Every Q1 2026 Movie I Saw RANKED!

[00:00] Hey everyone, welcome back to the

[00:01] channel. It is finally time to recap all

[00:04] of the movies that I have seen in the

[00:06] first quarter of 2026.

[00:08] If you don't know, the year is always

[00:10] split into four quarters because of 12

[00:12] months and the first quarter is usually

[00:14] where the worst movies of the year come

[00:16] out just for marketing reasons. So, to

[00:20] be honest with you, the first quarter of

[00:22] 2026 has been pretty bad and it's one of

[00:24] the worst first quarters I've had in a

[00:27] long time with movies. But regardless, I

[00:30] have seen 36 films in this quarter

[00:32] [music]

[00:33] of the year and I'm going to be ranking

[00:35] all of them from the worst to the best.

[00:37] So, if you're new around here and you

[00:38] don't know, I'm trying to watch every

[00:40] 2026 movie that I can eventually with

[00:42] the goal of ranking all of them at the

[00:44] end of the year.

[00:45] Right now, my goal is to at least break

[00:48] 100, which is pretty easy, maybe even

[00:51] 150. And making a video on that is going

[00:54] to be outrageous, but it's going to be a

[00:56] lot of fun. So,

[00:58] let's just lock in and let's talk about

[01:00] all 36 of these movies I watched now.

[01:02] Coming in at number 36 is going to be

[01:04] Luc Besson's Dracula. This is a bad

[01:07] movie.

[01:09] It is almost a reheated nachos moment

[01:11] where it basically just takes everything

[01:14] that Robert Eggers did with Nosferatu

[01:16] and adapts it into a slightly different

[01:19] medium of being just a bit more low

[01:21] budget [music] and then calls it a day.

[01:23] On top of that, Luc Besson is a director

[01:26] or Luc Besson or whatever you want to

[01:27] call him is a director that is not a

[01:30] very good person. Uh if you don't know

[01:32] anything about him, look him up, do your

[01:33] own research. I'm not here to talk about

[01:35] that kind of stuff, but he's not a very

[01:37] good person and that doesn't go or that

[01:40] doesn't fare very well for this movie. I

[01:42] try and leave a lot of controversy out

[01:44] of this stuff, but there are sometimes

[01:45] where it just can't happen. And in this

[01:47] case, not only is the movie pretty bad,

[01:49] but that does negatively impact my views

[01:52] on this film as well. So, [music]

[01:54] Dracula is basically just a

[01:58] almost like a just one-for-one copy of

[02:00] Nosferatu, which is an infinitely better

[02:02] movie and this one is coming in at the

[02:05] very bottom of the list at number 36. At

[02:07] number 35, a movie that I thought was

[02:09] just a little bit better than Dracula is

[02:12] going to be The Mortuary Assistant. This

[02:14] is the adaptation of the video game. It

[02:17] was a Shudder original that went to

[02:18] theaters for like a week during

[02:20] Valentine's weekend and then disappeared

[02:23] off the face of the earth and I think

[02:24] it's on Shudder now. If you are bored

[02:26] one day and you're looking for a movie

[02:27] to watch, don't pick this one cuz it is

[02:29] not worth your time.

[02:31] This is a classic case of a movie trying

[02:33] to adapt a game that has multiple

[02:35] endings and it takes all of those

[02:37] endings and puts way too much on its

[02:39] plate and then it fails in every single

[02:42] regard to satisfy all of those needs

[02:45] from that plate. So, what you get is

[02:48] basically just a disgusting

[02:49] Frankenstein's monster of multiple

[02:51] different endings and ideas that don't

[02:54] really mesh together from the game. And

[02:57] on top of that, the writing quality just

[02:58] isn't good enough to sustain interesting

[03:01] characters. So,

[03:03] all of the moments that should be scary

[03:05] or unique or interesting come across

[03:07] very corny and cringe. And all of the

[03:10] charm of the game, all of the best

[03:12] moments from the game, all of the good

[03:13] jump scares, all of the good [music]

[03:15] tension and moments, all of that gets

[03:17] completely left on the cutting board and

[03:19] not even in the final film. There are

[03:21] some things that I like. I like the

[03:23] cinematography, but I don't like the

[03:25] color grading. I somewhat like the two

[03:28] lead actors, but I think that their

[03:29] performances are very bad because the

[03:31] movie has a bad script. So, for every

[03:33] one good thing, there's always some kind

[03:35] of counteractive negative to the film

[03:37] [music] and all of those counteractive

[03:39] negatives stack up to an amount that

[03:42] [music] is

[03:43] insufficient to make this movie good.

[03:45] So, this is a bad movie. It is not worth

[03:47] your time and definitely [music] skip

[03:48] out on Mortuary Assistant. Coming in at

[03:51] number 34 is going to be The Strangers:

[03:53] Chapter 3. And this movie

[03:56] is a continuation of terrible terrible

[03:59] movies. Uh if it wasn't so plainly

[04:02] generic, it may get a few points up just

[04:05] because it's something unique. But just

[04:07] like its predecessors, this movie is

[04:09] painfully generic and that is really

[04:11] what puts it so low. You can make a

[04:14] generic slasher film, but you can't do

[04:16] it to one that has somewhat of an an

[04:19] idealistic principle in The Strangers

[04:21] and The Strangers: Prey at Night. The

[04:23] big principle and the reason it's called

[04:25] The Strangers is because you never see

[04:28] the face of the three killers hunting

[04:30] down the main characters. And so, Renny

[04:33] Harlin decided to take that franchise

[04:36] and give the three strangers a backstory

[04:39] for some unknown reason and it doesn't

[04:42] work. The backstory does not work. There

[04:45] are weird plot holes that make no sense.

[04:47] You get very very vague answers to

[04:50] questions you probably didn't even have

[04:52] when you watched the first or the second

[04:54] or the third movie and nothing really

[04:57] amounts to anything in this franchise.

[04:59] The ending is extremely predictable. It

[05:02] doesn't do anything new. It doesn't do

[05:03] anything interesting and it's not really

[05:06] high budget or high quality writing-wise

[05:08] either.

[05:09] >> [music]

[05:09] >> So, it has nothing going for it and it

[05:11] goes at the bottom of the list just like

[05:12] The Strangers: Chapter 2 last year and

[05:14] The Strangers: Chapter 1 years ago.

[05:16] Coming in at number 33 is going to be

[05:18] Vampires of the Velvet Lounge. This is a

[05:21] low-budget vampire flick with some

[05:23] decent B-movie actors in it, but they

[05:26] cannot save this movie. It kind of gives

[05:28] off the War of the Worlds charm where it

[05:30] is so laughably silly that there is some

[05:33] fun to be had, but it's not as fun in

[05:36] the case of War of the Worlds where you

[05:37] have Ice Cube and you know, doing his

[05:39] zoom cam and stuff like that. Instead,

[05:42] you have vampires and bad acting and

[05:46] there are a lot of fun cute moments that

[05:48] are hilariously terrible that are worth

[05:51] watching this movie with friends just so

[05:53] you can laugh at it. Like a character

[05:55] that constantly says his name over and

[05:57] over again is hilarious.

[05:59] But at the end of the day, this is a

[06:01] movie that I will never think of again,

[06:02] whereas War of the Worlds, even though

[06:04] it's absolutely atrocious, is a movie

[06:06] that I will continue to think about

[06:07] moving forward with my life. So,

[06:10] it's just not a very good movie. It's

[06:11] not worth watching if you're not going

[06:13] to watch it with friends who likes like

[06:15] fun bad movies.

[06:17] Uh there's nothing really good about it.

[06:18] So, this one's also a skip. Coming in at

[06:21] number 32, my biggest disappointment of

[06:23] the year is going to be Return to Silent

[06:25] Hill. This movie fails to not only be an

[06:28] adaptation, but it fails to be a good

[06:30] movie. Christophe Gans made a 2006

[06:33] Silent Hill film that was kind of

[06:36] forgotten about for a long time and

[06:38] became a bit of a cult classic in the

[06:39] last like I would say 5-10 years. Uh it

[06:43] got a sequel 6 years after it came out

[06:45] that was critically dumped on. Viewer

[06:48] like the audience dumped on it, said it

[06:50] was terrible and it is terrible. It's a

[06:52] terrible sequel. But the first movie was

[06:54] always looked at relatively fondly in

[06:56] hindsight and Christophe Gans, the

[06:59] director of that film, came back to do

[07:01] another film to adapt the second game

[07:03] and this film was left on the shelf for

[07:06] like 5 years from what I heard is that

[07:08] they couldn't get a distributor for it

[07:09] because the budget was too low and also

[07:12] the movie ran for too long. So, it was

[07:14] like a low-budget movie that had way too

[07:15] long of a runtime and or something like

[07:18] that. I could be wrong about that, but

[07:19] some some issue like that. And the

[07:22] nobody could would pick it up and then

[07:23] finally Shudder picked it up. They

[07:25] pushed it out into theaters. I think it

[07:26] was Shudder or Screambox, one of the

[07:28] two. They finally pushed it out into

[07:30] theaters and it was bad. It's bad.

[07:33] Christophe Gans fails to adapt any of

[07:35] the nuance or intricacies of Silent Hill

[07:37] 2 in any fascinating way.

[07:40] He takes the wrong approach to the film

[07:42] in general by confusing Silent Hill 2 as

[07:45] a love story rather than a story about

[07:47] grief.

[07:48] It's bad.

[07:50] It doesn't really work at all. For every

[07:53] one cool thing that Christophe Gans does

[07:55] do with the film, there's a million

[07:57] other things that are done wrong. And

[07:59] for example, I like the idea of giving

[08:00] James and Mary some backstories to give

[08:03] a little bit more reasoning for James

[08:04] doing what he's doing. That's not a bad

[08:07] idea. I like that on paper because in

[08:10] the game, you don't really have a reason

[08:11] to go save Mary other than she is your

[08:13] wife. Like that is good enough reasoning

[08:15] for the game and the game does a good

[08:17] job justifying it as you play it,

[08:19] >> [music]

[08:19] >> but I don't like the idea on paper of

[08:21] giving them some backstory. However,

[08:23] instead of doing that as just a thing in

[08:25] the in the film, Christophe Gans takes

[08:27] that as kind of the backbone of the film

[08:30] and the movie doesn't even open up with

[08:32] the iconic bathroom scene. Instead, that

[08:34] happens 15 minutes into the movie and

[08:35] instead we open up with how James and

[08:37] Mary met. And it's really cringe. It's

[08:39] really corny. It doesn't work. And then

[08:41] there's also moments where you find out

[08:43] that Mary is not even a part or is a

[08:45] part of a Silent Hill cult. They're not

[08:47] even married in this movie and just it

[08:49] keeps stacking up over and over again to

[08:51] a point where it gets annoying and just

[08:53] obnoxious.

[08:55] And this movie is bad. It is a bad

[08:58] everything. So, this one is an easy easy

[09:00] skip in my opinion.

[09:02] I have a much much longer review of this

[09:06] movie if you would like to check that

[09:07] out, but as it stands, this is a bad

[09:10] movie. Coming in at number 31 is going

[09:12] to be a bit of a hot take for me and

[09:14] that is going to be Charli XCX's The

[09:15] Moment. Uh before I get into my

[09:18] critiques of this movie cuz I didn't

[09:19] have a video on this one, I do want to

[09:21] give a huge shoutout to Charli XCX. It

[09:24] takes a lot of willpower, a lot of

[09:26] money, a lot of time, a lot of energy to

[09:29] make a movie. And for all of the people

[09:31] who hated on The Weeknd's movie last

[09:34] year,

[09:35] I want you to take into account just how

[09:38] much effort went into that film of

[09:39] especially considering it's compare it's

[09:42] connected to a bigger multimedia

[09:44] project. And I want to appreciate Charli

[09:47] XCX here and say that it is a very

[09:50] talented work of art that she has

[09:51] created. But much like The Weeknd's

[09:55] movie from last year where if you didn't

[09:56] know anything about The Weeknd, you

[09:58] didn't like the movie.

[09:59] 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]