I love this movie.
I'd forgotten what a shot of adrenaline The Force Awakens was. Finn's character, his bromance with Poe, Adam Driver's ironically wonderful performance of Kylo Ren...
The Force Awakens might just be my favorite Star Wars film.
I actually struggle to find things to say about it,...
Wednesday, December 25, 2019
Friday, December 20, 2019
Review: Revenge Of The Sith
Sad to end the prequel trilogy on this note but Revenge Of The Sith was frankly the least enjoyable film I watched of the bunch.
Unlike other films, which pleasantly surprised me with their level of quality, Revenge Of The Sith simply had beats I was looking forward to and a lot of dead air in between.
I...
Wednesday, December 18, 2019
Review: Attack Of The Clones
Well. Shit.
I think I really liked this one.
I can't really say what it was about Attack Of The Clones that I enjoyed more than... Well, the rest of the films but part of me thinks it's just because of how much this film crams in. The over-the-top sequence on Geonosis, every scene Dooku is in, the...
Review: Return Of The Jedi
Return Of The Jedi was the film I feared rewatching the most, it's the one I've built up a fair amount of animosity towards over the years.
But despite all that I think I actually enjoyed it more than I thought I would.
It's still plagued by the same problem as all the original trilogy films, being...
Tuesday, December 17, 2019
Review: Empire Strikes Back
Empire is the awkward middle child of the Original Trilogy and it shows.
My biggest takeaway ended up being how much I started waiting for things to happen. Waiting for Luke's training to be over, waiting for Han and Leia to get to Cloud City, waiting for Boba to finally chase after them...
I think...
Monday, December 16, 2019
Review: A New Hope
A New Hope is one of those films I have very little to say about.
It's well made, a classic and it earns its place in the pantheon of must-watch films but if I go purely by my enjoyment of my time with it, I can sincerely say it wasn't as fun or interesting as I'd hoped it to be.
This isn't my first...
Sunday, December 15, 2019
Review: The Phantom Menace
Episode 1 of Star Wars is kind of the holy grail of bad Star Wars movies. Between Jar Jar Binks and overly explained Mido-Chlorians, you'd be hard pressed to find anyone disagreeing that it's bad.
So...
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
Review; Bring Me The Horizon's Count Your Blessings
Count Your Blessings is a mean spirited album which is more intent on trying to emulate the style of The Black Dahlia Murder while slutshaming on 60% of the tracks. There are musical ideas in here that I think are worth exploring, I think the unashamed guitar solos and pick squeals and breakdowns are...
Monday, November 4, 2019
Review: Netflix's You
The first thing I thought at the end of the first episode of Netflix's You was, Oh no, I really like Joe.
And that's awful, but also the point.
Netflix's You is a psychological thriller that will make you forget that it isn't a 2009 Rom Com film right up until it has a big twist to hit you with....
Crunchyroll Needs To Adapt Or It Will Die
Crunchyroll is a streaming subscription service and content host which brings anime and manga to desperate and lonely weebs like myself, although my weeb power level hasn't quite gone up in a long time.
If you live anywhere other than Japan and you like anime, I'd wager a guess that your main anime...
Making (Art) Is Hard Work
Hey, I'm Matt-Dave, and I have released exactly two videogames, written over 100 blog posts, wrote a novel, and recorded 4 demos with a band that broke up.
And those things were all bloody hard to do.
Any personal project is something that's very hard to get off the ground. You're usually solely responsible...
Thursday, July 4, 2019
Evangelion; Shinji, DON'T Get In The Robot (Unless You Want To)
Alright you pathetic soon to be Fanta Orange offspring of Lilith, I watched Evangelion a while back and I have thoughts and opinions and you're going to hear them as sure as Shinji gets in the goddamn...
Friday, May 24, 2019
Support Women's Right To Choose, You Coward
I'm a little late and I don't really know if this counts as a platform but here we go;
Abortion bills are almost always used to control women. But also yes, the supporters thereof actually do care...
Monday, April 15, 2019
Review; Ratchet And Clank (2002)
The original Ratchet and Clank is the perfect midpoint between 3D platformer and third person shooter.
And that's not the greatest thing.
While sequels would refine how to better blend fast paced...
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
Since When Did Fascists Start Liking Harry Potter?
Hey, you know what I love? Harry Potter.
Like, every couple years I watch every movie in a marathon because those were some of my first experiences with the artistry of cinema, rather than the...
Saturday, March 2, 2019
Review: Shadow The Hedgehog (2005)
Remember when you were a kid and you had a lot of angst and you went through this edgy period that you now cringe at as an adult?
Shadow The Hedgehog is the ill-conceived pseudo sequel to Sonic...
Friday, March 1, 2019
As It Turns Out, DC's Titans Is Pretty Good
I was not rooting for this show. DC's Titans is the kind of ill-conceived premise that you'd think would leave a show dead-on-arrival. The marketing for this thing promised a surreal, overly gritty...
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
It's Not A Phase, Dad! Also, I Didn't Like Amo.
The year is 2019 and had anyone told me I'd be writing about Bring Me The Horizon's new album I'd have hugged them with glee, just knowing the album would be worth writing about.
Now I'm decidedly...
Sunday, January 6, 2019
Thank You For The Lessons, 2018
2018 marks my most productive year as a blogger. I wrote more posts than any of the years before and I wrote my most popular posts.
It's been a tough year, and that's fair. All the other years were...
