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https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/the-fly-1986 · 27 Sep 2024
There’s something about the physicality of 80s horror movie effects that make them so much more grotesque. David Cronenberg deserves plenty of credit for just how gnarly this is — he’s very good at making movies that horrify. It’s also an outstandi...
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/monster-hunter-2020 · 6 Aug 2024
An uninspired and altogether unnecessary (but not unwatchable!) movie. Rife with clichés — the enemy of my enemy is my friend, training montages — it's loaded up. There's even a cat cameo. A catmeo — if you will. This movie, however, is not the cat'...
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/freaks-2019 · 5 Aug 2024
Slow to get moving and slower yet to unveil itself, but the payoff is worth it. It's very much a lesson in the abject terror of being different from everyone around you and threatened because of that difference. It's a solid cast, a fun watch and not at al...
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/the-abandon-2024 · 4 Aug 2024
An outstanding — almost entirely — one room thriller anchored by a brilliant performance by Jonathan Rosenthal. It plays wonderfully with the tenuous human connection he established with Damsey who exists purely as a staticky voice on the other end of ...
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/iss-2024 · 2 Aug 2024
In space no one can escape human nature. Or something. A solid cast, engaging movie and a pretty clearly choreographed lesson in either sticking together or failing apart, mirrored by the events on earth below.
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/simulant-2023 · 1 Aug 2024
A nicely rendered and competently acted movie that says a bit more by not asking more interesting questions. It's the future, people are cloning themselves as androids (the legality of which is questionable) and with all of that technology all we've done i...
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/a-quiet-place-day-one-2024 · 31 Jul 2024
Wow. What a movie. The most compelling part of the movies set in John Krasinski's Quiet Place universe is the way in which they succeed so deftly at humanizing characters and telling stories when their characters are allowed to speak so sparingly. Lupita N...
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/real-steel-2011 · 30 Jul 2024
It’s not about the robots, it’s a redemption story — with robots. It’s riddled with clichés, nicely acted and with a Danny Elfman score to boot and, well, I’m not crying — you’re crying. Where are the robots though? It’s 2024.
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/the-5th-wave-2016 · 25 Jul 2024
A spectacularly average movie if ever there was one. The leads do their thing(s) and are serviceable but the story is uninspired, the twists are easy to spot a mile away and it's hard to get invested in any of it. If you're a sucker for post-apocalyptic/al...
https://www.coryd.dev/watching/movies/starship-troopers-1997 · 21 Jul 2024
A satirical, witty, gruesome, oversexed and utterly over the top sci fi film. It's a cautionary tale of reckless militarism and succeeds in large part by embracing how absolutely over the top it all is. A classic with lessons that are still applicable toda...