What I'm Watching
Movie Log: 2022
The moves I watched in my first year (okay, well, six months) of A-List. Return to current year.
December 28th, 2022
Puss In Boots: The Last Wish went really hard. The animation was beautiful, the plot was gripping, and the story felt like a fairy tale in a way that the last Puss in Boots movie (which, to be fair, I don't remember very well) wasn't. All the fairytale elements blended together in a way that made intuitive sense, and the end result was was absolutely fantastic. If this is the kind of care Dreamworks is putting into what is technically a Shrek spin-off movie, I can't wait to see what they do next.
November 29th, 2022
I have all sorts of conspiracy theories about why Disney did almost zero marketing for Strange World, all of them boiling down to how Disney is a deeply evil company. The movie was fantastic, with speculative biology elements, engaging characters, and a hopeful environmental message. I hope every creator working for Disney finds a different publisher for their stories & the resources needed to switch jobs.
October 25th, 2022
I saw Black Adam and liked it. It's a very different superhero movie than what I've seen before, and it was a nice change of pace. I didn't think it was fantastic, but it was enjoyable.
September 14th, 2022
Nope is a masterpiece. For context, I do really badly with horror, as well as scary stories in any genre, but my boyfriend is a fan of Jordan Peele's movies, and I really, really wanted to see this one after they told me how good it was. It was worth it. It's a beautifully crafted piece of storytelling. I also didn't do too badly with it–there's a lot of anticipation in the movie, but it has a payoff, and the whole experience is self-contained. Fantastic. No one is doing it like Peele.
September 13th, 2022
I wanted to see Spider-Man: No Way Home because I was told Doc Ock has DILF energies. He does, but he's not as prominent as I thought. The movie was alright! I had some problems with the message and how it said it, but like, it's a Marvel movie, and I can turn my brain off and just enjoy it.
September 3rd, 2022
Well, I saw Three Thousand Years of Longing, and it was kind of… bad? Whatever the movie's message is, I don't think it tells it very well, and if the message is something about "Love is the Most Important Thing" or "Everyone Wants Love", I profoundly disagree. It also reached a decent place to end like, four different times, which made the actual ending feel like nothing. Not great. Wouldn't watch again.
August 26th, 2022
AMC did a reshowing of Godzilla vs. Kong, and since I hadn't gotten to watch it when it was first in theaters, I decided to go see it. Somehow I managed to avoid spoilers for it, and my God, there was a reveal so good I gasped out loud. I enjoyed it a lot!
August 6th, 2022
I wasn't expecting much from DC League of Super Pets, but it was better than I thought it would be! Genuinely cried when Ace, played by Kevin Hart, reveals his backstory. Granted, I cry very easily at movies, but still. I am also convinced that the villain was boiled alive at the end, though my friend disagrees.
July 27th, 2022
So I watched Minions: The Rise of Gru. It was, uh. Baffling? It had some heartwarming parts scattered among minion nonsense, and I at least mildly enjoyed myself even if I can't call it a good movie. Like, it was pretty bad. Not as bad as Paws of Fury, but like, the bar is on the floor for that one.
July 18th, 2022
This movie was awful. It was multiple kinds of racist, had other bigoted jokes scattered throughout, and one scene had a cat nazi submarine for some reason? Even though the setting is supposed to be based off feudal Japan? Anyway, don't watch Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank.
July 13th, 2022
Lightyear was a pretty good movie, but I would have enjoyed it more if it had been disconnected from the Toy Story universe. I feel like Pixar wanted to make a sci-fi movie and were forced to market it as a Buzz Lightyear movie, when it really could have worked on its own. I did like it, though!
July 8th, 2022
I saw Thor: Love and Thunder on opening night to break in my AMC A-List card. It was ok? I enjoyed it while watching it, but it's not a movie that's gonna stick with me.