"id":"322682678022346316","title":"Megamind","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2010,"runtimeMinutes":96,"directors":["Tom McGrath"],"actors":["Brad Pitt","J.K. Simmons"],"genres":["Animation","Action","Comedy","Family","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2010-11-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/38055"},{"id":"322682678021441100","title":"Memoirs of a Geisha","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2005,"runtimeMinutes":146,"directors":["Rob Marshall"],"actors":["Gong Li","Ted Levine","Michelle Yeoh","Suzuka Ohgo","Ken Watanabe","Youki Kudoh","Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa","Mako","Zhang Ziyi","Paul Adelstein"],"genres":["Drama","Romance","History"],"completedDate":"2013-12-13","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Not sure why it's not filmed in Mandarin, which would make the film feel more authentic. The English accents are acceptable I guess.\n\nWhile one can empathize very much given the POV, it's outlandishly overdramatic to the point of being soap opera-ish many times. The progression feels a little too hurried and lacks the proper backstory given other's (and including Sayuri's) characterization. It seeks to cover an expanse of her life but manages to flesh out little of it.\n\nSimilarly, the remarks on geisha culture and its thin veil barring prostitution from escorting makes for a very superficial glance. This is just the same with its later World War II setting. The storytelling is too bare to give anymore than such an impact. A rather sappy and inconclusive ending too.\n\nAt the very least, Memoirs of a Geisha features excellently stylized visuals, basking in geisha culture, city architecture, and even the flowing kimonos down the river during the war. The film makes sure to distinguish Sayuri's eyes lusciously under the various colors within the backgrounds and its romantic light makes sure to keep you immersed in the story.\n\nAstounding acting, though it could only go so far to support the poorer script.\n\nWhile a little strange that her only desire is to serve the Chairman and see him again, it isn't far off from reality either. One easily holds seemingly trivial memories forever in one's mind, and it reminds me of Millenium Actress.\n\nMemoirs of a Geisha is a lush, romantic, and yet poorly detailed portrait of Asian culture through the Western eye; unfortunately, it shows.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1904"},{"id":"322682678022317644","title":"Men in Black II","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2002,"runtimeMinutes":88,"directors":["Barry Sonnenfeld"],"actors":["Will Smith","Tommy Lee Jones","Lara Flynn Boyle","Patrick Warburton","Rosario Dawson","David Cross","Johnny Knoxville","Derek Cecil","Derek Mears","Michael Jackson"],"genres":["Action","Comedy","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2004-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/608"},{"id":"322682678020326988","title":"Mermaid","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2016,"runtimeMinutes":87,"directors":["Roxie Blum","Matt Martin"],"genres":["Drama","Fantasy","Romance"],"completedDate":"2019-04-03","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Very slapstick. A little too crude and dumb for my tastes, but it is funny at times with Chinese humor.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/382814"},{"id":"322682678975458892","title":"Minority Report","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2002,"runtimeMinutes":145,"directors":["Steven Spielberg"],"actors":["Tom Cruise"],"genres":["Science Fiction","Action","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2006-11-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/180"},{"id":"322682678022355532","title":"Mission: Impossible","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1996,"runtimeMinutes":111,"directors":["Brian De Palma"],"actors":["Tom Cruise"],"genres":["Adventure","Action","Thriller"],"completedDate":"1998-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/954"},{"id":"322682678021232204","title":"Monk Comes Down the Mountain","originalTitle":"道士下山","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2015,"runtimeMinutes":113,"directors":["Chen Kaige"],"actors":["Danny Chan Kwok-kwan","Yuen Wah","Aaron Kwok","Lin Chiling","Jaycee Chan","Chang Chen","Vanness Wu","Wang Xueqi"],"genres":["Action"],"completedDate":"2017-03-12","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Oh my god, his laugh is infectious. I love it. It sort of unravelled after the first half hour into battling nonsense. I don't know what happened. The monk hardly grew after the first episode—it just devolved into martial madness.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/345235"},{"id":"a6ca850d-3da3-4e93-ad1c-ceab34529aa9","title":"Monkey Man","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2024,"runtimeMinutes":122,"directors":["Dev Patel"],"actors":["Dev Patel","Sharlto Copley","Sobhita Dhulipala","Brahim Achabbakhe","Makrand Deshpande","Ashwini Kalsekar","Vipin Sharma","Sikandar Kher","Adithi Kalkunte"],"genres":["Thriller","Crime","Action"],"completedDate":"2024-05-12","updatedDate":"2024-06-08","notes":"Average bollywood.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/560016"},{"id":"322682678022273612","title":"Monsters, Inc.","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2001,"runtimeMinutes":92,"directors":["Pete Docter"],"actors":["John Goodman","Steve Buscemi","David Silverman","Jennifer Tilly","James Coburn","Wallace Shawn","Bonnie Hunt","Billy Crystal","Kay Panabaker","Mickie McGowan"],"genres":["Animation","Comedy","Family","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"2003-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/585"},{"id":"322682678021563980","title":"Monty Python and the Holy Grail","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1975,"runtimeMinutes":91,"directors":["Terry Gilliam","Terry Jones"],"actors":["Connie Booth","Joni Flynn","John Cleese","Eric Idle","Michael Palin","Sally Kinghorn"],"genres":["Adventure","Comedy","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"2012-02-29","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I wish I could really dig Monty Python humor sometimes but it's so plainly stupid and absurd. I wonder if I rewatch this now, if I'd enjoy it more but I find this unlikely. If I don't find Saturday Night Live any good (as most who like Monty Python like SNL), I don't imagine multiple rewatches would let me appreciate the Holy Grail more.\n\nIt's not that I don't \"get\" MP humor. I think it's more a tell tale sign that I believe retard sculptures, absurdist, and hypebolically exaggerated slapstick humor is hardly funny. Take the black knight skit for example where the moron's just swinging around after losing a bunch of limbs. Give me a witty pun and I'll be laughing (which Holy Grail does do a few times). Hitting a bloke over and over again, or shouting nonsensical phrases? Not so much. Degenerate, silly, forcefully repititive comedy is no good!\n\nThis is just a side comment not related to the quality of Monty Python humuor, but I find the fanbase so atrocious. To fault anyone who does not share your belief (in this case, that MP is funny) with the absurd idea that he simply doesn't \"understand\", is the equivalent of evangelists, soothsayers, and hillbilly Christians. Let's also note, mind you, that this is one of the messages MP's Life of Brian makes fun of.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/762"},{"id":"322682678021451340","title":"Monty Python's Life of Brian","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1979,"runtimeMinutes":94,"directors":["Terry Jones"],"actors":["John Cleese","Eric Idle","Michael Palin"],"genres":["Comedy"],"completedDate":"2013-11-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Silly anachronisms such as cursing and British slang make for sly humor, but that's all I like of Monty Python comedy. As I stated in \"Monty Python and the Holy Grail\" comments, I simply do not find MP humor creative, witty, nor funny.\n\nFortunately, Life of Brian has a little more going with it than Holy Grail does if one does not enjoy the anarchic humor as much as I don't. The story's more properly structured (ie more coherent), and the central satire on organized religion makes the film guided enough to not ramble on about the craziest and looniest things (sure, Life of Brian does have some of this but not nearly to the degree of the Holy Grail). For example, the \"right for a man to have babies\" skit was simply hilarious because of its parallels to fighting for nonsensical freedoms that no one uses anyways.\n\nExamples:\n\"I hate the Judean front's people\" \"Yeah! Yeah!\" \"And I hate the people's front of Judeah\" \"..But we're the people's front of Judeah you idiot!\"\n\nOr when Brian is caught by a Roman soldier and is forced to remember proper Latin grammar when signing curses about them on the wall. Hardly comical genius.\n\nIf this is signature MP comedy, then no thank you. This is one form of geek culture I do not resign myself to.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/583"},{"id":"322682678022349388","title":"Mortal Kombat","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1995,"runtimeMinutes":101,"directors":["Paul W. S. Anderson"],"actors":["Bridgette Wilson","Christopher Lambert","Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa","Talisa Soto","Linden Ashby","Frank Welker","Robin Shou","Kevin Michael Richardson","Gerald Okamura","John Fujioka"],"genres":["Action","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"2002-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/9312"},{"id":"fc35f666-6bee-4b30-a621-3e1e4b65a3be","title":"Mortal Kombat II","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2026,"runtimeMinutes":116,"directors":["Simon McQuoid"],"actors":["Karl Urban","Adeline Rudolph"],"genres":["Action","Fantasy","Adventure"],"completedDate":"2026-05-27","updatedDate":"2026-05-28","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/931285"},{"id":"24dc3581-0f83-4225-b3d9-9bc06bdb8103","title":"Mother Mary","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2026,"runtimeMinutes":112,"directors":["David Lowery"],"actors":["Anne Hathaway","Jessica Brown Findlay"],"genres":["Music","Drama","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2026-06-20","updatedDate":"2026-06-25","notes":"Gave up a few minutes in. So slow.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1102883"},{"id":"322682678020217420","title":"mother!","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2017,"runtimeMinutes":121,"directors":["Darren Aronofsky"],"actors":["Jennifer Lawrence","Javier Bardem"],"genres":["Horror","Drama"],"completedDate":"2021-03-12","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"What a surreal movie. Not really horrific, just lots of strange. It has too little logical threads unfortunately to keep the story together. With the setup of no major phne towers. There's no calling of police. Even the husband acts strangely. The female lead is too soft-spoken to just ask strangers to get the hell out of their house.\n\nThis film is a natural course of pretentiousness without substance. It's artistry gone too far off the rails.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/381283"},{"id":"322682678021400140","title":"Mr. Smith Goes to Washington","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1939,"runtimeMinutes":130,"directors":["Frank Capra"],"actors":["James Stewart"],"genres":["Comedy","Drama"],"completedDate":"2014-04-09","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Chauvinistic and plain idealistic.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/3083"},{"id":"322682678021234252","title":"My Sassy Girl","originalTitle":"엽기적인 그녀","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2001,"runtimeMinutes":137,"directors":["Kwak Jae-yong"],"actors":["Jun Ji-hyun","Cha Tae-hyun","Song Ok-suk","Han Jin-hee","Yang Geum-seok"],"genres":["Drama","Comedy","Romance"],"completedDate":"2017-03-11","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"mediocre while enjoyable. soporific, hackneyed plot decices. the acting was typical bad quality for kdramas. prolonged pace for absolutely no reason. incredibly streamlined and caricutred romances. i love that theyre always so explicit about how many years theyve been apart. i can see why this really set the stsge for future drama generic storylines.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/11178"},{"id":"f7a19d18-6d80-4019-8506-46ecee650cb0","title":"Napoleon","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2023,"runtimeMinutes":150,"directors":["Ridley Scott"],"actors":["Vanessa Kirby","Joaquin Phoenix","Tahar Rahim","Ludivine Sagnier"],"genres":["Drama","History","Action"],"completedDate":"2024-03-10","updatedDate":"2024-03-11","notes":"+ Why depict Napoleon as so much of a loser? He has little to no growth. The various iconic battles are meaningless set pieces with little context. There isn't much portrayal of Napoleon's ingenuity, camradarie, and more that attest to his legacy. This makes the various events where the army still follows Napoleon despite depicting him as a cuck to not make any sense.\n+ The narrative flows from event to event without much structure to guide and provide context.\n+ Writing is standard of Hollywood in structure for biopics. For example, the overemphasis on his love life.\n+ Vanessa Kirby is miscast. Napoleon's wife is older, and yet true to Hollywood form, they cast a woman 20 years younger than the middle-aged man (Joaquin Phoenix is 47, and Napoleon died around that age.. so he is also too old playing a 26 year old for the majority of the film). And she isn't even French. ([discussion](https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/rw8h5k/ridley_scott_chooses_vanessa_kirby_to_play))","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/753342"},{"id":"322682678020477516","title":"New World","originalTitle":"신세계","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2013,"runtimeMinutes":72,"directors":["Bradley Raymond","Tom Ellery"],"actors":["Billy Zane","Irene Bedard","Debi Derryberry","Brad Garrett","Jim Cummings","David Ogden Stiers","Linda Hunt","Jeff Bennett","Frank Welker","Mickie McGowan"],"genres":["Family","Adventure","Animation","Romance"],"completedDate":"2017-08-09","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Interesting mystery. The double-crossing and multiple spies is a little much. And the focus on somewhat young successors in a very clear-cut mafia organization with not much comprehensive complications.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/13761"},{"id":"322682678020457036","title":"No Mercy","originalTitle":"용서는 없다","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1986,"runtimeMinutes":106,"directors":["Richard Pearce"],"actors":["Richard Gere","Kim Basinger","Bruce McGill","Terry Kinney","William Atherton","Thomas Rosales Jr.","George Dzundza"],"genres":["Action","Crime","Thriller","Drama"],"completedDate":"2017-09-01","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Melodramatic and not dark enough. Tropes all around: an up and coming detective, a master-appretice relationship, abusive and corrupt Korean police. Stereotypical plot twists: first, an immediate suspect; then a kidnapping; then the various ways the pathologist protagonist must devise ways to set him free. I found the forensic pathologist character to be insufferable with his various gripes and contradictions. It's hard to emphathize with his character given that we never see the daughter; then again, I also hate revenge kidnapping films that only flsh out the victim for the first 10-15 minutes or so before allocating the rest of the screentime to the action. And then the genetic disease plot twist: yawn.. THat said, I did like parts of the show, e.g., I like him suffering in the end.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/26789"},{"id":"322682678020160076","title":"No One Gets Out Alive","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2021,"runtimeMinutes":85,"directors":["Santiago Menghini"],"actors":["Cristina Rodlo","Marc Menchaca"],"genres":["Horror","Thriller","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2021-10-08","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Boring. I like the monster design though.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/740925"},{"id":"322682678022316620","title":"Ocean's Thirteen","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2007,"runtimeMinutes":122,"directors":["Steven Soderbergh"],"actors":["Brad Pitt","Matt Damon"],"genres":["Crime","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2007-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/298"},{"id":"322682678022326860","title":"Ocean's Twelve","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2004,"runtimeMinutes":125,"directors":["Steven Soderbergh"],"actors":["Brad Pitt","Matt Damon","Bruce Willis"],"genres":["Thriller","Crime"],"completedDate":"2006-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/163"},{"id":"322682678022285900","title":"Peter Pan","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1953,"runtimeMinutes":77,"directors":["Clyde Geronimi","Wilfred Jackson","Hamilton Luske"],"actors":["Heather Angel","Kathryn Beaumont","June Foray"],"genres":["Animation","Family","Adventure","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"1996-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/10693"},{"id":"322682678022371916","title":"Phone Booth","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2003,"runtimeMinutes":81,"directors":["Joel Schumacher"],"actors":["Katie Holmes"],"genres":["Thriller","Crime"],"completedDate":"2002-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1817"},{"id":"322682678022318668","title":"Pinnochio","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1940,"runtimeMinutes":68,"directors":["Ivan Ivanov-Vano","Mikhail Botov","Dmitriy Babichenko"],"genres":["Family","Adventure","Animation","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"1996-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/72211"},{"id":"322682678022287948","title":"Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2007,"runtimeMinutes":169,"directors":["Gore Verbinski"],"actors":["Johnny Depp","Keira Knightley","Bill Nighy","Geoffrey Rush","Chow Yun-Fat","Orlando Bloom","Naomie Harris","Tom Hollander","Jack Davenport","Mackenzie Crook"],"genres":["Adventure","Fantasy","Action"],"completedDate":"2008-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/285"},{"id":"322682678022289996","title":"Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2006,"runtimeMinutes":151,"directors":["Gore Verbinski"],"actors":["Johnny Depp","Keira Knightley","Bill Nighy","Geoffrey Rush","Orlando Bloom","Naomie Harris","Tom Hollander","Jack Davenport","Mackenzie Crook","Jonathan Pryce"],"genres":["Adventure","Fantasy","Action"],"completedDate":"2006-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/58"},{"id":"322682678022276684","title":"Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2003,"runtimeMinutes":143,"directors":["Gore Verbinski"],"actors":["Zoe Saldaña"],"genres":["Adventure","Fantasy","Action"],"completedDate":"2003-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/22"},{"id":"322682678022335052","title":"Planet of the Apes","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2001,"runtimeMinutes":120,"directors":["Tim Burton"],"actors":["Mark Wahlberg","Helena Bonham Carter","Charlton Heston","Paul Giamatti","Estella Warren","Tim Roth","Erick Avari","Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa","Michael Clarke Duncan","Linda Harrison"],"genres":["Thriller","Science Fiction","Action","Adventure"],"completedDate":"2005-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/869"},{"id":"b6088657-43c4-4775-b4a7-a8132afc5dcc","title":"Practical Magic","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1998,"runtimeMinutes":104,"directors":["Griffin Dunne"],"actors":["Sandra Bullock","Nicole Kidman"],"genres":["Romance","Fantasy","Comedy"],"completedDate":"2026-08-24","updatedDate":"2026-08-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/6435"},{"id":"322682678021407308","title":"Public Enemies","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2009,"runtimeMinutes":140,"directors":["Michael Mann"],"actors":["Johnny Depp","Channing Tatum","Christian Bale","Marion Cotillard","Lili Taylor","Leelee Sobieski","Carey Mulligan","Billy Crudup","Stephen Dorff","John Ortiz"],"genres":["Crime","History","Drama"],"completedDate":"2009-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/11322"},{"id":"2a3cd306-f22c-40ec-804d-69a51cd0644e","title":"Puss in Boots","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2011,"runtimeMinutes":90,"directors":["Chris Miller"],"actors":["Antonio Banderas","Zach Galifianakis","Salma Hayek Pinault","Billy Bob Thornton","Guillermo del Toro","Amy Sedaris","Joshua Rush","Constance Marie","Chris Miller"],"genres":["Action","Adventure","Animation","Comedy","Family"],"completedDate":"2024-09-21","updatedDate":"2024-10-04","notes":"Stopped it around 35:00 in. It was fairly generic in both animation quality and writing.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/417859"},{"id":"322682678022282828","title":"Raiders of the Lost Ark","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1989,"runtimeMinutes":100,"directors":["Eric Zala"],"genres":["Action","Adventure"],"completedDate":"2011-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/62128"},{"id":"322682678022354508","title":"Rango","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2011,"runtimeMinutes":107,"directors":["Gore Verbinski"],"actors":["Johnny Depp","Timothy Olyphant","Bill Nighy","Alfred Molina","Gil Birmingham","Abigail Breslin","Claudia Black","Ray Winstone","Alanna Ubach","Stephen Root"],"genres":["Animation","Comedy","Family","Western","Adventure"],"completedDate":"2011-11-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/44896"},{"id":"322682678020186700","title":"Raya and The Last Dragon","originalTitle":"Raya and the Last Dragon","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2021,"runtimeMinutes":107,"directors":["Carlos López Estrada","Don Hall"],"actors":["Gemma Chan","Awkwafina","Benedict Wong","Alan Tudyk","Dichen Lachman","Sandra Oh","Daniel Dae Kim","Sung Kang","Kelly Marie Tran","Lucille Soong"],"genres":["Animation","Action","Adventure","Fantasy","Family"],"completedDate":"2021-06-25","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Way too kid-friendly, and too streamlined of a story for interesting character depth.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/527774"},{"id":"322682678022321740","title":"Resident Evil","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2002,"runtimeMinutes":100,"directors":["Paul W. 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I like artsy movies but when they're more grounded in a story.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/878608"},{"id":"322682678022319692","title":"Robin Hood","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2010,"runtimeMinutes":140,"directors":["Ridley Scott"],"actors":["Oscar Isaac","Cate Blanchett","Luke Evans","Léa Seydoux","Ralph Ineson","Mark Strong","William Hurt","Matthew Macfadyen","Kevin Durand","Russell Crowe"],"genres":["Action","Adventure","History","Drama"],"completedDate":"1996-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/20662"},{"id":"322682678020301388","title":"Rocketman","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2019,"runtimeMinutes":121,"directors":["Dexter Fletcher"],"actors":["Richard Madden","Jamie Bell","Taron Egerton","Bryce Dallas Howard","Gemma Jones","Stephen Graham","Charlie Rowe","Ophelia Lovibond","Harriet Walter","Tate Donovan"],"genres":["Music","Drama"],"completedDate":"2019-10-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/504608"},{"id":"322682678022256204","title":"Rocky II","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1979,"runtimeMinutes":119,"directors":["Sylvester Stallone"],"actors":["Sylvester Stallone"],"genres":["Drama","Action"],"completedDate":"2006-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1367"},{"id":"322682678022328908","title":"Rush Hour","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1998,"runtimeMinutes":97,"directors":["Brett Ratner"],"actors":["Jackie Chan"],"genres":["Action","Comedy","Crime"],"completedDate":"1997-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/2109"},{"id":"322682678022361676","title":"Rush Hour 2","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2001,"runtimeMinutes":90,"directors":["Brett Ratner"],"actors":["Jackie Chan"],"genres":["Action","Comedy","Crime"],"completedDate":"2001-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/5175"},{"id":"8ffc1fdf-eb7b-49d4-b4f8-0644f71a5016","title":"Saw X","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2023,"runtimeMinutes":118,"directors":["Kevin Greutert"],"actors":["Tobin Bell","Synnøve Macody Lund","Shawnee Smith","Costas Mandylor","Michael Beach","Steven Brand","Renata Vaca","Paulette Hernández"],"genres":["Horror","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2023-10-21","updatedDate":"2023-10-21","notes":"Enjoyed overall in terms of the ridiculous games. The setup to get there was reasonably done well. Who dies and who gets saved is a little arbitrary. It's dumb that the villain you most want to see suffer (Cecilia) ends up surviving and is given the least painful game..","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/951491"},{"id":"322682678975453772","title":"Scary Movie","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2000,"runtimeMinutes":88,"directors":["Keenen Ivory Wayans"],"actors":["Lochlyn Munro","Anna Faris","Regina Hall","Shannon Elizabeth","Carmen Electra","Jon Abrahams","James Van Der Beek","Karen Kruper","Dave Sheridan","Jayne Trcka"],"genres":["Comedy"],"completedDate":"2002-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/4247"},{"id":"322682678975452748","title":"Scary Movie 2","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2001,"runtimeMinutes":83,"directors":["Keenen Ivory Wayans"],"actors":["James Woods","Tim Curry","Anna Faris","Chris Elliott","David Cross","Regina Hall","Kathleen Robertson","Christopher Masterson","Natasha Lyonne","Shawn Wayans"],"genres":["Comedy"],"completedDate":"2002-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/4248"},{"id":"322682678975451724","title":"Scary Movie 3","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2003,"runtimeMinutes":84,"directors":["David Zucker"],"actors":["Denise Richards","Anna Faris","Pamela Anderson","Eddie Griffin","Regina Hall","Queen Latifah","Kevin Hart","Jenny McCarthy-Wahlberg","Simon Rex","Leslie Nielsen"],"genres":["Comedy"],"completedDate":"2002-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/4256"},{"id":"322682678975450700","title":"Scary Movie 4","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2006,"runtimeMinutes":83,"directors":["David Zucker"],"actors":["Bill Pullman","Anna Faris","Chris Elliott","Michael Madsen","Regina Hall","Carmen Electra","Kevin Hart","Simon Rex","Leslie Nielsen","Beau Mirchoff"],"genres":["Comedy"],"completedDate":"2006-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/4257"},{"id":"322737732129391183","title":"Scream","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2022,"runtimeMinutes":114,"directors":["Tyler Gillett","Matt Bettinelli-Olpin"],"actors":["Kyle Gallner","Jenna Ortega"],"genres":["Horror","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2022-02-13","updatedDate":"2022-04-02","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/646385"},{"id":"322682678022356556","title":"Scream 3","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2000,"runtimeMinutes":116,"directors":["Wes Craven"],"actors":["Courteney Cox","Lance Henriksen","Patrick Warburton","Patrick Dempsey","Neve Campbell","Liev Schreiber","Parker Posey","Heather Matarazzo","Jenny McCarthy-Wahlberg","Emily Mortimer"],"genres":["Horror","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2004-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/4234"},{"id":"322682678020335180","title":"Seven Psychopaths","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2012,"runtimeMinutes":110,"directors":["Martin McDonagh"],"actors":["Kevin Corrigan"],"genres":["Comedy","Crime"],"completedDate":"2019-03-28","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Sam Rockwell makes this film. The same cast in all of McDonagh's films really help define the style he envisions. The premise is gimmicky but still fun. Dark comedy is also not as nuanced as Three Billboards. Conversation can be a little too meta though. The second half also drags on.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/86838"},{"id":"322682678021438028","title":"Seven Samurai","originalTitle":"七人の侍","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1954,"runtimeMinutes":207,"directors":["Akira Kurosawa"],"actors":["Tatsuya Nakadai","Keiko Tsushima","Minoru Chiaki","Toshirō Mifune","Bokuzen Hidari","Yukiko Shimazaki","Yoshio Tsuchiya","Yoshio Inaba","Ken Utsui"],"genres":["Action","Drama"],"completedDate":"2013-12-14","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Predictable plot with a trite storyline. It's fun fluff because of its clean yet unprofound message with the seventh samurai.\n\nCharacters act very collectively and simplistically, with everyone's morale boosted by simple tasks and lessons of advice by Kikuchiyo. Overexaggerated acting and forced laughter by the villagers many times. Glossed over war tactics practically always being successful, lack of depth within the main characters and their backstories, the romance as well. It's not that they didn't have enough time (it's roughly 3 and a half hours!). It's that the film is intentionally dumbed down for its audience I presume.\n\nThe film tries to end a sour note and I don't think the message it's trying to bring across is entirely set up correctly.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/346"},{"id":"322682678022260300","title":"Shaolin","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2011,"runtimeMinutes":106,"directors":["Lucas Lowe"],"actors":["Daniel Dae Kim","Jean Louisa Kelly","Kim Chan"],"genres":["Action"],"completedDate":"2011-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/36934"},{"id":"322682678022261324","title":"Shaolin Soccer","originalTitle":"少林足球","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2001,"runtimeMinutes":113,"directors":["Stephen Chow"],"actors":["Stephen Chow","Cecilia Cheung"],"genres":["Action","Comedy"],"completedDate":"2006-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/11770"},{"id":"322682678020311628","title":"Shazam","originalTitle":"Shazam!","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2019,"runtimeMinutes":132,"directors":["David F. 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The gang violence and leader are overly exaggerated in their one noteness. I liked the overall choreography.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/891699"},{"id":"d47b2836-7bcd-47fd-a369-1e4377a7ad55","title":"Sisu: Road to Revenge","originalTitle":"Sisu 2","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2025,"runtimeMinutes":89,"directors":["Jalmari Helander"],"genres":["Action","War"],"completedDate":"2026-01-26","updatedDate":"2026-01-27","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1223601"},{"id":"322682678022263372","title":"Sǐwáng de Yóuxì","originalTitle":"死亡的遊戲","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1978,"directors":["Bruce Lee"],"completedDate":"2003-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30"},{"id":"322682678022370892","title":"Sleeping Beauty","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1959,"runtimeMinutes":75,"directors":["Clyde Geronimi"],"genres":["Fantasy","Animation","Romance","Family"],"completedDate":"1996-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/10882"},{"id":"a2fa693b-f714-4b33-ab8a-572c13d7b2e8","title":"Smile","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2022,"runtimeMinutes":115,"directors":["Parker Finn"],"actors":["Kyle Gallner"],"genres":["Horror","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2022-11-13","updatedDate":"2022-11-14","notes":"The \"Why won't you believe me??\" trope is dumb here. There are plenty of things she could do to give a more rationale answer, like provide evidence of the patient's testimony and prior, what she had seen with her professor bludgeoning themselves. I don't find the film to have a good enough mix of \"is it real vs fiction\".\n\nParanormal procedural mimicking It Follows and The Ring. The subtext of trauma is nowhere near as good as it's told in It Follows about sex and Babadook about trauma.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/882598"},{"id":"322682678022351436","title":"Smokin' Aces","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2006,"runtimeMinutes":109,"directors":["Joe Carnahan"],"actors":["Ryan Reynolds"],"genres":["Action","Comedy","Crime","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2006-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/7516"},{"id":"322682678021461580","title":"Some Like It Hot","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1959,"runtimeMinutes":123,"directors":["Billy Wilder"],"actors":["Marilyn Monroe","Nehemiah Persoff","Jack Lemmon","Sandra Warner"],"genres":["Comedy","Romance","Crime"],"completedDate":"2013-11-27","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Some archetypal slapstick gags with the boke/tsukkomi/straight man/dunce. You have to suspend your disbelief often in believing that those two are actually fooling anybody. Not sure how I feel about the crossdressing gimmick to begin with. Nevertheless, the comedy's decent at times and what I love the most about the story is the Prohibition-era setting. A bit of a shame it doesn't appear as much as generally stupid comedy with loads of overacting. I still love all the duplicitous intentions and dramatic irony.\n\nMarilyn Monroe here is sexualized here like Megan Fox in Transformers: the facial close-ups, the bad porno music, the angles towards the legs, her presence at all in the story. Well, at least Monroe's got better talent, and she plays a fabulously stupid girl here. But I find her role (a major one) dumb and all the singing by her clear pandering.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/239"},{"id":"322682678021358156","title":"Spartacus","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1960,"runtimeMinutes":197,"directors":["Stanley Kubrick"],"actors":["Jean Simmons","Peter Ustinov","John Hoyt","Richard Farnsworth","Herbert Lom","Robert Fuller","Brad Harris","Woody Strode","John Gavin","Kirk Douglas"],"genres":["History","Drama","Adventure"],"completedDate":"2015-01-02","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Distinctively Gary Stu in his engimatic perfection, and with everyone around him evil and physically ugly. He instead has makeup just like his beautiful prostitute woman. Every action in the story surrounds him for no reason other than because it happens to. hoeven the love pairing is hackneyed. Very American in its formula and morals. I can almost hear the moralizing Douglas makes in stating his love of theatre over the animalistic nature of fighting..\n\nThe only interesting detail is the occasional bout during politics, and even then they continue to spout the literal consequences so all viewers can obviously and unforgettably understand them. There's also the fact that there are less than a handful of senate speakers that actually make an intelligible remark, with the rest grumbling in the background..","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/967"},{"id":"322682678022254156","title":"Spawn","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1997,"runtimeMinutes":96,"directors":["Mark A.Z. Dippé"],"actors":["Miko Hughes","John Leguizamo","Melinda Clarke","Michael Jai White","Theresa Randle","Martin Sheen","Frank Welker","Roger Yuan","D. B. Sweeney"],"genres":["Action","Adventure","Fantasy","Horror","Science Fiction","Thriller"],"completedDate":"1998-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/10336"},{"id":"337316520493318736","title":"Spree","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2020,"runtimeMinutes":93,"directors":["Eugene Kotlyarenko"],"actors":["Joe Keery","Mischa Barton","Jessalyn Gilsig","David Arquette","Frankie Grande","John DeLuca","Amir M. Korangy"],"genres":["Comedy","Horror","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2022-07-15","updatedDate":"2022-07-16","notes":"Weird pacing and bad storytelling. Too on the nose. The idea is interesting but it could be done in such a better way.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/653598"},{"id":"322682678021584460","title":"Star Trek","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2009,"runtimeMinutes":127,"directors":["J.J. Abrams"],"actors":["Zoe Saldaña","Chris Hemsworth"],"genres":["Science Fiction","Action","Adventure"],"completedDate":"2011-09-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/13475"},{"id":"322682678022381132","title":"Star Trek: The Motion Picture","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1979,"runtimeMinutes":131,"directors":["Robert Wise"],"actors":["DeForest Kelley","George Takei","William Shatner","Majel Barrett"],"genres":["Science Fiction","Adventure","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2011-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/152"},{"id":"322682678022301260","title":"Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2002,"runtimeMinutes":142,"directors":["George Lucas"],"actors":["Samuel L. Jackson","Liam Neeson"],"genres":["Adventure","Action","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2002-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1894"},{"id":"322682678021313100","title":"Star Wars: Episode VII","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2015,"runtimeMinutes":136,"directors":["J.J. Abrams"],"actors":["Oscar Isaac","Jessica Henwick","Hannah John-Kamen","Daniel Craig","Iko Uwais","Harrison Ford","Simon Pegg","Ewan McGregor","Daisy Ridley","Adam Driver"],"genres":["Action","Adventure","Science Fiction","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"2016-04-01","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/140607"},{"id":"322682678022368844","title":"Starsky & Hutch","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2004,"runtimeMinutes":101,"directors":["Todd Phillips"],"actors":["Amy Smart","Owen Wilson","Juliette Lewis","Jason Bateman","Patton Oswalt","Rachael Harris","Vince Vaughn","Carmen Electra","Terry Crews","Will Ferrell"],"genres":["Comedy","Crime"],"completedDate":"2004-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/9384"},{"id":"322682678021414476","title":"Stealing Harvard","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2002,"runtimeMinutes":85,"directors":["Bruce McCulloch"],"actors":["Leslie Mann","Nick Offerman","Jason Lee","John C. McGinley","Martin Starr","Tammy Blanchard","Thomas Rosales Jr.","Megan Mullally","Richard Jenkins","Marshall Manesh"],"genres":["Crime","Comedy","Drama"],"completedDate":"2005-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/12770"},{"id":"322682678022279756","title":"Superbad","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2007,"runtimeMinutes":113,"directors":["Greg Mottola"],"actors":["Kevin Corrigan","Emma Stone"],"genres":["Comedy"],"completedDate":"2007-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/8363"},{"id":"322682678022330956","title":"Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2003,"runtimeMinutes":109,"directors":["Jonathan Mostow"],"actors":["Arnold Schwarzenegger"],"genres":["Action","Thriller","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2003-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/296"},{"id":"322682678020300364","title":"Terminator: Dark Fate","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2019,"runtimeMinutes":128,"directors":["Tim Miller"],"actors":["Arnold Schwarzenegger"],"genres":["Science Fiction","Action","Adventure","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2019-11-28","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Nothing ambitious, fairly cookie-cutter. Lots of diversity casting.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/290859"},{"id":"322682678020456012","title":"The Admiral: Roaring Currents","originalTitle":"명량","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2014,"runtimeMinutes":126,"directors":["Kim Han-min"],"actors":["Kim Tae-hun","Kim Won-hae","Park Bo-gum","Go Kyung-pyo","No Min-woo","Lee Jung-hyun","Kwon Yul","Cho Jin-woong","Jin Goo","Choi Min-sik"],"genres":["War","Action","Drama","History"],"completedDate":"2017-09-02","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Melodramatic, Mary Sue protagonist, and a bit of Korean patriotic propaganda vs the Japanese. Plot is streamlined and predictable, but still fun to watch like any other high-budget blockbuster. The navy battle is a wonder. Although the various plot twists of doom and triumph are a little ridiculous. All the film really lives for is the navy battle, so it's a bit bothersome just how much setup was required before it started.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/282631"},{"id":"322682678021578316","title":"The Avengers","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2012,"runtimeMinutes":143,"directors":["Joss Whedon"],"actors":["Scarlett Johansson","Robert Downey Jr.","Samuel L. Jackson","Chris Hemsworth"],"genres":["Science Fiction","Action","Adventure"],"completedDate":"2012-10-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/24428"},{"id":"322682678022359628","title":"The Bank Job","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2008,"runtimeMinutes":112,"directors":["Roger Donaldson"],"actors":["Jason Statham"],"genres":["Thriller","Crime","Drama"],"completedDate":"2008-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/8848"},{"id":"322682678022313548","title":"The Bourne Identity","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2002,"runtimeMinutes":119,"directors":["Doug Liman"],"actors":["Matt Damon"],"genres":["Action","Mystery","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2005-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/2501"},{"id":"322682678022320716","title":"The Campaign","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2012,"runtimeMinutes":85,"directors":["Jay Roach"],"actors":["Dan Aykroyd","John Goodman","Zach Galifianakis","Brian Cox","Jason Sudeikis","Dylan McDermott","Will Ferrell","Jack McBrayer","John Cenatiempo","Katherine LaNasa"],"genres":["Comedy"],"completedDate":"2012-09-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/77953"},{"id":"322682678020392524","title":"The Conjuring","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2013,"runtimeMinutes":112,"directors":["James Wan"],"actors":["Patrick Wilson","Vera Farmiga","Joey King","Mackenzie Foy","Lili Taylor","Sterling Jerins","Hayley McFarland","Shannon Kook","Joseph Bishara","Ron Livingston"],"genres":["Horror","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2018-07-15","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"The introduction was rather discombobulating. Not very scary. Just a random set of many jumpscares—that's difficult in general to really immerse yourself and feel horrified.\n\nI always find it strange that the things ghosts can control are TVs, music players, doors, moving chairs, knocking on walls, pulling on blankets, lights. And even the ghost hunters who are self-aware about this don't actually do anything except play along for the scare.Seriously, if such things existed, I'd be surprised the military isn't interested in weaponizing it already. Imagine the things you can do once you control it. Apparently the proof that the Church receives before making an order is also not available for the public to better understand things. If the military were really interested, they would just buy the haunted house and experience it.\n\nThe jump scares in this are just unnecessary. And that plot armor in smashing down that door.\n\nI think the only thing that makes this film save face is Ed and Lorraine as characters, and the decent development of the characters whose only job was to be scared.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/138843"},{"id":"322682678022331980","title":"The Count of Monte Cristo","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2002,"runtimeMinutes":131,"directors":["Kevin Reynolds"],"actors":["Henry Cavill"],"genres":["Adventure","Drama","History","Action"],"completedDate":"2006-06-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/11362"},{"id":"331789912321819201","title":"The Evil Dead","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1983,"runtimeMinutes":85,"directors":["Sam Raimi"],"actors":["Sam Raimi","Bruce Campbell","Ted Raimi"],"genres":["Horror"],"completedDate":"2022-05-15","updatedDate":"2022-05-16","notes":"I liked the action, very campy and nonsensical.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/764"},{"id":"81b478f8-c258-4f10-b732-6b24c8594c28","title":"The First Omen","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2024,"runtimeMinutes":119,"directors":["Arkasha Stevenson"],"actors":["Nicole Sorace","Bill Nighy","Charles Dance","Ralph Ineson","Sônia Braga","Rachel Hurd-Wood","Nell Tiger Free","María Caballero","Andrea Arcangeli","James Swanton"],"genres":["Horror"],"completedDate":"2026-06-06","updatedDate":"2026-06-21","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/437342"},{"id":"322682678020343372","title":"The Flu","originalTitle":"감기","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2013,"runtimeMinutes":122,"directors":["Kim Sung-soo"],"actors":["Ma Dong-seok","Jang Hyuk","Park Hyo-joo","Lee Hee-jun","Yoo Hae-jin","Soo Ae","Lee Sang-yeob","Choi Byung-mo ","So Hee-jung"],"genres":["Action","Science Fiction","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2019-03-13","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Predictable story, characters, and progression. I always find it funny who they make villains of the humans; here it's the politicians and bureaucracy, whereas the common working man are in shining yet humble light. The heroine is such a constant bitch across the narrative.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/200085"},{"id":"322682678020473420","title":"The Game","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1997,"runtimeMinutes":129,"directors":["David Fincher"],"actors":["Tommy Flanagan","Deborah Kara Unger","Michael Douglas","Sean Penn","Carroll Baker","Michael Massee","Rachel Flanagan","Mark Boone Junior","Yuji Okumoto","John Cassini"],"genres":["Drama","Thriller","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2017-08-12","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I can see elements of Fincher in the cinematography. But the plot all seems overly corny and hard to believe. First, the idea that it's all a game takes heroic film-level layers of witholding doubt: believing that such a company could exist, operate on such massive scales with hundreds of employees to act for a single person, speaking to a television, all the staged scenes, etc. \"What elements must be at play for this to be plasubile as a film?\" These were the sorts of questions I had to ask—which are at the meta-level rather than being immersed and asking questions within the film's universe itself.\n\nThen the reveal from the young woman that this is all a scam and that now they want to murder the businessman sounds implausible: if they all wanted only the money, then why now would they try to kill him and in such crazy manners? I think without much hints of realism, it's hard to invest emotionally into this film. That the brother is so crazy. And the premise about the father commiting suicide on the same year as Nicholas turning 48—it doesn't come up very often to reinforce life's meaning.\n\nThen the reveal that they were still scamming him, holding onto him until he could reveal his bank account information. For example, in one scene ehe checks the balance on all his accounts. It seems obvious that if this happens in real life, you should trust the people you know the longest—for example, the lawyer over the bimbo waitress. As another example, he gets stuck in a sinking taxi cab. If they were truly scam artists, it seems unlikely that they could so willingly risk the man actually drowning to add more credibility to the tale.\n\nThe story also seems all too one-sided with this one person's protagonist. I get that the biggest emphasis is on the mystery abut it's lacking. It seems like it could sdo better similar to Gone Girl where it showcases more to provide a better unraveling of the narrative.\n\nThen the question of whether this is all a game again at the climax. Really now? There were some clear attempts at murder beforehand like the drowning and the very fact that he had to trek from Mexico all the way back to San Francisco with nothing but dirt money, which is very dangerous and the gun with clear bullet when he trailed the PI. Then yet another reveal with the pretend death of Connie that assumes he suicides in the precise location. Then the real ending where he is actually okay with it all and further catches coffee with the woman; it all seems so implausible and feel-goody and unlike Fincher. So many things could have gone wrong (e.g., an actor screwing up, Nicholas taking a different action such as checking Connie's body before suiciding) but didn't.\n\nWhile I can admire the shots, there's one thing I can't forgive in a story and it's plot incoherence. The plot is what keeps the film together. The more unlikely the story, the worse the immersion and the greater the audience's apathy for the various going-ons.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/2649"},{"id":"322682678022269516","title":"The Hangover","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2009,"runtimeMinutes":100,"directors":["Todd Phillips"],"actors":["Bradley Cooper"],"genres":["Comedy"],"completedDate":"2009-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/18785"},{"id":"322682678021396044","title":"The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2013,"runtimeMinutes":161,"directors":["Peter Jackson"],"actors":["Benedict Cumberbatch","Cate Blanchett","Luke Evans","Evangeline Lilly","Lee Pace","Manu Bennett","Mikael Persbrandt","Richard Armitage","Peter Jackson","Orlando Bloom"],"genres":["Fantasy","Adventure","Action"],"completedDate":"2014-04-20","updatedDate":"2022-08-20","notes":"Even more disappointing in its pace and mainstream storyline, always emphasizing the wrong things (an offshoot romance and ugly love triangle, the wrong characters, far too many hints to Sauron, a far too important role in Bard when Tolkien lore thrives in its offshoots and side characters, etc.). Also artificial suspense moments occur so many times, such as the bridge scene where the dwarves are hiding inside barrels of fish, or when Bilbo is hiding in the shadows and the Elven kind presumably calls out to him.\n\nRewatched it on 2022-08-19 when Sodapoppin streamed a Hobbit-LOTR marathon.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/57158"},{"id":"322682678021577292","title":"The Hunger Games","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2012,"runtimeMinutes":142,"directors":["Gary Ross"],"actors":["Josh Hutcherson","Jennifer Lawrence"],"genres":["Science Fiction","Adventure","Action","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2012-10-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/70160"},{"id":"322682678020169292","title":"The Invisible Guest","originalTitle":"Contratiempo","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2017,"runtimeMinutes":107,"directors":["Oriol Paulo"],"actors":["Iñigo Gastesi","Mario Casas","Paco Tous"],"genres":["Drama","Mystery","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2021-09-10","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Gimmicky premise. Eye-rolling plot twists. I kind of asked for it when I decided to watch this kind of film though..","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/411088"},{"id":"322682678022284876","title":"The Jungle Book","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1967,"runtimeMinutes":78,"directors":["Wolfgang Reitherman"],"actors":["Clint Howard","Darleen Carr","Sebastian Cabot"],"genres":["Family","Animation","Adventure"],"completedDate":"1996-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/9325"},{"id":"322682678020324940","title":"The Killing of a Sacred Deer","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2017,"runtimeMinutes":121,"directors":["Yorgos Lanthimos"],"actors":["Nicole Kidman"],"genres":["Drama","Thriller","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2019-04-14","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Unsettling at first with the unemotional and somewhat estranged dialogue, and the music. Then kind of just awkward as I don't know where the story is going. Maybe it's the pacing. I think it's also that literally everyone acts unemotional, as if it's the world the film is in more so than the characters themselves and their background. The character motivations just feel too irrational that I'm more irked by them that I couldn't appreciate the unraveling of the mystery. With real characters, I would point to for example Steven's inability to connect emotionally with his family or tell them secrets. But literally every character in this world acts that way. As another realm of plausibility, it's easy for doctors to tell if a patient is consciously faking it. They would be able to make _some_ progress, not zero.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/399057"},{"id":"323717000651080271","title":"The King's Man","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2021,"runtimeMinutes":131,"directors":["Matthew Vaughn"],"actors":["Olivier Richters"],"genres":["Action","Adventure","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2022-02-15","updatedDate":"2022-02-16","notes":"What a shit film.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/476669"},{"id":"322682678022429260","title":"The Last Samurai","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2003,"runtimeMinutes":154,"directors":["Edward Zwick"],"actors":["Tom Cruise"],"genres":["Drama","Action","War"],"completedDate":"2003-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/616"},{"id":"322682678022286924","title":"The Little Mermaid","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1989,"runtimeMinutes":83,"directors":["Ron Clements","John Musker"],"actors":["Frank Welker","Mickie McGowan","Edie McClurg","Christopher Daniel Barnes","Buddy Hackett","Nancy Cartwright","Pat Carroll","Ed Gilbert"],"genres":["Animation","Family","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"1996-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/10144"},{"id":"322682678021386828","title":"The Luzhin Defence","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2000,"runtimeMinutes":109,"directors":["Marleen Gorris"],"actors":["Emily Watson"],"genres":["Romance","Drama"],"completedDate":"2014-12-05","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Poor character development and a really strange ending.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/52654"},{"id":"322682678020478540","title":"The Man from Nowhere","originalTitle":"아저씨","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2010,"runtimeMinutes":119,"directors":["Lee Jeong-beom"],"actors":["Kim Tae-hun","Kim Sae-ron","Won Bin","Kim Sung-oh","Jo Jae-yoon","Lee Jae-won","Kim Hee-won"],"genres":["Action","Thriller","Crime"],"completedDate":"2017-08-08","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Fun but fairly unrealistic and dry-cut revenge film with easily marked villains, a simple story of trying to save a kidnapped girl. It's similar to John Wick in action but more about the thriller and mystery angle. I enjoyed the action. But that American-like ending is annoying. At least kill the villains in a brutal way like Oldboy.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/51608"},{"id":"322682678021284428","title":"The Man Who Knew Infinity","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2016,"runtimeMinutes":108,"directors":["Matt Brown"],"actors":["Toby Jones","Dev Patel","Jeremy Irons","Stephen Fry","Shazad Latif","Enzo Cilenti","Jeremy Northam"],"genres":["Drama","History"],"completedDate":"2016-10-22","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"how typical of mainstream media to focus on trendy topics even though it was not the core of ramanujan's life","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/353326"},{"id":"322682678022340172","title":"The Mighty Ducks","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1992,"runtimeMinutes":101,"directors":["Stephen Herek"],"actors":["Marguerite Moreau","Vincent Larusso","Emilio Estevez","Elden Henson","Garette Ratliff Henson","Joshua Jackson","M.C. Gainey","Teal Redmann","Brandon Quintin Adams","Heidi Kling"],"genres":["Comedy","Drama","Family"],"completedDate":"1997-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/10414"},{"id":"322682678020358732","title":"The Mole Song: Hong Kong Capriccio","originalTitle":"土竜の唄 香港狂騒曲","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2016,"runtimeMinutes":128,"directors":["Takashi Miike"],"actors":["Eita Nagayama","Riisa Naka","Tsubasa Honda","Toma Ikuta","Nanao","Arata Furuta","Kenichi Endo"],"genres":["Action","Comedy","Crime"],"completedDate":"2019-01-10","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I love the ending scene with the tiger. This is not as innovative as the first. But still similar in spirit.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/417413"},{"id":"322682678020333132","title":"The Mule","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2018,"runtimeMinutes":116,"directors":["Clint Eastwood"],"actors":["Bradley Cooper","Clint Eastwood"],"genres":["Crime","Drama","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2019-03-28","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"What a quirky Clint Eastwood film. I've never seen Clint Eastwood smile as many times in the first 5 minutes of this film as I have in his whole career. I love how even the gangsters treat him like some old guy not familiar with technology. The relationship between the Mexican handler and Clint Eastwood is so awkward. I can't believe it's genuine for a second. For some of these people, the circumstances are literally life and death due to their family. And we're supposed to believe that some of them are heartbroken that they can't be friends together. And stereotyping racial profiling.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/504172"},{"id":"322682678022308428","title":"The Mummy","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1999,"runtimeMinutes":124,"directors":["Stephen Sommers"],"actors":["Rachel Weisz","Erick Avari","Brendan Fraser","Arnold Vosloo","Patricia Velásquez","John Hannah","Kevin J. O'Connor","Tuc Watkins","Oded Fehr","Jonathan Hyde"],"genres":["Adventure","Action","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"1999-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/564"},{"id":"322682678022348364","title":"The Mummy Returns","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2001,"runtimeMinutes":130,"directors":["Stephen Sommers"],"actors":["Dwayne Johnson"],"genres":["Adventure","Action","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"2000-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1734"},{"id":"322682678020214348","title":"The Nun","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2018,"runtimeMinutes":96,"directors":["Corin Hardy"],"actors":["Patrick Wilson","Vera Farmiga","Taissa Farmiga","Charlotte Hope","Lili Taylor","Bonnie Aarons","Lili Bordán","Maria Obretin","Dee Bradley Baker","Jonas Bloquet"],"genres":["Horror"],"completedDate":"2021-03-20","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Too streamlined and following horror tropes to add the unique spins that the Conjuring film series typically does. It also relies on quite the numbre of jump scares. The cinematography also feels polished but synthetic at times. The set pieces for example are always visually clear and crisp, with smoke that you can tell is studio-generated to give the horror atmosphere while still somehow illuminating the whole scene well.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/439079"},{"id":"322682678020206156","title":"The Pink Panther","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1963,"runtimeMinutes":115,"directors":["Blake Edwards"],"actors":["Claudia Cardinale","Peter Sellers","David Niven","Robert Wagner","Capucine"],"genres":["Comedy","Crime"],"completedDate":"2021-03-27","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I could never \"get\" Peter Sellers' comedy. He blends high satire (which I enjoy) with slapstick (which I find too forceful). Compare to, e.g., Steve Martin or Rowan Atkinson. It feels very obvious that the film is written as more serious in tone, but Sellers just tries to adlib his style of comedy to not so great merit.\n\nThe film has so much seduction and weird polygamy. Not only do they portray Sellers' character as a lovable buffoon but also a cuckold.\n\nInterestingly, the film is less about Jacques Clouseau and more about the Phantom Charles Lytton. It plays like an awkward James Bond film.\n\nThe pacing is terrible. It just bumbles on without any reason, with scenes made to be comedic that are the longest but without actually advancing the plot.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/936"},{"id":"322682678022336076","title":"The Princess and the Frog","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2009,"runtimeMinutes":98,"directors":["Ron Clements","John Musker"],"actors":["John Goodman","Anika Noni Rose","Keith David","Jim Cummings","Kevin Michael Richardson","Oprah Winfrey","Terrence Howard","Fred Tatasciore","Ritchie Montgomery","John Kassir"],"genres":["Animation","Romance","Fantasy","Family"],"completedDate":"2010-11-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/10198"},{"id":"322682678021455436","title":"The Princess Bride","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1987,"runtimeMinutes":99,"directors":["Rob Reiner"],"actors":["Cary Elwes","Carol Kane","Robin Wright","Wallace Shawn","Peter Falk","Fred Savage","Billy Crystal","Chris Sarandon"],"genres":["Adventure","Fantasy","Romance","Family"],"completedDate":"2013-11-28","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I do enjoy The Princess Bride's subversions but it more often basks in its stereotypes, and relies on it for its foundation. Its religious dedication to its archetype makes its occasional cognizant quips more peculiar than funny. Still, you gotta love the Billy Crystal cameo and the giant and Spanish man's quests.\n\nShitty choreography, generic accompaniments, and cheaply made settings just as with its base storyline and characters. It adds an intentionally campy feel to the story but it also hurts it for the same reasons.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/2493"},{"id":"322682678020389452","title":"The Purge Anarchy","originalTitle":"The Purge: Anarchy","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2014,"runtimeMinutes":103,"directors":["James DeMonaco"],"actors":["Nicholas Gonzalez","Frank Grillo","Lakeith Stanfield","Justina Machado","Noel Gugliemi","Carmen Ejogo","Michael Kenneth Williams","Kiele Sanchez","Zach Gilford","Edwin Hodge"],"genres":["Horror","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2018-07-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I like some of the scenarios like the manhuting. The push on politics is a little much. It was annoyingly packed with every Chevkov's gun.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/238636"},{"id":"322682678022323788","title":"The Recruit","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2003,"runtimeMinutes":115,"directors":["Roger Donaldson"],"actors":["Al Pacino","Colin Farrell","Bridget Moynahan","Gabriel Macht","Jenny Cooper","Jane Moffat","Jessica Greco","Ron Lea"],"genres":["Action","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2003-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1647"},{"id":"322682678022302284","title":"The Ring","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2002,"runtimeMinutes":115,"directors":["Gore Verbinski"],"actors":["Brian Cox","Martin Henderson","Naomi Watts","Sara Rue","Pauley Perrette","Daveigh Chase","Sasha Barrese","Rachael Bella","Adam Brody","Amber Tamblyn"],"genres":["Horror","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2002-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/565"},{"id":"322682678022377036","title":"The Scorpion King","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2002,"runtimeMinutes":92,"directors":["Chuck Russell"],"actors":["Dwayne Johnson"],"genres":["Action","Adventure","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"2002-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/9334"},{"id":"322682678021594700","title":"The Social Network","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2010,"runtimeMinutes":121,"directors":["David Fincher"],"actors":["Andrew Garfield","Jesse Eisenberg","Jason Flemyng","Adina Porter","Armie Hammer","Dakota Johnson","Caleb Landry Jones","Rooney Mara","Riley Voelkel","Caitlin Gerard"],"genres":["Drama"],"completedDate":"2010-09-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/37799"},{"id":"322682678022298188","title":"The Terminator","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1984,"runtimeMinutes":108,"directors":["James Cameron"],"actors":["Arnold Schwarzenegger"],"genres":["Action","Thriller","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"1997-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/218"},{"id":"55c1ee33-e675-4cdd-af2c-83abb427b1ca","title":"The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1986,"runtimeMinutes":101,"directors":["Tobe Hooper"],"actors":["Dennis Hopper","Bill Moseley","Tobe Hooper","Caroline Williams"],"genres":["Comedy","Horror"],"completedDate":"2023-08-30","updatedDate":"2023-08-30","notes":"Boy is this the campiest movie I've seen, pretty interesting to see it from such a mainstream horror movie and a significant departure from the first film. The black comedy ages well.\n\nI don't know if it's intentional, but it's true the pacing, story, and clunky set design are all over the place. This movie helped define the campy horror subgenre. It also doesn't feel canon with the way the characters act, for example, the idea of Leatherface being a buffoon who likes women and who uses the chainsaw more as a phallic object in replacement of a real penis. It's too literal compared to the menace that he is in Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/16337"},{"id":"322682678022310476","title":"The Village","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2004,"runtimeMinutes":108,"directors":["M. Night Shyamalan"],"actors":["Sigourney Weaver"],"genres":["Drama","Mystery","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2005-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/6947"},{"id":"322682678022364748","title":"The World Is Not Enough","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1999,"runtimeMinutes":128,"directors":["Michael Apted"],"actors":["Pierce Brosnan"],"genres":["Adventure","Action","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2002-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/36643"},{"id":"322682678021220940","title":"The Yellow Sea","originalTitle":"황해","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2010,"runtimeMinutes":156,"directors":["Na Hong-jin"],"actors":["Park Byung-eun","Lee Yoo-mi","Lee El","Lee Hee-jun","Jang So-yeon","Jeong Man-sik","Ha Jung-woo","Jo Jae-yoon","Cho Seong-ha","Lee Cheol-min"],"genres":["Drama","Thriller","Crime"],"completedDate":"2017-03-27","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Thrilling. I like the portrayal of true decadence and the vast landscape that the film covers. But it's insubstantial. Way too much shaky cam to enjoy the action as well. Keeping track of the many characters introduced only through visuals has been difficult without frequently pausing the film. Thoroughly confusing.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/57361"},{"id":"5bceeaa6-3215-4506-9287-1919c89c88d3","title":"They Will Kill You","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2026,"runtimeMinutes":95,"directors":["Kirill Sokolov"],"genres":["Action","Comedy","Horror","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2026-09-12","updatedDate":"2026-09-13","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1292695"},{"id":"322682678021399116","title":"To Catch a Thief","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1955,"runtimeMinutes":106,"directors":["Alfred Hitchcock"],"actors":["Alfred Hitchcock","Jessie Royce Landis","Cary Grant","Grace Kelly"],"genres":["Mystery","Romance","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2014-04-09","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Very plain story with plain conventions in character and plot reveals.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/381"},{"id":"322682678021385804","title":"Tokyo Story","originalTitle":"東京物語","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1953,"runtimeMinutes":137,"directors":["Yasujirō Ozu"],"actors":["Setsuko Hara"],"genres":["Drama"],"completedDate":"2014-12-06","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"All the facial shots make me uncomfortable. Very slow and soporific, to little impact. The idea was poorly executed.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/18148"},{"id":"322682678020303436","title":"Tomb Raider","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2018,"runtimeMinutes":118,"directors":["Roar Uthaug"],"actors":["Hannah John-Kamen","Alicia Vikander","Dominic West","Daniel Wu","Kristin Scott Thomas","Nick Frost","Walton Goggins","Emily Carey","Alexandre Willaume","Jaime Winstone"],"genres":["Action","Adventure","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"2019-08-03","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I liked the different spins on the video game.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/338970"},{"id":"322682678022374988","title":"Tomorrow Never Dies","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1997,"runtimeMinutes":119,"directors":["Roger Spottiswoode"],"actors":["Pierce Brosnan"],"genres":["Adventure","Action","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2002-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/714"},{"id":"322682678022296140","title":"Total Recall","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2012,"runtimeMinutes":118,"directors":["Len Wiseman"],"actors":["Bill Nighy","Kate Beckinsale","Colin Farrell","Will Yun Lee","Bryan Cranston","Jessica Biel","Bokeem Woodbine","Natalie Lisinska","Emily Chang","John Cho"],"genres":["Action","Science Fiction","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2012-11-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/64635"},{"id":"322682678021476940","title":"Troy","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2004,"runtimeMinutes":163,"directors":["Wolfgang Petersen"],"actors":["Brad Pitt"],"genres":["Action","Adventure"],"completedDate":"2004-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/652"},{"id":"322682678022255180","title":"Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1997,"runtimeMinutes":99,"directors":["Shuki Levy","David Winning"],"actors":["Amy Jo Johnson","Hilary Shepard","Austin St. John","Jason David Frank"],"genres":["Action","Adventure","Family","Fantasy","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"1998-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/6499"},{"id":"322682678975429196","title":"Underworld","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2003,"runtimeMinutes":122,"directors":["Len Wiseman"],"actors":["Bill Nighy","Kate Beckinsale","Michael Sheen","Scott Speedman","Sophia Myles","Wentworth Miller","Rana Morrison","Zita Görög","Erwin Leder","Shane Brolly"],"genres":["Fantasy","Action","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2003-12-31","updatedDate":"2024-10-19","notes":"Watched it again with Marisa on 2024-10-18.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/277"},{"id":"322682678020319820","title":"Us","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2019,"runtimeMinutes":116,"directors":["Jordan Peele"],"actors":["Elisabeth Moss","Lupita Nyong'o","Anna Diop","Yahya Abdul-Mateen II","Tim Heidecker","Jordan Peele","Kara Hayward","Noelle Sheldon","Winston Duke"],"genres":["Horror","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2019-05-23","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"This is really.. bad. Lik eno interesting social commentary. No comedy. Just a generic family with a B-rated thriller via dopplegangers that are not the least bit horrifying. Illogical events that happen really dumbly. The only interesting component is the government at the end---much like the reveal of Get Out. But the reveal is forced down on us with a tedious monologue. What's the point of the ending for example? Is that supposed to matter?","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/458723"},{"id":"322682678022360652","title":"Waiting...","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2005,"runtimeMinutes":94,"directors":["Rob McKittrick"],"actors":["Ryan Reynolds"],"genres":["Comedy"],"completedDate":"2006-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/7553"},{"id":"322682678022352460","title":"Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2010,"runtimeMinutes":133,"directors":["Oliver Stone"],"actors":["Josh Brolin","Susan Sarandon","Carey Mulligan","Shia LaBeouf","Eli Wallach","Jason Clarke","Michael Douglas","Vanessa Ferlito","Charlie Sheen","Frank Langella"],"genres":["Drama","Crime"],"completedDate":"2013-11-11","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"\"If the film sounds like a mess of relationships, then it is. As muddled as Stone's own political activism it has no clarity on what its trying to say. From trying to rationalize the reasons behind the market crash to the impulsive nature of human behaviour, it doesn't get either right.\"\n\nFar more believable romance that comes crushing to nothing and lack of stronger characterization.w;w\n\nLess insights on Wall Street and pretty generic Hollywood execution of a financial collapse, with little insighs of how each position did their job in the sector.\n\nGordan Gekko as an antihero isn't as charismatic here. No, it's not because he no longer has wads of cash flying out of his mouth as he speaks, but his dialogue, his composure, the cinematography made to enhance his charisma, are not prevalent here. It was also the stark contrast between Gekko and amateur Bud Fox which made their positions stand out all the more. When you recognize Bud's cheap formulaic \"appreciations\" and \"speeches\" you begin to apprceiate what makes Gekko such a fantastic figure.\n\nHollywood montages of music played by intermittent\n\nShia LeBouf plays an excellent character here, and his dynamic with his fiance, father figure, and even his conversations with his mother are believable. Far stronger and developed character than Bud Fox.\n\nThis is a sequel to a classic but unfortunately built with some generic Hollywood plays. While Shia LeBouf's acting lifts up the show, he can only do so much.\n\nwall street cameo by Charlie Sheen is a stupid conclusion that no one really cares about.\n\nreally starts to unhinge itself 3/4 way through\n\nton of exaggeration about the impact of the financial crisis (even saying \"end of the world\"). it also spends a lot of too much time talking about it rather than actually providing any insights, either on on the causes or continuing to stagnate the pacing for the main storyline. As such, the film lasts longer than it should have.\n\ngordon gekko betrayal is a little over the top. also the subsequent breakup, or when they're getting clothes for him and all he does is talk on the phone.\n\ncrappy conclusion, rumors are dumb and dumb imagery with the beheading","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/33909"},{"id":"322682678022305356","title":"WALL-E","originalTitle":"WALL·E","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2008,"runtimeMinutes":98,"directors":["Andrew Stanton"],"actors":["Sigourney Weaver"],"genres":["Animation","Family","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2009-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/10681"},{"id":"322682678020429388","title":"War for the Planet of the Apes","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2017,"runtimeMinutes":140,"directors":["Matt Reeves"],"actors":["Steve Zahn"],"genres":["Drama","Science Fiction","War"],"completedDate":"2017-12-28","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Revenge quest in beginning is mediocre. But I liked the journey they take, seeing new people like quests in a Greek myth and picking people up as they go. I also like how distinct the personalities are across the apes. That said, it's stereotypical to a degree that I also just wonder if apes are personified not because they're intelligent and deserve equal treatment, but because as a story it's easier to treat them as exactly as intelligent and emotional as humans even when they aren't. For example, Caesar augmented with a far more expressionable face, and the ability to speak English.\n\nPrison part is boring. A convenient blow-up setup to kill everyone and obliterate the base. I do like how sympathetic the commander was. An avalanche too? And then Caesar just dies after the trek for the happy ending.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/281338"},{"id":"322682678022278732","title":"Watchmen","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2009,"runtimeMinutes":163,"directors":["Zack Snyder"],"actors":["Carla Gugino","Patrick Wilson","Alison Araya","Matthew Goode","Billy Crudup","Jeffrey Dean Morgan","Zack Snyder","Matt Frewer","Malin Åkerman","Niall Matter"],"genres":["Mystery","Action","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2007-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/13183"},{"id":"322682678021344844","title":"Waterloo Bridge","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1931,"runtimeMinutes":81,"directors":["James Whale"],"actors":["Bette Davis"],"genres":["Drama","Romance","War"],"completedDate":"2015-02-19","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Overly dramatic with poor character development. Also strange ending.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/95797"},{"id":"322682678022262348","title":"Way of the Dragon","originalTitle":"猛龍過江","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1972,"runtimeMinutes":100,"directors":["Bruce Lee"],"actors":["Malisa Longo","Nora Miao","Lam Ching-Ying","Tony Liu","Chuck Norris","Bruce Lee","Robert Wall"],"genres":["Action","Crime"],"completedDate":"2003-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/9462"},{"id":"328496723664044609","title":"X","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2022,"runtimeMinutes":106,"directors":["Ti West"],"actors":["Jenna Ortega"],"genres":["Horror"],"completedDate":"2022-04-23","updatedDate":"2022-04-23","notes":"Not horrifying. I was unimpressed.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/760104"},{"id":"322682678022274636","title":"X-Men","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2000,"runtimeMinutes":104,"directors":["Bryan Singer"],"actors":["Famke Janssen","James Marsden","Hugh Jackman","Rebecca Romijn","Stan Lee","Halle Berry","Ian McKellen","Patrick Stewart","Bruce Davison","Shawn Ashmore"],"genres":["Adventure","Action","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2000-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/36657"},{"id":"322682678021582412","title":"X-Men Origins: Wolverine","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2009,"runtimeMinutes":107,"directors":["Gavin Hood"],"actors":["Ryan Reynolds"],"genres":["Adventure","Action","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2010-05-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/2080"},{"id":"322682678020438604","title":"X-Men: Apocalypse","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2016,"runtimeMinutes":144,"directors":["Bryan Singer"],"actors":["Michael Fassbender","Jennifer Lawrence"],"genres":["Science Fiction","Fantasy","Action"],"completedDate":"2017-11-04","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Lots of nice cameos. Kind of streamlined and not much in-depth investigation of any characters.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/246655"},{"id":"322682678021457484","title":"You've Got Mail","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":1998,"runtimeMinutes":119,"directors":["Nora Ephron"],"actors":["Tom Hanks","Steve Zahn"],"genres":["Comedy","Romance"],"completedDate":"2013-11-28","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"The stupidest idea I've ever heard of a romantic comedy aimed at 30+ year olds.. I still love Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan's chemistry though. Nora Ephron's use of cultural references keeps it so down to earth too, and I love her emphasis on quotable hilarity: \"I was eloquent! Shit!\".\n\nEverything else I could get do without, e.g., Hollywood conflict escalations and poor character development, stereotypical best friend (but he's black this time!), and oh god is that conclusion so easily solved. While I find the quality almost as good/bad as Sleepless in Seattle, the AOL thing is shamefully worse than the radio bit, and the whole travel motif of the story reinforced their search for love way better; moreover, their search for love reinforced the film better than this one which merely uses the books as a subtext for some funkily brewed love-hate romance.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/9489"},{"id":"322682678021316172","title":"Yves Saint Laurent","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2014,"runtimeMinutes":106,"directors":["Jalil Lespert"],"actors":["Pierre Niney","Charlotte Le Bon","Nikolai Kinski","Xavier Alcan"],"genres":["Drama"],"completedDate":"2015-12-25","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Beautiful with a great lagging narrative but unfocused.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/245775"},{"id":"322682678021310028","title":"Zatoichi","originalTitle":"座頭市","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2003,"runtimeMinutes":116,"directors":["Takeshi Kitano"],"actors":["Takeshi Kitano","Tadanobu Asano","Ittoku Kishibe","Yui Natsukawa"],"genres":["Adventure","Drama","Action"],"completedDate":"2016-04-26","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Wishfulfilment. Entertaining though.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/246"},{"id":"322682678022275660","title":"Zombieland","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2009,"runtimeMinutes":88,"directors":["Ruben Fleischer"],"actors":["Emma Stone"],"genres":["Comedy","Horror"],"completedDate":"2007-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/19908"},{"id":"322682678022339148","title":"Zookeeper","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2011,"runtimeMinutes":102,"directors":["Frank Coraci"],"actors":["Sylvester Stallone"],"genres":["Comedy","Romance","Family"],"completedDate":"2011-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/38317"},{"id":"322682678021597772","title":"Zoolander","status":"Completed","score":5,"releaseYear":2001,"runtimeMinutes":89,"directors":["Ben Stiller"],"actors":["Owen Wilson","James Marsden","Billy Zane","Alexander Skarsgård","Christian Slater","Winona Ryder","Milla Jovovich","Patton Oswalt","Natalie Portman","Stephen Dorff"],"genres":["Comedy"],"completedDate":"2004-05-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/9398"},{"id":"322682678022378060","title":"101 Dalmatians","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":1961,"runtimeMinutes":79,"directors":["Hamilton Luske","Wolfgang Reitherman","Clyde Geronimi"],"actors":["Helene Stanley","Cate Bauer","Betty Lou Gerson"],"genres":["Adventure","Animation","Comedy","Family"],"completedDate":"1996-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/12230"},{"id":"87a03f83-181b-47c8-93f4-d56624a82b4d","title":"365 Days","originalTitle":"365 dni","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2020,"runtimeMinutes":114,"directors":["Barbara Białowąs","Tomasz Mandes"],"actors":["Michele Morrone"],"genres":["Romance","Drama","Crime"],"completedDate":"2024-11-12","updatedDate":"2024-11-17","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/664413"},{"id":"322682678022439500","title":"A Charlie Brown Christmas","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":1965,"runtimeMinutes":25,"directors":["Bill Melendez"],"genres":["Animation","Family","Comedy","TV Movie"],"completedDate":"1997-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/13187"},{"id":"322682678021381708","title":"A Touch of Zen","originalTitle":"俠女","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":1970,"runtimeMinutes":180,"directors":["King Hu"],"actors":["Jackie Chan"],"genres":["Action","Adventure","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"2014-12-16","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Innocuous and rather juvenile. Also insanely long action scenes..","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/44154"},{"id":"322682678022391372","title":"Aladdin and the King of Thieves","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":1996,"runtimeMinutes":81,"directors":["Tad Stones"],"actors":["John Rhys-Davies","Robin Williams","Gilbert Gottfried","Jim Cummings","Frank Welker","Jerry Orbach","CCH Pounder","Scott Weinger"],"genres":["Adventure","Animation","Family"],"completedDate":"1996-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/11238"},{"id":"322682678021330508","title":"American Sniper","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2014,"runtimeMinutes":133,"directors":["Clint Eastwood"],"actors":["Kyle Gallner","Bradley Cooper","Clint Eastwood"],"genres":["War","Action"],"completedDate":"2015-07-25","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Blindgly patriotic and a poor depiction of true war.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/190859"},{"id":"322682678021450316","title":"An Affair to Remember","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":1957,"runtimeMinutes":111,"directors":["Leo McCarey"],"actors":["Cary Grant","Neva Patterson","Deborah Kerr"],"genres":["Drama","Romance"],"completedDate":"2013-12-01","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Oh boy. So over the top. Not sure why the film is so casual with the fact that the two are terribly selfish and are committing an affair simply for the fun of it. I do enjoy their sly humor and romantic banter at least, however so little there exists that is clever, and I did think the ending was decent (though still sappy).\n\nAn Affair to Remember is terribly melodramatic. First of all I don't approve of the self-aggrandized premise that they simply meet because Cary Grant finds Deborah Kerr the only beautiful one on the ship. And oh my god the Gary Stu-ing is unbelievable; so is the sappy strings and the melodramatic overacting which is common of its time. No I don't believe a couple can fall in love in a few days for the rest of their lives. It's never been the case in history; they're called flings, infatuations, whatever; you know so little about the person there isn't enough to fall in love with.\n\nThen the melodramatic plot twist, shoving its already poorly built romance into ruins by the most cliche event. I would be fine with all these cliches if An Affair to Remember wasn't so theatrical in its execution, i.e., Deborah Kerr lamenting in torment as she has a nightmare while in the hospital because she's unable to meet Grant, and most of the last quarter of the film is simply useless. It would have done better to simply cut off until the climax instead of taking so long as filler.\n\nThe obvious voice dubbing and backdrops don't age well (and argubly, neither does Cary Grant or Deborah Kerr's beauty).","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/8356"},{"id":"322682678022397516","title":"Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2004,"runtimeMinutes":95,"directors":["Adam McKay"],"actors":["Jack Black"],"genres":["Comedy"],"completedDate":"2005-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/8699"},{"id":"322682678022431308","title":"Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":1999,"runtimeMinutes":95,"directors":["Jay Roach"],"actors":["Mike Myers"],"genres":["Comedy","Adventure","Crime"],"completedDate":"2001-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/817"},{"id":"5586812c-9310-4d36-a1c4-1517fed231c3","title":"Babygirl","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2024,"runtimeMinutes":115,"directors":["Halina Reijn"],"actors":["Nicole Kidman"],"genres":["Romance","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2025-04-25","updatedDate":"2025-05-01","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1097549"},{"id":"322682678022428236","title":"Back to the Future Part II","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":1989,"runtimeMinutes":108,"directors":["Robert Zemeckis"],"actors":["Elisabeth Shue","Christopher Lloyd","Billy Zane","Elijah Wood","Crispin Glover","Michael J. 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Jordan","Angela Bassett","Stan Lee","Lupita Nyong'o","Chadwick Boseman","Martin Freeman","Forest Whitaker","Andy Serkis","Danai Gurira"],"genres":["Action","Adventure","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2018-05-09","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Always found it contrived that the most technologically advanced civilization is also one of the most politically avert (as in a child). It's an aristocracy equipped with tribal weapons rather than a modern day meritocracy and more futuristic weapons. I like the focus on amazoness. And more politically as a film, that it focuses on ethnic minorities and females.\n\nToo many plotholes that make it a mystery of a gimmick. Are they still technologically advancing? If so and even if not, why does it not affect their culture similar to it has affected ours? Where's iron-man style AI? I find it worrisome that any focus on technology is about gadgets and more specifically, weapons. Any realistic scenario would have this socially frowned upon.\n\nForeign aid is too simple to argue here.\n\nWhat's up with the flower? It's like a drug. And even though they killed the usurper (who was rightful), they ended up taking his policy, so his plan worked all along.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/284054"},{"id":"322682678022444620","title":"Blade: Trinity","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2004,"runtimeMinutes":113,"directors":["David S. Goyer"],"actors":["Ryan Reynolds"],"genres":["Action","Horror","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2004-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/36648"},{"id":"322682678022455884","title":"Blades of Glory","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2007,"runtimeMinutes":93,"directors":["Will Speck","Josh Gordon"],"actors":["William Fichtner","Fiona Gubelmann","Will Arnett","William Daniels","Jenna Fischer","Will Ferrell","Luke Wilson","Kyle Bornheimer","Katharine Towne","Rob Corddry"],"genres":["Comedy"],"completedDate":"2007-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/9955"},{"id":"322682678022434380","title":"Bruce Almighty","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2003,"runtimeMinutes":101,"directors":["Tom Shadyac"],"actors":["Morgan Freeman"],"genres":["Fantasy","Comedy"],"completedDate":"2003-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/310"},{"id":"322682678020444748","title":"Captain America: Civil War","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2016,"runtimeMinutes":147,"directors":["Joe Russo","Anthony Russo"],"actors":["Tom Holland","Scarlett Johansson","Robert Downey Jr."],"genres":["Adventure","Action","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2017-10-26","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"The entire plot is loosely coherent, just enough to string along fight scene after fight scene, as if the narrative was only built after imaging key flashy scenes they'd like in the film. Everyone is totally irrational, as if this can all happen in such a streamlined way: rogue terrorist wreaking havoc, drama among father and son, everyone having the exact same level of super-human physicality to not absolutely destroy one another, flash moves by everyone, that Iron Man would just immediately attack the Winter Soldier after seeing a simple video tape by a rogue villain (any intelligent person would sort it out first, and also prioritize: get the terrorist first), Captain America hamfistedly making a bunch of memories to recollect as fun stories with Winter Soldier (it's like they have nothing in common to engage in for real conversation), all that hacky cameos to promote future films like Spider-man.\n\nI do find it to be a great production tactic that they're able to blend a large series of films together, always hinting at the next and clueing in fan favorites, while allowing each film to be relatively stand alone.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/271110"},{"id":"322682678021491276","title":"Captain America: The First Avenger","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2011,"runtimeMinutes":124,"directors":["Joe Johnston"],"actors":["Laura Haddock","Samuel L. Jackson"],"genres":["Action","Adventure","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2012-02-29","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1771"},{"id":"322682678022401612","title":"Cars","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2006,"runtimeMinutes":117,"directors":["John Lasseter"],"actors":["Tom Hanks"],"genres":["Animation","Adventure","Comedy","Family"],"completedDate":"2009-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/920"},{"id":"322682678022458956","title":"Charlie's Angels","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2000,"runtimeMinutes":98,"directors":["McG"],"actors":["Melissa McCarthy","Bill Murray","Tim Curry","Lucy Liu","Cameron Diaz","Crispin Glover","Kelly Lynch","Sam Rockwell","Luke Wilson","Matt LeBlanc"],"genres":["Action","Comedy","Adventure"],"completedDate":"2000-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/4327"},{"id":"322682678022459980","title":"Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2003,"runtimeMinutes":106,"directors":["McG"],"actors":["Bruce Willis","Robert Patrick"],"genres":["Action","Adventure","Comedy"],"completedDate":"2003-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/9471"},{"id":"322682678022423116","title":"Click","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2006,"runtimeMinutes":107,"directors":["Frank Coraci"],"actors":["Cameron Monaghan","Kate Beckinsale","Adam Sandler","Rob Schneider","Christopher Walken","Katie Cassidy","Sean Astin","Terry Crews","Jonah Hill","Julie Kavner"],"genres":["Comedy","Drama","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"2006-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/9339"},{"id":"322682678020488780","title":"Dawn of the Planet of the Apes","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2014,"runtimeMinutes":130,"directors":["Matt Reeves"],"actors":["Gary Oldman"],"genres":["Science Fiction","Action","Drama","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2017-07-27","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Very unoriginal and bland formula. Totally predictable from the get go, with the only unique aspect being it's a betrayal-love story with apes. I only wish Caesar remained as intelligent as he was in the first film. The characters are so poorly developed.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/119450"},{"id":"322682678020342348","title":"Deranged","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2012,"runtimeMinutes":78,"directors":["Neil Jones"],"genres":["Horror"],"completedDate":"2019-03-14","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Stupid plot and its progression.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/200044"},{"id":"322682678021434956","title":"Despicable Me 2","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2013,"runtimeMinutes":98,"directors":["Pierre Coffin","Chris Renaud"],"actors":["Steve Carell","Miranda Cosgrove","Kristen Wiig","Kristen Schaal","Nasim Pedrad","Ken Jeong","Casey Simpson","Benjamin Bratt","Moisés Arias","Debi Derryberry"],"genres":["Animation","Comedy","Family","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2013-12-28","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Brainless comedy and generic children's setup with an unengaging plot. Same flaws come with its demographic, e.g., the quality and development of its story, cast, and silly humor. Steve Caroll's accent feels too artificial as well. There's too little tension in the story and its story is too incohesive in dealing with its romance and its ovarching plot.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/93456"},{"id":"322682678021256780","title":"Doctor Strange","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2016,"runtimeMinutes":115,"directors":["Scott Derrickson"],"actors":["Chris Hemsworth","Mads Mikkelsen"],"genres":["Fantasy","Adventure","Action"],"completedDate":"2017-01-27","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Generic setup. Characters are all stereotypical. The special effects are clearly high budget, but the creativity in them is campy at best. If I wanted to see real special effects imagined up to emulate magic, I'd much prefer low-budget 90s work by David Fincher. And why do the magic battles go so fist-a-cuffs with just a little magic more so than aerial and long-range battles? Generic magic insignia and a terrible overarching 'cosmic' conflict.Of course Dormamu is humanoid.. Even the possibility of Dormamu vs Doctor Strange's steadfastness is unlikely. Doctor Strange is at most 40 years old. It is easy to make such a man go delirious against a cosmic entity of billions year wisdom in, say, at most a year..!\n\nAs with all of these super hero films, the script is just so banal. 'fires of his youth', good god, these phrases are just so awful.\n\nI like the concept of battling while a spell was running reverse time though. And the concept of magic as a program, though not original here, is still cool to continue thinking about.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/284052"},{"id":"322682678020171340","title":"Don't Breathe 2","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2021,"runtimeMinutes":98,"directors":["Rodo Sayagues"],"actors":["Stephen Lang","Brendan Sexton III","Fiona O'Shaughnessy","Christian Zagia","Stephanie Arcila"],"genres":["Thriller","Horror"],"completedDate":"2021-09-05","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/482373"},{"id":"322682678975400524","title":"Dumb & Dumber","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":1994,"runtimeMinutes":107,"directors":["Peter Farrelly"],"actors":["Jim Carrey","Lauren Holly","Victoria Rowell","Lin Shaye","Zen Gesner","Lisa Stothard","Fred Stoller","Jeff Daniels","Teri Garr","Nancy Farrelly"],"genres":["Comedy"],"completedDate":"2000-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/8467"},{"id":"322682678975399500","title":"Dumb & Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2003,"runtimeMinutes":85,"directors":["Troy Miller"],"actors":["Rachel Nichols","William Lee Scott","Eugene Levy","Shia LaBeouf","Luis Guzmán","Mimi Rogers","Derek Richardson","Lin Shaye","Bob Saget","Josh Braaten"],"genres":["Comedy"],"completedDate":"2003-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/10152"},{"id":"322682678022419020","title":"EuroTrip","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2004,"runtimeMinutes":92,"directors":["Jeff Schaffer","David Mandel","Alec Berg"],"actors":["Matt Damon"],"genres":["Comedy"],"completedDate":"2004-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/9352"},{"id":"9f6b12ce-032b-4226-9dc2-d1ac4de9ef75","title":"Fall","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2022,"runtimeMinutes":107,"directors":["Scott Mann"],"actors":["Jeffrey Dean Morgan","Grace Caroline Currey","Virginia Gardner","Mason Gooding"],"genres":["Thriller"],"completedDate":"2022-11-25","updatedDate":"2022-11-26","notes":"Boring story.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/985939"},{"id":"322682678975404620","title":"Fantastic Four","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2006,"completedDate":"2005-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/309655"},{"id":"322682678020163148","title":"Fear Street Part 1: 1994","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2020,"runtimeMinutes":107,"directors":["Leigh Janiak"],"actors":["Olivia Scott Welch","Emily Brobst","Kiana Madeira","Gillian Jacobs","Benjamin Flores Jr.","Charlene Amoia","Jordana Spiro","Maya Hawke","Fred Hechinger","Ashley Zukerman"],"genres":["Horror","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2021-09-18","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Lots of horror tropes, especially jumpscares. It's loud about its horror. You rarely have a chance to follow character development or any other part of story to build tension before there's another jumpscare thrown at your face or a 90s soundtrack. It's not even campy to be entertaining. It's a less edgy and cinematic Scream.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/591273"},{"id":"322682678021334604","title":"Fifty Shades of Grey","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2015,"runtimeMinutes":125,"directors":["Sam Taylor-Johnson"],"actors":["Jennifer Ehle"],"genres":["Drama","Romance","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2015-03-21","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/216015"},{"id":"322682678022383180","title":"For Your Eyes Only","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":1981,"runtimeMinutes":128,"directors":["John Glen"],"actors":["Carole Bouquet","Charles Dance","Lois Maxwell","Roger Moore","Lynn-Holly Johnson","Sheena Easton","Chaim Topol","Cassandra Harris"],"genres":["Adventure","Action","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2000-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/699"},{"id":"322682678020399692","title":"Friday the 13th","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":1980,"runtimeMinutes":95,"directors":["Sean S. Cunningham"],"actors":["Kevin Bacon","Robbi Morgan","Peter Brouwer"],"genres":["Horror"],"completedDate":"2018-07-07","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I like the addition of a modern omen-maker. Really boring though. No real origin. Just lots of deaths and sex. I liked the reveal. But it's tropey and just a copy of Psycho. It's also a little ridiculous just how in Halloween the soundtrack is very minimalistic and the heroine constantly knocks out the slasher but never finishes the job.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/4488"},{"id":"322682678022398540","title":"Ghostbusters","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":1984,"runtimeMinutes":105,"directors":["Ivan Reitman"],"actors":["Sigourney Weaver"],"genres":["Comedy","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"2011-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/620"},{"id":"322682678975411788","title":"Ghostrider","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2007,"runtimeMinutes":89,"genres":["Documentary"],"completedDate":"2007-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/35860"},{"id":"322682678020232780","title":"Godzilla: King of the Monsters","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2019,"runtimeMinutes":132,"directors":["Michael Dougherty"],"actors":["Millie Bobby Brown"],"genres":["Science Fiction","Action"],"completedDate":"2020-11-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I don't care at all for the characters and the plot is just terrible. Even the CGI was boring to be honest. Nothing in the modern CGI holds well compared to Shin Godzilla. All the monster battles cut to the humans sucked my enjoyment of the movie.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/373571"},{"id":"322682678022438476","title":"Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2000,"runtimeMinutes":51,"directors":["Phil Roman"],"actors":["Scott McNeil"],"genres":["Animation","Family","Comedy","Fantasy","TV Movie"],"completedDate":"2000-11-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/51531"},{"id":"322682678022347340","title":"Hancock","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2008,"runtimeMinutes":92,"directors":["Peter Berg"],"actors":["Charlize Theron"],"genres":["Fantasy","Action"],"completedDate":"2008-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/8960"},{"id":"322682678022415948","title":"Hannibal","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2001,"runtimeMinutes":131,"directors":["Ridley Scott"],"actors":["Gary 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Day"],"genres":["Comedy","Crime"],"completedDate":"2011-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/51540"},{"id":"322682678022345292","title":"Hostel","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2006,"runtimeMinutes":94,"directors":["Eli Roth"],"actors":["Jay Hernandez","Ľubomír Bukový","Sandy Style","Barbara Nedeljáková","Eli Roth","Derek Richardson","Jana Kadeřábková","Klara Smetanova","Rick Hoffman","Josef Bradna"],"genres":["Horror"],"completedDate":"2005-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1690"},{"id":"322682678020185676","title":"I Care A Lot","originalTitle":"I Care a Lot","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2021,"runtimeMinutes":119,"directors":["J Blakeson"],"actors":["Rosamund Pike"],"genres":["Crime","Thriller","Drama","Comedy"],"completedDate":"2021-06-25","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Two con artists somehow outsmarting Russian ex-mafia? Somehow the mafia are incompetent at saving a women from a retirement facility. And Marla and Fran cannot only both escape their assassination but sneak into their headquarters and abduct their boss. What is this weird American fetishism? And why is the conclusion to have the villain Rosamund Pikes win out with not only the mafia boss admitting defeat but offering her a job?","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/601666"},{"id":"322682678022437452","title":"I, Robot","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2004,"runtimeMinutes":115,"directors":["Alex Proyas"],"actors":["Will Smith","Alan Tudyk","Bridget Moynahan","Shia LaBeouf","Chi McBride","James Cromwell","Emily Tennant","Fiona Hogan","Bruce Greenwood"],"genres":["Action","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2005-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/2048"},{"id":"322682678022472268","title":"Ice Age: The Meltdown","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2006,"runtimeMinutes":91,"directors":["Carlos Saldanha"],"actors":["Laura Marano","Alan Tudyk","Will Arnett","Queen Latifah","Ariel Winter","John Leguizamo","Josh Peck","Stephen Root","Debi Derryberry","Ray Romano"],"genres":["Animation","Family","Comedy","Adventure"],"completedDate":"2007-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/950"},{"id":"322682678022486604","title":"Idiocracy","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2006,"runtimeMinutes":85,"directors":["Mike Judge"],"actors":["Justin Long","Thomas Haden Church","Sara Rue","Maya Rudolph","Stephen Root","Terry Crews","Luke Wilson","Tom Kenny","David Herman","Caitlin Wehrle"],"genres":["Comedy","Science Fiction","Adventure","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2009-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/7512"},{"id":"322682678022272588","title":"Iron Man","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2008,"runtimeMinutes":126,"directors":["Jon Favreau"],"actors":["Robert Downey Jr.","Samuel L. Jackson"],"genres":["Action","Science Fiction","Adventure"],"completedDate":"2007-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1726"},{"id":"322682678022271564","title":"Iron Man 2","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2010,"runtimeMinutes":124,"directors":["Jon Favreau"],"actors":["Scarlett Johansson","Robert Downey Jr.","Samuel L. Jackson"],"genres":["Adventure","Action","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2010-09-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/10138"},{"id":"322682678022384204","title":"Jaws 2","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":1978,"runtimeMinutes":117,"directors":["Jeannot Szwarc"],"actors":["Roy Scheider","Lorraine Gary","Martha Swatek","Keith Gordon","John Dukakis"],"genres":["Horror","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2001-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/579"},{"id":"322682678020409932","title":"Jigsaw","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2018,"runtimeMinutes":59,"directors":["Daniel Sloss"],"genres":["Comedy","Documentary"],"completedDate":"2018-06-23","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I only watch this to saw people scream hilariously and to see all the various traps. I like the traps because they're sensible: they should actually immediately chain through without plot conveniences and have no obvious solutions.\n\nImmediate plot hole from the start: why couldn't they just put the chains where the chainsaw is to see if the chain saws can cut it? if they don't, it would just dull the blades anyways. Next trap room: how did the chains immediately get released given a syringe is plunged in? How do doors get closed automatically to lock them in, as it assumes they're all in at once? Next trap room: Didn't they learn the last time to look at doors to see if things are reconjigured? Why didn't the other guys pull the lever for the guy who's stuck, and how did Jigsaw get the handle to be perfectly so far away to strain the guy's leg? Next reveal: they just decided to recask John Cramer, and it ends up being the exact person they're looking for.\n\nEnding: very predictable. It was completely natural that the two timelines were very much not in sync. The problem with this is the many plot holes. For example, rigor mortis and age of death in released victims, and the liquid blood and other assortments at the barn. The very reason why he survived as a victim is completely ridiculous..","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/781414"},{"id":"322682678020348492","title":"Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2018,"runtimeMinutes":140,"directors":["Kim Jee-woon"],"actors":["Park Byung-eun","Han Yeri","Jung Woo-sung","Choi Min-ho","Han Hyo-joo","Kim Moo-yul","Gang Dong-won","Park Joo-hee","Kim Pub-lae","Heo Joon-ho"],"genres":["Science Fiction","Action","Thriller","Drama"],"completedDate":"2019-02-28","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/467824"},{"id":"322682678021456460","title":"Joe Versus the Volcano","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":1990,"runtimeMinutes":102,"directors":["John Patrick Shanley"],"actors":["Tom Hanks"],"genres":["Comedy","Romance","Adventure"],"completedDate":"2013-11-28","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Gimmicky premise that takes far far too long for its setup. A lot of the comedy is cheap Hollywood slapstick humor and overexaggerated acting with archetypal roles. There are a few chance occasions in the film to really bring out brilliant moments but it's too often overcasted by the banal and its campy production values. Still gotta love all those priceless moments, such as the total flippantness Tom Hanks' character perceives his situation stranded on a raft in the ocean or the whole marriage thing.\n\nTo be honest the only reason I watched this is because Tom Hanks is awesome, and I have the biggest middle school boy crush on Meg Ryan. She has the cutest little smile with her eyes crinkled up the way they are, and I love her front two teeth slightly jutting out like that. Also her typecast is purely lovable and I like all the things she adds to make it feel so genuine, e.g., her inability to speak when flustered, her gasps, her sarcasm, etc.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/2565"},{"id":"37401853-bfa9-43fc-a18e-45fd68eec346","title":"John Wick: Chapter 4","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2023,"runtimeMinutes":170,"directors":["Chad Stahelski"],"actors":["Keanu Reeves","Bill Skarsgård"],"genres":["Action","Thriller","Crime"],"completedDate":"2023-05-28","updatedDate":"2023-06-02","notes":"This series went downhill. It has too superficial a storyline to keep everything connected. Too many cameos and guest stars per film and too little characterization.\n\nMaybe it's just me watching at this moment, but I noticed some fight scenes seem way too fake and not that good. In particular, John looks like an old man making bad swings, does not have much body movement, and doesn't make authentic looking hits anymore.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/603692"},{"id":"322682678021322316","title":"Jurassic World","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2015,"runtimeMinutes":124,"directors":["Colin Trevorrow"],"actors":["Tait Fletcher","Vincent D'Onofrio","Lauren Lapkus","Bryce Dallas Howard","Chris Pratt","Nick Robinson","Katherine Elizabeth McGrath","Judy Greer","BD Wong","Ty Simpkins"],"genres":["Adventure","Science Fiction","Thriller","Action"],"completedDate":"2015-10-14","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Fun but generic.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/135397"},{"id":"94665add-7323-43bd-9dc5-8ec5a7967d30","title":"Justice League vs. Teen Titans","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2016,"runtimeMinutes":78,"directors":["Sam Liu"],"actors":["Jon Bernthal"],"genres":["Science Fiction","Action","Animation"],"completedDate":"2023-07-21","updatedDate":"2023-10-08","notes":"God I hate Damian Wayne so much. This sums up my high-level opinion, outside of the unlikeability about Damian specifically as a character:\n\n> I don’t think that any of the additions to the Batfamily from the mid-2000s onward like post-resurrection Jason and Damian should exist. They’ve done more harm to the Batfamily than good in my opinion and I think they should have stuck with the 90s-early 2000s lineup: Dick as Nightwing, Barbara as Oracle, Tim as Robin, Cass as Batgirl, plus Huntress, Spoiler, and Azrael on the side. ([source](https://www.reddit.com/r/batman/comments/11wdeo6/damian_wayne_is_genuinely_overhated_anyone_who/jcxs0oe))","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/379291"},{"id":"322682678022294092","title":"Kill Bill: Vol. 1","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2003,"runtimeMinutes":111,"directors":["Quentin Tarantino"],"actors":["Uma Thurman","Lucy Liu","Michael Madsen","Jun Kunimura","David Carradine","Daryl Hannah","Chiaki Kuriyama","Hikaru Midorikawa","Yuki Kazamatsuri","Vivica A. Fox"],"genres":["Action","Crime"],"completedDate":"2006-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/24"},{"id":"322682678022322764","title":"Kill Bill: Vol. 2","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2004,"runtimeMinutes":136,"directors":["Quentin Tarantino"],"actors":["Samuel L. Jackson"],"genres":["Action","Crime","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2006-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/393"},{"id":"322682678022416972","title":"Knocked Up","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2007,"runtimeMinutes":129,"directors":["Judd Apatow"],"actors":["Iris Apatow","Stormy Daniels","Paul Rudd","Steve Carell","Leslie Mann","Kristen Wiig","Eva Mendes","Alan Tudyk","Katherine Heigl","James Franco"],"genres":["Comedy","Romance","Drama"],"completedDate":"2009-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/4964"},{"id":"322682678022467148","title":"Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life","originalTitle":"Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2003,"runtimeMinutes":117,"directors":["Jan de Bont"],"actors":["Angelina Jolie"],"genres":["Adventure","Action","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"2003-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1996"},{"id":"322682678022452812","title":"Lara Croft: Tomb Raider","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2001,"runtimeMinutes":100,"directors":["Simon West"],"actors":["Angelina Jolie"],"genres":["Adventure","Action","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"2001-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1995"},{"id":"322682678020407884","title":"Leatherface","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2017,"runtimeMinutes":88,"directors":["Alexandre Bustillo","Julien Maury"],"actors":["Lili Taylor","Finn Jones","Stephen Dorff","Lorina Kamburova","Vanessa Grasse","Jessica Madsen","Dimo Alexiev","Sam Strike"],"genres":["Horror","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2018-06-26","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I liked the reversal in reveleaing who Jed Sawyer was actually. Not really a horror like Texas Chainsaw so actually a little disappointed. They were being as purposefully obscene as possible in the film. Little character growth in the whole film. The degeneration in Jed. The betrayal. The hurried pacing. The degeneracy in the sherriff.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/300665"},{"id":"322682678022447692","title":"Liar Liar","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":1997,"runtimeMinutes":86,"directors":["Tom Shadyac"],"actors":["Jim Carrey","Krista Allen","Cary Elwes","Jennifer Tilly","Amanda Donohoe","Swoosie Kurtz","Maura Tierney","Sara Paxton","Randall 'Tex' Cobb","Mitchell Ryan"],"genres":["Comedy","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"2000-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1624"},{"id":"322682678022468172","title":"Little Fockers","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2010,"runtimeMinutes":98,"directors":["Paul Weitz"],"actors":["Owen Wilson","Teri Polo","Harvey Keitel","Robert De Niro","Jessica Alba","Blythe Danner","Kevin Hart","Ben Stiller","Dustin Hoffman","Jordan Peele"],"genres":["Comedy","Romance"],"completedDate":"2010-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/39451"},{"id":"322682678021467724","title":"Lolita","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":1962,"runtimeMinutes":154,"directors":["Stanley Kubrick"],"actors":["Peter Sellers","Sue Lyon","Lois Maxwell","Shelley Winters","James Mason"],"genres":["Drama"],"completedDate":"2013-11-24","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Kubrick's \"Lolita\" is a shameful adaptation. For censorship reasons or any, Kubrick's choice of direction is so significantly different that it saps away of the novel's passion. As a result, many of the events simply make little sense; why Kubrick didn't attempt this in first person narrative beats me. Without this, you don't understand the context of many events occuring in the film, e.g., all the women after him, or even the scene in which he falls in love at first sight. Humbert's lust and his later bitter pain are hardly conveyed.\n\nThe storyline is truncated with significant alterations to suit the short time length, and for this novel especially, it makes it unsuitable to give the work any justice. For instance, Kubrick's Lolita leaves out the development prior to which Humbert falls in love with Lolita. This (as well as the ornate prose) founds his hebephilia on a much more understood basis. Where's his characterization, if any, in the film? Or when Humbert at one point in the film literally addresses the audience in third person past tense, although there was no prior indication that the film is done as a chronicle. Or when the man lies to pretend he would want to pay the funeral expenses and Humbert accepts the offer as a brilliant joke.\n\nI'm hardly a fan of many reinterpretations. While I'm fine with the idea (it's a novel adaptation after all; you'll need to do so in order to be successful), these ones in particular are plainly awful. Humbert is set off less as the passionate man he was in the novel, and so this stages Lolita as an entirely different story where the events simply happen \"because they do\". Neither is Quilty someone Lo would fall for. She is also literally named Lolita, removing the significance held when it's Humbert's obsessive calling and his own invention. Or when Kubrick removes Lolita's love for only maturer men and not toying with high school boys.\n\nQuilty is no longer the icy enigma that later causes such a gloroiusly anticlimactic ending. Instead, he is some stupendously farcical individual taking so much of the stage when he shouldn't, like a direct joke from the director to the audience, pausing the film for a short moment and saying, \"Hey! Look at me! Don't forget this film is all it is!\". Stop looking like frickin' Woody Allen and stuttering so often in typical Sellers' brash, slapstick acting style. Every time I see Peter Sellers here I see Kubrick trying to add outlandishly stupid 4th wall humor--something which has absolutely no place in a tragicomedy and of which employs literally zero of this form of humor in the novel.\n\nI do like the fact that Kubrick attempts to keep viewers piqued because of his concern that the latter half of Lolita (the novel) starts to try readers' patience. But \"attempts\" are all that's praiseworthy of the feat. While I liked the \"state police convention\" gag, the rest are so poorly shameful: the cot? omg Kubrick humor pls; the Seller cameos? facepalms eveywhere; the flirting before their first time? Humbert crying at the end? Utterly embarrassing.\n\nLolita is played by too mature-looking an actress, and someone surely the true Humbert would not approve of. Her developed features are more Mona than Lola, or at least the most mature form of Lolita before she dashes away with Quilty. While I think the actress is coquettish enough to play the role, it defeats the purpose when she plays and acts like a girl two to three years over her prescribed age (she acts like she's 14-15). Also her sassiness in the second half is simply overbearing, and her end appearance has literally nothing resembling the decrepitness of a 17 year old pregnant woman living in the outskirts of some shitty town, e.g., hard blemished skin, tiresome eyes, darker sagged hues.\n\nIn short, the problems:\n1. Censorship causing Lolita to be significantly older and the story less promiscuous, which wipes away all absurd yet grotesque comedy, and sapping away all of Lolita (the novel)'s passion. Where's the luscious ravings, or all the ironic projecting, or the darker, depthful tone?\n2. Short time length leading to terribly truncated storyline (c.f. some Dickens saga adaptations for good ones, one reason being that they split up the story into several 3 hour films to not face this problem; also their more academic sponsors led to less Hollywood-esque stunts/restrictions)\n3. Poorly made reinterpretations and decisions by Kubrick of what to truncate (e.g., losing out the monologues, all the ridicuously dumb Quilty cameos)..\n4. Ill-placed acting by Peter Sellers and Sue Lyon.\n5. Mediocre soundtrack, several times played at the wrong times. When Humbert tries to take away Lolita at the end of the film and proposes to her, vastly sentimental music plays in the background and I simply couldn't keep my eyes open to watch in embarassment. It's like watching two grown men trying to fuck by smashing their dicks together. (Sound stupid? Then you know my feelings on that scene.)\n\nWhat can I praise? I guess the camera shots, how Lolita acts so casually and risque at times, several scenes in the first half. James Mason's Humbert Humbert is fine, but he's way way too old (he should be mid-30's, not fucking 55-going-on-dinosaur=ages).","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/802"},{"id":"322682678022430284","title":"Madagascar","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2005,"runtimeMinutes":86,"directors":["Eric Darnell","Tom McGrath"],"actors":["Jada Pinkett Smith","Chris Rock","Ben Stiller","Cedric the Entertainer","Bob Saget","Tom McGrath","David Schwimmer","Eric Darnell","John DiMaggio","Andy Richter"],"genres":["Adventure","Animation","Comedy","Family"],"completedDate":"2005-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/953"},{"id":"322682678020146764","title":"Matrix 4: Resurrections","status":"Completed","score":4,"runtimeMinutes":148,"directors":["Lana Wachowski"],"actors":["Keanu Reeves","Jessica Henwick","Carrie-Anne Moss","Priyanka Chopra Jonas","Jada Pinkett Smith","Christina Ricci","Lambert Wilson","Jonathan Groff","Joshua Grothe","Yahya Abdul-Mateen II"],"genres":["Science Fiction","Action","Adventure"],"completedDate":"2021-12-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Boy what a cringey script. Setting up Thomas Anderson as a top video game designer who came up with the Matrix within the Matrix is so on-the-nose. Another example of being on-the-nose: all the flashback references when recasting folks like Morpheus and Agent Smith.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/624860"},{"id":"322682678022451788","title":"Me, Myself & Irene","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2000,"runtimeMinutes":117,"directors":["Peter Farrelly","Bobby Farrelly"],"actors":["Jim Carrey","Shannon Whirry","Renée Zellweger","Natassia Malthe","Robert Forster","Lin Shaye","Chris Cooper","Zen Gesner","Traylor Howard","Anthony Anderson"],"genres":["Comedy"],"completedDate":"2000-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/2123"},{"id":"322682678022456908","title":"Meet the Fockers","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2004,"runtimeMinutes":115,"directors":["Jay Roach"],"actors":["Owen Wilson","Teri Polo","Robert De Niro","Blythe Danner","Alanna Ubach","Ben Stiller","Tim Blake Nelson","Dustin Hoffman","J.P. Manoux","Barbra Streisand"],"genres":["Comedy","Romance"],"completedDate":"2007-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/693"},{"id":"322682678022464076","title":"Meet the Parents","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2000,"runtimeMinutes":108,"directors":["Jay Roach"],"actors":["Owen Wilson","Teri Polo","Robert De Niro","Blythe Danner","Ben Stiller","Russell Hornsby","Jon Abrahams","Judah Friedlander","Kali Rocha","Spencer Breslin"],"genres":["Comedy","Romance"],"completedDate":"2007-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1597"},{"id":"322682678022299212","title":"Men in Black 3","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2012,"runtimeMinutes":106,"directors":["Barry Sonnenfeld"],"actors":["Will Smith","Josh Brolin","Jada Pinkett Smith","Tommy Lee Jones","Emma Thompson","Alice Eve","Will Arnett","Bill Hader","Nicole Scherzinger","Mike Colter"],"genres":["Action","Comedy","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2012-11-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/41154"},{"id":"322682678022449740","title":"Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":1995,"runtimeMinutes":96,"directors":["Bryan Spicer"],"actors":["Gabrielle Fitzpatrick","Amy Jo Johnson","Jason David Frank"],"genres":["Action","Adventure","Science Fiction","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"1998-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/9070"},{"id":"322682678020203084","title":"Mortal Kombat","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2021,"runtimeMinutes":110,"directors":["Simon McQuoid"],"actors":["Hiroyuki Sanada","Nathan Jones","Mehcad Brooks","Chin Han","Jessica McNamee","Tadanobu Asano","Angus Sampson","Ludi Lin","Laura Brent","Lewis Tan"],"genres":["Action","Fantasy","Adventure"],"completedDate":"2021-05-21","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Pacing is atrocious. Fights are little eyerolling with their choreography and Hollywood cuts. And why the plot is setup as it is makes no sense. The transition from the low point to the climax explains nothing how they suddenly win all their fights.\n\nCast-wise, Kano is basically a jackass version of Johnny Cage in this movie, with the quips, fourth walling, and sexual tension. And Cole is playing as a young Liu Kang but with Hasashi and American origins. Cole's power is shitty though: it's literal version of plot armor. Accounting for this, I think the cast composition is okay as it gives slightly different backgrounds and personalities to what we would otherwise expect. I also like the appearance of less-core Mortal Kombat heroes like Kung Lao, Nitara, Reiko, and Kabal.\n\nAll the iconic game references. Like the leg sweep spam. Kung Lao's fatality.\n\nSemi-hilarious that Jax gets the worst power: slightly better tech. The individual fight setups.\n\nI miss the amazing music from the 1995 film. The electronic music really defines the series. The special effects are also kind of budget and feel fairly fake at times.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/460465"},{"id":"322682678022413900","title":"Mr. & Mrs. Smith","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2005,"runtimeMinutes":120,"directors":["Doug Liman"],"actors":["Brad Pitt","Angelina Jolie"],"genres":["Action","Comedy","Drama","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2005-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/787"},{"id":"322682678022470220","title":"Mr. Deeds","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2002,"runtimeMinutes":97,"directors":["Steven Brill"],"actors":["Steve Buscemi","Adam Sandler","Winona Ryder","Rob Schneider","Jared Harris","Peter Gallagher","Erick Avari","J.B. Smoove","John Turturro","Conchata Ferrell"],"genres":["Comedy","Romance"],"completedDate":"2002-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/2022"},{"id":"8a326e55-f80e-46cf-b58e-5c603c1907e7","title":"Mufasa: The Lion King","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2024,"runtimeMinutes":118,"directors":["Barry Jenkins"],"actors":["Mads Mikkelsen"],"genres":["Adventure","Family","Animation"],"completedDate":"2025-02-16","updatedDate":"2025-02-16","notes":"Animation is bad. The realism does not work for the style of storytelling and human expression. It is jarring.\n\nThe writing is quite bad. The betrayal with the brother and the white lion pack accepting him is funny.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/762509"},{"id":"322682678022424140","title":"National Treasure","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2004,"runtimeMinutes":131,"directors":["Jon Turteltaub"],"actors":["Nicolas Cage"],"genres":["Adventure","Action","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2004-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/2059"},{"id":"322682678022454860","title":"Night at the Museum","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2006,"runtimeMinutes":108,"directors":["Shawn Levy"],"actors":["Paul Rudd","Carla Gugino","Owen Wilson","Rami Malek","Robin Williams","Kim Raver","Ben Stiller","Brad Garrett","Jake Cherry","Steve Coogan"],"genres":["Fantasy","Family","Comedy"],"completedDate":"2006-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1593"},{"id":"322682678022385228","title":"Octopussy","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":1983,"runtimeMinutes":131,"directors":["John Glen"],"actors":["Lois Maxwell","Roger Moore","Maud Adams","Ingrid Pitt","Kabir Bedi","Joni Flynn"],"genres":["Adventure","Action","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2002-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/700"},{"id":"322682678022414924","title":"On the Road","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2012,"runtimeMinutes":142,"directors":["Walter Salles"],"actors":["Kristen Stewart","Amy Adams","Kirsten Dunst","Steve Buscemi","Alice Braga","Viggo Mortensen","Elisabeth Moss","Tom Sturridge","Sam Riley","Kaniehtiio Horn"],"genres":["Adventure","Drama"],"completedDate":"2012-09-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/83770"},{"id":"322682678022389324","title":"Osmosis Jones","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2001,"runtimeMinutes":95,"directors":["Peter Farrelly","Bobby Farrelly"],"actors":["Bill Murray","Laurence Fishburne","Chris Elliott","Chris Rock","Brandy Norwood","Mickie McGowan","David Hyde Pierce","William Shatner","Molly Shannon"],"genres":["Action","Adventure","Animation","Comedy","Family","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2001-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/12610"},{"id":"322682678020490828","title":"Pacific Rim","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2013,"runtimeMinutes":131,"directors":["Guillermo del Toro"],"actors":["Idris Elba","Charlie Hunnam","Ron Perlman","Rinko Kikuchi","Max Martini","Brad William Henke","Mana Ashida","Charlie Day","Diego Klattenhoff","Sebastian Pigott"],"genres":["Action","Science Fiction","Adventure"],"completedDate":"2017-07-25","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"What Evangelion could have been in 1995 and I thank God each year it never was. Pacific Rim is what you'd imagine Hollywood, Americanized culture would do in depicting a post-apocalytpic era where they must defend against Kaiju every so often. While comparisons to NGE can be unfair, I can still say without a doubt that the culture, the undertones, the politics, the soundtrack, the characters, and not even the fights are at all like NGE. I only enjoyed this insomuch as being able to better appreciate Evangelion for what it is, and for marveling at the high budgeted Kaiju.I only wish there was less fucking drama.\n\nIt's so bland with its setup and twin brother drama. I couldn't bear this anymore than watching at 2x speedup to avoid ingratiating myself with stupidity and being comfortable in this mediocre thought process. I can't stop rolling my eyes with the way the main character struts around with his fingers holding his belt buckle.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/68726"},{"id":"322682678022409804","title":"Pineapple Express","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2008,"runtimeMinutes":112,"directors":["David Gordon Green"],"actors":["Kevin Corrigan"],"genres":["Action","Comedy","Crime"],"completedDate":"2009-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/10189"},{"id":"322682678020388428","title":"Premium Rush","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2012,"runtimeMinutes":91,"directors":["David Koepp"],"actors":["Joseph Gordon-Levitt"],"genres":["Crime","Action","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2018-07-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I like the constant thrill even if it's forced.\n\nThe skids are sickkk lol. \"Fixed gear, steel frame, no brakes\".\n\nI think what I like most is the sight of my places around New York. Loved it from Upper West Side to Central Park to Midtown to Chinatown.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/49526"},{"id":"322682678022457932","title":"Primer","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2004,"runtimeMinutes":77,"directors":["Shane Carruth"],"genres":["Science Fiction","Drama","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2009-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/14337"},{"id":"322682678022471244","title":"Rat Race","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2001,"runtimeMinutes":112,"directors":["Jerry Zucker"],"actors":["Amy Smart","Breckin Meyer","Kathy Bates","Seth Green","Colleen Camp","Whoopi Goldberg","Jon Lovitz","Julie Michaels","Lucy Lee Flippin","Rowan Atkinson"],"genres":["Adventure","Comedy"],"completedDate":"2003-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/9896"},{"id":"322682678022435404","title":"Reign of 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He's an insufferable edgelord and has Mary Sue-style strength because he's been training under the League of Assassins since birth.\n\nDamian beats Deathstroke? Oh please. Deathstroke should be stronger than all of the Teen Tians, which includes an iteration of Robin (Dick or Tim) and powerful beings like Raven. It also doesn't make sense since Nightwing beat Damian, and Deathstroke has beaten Nightwing tons of times.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/251519"},{"id":"322682678021433932","title":"Space Jam","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":1996,"runtimeMinutes":87,"directors":["Joe Pytka"],"actors":["Bill Murray","Danny DeVito","Dan Castellaneta","Brad William Henke","Dee Bradley Baker","Theresa Randle","Patricia Heaton","Frank Welker","Thom Barry","Wayne Knight"],"genres":["Family","Animation","Science Fiction","Fantasy","Comedy"],"completedDate":"1996-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Brainless comedy and generic children's setup with an unengaging plot. Same flaws come with its demographic, e.g., the quality and development of its story, cast, and silly humor. Steve Caroll's accent feels too artificial as well. There's too little tension in the story and its story is too incohesive in dealing with its romance and its ovarching plot.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/2300"},{"id":"322682678022404684","title":"Spider-Man","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2002,"runtimeMinutes":121,"directors":["Sam Raimi"],"actors":["J.K. Simmons"],"genres":["Action","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2003-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/557"},{"id":"322682678022426188","title":"Spider-Man 2","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2004,"runtimeMinutes":127,"directors":["Sam Raimi"],"actors":["J.K. 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Then a discombobulating script weaving them together.\n\nThe Hollywood pseduoscience of reverse entropy is cringey but serviceable. The worst part is the overall narrative, preceding in the first half as a set of fetch quests that don't amount to anything. Dialogue is boring, like it's back-to-back witty dialogue. The dialogue is cryptically stupid with vague one-liners or otherwise exposition.\n\nVisually, the film is great.\n\nThe whole plot thread with the women chained to her husband by a blackmail for jail is hamfisted. It makes little sense for an arms dealer who in another scene talks about having someone try to pull their balls out of their throat before they die, and then in this scene, the most gruesome thing the wife is afraid of is jail time for fraud.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/577922"},{"id":"322682678020408908","title":"Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D","status":"Completed","score":4,"runtimeMinutes":92,"directors":["John Luessenhop"],"actors":["Alexandra Daddario","Tania Raymonde","Scott Eastwood","Scott Menville","Thom Barry","Bill Moseley","Richard Riehle","Shaun Sipos","William Vail","Marilyn Burns"],"genres":["Horror","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2018-06-24","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"What a leery camera.. I like it lol. It's part of the campy fun, with girls with half-cut shirts and short-shorts, and stares at their asses. How her shirt is constantly showing her skin but never her actual nipples\n\nSo ridiculously full of plot holes and hilarity. I guess you just have to let loose and only squint at the logic to follow with the story and completely completely suspend your belief. \"Do your thing cuz.\" LOL. That's the best line in this film. A complete reversal in character.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/76617"},{"id":"322682678022411852","title":"The 40-Year-Old Virgin","originalTitle":"The 40 Year-Old Virgin","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2005,"runtimeMinutes":116,"directors":["Judd Apatow"],"actors":["Stormy Daniels","Paul Rudd","Steve Carell","Leslie Mann","Elizabeth Banks","Kat Dennings","Seth Rogen","Jenna Fischer","Kevin Hart","Mo Collins"],"genres":["Comedy","Romance"],"completedDate":"2005-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/6957"},{"id":"322682678022399564","title":"The Amazing Spider-Man","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2012,"runtimeMinutes":136,"directors":["Marc Webb"],"actors":["Emma Stone"],"genres":["Action","Adventure","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2012-09-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1930"},{"id":"322682678022392396","title":"The Big Boss","originalTitle":"唐山大兄","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":1971,"runtimeMinutes":99,"directors":["Lo Wei"],"actors":["Nora Miao","Lam Ching-Ying","Tony Liu","James Tien Chuen","Han Ying-Chieh","Bruce Lee","Marilyn Bautista","Peter Chan Lung"],"genres":["Action"],"completedDate":"2003-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/12481"},{"id":"322682678021477964","title":"The Boondock Saints","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":1999,"runtimeMinutes":108,"directors":["Troy Duffy"],"actors":["Willem Dafoe","Ron Jeremy","Norman Reedus","Kevin Chapman","Jeanna Fine","Sean Patrick Flanery","Dot-Marie Jones","Billy Connolly","Roberta Angelica"],"genres":["Action","Thriller","Crime"],"completedDate":"2003-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/8374"},{"id":"322682678022312524","title":"The Bourne Supremacy","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2004,"runtimeMinutes":108,"directors":["Paul Greengrass"],"actors":["Matt Damon"],"genres":["Action","Drama","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2005-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/2502"},{"id":"322682678022268492","title":"The Breakfast Club","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":1985,"runtimeMinutes":98,"directors":["John Hughes"],"actors":["Anthony Michael Hall"],"genres":["Comedy","Drama"],"completedDate":"2009-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/2108"},{"id":"322682678022410828","title":"The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2005,"runtimeMinutes":143,"directors":["Andrew Adamson"],"actors":["Liam Neeson"],"genres":["Adventure","Family","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"2005-09-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/411"},{"id":"322682678022466124","title":"The Forbidden Kingdom","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2008,"runtimeMinutes":104,"directors":["Rob Minkoff"],"actors":["Jackie Chan"],"genres":["Action","Adventure","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"2008-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1729"},{"id":"322682678021442124","title":"The Godfather Part III","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":1990,"runtimeMinutes":162,"directors":["Francis Ford Coppola"],"actors":["Bridget Fonda","Al Pacino","Diane Keaton","Ron Jeremy","Andy García","Talia Shire","Eli Wallach","Joe Mantegna","Simonetta Stefanelli","Rick Aviles"],"genres":["Crime","Drama","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2013-12-11","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"You'll be surprised just how bad a series can get.\n\nExtremely mediocre acting.\n\n\"I did everything to protect you from the horrors of this world.\"\n\"But you became my horror.\"\nWhat an embarassing script..\n\nPoor character progression, the biggest of which is some contrived faux-cousin romance, and little dealing with the family's relationship difficulties.\n\nWeak cast with little to support Michael or even indicate a struggle in his decisions without any advisors like Tom. Awfully unbelievable womanizer who gets everybody. Leaning very little on previous film's establishments, which sort of loses the advantage of being the crux of a trilogy. Connie having a larger role here is clearly because there's simply no one else related to Michael in the cast anymore.\n\nNo cultural follow.\n\nPoor plotting, and the screaming scene.. oh my god so bad..","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/242"},{"id":"9ca512fe-b196-4607-a5a3-6c01ca47c3eb","title":"The Grandmaster","originalTitle":"一代宗師","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2013,"runtimeMinutes":130,"directors":["Wong Kar-Wai"],"actors":["Elvis Tsui","Zhang Ziyi","Tony Leung Chiu-wai","Song Hye-kyo","Chang Chen","Zhang Jin","Zhou Xiaofei"],"genres":["Action","Drama","History"],"completedDate":"2023-04-22","updatedDate":"2023-04-22","notes":"I had no idea what was going on throughout the entire film. What a disjointed story. I mean, it's Wong Kar-wai's take on a martial arts film I suppose. But he lost his touch by now.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/44865"},{"id":"322682678021357132","title":"The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2014,"runtimeMinutes":144,"directors":["Peter Jackson"],"actors":["Benedict Cumberbatch","Thomasin McKenzie","Cate Blanchett","Luke Evans","Evangeline Lilly","Lee Pace","Hugo Weaving","Manu Bennett","Mikael Persbrandt","Richard Armitage"],"genres":["Action","Adventure","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"2015-01-22","updatedDate":"2022-08-20","notes":"Boy this is overly melodramatic with Thorin. Way too much filler.\n\nRewatched it on 2022-08-19 when Sodapoppin streamed a Hobbit-LOTR marathon.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/122917"},{"id":"322682678021377612","title":"The Imitation Game","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2014,"runtimeMinutes":113,"directors":["Morten Tyldum"],"actors":["Benedict Cumberbatch","Keira Knightley","Matthew Goode","Mark Strong","Tuppence Middleton","Charles Dance","Rory Kinnear","Matthew Beard","Alex Lawther","Jack Bannon"],"genres":["History","Drama","Thriller","War"],"completedDate":"2014-12-19","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"So dramatic and over the top. Incredibly formulaic and blockbuster, specifically with the sexuality and feminist angle.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/205596"},{"id":"322682678022469196","title":"The Jackal","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":1997,"runtimeMinutes":124,"directors":["Michael Caton-Jones"],"actors":["Jack Black","Bruce Willis","J.K. 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Cathey","Peter Riegert","Amy Yasbeck","Tim Bagley"],"genres":["Comedy","Fantasy","Crime","Romance"],"completedDate":"1998-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/854"},{"id":"322682678022473292","title":"The Mask of Zorro","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":1998,"runtimeMinutes":138,"directors":["Martin Campbell"],"actors":["Anthony Hopkins","Catherine Zeta-Jones","Antonio Banderas","Victor Rivers","Stuart Wilson","Matt Letscher","L. Q. Jones","Julieta Rosen","Paco Morayta","Tony Amendola"],"genres":["Action","Adventure"],"completedDate":"2001-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/9342"},{"id":"322682678022421068","title":"The Matrix Reloaded","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2003,"runtimeMinutes":138,"directors":["Lana Wachowski","Lilly Wachowski"],"actors":["Keanu Reeves","Monica Bellucci"],"genres":["Adventure","Action","Thriller","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2003-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/604"},{"id":"322682678021475916","title":"The Passion of the Christ","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2004,"runtimeMinutes":127,"directors":["Mel Gibson"],"actors":["Monica Bellucci"],"genres":["Drama"],"completedDate":"2005-05-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/615"},{"id":"322682678022408780","title":"The Proposal","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2009,"runtimeMinutes":108,"directors":["Anne Fletcher"],"actors":["Sandra Bullock","Ryan Reynolds"],"genres":["Comedy","Romance","Drama"],"completedDate":"2009-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/18240"},{"id":"322682678020390476","title":"The Purge","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2013,"runtimeMinutes":85,"directors":["James DeMonaco"],"actors":["Lena Headey","Ethan Hawke","Rhys Wakefield","Adelaide Kane","Alicia Vela-Bailey","Arija Bareikis","Edwin Hodge","Max Burkholder","Chris Mulkey"],"genres":["Science Fiction","Horror","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2018-07-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"It's a great concept but poorly executed. Infuriating family. The mother is pestering. Most of all, the boy is hopelessly stupid, letting people in as a 'moral compass' to the film. The girl lets in her boyfriend who just happens to try to kill the dad. So dumb.. Elitist Ivy League. Oh my god they really know how to hit my frustrations. Everyone keeps running away and not listening lol.\n\n\"The world was too cool to spend locked indoors.\" https://www.reddit.com/r/horror/comments/4hz93x/the_purge_2013_rhorror_official_discussion/?sort=top Exactly.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/158015"},{"id":"322682678020374092","title":"The Purge: Election Year","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2016,"runtimeMinutes":109,"directors":["James DeMonaco"],"actors":["Elizabeth Mitchell","Frank Grillo","Betty Gabriel","Mykelti Williamson","Terry Serpico","Christopher James Baker","Naheem Garcia","Edwin Hodge","Joseph Julian Soria","Raymond J. Barry"],"genres":["Action","Horror","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2018-12-23","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/316727"},{"id":"322682678022394444","title":"The Return of Jafar","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":1994,"runtimeMinutes":69,"directors":["Toby Shelton","Alan Zaslove","Tad Stones"],"actors":["Jason Alexander","Dan Castellaneta","Gilbert Gottfried","Jim Cummings","Jeff Bennett","Frank Welker","Maurice LaMarche","Scott Weinger"],"genres":["Family","Adventure","Animation","Romance"],"completedDate":"1996-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/15969"},{"id":"322682678021339724","title":"The Theory of Everything","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2014,"runtimeMinutes":123,"directors":["James Marsh"],"actors":["Emily Watson"],"genres":["Drama","Romance"],"completedDate":"2015-02-26","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Hell-bent on cliches..","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/266856"},{"id":"322682678022450764","title":"The Transporter","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2002,"runtimeMinutes":92,"directors":["Corey Yuen","Louis Leterrier"],"actors":["Jason Statham"],"genres":["Action","Crime","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2004-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/4108"},{"id":"322682678022436428","title":"The Waterboy","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":1998,"runtimeMinutes":90,"directors":["Frank Coraci"],"actors":["Adam Sandler","Clint Howard","Kathy Bates","Rob Schneider","Fairuza Balk","Jennifer Taylor","Lawrence Gilliard Jr.","Paul Wight","Tom Nowicki","Henry Winkler"],"genres":["Comedy"],"completedDate":"2003-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/10663"},{"id":"322682678021395020","title":"There's Something About Mary","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":1998,"runtimeMinutes":120,"directors":["Peter Farrelly","Bobby Farrelly"],"actors":["Chris Elliott","Matt Dillon","Cameron Diaz","Ben Stiller","Lee Evans","Khandi Alexander","Lin Shaye","Keith David","Zen Gesner","Sarah Silverman"],"genres":["Romance","Comedy"],"completedDate":"2005-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/544"},{"id":"322682678022264396","title":"Thor","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2011,"runtimeMinutes":115,"directors":["Kenneth Branagh"],"actors":["Samuel L. Jackson","Chris Hemsworth"],"genres":["Adventure","Fantasy","Action"],"completedDate":"2011-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/10195"},{"id":"322682678020413004","title":"Thor: The Dark World","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2013,"runtimeMinutes":112,"directors":["Alan Taylor"],"actors":["Chris Hemsworth"],"genres":["Action","Adventure","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"2018-05-04","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"I'm always amazed by how tiny the worlds are outside of Earth. It's like they know nothing about complexity of newly constructed worlds. Like Ragnarok, an entire population can be saved on a ship; in this case, everyone must be notified (including ruler of 9 worlds) if there's a minor prison break. Wars between primitive beings and humans are so anthropomorphic. It's silly. People lack imagination to realize what battles would look like if it were truly this scale.\n\nMalaketh is a forgettable villain. Romance is bored.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/76338"},{"id":"322682678021524044","title":"Thumb Wars: The Phantom Cuticle","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":1999,"runtimeMinutes":29,"directors":["Steve Oedekerk"],"actors":["Steve Oedekerk","Megan Cavanagh","Rob Paulsen"],"genres":["Comedy","Science Fiction","Action"],"completedDate":"2000-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/14962"},{"id":"322682678022465100","title":"TMNT","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2007,"runtimeMinutes":87,"directors":["Kevin Munroe"],"actors":["Chris Evans","Laurence Fishburne","Sarah Michelle Gellar","Patrick Stewart","Tara Strong","Mako","Zhang Ziyi","Dee Bradley Baker","Jim Cummings","Jeff Bennett"],"genres":["Adventure","Animation","Comedy","Family"],"completedDate":"2011-11-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1273"},{"id":"322682678021431884","title":"Trading Places","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":1983,"runtimeMinutes":116,"directors":["John Landis"],"actors":["Giancarlo Esposito"],"genres":["Comedy"],"completedDate":"2014-02-23","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Very bad acting, forced premise, caricature of greed and a simple nature vs nurture question. the whole premise is riddled with plot holes given that he should at the very least have money in his bank accounts which no one else would have access to.\n\nEddie murphy and Aykroyd however have done some grand acting.\n\nThere is the general idea that little technical skill is required of a broker, and that the majority of it all comes down to human nature and intuition. It is wildly inaccurate as to how someone can still gain the foresight and experience that good broking generally accomplishes within a day. But at the end of the day, it's a comedy, so who's looking at it for realism?","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1621"},{"id":"322682678022283852","title":"Transformers","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2007,"runtimeMinutes":144,"directors":["Michael Bay"],"actors":["Megan Fox"],"genres":["Adventure","Science Fiction","Action"],"completedDate":"2009-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1858"},{"id":"322682678020252236","title":"Velvet Buzzsaw","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2019,"runtimeMinutes":112,"directors":["Dan Gilroy"],"actors":["Jake Gyllenhaal"],"genres":["Thriller","Mystery","Horror"],"completedDate":"2020-06-20","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"The story proceeds so fast with all the actors taking everything at face value. It's so weird. Just a glance and they suddenly appreciate all the artwork immediately. Pacing is awful.\n\nThe plot stupidity that painters and painter critics can somehow understand and evaluate so many different art forms: casket colors included.\n\nOne thing I do like is its mix of comedy and horror. It's like something you'd only see in a Korean film. Here, it's more American in style by showing comedy satirically followed by the horror.\n\nSeveral jumpscares thata re completely unnecessary. And Jake Gyllenhaal is still great, but can't save the script.\n\nNatalie Dyer is adorable here.\n\nThe cinematography is so mediocre. It feels like I'm watching a generic TV episode.\n\nMotivated to watch because: Horror. And Dan Gilroy, who debuted with Nighrcrawler. And Jake Gyllenhaal. Yes fucking please.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/463684"},{"id":"322682678021296716","title":"Warcraft","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2016,"runtimeMinutes":123,"directors":["Duncan Jones"],"actors":["Clancy Brown","Paula Patton","Travis Fimmel","Daniel Wu","Toby Kebbell","Ben Schnetzer","Dominic Cooper","Patrick Sabongui","Anna Van Hooft","Ruth Negga"],"genres":["Action","Adventure","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"2016-06-10","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/68735"},{"id":"322682678021208652","title":"Whatever Works","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2009,"runtimeMinutes":92,"directors":["Woody Allen"],"actors":["Henry Cavill"],"genres":["Comedy","Romance"],"completedDate":"2017-04-04","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"The Larry David and Woody Allen combination doesn't work. Their personalities just don't match. I felt uneasy from the start. It's Larry David's mannerisms pressed onto how Woody Allen would speak; it just does not work. It's clear Larry David was constrained by a script. A rambling, neurotic anxious man with a Larry David accent. The fourth wall gimmick just didn't click here. The acting, cinematography, the soundtrack, none of it comes together to make a convincing performance. I feel otherwordly watching this disaster. The setting hardly picks up; it's clear New York isn't meant as a location of diversity and education, but it's hardly there as a character.\n\nThe script is okay—middling but salvageable. I can see potential in its pitch. But it's so poorly substantiated. The girl is a classic stereotype, nothing appealing as a nutjob like other Woody Allen deviants. Woody doesn't understand how to depict a real genius academic; it's more like a comedian in the bare bones role as just a setup rather than what fully makes him. As if an IQ, ramblingness, and paranoid hypochondriac describe a successful 'nobel prize nominee'. His narcissm about his intellect is myopic. The boldness of the age discrepancy in relationship is clearly something Woody would do and I admire it. The romance wasn't done well at all, poorly portrayed.\n\n'But life isn't like on paper' Jesus what an embarassing line. 'What are ya, nuts?' Classic Woody Allen line. 'Trust me, if I can understand quantum mechanics, I can certainly comprehend the thought process of a submental baton twirler.' What does that even mean?","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/19265"},{"id":"322682678022406732","title":"X2","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2003,"runtimeMinutes":133,"directors":["Bryan Singer"],"actors":["Famke Janssen","James Marsden","Hugh Jackman","Rebecca Romijn","Brian Cox","Halle Berry","Kelly Hu","Ian McKellen","Patrick Stewart","Bruce Davison"],"genres":["Adventure","Action","Science Fiction"],"completedDate":"2004-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/36658"},{"id":"322682678022337100","title":"You Don't Mess with the Zohan","status":"Completed","score":4,"releaseYear":2008,"runtimeMinutes":113,"directors":["Dennis Dugan"],"actors":["Adam Sandler","Kevin James","Emmanuelle Chriqui","Rob Schneider","Chris Rock","Kevin Nealon","Ido Mosseri","John Turturro","Holly Weber","Mariah Carey"],"genres":["Comedy","Action"],"completedDate":"2008-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/10661"},{"id":"322682678021468748","title":"Airplane!","status":"Completed","score":3,"releaseYear":1980,"runtimeMinutes":88,"directors":["Jim Abrahams","David Zucker","Jerry Zucker"],"actors":["Jonathan Banks","Julie Hagerty","Lloyd Bridges","Leslie Nielsen","Lorna Patterson","Kareem Abdul-Jabbar","Jill Whelan","Robert Hays","James Hong","Jim Abrahams"],"genres":["Comedy"],"completedDate":"2013-11-23","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Stupid, tasteless, unfunny cliches. Just not my type of comedy I guess, but I find low brow comedy akin to the intellectually stimulating appeal of fart jokes a universally poor work. It's predictable as much as a raging teen masturbates to the most subtle gestures, and it bloats itself with its dire need to be funny. Lacking any cleverness, Airplane! is an utter droll.\n\nI'll be fair and say that several scenes are pretty brilliant but they're overcasted so frequently by the stupidest jokes. Just for hard examples, let's indicate a few. When the doctor says, \"Lemme see your tongue\", and then the woman proceeds to keep jutting eggs from her mouth, I found that mildly amusing. Also when the main character tries to teach a rural tribe basketball and proceeds to downplay the exponential rate at which they were learning. Everything else is practically stupid, e.g., a little girl clad in gentry claiming, \"I like my coffee black.. just like my men\"; an attendant saying, \"I think he's a doctor\", proceeded by a shot showing a man with a stethoscope on his ears; \"This woman needs to be taken to a hospital.\n A hospital, what is it?\n A big building with patients, but that's no worry right now\"; \"Captain, how soon can you land?\n I can't tell.\n You can tell me, I'm a doctor.\"","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/813"},{"id":"322682678022485580","title":"American Pie","status":"Completed","score":3,"releaseYear":1999,"runtimeMinutes":95,"directors":["Paul Weitz"],"actors":["Mena Suvari","Shannon Elizabeth","Eugene Levy","Sasha Barrese","Eddie Kaye Thomas","Tara Reid","Casey Affleck","Jennifer Coolidge","Alyson Hannigan","Christina Milian"],"genres":["Comedy","Romance"],"completedDate":"2004-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/2105"},{"id":"322682678975406668","title":"American Pie 2","status":"Completed","score":3,"releaseYear":2001,"runtimeMinutes":111,"directors":["J.B. Rogers"],"actors":["Mena Suvari","Shannon Elizabeth","Joseph D. Reitman","Bree Turner","Eugene Levy","Eddie Kaye Thomas","Tara Reid","JoAnna Garcia","Casey Affleck","Jennifer Coolidge"],"genres":["Comedy","Romance"],"completedDate":"2004-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/2770"},{"id":"344394690386199120","title":"Bad Bones","status":"Completed","score":3,"releaseYear":2022,"runtimeMinutes":83,"directors":["Scott Eggleston"],"genres":["Science Fiction","Horror","Mystery"],"completedDate":"2022-10-02","updatedDate":"2022-10-02","notes":"Watched it during movie night in Moonmoon's discord. Robotic dialogue at times. The plot is nonsensical. For example, never explains what happens to the original wife. Also never explains the ending where the cum wife somehow leaves.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/987136"},{"id":"322682678975416908","title":"Blade","status":"Completed","score":3,"releaseYear":1998,"runtimeMinutes":121,"directors":["Stephen Norrington"],"actors":["Traci Lords","Wesley Snipes","Sanaa Lathan","Stephen Dorff","Kenny Johnson","Udo Kier","Matt Schulze","Donal Logue","John Enos III","Carmen Thomas"],"genres":["Horror","Action"],"completedDate":"2004-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/36647"},{"id":"322682678975413836","title":"Blade II","status":"Completed","score":3,"releaseYear":2002,"runtimeMinutes":117,"directors":["Guillermo del Toro"],"actors":["Donnie Yen","Ron Perlman","Wesley Snipes","Thomas Kretschmann","Norman Reedus","Tony Curran","Leonor Varela","Luke Goss","Matt Schulze","Danny John-Jules"],"genres":["Fantasy","Horror","Action","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2004-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/36586"},{"id":"322682678021470796","title":"Borat: Cultural Learnings of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan","originalTitle":"Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan","status":"Completed","score":3,"releaseYear":2006,"runtimeMinutes":84,"directors":["Larry Charles"],"actors":["Pamela Anderson","Ken Davitian","Luenell"],"genres":["Comedy"],"completedDate":"2006-10-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/496"},{"id":"322682678022482508","title":"Bridesmaids","status":"Completed","score":3,"releaseYear":2011,"runtimeMinutes":125,"directors":["Paul Feig"],"actors":["Melissa McCarthy","Rose Byrne","Kristen Wiig","Jon Hamm","Ellie Kemper","Jill Clayburgh","Maya Rudolph","Terry Crews","Wendi McLendon-Covey","Matt Bennett"],"genres":["Comedy","Romance"],"completedDate":"2011-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/55721"},{"id":"322682678022476364","title":"Bulletproof Monk","status":"Completed","score":3,"releaseYear":2003,"runtimeMinutes":104,"directors":["Paul Hunter"],"actors":["Chow Yun-Fat","Mako","Jaime King","Seann William Scott","Roger Yuan","Karel Roden","Victoria Smurfit","Rob Archer","Kishaya Dudley"],"genres":["Action","Comedy","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"2003-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/11817"},{"id":"322682678021372492","title":"Come Drink with Me","originalTitle":"大醉侠","status":"Completed","score":3,"releaseYear":1966,"runtimeMinutes":91,"directors":["King Hu"],"actors":["Jackie Chan","Han Ying-Chieh","Cheng Pei-Pei","Ku Feng","Elliot Ngok","Yuen Siu-Tien","Violet Pan Ying-Zi","Lily Li Li-Li","Chen Hung-Lieh"],"genres":["Action","Adventure"],"completedDate":"2014-12-20","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Interesting that the main character is female in the 60's of all times. That's it. Meanders from fight scene to fight scene with little sense.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/26259"},{"id":"322682678022462028","title":"Dinner for Schmucks","status":"Completed","score":3,"releaseYear":2010,"runtimeMinutes":114,"directors":["Jay Roach"],"actors":["Paul Rudd","Steve Carell","Nick Kroll","Zach Galifianakis","Kristen Schaal","Blanca Soto","David Walliams","Alex Borstein","Octavia Spencer","Maria Zyrianova"],"genres":["Comedy"],"completedDate":"2010-11-30","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/38778"},{"id":"322682678022492748","title":"Elf","status":"Completed","score":3,"releaseYear":2003,"runtimeMinutes":97,"directors":["Jon Favreau"],"actors":["James Caan","Jon Favreau","Amy Sedaris","Will Ferrell","Peter Dinklage","Mary Steenburgen","Brenda Crichlow","Zooey Deschanel","Faizon Love","Lorin Heath"],"genres":["Comedy","Family","Fantasy"],"completedDate":"2003-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/10719"},{"id":"322682678021437004","title":"Elysium","status":"Completed","score":3,"releaseYear":2013,"runtimeMinutes":109,"directors":["Neill Blomkamp"],"actors":["Wagner Moura","Matt Damon"],"genres":["Science Fiction","Action","Drama","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2013-12-24","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","notes":"Hugely stereotypical with French versus Spanish. Drama often is contrived with large bombastic music and generic Hollywood slow mo combat and gyroscoping. Pacing is rushed, with a character introduced with leukemia kidnapped hardly 5 minutes later.\n\nInstead of presenting any message about the disparity in poverty vs the upper class, it showcases one on some generic corrupt politician. The setting is poorly displayed and too little context is offered. Sci fi innovations are inveritably childish in nature, with many implementations such as the facial reconstruction and force field a gross 3dcgi flaunt. Playing mech warrior is hardly very interesting. No backstory, no character progression, and more generally, no complexity. Elysium's only strength (the setting, certainly not the movie) indicated are the medical services for example, which are surely only one of many nontrivial consequences affecting poverty.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/68724"},{"id":"4562aa44-8b41-4592-ba95-cd2f36669f9e","title":"Ender's Game","status":"Completed","score":3,"releaseYear":2013,"runtimeMinutes":114,"directors":["Gavin Hood"],"actors":["Harrison Ford"],"genres":["Science Fiction","Action","Adventure"],"completedDate":"2023-09-17","updatedDate":"2023-09-17","notes":"I only watched clip highlights of the movie. Oh boy they're so bad. Largely condensed and streamlined with poor details. Even in these highlights I can already see the bad acting and cheesy writing.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/80274"},{"id":"322682678975405644","title":"Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer","originalTitle":"Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer","status":"Completed","score":3,"releaseYear":2007,"runtimeMinutes":92,"directors":["Tim Story"],"actors":["Chris Evans","Laurence Fishburne","Ioan Gruffudd","Julian McMahon","Beau Garrett","Stan Lee","Jessica Alba","Andre Braugher","Kerry Washington","Brian Posehn"],"genres":["Science Fiction","Adventure","Action"],"completedDate":"2007-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1979"},{"id":"322682678975402572","title":"Fast Five","status":"Completed","score":3,"releaseYear":2011,"runtimeMinutes":131,"directors":["Justin Lin"],"actors":["Gal Gadot","Dwayne Johnson","Vin Diesel"],"genres":["Action","Thriller","Crime"],"completedDate":"2011-12-31","updatedDate":"2022-01-30","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/51497"},{"id":"326001903801467471","title":"Fist of the North Star","status":"Completed","score":3,"releaseYear":1995,"runtimeMinutes":103,"directors":["Tony Randel"],"actors":["Costas Mandylor","Clint Howard","Malcolm McDowell","Chris Penn","Nils Allen Stewart","Dante Basco","Gary Daniels","George Cheung"],"genres":["Action","Science Fiction","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2022-03-13","updatedDate":"2022-03-13","notes":"Watched under Moonmoon's movie night.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/26300"},{"id":"f393838a-423d-4318-95e9-a134f5c180f6","title":"Five Nights at Freddy's","status":"Completed","score":3,"releaseYear":2023,"runtimeMinutes":110,"directors":["Emma Tammi"],"actors":["Elizabeth Lail","Matthew Lillard","Josh Hutcherson","Piper Rubio","Mary Stuart Masterson","Jessica Blackmore","Christian Stokes","Kat Conner Sterling"],"genres":["Horror","Thriller"],"completedDate":"2024-03-02","updatedDate":"2024-03-02","notes":"Serving an introduction with a tragic backstory is a poor fit. 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The sumptuous elements are there but it seems lacking.","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/302026"},{"id":"322682678975415884","title":"Get Him to the Greek","status":"Completed","score":3,"releaseYear":2010,"runtimeMinutes":109,"directors":["Nicholas Stoller"],"actors":["Kristen Bell","Tom Felton","Nick Kroll","Rose Byrne","Ellie Kemper","Elisabeth Moss","Christine Nguyen","Kristen Schaal","Meghan Markle","T. J. 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It has some clear inspirations from Spiderverse but not in any good way besides taking formulaic notes like adding certain characters that are animated in a different style (that's not at all what made Spiderverse interesting, just a mere creativity detail).","url":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1022789"},{"id":"9d1a8be4-7583-436b-a663-94996f44aa82","title":"Invitation to a Murder","status":"Completed","score":3,"releaseYear":2023,"runtimeMinutes":93,"directors":["Stephen Shimek"],"actors":["Mischa Barton","Chris Browning","Seamus Dever","Alex Hyde-White"],"genres":["Mystery","Thriller","TV Movie"],"completedDate":"2023-04-30","updatedDate":"2023-05-08","notes":"Why is the writing so bad?\n\nAlso, why is the protagonist a middle-aged overweight white girl? 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