Adam Project: 5/10

I expected very little and my expectations were met. Had the potential for a higher grade (a respectable 6) if it laid a little bit off the schmaltz but it was heavy-handed in that department. And Ryan Reynolds's schtick outside of being Deadpool is PLAYED.

Mark Ruffalo was a delight as usual, though, and Jennifer Garner is pleasant on the eyes to this day.

Venom 2: 4/10


i have thoughts but im too tired. awful.

Within minutes I knew how terrible the writing would be.

Transporting a super powered prisoner that they know has deadly vocal powers and they just throw her in the back of a van in handcuffs? And then are surprised when she immediately uses her powers to escape? Fucking what?

ive never watched a movie thats so rushed where im thankful for it. nothing is built in a meaningful way in this entire film. no arc climaxes in a way that resonates. and im glad. because if this ran any longer than 90min id fucking kill myself.


oh and the cgi budget was so cheap the cw shows could mock it

the biggest laugh of the film was when i saw tom hardy had a writing credit

I still enjoy the personality of the symbiote and its interactions with eddie.

I hope that transfers over to the mcu version.

i hope there isnt an mcu version and the rumor suggests it wont. seems like after the recent spidey film theyre happy with bringing garfield back for amazing 3 and having eddie cross over with Garfield being eddies universes spider-man

Theres a piece of the symbiote left over in holland's world when Venom is teleported home.

that can easily not connect back to its own cannon. that symbiot no longer knows who peter parker is. alls it has to do is find another host (mcu eddie for example) and move forward with a separate cannon


or just not get mentioned again.

its a post credit scene in a movie no one saw after all

It was the post credit scene in No Way Home.

I don't care if it has its own canon. I just like the way the symbiote has its own voice.

thats right the tied no way home and venom 2s post credit together

it still would have to be its own seperate entity at this point

Watched all the conjuring movies. Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga are great in all of them. The first one is god damn stellar. Wasn’t expecting an exorcism. The third act where the possession stuff really kicks in is great. Second one felt like the stakes were significantly lower. The third one gets closer to a return to form, IMO. Stakes felt higher, the movie itself was scarier, and I enjoyed the story more than the second one.

I read a sequel may be in the works. Feel like it’s been diminishing returns since the first one but I kinda want to see these two in more adventures.

Pathetic Wilson

finishing returns

God dammit. That’s what I get trying to type while being high as a kite.

he's Pathetic Wilson from now on which is a shame because i quite like him

Typos are forever the gift that keeps on giving.

I like Patrick Wilson as well. But it’s true, pathetic Wilson is great.

Just saw that nicolas cage movie thats all about nicolas cage... The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent or something... kinda absurd but pretty brilliant... funny... good

Figured it would be

"everything everywhere all at once" was really heavy and there was a little too much going on... was cool though... kinda like the matrix X kirby X that shitty ass movie "Jumper". A lot of "statements" about "life" though... too much at times... felt dumb watching it

Encanto - 7/10


reallly difficult to land on a rating for this. most of what i enjoyed was the animation. its outstanding. tons of character in every frame. its great. as good as it gets really.

the songs are mixed. some are good others weaker. none will stay with you a lifetime though.

then there's the messaging. awful. no idea what the writier had against exceptionalism but as far as morals go i cant think of a worse thing to celebrate than complacency.

archetypes are formed over millenia because theyve seperated the wheat from the chaff. this urge to throw away the evolution of human wisdom wont lead us anywhere good.

Film shouldve been a 9 but the messaging is so bad i wanted to give it a 6.

Destor reviewing Encanto seems like such a weird moment in time for me for some reason. Not the content of the review, it's a pretty damn fair assessment. Just that this review even exists. Bizarre.

I found myself more interested in the message/story of her sisters than Mirabel.....


I liked the songs.

Dunno, I'm surprised it took him that long to watch a musical.

Yeah that actually makes sense now, I stopped equating animated films like this to musicals once Disney and the copycats quit making their old style of animated films every year. Basically when all animated films were musicals.

ill basically watch any musical.
the characters were all great. the songs arent bad but compare them to lion king for example or even more recently moana and its doubtful these will be stuck in your head in 10 years.

i was unaware it was a musical until yesterday so really my turn around was pretty fast within context

Yeah Destor knows whats up with the Disney animated films of the 90s and earlier. Hakuna Matata up in here.

disney has the most consistent catalog of musicals of all time. shame they went out of style for so long but frozen brought the genre back a bit...even if theyre not hand animated anymore...


i don't dislike digital i just dislike digital having 99% of the market share

there's easily 4 songs from that 1 film that can just randomly infect my brain for a day. same for a ton of songs from that era...if thats the gold standard encanto can only be "pretty good"

Same. There are some fine cg movies but I prefer the hand drawn style still. One of the reasons I watch anime is because I love the animation style.

Side note: Out of all the animated movie songs ever, there has always been one that stuck in my head more than any other, and it's surprisingly not Disney. This conversation has got it in my head on repeat now.

Soooommmmmeeeewwwwhhhhheeerrrreeee outtttt tthhhheeerrrrreeeee. Fievel Mousekewitz is my dawg.

Don Bluth had a stretch there for awhile where he was making some high level animated movies that rivaled Disney imo.

I dont say this lightly: An American Tail is a masterpiece

He KILLED it in the 80's. Secret of NIMH, An American Tail, The Land Before Time, All Dogs Go To Heaven.

100% agree.

I'm gonna watch these movies with my kids tomorrow. I feel like a failure for forgetting to expose them to these classics.

I generally prefer the songs in Encanto to the ones in Moana..... but Moana does have the best and most memorable song out of the two movies...

curious to hear how it resonates

i lot of the merit i give music in general is a songs ability to live rent free in my mind. maybe it spontaneously bursts into my mind demanding i bask in it or perhaps it fully encapsulates a specific instance. you see a thing and the song is the perfect expression for the infinity you find ineffable.

i can def tap my toes to encanto but it doesnt have what it takes to take up permanent residency in the canon of my mind.

which isnt to say its bad. in the slightest. it just isnt great. it isnt EXCEPTIONAL. the irony of that is pretty rich tbh.