Category: Movie Monday
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John Wick: Chapter 4 is Sheer Action Brilliance
So… are these movies just gonna keep going? This one has an actual ending to the story, and a pretty damn good one at that. But it’s Hollywood. You know they’re not just gonna let it go. Anyways, this movie is awesome. No surprise there. John’s quest for revenge continues, and the High Table seeks…
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Ranking All the X-Men Movies
Oh, wow, I just remembered that I’ve already done this before! But I hadn’t seen New Mutants – I don’t think it was out at that point – so this is fine. Besides, my opinions on the series have changed quite a bit. The Fox X-Men series was one helluva rollercoaster. You’ve got amazing films,…
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The New Mutants is a Failed Experiment
This movie was doomed to fail. First, there was the disaster that was Dark Phoenix. Then there was the Disney-Fox merger. And to top it all off, it came out in 2020. Under these circumstances, it would have taken the second coming of Christ himself to save it! Not that Jesus would have bothered. Not…
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X-Men: Dark Phoenix is Just… So Bad
These clowns managed to bungle up the Phoenix storyline not once, but twice. You’d think they’d have learned from their mistakes, but nope. They just went and made entirely new ones! X-Men: Dark Phoenix is the worst kind of bad movie: the boring kind. X3 was so bafflingly awful that at least it was somewhat…
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I Need to Rant About Godzilla Minus One
Sorry, X-Men. I’ll get back to you next week. Godzilla movies stand on a spectrum. There’s the cheesy monster-vs-monster action movies, and then there’s the genuinely compelling solo movies. The further down either side of the spectrum, the better the movie. In recent years, both sides of the spectrum have been occupied by separate countries.…
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