Patrick B

Patrick B

Favorite films

  • Toy Story
  • Back to the Future
  • Adventureland
  • Point Break

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  • Thunderbolts*

    ★★★½

  • Final Destination Bloodlines

  • Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith

    ★★★★★

  • La guerre des étoiles

    ★★★½

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Thunderbolts*
★★★½ Liked Watched

What are we, some kind of suicidal squad?

I think Thunderbolts*'s marketing was more interesting than the actual film, but it just about works.

Florence Pugh and David Harbour are acting rings around everybody - Pugh, in particular, has wonderful chemistry with Lewis Pullman, and Yelena and Bob's trauma-laden bond really carries the film. Credit, also, should go to the filmmakers for being ballsy enough to dispense with the standard third-act action set-piece and opt instead for something more introspective,…

Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
★★★★★ Liked Watched

"So this is how liberty dies...with thunderous applause."

20th Anniversary Re-Release

I saw Revenge of the Sith when it was originally in cinemas in 2005 and I instantly fell in love with it then. I watched it countless times on DVD, every time it was on TV and even on the odd occasion on Disney+ - I even played the PlayStation 2 game of the same name over and over again I loved it that much.

I was filled with…

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Stolz der Nation
★★½ Liked Watched

It's good but I can't help thinking that it would be better experienced in a French theatre alongside hundreds of burning Nazis.

Spider-Man
★★★★ Liked Added

It's such a shame that Spider-Man has become one giant walking meme because it is a solid superhero adventure from a time when solid superhero adventures still didn't really exist.

Much like Bryan Singer's X-Men, this film could be blamed for starting the glut of superhero films that we are (un)fortunate to have these days, but it's also a product of its time in the sense that it did a lot of the heavy lifting for the genre in establishing…