CB4 - God, remember comedy movies??? A real riot end to end. The type of visual humor that has you speculating what the payoff of a repeated sight gag is going to be and joke density to rival the greats. We were, of course, waiting for the inevitable crossdressing gag to come, but we've been conditioned to expect a lot worse than we got. Not sure that's a good thing... 8/10
Gundam Hathaway II - Incredible theatrical experience, but streaming compression is going to murder the nighttime MS battles in this one. The type of thematically dense and ambiguous dialogue that had me debating with my better half for the rest of the day. The ED hit me like a sack of bricks regardless of how far in advance I knew it was coming. 9/10
Black Adam - This movie was ass but also maybe kinda good? There's elements of the type of superhero movie I like it here, but its too stupid to be good outside of two Domino's pizzas into a movie night with friends. All the cg has the look of AI generated slop in a way I can't articulate. -7/10
Record of Lodoss War - Absolutely gorgeous and the character designs deserve the logevity they've gotten, but I can't help but feel that capturing the feel of a tabletop game is a double-edged sword. can't say it was particularly compelling or paced. It does get points for being foundational elf-fucker media. 6/10
GOAT (2026) - Let it be known that for someone who doesn't like sports, I like a good sports movie. It's just a VERY well-animated sports family movie with great character design. Not breaking any molds, but very well made. 7/10
Destiny 2 {FINAL} - Dropping in for the final update felt strange and hollow. The game had changed too much to have retained any charm, yet not enough to see anything that felt new or worthwhile. Maybe it died when we had a last conversation with a sense of mutual finality, and what I see now is some kind of lesser thing that wastes in the same chair, allowing for context to build that bitters the memories. A game shouldn't make me draw parallels to my complex relationship with my dying grandfather. 3/10
The FP 2: Beats of Rage - A more consistent and singular iteration of the first film, that combines essentially every genre. Less slurs and better production values. A 'Hell Yeah' of a film. 7/10
Reefer Madness - Occasionally silly, but overall too flat to be riff-able. -4/10
Minecraft Ninja Turtles Movie - Who keeps letting machinema-slop onto Tubi??? How does it get here??? -3/10
There is no Antimemetics Division (SCP Audiobook form) - Man. All timer status. There were points where it could've executed a bit better, but I can see why this was published with the serial numbers filed off. 7/10
Star Trek into darkness - Years of nu-Trek have me wondering why this was so reviled at the time. A reheated, whitewashed and forced retread of one of the greatest star trek stories of all time feels pretty par for the course at this point. At least it has hype moments and aura between occasional well considered scenes, an enemy craft that is genuinely scary and Peter Weller wellering all over his scenes. It's dumb, but at least it's ACTUALLY fun, not just repeating gimmick episodes from different genres and expecting the audience to clap. 6/10
Deep Rising - ITs the kind of action film where everything plays out in the most satisfying way, with enough time for you to piece it together and get excited. Plant and payoff in service of what feels like a light-gun cabinet game. It is a bit noticeable that the diverse cast and gorgeous women are all whittled down to the three surviving white people. Hollywood used to be able to produce bad movies that were eminently watchable. Incredible stinger. -8/10
Battlestar Galactica S1 - I see why people got so attached to this, but I wish they would cool it with the shakeycam and constants attempts to sex-up scifi TV. I like it, I just wish it didn't poison the genre with its success for a while. 6/10
Feddie Scum Zeta - Perhaps a bit of a meandering season, but the highs were high, and the lows were still entertaining. Glad they took some real swings with character mortality and the romance angle. The Patreon bonuses had a decent hit-rate. I thank th show for getting me to start my long-time tabletop game, and would be fine if this is where it ended. 8/10
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