Why. Do. I. Keep. Watching. Movies. In. Theaters! When I write about movies here I only talk about movies that I watch in a theatre, because if I did otherwise, it would be absolutely impossible. I watch and rewatch a lot of movies, and I still write a lot on here, it's exhausting sometimes. For example, I posted that whole wall of text about Nope, it took 2 weeks to write as a whole and I still forgot to talk about the VFX, acting and sound design, and I loved all of those! I also forgot to talk about my experience in IMAX watching this. I'm really dumb, and I have a hard time being organised. And the worst part? I genuinely don't know if anyone reads it, or if it's even any good. It's kind of depressing sometimes, I write about my thoughts on some movies that I like on a videogame website that nobody reads.
So, uhhhh... Why do I still write here?

...

I dunno.

List of movies for today:
-Moonage Daydream(IMAX, VOSE).
-Don't Worry Darling(VOSE).
-Crimes of the Future(VOSE).
-Avatar(3D).
-Smile.
If you don't remember, VOSE means that the movie was in its original language with spanish subtitles.

Moonage Daydream
I'm not a huge Bowiehead, I know his famous songs, I love some of them, and this got a lotta good reviews. So i got me some IMAX tickets to go watch it and I sat in the theater! One IMAX trailer of Avatar 2 that convinced me even more to go watch it on IMAX 3D, and... I went to another dimension watching this. I swear to god I started floating in the middle of this movie. Since I went IMAX, the visuals on the huge screen completely captured me, the surround sound coming from all angles completely sucked me in and the subwoofers hit my fucking soul. It's the best IMAX experience I've had, no other movie that I've watched in the format has even come close to using it like this. And remember that I don't have a true IMAX near me, nor is it Laser 4K, but I still love it! It's still a noticeable improvement over regular screens and regular sound, even if true IMAX movies like Nope would probably be a better idea to watch in Dolby. Indulge me in this tangent please. It's a bit disheartening when I see people disregard this type of IMAX and go "Oh, just go to true IMAX lol!" but, like, I physically can't. I know these people live in the US in most cases, but there's still under 30 true IMAX screens in the US. Still, IMAX are dumbasses. They put 5 IMAX screens in Spain, two are true IMAX and one of those doesn't show movies. PUT MORE! THERE'S ONLY 4 AND 2 ARE ON MADRID!!!!

My point: Even "LieMAX"(Such a stupid term, just call it Digital IMAX unless you're joking) is worth it sometimes. Top Gun Maverick was super cool in that.
But coming back to the actual movie experience, Moonage Daydream is an incredibly unique one. My only problem with it is that I was done 90 minutes in and it stretched 45 minutes more. The loudness and seizure inducing effects are pretty cool for a while, but there's like 5 different crescendo scenes that, while amazing and having an actual point, are tiring as hell.
The reusing of footage was also kind of funny after one point. Bro, you have thousands of hours of footage, don't show Bowie going down the escalator again.
I did like hearing Bowie's thoughts on art and life, they left me thinking for a few days.
Overall, I loved this. It's tiring, it's too long, it's too loud, but I feel like all of those things were the point of the experience. It felt like a look inside of the mind of one of the most important and greatest artists of all time. I fully recommend it, even if it's too late to watch it on IMAX or even to watch it on a regular theater. But if you find a showtime, even on a stinky ass theater, GO. I had plans to watch Black Adam the weekend it came out, but after finding some showings for this that same weekend... Black Adam can wait a week.
9/10. A ton of 10/10 moments. It is NOT a saddening bore. But I don't think I could live it ten times or more.

Don't Worry Darling
Just... I... Why? No one wants to hear more about this movie at this point. But I was actually excited for this!... at one point. After all the drama came out I really didn't give a shit, even if some of it was kind of funny.
And the movie itself... it was pretty funny at points.
Okay, first: Florence is innocent in all this. She's the only reason I went VOSE with this, and she and Chris Pine are the only saving grace of this movie since they're actually great! Florence has still never had a bad role and this is the first time I've seen Chris Pine do anything.
That's the end of that sentence. He's not very good in the Wonder Woman movies, that's all I'll say.
But then you have Harry Styles. He spit on the film industry's lap with his acting in this. He was absolutely hilarious and the only reason the girls behind me wanted to see this movie. Another tangent, the girls behind me. They made this movie experience SO much better. They screamed terrified at several points, they laughed when Florence tries to suffocate herself to fucking die, and they were so confused when the plot twist was revealed. The mildest loud sound or jumpscare made them scream, it was amazing! I would genuinely pay money to see some movies with their reaction. Like, imagine them watching Everything Everywhere All At Once. I don't want to sound condescending, I'm genuinely happy they had that experience with this sad, mediocre movie. When the credits rolled, one said she wasn't going to sleep tonight because of the dancers. 10/10 experience from them. Go watch it with them.
Oh wait, yeah the movie. Yeah Harry Styles is bad. He's never fully believable and it's just embarrassing sometimes. Olivia Wilde also acts in this, and she's... there? I mean, she was there, can't deny it.
The twist was predictable as hell and really underdeveloped. If you still care about watching this movie, mild spoilers, but the movie tries to criticise incel culture and things like that without any type of nuance to its feminist messaging in a kind of confusing way. There's nothing to hold on to or to think about for several days after watching this movie, since the message is so shallow. And, worst of all, the twist doesn't explain most of the crrrrrreepy imagery the movie throws at you. I still don't understand what some of it was supposed to mean.
What was that plane? What was the deal with mirrors? Good luck to you trying to figure that shit out!
5/10. Not very good no no.

Crimes of the future
I've never really connected with Cronenberg's work. From him I've only seen The Fly, Videodrome, Crash and of course this. The worlds he presents are fascinating, but the stories never really deliver for me. Except for The Fly, that was pretty disturbing. And, sadly, Crimes of the Future didn't really do it for me. Its setting and ideas are, again, absolutely fascinating; and the metaphor about art and showing your all to the public for the sake of it is pretty interesting, but Cronenbaby doesn't do anything interesting with it and it just left me Cronenbored. Every piece is there for a pretty good Cronenblast of a movie, but it just kinda fizzles out after 30 minutes and you're left with some cool characters, some great performances, some weirdly open storylines that aren't finished and some inconsistent practical effects.
Also, I don't know what's up with Cronenberg saying people will walk out of this movie because it's so messsssseeeed uuuuuppp. It wasn't really that disturbing. The first time the guy with too many ears appears made me shiver a little bit, but that's it. The scene when they open up a kid at the end, sure it was gross but not disturbing. Me describing it sounds weirder and more violent than it is.
6/10. It's fine but pretty cool.

Avatar
One day I entered my Dolby Cinema's web to see what new releases they would have. And it was weird as hell to see that the main things on the front page were:
- Ticket pre-sales for a Coldplay concert that they will stream in theaters.
- A Spider Man No Way Home(2021) re-release.
- An Avatar(2009) re-release.
- Don't Worry Darling.
It was pretty surreal.
But Avatar's pretty cool. Sadly, that Dolby theater wasn't showing it in Atmos, only in 4K Laser. That souns pretty cool, but I ended up going to that same theater but on regular 3D. Previously, it said that they were showing it in 4K Laser Atmos and 4K 3D Atmos, and I would have loved watching it in any of those ways. But then they changed it for no reason. And they were just showing it in 4K Laser and regular 3D. It's not a huge deal, but it is pretty weird. My guess is that they thought they would get it in Atmos or something and then Disney didn't give it to them for some reason. I don't know why they took the 4K out of the 3D version, it was on a screen that has a 4K projector, I've gone to watch movies in 4K in that same screen, with Elvis! And the same thing happened with that movie!!! They said that they were showing it on 4K Atmos, but the day before I went to watch the movie for a second time and showing it to my brothers, THEY FUCKING CHANGED IT!! I WENT TO WATCH IT AND THERE WERE SPEAKERS ON THE CEILING!!! CAN'T FOOL ME MOTHERFU

This probably sounds so trivial and it is really trivial and stupid, but it' weird, right? Of course, even without Atmos, this theater has an amazing sound system. Elvis sounded great, but not as good as it did in Atmos. That was the third tangent today. I should stop.
I decided to go 3D, because I figured that there's a bigger chance that one day I would have a huge TV where I can watch the movie in 4K HDR with an Atmos soundbar or something, and there's basically 0 chance that I will ever have a 3D TV. Even if the sick weirdos who made those make them again, I don't want one. It sounds awful. So, shockingly, the 3D in Avatar is really good. I haven't watched many movies in 3D, but it's extremely well done here. As a matter of fact, the movie is so long that it stops being impressive. At first, my mind was as blown as it was to audiences in 2009. After a while, you just fully feel like you're in the world. It's one of the most immersive cinema experiences I've had. The theater was giving people these cute blue cheap plastic cardboard Avatar 2 glasses, and I had to watch it with those, instead of the regular glasses. The novelty of it made me get why this was such a big deal(I understand why Disney shipped hundreds of these glasses to this theater and gave them some cool posters(Got one on the way out! 😎), it creates a connection to the Avatar brand. People who watched the movie when it originally came out and were blown away by it can now bring their kids to it and have them be blown away. Guaranteed a minimum of 2 tickets for Avatar 2, uh oh).
The movie itself is incredibly simple, but it worked for me! It inmersed me so much in the world with the still impressive CGI and deep, deep world that actually feels real that the simplistic nature of the actual story didn't affect me. The final battle in this is pretty cool, sorry!! And that post credit scene of Avatar 2?? Can't wait to watch it in IMAX 3D AHHHHH. I didn't give a single shit about Avatar 1 week ago. Wow.
8/10. If I watch it at home I'll probably give it a 6 or something.

Smile
Oh wow, this is actually good? That same Dolby theatre where I watched Avatar put, for some reason, the horror movie Smile on what is probably their biggest screen in their biggest auditorium. I think that that auditorium is made for company presentations or something, since even the actual speakers are different than the other ones(They were of a noticeable lower quality too), and there was a small platform under the screen. The screen was so big that the movie was in a box and didn't fit the whole screen. But... the whole theater was packed and excited. Damn was it fun. Everyone was screaming, scared and laughing the whole way through. The movie didn't scare me at all, except from some unexpected jumpscares. But most jumpscares were incredibly obvious, not really scary. At least they were creative. I'll get to that later, but my audience made this so much more fun than the movie would be if I was alone. Everyone was so shocked by the fake-out ending(It was kinda meh for me) and the cool gore. The CGI wasn't very good but, again, it was incredibly creative! It was creepy and looked nightmarish, I couldn't stop smiling during the scary scenes! I don't know if the people making this movie would like to hear me say this, but I was smiling because it looks cool, as, hell. The seizure inducing, way too loud title intro made me smile too! I couldn't believe I was watching a movie like this in 2022 in a packed theatre. Everyone clapped at the end. I didn't, but it felt surreal.
The movie is, apart from the scares, wildly unoriginal and just a retread from most modern horror movies. It was kinda boring for most of it too.
6/10. Probably actually 5/10, but it was too fun.

Uhhhhhhhhhh I don't know if I should keep writing here. As I've said at the start, probably nobody reads this and my english still isn't great. Like, I constantly change between "theater" and "theatre". I'm bad at structuring my thoughts well and I've been bad as long as I've been writing here. Time to stop trying to be big in this videogame website by talking about movies like a mess. Sad that the last movie I talk about here may very well be Smile. I have a letterboxd account. Nobody cares about me there or here.
I give my reviews a 3/10. Don't read them. Well, if you're reading this, late for that since you've probably already read it.
Right? Right? Right? Right?

Helloooooooo I said I would talk about Nope for a while, so here I am! I also watched Three Thousand Years of Longing and Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, so I'll talk about those later. I also took so long to write this that I also watched Moonage Daydream, but I'll straight up talk about that in another post.
But now, let me go on and on about the best movie of the year.

Nope
Jordan Peele is a madman. 3 movies in and his name is already a sure hit. Hell, it was already 1 movie in. Get Out is amazing, Us is alright and Nope is soooooo amazing. It manages to amazingly balance actually funny comedy, horror and deep themes that can be looked at in so many different ways. There's a lot of interpretations to this movie, so many different angles, but I'm the only person that is right about this movie, KEEP READING!
Even though this movie has been marketed as a horror summer blockbuster, it never becomes that. I'll get into some of those aspects later, but let me tell you that even though this isn't a horror movie... it do be like that though. Some scenes in this are horrifying, let me walk you through these nightmares.
Uhhhh spoilers about these scenes wich pretty much ruins the movie if you know them.
Everything that revolves around Gordy in this movie is absolutely brilliant.
The movie starts with some audio of a sitcom with a chimp playing through the logos, until we hear the chimp freak out and start screeching. We see the sitcom set and a shoe standing upright perfectly in the center of the screen, with a dead body next to it. But that doesn't matter, the shoe does. It's a bad miracle. In the background you can see the crowd that was on the set hiding behind their chairs while we hear the chimp beating someone offscreen, and balloons popping.
The chimp enters the frame. It's fully clothed and covered in blood, especially in its hands and mouth. It takes off the birthday hat that they out on it. It touches the dead body a little bit, not seeming to realize what it has done. It looks at the camera.
As a Joss Whedon character would say: Well that happened.
This scene is terrifying, but it leaves you intrigued. You want to see what actually happened, why it happened. Don't lie, you also want to see that dead body and what the chimp has done to it. You're as intrigued as one of our main characters, Emerald, when she hears of it by one of the actors that was on that show as a kid, Jupe. But when he explains what happened to her, he tells her the SNL sketch that was done on what happened. He tells this to her while they're on a room filled with memorabilia and merchandising from the show, that he made himself that people usually have to pay to enter. While he is explaining the SNL sketch to her, there's a cut to Jupe as a kid, under a table, with blood on his face. Then it cuts to him still happily explaining the sketch. The movie doesn't touch on this for nearly an hour after that but after the story progresses a bit, we see the even in its entirety. And it's haunting.
The first of the three most horrifying scenes in the movie for me was seeing the cast of the sitcom "Gordy's Home" doing the episode, you know what's going to happen, you have heard what's going to happen and you know what the repercussions of this incident are. But you wanted this. While filming the episode, wich revolves around the chimp Gordy's birthday, they open a present that is filled with balloons, and when one pops, the chimp starts screaming, it cuts to black and we can hear the mess that follows of people screaming and things getting broken, and it all stops. If you haven't watched the movie it may not seem like much, but believe me that it's done brilliantly.
The second most terrifying scene to me is what comes immediately after. We see the camera going down the hall of the set, we hear something getting beaten while the APPLAUSE signs glow and then the second we see the Gordy hunched down beating something that can't be seen, cut to black. We see the same shot as before of Jupe as a kid under the table, his face clean, watching this. He's terrified. The movie cuts to the same shot as the one in the start of the movie, now we know it's from the perspective of Jupe, since there's a tablecloth covering most of the view. After Gordy keeps munching and beating the body we don't see, the dad actor comes down the stairs above Jupe. He tries to stop Gordy, he pleas for help, but when he runs away to the kitchen part of the set, he's killed by Gordy off screen. You cannot see it, you can only hear Gordy beating him and his screams. Then, Gordy comes out of the kitchen. The same thing happens as the start of the movie, you realise that Gordy looking at the camera in beginning was him looking at Jupe. Uh oh, nope. When he see Jupe, he walks toward him slowly. When he reaches him, he starts breathing heavily on the tablecloth, and he reaches his blood covered fist toward Jupe, so they can recreate the "iconic" fist bump that they do on the show. Jupe reaches out to do it, but before he touches Gordy, Gordy is shot on the head by someone off screen, his blood all over the tablecloth and Jupe's face. My description of the scene is probably shit, but watching that for the first time is... definitely an experience. The movie does a incredibly effective job at scaring you with a CGI chimp with CGI that... tbh doesn't look realistic, but it's used in a way that makes you forget that and it just becomes believable. There are some othrt brilliant ways that this scene ties into the themes of the movie as a whole, so I'll talk about those.
The most terrifying scene of the whole movie for me comes immediately after that. To make it more tragic, let me tell you my reading of the themes of the movie first.
Jupe was just part of the spectacle of the sitcom with the chimp, even as a kid. Obviously, the whole draw of the sitcom was the chimp being with the family, but considering the fact that Jupe was an asian kid in a white family and(Maybe I'm reading a bit too much into this) that he was the one to fist bump with Gordy kind of says to me that he was also part of the spectacle, part of the draw of the show. Even when he was a kid, he was being abused by an industry that didn't care about him. Considering how Jupe's theme park is based on the cowboy show he was in before the Gordy one, it doesn't seem like he got many jobs as an actor after that.
One quick note, when Emerald's going through Jupe's office, she looks at the picture of the black kid on the cowboy show and asks what happened to him, since he was good. This could just be further characterisation for Emerald, but it seems like that kid was also thrown away by the entertainment industry after he stopped being an innocent black kid.
So yeah, Jupe has a theme park based on one of the shows he was in as a kid before he got thrown out by the industry. Cool. Good for him.
But remember that room filled with memorabilia from the show that has the show's theme song playing that I told you about earlier. Yeah he also has that perfectly balanced shoe on a glass case, standing as perfectly upright as it was when he saw it as a kid. The reason why I called the shoe a bad miracle, something that Daniel Kaluuya's character calls the UFO on the sky, is because the shoe saved Jupe. When he was hiding from Gordy, instead of looking at Gordy or screamun and antagonizing him, like everyone else who got hurt did, he was looking at the shoe, perplexed at how it was perfectly standing on nothing. And when Gordy did notice Jupe, Jupe's face was covered by the tablecloth, so Gordy couldn't see it right. Not looking the animal in the eyes saved him, but he didn't understand that from the incident. Since Gordy's attempt at a fistbump for Jupe ended up saving him, he ended up thinking that he has a special type of connection to animals or something similar. Because when he realised that there was an UFO in the valley his theme park was in, he started to feed it horses from the local ranch(Property of the protagonists) during 6 whole months, all while preparing a special show to unveil the UFO to the audience and the world. He abused the horses by feeding them to the UFO who, by the way, isn't a ship. It's an animal that's just on earth now and wants to eat. So Jupe, who was a used as a child by the entertainment industry in a show with a chimp that was definitely abused, is now abusing horses and even sending his kids to steal them from the ranch, feeding the horses to the UFO in the sky and wants to abuse the UFO for spectacle.
The most terrifying scene in the movie for me comes now. Jupe's show where he wants to show the UFO to the world for spectacle and recognition has an audience of 40 people. One of those people was the actress for his sister on the Gordy show, who is completely missing a mouth from the Gordy incident and wears a hat and veil over her face. Jupe asks the relatively small crowd if they're ready, and tells them that, for the past six months, he has been finding an UFO in the sky at the exact same time everyday. He tells the crowd to prepare. But before the UFO, Jupe's kids have a special show for the audience!
Before in the movie, the UFO had gotten some plastic flags stuck in its duct, and now they're sticking out from it. So we get a shot that shows the crowd from far away, and we start to hear those flags in the wind, coming from upwards into the shot slowly. I fucking sunk into my seat when I saw that scene for the first time. I went to the Sunken Place, amirite? Anyway, the crowd notices the flags coming out from an approaching cloud in the distance, and they all start to look up and point at it. Jupe decides to skip his kids' part of the show and reveals that he has a horse in a glass case that was covered by a cloth up to this point. He's going to feed the horse to the UFO by letting it out but before he opens the door, he mutters to himself that he's the chosen one(Since he thinks that he has a special connection to animals and to spectacle, see? It all connects! Yes, it does! Oh, shut up!). When he turns around we also see that his Jean Jacket has a special UFO design on it. The Dolby poster is based on it.


I love that poster so much.
So, Jupe's show... it goes wrong. As we learn a few scenes after this one, the UFO animal(Wich I'm just going to call Jean Jacket from now on since it's the name they give it in the movie) only eats whatever it thinks is looking at it. Wich is a problem since everyone in the crowd, including Jupe, is looking at it. So Jean Jacket sucks them all up, and the series of three shots that follow I feel I can't truly describe in a way that could make them justice so let me just say that the movie probably gave me claustrophobia in the way that it shot this crowd of people going up a tube that none of the know where it's leading, with the walls to your sides making for an insanely small FOV while you hear everyone screeching and screaming for help, vomiting and the walls making rubber sounds as the space these people are in gets smaller and smaller. The scene cuts when the woman who is at the top can't keep going as she hits a plastic decoy horse that Jean Jacket sucked up earlier and starts screaming loudly. That scene is so haunting that it left me shaking for the entirety of the scene afterwards, wich is the best part of the movie. From the moment the Gordy title card appears to the moment where the characters leave in a truck, it's one of the best sequences of the year. I don't know if it counts as a whole sequence, but I don't care.
Those are the overall best scenes in Nope for me, but damn if the rest of the movie isn't tight as hell with its story and themes. I touched a bit on the themes while talking about the scariest scenes to me, but there's still so much more to dissect in this. Of course, I think that the main message of the movie is about spectacle, about how we're obsessed with finding the worst of humanity and how we can start exploiting animals or other people just to achieve maximum spectacle and get famous. Even if it ends up hurting other people(Jupe's high jinks ended up killing OJ's and Emerald's father.), or even ourselves(Antlers' obsession with getting the perfect shot of Jean Jacket even if it kills him, wich it does, and even if no one else sees it just to make himself as a cinematographer happy) It also tackles how the entertainment industry abuses people to achieve its goals and, when they don't "work", they throw them away(It happens to Jupe, as I've already said, and to OJ and Emerald at the start of the movie). But even with that, it still tackles grief and how it affects the main characters, how they get obsessed with photographing the thing that killed their father. At first, OJ thinks it's stupid and Emerald wants to do it for the fame but, as the movie progresses, OJ starts to want to do this more and more, especially when he realises that Jean Jacket was the actual thinng that killed their father even if Emerald and Angel keep getting more and more scared. It's so good!
There's also SO much symbolism in this movie here that it makes my head hurt thinking about it for too long.
The guy in the motorcycle, his helmet is completely reflective, maybe to signify that anyone can stoop to a point that low. Not only that, but he completely reflects OJ's face just the same way that the reflective ball reflects the horse's face at the beginning, angering it. Maybe Jordan Peele and his cinematographer wanted to flex how they can hide cameras in reflections, it looks cool.
Jupe calls Jean Jacket "The viewer", when Antlers is first called he is looking and editing videos of bugs and animals' eyes, and bugs and animals fighting. HHHHHHHMMMMMMMMM.
OJ is always seen with fliphones and never using technology, while Emerald is usually filming everything. Cool way to show how different they are.
That's most of what I want to say about the movie, but of course Logan Paul made a, what his friend calls, "thesis statement" about how he didn't like the movie.
I don't know why Logan Paul's opinion of Nope is the most important or the most talked about, even if it's filled with CinemaSins level criticisms, we don't need to just keep talking about him. He's the director of Airplane Mode, why is he suddenly the most popular critic of this movie.
That video I Iinked to is really funny to me, Logan doesn't seem to even try to engage with the movie in a way that isn't surface level and acts like everyone is calling him stupid. I'm sure some people are, but definitely not everyone. I don't like the guy or even think he's stupid. After all, his career is STILL alive, he clearly knows what's he's doing in YouTube. Even if he's probably ruining a lot of kids' brains. But of course, it is funny how he criticises the guy on the motorcycle for the movie not doing anything with him, since it's obviously a reference to influencers(I hate this word) like him. The guy has a damn mirror for a face and Logan didn't see his reflected on it. Ironic. Also ironic how the way the protagonists of the movie survive is by not looking at the eye of the thing that is big and that they want to photograph. Logan definitely looked that dead body in the forest on the eyes.
But, just one more thing I would like to talk about. The negative reactions to this movie. I don't want to seem close minded, but basically all the negative reviews or things like that that I've seen from this movie just read to me as "I wanted an action packed blockbuster, but I got a reflective artsy movie instead! Bad movie!", or people that never saw or thought about the deeper meanings of Get Out and Us wanting a "basic" horror movie and all they got was a bunch of hidden meanings. I get it, this movie isn't for everyone, not every artsy movie will appeal to everyone, I've never liked The Lighthouse and Suspiria 2018 even if I appreciate them artistically and even if I don't think Nope is a really deep movie.
Deeper than The Lighthouse at least
TL;DR: Nope is the best Jordan Peele movie and the best movie of the year.

AAAAAAAH that took so long to write, but I have 2 other movies too.
Three Thousand Years of Longing
This... doesn't feel like a movie. It feels like an art piece that I have to look at instead of a movie I should watch, and I'm not sure that was George Miller's and his daughter's intent. And that means that, while I watched this movie and... looked at it, I never felt anything or really enjoyed it. The three stories that are told definitely felt creative and had cool visuals, with CGI that ranged from believable to straight up awful. But I couldn't tell you anything from them right now, except for the fact that they were about love! This movie is about love, I can tell you that much!
I had to watch this in spanish, so a lot of the nuance was lost to me, but the dialogue is also so philosphical and artsy that it completely failed to invest me in the story even if it sounded cool. I just felt completely underwhelmed while watching this and even more when I left.
I gave this a 6/10, but damn I don't feel that positive about it right now. George Miller went from making the best action movie of all time with Mad Max Fury Road to a talky "romance" drama. Even if it felt aimless to me, I respect him for making that crazy choice.
6/10 for now. The directing saved it.

Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
I don't have that much to say about this. It felt like a play(In a good way), the dialogue was engaging but the experience was a bit one-note to me.
7/10. Ehhhhh it's pretty good!

Oh my god why did I write so much. I took so long to write this that I ended up watching Moonage Daydream on IMAX, Don't Worry Darling and Crimes of the Future in theaters. I'll talk about those after I watch the Avatar re-release.
But PLEASE go watch Moonage Daydream in theaters while you can. It's an amazing cinematic experience.

The Stanley Parable?

Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe but yeah that's it

Nuh-uh

Nope

Somebody else has probably tried to do this but oh well

What a shit summer. It sucked. It was always too hot, and I still got a cold. My cat with leukemia got a fever, and he got so sick that we had to put him down, it sucked. I was really depressed through most of the season and it was BAD.
But! I did watch some movies, and some were actually good. Some were big bad, but some were good. I watched these:
-Lightyear.
-Jurassic World Dominion.
-Elvis(Twice).
-The Black Phone(Twice).
-Thor Love and Thunder(Twice, sorry).
-The Gray Man.
-Men.
-Bullet Train(Twice).
-Nope(Twice and a third time's coming).

Lightyear
What a strange movie. It's the movie that Andy watched that made him want the Lightyear toy, and it's live action? 2D? 3D? Who even knows anymore? Is it good? I can answer that one, uhhhhh not really. It's a generic space movie that doesn't have any of the charm that it should have since it's supposed to be an 80s movie about space. Buzz is really boring and he doesn't have nothing that makes his other version special, none of the side characters(Except Sox) have any charm whatsoever and they're laaaaaaame, the villain is weird and I'm not bothered enough to cover the spoilers or do, uh, any so I will be vague, but he has the weirdest motivation and the weirdest ways to achieve it, although it has been a while since I watched the movie so I may be misremembering.
The animation is pretty, but wildly unimaginative compared to the last few Pixar movies, and I had to watch those on my TV. Even watching it in a Dolby theatre didn't help this one.
The fact that this movie has flopped is bad news for Pixar movies in theatres in the future, and Marvel movies covering blockbuster spots nearly every month for the next few years and probably the next after, is an even worse sign. Uggghhh. Fuck Disney.
5/10.

Can I talk for a moment about the crazy MCU schedule? Okay... BAD BAD BAD NO NO NO WHY WHY WHY BAD BAD BAD indulge me on this, nobody will read this but please let me do this.
WARNING: WRITTEN AND POSTED BEFORE D23 AND EVEN MORE MCU ANNOUNCEMENTS
The last few MCU projects have been... underhwelming to say the least. I really enjoyed Doctor Strange 2, but the use of the multiverse in a movie called Multiverse of Madness wasted a lot of potential. I loved the first 2 episodes of Ms Marvel, but then it just... it just didn't work. Spoiler, Thor Love and Thunder was weirdly mediocre, and She Hulk so far is kind of... baaaad. And the I Am Groot shorts... sure. So I'm not in the mood for the MCU right now, and they announced roughly 30000 projects for the next saga, and it's only 5 years long. This is bad. It's half of the length of the last saga, it's much more ambitious and, so far, it's way more messy. I'm not excited for anything except for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3, why would I be excited for 2 Avengers movies in the same year, I'm not insane. The first one will still be in theatres when the second one releases, it's insane.
Maybe they'll do this right, maybe I'm not supposed to watch it all, so far you don't really need to have watched any show to understand the movies. But I'm a fan, I like watching the MCU and what they put out, I want to see these stories, it's just too many things too quickly. And we're already seeing the quality dive with some movies and shows in terms of CGI and... the actual story. The screenplay for Thor Love and Thunder and even Doctor Strange 2 feel unfinished, and I'll explain more with Thor later. If some of these projects had more time they would be better. They just recently got a director for one of the 2(!!!!!) Avengers movies that they had, production probably just started. It's nearly 3 years, but as movie as big as that one probably needs more time.
I don't understand the people who are excited for this, but at least they're happy.
Anyway! Let's talk about another piece of trash.

Jurassic World Dominion
Okay. So there's a Jurassic Saga now, apparently. And it's pretty inconsistent. Jurassic Park 1 is pretty great, 8/10. Jurassic Park 2 and 3 are good and I think that they're a bit overhated, even though I was kinda tired when I watched them, 6/10.
Jurassic World is painfully mediocre, 5/10.
Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom is the worst movie in the whole saga. It's messy, it's corny(In a bad way) and it takes itself way too seriously, 2/10.
And Jurassic World Dominion... well it's not the worst, but it's still really really bad. It's way too long, bloated and boring, mainly because it wastes the whole potential of the premise. Dinosaurs are all the world, walking in the street could cause a dodo to put a hole in your face... And then they instead wrote a plot about the evil company making some evil locusts from the Cretacious period. And they let them escape, eating crops that aren't from the evil company that made them. But the locusts are still causing global famine, and the evil company guy doesn't care, because he's evil and he only cares about money, because he's evil and he doesn't care, because of money, because he's evil. Money.
None of the original trilogy actors want to be there, they try to do some embarassing pandering interactions that are supposed to get the fans excited! It's no No Way Home. It's really embarassing.
None of the characters have any depth at all, the movie is more concerned to have action scenes, either too long or hilariously short. The villain is evil and likes money, like I said before. Money money. Moneyyyyyyyy

Wait how did that get here-
Anyway, masterpiece, I love Universal, let's get this movie to 1 billion, we can do it together, 10/10.

Elvis
I have been excited to talk about this. Elvis is amazing. It's bombastic, a bit too long, exhausting and I love it. I watched this on Dolby Atmos VOSE(VOSE means that it's on english with spanish subtitles), and it was one of the best experiences I've had on a theater in a long time. The audio was as bombastic as the visuals, making it such a wild ride. The pure raw energy that this movie gave me is imposible to describe. The concert scenes were electric and they made me understand why Elvis Presley was such a big deal at the time. When you watch a video of Elvis today performing Hound Dog, you're like "Ok, I guess". Because looking at some of his clips through modern day lenses and modern day eyes isn't really impactful. But then you see Austin Butler pull some crazy moves with a guitar riff exploding in your ears and you see his fans freaking out all around him and you want to get up and cheer at the screen. It was hard to keep still in my seat, it was so exciting.
Also, as someone who barely knows anything about Elvis Presley, this movie gave me a pretty good understanding of his story. It brushes over more problematic elements of Elvis' persona for the sake of dramatisation and of keeping him as a legend, and I could see that bothering some people. It wasn't anything huge for me since, as I've alreadt said, I didn't know shit about Elvis, but it's a valid complaint.
I can't wait to rewatch this on HBO Max to watch again some scenes in beautiful 4K and HDR, there's so so many good ones. The 1968 christmas special section was specially amazing and it nearly made me cry. The buildup to the ending song was just amazing.

(Warner released this clip, but some parts are cut, it's better in full)
Austin Butler was amazing as Elvis, I haven't seen him before in anything but now I can't wait for him in Dune 2. I saw this movie twice, the first time in Atmos in english, as I've said, and the second time in normal spanish in 4K Atmos. Seeing it a second time in spanish really made me realise how good Austin Butler is and how much he's doing, meanwhile with Tom Hanks... It made me realize how little he's actually doing. Tom Hanks isn't bad, he's just not as good as Austin Butler at all. His prosthetics never really bothered me and neither did his voice, but he never truly becomes the character as well as Austin Butler. It may be because I've seen Tom Hanks more than Austin Butler, but who knows.
There's some CGI with some environments that looks straight out of Norm of the North and I hate it, and the movie really feels as long as it is on some points, HOWEVER. Some scenes carry such amazing energy with them and the emotional moments hit so hard that those issues don't really bother me on rewatch. It's better than Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge, that's my hot take. Moulin Rouge starts off so crazy and fails to keep that energy throughout the whole movie, but Elvis never goes as far and feels more consistent as a whole. I haven't watched any other Baz Luhrmann movie, but I'm excited to check out more.
9/10. Watch this on a theater if you still can please.

The Black Phone
I still stand by the fact that Doctor Strange 2 is a good movie, but it's still disappointing. Even though the best part was Sam Raimi's directing, I would really like to watch Scott Derrickson's version of the movie. I have really enjoyed Derrickson's other work in the past, with Sinister and I'm the only person who I know that thinks Doctor Strange 1 is a great movie. I also think that The Exorcism of Emily Rose is pretty underrated, it's a pretty good horror courtroom drama. And The Black Phone isn't a miss. It's a pretty great summer horror movie. Except for the fact that this isn't a summer movie. It was supposed to come out on january and they delayed it quite close to the release date, it made me a bit mad. And they didn't delay it because they needed more time to finish it, Blumhouse just wanted a bigger box office. And they definitely got that, so I guess it was worth it to them... Fuck Blumhouse.
The first time I watched this was on VOSE, and Ethan Hawke is as amazing as you would expect him to be. The way he impersonates the different moods of his character and is always capable of mantaining it ambiguous is impressive. And that compliment also goes to the writting since I really liked how they never really explained Ethan Hawke's character, because he doesn't really need that to be creepy. Especially with his really cool devil masks, with each representing his mood.
I did find the plotline about The Grabber's brother kind of underdeveloped and weaker than the rest, as well as with all the supernatural stuff with the protagonist's sister. I understand why it's not fully explained and why it's there but it just felt kinda cheap.
So yeah, pretty great movie. It has some really fun scares and it's engaging enough. I do want to say that I wasn't engaged at all the second time I watched this movie, it was pretty hard to mantain myself focused, but that may be my fault. It may also be the fault of the teens that were taking photos of their feet in the seats of the first row while on the second row, flashing the whole damn screen and making it hard to see. They also screamed at several points, but that didn't bother me as much, it's a horror movie. At least I didn't really have any issues the first time I watched the movie. It was a pretty fun experience.
8/10.

Thor Love and Thunder
Holy fuck. This movie and everything around it... it was certainly a wild ride.
I was really excited for this movie. Ragnarok is obviously no masterpiece, but it's one of the most original movies in the whole Infinity Saga and, seeing how the Multiverse Saga is turning out, also in the MCU. It has so much flair and personality of its own, with some great humor.
I was reeeeeeally excited for Thor Love and Thunder. First, there were no trailers until a few months before the movie released. At first, I thought that it was because Doctor Strange 2 would have some crazy consequences for the MCU as a whole. It turns out, not really, like, at all, so that boat sailed to never come back. But I was still excited. The trailers were so vague that it was hard not to, especially with how good of a director Taika Waititi is. After the initial critic reactions came out, my excitement went down hard. They were pretty bad. A similar thing happened with Eternals, and you don't want to be similar to Eternals EVER. So yeah, my excitement wasn't really high but I thought that, at very least, it would be pretty funny. Taika is a funny guy, the comedy would at least deliver.
It really didn'tLet me walk you through my experience through this movie. When I first watched it, I really liked it! I even gave it an 8/10(4 stars out of 5) on Letterboxd! That's a great movie in my book! Then... I thought about it some more. I heard what actual critics said about the movie, and I realised that this movie... it's not that good. 7/10(3 and a half stars out of 5) more like it! Yeaaaah. The comedy doesn't really hit, neither do the emotional moments and they barely used the amazing performance that Christian Bale gives. But apart from that, it's not bad! You know, the comedy(In a comedy!!!!!) is not very good, but it doesn't matter! You know, the whole emotional core and actual important part of a movie that wants to make you care is actually kind of awful, but it doesn't matter! You know, the villain may be fully underdeveloped, but at least it's an amazing performance! He's the whole reason I went VOSE with this movie, and it was worth it!
I rewatched the movie with my older brother around a month later, since he hadn't watched it yet, and it was worse. 6/10(3 stars out of 5). But it's not awful. Sure, this time I realised how ugly and unfinished the whole movie looks, and how deeply unfunny and humorless the actual humor in this, and I cannot stress this enough, comedy movie is, but it's not that bad. None of the themes feel developed well and feel completely last minute, because I guess the comedy went first in the writers' room! You know... This movie isn't that good...
5/10. That's my current score. Painfully mediocre.
You know, these don't feel like mistakes that a director like Taika Waititi would make. As I've said before, these recent MCU projects have a painful release schedule and they feel reeeeally unfinished, especially the shows. Like goddamn, they look baaaad. Ms Marvel, Moon Knight and She-Hulk, the mostly looked like shit. I know that tv shows can't have the same budget as a movie, and that's part of the reason why they look so bad. But I'm really sure that if these shows had more time, they would look better. And I'm sure that if Thor Love and Thunder had more time, it would not only look better, but the screenplay would also be way better, instead of feeling last minute.
Look, I know I'm not changing anything by saying this and that everyone knows that Disney and basically every company in the film industry abuses its VFX workers, and I'm not even the person to come up with how to change this, but I... I wanted to mention it ig.

The Gray Man
I don't know why, but I watched this in a theatre. The only appeal for this was the Russo brothers directing and that Ryan Gosling and Ana de Armas combo, they're hot.
I hoped the action would at least be well directed. And not really. I don't know anything about directing action, so I should probably shut up. But let me just say that the Community paintball episodes that the Russo brothers directed look better and feel better to watch.
The story is where it just falls apart. It's not really that awful, but they fail at making you care about anybody that matters. Every backstory is explained way too late, you don't give a shit about anyone or anything.
All of the characters are planks of wood with no personality.
The villains are laughable and lack any type of presence on the screen or actual intimidation. Look, I watched this 2 months ago, I barely remember this movie, no one gives a shit about it and I don't give a shit about it or thinking about it.
It's generic, it's dumb, 4/10.

Men
I don't know how to write about this movie. I've tried to write about this, like, 4 times. But I really can't. Not because this movie is good or anything, it's just fine. It has pretty cinematography, it has themes and Jessie Buckley is really good(I think. I watched this in spanish). But this movie just thinks that it's so big an important, it even throws some christian imagery in there that doesn't really mean anything and is just there to add flare. The main character is only defined by her trauma, she ends up being just a blank slate.
I think the problem is that I'm mixed with this movie. I stand by everything that I've said, but the horror is actually good. It got me a couple of times, even if I don't think it really means anything in the end. Like I've said, the cinematography is good, some visual effects actually look great(And the ones that don't just add to the unsettling atmosphere) and the third act is insane. Let me repeat myself, it doesn't mean anything, it's self indulgent for Alex Garland and is unnecessarily extra and violent... but it looks kind of cool.
6/10. Weakest Alex Garland movie. Haven't watched Devs tho.
Fun fact, two women that sat behind were there and fine during the whole movie, but when I looked during the climax, they weren't there. Uh oh.

Bullet Train
Uhhhhhh this is good? Yeah, Bullet Train is surprisingly fun. I was 100% sick of watching the trailer everytime I went to watch a movie sincd the trailer was pretty bad and unfunny. But I was still quietly excited to watch the movie. An original action comedy in 2022? It sounds pretty cool.
And the director! He's there!
So I watched this twice. Once in full 4K Laser Dolby Atmos, beautiful with really amazing sound. And the second time in Dolby Atmos VOSE.
Even from the embarassing trailers I could tell that the actors were having a ton of fun, and yeah, the acting is surprisingly good. The comedy isn't fully my cup of tea, but the absolute commitment to the bits at some points just made me laugh. Everyone has already said this, but the Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Brian Tyree Henry combo is often hilarious. Joey King is surprisingly good considering she gets hired for things like The Kissing Booth Trilogy, Wish Upon, Slenderman but no, she's pretty good in this. Brad Pitt is there and didn't seem like he was just getting the job done, he commited even with the lame jokes. There's 2 cameos in here that I don't really care about and don't piss me off like they do other people.
Some characters are disappointingly underused, like The Wolf and The Hornet. The Wolf's backstory sequence is really well done, but then he's killed after just one scene. It's a pretty cool action scene, but it's a waste of Bad Bunny, since he's also great in this. And The Hornet... well they're there I guess. Funny action scene I guess, but not much more.
The story and how it's told also really frustrates me, since the crrrrrrrazy wwwwwwacky editing just ends up confusing you instead of showing the whole story in a clear way to you. This movie obviously benefits from multiple viewings and it's built like that on purpose but it didn't really work for me even with 2 viewings.
And one small final note, this movie has absolutely banging japanese versions of Stayin' Alive and Holding Out For a Hero that they use in an incredibly minimal way for less than a minute and it pisses me off so so much. They're so good.


6/10. It was surprisingly fun.

Nope
You know what? I'm gonna post my whole thoughts about this at a later moment. I'm already planning on watching this for a third time, and I just want to say all that I have to say on its own and in a comfortable way.
It's a 10/10 and the best movie of the year so far. I'll elaborate.

I missed some stuff this summer. For one, Minions 2. I didn't give one single small shit about this movie and I hate Illumination, so I didn't go support them for something I don't care about especially. I found out that there's a 35mm theater that I can go to, so that's pretty cool for the future. They showed Requiem for a Dream in August on 35mm and I may regret not going for the rest of my life, but I think I'm not in the right headspace to see a movie that depressing.
Ethan Hawke also went to that theater and had a special screening of his movie Blaze, and I couldn't get tickets... he went to present it... I'm a dumbass.
Let's hope they do more cool stuff like that.

Firewatch?

It's that weird-as-hell-made-for-the-NES-Zapper-game, Gumshoe. If I'm right, someone else can take this

Since I barely did anything and only guessed after it was more obvious, someone else can go

Uncharted Lost Legacy maybe?

So I didn't think quite as much of the movie as you did, but I was interested in some bits of it. There is a single frame, literally one frame ( I'll let you guess which sequence) which shows a YouTube thumbnail. I found that video here:

It's not that interesting, but there is an odd cover of the song "Absolutely" by Nine Days (the This is the Story of a Girl song) which seems to have lyrics about a BDSM club? After Googling that, I found this article https://mashable.com/article/daniels-story-of-a-girl-everything-everywhere-all-at-once?amp

This article is very interesting. Apparently there's 3 versions of "Absolutely" in the movie, and it's even quoted in some of the dialog ("Your clothes never wear as well the next day, your hair never falls in quite the same way"). Even the plot of the movie seems to be about the song.

I still think there's something more to that YouTube video though. It's interesting that the poster's name includes "1214", and the video is 12:13 long. Is there a missing second? I tried pausing the movie at 12:14 but found nothing.

For me, the video is 12:14. In the frame that it appears in the movie, it has 12 views and was released 14 years ago. I have no idea what this means, and I don't know if the video is made by A24 or the directors, but it's a really cool, weird, funny thing.
And about the song, I didn't notice that at all, it's pretty funny.

Hi! I finally watched
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE
and it's ABSOLUTELY AMAZING FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.
I am still speechless, and I saw the movie 7 hours ago. I cried 3 times, 4 if you count cry laughing. I don't know what to tell you. I mean, I'm-approximately- [comical number] years too late to watch this movie, and you have definitely already heard all of the praise for this movie. It's all deserved. Believe ALL the hype. Or maybe don't. I didn't, and I LOVED IT. I thought the movie was going to be just pretty good or something. But I was absolutely wrong. I'm just going to shut up, because I don't have much to say apart from what I've already said, I was surprised at how many stupid lines made me laugh. The climax is probably 20 minutes long, and it has lines like "In a world where we have sausage fingers, we would be good with our feet", but even that line broke me. Jesus, I was weeping at the end.
I should listen to myself more, let me shut up. All of this is probably incomprehensible, but just believe me. I would be unable for me to speak about this movie in a professional way, and all I could say would be things that have already been said. 10/10. WATCH THIS OMG

Lightyear is alright, 6/10

If I had to take a guess, the next naughty dog release will be TLOU part 2 remastered!

Don't give them ideas, that seems highly likely

I watched Maverick without watching the first Top Gun. Me and my mother wanted to go to the theater and when she saw it was playing she instantly jumped and said we needed to see it. She was so thrilled I couldn't turn her down even though I hadn't watched the first one.

The movie was great but I didn't care about Penny and Maverick's relationship. Maybe if I had seen the first movie then it would have had more of an emotional impact on me.
I don't have much else to add since your review perfectly sums up my feelings for it. Glad you mentioned Bob and how weird it was they didn't do anything with the set up of him being unnoticeable. Wasn't sure if it was just me looking too deeply into a one-off joke.

Don't worry, Penny doesn't even appear in the first movie. It's really odd. Tom Gun had another love interest

Boy is this is unnecessary

Hi, so, I was bored. I decided to do something I've wanted to do for a while. I went to watch a movie in IMAX and the in a Dolby theater. I love both, so it was about DAMN TIME! I chose to watch Top Gun Maverick. I wasn't getting interested in it before, like, at all, but it was getting some amazing reviews. So suddenly, I have my week set!
But first, I needed to watch the original... and it was kind of baaaaad. It was boring, it was uninteresting and I was just completely unengaged with the plot and characters. Sure, the jet action scenes are kinda cool, and the movie was dangerously close to being good when Goose dies, but it completely lost me again near the end. It's just bad. I gave it a 4/10 on Letterboxd.
Watching the original Top Gun deflated all of my excitement for Top Gun Maverick, so I looked up some stuff to see if it would be even worth my time to watch this movie. Looking at IMDB, it said that the aspect ratio was the IMAX aspect ratio(1.90) for the whole movie(In IMAX ofc)! That's great! I saw a review of the movie and how Dolby Atmos adds to the experience, I thought "Hey, can't lose anything". I lost money why is IMAX so expensive omg.

When I ended up going to watch the movie in IMAX I had, and I'll be 100% honest with no exaggeration, one of the best theater experiences I've had in... my life probably.
When the movie started, the first scene took my whole breath away, DAMN. It was so beautiful, it was so tense, it was just amazing. Every shot left me with my jaw on the sticky, badly cleaned, IMAX floor and chills through my whole body. This is nowhere close to what Dune made me feel when I watched it for a second time, but it was amazing. Then, after that amazing scene, I found out that IMDB LIED TO ME!!!! Well, that's not fair. Only the aerial sequences in this movie are shot in IMAX, and even though I thought the movie was 100% in IMAX, I think it's better when the movie is not fully in IMAX. If a movie is in IMAX, since it's probably probably 2 hour+ blockbuster, I think it should have around 1 hour of IMAX to justify its extra price. If it's fully on IMAX, it ruins the intimacy of some scenes and it stops being impressive after a while. If it's 30 minutes or less, then it's kind of sad. Of course the image is still good and the sound is excellent, but Dolby would be more worth it. Getting back to the movie, yeah, IMAX for the full runtime would make no sense for some scenes.
But, IMAX or not, this movie is really, REALLY great. It's this close to being excellent (🤏 <--This close to be exact) but it falls short on a few places. The aerial sequences and action scenes look amazing, they're shot shockingly beautifully, they're tense, you're always aware of the stakes, the climax genuinely felt impossible on my first watch, and I absolutely loved that. Small spoil, I guess, but at the start of the movie, Tom Gun(That's his name right?) straight up says that someone's not getting out of the mission alive, so that should let you know what this movie is going for. And it goes at it HARD, and goddamn it somehow WORKS. What is bad? Well, everything around the aerial action I think it's still pretty good, but you have to understand something very important, this is a Tom Cruise movie. The guy is crazy. He is constantly putting his life at risk for his movies, to be the biggest and craziest star in the world, and he probably is tbh. This would all be kinda cool, but then you remember Cruise's relationship with the Church of Scientology... BUT it does seems that he's distanced himself from it, so that's cool. So, what I was saying, this is definitely a movie about Tom Cruise and Maverick. He and Rooster are the only characters with significant development, apart from a bit of development from the love interest, whose name I can't remember and Hangman. Penny(I googled her name) and Hangman are completely serviceable and developed characters, especially Penny, but I really could have done for more scenes for them and for the characters of the team. For the team, I could have specially done with more development for BOB and Phoenix, they were really well characterised. Payback has one specific scene that's REALLY cool(It's a scene where he nearly dies during training, and as all the aerial scenes are, it was tense and shot amazingly), but I can't really tell you anything about him, as well as with Fanboy. He does nothing in the whole movie. Some of the team is really well characterised, but I wish some of them had a bit more... character. They joke TWICE about BOB being invisible on the first scene he's in, and they don't use that ever again, it's weird. It feels like they forgot about the team and when the movie was ending. I think that's basically all I have to say for the movie and the IMAX in the movie. BUT I haven't mentioned the sound. It's obviously great. Everytime a jet flies, I believe it! I don't have much more to say until my comparison with Dolby Atmos, so I'll say more then.
TL;DR= IMAX good. Worth price? Yeah.

I came out of watching this movie in IMAX really pleased! I loved the experience and the audience, for once in IMAX, wasn't absolute hell. When I went to watch Uncharted, the movie was mediocre, had less than 30 minutes in IMAX, the theater was packed, some dropped their Coca-Cola in the floor right next to me, it wasn't good.
When I went to watch No Way Home, I'll be honest, the 3D was hell, and some guys were laughing REALLY loudly at some jokes they were making at a low voice during emotional scenes. At least let us hear the jokes, dammit! The reactions to the cameos were kinda cool, but I should have gone with Dolby, I probably would have gotten the same, if not better reactions, and no 3D YAY.
But in Top Gun, it was pretty fun. Everybody laughed at the jokes for just long enough to not be annoying, nobody was scrambling their popcorn during quiet scenes, it was great! They also put a sneak peek of NOPE before the movie, but it was kind of weird, since it was not in IMAX, and since they're keeping so much of this movie secret, there was barely any new footage, just a few phrases from Jordan Peele. It was still pretty cool though. I'm really excited for NOPE.

Okay, that was long, I'll try to make the Dolby section of this shorter. I went to my Dolby theater, and I think I need to make a few things clear about it. The theater has a few rooms with Dolby Atmos audio, at no extra price, since sometimes the only showings available for some movies are only in Atmos, or maybe the only rooms left are Atmos rooms, and they can only put the movie there. They have two real big rooms with real big screens that are Atmos+Laser. Laser is basically the same thing as HDR in TV. Sometimes they have movies in those rooms in Laser+Atmos+4K, like with Dune or No Time to Die or The Batman. It's pretty cool. It's technically not a FULL Dolby theater, but I think it counts, since a regular Dolby theater technically has the same things as this one. And it would be stupid to not count as having watched something on Dolby if it was only with the Dolby Atmos audio. The audio is the biggest part of the Dolby experience to me. I went to watch Doctor Strange 2 at another Dolby theatre with a Onyx screen(4K+HDR) and Dolby audio, so technically that one's different to this one. It's confusing, but maybe I need to clear this up.
They had Top Gun Maverick in 4K+Laser+Atmos, so I went there to compare to IMAX and see the differences. The main one is the most obvious one. Dolby Atmos audio is absolutely magically amazing and I LOVE it. The whole audio just travels through the room so naturally and it's so immersive, but most importantly, it's REAL COOL. In this movie, you can hear the jets fly all around you, you can hear the voices from the team communicating from the different jets also all around you, every missile impact or explosion feel even MORE impactful than IMAX. Remember when I said that I believed IMAX? Well, I fucking feel Dolby. As I said, every single impact, every time the jets turn on, every time they boost, I can't explain with words how it feels. It's just magic, you have to feel it. God that was pretentious. But it's true! I can't explain how cool Dolby Atmos can be with the right movies. The movie is, of course, beautiful in 4K both in IMAX and Dolby, although I didn't really notice the Laser really affecting the colors as I did with Dune. The environments are still beautiful and colorful, BUT they are way more breathtaking in IMAX. Still looks amazing in Dolby, but know that in IMAX you're getting more scenario, and that's an absolute feast for your eyes.
TL;DR= Dolby good. Worth price? More than IMAX
I don't know where to recommend you to watch this movie. If you care about image more than sound, go IMAX 100%, it's no contest. But know that Dolby has way better sound and it still looks amazing. If you cate about price, I would say they both formats pass the price of admission. Although I am very lucky and my Dolby theater has the same ticket price as a normal format. And I'm also very lucky to be able to go to both theaters.

8/10. Even in a regular theater, this movie is real great, go watch it.

Hi! I crawled out of my little hole in the ground like I do once every month and I tried my PS5! I still have exams, but I'll play it more during the summer. But for now, I tried out Astro's Playroom! I didn't take any screenshots because I'm dumb but I beat it and I got every collectible and it was pretty fun. It's a cute little game just made as a tech demo for the PS5 where you explore the inside of the PS5 and its different worlds. It's packed to the brim with references to the whole history of PlayStation and they're really well done. There are these little Bots dressed as characters from PlayStation games and acting like them, and it's all adorable and great. The ones I got were a lot of fun to discover. And there are collectibles that are just objects from PlayStation history, and they're also great and a lot of fun.
The highlight of it all for me, though, is the controller. I know everybody freaked out about this 2 years ago, but it's really something amazing. The triggers vibrate depending on what you do to different levels depending on what you do, the controller can vibrate on different sides of it depending to what's happening at either side of you in the game, the sounds from inside the controller itself are incredible and the motion controls work really well. It's a great controller! Although I doubt any other game is going to use the controller as much as this game, but I'll see for myself when I finally try other games.

I don't know when I'll play the rest of my games. I definitely have to replay Horizon Zero Dawn before playing Forbidden West, because I don't remember a thing, I'll wait to play Lego Star Wars with my brothers, I'm really excited to play DeathLoop and I don't care about Gran Turismo, so maybe I'll sell GT7 and get 9 cents

Finally 😊
(It also came with 50 euro for the store, and I got Deathloop)

I watched another movie in theaters, and this time it was actually good! I watched Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness, and I really loved it! It was exactly what I wanted, but not at all what I expected. This is going to be a rambling but anyway, this movie was pretty amazing to me. It was fun, it was Sam Raimi, it was gory, and I had a fun time. I haven't watched Sam Raimi's horror movies, but now I really want to watch them, because this is the closest thing to horror and the goriest the MCU is ever going to get, and I like it! The gory deaths were pretty fun, and I really lost it when they introduced the Illuminati, and I lost it even more when they decided to kill them all really quickly in surprisingly violent ways. A kid in my theater made a little scream when they impaled the eye monster guy at the beginning. I didn't even hear that kid when Black Bolt's head fucking exploded because my whole theater gasped. They gasped even louder than when John Krasinski appeared, wich was pretty cool. I really would have loved if they hadn't showed Patrick Stewart in the trailers, but I still liked how they used him, and I liked how they used the Illuminatti in this movie, they didn't appear that much, they didn't take away much from the movie, and they were a nice addition. The movie was also refreshingly simple for modern superhero movies. This movie is barely over 2 hours long, and I like that, because we have enough huge bloated blockbusters. The last Fantastic Beasts movie was too long, The Batman justified its runtime but I don't want every movie to be 3 hours long and No Way Home was maybe a bit too long. And OH MY GOD Eternals was tooooooo long and it was a nightmare. But yeah, I enjoyed how this movie was more simple and maybe not the huge multiverse adventure some people were expecting, but I really liked it like that.
I went to watch this on a Dolby theater, and it's still the best theater experience there is. The sound is amazing, the image is amazing and I'm really happy that I watched this movie like that. I might rewatch it on 3D, because I saw some showings on 3D with Atmos, and this movie might convince me to actually watch something on 3D, because it really feels like this movie was made for that, way more than No Way Home, wich was kind of a nightmare on 3D.

...there was the Avatar 2 trailer, and I don't care at all. It was pretty, they delayed the Mario movie and I need a second movie to watch in December apart from Shazam! 2, I'll probably watch it, so the joke's on me.
Watch Doctor Strange 2, great good very good movie. I liked it

And I also watched The Bad Guys and it was pretty great, I liked it. It's pretty fun

Is it maybe a game from Dreams?

I did it. I succumbed to the darkness. I finally went to a movie theater, got near an underpaid worker and told them...

"4 tickets for Morbius at 19:00 please"

That's the true six letter memoir, forget "For sale, baby shoes, never worn", only the strongest of us can ask for tickets to Morbius without crying and be bad at math.
You may have heard a lot of stuff about Morbius. It sold a Morbillion tickets, it has a 203% on Rotten Tomatoes, it's true kino... well those people are right. Wait no they're wrong, idk why I said that. It's a bad movie. A really bad one. It's not absolute shit. It's just partially absolute shit, there's a big difference there believe me. It's not the worst movie I've ever seen. It's not the worst superhero movie I've ever seen, and it's not even the worst Marvel movie I've ever seen.
It's definitely in that group of the worst superhero movies. It's up there with Catwoman, Suicide Squad 2016, Fant4stic and Daredevil(Ben Affleck Edition). But I wouldn't say it's the worst. Although I would say it has elements of all those movies in itself.
I'm rambling at this point, I'm stalling and repeating myself, and that is pathetic, wow stalling to not talk about Morbius that's just sad wow I'm a sad and pathetic and sad and pathetic person wow.

I don't know where to start, I guess I should talk about

The Story

right?

It's dumb. And you already knew that. But if you need explaining I guess I should tell you why I think it's dumb! It's filled to the brim with inconsistencies and things that aren't explained, like:
The fact that we're never told Morbius' and his friends' disease and we're told that combining human DNA and bat DNA is the cure to their condition, wich we're also never explained why that is.
Why his friend is suddenly rich after 25 years.
Why Morbius didn't accept a damn Nobel prize.
There's a little girl in the beginning who is in the hospital, being taken care of by Morbius, and the movie never comes back to her.
Here's a big one, the whole conflict of thr movie isn't resolved. The whole point of the movie is that Morbius doesn't want to drink human blood, because his fake blood that he makes(He does that as a doctor) is increasingly less effective than real blood, so he needs real blood, and quickly. And they never resolve that. So that's great.
There's this scene on the trailer where Morbius stops a guy and the guy says "Who are you?" and Morbius says "I am Venom" and then he says "JK I'm Dr Michael Morbius, at your service", but in the movie they cut the part where he says he's Michael Morbius, so he just says that he's Venom for no reason and he looks stupid. This is super small and super nitpicky and super stupid, but it bothered me and made me laugh, so I'm saying it now.

And there's more stuff, but if you want more stuff just watch a YouTube video or something idk. All I'm saying is that I don't like CinemaSins but they're going to have a field day with this one.

I don't want to do titles anymore. I just want to mention that this movie's editing is god awful. Not only the cuts between scene to scene and in the scenes. And not only was that bad, the movie ends incredibly abruptly. It's incredibly jarring. Another thing that is the editing fault is how god awful the pacing is. Scenes just happen without any rhyme or reason, they're really boring for most of the movie and some things and scenes just don't make any sense and were obviously cut wrong. Like, the cops, what was up with those?? They didn't do anything important, what was the editor thinking?? Or the director and writer are bad, that's also very possible.
1/10. I laughed a lot at some scenes but it wasn't worth it. I shouldn't have watched this god.

I want to make something clear, I don't like Robert Eggers' movies that much. The VVitch is standard good, and The Lighthouse is standard bad. Sorry? I guess he's just not for me. But! The Northman is pretty great. I don't know what it is, but this one just clicked with me. Maybe it's just that I saw it in a theater, with people that are bigger fans of Eggers than me, and a place where the impeccable(as always) cinematography and sound design get to shine more, maybe it's that it's new and I'm biased. What matters is that I enjoyed it a lot more than The VVitch and The Lighthouse.
As I've already mentioned, the sound design and cinematography are amazing, and Eggers always excels at those. But not only those, obviously. The acting, the set design, the costume designs, those are always amazing, and they still are in this movie. But this movie does something really well that both The Lighthouse and The VVitch failed at. The story. Let me just speak about those movies for a bit first.
The VVitch and The Lighthouse. Are they creepy? Yeah. Are they well written? Sure. Of course, they both have absolutely transcendent monologues that make me wonder "Why don't I give this movie a 10 like everyone else", but then the rest of the movie just lacks enough emotion for me to really connect with it. I get that the point is that they aren't supposed to have an incredible story with incredible characters, but to make that sacrifice you have to give me a damn good... everything else. And both of those movies fail at that. The Lighthouse especially does.
But, The Northman... has a pretty cool story, I might say. It's not incredible or anything, but it's way better than the story of those other two. It's partially based on a Scandinavian legend, and I'm not familiar with that at all, but I thought it was good. Not amazing or anything, it's serviceable, but those incredible monologues and that amazing acting and that beautiful cinematography, are actually elevating the material now, instead of being good but not really elevating the material because there's no material to elevate.

This movie isn't incredible or anything, but it was great! Definitely Eggers' best movie, in my opinion. 8/10. Watch it if you want to, I'm not forcing you please don't think I'm forcing you please oh please oh god

I'm nominating Halo Infinite again. The game isn't popular or new anymore but let's keep trying ig