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https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/the-lost-boys-1987 · 12 Jan 2025
Over the top and absurd in all the best ways (as is often the case with good movies from the 80s). It's unserious in a way that's not unlike Buffy and there's blood, gore and practical effects in abundance but...it manages to delight in its own dorkiness. ...
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/london-has-fallen-2016 · 9 Jan 2025
This time London tips over. Gerard Butler remains a scary guy and we get dense city-level combat and action scenes. What kicks this one off? The US uses a drone to (they claim accidentally) bomb a wedding in the Middle East. What we get is a tale of reveng...
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/olympus-has-fallen-2013 · 8 Jan 2025
I started this series out of order and still don’t feel like I missed anything. Gerard Butler’s a scary guy. Not as scary as Bruce Willis or Jason Statham or Keanu Reeves. Dwayne Johnson isn’t scary — I just don’t see it. He seems nice, but impos...
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/angel-has-fallen-2019 · 6 Jan 2025
I didn't realize this was part of a series and now I'm watching this series out of order. Haha movies! Of course it's a series. Everything is a series. Want a franchise? We've got franchises! Is this anywhere near as good as Die Hard 1-25? No, but it's fun...
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/elevation-2024 · 5 Jan 2025
A by the book post-apocalyptic sci-fi jaunt. Solid performances throughout, a plot anchored by personal stories and committed performances throughout. Original or spectacular? No. Fun? Absolutely. I wasn’t expecting the turn at the end that the reapers w...
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/saltburn-2023 · 31 Dec 2024
This movie is as unsettling as it is decadently rendered. And it's unsettling in part because it takes the popular (and justified) antipathy towards the rich and flips it on its head. The Cattons are flawed but kind, Oliver is a conniving manipulator that ...
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/heretic-2024 · 31 Dec 2024
What’s the one true religion? I suppose it may well be cruelty and the drive to inflict pain and your beliefs on others. I’m loving late career Hugh Grant — the roles he’s been cast in lately feel riskier and more challenging than his earlier caree...
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/the-beasts-2022 · 13 Dec 2024
A captivating, simmering rural thriller. The tension between Antoine and his Spanish neighbors is evident from the outset, but Sorogoyen masterfully ramps it up and the pace at which he does so is agonizing. The shouts, the small conflicts, the vaguely thr...
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/the-running-man-1987 · 8 Dec 2024
I love this exact brand of 80s/early 90s sci-fi cheese. We’re 7 years past 2017 but it feels like we’re hurtling towards a similarly stupid post-apocalyptic society. There’s spandex, dorky one-liners and plenty of violence dished out by Arnold. Fanta...
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/under-the-skin-2014 · 5 Dec 2024
Minimal, beautifully shot and slow . It's an almost entirely visual movie — for better or worse — that didn't really go anywhere. Scarlett's an alien, Scarlett lures people in. Guy on motorcycle cleans things up. I'm not disappointed or upset that I wa...