Bro I want to see Suzume so badly. I might see it some time next week though.

There is no way I could bother sitting through LOTR in the theater. I did it once for the middle film Two Towers I think it was and I was stuck in the front row with my neck straining looking up at the screen. It was a miserable time. Never again.

Suzume was GREAT, I think you’ll definitely enjoy it

Did it make you cry? A friend of mines said that he fully expects it to make him cry. He's going to see it tonight with his partner.

I was bored yesterday so popped in to finally see Scream 6 and I absolutely loved it. I don't even care how predictable the killers were. I loved all the connections it make to previous films.

It did not but my upbringing and good ol toxic masculinity in society has made it almost impossible for me to cry so that's not a good metric. It is definitely a beautiful movie with some great emotional moments

I actually did not correctly predict the Scream 6 killers at all lol, I thought all the way up until the reveal that it was going to be:

Ratings for my recent watches:

Renfield: 2.5/5 - Just totally meh. Nic Cage does a nice job but everything outside of him is weak to straight up terrible

Suzume: 4.5/5 - Magical, beautiful, enthralling, funny, just all around superb. Right up there with “Your Name”

The Raid: 3/5 - Great action, some of the best I’ve seen frankly. But just not enough besides that to warrant a higher score

The Big Lebowski: 4/5 - Did not disappoint. Really ****ing funny

The Raid does not require more. It is martial arts movie perfection that exists on its own plane of accomplishment and you are a plebe.

It requires a lot more. John Wick for example gives me action that's maybe slightly lesser but everything else is a lot better. The Raid is such a bland, gray movie. Visually it looks like barf. John Wick is colorful and neon and gorgeous in every frame with more interesting lore and characters. Other martial arts movies are also often a lot prettier to look at. And then action movies like Die Hard feature memorable, likeable main characters whereas The Raid's main character is just...a dude who punches good. Just not really what I look for in an action movie although I'm still happy I watched it and I will check out the sequel at some point

I'm sorry did you want the slum where a brutal urban war was fought to be neon pink?

Yes

It's pretty funny that you bring up John Wick and consider The Raid subpar to it when John Wick's action scenes were inspired by The Raid and other movies that feature the single camera Hall fights. It's like you are ****ting on the movie that is even the main reason John Wick was created. So weird.