Just started with YAMS using Plex 2 months ago:

Movies: 241 TV Shows: 30

About 3.5 TB on an 8 TB drive

It’s much less fun but I think Origin (2023) is a good follow up to American Fiction

Mario Bros is an objectively bad Mario movie, but as a weird cyberpunk 90s b-movie I think it has legs

The Bourne Identity 4/5 - Really solid action flick. The sounds are a little cartoony and dated but definitely holds up

Final Destination 5 4/5 - Honestly I think it’s the best in the series. It has the right mix of murder contraptions and plot contrivance. The whole “you can steal time by killing other people” kinda comes out of nowhere but it does give us a villain

Final Destination Bloodlines 3.5/5 - I’m a little surprised to hear people call this the best in the series. The premise was interesting but I feel like despite the big cast there just weren’t as many big kills. I think it got a little too bogged down in the plot and forgot we’re here for Rube Goldberg murders

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1 3.5/5 - That title didn’t age well. I like it as a MI movie but it does feel like it lowers the tension from the previous ones, a likely necessity due to it being part 1. Maybe this score changes aftrf I see Final Reckoning

The Death and Life of Bobby Z 2/5 - A common criticism I have of these B movies is that there are just too many plots going on. This is another case of that, Laurence Fishburne’s character is confusingly motivated, I don’t really agree that the central concept of the movie is valid. It’s fine, but I expected better from this cast

I’m a little surprised to hear people call this the best in the series. The premise was interesting but I feel like despite the big cast there just weren’t as many big kills. I think it got a little too bogged down in the plot and forgot we’re here for Rube Goldberg murders

M3GAN 3.5/5 - It’s way funnier than it has any right to be. I’m pretty excited for the sequel

The Final Destination (4) 2/5 - One of the main characters is billed as “Racist” and another is first billed as “MILF”. The cgi is also way too heavy and not very good

Clown in a Cornfield 3.5/5 - MUCH better than I expected, I expected dogshit, so pretty good was a surprise. I liked the characters, the clowns, and the plot

Looper 3.5/5 - I view time travel movies on a spectrum from Primer to Looper. Primer explains the details of time travel and has insane internal consistency whereas Looper stares down the camera and says “fuck you, don’t think about it”. Which is all to say that I liked it, it has a Christopher Nolan vibe like “the plot makes sense as long as you don’t think about it too hard”

Godzilla: King of the Monsters 3.5/5 - Godzilla fights a bunch of Kaiju. It’s pretty cool, I wish I had seen it in a theater

Terrifier 2/5 - I don’t know if this is a movie or film student’s final showing off their technical skills. There’s not really a plot, just a bunch of cheaply, but well made, practical effects in loosely connected scenes

Waterworld 1.5/5 - I had heard so much about this but had never seen it, man there is so much going on in this. I love that most of the movie is practical effects, which apparently cost a metric shitload of money. There’s just too many plots, too many scenes, too many characters, and too much that doesn’t make sense

Honestly this was way better than I expected. I did expect it to be horseshit, so it ultimately landed at pretty good, which still surprised me. I liked that that there was a little more going on with some of the characters than you’d expect, I liked the clown being really fucking goofy about the kills, and I liked the arc the kids went on. This was much more watchable than the name and trailer implied, also it’s 96 minutes long, which is perfect for something like this

I made a lemmy post about it but I theorize they’re crowdsourced AI training. Post something, post a couple of separate AI interpretations of it, then analyze the highest up voted AI and “organic” responses, and feed that back into the model. Rinse/repeat

I mean the bots don’t help. The sheer number of obviously AI subreddits and response farms is crazy. There’s like 6 prominent “Am I the Assholes”, a bunch of text message “screenshot” subreddits which have always been easy to fake, and a bunch of “explain the joke” ones too. I stop reading halfway through most text posts and comments because it’s obviously AI

That was really interesting, thanks for sharing

Yup! I record all my movies on letterboxd so I just checked what I watched a week ago and went forward

I agree with it being the weakest. I do think if they hadn’t recast Mrs. Brown and had taken the flashback from that last scene where she draws the parallels between her kids leaving and Paddington staying in Peru then they could have a much more emotionally impactful film. Still I’ll take the worst Paddington movie over any Disney live action movie

• Smokey and the Bandit 3.5/5: I expected this to suck but I was really blown away. Burt Reynolds is legitimately funny, Eastbound and Down is an incredible theme song, and the whole ACAB motif of the movie aged very well
• The Legend of Ochi 3/5: I saw this for mystery movie monday and spent most of the time thinking this was a mostly AI generated film. The creators insist there was no AI used in this but it does lead one to wonder why they chose the (for lack of a better term) AI-aesthetic for the whole thing. Regardless, still a weak movie even by kid standards
• Final Destination 3 2.5/5: It’s fine, there’s some nudity and bunch of teens dying violently. Not much to write home about
• True Lies 4/5: About the level of sexism I expect from a 90s movie, but still pretty entertaining and has great jokes. Arnold and Cameron are just two heavy hitters doing great work
• Sinners 4/5: I thought this looked dumb as hell in the trailers but word of mouth got to me so I decided to see it. This movie is pretty good, has good music, pacing, and manages to get you more invested in the characters than most horror movies. It’s worth seeing and I would put effort into seeing it in a packed screening because it’s great with an audience
• Final Destination 2 3/5: This is also fine. Good kills, a decent plot and I like how it ties it back to the first movie, the bus kill is fucking wild (spoilers)
• A Minecraft Movie 1.5/5: I would only recommend seeing this in a theater with a bunch of people. There’s about 5 good jokes in the movie and it really feels like there were far too many cooks in the kitchen working on this

Damn, I got caught not reading the article

Morpheus died in the Matrix mmo shortly before it ended. The Wachowskis consider the game to be cannon so there’s nothing to be done. It’s not some conspiracy against Fishburne and I don’t know why outlets refuse to include that info

Princess Mononoke (4K IMAX) 4.5/5: This movie is so great and this was a beautiful restoration. What an experience

The Saint 2/5: Watched this in honor of Val Kilmer’s passing. In hindsight there may have been better choices, it really gives “Mission Impossible at home”

The Luckiest Man in America 3.5/5: I thought this was alright, I kinda wish it had gone more into how Micheal actually beat the system. It also got a little loose with the facts but whatever

Drop 1/5: This shit sucked. I saw it for Mystery Movie Monday and was initially confused why someone brought a toddler to an R rated screening. Nope, this is PG-13. This woman is the worst fucking date of all time, the waiter is an improv comedian, and the plot is nonsensical. Also the title sucks, the “Drop” basically doesn’t matter for the whole movie

This is classic America. I don’t have evidence for this but I have to assume that a large part of why America is having a egg crisis and other nations aren’t is because of the absolutely horrendous and unsanitary conditions of our factory farms. Rather than look around the world and see that better living conditions contribute to a higher quality product, better lives for the animals, and lowered risk of massive disease outbreaks (which could become a human pandemic by the way); we’d rather ship in perishable goods from countries who have already figured that out. Our insane thirst for quarterly earnings reports prevents us from even considering something that would be a long term sustainable solution because it would be ever so slightly more expensive up front