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A film enjoyer and collector 
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Boston, MA

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  • Tombstone
  • The Rock
  • Platoon
  • Dredd

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  • No Escape

    ★★★

  • The Electric State

    ★½

  • Daylight's End

    ★★★

  • Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End

    ★★½

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The Electric State

The Electric State

2025
★½ Watched

The Electric State: The Most Expensive Flop

Ironically, a key theme of the graphic novel is how corporate greed erodes humanity—only for it to be turned into a big-budget live-action movie by one of the largest entertainment corporations on the planet.

This confirms what I’ve been thinking all along: the Russo brothers are charlatans who took over a franchise after 10+ years of groundwork. Any competent director could have done as well—or better—than what they delivered.

Side note: This thing cost $320 million to make. Movies like this feel like they’re created for embezzlement.

Daylight's End

Daylight's End

2016
★★★ Watched

Daylight’s End is a low budget, direct to video-on-demand, action-horror movie set in a vampire apocalypse. The plot is simple but effective, keeping viewers engaged throughout its runtime.

The cast is solid and the score is great—it captures the tension in every scene. Cinematically, it’s not groundbreaking, and the CGI is where the low-budget shows the most. Overall it’s a very solid low-budget movie. Three stars might be excessive, but I really enjoyed it.

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Apex

Apex

2026
★★ Watched

Apex is your typical meta, modern-day action-thriller. Sasha (Charlize Theron) is a capable but standard strong female lead whose competence and strength feel given rather than earned within the story. Then there’s Ben (Taron Egerton), the friendly local who turns out to be a sadistic predator—who becomes extremely incompetent once the hunt begins. The constant cat-and-mouse game with Ben delivering a monologue, then making a mistake gets repetitive fast. Then there’s the extremely predictable ending.

Taron Egerton does deliver a…

Spartacus

Spartacus

1960
★★★ Watched

While Kubrick’s Spartacus has a dubious correlation with history, it gets the job done as a Hollywood epic. The highlights are undoubtedly the cinematography, which crafts one stunning, painterly scene after another. Then there’s the meticulously accurate costumes that fully immerse the audience with every shot. 

The score is serviceable but occasionally feels out of place, and the characters aren’t very fleshed out, leaving me with little emotional investment in their fates.

Having seen the Starz Spartacus series, I couldn’t…

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