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but the ones Ive seen Ive disliked
reddit has been suggesting me a lot of dcu/batman stuff cause Ive interacted with a couple "The Batman" posts recently
Idg how people glaze Godzilla vs Kong so much I went in expecting no substance fight scenes and ready to enjoy that but it was still a bore
and I cant help myself but argue against the people
that want Battinson in the DCU
for this exact reason
just let a hero have their own universe for once
I like the ideaof a connected universe but not when they want to introduce 50 new characters
like I still cant believe antman go so many movies
I got really really like something to be bought in for like 20 movies
And I'm not into either of the superhero universes enough for that level of buy in
I dont think I need a movie for every b-tier hero out there
just watch reeves' the batman
and the penguin
and whatever else he does
and call it a day
I liked the penguin so much I went and watched the batman
The batman || disappointed because barely any penguin and i don't really like the riddler ||
the batman ||well the penguin became what he is as a result of the batman. We'll probably get plenty more of him in the future. ||
The batman || yeah but that's kinda what I'm getting at isn't it. I don't want my payoff in movie 2 or movie N ||
Spider verse || even worse version of this where it's not even a full story on its own ||
the batman ||well your payoff is in "The Penguin"
your silly ass watched out of order smh.... But Riddler is out of the way anyway. Will probs be characters you care about more in the future. Theres going to be a The Penguin season 2, and they're doing another spinoff series as well that I forgot the name of||
Lot of media like that lately where the existence of future installments already being confirmed makes people feel like they don't gotta deliver a full story in each piece
uh
The Penguin did though
it wasnt even supposed to get a sequel
it just did well enough to
Yeah I don't mean that one but it's hard to talk about a bunch of recent things at once in a spoiler sensitive way
gotcha. I dont mind it depending on the context
Across the spiderverse ||I liked the ending. I know people that were upset by it cause they werent aware it was getting split into two movies, but the movie was very long as is. They probably couldnt really get away with what they wanted to do without a cliffhanger||
important to remember spiderverse was supposed to end with the second movie originally
plans had to change
Spider || worse example than usual cause delayed but for me it ends up I just don't care about the story anymore by the time the second half comes out so I end up with just half a story ||
Spiderverse || how can you not be hyped for accent miles (you can tell hes evil because accent for some reason)||
Spider || lol even if i was a big spiderman fan who really cares about this character, it's been 2 years and it'll be 4 before any resolution. Hype just withers over time if not fed ||
bro wouldn't last 1 second as a hunter x hunter fan
me being a nana fan (15 year hiatus btw)
I just pretended it ended at the last major arc
animated movies like this take a lot more work than your average animated movie. Shits just gonna take a while. Im willing to wait for quality
I guess I would have preferred 2 2 hour stories to one 4 hour
Across the Spiderverse ||the cliffhanger would have annoyed me if it literally just stopped like we were entering an intermission but the film has a complete arc for both Gwen and Miles. It still felt like an ending for that chapter.||
^
Across the Spiderverse || Completed arcs for both, but still halfway through an overarching narrative. So a cliffhanger makes sense, but I also felt extremely fulfilled||
I'm still waiting on Legends 3 👴
good luck...
That game ain't ever being made
me with timesplitters 4
My hopes are a new MegaMan game set in a new era after it that has some data entry explaining what happened or some MegaMan Complete Works art book showing design docs for the 3ds version of 3
Don't care if my closure is 3 sentences
I just want it :(
its over bon give up 😔
There's a tragic possibility that Udon will do it in their new comics
I don't want THAT
Udon sucks
Who even buys all those Street Fighter and Shantae bathing suit collections
does udon suck? The few manga I have published by them are fine
They do their own comics for game licenses and stuff and they're really not that interesting
And a lot of pinup girl art
no issues with their translations
ohhhh
So u got shit like fuckin Gremlins, Robocop, evil dead 1 2, whatever tf amadeus n some of the others is in S
But scarface terminator lethal weapon is A and top gun rocky 3 is B
Finished watching Thunderbolts decent watch ngl
Robo cop, evil dead and gremlins is peak
And so is amedeus
Peak film
Anything is peak smh 😭
I don't feel strongly about it but I like it more than Batman Begins and DKR
Pretty great fun
just batman
Knew you would come around
Ive always liked batman lol
You should watch them
Batman, Spiderman, and Fantastic Four are the ones Ive liked
and spiderman .. and Thor and ..
a mf watches/reads a bunch of batman and attributes it to superhero fandom
😔
I just like batman man
Yes
anyway

Batman 89 || so much for batman not killing anyone? 😭 Bro killed dozens by blowing up a factory, and then killed joker||
Dark Knight trilogy/89 batman || Dark Knight trilogy had him kill a bunch of people too tho, tbh. They tried to be more slick with it tho||
Which comic u liked so far for Batman ?
have u watched mask of the phantasm
Ive only read the two
and some sporadic attempts over the years ig
but I liked both Year One and Long Halloween
shit like evil dead 2 and amadeus
it's bleak 
kids these days don't know good movies
I probably have when I was a kid
I watched a lot of the cartoon stuff as a kid
idr them though
I remember beyond better
I need to rewatch Amadeus, incredible film
i think u should watch it again if u like batman, its probably the best batman movie alongside the batman
Yeah that’s true
maybe I'll peep eventually. Doesn't it require context from the cartoon its attached to tho?
or is it not attached
No context needed
The animated series itself is an episodic series that doesn’t move a lot in linearity
ye but its still connected right? Wouldnt it be good to watch at least the first few eps
I know those old cartoons usually give context to the circumstances/where we're starting from
in the pilot etc
Nope
Nothing like that
Yes shit like evil dead 1 2
and whatever tf amadeus is cause I gotta watch that one seems interesting
Need to watch those before calling them shit
yes need to watch it
Not them
Amadeus rest are shit imo
Crazy
Calling evil dead shit
Is actually crazy
Same raimi kino
Not much for the genre as a whole although i fw avp etc and some of the movies
They arent the type of horror you're used to
From modern shit
He has some comedy in there
Saying evil dead and avp are the same genre is wild ngl
They’re the same genre sure but completely different tones and quality
Both horror
Latter is more of supernatural and body horror ig
Out of avp and evil dead
Hi sleepy am hathor
Yeah heavy lean on the sci fi and action
But yeah u could place avp on thriller as well
I mostly like the scifi elements of aliens
My only hope is evil dead burn is good
I think last I heard was of evil dead 6
U telling me they still cookin up the series

Batman Returns
He's cooking
Batman Begins || this mf
lmao ||
Anyone here watching Eyes of Wakanda?
not yet, but looks v cool I had seen trailer
Yeah, now I'm on the second episode of Eyes of Wakanda. ||Set in Greece during the Trojan war||
you should spoiler tag that
Eyes of Wakanda second episode || whatever the setup is ||
like this
Oh, yeah, alright'
better add Eyes of Wakanda at beginning
rewatching bullet train for like 4th time today
You watched it 4 times today?
Maybe they watched it for the 4th time today
Absolute Super (is just edgy Superman, ig?)
|| https://fxtwitter.com/kyezzzz/status/1952381549514833983?s=46 ||
Nope
Is that an accurate depiction?
Nope
Well, edgy in the sense that the universe is a bit edgy in a way because of context
But the writing and characterization is adjacent to the Superman we know
F1 ||the strategy in that film is so hilariously removed from reality despite them doing their utmost to make the rest of it all look as realistic as possible ||
F1 ||it isn’t real??? Sure was neat tho||
Dont really care either way knowing nothing
It was entertaining enough
F1 || It’s so fucking stupid lmao “Yeah let’s outfit our car for COMBAT cause we’re SLOWER than the other cars!” >overtakes only on straights. Also the Brad Pitt fucking crashing sequences are so illegal that it’s insane, as well as when Joshua crashed at the end - one of the biggest scandals in recent F1 history was a driver crashing into another on purpose due to team orders and a buuuunch of punishments were handed out ||
F1 ||The filming of everything was great obviously but I often found myself jarred a bit by the fact that despite the actual drivers being shown outside the races and name-dropped during, they were just helmets without faces during the climatic shots. Wish they’d done a few cockpit viewpoints of like Lewis or Kevin Magnussen or whoever else was relevant||
Also, weren’t the cars Pitt and Idris drove not even F1 cars lol
They were f2 cars made to look like f1 cars yeah, which was noticeable but just kind of silly more than anything
F1 ||visuals were great and the music too but I didn’t really find myself caring too much about what was happening on screen. Admittedly I’m not a fan of formula 1 and not familiar with its inner workings so I can’t speak on the strategy stuff but in general it was a weaker movie than I expected. Ford v Ferrari was much much better.||
This was weird to me aswell
Cure || https://x.com/cigarettemovies/status/1952041785439760597?s=46 || @raw gate
Cure (1997) - 0:29:40
Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Runtime 111 minutes
🚬 x 7, or one cigarette every 15.86 minutes
https://t.co/pfCTKfFsb4
Blueberry #7: The Iron Horse
now that i have sat with it for a bit i feel like andor s1 was better than s2.
This is a neat statistic lmao
Twok ||I love innocent characters placed in a morbid setting||
Twok ||syl is def one of my favorite characters so far lol||
Twok ||I’m most interested in the storyline with the king so far tho ||
Twok ||kaladin I think is my favorite storyline so far but the Dalinar/king one is also really good. Dalinar is a really cool character||
Learn the names bruh 😭
Twok ||elhokar kinda makes me mad. But I don’t hate him||
Twok/got|| he gives renly baratheon vibes kinda||
Twok ||but yeah Dalinar is cool, wise old dudes are always cool ||
Twok ||Kaladin’s is getting better with him giving a shit and I think irs inspiring the rest of the bridge team to give a shit but at the ens of the day he’s still just carrying bridges so its not that interesting plot wise so far||
I reread this book earlier this year i think twok || dalinars is def the best written. Kaladin 2nd and 3rd shallan imo ||
Twok ||the power system lowkey still confuses me. I need some clarification. So is stormlight usuable without the shard plates? As in the lashing stuff? And why haven’t we seen the lashing stuff since Szeth killed galivar? And how many plates and blades are there again? There seem to be a lot. The fabrial stuff seems kinda straight forward I’m just confused about the stormlight powers||
Almost 400 pages in
Close to ending part 2
Twok late part 2 ||im at the part after kaladin exchanges the liquid healing stuff to the apothecary||
yea keep reading ur questions shall be answered

😭
Im not intentionally tryna pass you 😭
I’ve just been trying to do other stuff less and read more
Having a reading companion is so fun
Yes me and muk are book buddies now its a bond more powerful than blood
I think I’ve been at least reading two chapters a day
Long ahh book take ur time. U guys are stuck in tsa for a while
Ts is the shortest one
Holy hell
This is like near the longest game of thrones book
And this is the shortest one
There are also 2 novellas which are 250 ish pages each
Are they required reading
Well i dont really remember what happened in them because i speedread them so take it as u will
Cosmere so big
I would say they are less essential to the plot, moreso important for some side characters that become more important later on
Oh yeah I heard the first 5 Stormlight books are its own contained story? And the next 5 will still be Stormlight just starting anew?
If so that’s good since the next book isn’t for another 6 years
The next arc(book 6-10) will follow on this story but with new main characters. The first arc is concluded satisfactorily tho yuh
Perfect
Oh okay
That makes me more willing to read them
I thought i was gonna have to wait hella long to continue
time to make a letterboxd
lord have mercy
what am i looking at
is that where the wild things are
IDK how to interpret this message
The Internet has ruined me
I think it’s herself as a labubu
Which is like
Insanely boomer core
Anyone watch the boys
Ya
i'm watching Alone and it kills me to see contestants butcher an animal, cook it, then use their hands to eat 
@fair echo sick of adding stuff for now:
https://letterboxd.com/AAAAAAAAAHHHHHH/
will slowly fill stuff in as time goes on
Nice username
Why the change of heart
Does this guy like movies?????? 😭 😭 😭 😭
LA Haine is a dope choice but that average rating is abysmal
i havent added movies i specifically like
i went through the popular ones to just
stick ones on there
so my average rating is silly
Finally watched Jaws all the way through
Have you seen Yi Yi, Juba?
Good imo
yes
I know that's such a hot take
Jaws slaps
I've seen a lot of yang films
just cba to search everything, i searched too much already
i watched a lot of taiwanese films when i lived there
this is mine
ive settled on a criteria mostly
also just dont care as much
Brave
is this a zoe saldana labubu???? good god
Dont u have a shit ton if things not scored tho as well
i havent scored a lot of bad movies because i dont like scoring them
??? 😭
When I heard the premise to this, I knew it would be bad
Rod Stewart pays tribute to Ozzy Osbourne during concert by displaying AI-generated visuals of Ozzy taking selfies with dead celebrities in heaven.
old people love ai
He would be proud
good for him
Going against the system
A lot of people are getting one shotted by ai man it’s so funny
highest 2 lowest || https://fixvx.com/A24/status/1952368936118526215 ||
The King is here. Spike Lee reunites with Denzel Washington for the first time in 20 years for HIGHEST 2 LOWEST — only in theaters August 15, streaming September 5 on Apple TV+
this is so different from the original high and low except for in the basic barebones structure and plotting that i think its a good idea
feels like a film that's entirely set in its own culture and with its own nuance than aping whatever came with the original
I don't even like the Spielberg version
I can't bring myself to watch this
Now this?
This is high art.
i like the spielberg version until the third act
Twok time
Cool I'll add it when I get home
Did you make a good reads as well
I'll make one if you do
Also if I didn't know you I would say your letterboxd is ragebait lol, the average rating is crazy
i just went through popular
i havent added films i particularly like
just wanted to get the number up
Batman Returns
The one thing I can agree on is that La Haine is a very very good film

I haven't even added that to my list, escaped my mind
Half the reason this film had a bad reputation for years was cuz parents brought their kids to it and it's so not appropriate for them
batman and robin is the only true dogshit movie from that era
even then it still has some funny meme moments
Batman Forever sucks too
why
batman forever is one I watched as a kid. I dont remember much of anything from it
Its a movie
Peak line tbh
finished Batman Returns. ||Feels like its a weird case where its a bad batman movie but a fun Tim Burton movie. Both Batman 1989 and Batman Returns have a great vibe. They killed it with the sets. Both don't feel like they do Batman's character justice, but the villains kinda carry with how stupid they are lol. ||
Battle of Algiers >>>>
The Naked Island enjoyer
Thunderbolts 2025 || so glad I watched this after a brief recap of Ant Man 2 cause it had Ava from there, pretty decent film ngl, the whole thing they had with Bob and Red Guardian being hyped for Avengers but with a Z. The post credits scenes looks like a buildup towards Fantastic 4 ? still have not watched that one yet .. I'd give a 8/10 imo.||
superman @foggy mirage @frank rivet 

The test audience cut
Batman Returns ||movie kinda presents all of Gotham's heroes and villains as nothing but victims and freaks. Maxwell Lord is the real corruption at the heart of the city, Batman's no different from the Penguin or Catwoman besides having the strength and support to overcome his grief, etc.
I like it as a different look at the characters. One where once you take a step back they feel like the only relatable people in Gotham, despite how over the top they are. It's just what this city does to people.||
Make sure one of them is the Holy Bible, you little heathen.
This made me do like a spit take lmfao
I’m a pure man Idk why I would need that
Started reading Absolute Martian Manhunter today. Pretty great so far, but I need to reread the first two since I was half asleep still.
Debating if I should pick up something because I want to learn Mandarin to talk to the kitchen at my restaurant
Because theyre awesome
Maybe you could finally learn to ask to be paid more than 3 dollars an hour
Wombat slander going extra hard today
Jokes on you pal a couple days ago i made 40 an hour
Also i ended up getting oathbringer as well
Didn’t plan on it
niceeee
I think oathbringer is genuinely the biggest book I’ve seen in my life
Read your 3rd book
???
Whats this hate for bro
Did everyone wake up on the wrong side of the bed today ive been a model citizen today i helped an old lady carry books into half priced books today
I’m crying, it’s constant slander for you today
Good job on helping the old lady
What other books did you get
hey i read that like last month
i liked it. theres a movie coming
but dont watch the trailer if you havent cause they bizarrely put a spoiler in it
Batman Returns ||I can KINDA see that perspective, and I can tell they're going for that. But batman felt so out of character is what I mean. Type of mf to smirk before killing someone 😭 And gordon and harvey were basically just nonexistent in both films. ||
I liked it
just saying I liked it for different reasons
Amazing Spider-Man #51
||I love him|| Amazing Spider-Man #51
omg....i started reading those panels right to left.......
Weeb
I've done it too
Batman returns ||maxwell lord is in this????||
30% of the way through twok
Time for the next Bond https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H-vx87Arq8
James Bond Opening Titles #05
Title Song sung by NANCY SINATRA
Title Song lyrics by LESLIE BRICUSSE
Music composed and conducted by JOHN BARRY
Main Title designed by MAURICE BINDER
James Bond created by IAN FLEMING
You Only Live Twice is the fifth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, starring SEAN CONNERY as the fictional MI6 a...
||https://youtu.be/V-1HaEqDIdw?si=Ip9g2JGG3Pj81lV7|| die another day
James Bond - Die Another Day (2002)
Give it like 3 years
Discover the joy of unexpected connections. RENTAL FAMILY, starring Academy Award® winner Brendan Fraser. Premiering at @TIFF 2025, only in theaters November 21st. #RentalFamily
Set against modern-day Tokyo, RENTAL FAMILY follows an American actor (Brendan Fraser) who struggles to find purpose until he lands an unusual gig: working for a Japan...
Gonna be absolute peak
ive been obssesed with the batman who laughs lore lately 😵💫
Forgot to mention that I finished Tom Taylor's Nightwing run
Run all in all was a solid 7.5 to an 8 out of 10
||The pacing is reaaaaaally not good in some parts, like the main plot is spread out in between arcs and will just come and go at times. I need to read other runs in order to see how Dick's writing in this compares to his other characterizations, but I enjoyed it overall. The art is consistently fantastic, and the special issues (continuous shot and POV shot) are all really cool.
It also just...kinda ends lol, like the final battle is nothing to write home about.||
@modern lichen is this basically the solo leveling of batman
Powerscale chicanery
Also want to tell Harsh that I read something today that was like "here's how you get into Hulk comics" and it lists like 30 years worth of comics
but so far, I'm enjoying the Watters run of Nightwing, caught up to it this morning
gonna be reading nothing but Nightwing shit for a while, since he's my current ADHD hyper fixation 
Clayface movie next year 
that soon? Damn, thought it would be in '27
Batman who laughs 
lmao
||technically thats not who laughs, is a different character called darkest knight||
I got dragged into naked gun 2025 today
we left after 10 minutes
actively one of the dumber films ive ever seen
which i knew from the trailer but
You paid 20 bucks to leave a movie in the first ten minutes?
In this economy!???
I think you can get your money back if it was that early
we didnt care
friend and wife really wanted to see it
they hated it
It can not be that bad man
it's just extremely unfunny
if you liked it i would be concerned for you
and respect you less
less now
i like mamma mia
Lmfao curious what Harsh will say
Anybody fan of Batman : hush 12 or 13 comic series

Is that the live action lion king lmao?
What do you want me to say lol I don’t care about the film at all
Yeah it’s absolute trash
I’m just curious cause you said you were going to watch it and said it had good reviews
You’re reading it as me insulting you but I genuinely want to know
I just woke up 😭
Nah I’m gonna watch it when it comes out on a torrent or something
I’ve already shilled out all my money last month for the multiple cinema visits
Wasn’t interested in Naked Gun until I saw the reviews lmao

War of the worlds (2025) has to be completely AI straight dog water
Man I know it's a product of the time but the animal cruelty in the 1940 One Million BC made it one of the tougher watches I've had of late
Knew it was there going in but also it kinda went further than I expected
(rest of the film was kinda boring besides all that too just watch the sexier Hammer version with Raquel Welch and Harryhausen effects)
ill watch neither 
You'll NEVER understand where Toriyama got all his cavegirl designs from....
I'll live...
only toriyama anything I like nowadays is his designs he provides for squeenix games
weeb
dragon ball super super hero was fun....
wouldnt it make me more weeb to like toriyama's anime/manga
Wait the fcuk why am I being shy about that
It was GAS
Justice League show - || just got to the Just-Us League
this shit is so gas || @foggy mirage
Not liking the most internationally popular anime makes you more of a weeb
I like pokemon
nah it was never a cohesive enough story to be. And too childish
they watch tiktok and youtube now
times have changed
ipads exist
😔
no more cartoon network
The world has FORGOTTEN about Nintendo.....
say it aint so 
I wish
Pokemon has decent stuff later on though
Idk how the fans feel about the new stuff though
Thank god
harsh has never played a nintendo game..
WEDNESDAY SEASON 2 JUST RELEASED AND TODAY IS WEDNESDAY
Didn’t complete Super Mario Bros Wii 15 times to get this slander
wii was a dark era for 2d mario games man...
Dawg
you got the worst period 😔
Ok I played a lot of Pokémon too
??? Wii was probably the height of NSMBs popularity and also had a Wario Land and DKC game
pokemon don't got that nintendo polish but 2d pokemon games were good anyway
It was Nintendos 2d revival period
Up to gen 4
I didnt like NSMB
DS and Gameboy for the win fr
I'll live forever
Never seen Forever or & Robin
Jim Carrey Riddler impression
Batman & Robin
Fuckin Nostalgia Critic bro
Mask of the Phantasm ||movies been cool but they do a really bad job at understanding the passage of time. Like when he proposed I cant tell if theyve known each other for 3 days or for 3 years||
conveying
not understanding
Mask of the Phantasm || it’s meant to be floaty like a fairy tale, a distant memory of a good time, I don’t think it matters if they knew each other for how much ever time ||
ah I see
Mask of the Phantasm || they fall in love immediately or in a quick succession decide to get married, Bruce is finally happy and then tragedy strikes and reality sets in, their lives will never be the same again, it’s pretty great writing imo ||
Mask of the Phantasm || there’s a concept I read somewhere maybe said by Einstein that when you’re happy, time flows like a rapid river and when life is getting tough, every second is excruciatingly slow ||
Mask of the Phantasm ||nah its a weird time thing. It seems to have been actually years but its not conveyed properly. Her returning at the beginning of the movie is actually after all the stuff where her and her father run away to Europe. So its her returning, then a long weird flashback that you can't really tell is a flashback, to them becoming lovers before we finally find out why she left and you're left thinking "wait, this was all BEFORE that?". Then it explains that the stuff with the guy that keeps getting mistaken as batman was her father who returned home before his daughter. Then she comes back too and is standofish to bruce until hes escaping the police and she picks him up.
I get the time thing, but it actually is a bit confusing with the flipflopping without clearly conveying that we're in a flashback at all etc||

The Dark Knight still better. And I think I like Batman Returns a bit more too
Why is superhero disliker watching superheroes
He wants to appear cool now that superheroes are back in fashion
I hate performative men
My culture is not your costume
Any women feel this way? Dm me and lets have a discussion
Rewatched Wings of Desire, incredible
Yeah ngl i didnt hear anything abt it but next year is looking good for dc
King of the Hill new season
||Its pretty dang good, I tell ya hwhat.||
Just sad so many of the voice actors died
Luanne and Lucky, Dale, John Redcorn (both VA's), Chuck Mangione, and the last two were just this summer 😢
https://x.com/culturecrave/status/1953010973062635846?s=46 miracle year for horror actually, this might be the capstone
could superman being basically the start of the new dcu be a reason as to why its made so much this early
the it show is also coming
probably
its unfortunate how Thunderbolts and F4 flopped in box office
mcu is finished
that superhero fatigue kicking in
i wouldnt want the upcoming movies to flunk if thats the case
Its a better movie than both f4 and thunderbolts
Mcu been bad for a while
They did a lot of damage to the brand
its those fucking shows i tell ya
Those shitty films
worst decision of their life
Did infinitely worse
everything went downhill after wandavision
Quantumania
thunderbolts was awesome to me tho
I can't believe guardians 3 came out after quantum
Went from abyss quality
To heaven
And then he dipped to become ceo for dc
He knew the writing on the wall
what a chad
Thankfully I can always watch it without having to watch mcu stuff outside it
after secret wars
🥵
Peacemaker s2
Lanterns
Supergirl and clayface
Im good
If doomsday flops that would be insane
Thankfully we've been getting a lot more good movies this year
dont forget creature commandos
@foggy mirage Aliens coming out next week
James Gunn saw marvel and he ran away
at least he gave us one final banger tho
Books 2025 (18/25) - current progress 6 months into the year:
The Lowland - Jhumpa Lahiri- ~~ Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell trilogy 1/3) - Hilary Mantel ~~
- Bring Up The Bodies (Thomas Cromwell trilogy 2/3) - Hilary Mantel
- The Mirror and the Light (Thomas Cromwell trilogy 3/3) - Hilary Mantel
- ~~The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt ~~ (partial reread)
- The Passenger - Cormac McCarthy
- Stella Maris - Cormac McCarthy
- ~~ Agent Running in the Field - John le Carre ~~
- ~~ The Buried Giant - Kazuo Ishiguro ~~
- ~~ Intermezzo - Sally Rooney ~~
- ~~ The Palace of Illusions - Chitra Divakaruni ~~
- ~~ The Starless Sea - Erin Morgenstern~~ (Did not finish)
- ~~ Orbital - Samantha Harvey ~~
- ~~ The Bright Sword - Lev Grossman ~~
- ~~ The Magicians - Lev Grossman (The Magicians trilogy 1/3) ~~ (reread)
- ~~ The Magician King - Lev Grossman (Magicians trilogy 2/3) ~~ (reread)
- ~~ The Magician's Land - Lev Grossman (Magicians trilogy 3/3) ~~ (reread)
- ~~ The Tainted Cup - Robert Jackson Bennett ~~
- ~~ The Anthropocene Reviewed - John Green ~~
- ~~ Say Nothing - Patrick Radden Keefe ~~
- ~~ A Swim in a Pond in the Rain - George Saunders ~~ (reread)
- ~~ Martyr! - Kaveh Akbar ~~
- The Blade Itself (The First Law 1/3) - Joe Abercrombie
- Before They Were Hanged (The First Law 2/3) - Joe Abercrombie
- Last Argument of Kings (The First Law 3/3) - Joe Abercrombie
Progress on my books list
Uhhhhh
I’m 3/8 through my books list
Get on my level harsh
I have to compile everything I plan on reading this year because I am a hot mess
what time?
do people go to the movies on a wednesday afternoon lol
Dude these spider-man set pics from the new movie look so good
Please be good please be good please be good
it has other heroes in it so it will be mid
Terrible camera quality, but it arrived!
Usually not but I travel tomorrow night so if I was seeing this it was today lol
Wish I had time to do it yesterday they upped the prices and Tuesdays are discounted 😔
Decent movie and there's a lot I liked about it but it feels like it should have been better than it was? Idk that feels like a stupid comment but I'll organize my thoughts when I get home
Saw that
Fantastic Four First Steps ||I feel like this film wasn't necessarily DEATH by paper cuts but it definitely felt neutered by the final edit, like what we're seeing is the abridged theatrical cut of a much grander movie. And I was kinda fucking with it until the halfway point which is what makes it disappointing.
There's just a lack of follow through in the third act. For basically every facet of the movie. Ben might as well not be in it with the way his entire arc was truncated into 3 minutes of film time. What feels like the scene that should be the beginning of Silver Surfers arc leads right into a heroic sacrifice and change of heart that feels totally unearned. For all the hype for Galactus as a genuine god and a being beyond comprehension and the natural laws of physics the grand finale mostly treats him as a stumbling giant robot in a way that doesn't do his scale any justice. The global mob that wants to take Franklins head getting over the trolley problem because Sue makes a pre-canned speech feels hollow. Reed never really comes around to feeling like a father to Franklin, throughout the entire last encounter he's still doing everything cuz Sue wants him to and not from his own volition.
It goes on and on. Just can't live up to all the things it was fast forwarding through the first 20 minutes to set up. And it's a shame because the pretense behind it all, this celebrity superhero family being forced to confront an impossible cosmic problem as scientists because its space powers outclass theirs, while none of the citizens they protect even support them, IS captivating. Maybe a bit too big brained for the Marvel formula, I guess.||
||Even this cool retro futuristic world they build ends up being little more than set dressing. I don't expect the film to politically analyze what a world like this looks like or comment on what the "idyllic mid 20th century America" it's calling back to actually was like, it's a fuckin Marvel movie and it's amazing they even had the self awareness to show a black woman in power to handwave that. But when it's panning around the world and every other city is recognizably the same as our reality, and when it's spending so much of its run time in like 3 rooms of the Baxter building and outer space, it just ends up feeling like a funky version of New York City and little more. Novelty quickly wore off.
Maybe if there were more scenes set outside (and not in ruins) it'd make more impact. Seeing more of the civilians lives, and skirmishes with other villains like Red Ghost. Things I already know they filmed and gutted lol. Would love to see a directors cut, but Disney doesn't operate that way.||
Lotta words I hit the cap
at work so cant read this in full now but I agree heavily with your first sentence
You can't trick me gunn
I know your ass trying to get people into the authority
Bro cooking a Mr miracle and barda show
And nightwing likely for titans and deathstroke and bane movie
For me it was Arkham asylum
arkham asylum is a lot of fun and has so much more going for it
Dog day afternoon || Al pacino acting is spectacular as always, the plot, the drama, the environment, everything was nearly perfect in this movie||
I rate it 4.5/5
Batman AA ||yeah but that game has like two boss fights and one is Bane and you fight it with different skins 8 times or something||
Love the game but Man.
yeah thats defo something you care about more than me ig for a game like that
I have added about 10 movies to letterboxd watchlist yesterday, hoping to see all my watchlist movies this year
I reckon I will put more movies on watchlist whenever I finish a movie, so it might never happen 
Thats not bane dog
The only thing he has in common with bane is wearing a mask
Thats it
About the same level of accuracy that George Clooney had as batman
Arkham origins bane
Is the best adaptation of him in a game
203 bucks for a bane figure I'm gonna be the one getting nuts
FF movie ||Yeah I think it’s becoming general consensus that the editing and Final Cut of this movie clearly has its issues. And apparently there’s not going to be any directors cut so? Very strange. And also absolutely agree about Galactus feeling more like a giant robot in the final battle rather than a cosmic force. But that’s kind of par for the course when it comes to cosmic threats in comic shit so I guess I can mostly hand wave it. I think this movie is really good almost entirely off of visuals and vibes alone, with some fairly decent characterization with Sue and Johnny’s characters in particular for me. But yea, clearly there’s quite a bit missing from this movie that stops it from being amazing||
I still had fun tho
I'm 5 minutes into the new war of the worlds and already deeply regret it
Might not finish this one
I pulled out my 3ds and I'm playing Puyo Puyo while it's running on my tv
It's worse than you think
You're right
These new wicked posters might be the worst thing I’ve ever seen
South Park is really cooking this season
https://t.co/RJK8T8gdo6
QRT: californut
as my first act of love, i’m going to ragebait you
Loved this scene, one of the best in the film
Superman - || This was like a quarter of the first act which is crazy. The whole theater was quiet AF when this scene happened you could feel the tension||
yall so dramatic...
Wicked: For Good should’ve been cancelled for good
I liked Superman but yeah they are going to extreme lengths to say stuff like that is cinema.
more like Wacked: For Good
I implore people to watch non capeshit
yeah that scene was more funny to me than anything else
Like weapons this Friday
I saw that and considered then I realized its a scary movie
Ppl just having fun cuz its a rare good capeshit movie
You’re the guy who glazes shitty puzzles in Zelda bro come on
play any nintendo game in the last 20 years
I’m trying to ragebait you
It’s supposed to be one of a kind movie. Truly masterful stuff and I can’t wait to see it
I hope it lives up
I’m not spoiling it for myself
I wish I could care for horror man
Got 60 critic reviews and at 100 percent
kinda sucks that most of the movies people praise over the past few decades
have been horror
Highest rated horror film in 21st century
Idk you’re saying horror like it’s chucky or something
Maybe stop being a wimp red smh
arent the actual critic scores not releasing til friday? I saw someone say that the ones released so far are handpicked by the production studio
I think it’s just suspenseful
I just said the scene was one of my favorite bro
weapons early viewing very very very minor spoiler ||I saw someone say there are a few jump scares. I think any movie with jump scares has intent to scare you or make you uneasy. That stuff triggers my anxiety||
it seems less like a horror film and more like a thriller or whatever
Also this is crazy cause it’s just not true
Horror has become one of the biggest slop genres
Yeah I’m with Juba. When I think of horror I think of like Friday the 13th. Crappy b movies. This seems scary by just making scenes really intense.
horror movies suck
Yup
hereditary was a big deal because it was the first horror movie people liked
and even it kind of sucked
hereditary ||at least all the horror bits at the end did||
The shining is good YouTube told me that
all genres have become slop but a lot of the reputable ones that stand out whenever there ISNT a slop year, have been horror. Horror movies are just easier/cheaper to make and pull audiences better even when they're poorly made so there is a higher frequency of horror films than a lot of other films as far as Im aware
I think a lot of millennials are into b horror movies and make it their personality. At least in the school I was in. “You don’t get it it’s supposed to suck” kinda thing. Really drove me nuts
so youll see a lot more slop
What are you talking about lol
arent most indie films horror
no
Gun to your head name 5 prolific horror movies no peele allowed
In the last 10 years
trust me red i dont like horror at all
it
Weapons isnt even out
many good movies besides horror have released
doesnt mean it isnt prolific
Sinners a horror movie??
Are we calling something prolific before it comes out
anyway Im not saying otherwise I just dont like how prominent they are. Same for videogames
@near echo you watched war of the worlds? lmao
I did too
they sell cause people like watching them in theaters
to be horror
Dogshit
did you watch all of it
I need a usb port
why
If only I could get it to my house
I wanted to laugh at it
But there’s too many aliens
It’s hilarious
Thank goodness Amazon has drone shipping
thats literally what Im saying though. Theyre the most profitable for lower budget films and they can get away with theatrical releases so theres a higher quantity of slop
there are tons of good films though
Horror has seen a resurgence majorly only this year
They’ve had the biggest audience reception
maybe the word "most" was a bit of an exaggeration. I just find that a lot of the films people love tend to be horror recently. Not all of them ofc
I can think of two horror movie this year and its sinners and heart eyes
Movie genuinely made me angry
Cause it just came out
It was so bad man
It’s funny
when I worked at a movie theater between 2015 and 2017/18 there were so many damn horror movies
I was laughing hysterically almost the entire way through
I do wish we would get more genres of movies though
Feels nowadays you can only get like
Not only do you not read, you don’t watch anything but superhero movies so like what do you care what’s out when you’re propping up the mcu
Im going to hurt you
Neither of those things are true eat my balls
Present them
When did i prop up mcu
You have a Doctor Doom pfp
true
Oh speaking of horror, there was also Bring Her Back, gnarly movie
It’s ok
But the filmmaking was really good
Was Together any good
the lighthouse was good too wasnt it
Haven’t seen it
supposedly
I loved it
Yeah it’s really good
Watched it twice
Fantastic film really
Ad hominem
when was midsommar
Did you have to google how to spell that? Is that what took you so long
Yes i forgot the name of it
4 years ago I believe
I am an honest man
6 actually damn
wombat POV
I didn’t Google how to spell it just which one it was
How honest can you be with your Gish galloping
I didn’t say good horro isnt made anymore??????
I said its one of the biggest slop genres
Shitty low budget horror movies get churned out to flip a profit
Skinamarink
Alien Romulus
Longlegs
A Quiet Place Part II
28 Years Later
Because 8 people can see them and they make money
Hereditary
Five I haven't even seen and aren't obscure
yes and I explained why and then you said "ok give me examples!"
Do you watch movies man
Wombat only watching pg13 jumpscare movies
I knew these movies red didnt
I dont even watch movies and Im smarter...
And he's suprised they aren't good
Lmao
😭
I'll allow it
he wasnt testing me he is just pretending to be stupid
well
pretending that hes pretending to be stupid
there
Slippery slope
Spoilers
Classic red breaking his own rules
spoilers snake talks
He does it all the time…
Guy's I'm feeling an extreme desire to give a lot of money to Amazon right now
what are you going to buy
Anyone else love prime shipping
It would be very helpful in an alien invasion
Nothing I just wanna support them :)
?????????????????
If he was genuine it would be starscream content
Spoilers???????
wombat when he learns people can type faster than 40wpm
Balling
idk who starscream is
He can’t react to 9 frames
Why do I come into this server just to be insulted
My tier list for horror in 2025, I suspect weapons gonna make it to s tier spoilered for posters
bro wouldn't last a minute as a goalie in rematch
damn yall really be going to the theater for anything
Woman in the Yard sucked ass lol
Easily better than the rest there
Damn who that girl in a tier she look bad
Unless you want to tell me megan 2 was peak
Megan 2 is not even horror
I don’t like Megan 2 either but it’s just not horror it’s a sassy action thriller now
I think hes saying hed place that and anything else below it in D and below
The until dawn Blu-ray should have branching paths where you can select different choices like the Shrek 2 American Idol parody
Capture the spirit of the game
It could salvage the movie
What is this pull
Shrek 2 American idol parody
That thing we all watched
Growing up
DVD exclusive content youre too young to know
Sofie thatcher
Damn she look evil as hell that aint stopping me tho
Dvd?
Bro Zach cregger is directing a resident evil movie????
dude I fucking read about the pre-production of the latest RE movie, and I don't have high hopes for any movie if those same execs are still there
Yep
28 years ||was really not horror tbh||
RE: welcome to raccoon city ||FUCKING TIME TRAVEL???||
28 years ||it had some good horror sections but you could argue its more of a post apocalyptic thriller/drama.||
Horrible
Re7
potential failure
14.7 million sales
Producers and being stupid is a dynamic duo
so fucking stupid
Just to be clear both of them are stupid
For different reasons
I didn't post the rest, but the final movie was also shit because of budget cuts
That i could see in how cheap the movie looked
The only cool thing was re: welcome to racoon city re1 remake spoiler. ||lisa Trevor being in the movie and looking decent the rest of it was borrible.||
ya
28 years ||it was like a coming of age drama lmao, didn't feel like the jumpscares were even meant to be scary||
Joining a prestigious line of movies
First thing is a DBZ special that's against the rules to show the cover and title of
28 years ||it felt more shocking at times, but i enjoyed the movie tbh. That ending had me giggling at the end.||
Dragon Ball Z ||blotted out thing is that 2011 Episode of Bardock special.||
Feel like the world would be better off never having another terminator movie again
That franchise is too limited to course correct it's just gonna keep milking the same cow even though it's been dry for decades
Fantastic 4 || solid movie but certain issues with it. would still give a 8.5/10 since it was decent nuff. All 4 carried ngl, and Galactus too lmao. Wonder what plans they got for Franklin Richards (looks like he indeed got some crazy powers btw) and whatever it is Galactus does to get back and if he manages, also whoever came to meet him Doctor Victor Van Doom I assume ? ||
I liked the cat in the hat when I was younger 
oh Sinners is on amazon
maybe I'll finally watch it
hey red
you want access to a private tracker?
what does that mean
torrent
oh. Im honestly too lazy to torrent stuff
Ty tho
Well worth the money
Os its anime
thank you lisa, the molten 2nd mate
Ngl nowhere near the level of superman for me in hindsight
You sick af ?
I'm about to take 2 nyquil and knock out
ya dude
got that con crud
luckily I don't have a fever anymore
I prefer modelo anyways
I think my highest temp was 103.5
honestly I don't remember
103.6 sounds more accurate though
kpop demon hunters
oh its on amazon prime I dont gotta pay
dude 2 is fucking amazing why haven't you watched it yet
I missed it on IMAX
I remember dune 1 flashbanging us when we watched it in my friend's apartment with the lights off lol
it kept cutting from dark ass scene to bright ass scene
never saw dune 2 cause I missed the theater release and idr 1 enough to wanna watch at home alone
Is it scary
Bro these bts spidey pics are so cold I can’t imagine the movie living up to it
Why you glazing marvel bro
Id still say watch it tbh
Don't skull me you know I'm right
I’m glazing the photographs random people are taking
@main lion can I post the pictures people are taking from them filming on the street or is that considered a leak
Keep it up pal
uh maybe its fine idk. I saw a couple and the ones I've seen don't seem spoilery
Spider-man bnd || https://x.com/dreamwithlali/status/1953133524900298908 ||
@tawny parcel aura
im wondering if this is just a promotion scheme or actual scene filming
u wildin ong
Maybe this one will be good like homecoming
Last 2 were kinda ass mgl
On no planet is f4 superman quality for me tbh
I mean if they're filming in public places people are gonna see it
seeing the light
yeah enjoyable movie just like superman ngl
some bits idek what they are though
f4 || like why tf is galactus after the baby, what power franklin actually has, who comes to visit the kid at the end von doom ? doctor doom ?, the last movie had different silver surfer what is diff abt this one etc ||
F4 2025 a bit of comics ||Franklin richards is one of the strongest reality warpers in marvel comics. And he at one point ressurects galactus in the future and makes him his herald.||
BRUH
DAMN
this shit kino ngl
F4 comics
comic lore
word
Lowkey
the comics are so convoluted to me
Its just the lighting tbh
I doubt thats what the movie will look like lighting wise
They gonna brighten the hell out of it
f4 comics || oh this is gonna take a while damn, that franklin seems old af ||
I like the comic art and narration, but since it is so wide spanning over decades literally be it dc or marvel, just gets super confusing
Spidey gotta be one of the best designed characters. Costume, powers, moves
Just iconic
i think there was a printrest page, or some sort of page of one of the crew members that revealed concept art and sort of the vibe of the movie
and it seemed more retro-dark than light and bright

