Everybody Wants Some!!: Quick Movie Review

Originally written July 29th, 2016 for Tumblr

This may be the most overrated movie I’ve seen all year.

The Post Where I Complain About Movie Tropes

Originally Written on February 19th, 2016 for Tumblr

I watch a lot of movies. Sometimes I notice some really obvious, and really stupid movie cliches. Here are some of the worst.

New Metallica: Does Anyone Care?

Originally written on July 26th, 2016 for Tumblr

So Metallica finally has a new record coming out and the reception to this news has been… nonexistent. There’s the usual “they should apologize for St. Anger” crowd hating it already, and the die hards who are already planning to buy whatever bloated limited edition they are going to release, but besides the two extremes, there really hasn’t been any response to this album as of late.

Metallica - Hardwired...To Self-Destruct: Album Review

I don’t really need to explain who Metallica is. You know who they are, your dad knows who they are, babies who just came out of the womb know “Enter Sandman” and “For Whom the Bell Tolls” by heart.

Suicide Squad: Movie Review

-Spoilers-

Let’s be honest, boys and girls, DC has been fucking up pretty hard lately. Batman V. Superman was trash, pretty much every other trailer for their films look mediocre, and Batman now fucked Batwoman in The Killing Joke. The only thing they really had left was Suicide Squad, the vibrant, weird villain pow-wow about villains being villains and being forced to do good things for even worse people. It’s been getting slammed in the review department, but how is it really?

Sausage Party: Quick Review

I’m not sure what I was expecting.

Sumerlands - Sumerlands: Album Review

Is the metal community mature enough to realize that metal is long dead? Yes, no matter how much you spin your Judas Priest or Slayer records, it will not change the fact that Jeff Hanneman is long gone, Bruce Dickinson can’t sing anymore, and Judas Preist’s best days are long behind them. Yet most modern metal bands still cling to the concept of 80s metal. Modern thrash bands that aren’t Lich King or Havok stick to repeating the same cliches that made 90s thrash insufferable. Modern speed metal is even worse, with so little personality or style that it can be hard to not fall asleep listening to a single track. And yet, there is Sumerlands. A band that ditches the speed and drama of metal both classic and modern to deliver what is perhaps the tightest and strongest new release of the year.

Shokran - Exodus: Quick Album Review

Exodus is one of the most surprisingly bad albums I’ve heard all year.

Green Day - Revolution Radio: Album Review

I think the hardest thing in my life recently has been being a Green Day fan. Not necessarily just existing as one, but being around other fans as part of the community has just been taxing recently. Why? Well, picture how Megadeth fans feel about Rust In Peace, except Rust in Peace was just kinda OK, but they still think it’s the best record ever, and the follow up somehow better, even though in reality it was worse. That’s how Green Day fans have been lately. It’s normal for fans to clench onto a good record as proof that their favorite artist has talent, but Green Day fans answer every complaint with “American Idiot” and “21st Century” like their lives depend on it. Being so narrow minded is only damaging to when a band does something new (maybe not better, but original) because it makes you perceive everything that isn’t ‘the best’ as ‘the worst’. In the case of Green Day, this applies to almost every album before and after the American Idiot/21st Century days. No one likes Uno, Dos and Tre, even though it’s some of the most original material the band ever put out. No one likes Insomniac because it was too weird but Nimrod is perfect because it’s safe.

Don't Breathe: Quick Review

Another year, another small horror movie that gets an insane amount of buzz. Just going to put it out there that I hope this trend doesn’t end for a long while, cause almost every film since Oculus that’s been under this “small indie horror darling” flag has been phenomenal. 

No Country for Old Men: Overrated

Welcome to the overrated movie review, where I take a movie that was given critical praise upon release, and explain why it’s overrated. Strap in and strap on.

I feel so accomplished. I got all my projects done, I caught up on some anime, watched Barton Fink for the first time ever (it was pretty good), and I saw No Country for Old Men (it wasn’t pretty good).

Doctor Strange: Movie Review

A "no spoilers" movie review of the new MCU film, Doctor Strange. Has the MCU gotten old yet, or is the new style enough to carry your ass to a seat?