Movie #30: Enys Men

Loving a good Saturday morning movie double-header 😁

Movie #31: Hot Fuzz
Movie #32: Scream 6
Movie #33: How to Blow Up a Pipeline

Movie #34: Evil Dead Rise

To my great shame, this is actually the first Evil Dead movie I’ve seen.

Movie #35: Air
Movie #36: Return to Seoul
Movie #37: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Movie #38: Perfect Blue

Movie #39: Contagion

BTW I make these mini reviews using https://quickreviews.app ✌️

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Movie #40: Evil Dead (2013)

Movie #41: The Evil Dead

I decided to stop watching the series in reverse and get to the start.

Movie #42: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

It’s a coincidence, but it’s honestly perfect that this was my 42nd movie of the year.

Movie #43: Robocop

Movie #44: The Evil Dead

Watched again with friends, and my review from a few weeks ago still stands https://isfeeling.social/@matt/110480500496987707

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Attached: 1 image Movie #41: The Evil Dead I decided to stop watching the series in reverse and get to the start.

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Movie #45: Evil Dead 2

I expect this to somehow be one of my less popular reviews, even though I liked it 🫣

Movie #46: Gremlins
Movie #47: Army of Darkness
Movie #48: Speed
Movie #49: Renfield
Movie #50 (halfway to my goal!): The Night House
Movie #51: The Game
Movie #52: Mad Max: Fury Road

Movie #53: Air Force One

Worried I'm going to lose followers over this one…

Movie #54: Asteroid City
Movie #55: Hamilton
Movie #56: Jurassic Park
Movie #57: The Super Mario Bros. Movie

Movie #58: Sisu

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Matt uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. 1,105 films watched. Favorites: Lost in Translation (2003), The Matrix (1999), Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), Black Swan (2010).

Movie #59: The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Movie #60: No Hard Feelings

Movie #61: Jurassic Park III

This was actually the first DVD I ever owned. I liked it at the time, but woof, it’s way worse than I remembered 😬

Movie #62: Jurassic World

Was going to give this one an “okay” score until the final act. An all time shocker 😂

Movie #63: Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1

Saw this in a Dolby Vision theater and it was pretty great. Video and audio were nice, but the bass in the seats elevates certain scenes.

Movie #64: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Movie #65: Barbie
Movie #66: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Movie #67: But I’m a Cheerleader
Movie #68: Jurassic World Dominion
Movie #69 👀: The Redeem Team
Movie #70: Peggy Sue Got Married
Movie #71: Nimona
Movie #72: Clue

Movie #73: The Meg

It’s possible the Jurassic World trilogy has lowered my standards, but at least this was a bit of fun.

Movie #74: My Cousin Vinny
Movie #75: John Wick
@matt Good? That movie es GREAT
@Albertkinng I stand by good! Very good! 😝
@matt Numbers 2, 3, and 4 are not good, but number 1 is a masterpiece. It's a remarkable anime-style fantasy-action film set in a fictional universe that's easy for viewers to comprehend, and its intense narrative justifies all crime scenes like poetry. Trust me, it's a fantastic movie.
@Albertkinng I trust you thought it was fantastic 😝 We all have our own scales for things and personal preferences. I feel like you take my review as not liking it 😂
@matt I’m playing with you, man. I love everything you do! John Wick has become like Star Wars between fans and haters. Nothing against you or your comment, I just wanted to let you know how much I liked it!
@matt doing the full series watch?

@tchaten I am! I’ve only send the first one and fell asleep during the second one, but it seems like a series I can actually enjoy throughout since people seem to most agree each one is at least good.

Have you seen them?

Movie #75: John Wick: Chapter 2

Movie #76: Clue

Rewatched already and enjoyed a ton again 😁

Movie #77: John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum

I’m not sure I’ve seen so much breakaway glass used in a single film before 😨

Movie #78: They Cloned Tyrone

Movie #79: John Wick: Chapter 4

And that's the John Wick franchise (so far, of course)! Amazingly, all 4 of these fell into my "good" category, which is remarkably consistent.

Also noting that last year on Aug 20 I watched my 51st movie of the year, so I'm *flying* past my 100 movies goal this year 😱

Movie #80: The Mummy
Movie #81: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Movie #82: The Blackening
Movie #83: Prom Night
Movie #84: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Movie #85: Re-Animator

From ‘85 as well…nice 

Movie #86: Hocus Pocus
Movie #87: No One Will Save You
Movie #88: Theater Camp

Movie #89: Out of Sight

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Movie #90: Elemental

Underrated 💪

@matt Re-Animator? I hardly know her!

@matt Out of interest how do you feel about these films with Rowlings views on trans rights?

I was a bit too old to read the books, but came to love the films. Had a tradition where every few years we’d watch one each Sunday on the run up to xmas.

Can’t do it anymore because of JK. Though in most cases I’m torn between seperating the art from the artist, not here, because I feel so let down. I do appreciate the cast being pretty public about disagreeing with her though.

@mttsmth Sooooo, I wrote about my feelings in this area here https://birchtree.me/blog/great-art-from-bad-people/

For HP, I obviously don’t approve of JK’s stance on things, and that does taint the experience for me some. That said, I really adore the story and the other people involved in bringing them to life (who as you said, have made it pretty clear mostly dont share her opinions). The story is also about love and acceptance, so the whole situation is all the more frustrating.

Great Art from Bad People

I figured I should write something up about this before I start my year of music suggestions, so here we go. I believe you can enjoy art made by bad people. Now there is a lot of nuance there, and it's a spectrum, not a binary thing. For example, if

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@matt Anytime my wife tells me to be patient, I respond with, “I did my waiting! Twelve years of it! In AZKABAN!”
@matt have so much nostalgia for this and Mummy Returns
@matt I love this format. I've always wanted to do movie reviews and for a bit considered starting a site on my selfhosted setup at home but I really don't have an eye for design in the slightest so I was never happy with how it looked. Kudos
@matt I always look for the perfect situation to smash crystal against a fireplace and hysterically scream “Please!”
@matt that one’s a classic 👌🏻 😂
@matt Loved since it came out in the 80s. A lot of the jokes were over my childhood head but that made growing up watching a bit more fun.
@matt i think this was the very first movie my girlfriend( now wife) went to see.
@matt Classic whodunit! Always remember LOLing as kid at the singing telegram 😆🔫
@ravipatel Haha yeah that moment was great 🤣
@matt I loved that movie as a kid.