#4.5 star movies

[chongoblog]

Letterboxd: “To get you started, here are a list of well-known movies that you can rate to give you an idea of your taste”

Okay so let’s see….Knives Out, that has to be 5 stars….Memento….another 5 star movie….Fight Club? Oh my god, what a classic, 5 stars….Arrival? Always blows my mind, would always be down for a rewatch, 5 Stars….Ratatouille…..I’m beginning to see an issue with my reviewing style…..

[hickeygender]

of all the star wars movies, which of them do y'all 1) enjoy the most 2) consider the best quality and 3) think you've rewatched the most. add your answers in the reblogs or replies, i'm genuinely curious how much of an overlap there is within everyone's three answers. mine don't overlap at all! they're revenge of the sith, empire strikes back, and the force awakens :^)

[twelverriver]

Rebecca Ferguson as Ilsa Faust MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: Rogue Nation

[cattons]

emerald fennell will get on her zoom and say [posh voice] Nooo no darling the rich people are the worrssstt. You’re supposed to side with the povvo. referring to the 130 minute film she helmed in which a family of prejudiced but loveable aristocrats are murdered and usurped by an upper middle class lunatic

[breakerofcurses]

"I was once like you. A broken man. A slave to childhood terrors. I learnt that you need to destroy in order to grow. To create space for new life."

Monkey Man (2024), dir. Dev Patel

[hannahwatcheshorror]

HOUSE OF WAX (1953)

This classic horror has more of a cohesive story that is incredibly strong from start to finish than its 2005 remake of the same name. A very captivating story with really rather stunning wax sculptures (again, especially compared to the 2005 remake by the same name). The acting is lovely, the music is grand, and I found myself pleasantly surprised by the twist (I gasped out loud, alone). Truly a fun and compelling watch!

⭐⭐⭐⭐.5

The wax figures in this movie are top notch, I mean, hotdog! I’m looking at these and I’m not sitting here thinking that the prop guys just coated a mannequin in wax, they actually did the damn thing and made ART. I feel like I can usually tell in horror movies when they use a body double instead of just the actor pretending to be dead but these wax figures pretending to be the dead bodies pretending to be wax sculptures… I’m getting ahead of myself, we aren’t there yet. Right now, they are just wax sculptures. Or are they? Yes they are. (For now.)

We find out our resident artist Jarrod von Mustache is not very well liked by his financier (which, if you don’t like art, don’t fund art), so even after Jarrod and his Mustache show how passionate they are about the sculptures, moneybags burns down the studio and all the wax folk. My heart ACHED when everything was burning (That and I will never understand risking someone's life for money). When Jarrod said he would rather die than say goodbye to his art (or his mustache) he meant it, or at least that someone would die, because big boss took a trip down an elevator shaft.

Suddenly a man with a suspiciously burn-scarred face is running around murdering folks (and these folks just happen to disappear from the morgue, but who cares, right?) but it’s not Jarrod because he still has his mustache and is crippled now. Mystery! Sue is our brunette babe who Jarrod sees a muse in (yikes) so thus begins the hunt. Sue spots the murderer and deftly avoids him twice! Even realizes that her friend with the annoying laugh is in the House of Wax as Joan of Arc. Sue is smart! She also knocks off Jarrod's incredibly realistic mask of his own face to reveal the burn scars! (Phantom of the Opera vibes like crazy but not as romantic.)

It was Jarrod all along! He had help from his little art henchmen, but he had a super realistic wax mask on. What a clever twist. I gasped so loudly when she shattered his mask off. I really had no idea it was him after they had shown his face being untouched previously! Now one of the little art henchmen begs the cops to stop Jarrod in a scene that I think really shows off how much alcoholism is a disease but I digress. Next is lots of fighting and the police are actually really helpful. I feel like if the movie happened in any other time period the police would sit around and not be that helpful because of protocol but these guys just rushed right in which is what Sue needed at that exact moment or else she was going to become a candle.

[rustystars]

saw the wicked movie yesterday LOVED IT. boo boo hiss hiss obviously i have my problems with it but when they all started singing i felt like a little kid again :) it was really fun

[binthm]

[film-slut]

The Muppet Movie (1979) ⭐⭐⭐⭐½

In this movie, not one, but two times, about six shotguns are simultaneously pointed at kermit the frog.

Miss piggy slay the house boots down papa I'm deceased.

I'm always worried that older movies will age badly and this one aged gorgeously, save for the confederate flags visible for half a second in the background at the county fair.

The music in this fucks.

[calvinandhobbes]

How was dune 2?

i feel like i can’t view it objectively bc my partner is such a huge denis villeneuve fan & dune fan that i was just happy that he was happy tbh. it was definitely stunning and the scope of it was impressive. i actually loved austin butler’s feyd rautha which i was NOT expecting, i thought he did a great job. without saying too much it made some changes from the book that i was surprised by but probably make sense for a movie franchise adaptation. sand worms were epic 🙌

[match-your-steps]

just read a review of the lego movie from 2014 and it is genuinely a horrible piece of literature and through perusing the comments underneath the review, I have gained an intense dislike of the reviewer. it's not even that I liked the lego movie and he didn't it's just that a lot of the stuff he says is factually incorrect, really stupid-sounding, or he doesn't provide any real reason, and in the comments, he reacts to even the friendliest and politest constructive criticism as if it's a personal attack on him.

[claudeleine]

just saw the substance! wow! yeah! that was. a film.

[pongos-adventure]

Ngl the movie was not what i was expecting but its what they deserved.

Like, yeah they COULDVE hunted mike down the entire movie, but its SOSOSOSOSOSOSOSOSOOOO MUCH BETTER THAT INSTEAD THEY GOT TO HAVE FUN TOGETHER AND BUILD FORTS!!!

THEYRE JUST KIDS!!!!!!

[hannahwatcheshorror]

LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL (2023)

A found footage movie where all the film is professionally taped which is a rather interesting twist on the type, not so much running around with shaking cameras but fixed cameras or professional cameramen recording the event. The title is misleading, it wasn’t THE devil it was A devil but the movie was very good and interesting, it had a good draw/hook and honestly only felt the length of a late night show. David Dastmalchian is haunting.

“So it is done.”

⭐⭐⭐⭐.5

Set up like a late 70's style late night talk show that is desperate for high ratings on Halloween night, Late Night With Jack Delroy has three special guest spots for the evening. Number one is a medium, number two a magician turned skeptic, and lucky number three is our paranormal professor and her little devil child. First the medium comes out and he seems like your normal hack but then he starts hitting and it is really intense and kind of real but when he gets a big powerful shockwave and a message from “Minnie,” no one will accept it. Only after the “commercial break” does Jack Delroy admit that Minnie was a nickname for his late wife.

Second the skeptic is brought on and boy does he have a lot to say about our “medium” but before he even can the medium is busy throwing up black bile (WE LOVE BLACK BILE) all over the place (hello, Jennifer’s Body). He is rushed off to the hospital but he won’t make it there… Finally our third and Final Girls I mean, guests are the Para-Professor and the demon kid. She seems all cute, the kid, but she is tracking the cameras as soon as she comes out and is mad creepy right away (it is pretty awesome, I gotta say). At this point Jack invites the demon that lives in the girl to come out and play and now all hell is ready to break loose.

But first a word from our sponsors! (Just kidding) The prof does a little interview with the devil right then and there and it is spooky! The audience loves it and the girl floats! The skeptic still doesn’t believe it though, chalks it up to hypnosis, even hypnotizes the audience. But the playback doesn’t lie! Then the girl's head splits open like an electric egg and she starts to use the force to kill everyone around her. It is only after Jack has a vision about his dearly departed wife where he uses a sacrificial dagger to put her out of her misery that we snap back to reality and see Jack really stabbed the devil girl and stopped her rampage. “Dreamer, here. Awake.”

“So it is done.”

[mo-ok]

Sad! The only torrents you can find for a foreign movie you REALLY WANT TO WATCH have zero seeders 😀

[ahalliance]

Back to the Future is literally the best movie ever made