A couple goes house hunting, gets stuck in an endless maze of identical houses, and is handed a baby to raise as the price of ever getting out.
I watched it a few years ago, in the middle of what felt like a midlife crisis, and I didn’t really watch it as a horror movie. I watched it and saw my own life. That’s the trap it nails: first you fight it, trying to escape backward to the life you used to have. Then you give up on that and just put your head down and work, telling yourself you’re grinding toward some future escape that never actually arrives. The house, the routine, the kid handed to you. The repetition is the whole nightmare.
Watched it in the theater with friends, which was the perfect way to see it. As a wannabe startup founder and a programmer, I connected with the Zuckerberg character right away. Honestly, I felt like I was him. It pulled me straight back to all the hack projects I built in college, the all-nighters with friends, the rush of making something out of nothing.
And that “Creep” cover, the slowed-down choral version playing over the rowing scene, gave me chills. One of my favorite needle-drops in any movie.
The first movie I ever saw in a theater. I was 17, and when I walked out I genuinely felt like I was in the Matrix, looking at the street, the people, all of it, half-wondering whether any of it was real. It messed with my head in the best way and shifted how I looked at a lot of things.
I was studying computer science at the time, and this is the movie that made programming feel like more than a way to get a job. Code as something that could build a whole world, bend what’s real. It pushed me to actually want to understand it, not just pass the class.
My #1.
I grew up reading about these scientists in my textbooks, just names on a page with equations attached to them. Seeing them walk around as actual people, in the same rooms, alive at the same time and all connected to each other, was something else. That’s the thing that got me: not only Oppenheimer, but the whole crowd of them gathered at one moment in history.
Nolan does the science and the dread justice, but for me it was personal: my textbook heroes brought to life.
Heartbreaking to watch. The Joker has been my favorite villain for a long time, and what got me here is that they finally showed the human side of him, how someone who started out good gets ground down and turned into something evil. It makes you sit with that question the whole way through.
Joaquin Phoenix’s performance is amazing; he carries the entire thing.
Saw it in the theater with a friend who was genuinely messed up by the time it ended. It’s heavy and dark and stays with you. 5/5.
The first episode of Mo was so annoying that it took several months to finish it. But eventually the show gets interesting.
Mo is so annoying that it is very hard to love him initially. There were moments when he got into trouble for his immaturity and, instead of feeling bad for him, I felt relieved. I hate shows in which there are no consequences for stupid actions. Here, at least, he had to deal with the consequences of his stupidity.
I saw this movie on Netflix. It started off strong but turns into a disappointment at the end.
The movie is about a street food cook who is invited to join a team of top chefs.
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The girl wanted to be the best, and she even ended up opening her own restaurant. But in the end, she just wanted to go back to being a street food cook.
I felt disappointed because the message seemed to be that the pressure of being the best is not for everyone. Her family, instead of supporting her, guilted her and wanted her to quit. There was even a weird cooking competition at a party. And the message of the movie seemed to be: don’t be your best.
This weekend, I saw Sonic 3 with my son.
I have never gotten into Sonic movies, so this was the first Sonic movie I saw. It was a really enjoyable movie, and Ayden really loved it as well.
From a parent’s perspective, I liked that it used some common phrases such as “make good choices,” which should help reinforce these messages.