Change Your Image
jashezilla
I'm Jasher Drake: Film fanatic, old-school gamer and marketing guy.
Ratings
Most Recently Rated
Reviews
Tenet (2020)
Woah.
My mind is still reeling trying to make sense of what I've just seen.
Tenet is incredible. An absolute powerhouse of a movie. The concept, the visuals, the sound, the acting, all mind-blowingly good.
Sure there were a couple of things I didn't love. A few too many exposition dumps in the first half of the movie, a few cuts and edits that disturbed the pacing a bit, but honestly, none of that can hold a candle to the film as a whole.
Definitely going to have to watch this again soon and do more of a review, just need to try get my head around it a little more first.
Alien (1979)
An absolute classic
This is a film that genuinely frightened me the first time I watched it. It shows that horror movies don't all need to just depend on jump scares and their second-rate plots. Alien gave us relatable characters, a well-developed story, creative cinematography and a fear that lingers long after Ripley signs off.
God Help the Girl (2014)
Indie magic.
This story is about an anorexic girl finding friends and starting a band. It does sound cliché, I know but it's just so original and so... joyful. And you can't help but finish watching it with a smile on your face. You'll definitely miss the characters for months afterwards.
Top Gun (1986)
Inverts your expectations.
Top Gun is truly a unique film that does everything right. Probably the best soundtrack ever, some of the best written and developed characters ever, unique and original cinematography, a rousing story and just a certain feeling that runs through the whole thing that transports you to the 80's. Sure there's no xenomorphs or replicants or crazy Chinese demon zombies, but there's friendship and rivalry that shows us that the real world can be just as exciting and can be just as much of a danger zone.
The Conjuring (2013)
James Wan's terrifying masterpiece.
The Conjuring has an incredible script, well-developed characters, and is based on a true story, which makes it all the more terrifying. But also, mainly in part to James Wan's expert film-making, manages to become the scariest film ever, even the times when all we're looking at is a hallway
The Shining (1980)
The story of a family quietly going insane together.
Stanley Kubrick is incredible, I'm just going to say that now. He turns a simple premise of a family going away for the holidays into an incredibly complex horror. The thing that differences the Shining from other horror movies though is the way it becomes a horror, and the way that it really scares you in ways that no other movie does. The dialogue, the setting, the pace of it all. This is the story of a family, quietly going insane together.
Rocky (1976)
Dun da dun da dun dun dun da dun!
The best underdog, comeback story ever. By the end you'll be crying tears of joy and go out running with a spring in your step and the theme music playing in your ear-buds.
Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
So frickin' sweet.
Napoleon Dynamite sure is 95% cheese, but while you're internally cringing you'll be laughing hysterically at the sheer awesomeness of the whole thing. The acting is absolutely a stand-out and the dialogue is full of lines you won't be able to help but repeat afterwards.
Sherlock Holmes (2009)
Downey & Law absolutely own the roles.
The two leads fully embrace their characters and add in great interactions and entertaining moments. The story is fantastic as well, but it is truly the actors, characters and style that makes this one a good time.
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
The father of all sci-fi films
2001 has been hailed as the father of all sci-fi films, and I do have to agree it's one of the best. This is another movie that throws away the tropes of its genre to show us something that is deep and meaningful. 2001: A Space Odyssey gives us beautiful visuals the whole movie long, and even though we don't get to care about the characters as much as we do with other films, they are there to serve a purpose in Kubrick's story of mankind's love for discovery. Strangely enough however, 2001 also manages to give us one of the best villains in cinema history, along with one of the best ending sequences as well.
La La Land (2016)
Colorful, exciting and fantastical
La La Land is colorful, exciting and fantastical. The songs and music are great, the pacing and style is great and all in all it's crazy close to being a perfect movie.
Unbreakable (2000)
The definitive superhero movie.
As a guy who grew up reading comics, someone who watches every superhero movie that comes out, and someone who has always loved the different stories and takes on good and evil, I have to say that this movie takes the cake and sets the bar for what an origin, let alone superhero movie should be.
Sherlock (2010)
Sherlock gets progressively worse.
Started off pretty awesome but as the series went on it started to forget about Sherlock actually solving some cases and just started to solely focus on the mythology of the series which made the show not really feel like Sherlock anymore.
Blade Runner (1982)
Make sure to watch The Final Cut!
Sure, it's not as action-packed as some would like, but Blade Runner makes up for it with it's rich narrative and lore. You really can't help but become enthralled in it's world and the twists are some of the best in all of cinema.
Rambo: Last Blood (2019)
Underwhelming but still packs a punch.
An underwhelming story that's not very 'Rambo' at all, but good acting and emotional scenes still makes it worth the watch. Not the best send-off for the titular character, but a fitting one.
Romancing the Stone (1984)
Highly entertaining adventure film.
This is a movie that is just entertainment incarnate. Genuinely funny, profoundly thrilling and one of the best soundtracks ever to boot. Not too original, with its cliché writer-meets-adventurer story-line, but Romancing the Stone pulls it off better than anything else I've ever seen like it. Just don't watch the sequel. Really.
Chronicle (2012)
Bring a fresh originality back to the superhero genre
Most people can't get past the found footage style that Chronicle is filmed in, but if you can you are in for one heck of a ride. Now the story is pretty generic, but the way it's told and shown to us is very unique and feels fresh. The twists are great, the characters are great, and the style is groundbreaking.
Mile 22 (2018)
Runs out of gas after the first couple miles.
Meh. The acting is alright and the action is pretty relentless, but everything just seems a bit heavy-handed.
Halloween II (1981)
Improves on the lore but becomes quite the bore.
Not anything amazing but I did find it quite enjoyable. Some things it even does better than the original. It's a bit more intense, more realistic, and adds to the story really well, but is kind boring throughout the majority of it's runtime. Gotta say though, that hospital being completely empty is laughably ridiculous.
The Meg (2018)
A Megalodon-sized mess.
Jason Statham can act about as well as a shark and everything from the script to the cast is just a Megalodon-sized mess.
Assassin's Creed (2016)
Nothing like the games.
Purging violence by using a whole lot of violence? The story itself makes no sense and add to that characters you don't care about, scenes upon scenes of boring dialogue and an overall darkness to the film as a whole, Assassin's Creed is easily the worst film of this whole year. That one single parkour scene which finally made me feel like I was watching an Assassin's Creed movie was pretty dope though.
Labyrinth (1986)
A movie with the power.
Man, am I a sucker for 80s flicks. The music is awesome, the puppet effects are awesome and David Bowie is awesomeness personified.
Dagon (2001)
A crazy, gratuitous mess.
The acting is horrible and just the crazy, gratuitous mess that it turns into is really disappointing. Loved the premise and the feel of the whole thing, and it did genuinely creep me out a bit, but it's not well put together at all.
Escape from New York (1981)
Call him Snake...
Escape from New York is an action flick from the 80s, so it does have some of those 80s action movie tropes with it. But the best thing Escape from New York gives us is an insanely awesome main character, Snake Plissken. The over-the-topness of the whole movie combined with the one-liners and crazy story makes it a really cool experience.
The Princess Bride (1987)
The awesomeness of this movie is truly inconceivable!
A fantasy-romance-action-adventure-comedy that actually really delivers. Sure it is pretty darn cheesy at times, but that just adds to its unique and original feel.