I'm not sure who I dislike more, the masses who aggressively and senselessly trash Tarantino, or the unsubtly sexist and generally bigoted dude-bros who love him with all their heart and soul.
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La La Land 2016
I wholeheartedly believe if you give this film anything under a 4 you need more happiness in your life.
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6 Underground 2019
If you can't appreciate Michael Bay's work as the borderline vorticist overtly dadais individualist gems of modern kino that they clearly are I'm afraid we cannot be friends.
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Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping 2016
Got caught singing the verse "fuck me like we fucked bin laden" under my breath in a maths test and almost got sent out of the classroom, thanks asshole.
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Ouija: Origin of Evil 2016
Leave it to Mike Flanagan to turn possibly the greatest horror disaster of our time into a rooted maltreatment allegory about loss of innocence and family trauma unto the backdrop of capitalistic bloodlust.
(and no, this film is not remotely sophisticated or profound or even good like Flanagan's other work, but it's certainly among the most admirable in the modern horror industry)
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Godzilla 2014
Things this modern Kaiju blockbuster doesn't have
-A disregard for the original origins of its original intellectual property
-A convoluted bloated story (more is lessssss)
-A Constantly stunting badly paced script
-Relentless misplaced intertextuality
-Overcooked exposition delivered by the empty asian guyThings this modern Kaiju blockbuster does have
-A noticeable respect for its origins with an american twist for the people in the back
-A no-bullshit contagion style story
-A constantly evolving well paced script
-Quiet and well judged intertextuality
-Limited exposition delivered by the person that makes the most sense
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Interstellar 2014
"I'm coming back"
Significantly insignificant. A film that does not raise the stakes by lowering the danger (Logan), and a film that does not raise the stakes by raising the danger (Just name any superhero movie, also this doesn't work), but a film that manages to frankenstein the two together, creating a situation where emotion is environment and environment is emotion.
Emotion rules all, even when the world is on the line, the one's who thrive for some kind of…
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