THENATHE's Movie and Series Reviews
Note
Everything on this page is my personal feelings about the referenced movies, and may not in any way correlate with popular opinion or professional film critique. You have been warned!
Oppenheimer
Saw this one in theatres, and it really made the cinematography very special. I like how they were able to make a drama out of a historical piece, and I really like that all of the actors were quite good. I especially liked the visual effects, and the "ringing" that occurs at various points in the movie both to signify emotional numbness/distress as well as temporary hearing loss from explosions and/or emotional numbness/distress, as well as the long periods of silence to encourage tension. It was a very compelling type of cinematography, and I really enjoyed it. 8/10
Bullet Train
7/23/2023 2:40am
I thoroughly enjoyed this one. Normally, like my father, I find actors that are big name (or character actors) really hard to get into because I can only view them as their character type or most famous role. But, despite Brad Pitt being one of those characters, I was quite happy with this one. It reminded me a lot of an action-comedy styled The Devil All The Time (which is one of my favorite movies), and also leans into the 'Hong Kong Noir' style movie that it was clearly meant to imitate, which worked really well for it. Every single camera shot had either a fight scene or a detail that would become important in 10 minutes, which is hard to pull off but was quite well executed. Overall very good. One of the few movies I will rate 10/10
The Devil All The Time
One of my more favorite movies, this one kinda has "threads" that you have to follow and they all meet up at one point or another, which is really, really interesting. I love how it tells many different stories that are WILDLY different, and you're like "why should I care?" and then the movie goes "BAM thats why you should care, sucker". Wonderful and entertaining piece of media, and I highly recommend watching it. 9/10
The Tall Men
Zombieland
This is my favorite movie of all time, period. It has Woody Harrelson (my favorite actor) in it, and it is just a hoot. It is kinda tropey, but also very fun and just very predictable but enjoyable. I would call this my "safe movie" that I can always enjoy no matter what. 10/10
Zombieland 2
Did not like it as much as the original, but still very fun and interesting. 7/10
Greenland
7/22/2024
This movie was kinda fun. I really liked the acting of the main character, and I thought his performance was compelling. I also love the premise of the movie, I really love "realistic" apocalypse movies. However, I didn't really care for a lot of the inaccuracies, and I really, really hate when a third of the movies plot can be erased if the main characters just carried guns (and this is literally criminal of that). Overall worth a watch, but nothing life changing. 6/10
The Green Book
I thought this movie was wildly fantastic and had an extremely compelling story. I love the character building over the course of the movie, I love that it deals with a really hard hitting issue (racism) both as a period piece and as a cultural statement at large, I really love the trope of the "I'm not racist, I (genuinely) hate everyone equally" character, and I really love the small and large twists at the end. Overall very very good movie. 9/10
Breaking Bad
Cowboy Bebop
Samurai Champloo
SpyxFamily
Chainsaw Man
Smiling Friends
Rick and Morty
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
Probably one of the weakest Star Wars Movies in my opinion, as it really lacks anything that makes the series special besides the storytelling of where Anakin came from. The podrace is cool though, and I am always a fan of "fictional racism" as I feel that it is a trope that isn't really touched on in fantasy worlds. One of my favorite games, Morrowind, has racism among different races and provides numerous opportunities for it to appear in the story or in various quests, or even just a backdrop. I really like to imagine myself in a world when I play a game, watch a movie, or read a book, and while racism is terrible and bad, including even some of the worst parts of real life can make something more compelling and/or realistic. The fact that slavery/indentured servitude is alive and well where Anakin comes from helps add a level of depth and realism to an otherwise very 'fake' space opera. I think the worldbuilding is one of the most redeeming qualities of this movie. I will rate this one 7/10
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
The Clone Wars is pretty fun, but doesn't really have very much stand out about it. It is kinda wild that I love the Prequels so much despite the fact that they really aren't that good as a standalone piece until you get to RotS. However, again, this movie exceeds at the worldbuilding. a lot of the political talk, a lot of the beaucracy and explanation of why Anakin gets fed up, a lot of building towards what eventually becomes the series. This is really what makes Star Wars great in my opinion: the stage it sets for each next piece, as well as the world as a whole. Overall, this one is also more entertaining than TPM, so I give it a 8/10
Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith
This is one of the best movies ever. It spawned so many memes, it was entertaining from start to finish, it had more worldbuilding and foreshadowing at every turn, and it had some of the best lightsaber battles of the prequels. (All of the prequels had great lightsaber battles that were wonderful, but either way). Solid 10/10 masterpiece.
Star Wars: Rogue One
This was an interesting one. I really like that this maintains a lot of the original "Star Wars OG Trilogy" vibe while updating all of the CGI and cinematography. Other than the fact that it is OG in nature and looks good, there isn't much here. 8/10
Star Wars: Solo
I have a particular love for this movie as it hit me at a time in my life where I was going through some shit with my (now) ex and some of the overarching themes in this movie kinda resonated with me very hard. I also loved the plot, I thought it was entertaining and well thought out, and it has my favorite actor (Woody Harrelson) in it. 10/10