[0:00] Hey everyone, welcome back to the
[0:01] channel. It is finally time to recap all
[0:04] of the movies that I have seen in the
[0:06] first quarter of 2026.
[0:08] If you don't know, the year is always
[0:10] split into four quarters because of 12
[0:12] months and the first quarter is usually
[0:14] where the worst movies of the year come
[0:16] out just for marketing reasons. So, to
[0:20] be honest with you, the first quarter of
[0:22] 2026 has been pretty bad and it's one of
[0:24] the worst first quarters I've had in a
[0:27] long time with movies. But regardless, I
[0:30] have seen 36 films in this quarter
[0:32] [music]
[0:33] of the year and I'm going to be ranking
[0:35] all of them from the worst to the best.
[0:37] So, if you're new around here and you
[0:38] don't know, I'm trying to watch every
[0:40] 2026 movie that I can eventually with
[0:42] the goal of ranking all of them at the
[0:44] end of the year.
[0:45] Right now, my goal is to at least break
[0:48] 100, which is pretty easy, maybe even
[0:51] 150. And making a video on that is going
[0:54] to be outrageous, but it's going to be a
[0:56] lot of fun. So,
[0:58] let's just lock in and let's talk about
[1:00] all 36 of these movies I watched now.
[1:02] Coming in at number 36 is going to be
[1:04] Luc Besson's Dracula. This is a bad
[1:07] movie.
[1:09] It is almost a reheated nachos moment
[1:11] where it basically just takes everything
[1:14] that Robert Eggers did with Nosferatu
[1:16] and adapts it into a slightly different
[1:19] medium of being just a bit more low
[1:21] budget [music] and then calls it a day.
[1:23] On top of that, Luc Besson is a director
[1:26] or Luc Besson or whatever you want to
[1:27] call him is a director that is not a
[1:30] very good person. Uh if you don't know
[1:32] anything about him, look him up, do your
[1:33] own research. I'm not here to talk about
[1:35] that kind of stuff, but he's not a very
[1:37] good person and that doesn't go or that
[1:40] doesn't fare very well for this movie. I
[1:42] try and leave a lot of controversy out
[1:44] of this stuff, but there are sometimes
[1:45] where it just can't happen. And in this
[1:47] case, not only is the movie pretty bad,
[1:49] but that does negatively impact my views
[1:52] on this film as well. So, [music]
[1:54] Dracula is basically just a
[1:58] almost like a just one-for-one copy of
[2:00] Nosferatu, which is an infinitely better
[2:02] movie and this one is coming in at the
[2:05] very bottom of the list at number 36. At
[2:07] number 35, a movie that I thought was
[2:09] just a little bit better than Dracula is
[2:12] going to be The Mortuary Assistant. This
[2:14] is the adaptation of the video game. It
[2:17] was a Shudder original that went to
[2:18] theaters for like a week during
[2:20] Valentine's weekend and then disappeared
[2:23] off the face of the earth and I think
[2:24] it's on Shudder now. If you are bored
[2:26] one day and you're looking for a movie
[2:27] to watch, don't pick this one cuz it is
[2:29] not worth your time.
[2:31] This is a classic case of a movie trying
[2:33] to adapt a game that has multiple
[2:35] endings and it takes all of those
[2:37] endings and puts way too much on its
[2:39] plate and then it fails in every single
[2:42] regard to satisfy all of those needs
[2:45] from that plate. So, what you get is
[2:48] basically just a disgusting
[2:49] Frankenstein's monster of multiple
[2:51] different endings and ideas that don't
[2:54] really mesh together from the game. And
[2:57] on top of that, the writing quality just
[2:58] isn't good enough to sustain interesting
[3:01] characters. So,
[3:03] all of the moments that should be scary
[3:05] or unique or interesting come across
[3:07] very corny and cringe. And all of the
[3:10] charm of the game, all of the best
[3:12] moments from the game, all of the good
[3:13] jump scares, all of the good [music]
[3:15] tension and moments, all of that gets
[3:17] completely left on the cutting board and
[3:19] not even in the final film. There are
[3:21] some things that I like. I like the
[3:23] cinematography, but I don't like the
[3:25] color grading. I somewhat like the two
[3:28] lead actors, but I think that their
[3:29] performances are very bad because the
[3:31] movie has a bad script. So, for every
[3:33] one good thing, there's always some kind
[3:35] of counteractive negative to the film
[3:37] [music] and all of those counteractive
[3:39] negatives stack up to an amount that
[3:42] [music] is
[3:43] insufficient to make this movie good.
[3:45] So, this is a bad movie. It is not worth
[3:47] your time and definitely [music] skip
[3:48] out on Mortuary Assistant. Coming in at
[3:51] number 34 is going to be The Strangers:
[3:53] Chapter 3. And this movie
[3:56] is a continuation of terrible terrible
[3:59] movies. Uh if it wasn't so plainly
[4:02] generic, it may get a few points up just
[4:05] because it's something unique. But just
[4:07] like its predecessors, this movie is
[4:09] painfully generic and that is really
[4:11] what puts it so low. You can make a
[4:14] generic slasher film, but you can't do
[4:16] it to one that has somewhat of an an
[4:19] idealistic principle in The Strangers
[4:21] and The Strangers: Prey at Night. The
[4:23] big principle and the reason it's called
[4:25] The Strangers is because you never see
[4:28] the face of the three killers hunting
[4:30] down the main characters. And so, Renny
[4:33] Harlin decided to take that franchise
[4:36] and give the three strangers a backstory
[4:39] for some unknown reason and it doesn't
[4:42] work. The backstory does not work. There
[4:45] are weird plot holes that make no sense.
[4:47] You get very very vague answers to
[4:50] questions you probably didn't even have
[4:52] when you watched the first or the second
[4:54] or the third movie and nothing really
[4:57] amounts to anything in this franchise.
[4:59] The ending is extremely predictable. It
[5:02] doesn't do anything new. It doesn't do
[5:03] anything interesting and it's not really
[5:06] high budget or high quality writing-wise
[5:08] either.
[5:09] >> [music]
[5:09] >> So, it has nothing going for it and it
[5:11] goes at the bottom of the list just like
[5:12] The Strangers: Chapter 2 last year and
[5:14] The Strangers: Chapter 1 years ago.
[5:16] Coming in at number 33 is going to be
[5:18] Vampires of the Velvet Lounge. This is a
[5:21] low-budget vampire flick with some
[5:23] decent B-movie actors in it, but they
[5:26] cannot save this movie. It kind of gives
[5:28] off the War of the Worlds charm where it
[5:30] is so laughably silly that there is some
[5:33] fun to be had, but it's not as fun in
[5:36] the case of War of the Worlds where you
[5:37] have Ice Cube and you know, doing his
[5:39] zoom cam and stuff like that. Instead,
[5:42] you have vampires and bad acting and
[5:46] there are a lot of fun cute moments that
[5:48] are hilariously terrible that are worth
[5:51] watching this movie with friends just so
[5:53] you can laugh at it. Like a character
[5:55] that constantly says his name over and
[5:57] over again is hilarious.
[5:59] But at the end of the day, this is a
[6:01] movie that I will never think of again,
[6:02] whereas War of the Worlds, even though
[6:04] it's absolutely atrocious, is a movie
[6:06] that I will continue to think about
[6:07] moving forward with my life. So,
[6:10] it's just not a very good movie. It's
[6:11] not worth watching if you're not going
[6:13] to watch it with friends who likes like
[6:15] fun bad movies.
[6:17] Uh there's nothing really good about it.
[6:18] So, this one's also a skip. Coming in at
[6:21] number 32, my biggest disappointment of
[6:23] the year is going to be Return to Silent
[6:25] Hill. This movie fails to not only be an
[6:28] adaptation, but it fails to be a good
[6:30] movie. Christophe Gans made a 2006
[6:33] Silent Hill film that was kind of
[6:36] forgotten about for a long time and
[6:38] became a bit of a cult classic in the
[6:39] last like I would say 5-10 years. Uh it
[6:43] got a sequel 6 years after it came out
[6:45] that was critically dumped on. Viewer
[6:48] like the audience dumped on it, said it
[6:50] was terrible and it is terrible. It's a
[6:52] terrible sequel. But the first movie was
[6:54] always looked at relatively fondly in
[6:56] hindsight and Christophe Gans, the
[6:59] director of that film, came back to do
[7:01] another film to adapt the second game
[7:03] and this film was left on the shelf for
[7:06] like 5 years from what I heard is that
[7:08] they couldn't get a distributor for it
[7:09] because the budget was too low and also
[7:12] the movie ran for too long. So, it was
[7:14] like a low-budget movie that had way too
[7:15] long of a runtime and or something like
[7:18] that. I could be wrong about that, but
[7:19] some some issue like that. And the
[7:22] nobody could would pick it up and then
[7:23] finally Shudder picked it up. They
[7:25] pushed it out into theaters. I think it
[7:26] was Shudder or Screambox, one of the
[7:28] two. They finally pushed it out into
[7:30] theaters and it was bad. It's bad.
[7:33] Christophe Gans fails to adapt any of
[7:35] the nuance or intricacies of Silent Hill
[7:37] 2 in any fascinating way.
[7:40] He takes the wrong approach to the film
[7:42] in general by confusing Silent Hill 2 as
[7:45] a love story rather than a story about
[7:47] grief.
[7:48] It's bad.
[7:50] It doesn't really work at all. For every
[7:53] one cool thing that Christophe Gans does
[7:55] do with the film, there's a million
[7:57] other things that are done wrong. And
[7:59] for example, I like the idea of giving
[8:00] James and Mary some backstories to give
[8:03] a little bit more reasoning for James
[8:04] doing what he's doing. That's not a bad
[8:07] idea. I like that on paper because in
[8:10] the game, you don't really have a reason
[8:11] to go save Mary other than she is your
[8:13] wife. Like that is good enough reasoning
[8:15] for the game and the game does a good
[8:17] job justifying it as you play it,
[8:19] >> [music]
[8:19] >> but I don't like the idea on paper of
[8:21] giving them some backstory. However,
[8:23] instead of doing that as just a thing in
[8:25] the in the film, Christophe Gans takes
[8:27] that as kind of the backbone of the film
[8:30] and the movie doesn't even open up with
[8:32] the iconic bathroom scene. Instead, that
[8:34] happens 15 minutes into the movie and
[8:35] instead we open up with how James and
[8:37] Mary met. And it's really cringe. It's
[8:39] really corny. It doesn't work. And then
[8:41] there's also moments where you find out
[8:43] that Mary is not even a part or is a
[8:45] part of a Silent Hill cult. They're not
[8:47] even married in this movie and just it
[8:49] keeps stacking up over and over again to
[8:51] a point where it gets annoying and just
[8:53] obnoxious.
[8:55] And this movie is bad. It is a bad
[8:58] everything. So, this one is an easy easy
[9:00] skip in my opinion.
[9:02] I have a much much longer review of this
[9:06] movie if you would like to check that
[9:07] out, but as it stands, this is a bad
[9:10] movie. Coming in at number 31 is going
[9:12] to be a bit of a hot take for me and
[9:14] that is going to be Charli XCX's The
[9:15] Moment. Uh before I get into my
[9:18] critiques of this movie cuz I didn't
[9:19] have a video on this one, I do want to
[9:21] give a huge shoutout to Charli XCX. It
[9:24] takes a lot of willpower, a lot of
[9:26] money, a lot of time, a lot of energy to
[9:29] make a movie. And for all of the people
[9:31] who hated on The Weeknd's movie last
[9:34] year,
[9:35] I want you to take into account just how
[9:38] much effort went into that film of
[9:39] especially considering it's compare it's
[9:42] connected to a bigger multimedia
[9:44] project. And I want to appreciate Charli
[9:47] XCX here and say that it is a very
[9:50] talented work of art that she has
[9:51] created. But much like The Weeknd's
[9:55] movie from last year where if you didn't
[9:56] know anything about The Weeknd, you
[9:58] didn't like the movie.
[9:59] I don't really like Charli XCX. I don't
[10:01] like her persona. I don't really know
[10:03] anything about her as a person.
[10:05] And therefore, this movie to me is bad.
[10:08] It I just don't like it.
[10:10] If you got something out of it, if
[10:12] you're a big fan of Charli XCX, I can
[10:14] totally see you enjoying this movie a
[10:16] lot more than I did. But on a
[10:18] fundamental level, I think that this
[10:19] movie doesn't really add anything
[10:21] interesting to the conversation of like
[10:23] death to the the big elites, death to
[10:25] the elite or bring down Amazon, anything
[10:28] like that. I don't think it adds
[10:29] anything in that regard, especially
[10:31] considering you can rent this movie on
[10:33] Amazon Prime.
[10:35] It just doesn't really add anything in
[10:36] that regard.
[10:37] Um
[10:39] I don't think it's very comedically
[10:40] entertaining either. I don't think
[10:42] there's anything visually all that
[10:43] entertaining and I don't think the
[10:45] acting performances are all that grand
[10:46] other than Alexander Skarsgård who is
[10:48] fine in this movie.
[10:50] Uh other than that, I don't think
[10:51] there's anything super grand or
[10:53] incredible about it. But like I said, if
[10:55] you're a Charli XCX fan, maybe you got
[10:57] something out of this that I didn't,
[10:58] just like how I got something out of the
[11:00] Hurry Up Tomorrow last year that you
[11:01] probably didn't get. So
[11:04] I understand. It's totally a fan thing
[11:06] and I'll let you all have that one. So
[11:08] that's what my thoughts are on it, but
[11:10] maybe you like it better than I do.
[11:12] Coming in at number 30 is going to be
[11:14] Psycho Killer, another very
[11:16] disappointing movie for me. Uh written
[11:18] by the guy who wrote Seven. Don't even
[11:20] know how that's possible cuz this movie
[11:22] is the exact antithesis, in my opinion,
[11:25] to Seven.
[11:26] It is a very corny, very on-the-nose,
[11:28] very ridiculous and silly slasher film.
[11:31] It is the lowest Rotten Tomatoes debut,
[11:33] I think, definitely this year, but maybe
[11:35] of all time with it debuting at a 0%.
[11:39] And it's well deserved. It This movie is
[11:41] disappointing. It's embarrassing that
[11:44] it's made by the the writer of Seven,
[11:46] that this movie was even put to film.
[11:49] There are moments in here that are
[11:51] laughably terrible. It's not in a War of
[11:53] the Worlds kind of way either. It's in a
[11:55] way that there is really nothing
[11:56] redeeming about the movie.
[11:58] And
[12:00] I would never watch it again. I would
[12:02] never like to think about it again and
[12:03] it's easily a skip. And it's
[12:04] disappointing, too, because Georgina
[12:06] Campbell is an actress that with given
[12:08] the right material can be pretty good.
[12:10] She's great in Barbarian. She's given
[12:12] really strong material because Zach
[12:14] Cregger is a good writer.
[12:16] But here, she's not given really
[12:18] anything to do.
[12:20] And
[12:21] it comes across like she's a bad actress
[12:23] because she's not given any good
[12:24] material. So
[12:26] it's a bad movie. It's unfortunate that
[12:28] it is, but it is a bad movie. Coming in
[12:30] at number 29 is going to be a movie that
[12:32] is also going to have a rabid fan base
[12:35] for it, but I just did not get an any
[12:37] ounce of appreciation for and that is
[12:39] Forbidden Fruits. And I am not the
[12:42] target audience for this movie. I know
[12:44] that. I knew that going into it and I
[12:46] was still relatively excited to go check
[12:48] it out just because I thought it would
[12:49] be entertaining. And I was not really
[12:51] entertained at all. I thought this movie
[12:53] was way too on-the-nose, way too
[12:56] over-the-top, kind of boring in some
[12:58] areas and just in general wasn't a very
[13:00] fun watch.
[13:02] If you are the target audience for this
[13:04] movie, which you might be, you'll
[13:06] probably get a kick out of it that I
[13:07] didn't get, but it's really just not my
[13:09] thing. It never was going to be my
[13:12] thing. And I just in general didn't
[13:14] really like it on any level, any in any
[13:16] regard. It's just not my thing. So maybe
[13:19] there's somebody out there who loved it,
[13:20] but it wasn't me. Coming in at number 28
[13:23] is going to be our first movie that I'm
[13:24] going to deem dad slop, the category of
[13:28] your dad will watch this movie and he'll
[13:30] have a good time with it because he just
[13:31] doesn't [music] really do the high
[13:34] highbrow films. And that is Greenland:
[13:37] Migration. I don't really hate this
[13:39] movie. It's basically just a rehash of
[13:41] the first movie, but a few years in the
[13:43] future. There's really nothing new about
[13:46] it compared to the first one, compared
[13:47] to other disaster movies. It is pretty
[13:51] much just the first movie again. And
[13:53] that's fine. I think the ending is
[13:55] serviceable. The content of the movie is
[13:57] serviceable. It's just not very good. So
[14:00] it goes at number 28. Similarly is our
[14:02] next dad slop movie at number 27 and
[14:05] that is The Wrecking Crew. This is a
[14:08] straight-to-Amazon Prime,
[14:10] >> [music]
[14:10] >> pretty bottom-of-the-barrel action film.
[14:12] It is
[14:14] one of my least favorite action films
[14:15] that I've seen in the last few years
[14:17] just because it doesn't really do
[14:18] anything all that crazy.
[14:20] >> [music]
[14:20] >> Uh I think that uh Dave Bautista and
[14:22] Jason Momoa are okay. They're fine in
[14:25] this movie. The action is pretty [music]
[14:28] PG-13, kind of bland, generic, which is
[14:30] disappointing. Which it's it sucks even
[14:33] more because the dialogue is so gritty
[14:35] and rated R that you would think the
[14:37] action would be up there, too, but no,
[14:39] it's not. The action's very PG-13, very
[14:42] bland.
[14:42] >> [music]
[14:43] >> And it's just disappointing. It's just
[14:45] not very good. Very similar to Greenland
[14:47] 2 where I don't really have a lot of
[14:48] thoughts on it. It's just not a very
[14:50] good movie. So not worth your time, but
[14:53] maybe you want to add it to your list. I
[14:55] don't know.
[14:56] >> [music]
[14:56] >> At number 26 is going to be Mercy, the
[14:58] Chris Pratt AI movie. Uh my [music]
[15:01] roommate did not really did not like
[15:03] this movie. He In fact, I would say he
[15:05] hated this movie. He thought that Chris
[15:06] Pratt was overacting the whole movie,
[15:08] that the plot was very bland and boring.
[15:11] I didn't really think that. I thought
[15:12] this movie was an infinitely better
[15:14] movie than War of the Worlds. I thought
[15:16] Chris Pratt delivered a decent acting
[15:18] performance. I thought Rebecca Ferguson
[15:20] was pretty good as an AI. I do hate the
[15:23] pro-AI message that this movie gives at
[15:25] the very [music] end for some reason.
[15:28] But other than that, there's not really
[15:29] a lot to hate about this movie. It's
[15:30] just kind of below par. It's just eh.
[15:33] >> [music]
[15:33] >> It's just okay. Uh it's not bad. It's
[15:36] watchable. It's fine. I don't know why
[15:38] it's marketed like an action movie when
[15:40] Chris Pratt doesn't even get to really
[15:41] use a gun at all in this movie, but
[15:45] it's it's it's dad slop at the very end
[15:47] of the day. So there's that. At number
[15:49] 25 is going to be Twisted. This is the
[15:52] uh Darren Lynn Bousman film. If you
[15:54] don't know who Darren Lynn Bousman is,
[15:56] he is the director of Saw like
[15:58] >> [music]
[15:59] >> 3 through 6 or something like that. He
[16:00] directed four of the Saw movies. And
[16:03] it's very clear this is directed by a
[16:05] guy who directed the Saw movies. He very
[16:06] much flaunts that kind of flair in this
[16:09] movie and it's not good, either. The
[16:11] worst part about this movie is the
[16:12] directing and the script. But the best
[16:15] part about this movie is uh Djimon
[16:17] Hounsou and Lauren Luna Viera. Both of
[16:20] them are fantastic and take what would
[16:22] be otherwise a terrible, terrible script
[16:25] to a much, much better level. They are
[16:28] both fantastic in this movie. And it's
[16:30] crazy, too, because it's so low-budget
[16:33] and the script is so bad. But they are
[16:36] able to take what would otherwise be a
[16:38] bottom-of-the-barrel, one-star movie to
[16:41] be a two-star just because they are such
[16:43] good actors.
[16:45] I really enjoy what they do with this
[16:46] film. It's pretty predictable. It's
[16:48] pretty on-the-nose, but the two of them
[16:50] are good and it carries the movie a lot
[16:52] for me.
[16:52] >> [music]
[16:53] >> Coming in at number 24 is going to be
[16:54] Jason Statham's Shelter. Uh Jason
[16:57] Statham is basically his own genre at
[16:59] this point. If you've seen one Jason
[17:00] Statham movie, you've probably seen all
[17:02] of them. This movie is definitely better
[17:04] than uh Working Man from last year. I
[17:07] thought that movie was a very, very
[17:08] bland, kind of boring action movie. This
[17:11] one definitely has a little bit more
[17:12] character to it. There's a little bit
[17:13] more going on. Uh you're not watching
[17:16] Jason Statham use like working man
[17:19] tools, even though he doesn't even do
[17:20] that in that movie. You're actually
[17:22] watching him do some other interesting
[17:23] stuff. So there's a little bit more
[17:25] character to this movie. I think the
[17:26] plot's a little bit more interesting,
[17:28] but it is definitely just a Jason
[17:30] Statham dad slop movie at the end of the
[17:32] day and that's pretty much all it is. So
[17:34] it's fine. It's tolerable. It's just not
[17:37] very good. All right, we're getting into
[17:38] the actually interesting stuff. Coming
[17:40] in at number 23 is going to be Cold
[17:42] Storage. This is kind of like a Stranger
[17:44] Things zombie outbreak movie. It is
[17:47] definitely the worst of the zombie
[17:48] movies I've seen this year and I've
[17:50] shockingly seen a lot of them this year.
[17:52] But uh Joe Keery doesn't really get a
[17:54] lot of material. Georgina Campbell
[17:55] doesn't really get a lot of material. Uh
[17:58] Liam Neeson doesn't get a lot of
[17:59] material. None of the big stars really
[18:01] get that much good material to work with
[18:03] in this movie. And it doesn't really do
[18:06] anything interesting in any other
[18:08] capacity to really carry it. Uh Sosie
[18:11] Bacon's in this movie for like 15
[18:14] minutes, which is kind of disappointing,
[18:16] but it's okay. It's fine. It's
[18:18] watchable. I saw this in theaters
[18:20] opening weekend and thought it was
[18:21] decent. Don't know why it came out on
[18:23] Valentine's Day, but it's solid. It's
[18:25] fun. It it can be a good time if you
[18:27] give it some time to kind of warm up
[18:29] after the first act, but it's just okay.
[18:31] It's it's a fine movie and it's it's
[18:34] watchable. At number 22 is going to be
[18:36] Whistle. This is the kind of Final
[18:38] Destination-esque movie, but instead you
[18:40] have an Aztec death whistle.
[18:42] Uh there are some interesting kills
[18:43] here. They do a lot with the the in the
[18:46] kill department, especially once you get
[18:47] past the opening act hurdle. You get a
[18:50] lot of interesting kills and it
[18:51] definitely pans out to be worth your
[18:53] time. It is better than Final
[18:55] Destination 4, which I think is the
[18:56] worst of the Final Destination movie. So
[18:59] it has that going for it. Uh if you like
[19:01] Final Destination, you'll definitely get
[19:03] a kick out of this one. I think Dafne
[19:04] Keen is pretty good here. Uh not much to
[19:07] say other than that. It's just it's
[19:08] solid. It's a fine movie and it's it's
[19:10] watchable.
[19:11] >> [music]
[19:11] >> At number 21 is going to be the Hulu
[19:13] original Mike and Nick and Nick and
[19:15] Alice. This is the Vince Vaughn, James
[19:18] Marsden leading uh Hulu original. Just
[19:21] came out of about a week ago now, I
[19:23] think. And it's it's quite fun. Uh Vince
[19:25] Vaughn does a little bit here. He's not
[19:27] given too much material with one of his
[19:29] characters, but his other character gets
[19:31] a lot of material. James Marsden's
[19:34] pretty good. I can't think of the
[19:35] leading female actress, but she's also
[19:37] pretty good in this movie.
[19:39] >> [music]
[19:39] >> Uh so they get a lot of material to the
[19:41] three leads. And they they do a decent
[19:44] job with their material they're given,
[19:46] but the script is a little bit generic
[19:48] other than the time travel aspect, which
[19:50] does help the movie a lot. Uh and for
[19:52] the most part, this is not a movie that
[19:54] I would go out of your way to watch if
[19:56] you're dying to find a movie to watch,
[19:58] but it's okay. It's perfectly fine. It's
[20:01] It's serviceable, and I'm glad that I
[20:02] watched it at least. [music] Coming in
[20:04] at number 20 is going to be Night
[20:06] Patrol, a movie that I thought I was
[20:07] going to hate a lot more, but I thought
[20:09] it was just okay. It was just a fine
[20:11] movie.
[20:12] Night Patrol, you've got Justin Long and
[20:14] Freddy Gibbs delivering a really good
[20:16] acting performance actually. However, I
[20:18] am in a camp where I believe Dermot
[20:20] Mulroney is not a good actor. I do not
[20:22] like him in this movie. I've never liked
[20:24] him really in any movie that he's in,
[20:26] but especially this movie, I think he's
[20:28] [music] one of the big nose here. But
[20:30] other than him, I think Justin Long and
[20:33] Freddy Gibbs deliver good performances.
[20:35] The other actors are pretty decent. The
[20:37] movie does do a little bit of
[20:38] over-the-top stuff with the uh
[20:42] with the the the action and the language
[20:44] and the gore, and sometimes it works,
[20:47] sometimes it doesn't. It just really
[20:48] depends. I like the plot of having like
[20:50] an elite task force of cops that are
[20:52] secretly vampires. I think that's a cool
[20:54] angle to take this film.
[20:56] But it just doesn't really amount to
[20:58] anything, and by the end of the film,
[20:59] you have a lot more questions than
[21:01] answers. So, it's a little bit of a
[21:03] caveat, but it's a fine movie. If you
[21:05] like the concept and you think you'd
[21:06] enjoy it, then it's worth your time. So,
[21:09] go check that one out if you if you're
[21:10] interested. Coming in at number 19 is
[21:13] going to be War Machine, the Netflix
[21:15] original film. I would call this the
[21:17] kind of dad slot premium where there is
[21:21] a lot of good stuff to enjoy in terms of
[21:23] the quality of the movie, cuz it is
[21:25] still a Netflix movie, and Netflix,
[21:27] say what you will about Netflix, they do
[21:29] at least put in a lot of money to their
[21:31] movies. So, sometimes that means it's
[21:33] going to be even worse, like with The
[21:34] Electric State last year, but in this
[21:36] case, there's enough money put into this
[21:38] movie that you know it's at least going
[21:39] to be watchable. It does come across
[21:41] like a bit of just like a um join the
[21:44] military PSA announcement, which I I
[21:47] mean, I guess if you want to call it
[21:48] propaganda, yeah, it kind of is, but
[21:51] it's still, you know, watchable. Like
[21:53] it's not the worst movie ever made. It
[21:55] might be the most American movie ever
[21:57] made, and that's cool, I guess, but it's
[21:59] it's it's a fun time. If you want to
[22:01] watch Alan Ritchson go up against a big
[22:03] robot, especially after he just, you
[22:05] know, got into that fight with his
[22:07] neighbor, then maybe you'll get
[22:08] something out of it. It's fun. It's kind
[22:10] of like Transformers and Predator had a
[22:12] baby, but it's a little bit more generic
[22:14] than both of those movies. So,
[22:16] >> [music]
[22:16] >> yeah, it's fun. It can be fun at times,
[22:18] and it's it's premium dad slot, is what
[22:20] I would call it, coming in at number 19.
[22:22] At number
[22:23] think this is our last streaming movie,
[22:25] thank God, cuz I am tired of streaming
[22:27] movies, and that is The Rip. This is
[22:29] definitely the best of the streaming
[22:30] movies, mainly because you have Matt
[22:32] Damon and Ben Affleck and Steven Yeun,
[22:34] three very, very good actors who are
[22:37] carrying this movie. So, [music]
[22:40] that helps a lot. You've also got a
[22:42] decent little plot set up of Miami cops
[22:45] that are struggling with kind of
[22:47] like rats in the in the in the police
[22:50] force, and they're trying to catch them.
[22:52] So, they come across all this money, and
[22:54] they got to use it. It's a good little
[22:55] plot set up, and it's just a solid crime
[22:57] thriller. It's not incredible. It's not
[22:59] the greatest movie ever made, but if you
[23:01] like the lead actors and you like the
[23:02] plot set up, you might have a fun time
[23:04] with it. And it is the best streaming
[23:05] movie I've seen thus far this year. So,
[23:07] there's that. [music] Coming in at
[23:09] number 17 is going to be Primate, the
[23:11] ape horror movie directed by
[23:13] Johannes Roberts, I think is his name.
[23:16] Uh and it's pretty good. It's solid. I
[23:18] like all of Johannes's other movies. I
[23:21] really like his Resident Evil movie. I
[23:22] know that's a hot take, but I really
[23:24] enjoy that movie. I think it's the best
[23:25] Resident Evil live-action movie by far.
[23:28] I enjoy his Strangers movie. I think
[23:30] it's the best of The Strangers
[23:31] franchise.
[23:33] So,
[23:34] going into the going into this movie,
[23:36] I knew I liked the director. I just was
[23:38] kind of worried about the concept, but
[23:40] after watching it, it's solid. It's just
[23:42] a solid movie. It's a fine. The
[23:44] practical effects are really good and
[23:46] are probably the biggest thing to gush
[23:48] about. Um The directing is also quite
[23:51] solid. The score is very, very good.
[23:53] Some very John Carpenter-esque scoring
[23:56] going on, which is very fun. And
[23:58] overall, it's just a solid little
[23:59] slasher flick. If you like horror
[24:01] movies, it's worth putting on your list
[24:03] just so you can have experienced it.
[24:05] Coming in at number 16 is a movie that a
[24:07] lot of other people will enjoy a lot,
[24:09] lot more than me, but that is going to
[24:11] be The Plague. Once again, just not the
[24:13] target audience for this one. I like the
[24:15] concept. I think the filmmaking is very,
[24:17] very solid, but it's not one of those
[24:19] movies that is necessarily
[24:21] life-changing.
[24:22] If you were somebody who was bullied
[24:24] during your middle school going into
[24:26] high school years, if you're someone who
[24:29] kind of reminisces a lot about those
[24:30] years of your life, or you're somebody
[24:32] who struggled during those years of your
[24:34] life, or you are in those years of your
[24:36] life, then this movie will absolutely
[24:38] resonate with you in a way that it never
[24:40] did with me. And all power to you. If
[24:43] you get some kind of powerful resonance
[24:45] with that with those feelings to this
[24:47] movie, and you want to put it at the
[24:48] very top of your list, my roommate, for
[24:51] example, he loved this movie and put it
[24:53] really, really high. And this, unlike
[24:55] other movies on the list, is one that I
[24:57] will not argue with anyone about. If you
[24:59] have this up at the top, if you have
[25:01] this up at the bottom, wherever you put
[25:03] it, no argument from me, because this is
[25:05] totally a personal
[25:08] uh connection kind of movie. I've had a
[25:10] lot of time to think about it, cuz it
[25:11] was one of the first movies I saw this
[25:12] year, and that's really how I feel about
[25:14] it. I think on an artistic level, it is
[25:17] really solid, but on a plot level, it
[25:19] just depends on how much you resonate
[25:21] with it personally. So, goes in at
[25:23] number 16. At number 15 is going to be
[25:26] another hot take, because I did say that
[25:28] Luc Besson's movie was very low on my
[25:30] list for controversy, which I try to
[25:33] exclude a lot of controversy when I talk
[25:35] about things. I don't like to go in
[25:36] detail about that. I don't like that to
[25:38] buttle my opinion. And I feel like it's
[25:40] a little bit different when it comes
[25:41] down to the studio being the problem and
[25:43] a singular person being the problem.
[25:46] Dracula has the benefit or has the
[25:48] sorry, the non-benefit, the
[25:51] being just a bad movie on its own. And
[25:54] here we have Scream 7 at number 15,
[25:56] where this movie is fine. It's a fine
[25:59] movie that has a lot of really, really
[26:02] bad behind-the-scenes drama coinciding
[26:04] with it that is going to make people
[26:06] hate it a lot more than I do.
[26:08] I do not support or condone anything to
[26:12] do with this movie and the way that it
[26:14] was made. I think firing the two lead
[26:16] actresses is the worst decision that
[26:18] they've ever made with this franchise.
[26:21] I think a lot of the choices they've
[26:22] made behind the scenes are terrible, but
[26:24] [music] I can't deny this movie is fine.
[26:26] It's watchable. It's not the worst thing
[26:28] I've ever seen. Is it the worst of the
[26:30] franchise? Oh, absolutely. In every
[26:32] regard, it is, but it is not the worst
[26:34] movie I've ever seen. And
[26:37] as somebody who Scream is their favorite
[26:39] horror franchise, I do hate that this is
[26:42] the worst, and I don't want to like bash
[26:45] it just because, you know, I don't like
[26:48] I I don't feel like bashing the movie,
[26:50] cuz it doesn't really deserve that in
[26:52] terms of
[26:53] it the quality of it. It just is okay.
[26:57] It's just fine. So, it's going to go in
[26:59] here at number 15. Coming in at number
[27:02] 14 is We Bury the Dead, the Daisy Ridley
[27:05] zombie film that came out very early
[27:07] this year.
[27:08] If you imagine an episode of The Walking
[27:11] Dead that's like a bottle episode, like
[27:13] that just follows one character and
[27:14] gives them a bit of a character arc, it
[27:16] just kind of feels like one of those,
[27:18] but stretched out for an about 2 hours,
[27:21] and it works. Daisy Ridley is very, very
[27:23] good in this movie. One of her best
[27:26] acting performances that I've seen. The
[27:28] zombie apocalypse gets kind of pulled to
[27:30] the back burner to just grow her
[27:32] character throughout the film.
[27:34] And the only thing that really holds it
[27:35] back from being a lot better is A, just
[27:37] I've seen better zombie movies, but B,
[27:39] is that there are a few sequences in the
[27:41] movie that I didn't really think made
[27:42] that much sense, or just coherently, the
[27:45] movie doesn't follow the most strict
[27:47] narrative pattern.
[27:50] I like the place that we begin. I like
[27:51] the place that we end. I wish that the
[27:54] zombie apocalypse was a little bit more
[27:55] important to the film, because there's
[27:57] not a lot of zombie stuff going on, but
[28:00] regardless, it's a good zombie film, all
[28:02] things considered. So, it's going to go
[28:03] in at number 14. At number 13 is going
[28:07] to be another zombie film, and that is
[28:09] This Is Not a Test. This is a very
[28:11] low-budget B movie. I think this is a
[28:13] Shudder or Independent Film Company
[28:15] movie.
[28:16] It's an adaptation of a book of the same
[28:18] name.
[28:19] The director, this is one of his one of
[28:21] his first movies, I think. And it's it's
[28:24] fun. It's a fun movie. All of the
[28:26] reviews I've seen for this are very low,
[28:28] all things considered, and I thought
[28:29] this was actually quite a solid little
[28:31] budget movie. I know people are tend to
[28:33] be very harsh on lower budget movies,
[28:35] but for the most part, I really like it.
[28:37] I thought the characters were all very
[28:38] interesting, [music] and the ways that
[28:40] their characters unfolded were all very
[28:41] interesting.
[28:43] You follow high schoolers stuck inside
[28:46] of their high school as the apocalypse
[28:47] unfolds around them, and they have to
[28:49] deal with like their mental health and
[28:51] their their each other and stuff like
[28:53] that. And the way that they make
[28:55] insufferable characters, but also make a
[28:57] lot of them lovable, and they have a lot
[28:59] of dynamics that are very intertwined
[29:01] and interesting, works out very well.
[29:03] And it's just a fun movie. It's a fun
[29:05] little zombie flick. I think more people
[29:07] need to watch lower budget movies, cuz
[29:09] every once in a while you'll get a movie
[29:10] like this that I think is severely
[29:12] underrated. So, that is going to be This
[29:14] Is Not a Test at number 13.
[29:17] All right. Coming in at number 12 is
[29:19] going to be Undertow, the podcast horror
[29:21] movie.
[29:23] I made an extensive video on Undertow,
[29:25] but my general thoughts are that there
[29:27] are a ton of plot holes, and the
[29:31] characters don't really make any sense
[29:32] or do anything interesting in this
[29:34] movie.
[29:35] But what saves it is the scares and the
[29:37] horror elements.
[29:39] >> [music]
[29:39] >> Watching this movie twice was an
[29:42] interesting experience, considering
[29:43] every other movie on here I've only seen
[29:45] once. And
[29:47] while I do think that the scares and the
[29:50] sound design are very well done and very
[29:52] scary I
[29:54] the caveat to that is that the plot is
[29:55] very weak. [music] I kind of predicted
[29:57] that this is how this movie was going to
[29:59] play out when I had seen the trailer
[30:01] where I was going to think it was a
[30:02] very, very scary, but then the plot was
[30:04] just a little bit on the mediocre side.
[30:07] And [music] in the case of this movie,
[30:09] we get a very generic horror trope plot
[30:12] with some good scares to balance it out.
[30:15] You kind of get a little bit of sinister
[30:16] elements, but it's way less interesting
[30:19] than Sinister. So, [music]
[30:21] I don't know. I really like this movie.
[30:23] It's It's okay. It's solid. I I really
[30:26] enjoy it. It's just not [music]
[30:27] incredible. So, it comes in at number
[30:29] 12.
[30:30] Coming in at number 11 is going to be
[30:32] Dead Man's Wire. This is a Bill
[30:35] Skarsgård, Dakery Montgomery leading
[30:37] movie based on the true story of a man
[30:39] who was kidnapped and held at gunpoint
[30:41] on a on a dead man's wire. I made
[30:44] another This is one of my first reviews
[30:45] that I did, so the quality is not very
[30:47] good, but it is a movie that I did a
[30:49] bigger review on because I was very
[30:51] interested in it and it was very fun to
[30:52] watch. It's definitely a very different
[30:54] movie and it's one of the only movies on
[30:56] here that is super memorable for its
[30:58] unique [music] style. The dialogue is
[31:00] very like awkward and quirky in this
[31:02] movie and for a long time during the
[31:04] runtime, I thought that was kind of just
[31:06] a
[31:07] bad writing moment, but as the movie
[31:08] went on, I got much more more interested
[31:11] into it.
[31:12] >> [music]
[31:12] >> And by the end of the movie when they
[31:13] were showing the real clips
[31:15] of stuff happening,
[31:17] you really get to see how the weird
[31:20] scripting is because that's how they
[31:22] really behaved during the event and it
[31:23] was more It wasn't really tense, it was
[31:26] awkward during the real encounter.
[31:27] [music]
[31:28] And it's very interesting. It's a very
[31:29] well-done movie. There's a lot of really
[31:31] interesting stuff they do with camera
[31:32] work here and it's just a lot of fun.
[31:34] So, if you like either of those two
[31:36] leading actors, you like Colman Domingo
[31:38] also. He's in this movie a lot and he's
[31:40] really good.
[31:41] >> [music]
[31:41] >> If you like any of those things,
[31:42] definitely worth your time. If you like
[31:44] kind of like a bio pic, I guess, or like
[31:46] a based on a true story, I guess, is a
[31:48] better way to put it.
[31:49] Go check this [music] one out. It It's
[31:50] definitely worth your time. Coming in at
[31:52] number 10 is going to be Ready or Not 2:
[31:54] Here I Come. I was a little disappointed
[31:57] in this movie. I do think it's better
[31:58] than average, but I was a little
[32:00] disappointed in this film all things
[32:02] considered. Ready or Not was a very big
[32:05] surprise for me. I went into the
[32:07] original. I actually watched the
[32:08] original just a few weeks before this
[32:09] came out because I was excited for this
[32:12] movie and thought it was going to be
[32:13] pretty good from the trailer. The first
[32:15] movie shocked me. I really enjoyed it a
[32:16] lot more than I even thought I was going
[32:18] to. And so, going into the second one, I
[32:19] was pretty excited, but the second one
[32:22] kind of just feels like the same movie
[32:24] again, but now you have Kathryn Newton
[32:25] in here. The writing quality is a little
[32:28] bit worse, which is shocking because
[32:30] it's still written and directed by the
[32:31] same people. So,
[32:33] >> [music]
[32:34] >> I was a little confused on how the
[32:35] writing quality seemed to dip down. I
[32:37] think this is the worst of Gillettin
[32:39] Open's work. I enjoy Scream 5 and 6 and
[32:42] Ready or Not 1 better than this movie.
[32:45] Um
[32:46] the gore has been turned up a lot. The
[32:48] language has been turned turned up a
[32:50] lot. And I don't know, it's definitely
[32:53] just not the greatest movie of all time,
[32:55] but there are a lot of good moments
[32:57] here. It's still fun. It's still
[32:58] lighthearted and enjoyable. And it's
[33:01] just a fun movie. So, if you like the
[33:03] first one, it's worth watching the
[33:04] second one, but I wouldn't recommend the
[33:06] second one outside of just completing
[33:08] that
[33:09] >> [music]
[33:09] >> that world. Coming in at number nine is
[33:12] going to be They Will Kill You. The
[33:13] movie that I thought was going to
[33:15] literally just be reheating the nachos
[33:16] of Ready or Not and then it was
[33:18] scheduled to come out the same day as
[33:20] Ready or Not 2. It got delayed for a
[33:22] week and now we're here. And I enjoyed
[33:24] it a little bit more than Ready or Not
[33:26] 2. I don't think it's a perfect movie,
[33:27] but I like the inspiration and the style
[33:30] that they took. The way that I explain
[33:32] this movie to everyone that I talk to is
[33:34] if you take
[33:35] >> [music]
[33:35] >> Uma Thurman's character, the Bride, out
[33:37] of Kill Bill, place her into Ready or
[33:40] Not, so you have her get hunted down by
[33:42] like a devil cult. You have that take
[33:44] place in a hotel that kind of looks like
[33:46] the one from The Shining in terms of
[33:48] like the way that it's designed, not
[33:49] really like conceptually, just the way
[33:51] that it looks.
[33:52] And then, [music] you let that movie
[33:54] that I just described to you be directed
[33:56] by a clone of Sam Raimi that ever so
[33:58] slightly forgot how to direct a movie.
[34:01] And then you get this movie. There's a
[34:02] lot of weird Sam Raimi {slash} Quentin
[34:04] Tarantino camera work moments that go
[34:06] on. It's a very Kill Bill inspired movie
[34:09] in terms of the like functionality of it
[34:11] and the way that like it flows and it
[34:13] runs.
[34:14] But the problem with the movie that puts
[34:16] it a little bit lower on the list is
[34:17] that the writing quality
[34:20] which I feel like because of how fun the
[34:22] directing is, the writing quality was
[34:24] promised to be a lot better and it's
[34:26] not. The writing quality cannot reach
[34:27] the same standards as the directing. So,
[34:30] you get characters that don't really
[34:31] have clear motivations. You get very non
[34:35] emotional moments. You don't really get
[34:37] any emotion from the actual plot. And at
[34:40] the end of the day, you're basically
[34:41] just getting a hack and slash
[34:44] nonstop like
[34:45] moving script. And that's about all you
[34:47] get here. So, it's fun. It's bloody.
[34:50] It's lethal. It's just not incredible.
[34:53] So, it comes in at number nine.
[34:55] Coming in at number eight is going to be
[34:57] How to Make a Killing. This is a movie
[34:58] that I thought was going to be very,
[34:59] very high on my list, but it's just
[35:01] solid. This is an A24 movie with Glen
[35:04] Powell in the leading role. Glen Powell
[35:07] is an absolute star. I have to say that.
[35:09] This is not my favorite Glen Powell
[35:11] movie. I enjoyed The Running Man from
[35:12] last year a lot more and some other
[35:14] stuff, too. But
[35:16] on his track record right now, I really
[35:18] am liking what I'm seeing with his
[35:19] career. And he is a star. He is
[35:21] absolutely able to carry even a bad
[35:23] movie on his back. And here in How to
[35:25] Make a Killing, he does in fact carry
[35:27] this movie on his back. Even the other
[35:29] good acting performances, I still think
[35:31] he outshines. He is able to take this
[35:34] movie that would otherwise have been
[35:36] maybe a five or a six out of 10 to maybe
[35:38] a seven or an eight. And that is very,
[35:41] very commendable. I enjoyed this movie
[35:44] simply because Glen Powell is very good.
[35:46] I think the plot, while it is a little
[35:47] generic, is still interesting. And Glen
[35:50] Powell being here is able to carry that
[35:52] to a different level. So, it comes in
[35:54] [music] at number eight. At number seven
[35:56] is a movie that I thought I was not
[35:58] going to like and clearly a lot of
[35:59] people don't like this movie, which I
[36:01] was shocked by because I thought this
[36:02] would have been a heavy hitter for a ton
[36:04] of people. And that is The Bride. This
[36:07] is Maggie Gyllenhaal's not her
[36:09] directorial debut, but one of her
[36:10] movies. I don't know how many she has,
[36:12] but one of her movies. And it's
[36:14] basically
[36:15] a good way to explain it is just a
[36:17] feminist approach to making Joker or I
[36:20] guess maybe it's just kind of like Joker
[36:21] Folie à Deux. I I don't know how to say
[36:23] that word. I may have just butchered the
[36:24] name of that, but it's kind of like
[36:25] that, except it's a Frankenstein's Bride
[36:28] retelling. And there's a lot of things I
[36:29] really like about it. Um but for
[36:32] everything I liked, you know, there's
[36:33] always that one thing I don't like. So,
[36:34] [music] we'll get into that. But what I
[36:36] really like here is I really, really
[36:38] enjoy the two acting performances. I've
[36:40] seen a little bit of hate towards um
[36:44] Jessie Buckley's acting here and I don't
[36:46] know how. I think Jessie Buckley and
[36:48] Christian Bale are both absolutely
[36:50] phenomenal in their roles here. I think
[36:52] this is some great performances by the
[36:55] the both of them.
[36:56] Jake Gyllenhaal also makes an appearance
[36:58] here and he's good for the time he's in,
[37:00] but the real stars are definitely
[37:02] Buckley and Bale who [music] just excel
[37:04] in this movie. The script is a little
[37:07] bit on the bland side. I don't love a
[37:09] lot of the stuff they do. A lot of the
[37:10] bigger ideas this movie has don't really
[37:12] connect with any good connective tissue.
[37:15] And the big issue for me is going to be
[37:16] the personification of Mary Shelley. I
[37:19] thought that was the most corny and
[37:21] cringe thing this movie did. And if that
[37:24] wasn't there, if they did something else
[37:25] instead of that, I could have even seen
[37:27] this being in my top five maybe cuz I
[37:29] really enjoyed how artsy and fun this
[37:31] movie is. But that one thing really,
[37:33] really held it back for me. So, that was
[37:35] a big negative. But overall, I give this
[37:37] one a positive rating, so it comes in at
[37:39] number seven.
[37:40] Coming in at number six is going to be
[37:42] Crime 101. This is what I would call the
[37:45] cream of the crop dad slop movie. Amazon
[37:49] MGM has put out two movies that I think
[37:51] are actually very, very good this year
[37:53] and this is one of them. I enjoy Chris
[37:55] Hemsworth, Halle Berry, Barry Keoghan,
[37:58] and Mark Ruffalo in this film. I think
[38:01] all four all four of them do a pretty
[38:03] good job with all the material they are
[38:05] given. It's a very different role for
[38:07] all of them. It's not like MCU-ified
[38:09] like a lot of the movies that
[38:11] Hemsworth and Ruffalo appear in. It's
[38:14] very much its own thing and I I
[38:16] appreciate it and commend it for that.
[38:18] It's a very unique film. It has a lot of
[38:20] connect connective tissue between all of
[38:22] its major ideas. It never really has a
[38:24] dull moment where I get bored. And at
[38:26] the end of the day, it just it's a solid
[38:28] little crime thriller.
[38:30] It is a good time. I saw it in IMAX,
[38:32] which definitely helped a lot, but yeah,
[38:33] I think it's [music] a solid movie.
[38:35] Coming in at number five is going to be
[38:37] Markiplier's Iron Lung. This is a bit of
[38:40] a hot take cuz I know that if you're not
[38:41] a big Markiplier person, you might have
[38:43] this one lower. But to be honest with
[38:44] you, not only did I enjoy the movie just
[38:46] because I I do appreciate Markiplier and
[38:49] I thought it was a fun movie, but I
[38:52] wanted to put this one up here mainly
[38:54] also on principle because it's deserving
[38:57] of such a high placement, honestly. I
[38:59] think a lot of people need to take a
[39:01] step back and look at how [music]
[39:02] impressive it is that one man was able
[39:04] to self-fund a movie that uses a
[39:07] practical submarine set on stilts.
[39:11] He pays for all of the blood, wrote the
[39:13] script himself, the movie stars himself.
[39:16] It follows a very interesting, unique
[39:19] universe. It's based on a video game
[39:21] that is indie and made by one person.
[39:24] And
[39:26] it's self-distributed. Markiplier didn't
[39:28] go through the means of getting Amazon
[39:31] or Shudder or the independent film
[39:33] company to push out his movie. He
[39:36] >> [music]
[39:36] >> by his own hands pushed this movie out
[39:39] into theaters. And I think just for all
[39:40] those things alone, it's commendable and
[39:42] deserves a very high placement on
[39:44] everyone's list. But even if you really
[39:46] despise the movie, you have to
[39:48] acknowledge that those things are cool.
[39:50] But for me personally, not only are
[39:51] those things cool, but I enjoyed the
[39:53] movie. It definitely moves at a snail's
[39:55] pace sometimes. That is unavoidable.
[39:58] And I don't mind it either because I
[40:00] have fun watching it. I I think it's
[40:02] interesting world building and it's just
[40:05] a fun movie. It's
[40:06] >> [music]
[40:06] >> It's fun. It's a good movie and I
[40:08] enjoyed it. So, Iron Lung is going to be
[40:10] at number five. I don't have much else
[40:11] to say about it. [music] Coming in at
[40:13] number four is going to be Send Help.
[40:16] Sam Raimi came back with a bang for
[40:19] rated R movies and made this one. And it
[40:22] is not only absolutely hilarious,
[40:24] absolutely demented, and a little bit
[40:26] like a rom-com, but it is also just a
[40:29] really, really good movie and it is
[40:30] probably
[40:32] possibly just [music] just maybe my
[40:36] favorite of Sam Raimi's entire
[40:38] filmography.
[40:40] I'd have to watch it again to like 100%
[40:43] clarify cuz I don't know if I like it
[40:46] better than Evil Dead 2 and Army of
[40:48] Darkness. I love both of those movies a
[40:49] lot. But
[40:52] right now, I do say that I like it more.
[40:55] So, I don't know. It It's a It's a bit
[40:57] of a toss-up right now, but it's really
[40:59] good. I like the setting. I like the
[41:01] acting. I think Dylan O'Brien and Rachel
[41:03] McAdams especially deliver heavy-hitting
[41:07] performances, some of the best acting
[41:08] performances that we will see this year.
[41:11] And
[41:13] it's just all around a really fun time.
[41:15] Sam Raimi has not lost any of his touch.
[41:17] I mean, I even enjoy his Doctor Strange
[41:19] movie just because I love his directing,
[41:21] but um yeah, he's not lost his touch. He
[41:23] does a great job here and it's
[41:25] definitely worth your time. So, go check
[41:26] this one out. Coming in at number three
[41:28] is going to be 28 Years Later: The Bone
[41:30] Temple. I've done a review on this one
[41:32] also just like Send Help, just like a
[41:33] lot of other stuff where I basically
[41:35] just gloated about it for like 20
[41:37] minutes. And uh yeah, it deserves all of
[41:39] it. Only uh you know, visually appealing
[41:42] level, it's very, very well shot.
[41:44] There's a lot of good allegory. It's a
[41:46] very unique zombie film in the sense
[41:47] that it doesn't really do anything that
[41:49] other zombie movies have done and it
[41:51] takes all of the pieces that didn't
[41:52] really make any sense whatsoever in 28
[41:55] Years Later and adapts them into a much,
[41:58] much more well-put, well-diverse
[42:00] narrative that has a very concluding
[42:02] note. And sometimes after I watched it
[42:05] my second time especially, I started to
[42:07] think like why were even going to make a
[42:09] trilogy off of this? Because this
[42:10] movie's ending is so fantastic that we
[42:14] don't even need another movie. We've
[42:15] really answered all the questions and
[42:17] gotten everything we need out of the
[42:18] film. Why even make another movie? So, I
[42:21] am excited to see what they do with this
[42:22] franchise. I loved this movie. I thought
[42:25] it was very good, probably my second
[42:26] favorite zombie film of all time.
[42:28] But
[42:30] it is just very interesting to see that
[42:31] we're getting another one and I wonder
[42:33] what they're going to do with it.
[42:35] Coming in at number two is going to be a
[42:37] movie that I didn't expect to get up
[42:38] this high, but after a lot of
[42:40] contemplating, it made it to my number
[42:41] two spot and that is Good Luck, Have
[42:43] Fun, Don't Die. I was not skeptical. I
[42:47] was very excited about this movie
[42:49] actually. It was in my top 20 video, uh
[42:51] my top 20 most anticipated video just
[42:53] like Bone Temple, just like Send Help.
[42:56] Uh it was in that list of movies and it
[42:59] was kind of towards the bottom, maybe at
[43:01] the very bottom. I wasn't expecting it
[43:02] to get up this high. I loved this movie.
[43:06] I thought this was a fantastic little
[43:08] sci-fi comedy. There's elements of time
[43:10] travel and uh artificial intelligence
[43:14] being like gods and you know, it does a
[43:16] lot with the kind of ever-changing AI
[43:19] spectrum of the world. And it's just a
[43:21] really, really on the nose, but still
[43:24] really fun sci-fi comedy that absolutely
[43:28] is just such a fun watch. I don't know
[43:31] how else to put it, honestly. I'm
[43:32] struggling to come up with good words
[43:33] for it, but it is just a very fun movie
[43:35] to watch and if you like sci-fi
[43:37] comedies, you like Sam Rockwell, you
[43:39] like anybody in this cast really or you
[43:40] just want to watch a comedy that feels
[43:42] like an original comedy, this is the one
[43:45] for you. It is a lot of fun and is worth
[43:47] your time, absolutely. And coming in at
[43:49] number one, the best movie this year,
[43:51] the only movie on this entire list that
[43:53] I think I would watch like religi-
[43:55] religiously cuz it was that good. Uh it
[43:58] It's pretty
[43:59] honestly cookie-cutter that this is
[44:00] going at the top. It's kind of a generic
[44:02] take because everyone's going to be
[44:04] putting it here. Uh and that is Project
[44:06] Hail Mary. This is Ryan Gosling, one of
[44:09] his finest works. Uh
[44:11] you know, I love Blade Runner. That's my
[44:13] favorite movie of all time, Blade Runner
[44:14] 2049. But um it's not better than that.
[44:17] I don't think it's better than that. Uh
[44:19] but my one of my other favorite movies,
[44:21] probably my top 20, top 25 is Drive,
[44:25] Ryan Gosling in Drive. Uh I think it's
[44:27] better than that. I think it's better
[44:28] than Drive tenfold. Uh on a filmmaking
[44:31] level, on a script, visual, whatever
[44:34] level, uh I think it's better than that.
[44:36] So,
[44:38] it with more watches, but second, third
[44:40] watch, this could easily break into my
[44:41] top 25 movies of all time. But um I know
[44:45] that's a bland bowl like bland and
[44:47] boring take and I come across like I'm
[44:49] just, you know, another plebeian
[44:50] watching movies, whatever. I don't even
[44:53] care. I love this movie. I I Ryan
[44:54] Gosling has grown into one of, if not,
[44:57] my favorite actor of all time.
[44:59] Uh and this movie has sold me on pretty
[45:01] much anything he's in. So, if he ever
[45:03] pops up in another movie, I will be
[45:04] there day one to watch it.
[45:06] And yeah, that's going to be the entire
[45:08] list. I I don't have anything else to
[45:09] say about Project Hail Mary that I
[45:10] didn't say in my video or you probably
[45:12] haven't heard on the internet from
[45:13] everyone else.
[45:14] I mean, it's it's fantastic. It's a
[45:16] great movie. Um to be honest with you,
[45:18] 2026 has been a pretty bad year for
[45:21] movies. Uh Project Hail Mary lays as a
[45:23] big outlier in a move in a year of
[45:26] pretty below-par movies. Um I would say
[45:29] my top five are movies that I would
[45:31] proudly own on physical media and keep
[45:34] and love and cherish. And everything
[45:36] below that is stuff that I'm either glad
[45:38] that I watch and I would never, ever
[45:40] touch again with a 10-ft pole or stuff
[45:42] that I'm glad I watch and I would maybe
[45:44] watch it again if I was under the right
[45:45] circumstance. So,
[45:47] that's going to do it. That's all of the
[45:49] quarter one movies I've seen. I am
[45:51] working on hopefully maybe a review for
[45:54] tomorrow. I'm seeing a secret screening.
[45:56] I don't know what the movie could
[45:57] possibly be. So, I'll be making a video
[46:00] talking about it so you all can find out
[46:01] firsthand what that was. And also the
[46:04] Super Mario Galaxy movie and the drama
[46:06] come out this this week. So, I'll be
[46:08] making videos on those hopefully. And
[46:10] yeah, that's going to do it for me. I
[46:11] hope you all enjoyed. This is a much
[46:13] longer video than normal. So, hope you
[46:15] all enjoyed that and I will see you all
[46:16] in the next one.
[46:18] Peace out.
[46:29] >> [music]