🎄John McCreary🎅

🎄John McCreary🎅 Pro

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Charleston, South Carolina (grew up in San Antonio, TX)
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Favorite films

  • National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
  • Elf
  • Home Alone
  • Jingle All the Way

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  • Daddy's Home 2

  • Daddy's Home

  • Nosferatu

  • Carol

    ★★★★½

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  • Silence

    Silence 2016

    ★★★★★ Rewatched 12 Jun 2023

    Temporary salvation.

    Father Rodriguez sees the people who are willing to lay down their life for him as he is a messenger of Jesus and later learns that their concept of God is skewed a bit more towards something like the sun in the sky than the literal interpretation that humans have created. They take the rites of communion and repent to their "Father" who they see as an extension of the idea of paradise or a savior who will…

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  • Daddy's Home 2

    Daddy's Home 2 2017

    Rewatched 31 Dec 2024

    again, little to no craft to speak of but damnit if you’re gonna jostle my funny bone like this i have to surrender. lithgow a total delight and gibson repulsive, perfect casting. need to see sofia coppola put this one one her 2032 sight and sound ballot.

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    2nd viewing

  • Daddy's Home

    Daddy's Home 2015

    Rewatched 30 Dec 2024

    can’t believe they got me to laugh so many times, like the laugh ratio per joke is higher than the times i didn’t laugh. almost no visual craft and some blatant car ad readings, but that laugh ratio is too high to dismiss.

    mvp: thomas haden church

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  • Deep Cover

    Deep Cover 1992

    ★★★★½ Watched 19 Nov 2020 16

    I've hardly seen a movie so blunt and free of nonsense about one of America's greatest sins. I'm genuinely shocked that this was able to be made.

    Starts as your typical cop-in-too-deep story which quickly turns into one of the angriest, most indicting portraits of the War on Drugs and how it is used by powerful white people to keep all other minorities underneath them through cycles of violence and greed.

    Fishburne turns in one of his best performances here…

  • Ready Player One

    Ready Player One 2018

    ★★★½ Rewatched 31 Mar 2021 2

    On rewatch, I have expounded thoughts on why I think this will be reevaluated from those who initially dismissed it. Truth be told, some of it gets pretty messy in its execution of narrative especially in the third act. But I think the heart of this movie is about being tethered to nostalgia to provide comfort in a cold, post capital hellscape. So much so that VR gaming is basically the only enterprise left.

    I could get into some of…

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  • Oppenheimer
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  • Mission: Impossible – Fallout
  • Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Box Office top 10s of the last decade- ranked 74 films

  • How to Train Your Dragon 2
  • The Amazing Spider-Man 2
  • Taken 3
  • Tomorrowland
  • It Follows

Old Instagram posts from my first movie logging account 50 films

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  • The Bourne Ultimatum
  • Carol
  • Coreys
  • The Fabelmans
  • The Gift

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  • Ex Machina
  • Mad Max: Fury Road
  • Anomalisa
  • Spotlight
  • Inside Out

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