Ragno Rants

The Watchlist

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Welcome to my watchlist. This is a place where I’m writing down movies and television shows I would like to watch, or write short paragraph-reviews of ones which I have watched. I am not a critic, I do not know the third thing about what makes a piece of visual media good1. I am not particularly well-versed in the art of movie-going—I’m incredibly uncultured. And that’s part of why I started this page.

It’s fun to sit down and watch movies, I’ve not done it often in my life. The times I have sat down to watch movies haven’t been very thoughtful, and that’s another reason why I started this page. I think writing about what I just watched makes the act of viewing it a little more important in my life and gives it a bit more of an impact.

Watched

Movies

  1. The Babadook
  2. Lucy
  3. Venom Series
  4. Bullet Train
  5. LOTR Extended Trilogy
  6. Novocaine
    • It’s not bad by any accounts, but it’s not great either. It’s good for what it is: which is a really fun action movie. I had a lot of fun watching it. It has a fun premise, and uses it pretty creatively at some points.
  7. Inside (2023)
    • This movie had me fully invested, with great writing and imagery.
  8. Absolutely Anything
    • This was a really fun movie. Not exquisite, but a fun comedy adventure. Characters with God-like powers is something I’ve toyed with a lot in my own writing, and a lot of this stories problems stood out to me as a little silly and easily solvable in the circumstances. Besides that, it was a good comedy movie, and the twist (which I wont spoil) was really fun and pulled off well.
  9. Hereditary
    • This movie was great, but a little confusing. I ended up having to look up the meaning to get a complete picture. Definitely the kind of movie you’d have to watch multiple times to fully understand. It was still a very thrilling and fun-to-watch movie despite this.
  10. The Menu
    • This movie was amazing, one of the best I’ve ever watched (Which isn’t to say much considering my current watch list.). I adored the message, and it being written by ex-Onion writers was made abundantly clear in some scenes. I especially loved the ending metaphor comparing S’mores to modern society.
  11. Three Thousand Years of Longing
    • What a sweet movie. The trailers for this movie are particularly misleading. I went into it expecting some kind of trippy action movie, but I was instead delivered a sincere love letter to storytelling. It was a beautiful movie.
  12. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
    • This wasn’t a bad movie, though it definitely wasn’t a good one either. The characters are fun, though at times the acting seems shallow. And the time travel mechanics left me with more questions than answers by the end of the movie. I originally watched this movie in 2016 when it first released, and it is definitely not quite how I remembered it being.

Shows

  1. The Owl House
  2. Inside Job
  3. Galavant
    • Galavant is legitamely
  4. The Good Place

Need to Watch

Misc.

  1. The Notebook
  2. The Passion of the Christ
  3. Hobbit
  4. Whiplash
  5. A Series of Unfortunate Events

Comedy

  1. Deadpool 3
  2. The Fundamentals of Caring
  3. Coming to America
  4. Speedracer
  5. Barbie
  6. Dear Santa (2024)
  7. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
  8. The Princess Bride
  9. Dance Flick
  10. Starship Troopers
  11. Tag
  12. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
  13. Kingpin
  14. The Phoenician Scheme
  15. The Nutty Professor
  16. The Machine
  17. Groundhog Day
  18. Idiocracy
  19. Truman Show
  20. Forrest Gump
  21. Scary Movie Series
    1. Scary Movie
    2. Scary Movie 2
    3. Scary Movie 3
    4. Scary Movie 4
    5. Scary Movie 5

Thriller

  1. The Godfather
  2. Oppenheimer
  3. Knives Out: Wake Up Dead Man
  4. Pulp Fiction
  5. The Martian
  6. Unbreakable Series
    1. Unbreakable
    2. Split
    3. Glass

Action

  1. Zero Dark Thirty
  2. Snowpiercer
  3. Mortal Engines
  4. Moonfall
  5. Fight Club
  6. iRobot
  7. LUCY
  8. Interstellar
  9. Inception
  10. Die Hard
  11. Planet of the Apes
  12. Wild Wild West
  13. The Hobbit Trilogy
  14. Pirates of the Caribbean Series
    1. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
    2. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
    3. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
    4. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
    5. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
    6. Pirates of the Caribbean: Tales of the Code
  15. The Matrix Series
    1. The Matrix
    2. The Matrix Reloaded
    3. The Matrix Revolutions
    4. The Matrix Resurrections
  16. Indiana Jones Series
    1. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
    2. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
    3. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
    4. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
    5. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
  17. John Wick Series
    1. John Wick
    2. John Wick: Chapter 2
    3. John Wick: Chapter 3
    4. John Wick: Chapter 4
  18. Mission Impossible Series
    1. Mission: Impossible
    2. Mission: Impossible II
    3. Mission: Impossible III
    4. Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol
    5. Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation
    6. Mission: Impossible — Fallout
    7. Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning
    8. Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning

Horror Movies

  1. American Psycho
  2. The Platform
  3. Midsommar
  4. Jaws
  5. Gremlins
  6. 28 Days Later
    1. 28 Days Later
    2. 28 Weeks Later
    3. 28 Years Later
  7. Saw
    1. Saw
    2. Saw II
    3. Saw III
    4. Saw IV
    5. Saw V
    6. Saw VI
    7. Jigsaw
    8. Saw X
    9. Saw XI
  8. The Purge Series
    1. The Purge
    2. The Purge: Anarchy
    3. The Purge: Election Year
    4. The First Purge
    5. The Forever Purge
  9. Final Destination
    1. Final Destination
    2. Final Destination II
    3. Final Destination III
    4. The Final Destination
    5. Final Destination V
    6. Final Destination: Bloodlines

Animated Movies

  1. Isle of Dogs
  2. Box Trolls
  3. Inside Out 2
  4. NINE
  5. Fantastic Mr. Fox
  6. The Iron Giant
  7. My Neighbor Totoro
  8. Robots
  9. Flushed Away
  10. Howl’s Moving Castle
  11. Osmosis Jones
  12. Spies in Disguise
  13. The Missing Link
  14. Fantasia
  15. Treasure Island
  16. Nimona
  17. Eight Crazy Nights
  18. The Bad Guys
  19. Kubo
  20. The Wild Robot
  21. Wallace & Gromit
  22. Spider-Man Sony Series
    1. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
    2. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Shows

  • Regular Show
  • Infinity Train
  • Breaking Bad
  • Andor
  • Phineas & Ferb
  • The Animatrix
  • Umbrella Academy
  • Love, Death & Robots
  • The Grand Tour
  • Severance
  • Primal
  • Shining Vale

Footnotes

  1. The first is writing (and its execution), and the second is cinematography. ↩

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