Movies
Everything I’ve watched and what I thought of it. The ones I had more to say about link out to a full review.
| Quick review | ||
|---|---|---|
| Oppenheimer 2023 | My #1. My textbook heroes brought to life, the whole crowd of them in one room. | |
| The Matrix 1999 | The first movie I ever saw in a theater. Made programming feel like more than a job. | |
| Vivarium 2019 | Watched it in the middle of a midlife crisis and saw my own life, not a horror movie. | |
| The Social Network 2010 | As a wannabe founder and a programmer, I felt like I was him. | |
| Joker 2019 | Saw it with a friend who was disturbed for weeks after watching it. | |
| Moneyball 2011 | numbers over hunch | |
| The Founder 2016 | why do so many founders are assholes | |
| The Big Short 2015 | good | |
| The Wolf of Wall Street 2013 | the life, but love the drugged scene, really thought he has made it just fine | |
| Dil Se 1998 | The music is the best part and dance. | |
| Taare Zameen Par 2007 | good music, story, and lesson | |
| 3 Idiots 2009 | funny, feel good | |
| pk | Good lesson, wish people actually understood it | |
| Crash 2004 | ||
| Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000 | love the fights, music, and story | |
| Life Is Beautiful 1997 | you will cry | |
| Pan's Labyrinth 2006 | great visuals, and story. makes you cry | |
| Scarface 1983 | ambitions | |
| Pulp Fiction 1994 | great way to tell the story | |
| Fight Club 1999 | philosophy | |
| The Lion King 1994 | cry | |
| Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 | ||
| Entergalactic 2022 | amazing visuals and music | |
| Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1989 | My favorite of the Indiana Jones movies | |
| Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 1984 | The darkest one and my least favorite | |
| The Pursuit of Happyness 2006 | Hard to watch as a parent. The subway bathroom scene got to me. | |
| Leaving Las Vegas 1995 | Depressing but reality of life. Warning. Great acting | |
| The Whale 2022 | You start out disgusted by Charlie and end up rooting for him. | |
| Watcher 2022 | Kept wondering if she was just being paranoid or if there was real danger. | |
| Hunger 2023 | Started strong, then the message turned into: don’t be your best. | |
| Sonic the Hedgehog 3 2024 | Saw it with Ayden. Liked that it works “make good choices” into the script. | |
| Alien 1979 | ||
| Parasite 2019 | scary | |
| Whiplash | saw a while ago, the last drum scene was insane | |
| Office Space 1999 | comedic but deep. Every developer has same dreams | |
| Scent of a Woman 1992 | one of favorite movie, love that speech at the end. | |
| I Care a Lot 2020 | scary | |
| The Fifth Element 1997 | love it | |
| The Housemaid | great story | |
| Five Nights at Freddy's 2 2025 | not scary | |
| Hoppers 2026 | good | |
| Project Hail Mary | Ayden really loved it. I liked it too. | |
| Flight of Navigator | Because of Project Hailr Mary, Ayden wanted to see more space movies. He liked this one too. Good movie to watch with kids | |
| Adrift | saw it once and forgot that i had seen it. midway through second time, hina remembered we had seen it | |
| All is Lost | minimalist, no dialog but unable to not watch, great for someone in sailing | |
| Automata | mind blown | |
| John Wick | amazing | |
| Wild | read the book long time before the movie. told Hina that they will make a movie on it and it will be amazing. ANd luckily they made amazing movie and love Reese Weatherspoon in it | |
| The Hangover | love it | |
| Apollo 10½ | nostalgic, amazing, must watch | |
| tick, tick... BOOM! | love it | |
| My Octopus Teacher | kept thinking about it for days | |
| Hachi | don’t watch it, seriously, floodgates will open |
Still to write up: Fair Play.