I was quite expecting Omid Djalili to say “welcome to Abu Dhabi, my humble home”
That’ll have saved this film for me.
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“F**k this franchise”
Exactly what I said few minutes into this.
Jim Carrey carried this installment all on his back… he is an evergreen character actor.
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My mom doesn’t watch anything other than Nollywood. She barely understands foreign english and accents and never gets to flow with dialogues that not in traditional African tone. So for the first time ever, with subtitles, she actually sat through this film and I’m over the moon about it.
I’m so happy! And she totally likes this film, so I’m going to reserve my personal opinions about it and enjoy the moment!
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Starting the new year with one of Chris Nolan’s masterpiece, just to get a chance to see one of the most beautiful shot ever, Tom Hardy hanging around a burning plane before being zapped. I love you so much Hoyte van Hoytema.
This is going to be a great year for cinema, for cinephiles. Happy New Year LB Family.
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Watched on Tuesday December 31, 2024.
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Watched on Tuesday December 31, 2024.
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Watched on Monday December 30, 2024.
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Oleg would’ve made it as a director if only his head was in the right place.
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Watched on Sunday December 29, 2024.
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Did anyone get the chance to ask Arnie if the suit was comfortable in the slightest? Because It sure doesn't look like it.
And I rewatched The Flashed earlier today and I can now fully understand Ezra Miller’s post credits reaction about Clooney’s cameo appearance.
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The voice acting was simply all over the place, especially Dave Franco’s. But there were still fun moments, although it also became too much.
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Watched on Saturday December 28, 2024.
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Watched on Friday December 20, 2024.
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Watched on Saturday December 28, 2024.
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“You can’t survive on your own”
“Nobody can, but here we are…”
I’ve watched promos and BTS interviews about this project and everyone I saw and listened to were super confident they made ‘the thing’. Tickets have to be sold. I get it.
The world has moved on from Disney but we may never get to actually see that realistically simply because… well they are acquiring every other studio and distribution companies, a large percentage of the cinema goers are actually going to theaters owned by the big guy.
Anyway I have mixed feelings about this film. Lin-Manuel Miranda delivers songs that are catchy but doesn’t stick, he’s usually better than this. The score on the other hand is perfect. Barry’s frequent collaborator James Laxton really need to get into more of this stuff, his work here is a real selling point. He sure worked really hard to even out the mess the cgi guys made from overcooking the live action idea someone brought up to suffocate us with. The voice acting is wooden, so the live action sequences tend to lag behind dialogues. I remember seeing TLK(2019) in theatre and I completely thrashed it, so I think MUFASA is a huge improvement on Jon Favreau’s mistake for a remake.
One of the greatest independent filmmaker of our time, Barry Jenkins. Barry Jenkins on the other hand, has supposedly gotten his big paycheck. He needs it, we all need a big paycheck. He won’t stop now. I hope he didn’t sign a long term contract. Cinephiles need this man to not branch out. Otherwise Independent cinema just lost a brother.
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Watched on Monday December 23, 2024.
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Watched on Thursday December 19, 2024.
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Watched on Friday December 20, 2024.
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In an alternate world where Amber Heard’s court case is non existent, this film would still not be good enough.
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Just a routine glance at Liam Neeson’s action template.
This has some awesome designs all round and also in a couple of shots in between sequence, you’ll find some of the worst cgi performances ever and overall it looks completely different from all previous installments, but these flaws and good parts make it a traditionally solid Transformers film. The premise looks very predated, there’s more focus on the machines because the franchise is supposed to be about them and not about the perfect curves on Megan Fox.
This installment is not as good as any of the ones before, but I think it’s a good start. Certainly there’ll be more to come and room to get better and better.
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Every Christmas we get triggers, chargers, propellers, scattered everywhere, stuffs that reminds us of the fact that Die Hard is actually a Christmas film.
❕⚠️
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Watched on Thursday December 19, 2024.
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Seeing Michelle Yeoh in romantic scenes is always a little awkward for me. I have digested a whole lot of a different persona over the cause of following up on her career.
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Watched on Tuesday December 17, 2024.
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50 Cent, Megan Fox, Old Sexy Dolph Lundgren… This franchise did not age very well.
Watched on Monday December 16, 2024.
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Watched on Monday December 16, 2024.
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Watched on Monday December 16, 2024.
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“So much to do. But so little time.”
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Will he get a good script ever again?. I most certainly hope I’m still around to find out.
Watched on Saturday December 14, 2024.
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…Modern cinema is also doing its part in history by leaving the western genre to rot…
One of those dreadful characters Emma Stone has to play because of the size of the budget.
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A horror film that doesn’t scare my girlfriend enough, is not horror enough hehe…
Trying to overlook a lot because I want to like this film. its got great production design and cinematography. The story is told from a war journalist pov, while the delivery around is action based genius.
But yea absolutely feel nothing for the characters which makes the entire idea looks light… it’s like telling us to glorify a bunch of reporters because they brought us good footages of a war, just for the pleasure of it.
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Watched on Monday December 9, 2024.
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Watched on Monday December 9, 2024.
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Watched on Monday December 9, 2024.
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Watched on Sunday December 8, 2024.
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Watched on Sunday December 8, 2024.
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Watched on Saturday December 7, 2024.
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One of the slowest form I’ve ever seen Johnny Depp in.
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End credits cue bird set free and I’m fully alive.
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Watched on Friday December 6, 2024.
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Watched on Sunday December 1, 2024.
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This is so lazy and not worth the hype.
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Watched on Sunday December 1, 2024.
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Watched on Saturday November 30, 2024.
]]>Films released WORLDWIDE this year that I’ve watched.
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
- BEEF
- Evil Dead Rise
- John Wick: Chapter 4
- Oppenheimer
- Society of the Snow
- Godzilla Minus One
- Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning
- Maestro
- Air
...plus 79 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Films including miniseries released this year that I’ve watched, ranked.
- Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
- The Substance
- Baby Reindeer
- Dune: Part Two
- Smile 2
- Godzilla × Kong: The New Empire
- A Quiet Place: Day One
- Inside Out 2
- Deadpool & Wolverine
- Monkey Man
...plus 46 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Films released WORLDWIDE this year, ranked.
- Nope
- Babylon
- Prey
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
- Pearl
- Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
- Triangle of Sadness
- The Outfit
- Avatar: The Way of Water
- Top Gun: Maverick
...plus 108 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>It’s my annual October horror-fest again!
- The Deliverance
- Wounds
- The Mist
- The Origin: Madam Koi-Koi
- Cursed
- The Nest
- The Terror
- The Old Ways
- Annabelle
- Killdozer
...plus 26 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Films released in 2021 that I have watched.
- Titane
- Nobody
- Shiva Baby
- A Quiet Place Part II
- Oxygen
- French Exit
- Squid Game
- CODA
- Don't Look Up
- No Time to Die
...plus 147 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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- Friday
- 2012
- First Sunday
- Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins
- Call Me by Your Name
- Sausage Party
- Avatar
- The Wolf of Wall Street
- The Mummy
...plus 45 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>*a candid dry description by a much younger me because apparently I don’t seem to forget the past that much* sorry.
I’m taking a dip into the filmography(Directorial + feature films in which he is the lead or part lead) of the guy who dazzled me growing up... you know there’s always that one guy in an action movie that shows up in a scene looking fairly beatable but apparently not!... growing up there was this mentality among my peers( it was kind of natural back then to watch action films with people, because the dialogue and even the story mainly was not a concern but the action sequences) that big guys are slow and usually gets defeated by skinny guys in fighting sequences, but not this Fatso, he was nothing like we’ve ever seen, he was completely out of shape for someone so incredible and practically flawless at martial arts, and on top of that he was charming and funny as hell and we loved him for that... maybe not as much as we loved Jackie Chan or Jet Li but we did genuinely love him. We had a nickname for him in my deep local dialect, anytime he popped up on screen, there was bound to be someone who will scream” ‘Emahoo’ is going to whoop his ass!!”
‘Emahoo’ was what we called very big men/women(like that lady from Kung Fu Hustle) who were mostly tied to the antagonist, they were mostly bodyguards or people the villain calls on to fight for them.
Later on as my knowledge of film got better, I was surprised to find out that most of the films that we loved watching back then had his prints all over them, either as a director, a stuntman,A choreographer, a writer, producer... I was stunned to find out that he directed Knockabout and Mr Nice Guy which were equally like the funniest and badass films I’ve ever seen in my entire life! Damn! I loved those films back then and he also directed a lot of Jackie Chan’s flicks and also worked in a lot of popular films that we enjoyed watching..
Martial arts really shaped my idea and love for film because growing up for some reasons they were really really accessible more than any other type of films and also i watched films in groups growing up and everyone else would always wanted movies that had action in them and we were basically very young and completely mesmerized by Asian action films.
So here’s to one of the greatest in Asian Cinema, a phenomenal action figure and incredibly awesome and flawless filmmaker, The Biggest Big Brother Sammo Fatso Emahoo Hung!!!
- Mr. Nice Guy
- The Magnificent Butcher
- Eastern Condors
- Millionaires' Express
- The Gambling Ghost
- The Victim
- Skinny Tiger, Fatty Dragon
- End of the Wicked Tigers
- Warriors Two
- Enter the Fat Dragon
...plus 14 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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]]>Welcome aboard my October 2021 horror ride. Kickstarting it with Mario Bava( I plan to see a handful of his films) and I’ll also try to watch a lot of classic horror films(my main focus), new releases and a couple of rewatches... I’ll try really hard to see this out considering how unexpectedly busy I became recently...
There’s no list to this... Choosing what to watch is 100% random.
I hope to make this a tradition every year.
Horror-tober? Haha
- Black Sunday
- Piranha
- Piranhaconda
- Malignant
- Eyes Without a Face
- Black Sabbath
- Bloody Hell
- No One Gets Out Alive
- Lisa and the Devil
- Blood and Roses
...plus 25 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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- The Haunting of Hill House
- El Conde
- The Perfection
- Apostle
- Piggy
- From Dusk Till Dawn
- The Haunting of Bly Manor
- Night of the Living Dead
- Dawn of the Dead
- Day of the Dead
...plus 34 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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- Constantine
- City of the Living Dead
- The Final Destination
- Final Destination 5
- Inferno
- The Masque of the Red Death
- Orphan: First Kill
- Scarecrows
- Beast
- 1408
...plus 28 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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- Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
- Halloween
- Halloween
- Halloween Kills
- Halloween II
- Halloween
- Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
- Halloween Ends
- Halloween II
- Halloween III: Season of the Witch
...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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]]>- Armageddon
- Interstellar
- Solaris
- The Martian
- Gravity
- Apollo 13
- Apollo 11
- First Man
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Alien
...plus 9 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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]]>I made a ranked list of the Bond films I’ve watched so far, I really did find myself doing a Bondathon that I did not plan for, From Dr No and the next day From Russia with Love, I discovered the cable running the bond flicks one a day, in order of release, I followed to some extent but then missed a couple of days and eventually decided to go through with it on my own... it’s been fun.
And since ‘NTTD’ is a recent watch. It had to be there.
- GoldenEye
- No Time to Die
- Casino Royale
- Goldfinger
- On Her Majesty's Secret Service
- For Your Eyes Only
- Skyfall
- The Spy Who Loved Me
- The Living Daylights
- Spectre
...plus 17 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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- Love, Death & Robots: Helping Hand
- Love, Death & Robots: Jibaro
- Love, Death & Robots: Night of the Mini Dead
- Love, Death & Robots: Bad Travelling
- Love, Death & Robots: The Witness
- Love, Death & Robots: Mason's Rats
- Love, Death & Robots: Three Robots
- Love, Death & Robots: The Secret War
- Love, Death & Robots: The Drowned Giant
- Love, Death & Robots: In Vaulted Halls Entombed
...plus 25 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Filmography check(Full Length & short)... I’ll update as I watch on.
- Dogville
- Dancer in the Dark
- Melancholia
- Antichrist
- The House That Jack Built
- Nymphomaniac: Vol. I
- Breaking the Waves
- Europa
- Medea
- Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
...plus 8 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Day 1. The first film i remember watching
Day 2. The film i like that starts with the first letter of my name
Day 3. A film that has more than five words
Day 4. A film with a number in the title
Day 5. A film where a character has the job I want
Day 6. My favorite animated film
Day 7. A film that i will never get tired of
Day 8. A film where i liked the soundtrack the more
Day 9. A film i hate that everyone else liked
Day 10. My favorite superhero film
Day 11. A film I like from my least favorite genre
Day 12. A film that I hate from my favorite genre
Day 13. A film that put me in deep thoughts
Day 14. A film that gave me depression
Day 15. A film that makes me feel happy
Day 16. A film that is personal to me
Day 17. Favorite film sequel
Day 18. A film that stars my favorite actor/actress
Day 19. A film made by my favorite director
Day 20. A film that changed my life
Day 21. A film i dozed off in
Day 22. A film that made me angry
Day 23. A film made by a director that is dead
Day 24. A film i wish i saw in theaters
Day 25. A film i like that is not set in the current era
Day 26. A film i like that is adapted from somewhere
Day 27. A film i like that is visually striking to me
Day 28. A film that made me feel uncomfortable
Day 29. A film makes me want to fall in love
Day 30. A film with my favorite ending
- Snake in the Monkey's Shadow
- Avatar
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- 12 Angry Men
- Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
- Rango
- Call Me by Your Name
- Black Panther
- Avengers: Endgame
- Spider-Man 2
...plus 20 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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- Blood and Black Lace
- Black Sunday
- A Bay of Blood
- Black Sabbath
- Kill, Baby... Kill!
- The Whip and the Body
- Danger: Diabolik
- Rabid Dogs
- Baron Blood
...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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- The Big Lebowski
Top 3 on my overall favorite movies of all time
- No Country for Old Men
- Blood Simple
- Barton Fink
- The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
- The Man Who Wasn't There
- O Brother, Where Art Thou?
- Fargo
- The Ladykillers
- Raising Arizona
...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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