synopsis:When a man receives a mysterious letter from his lost love, he is drawn to Silent Hill, a once familiar town now consumed by darkness.

thoughts:
jesus christ where do i even start. putting aside this is one of the worst adaptations of silent hill 2 to ever be made, and i'm talking past and future. like jesus. how do you butcher one of the best stories ever told this badly??? lets just pick apart how fucking awful this movie looked. the effects were bad, like they had a cgi roach. just one. not a swarm or anything. like you can't afford a singular roach?? it's not like the budget went into literally anything else because the costuming was also horrific. being able to see the lace lines on james's beard was shocking. don't even get me started on maria. the original monsters were hideous. the final mary form, which is perfect in game, looked like fucking dipshit vecna from shitty stranger things. like jesus christ. like i get your trying to do your own thing but do you have to butcher one of my favorite games to do it? just use the setting holy shit. the writing was also bad. i'm talking ruining your own reveals, hand holding plot lines spoken out loud to make sure the audience gets the point. i'm just flabbergasted. mary's full name reveal had dutch and i trying desperately to hold our laughter in because the theater was so silent you could hear a pin drop. when the credits started rolling someone else in the theater just went "how was it that bad?" in utter disbelief. half way through the movie someone in front of us started scrolling on their completely empty calendar app in lieu of watching the movie and i couldn't even be mad because like yeah. that was more interesting. Christophe Gans, please kill yourself if for nothing else than trying to make james a sympathetic character. you will never make me feel bad for him.

synopsis:Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon the aftermath of a drug deal gone wrong and over two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande.

thoughts:
this was a really good adaptation but they cut one of my favorite lines of dialog from Chigurh to Carla Jean in the end which sucked but it didn't completely ruin the movie for me. Javier Bardem and Tommy Lee Jones were excellent casts for their characters.

synopsis:When a 15th-century prince denounces God after the loss of his wife he inherits an eternal curse: he becomes Dracula. Condemned to wander the centuries, he defies fate and death, guided by a single hope - to be reunited with his lost love.

thoughts:
we went to see this for dutch's bday! it was cute... a bit corny and i think the woman that played maria was kinda overacting but again, it was fine. a few scenes fit a bit... disney? for an R rated movie. i think this is entirely the fault of the cgi gargoyles tho.

synopsis:Ash Williams, the lone survivor of an earlier onslaught of flesh-possessing spirits, holes up in a cabin with a group of strangers while the demons continue their attack.

thoughts:
a classic... i love ash sm he's so cute.

synopsis:A Toronto cable TV station co-owner who specializes in adult entertainment searches for the producers of a dangerous and bizarre broadcast titled "Videodrome."

thoughts:
i was really nervous to watch this KJGHKJDFghfg. i was afraid it'd be a bit too intense for me but it wasn't as bad as i was hyping it up to be. snuff film as a basis for horror usually makes me especially squeamish and its probably a reason i will never watch august underground, lol. i really loved the practical effects in this and a lot of the visuals were very silent hill-esque to me, which i obviously enjoyed.

synopsis:Mario ventures into space, exploring cosmic worlds and tackling galactic challenges far from the familiar Mushroom Kingdom.

thoughts:
this was cute im ngl... much better than the first one but i guess thats easy to beat LOL... fox was SO cute in this movie and it was so cute seeing how excited dutch got when he showed up... really hope for dutch's sake we get some new star fox stuff soon!! the ending was ABRUPT AF which was so weird and jarring jkghdfjkhfdgh

synopsis: Classic American Anthology series created by Rod Serling, featuring standalone stories of science fiction, fantasy, and horror, each with a twist ending or moral lesson.

thoughts: we started rewatching season 1 this week and. god this is literally one of the best tv series of all time. it was so ahead of its time, so brilliantly written, and just. amazing. i love love love this show to death. the first episode is genuinely one of the scariest things i've ever watched to this day JKHGJFDg rod serling was and is one of the best things to happen to tv and it makes me sad knowing we may never see another show like this again

synopsis:Danny Ocean gathers a group of his World War II compatriots to pull off the ultimate Las Vegas heist. Together the eleven friends plan to rob five Las Vegas casinos in one night.

thoughts:
another rewatch bc dutch and i were both doing some writing but i got too invested in it and didn't actually do much writing LOL this is such a good movie and it's actually crazy only sammy davis jr and dean martin sing in it but i guess ol blue eyes didn't feel up to the task or something jgdfjghfdg if what happened in the ending happened to me tho i'd lowkey fucking end it i'm ngl

synopsis:A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he is investigating.

thoughts:
my favorite noir but i recently learned it doesn't techincally meet the "requirements" of a noir. which idrc about that, its a damn good movie...

synopsis:
Keiko has never fit in, neither in her family, nor in school, but when at the age of eighteen she begins working at the Hiiromachi branch of “Smile Mart,” she finds peace and purpose in her life.

thoughts:
very short read, but one i enjoyed nonetheless. as someone that struggles a lot with social interactions and fitting in, this book really spoke to me but i did get a lil scared when she started hanging out with that incel im ngl.

synopsis:
It's the early 1990s, and in the Irish village of Crossmore, Lucy feels out of place. Despite her fierce friendships, she's always felt this way, and the conventional path of marriage and motherhood doesn't appeal to her at all. Not even with handsome and doting Martin, her closest childhood friend. Lucy begins to make sense of herself during a long hot summer, when a spark with her school friend Susannah escalates to an all-consuming infatuation, and, very quickly, to a desperate and devastating love.

thoughts:
i adored the writing in this and the catholic guilt of it all LDFKJFKGJ i also really liked that even "disgusting" actions that susannah did were provocative to lucy. very devastating and all too real sadness to this book but still, loved the ending and i want to read more by this author because the prose was gorgeous.

synopsis:
While on a business trip to Kobe, Tsuneo Asai receives the news that his wife Eiko has died of a heart attack. Eiko had a heart condition so the news of her death wasn't totally unexpected. But the circumstances of her demise left Tsuneo perplexed. How did it come about that his wife - who was shy and withdrawn, and only left their house twice a week to go to haiku meetings - ended up dead in a small shop in a shady Tokyo neighborhood?

thoughts:
this book was slow and while i kept reading because i wanted to know what happened to Eiko, sometimes it was hard to get through because i think men are incapable of writing about women in a way that doesn't make my skin crawl.

synopsis:
The setting is the Texas-Mexico border. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. A good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction that not even the law can contain.

thoughts:
i really enjoyed this book but i don't really enjoy McCarthy's writing style which may be an unpopular opinion but idc. sometimes it just feels like reading one giant run on sentence.

synopsis:
The Book of Elsewhere follows an immortal warrior on a millennia-long journey to understand his immortality.

thoughts:
was kinda devastated that ppl on goodreads do NOT like this book but whatever it doesn't take away how much i enjoyed it. i loved this book, i really like china's writing style and i reallyyyyy liked the MC, Unute and his struggles with himself and his immortality. I may have to read these comics... Damn you, Keanu.

synopsis:
The threat of demonic power has returned to menace the world once again in Devil May Cry 5. The invasion begins when the seeds of a “demon tree” take root in Red Grave City.

thoughts: beat vergil's dlc mode this time around. not particularly fond of the rendering they did with the end cutscene models in this dlc. not sure why they didn't just use the in game engine again like they did for the main storyline, it would've looked so much better. instead dante and vergil look off in a way thats offputting LMAO. still. i love playing as vergil even if i am dog water at playing him.

synopsis:
Jill Valentine is one of the last remaining people in Raccoon City to witness the atrocities Umbrella performed. To stop her, Umbrella unleashes their ultimate secret weapon; Nemesis!

thoughts: was just doing an acheivement run but i beat it so i figured i would put it here anyway. managed to get 5 in a single run so yayyyy. p.s carlos please come home i miss you so bad.

synopsis:
Requiem for the dead. Nightmare for the living.

thoughts: going to try to keep this as spoiler free as possible bc i know not many people have gotten to play/watch it yet but WOW! i've already finished it twice and i'm about halfway through a third run. this was so good, a really good mix of action and horror and most of the over top action sequences didn't overstay their welcome, thank christ. i was so scared this was going to be another re6 situation but it didn't really feel like that. i had some gripes about the enemy behavior particularly in leon's later sections but w/e. i cant have everything. i love grace as a protag i hope we get to see her more because shes such a good addition to the series and she already feels like a legacy character to me. there was a lot of information i felt the game couldve expanded on but im assuming it was withheld for a reason so i just have to wait and hope the answers are in a future dlc or the next installment... all in all it was worth the wait and i'm glad capcom was like: 'this ones for you dutch and bee' with some things in the game JDFHFJDGHFJkg

synopsis:
Requiem for the dead. Nightmare for the living.

thoughts: okay, beat the game again doing some achievement hunting. i think this was my 5th playthrough? Got my no heals/beat the game in under 4 hours run done. thank god. all that's left is the insanity run. bro i am scared. figured i'd do my Not Spoiler Free thoughts now that the games been out for a month.

SPOILERS FOR RE9 BELOW.

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okay, now that i've played this game a few times and had time to Mull It in my mind. I still enjoyed it, my previous review still stands. BUT. yeah, i got gripes. First off, i feel like there was a depressing lack of lore and details on characters in this game. I'm assuming Zeno got no lore because he's going to be Explained or talked about in another game/remake so like, whatever that's fine. Victor was fun but again i want more info!!! how did he become a nemesis, WHY did he, i'm assuming, choose to become a nemesis. not everything needs to be explained of course, but i feel like previous games suffered from bogging us down with TOO MUCH information, especially putting so much in like 50 page files (resident evil 5 was TERRIBLE for this, so was 6) we're now going into an almost. drought of information? idk, i'm hoping all will be revealed in time but. i am skeptical of capcom actually caring all that much but. we will see. my second gripe. Some of Leon's writing was just. too much fanservice. okay dude, we get. the jester's always gotta be on. But holy god at some point it was like okay, you're beating us over the head with one liners, like it's too much. and none of them were all that good. like some were cute but i wasn't like woah this is a bingo moment. i think the most memorable one was "missed that raccoon city hospitality." i love leon and going back to rpd with him was emotional and i loved that he kinda took grace under his wing and i know he saw himself in her so much and i loved his moment with her in ark at the end. I wanted more of THAT leon and less of the one liner hot guy schtick. i liked the bad ending, i was kinda hoping they'd kill leon in this game because i think it would be emotionally poignant to have him die where everything began for him. but the good ending was sweet and i enjoyed it as well. time to beat leon kennedy to death for another 30 years. YAYYY. also huge shout out to capcom for leaking that leon and i got married. :/ we're private people and you totally took that choice away from us. #notcool. the product placement pissed me the fuck off. I DO NOT care about the stupid fucking porsche, the stupid fucking 2500 dollar watch. like FUCK OFF! i know the devs literally just wanted this shit for themselves and shoved it in the game so they could get the press freebies or whatever. it's so annoying. more than half of your fanbase cant afford this shit, like. just die. okay. onto my biggest complaint. SPENCER IS REGRETFUL? ARE YOU KIDDING ME? re9: adolf hitler is really sorry about all that shit he did :( LIKE ARE YOU SERIOUS. spencer has been built up to be the biggest, most self preserving, self important piece of shit in history, MORE SO THAN ALBERT WESKER. and now he's sorry? are you kidding me. fuck off. i literally could not care less. fuck off. fuck off. fuck off. it sucked, i know they're probably building up to make Wesker the main villian again, with his clones or him himself whatever. wesker wouldn't be wesker without the evil stupid bastard that is spencer. like idk. it's shit. i'm curious to see how 5 remake is going to go when in grace's report she states that spencer DIED in his estate, not that he was killed or wesker was responsible. idk. i don't really see why jill or chris would omit that wesker was the one that killed spencer or try to hide that fact? especially chris. and especially because wesker is a wanted bioterrorist. but yeah. the game is good, i have some complaints, im hoping theyll get ironed out with remakes, new games etc. but we will see. anxious to see where the series goes and i just hope this game isn't getting so big that they're losing track of it but i'm kinda scared thats where we're goin again. :/