Resident Evil: Chris Route (2002)
completed: 1/28
steam
In 1998 a special forces team is sent to investigate some bizarre murders on the outskirts of Raccoon City.
thoughts:
i get why people are always crying about these camera angles being phased out, they add so much to the atmosphere. i love you re1, you will always be famous
Resident Evil 6 (2012)
completed: 1/28
steam
Leon Kennedy, Chris Redfield, Sherry Birkin, and Ada Wong confront the force behind a worldwide bio-terrorist attack
thoughts:
i fucking hate this game. running into traffic is more fun. simmons running around torturing women because he's an incel that couldn't sleep with ada isn't a good solo ada game and i hate you if you think otherwise.
Saint's Row (2022)
completed: 5/13
steam
Set within the fictional city of Santo Ileso, the story follows a group of four friends who start their own outlaw gang called the Saints.
thoughts:
this game had so much potential but kept pulling its punches and i don't think thats something you can do in a SR game tbh. felt rushed and the characters were fun but needed some more fleshing out.
RE: Revelations (2012)
completed: 5/28
steam
The game follows Jill Valentine and Chris Redfield as they try to uncover the truth behind an organization that plans to infect the Earth's oceans with a virus.
thoughts:
dev team read the divine comedy and then beat you over the head with it. this game was miserable. sucks because i loved the campy nautical theme.
love lies bleeding (2024)
watched: 6/23
imdb
Gym manager Lou falls for Jackie, a bodybuilder who is passing through town en route to a competition in Las Vegas.
thoughts:
surreal toxic yuri... the most unrealistic part of this movie was the lack of body hair on lesbians.
drive-away dolls (2024)
watched: 6/23
imdb
Jamie regrets her breakup with her girlfriend, while Marian needs to relax. In search of a fresh start, they embark on an unexpected road trip to Tallahassee. Things quickly go awry when they cross paths with a group of inept criminals.
thoughts:
WHERE ARE THE HAIRY LESBIANS? srsly tho, this was fun. very loud about lesbian sexuality which i really loved.
Challengers (2024)
watched: 6/23
imdb
Tashi, a former tennis prodigy turned coach, turned her husband into a champion. But to overcome a losing streak, he needs to face his ex-best friend and Tashi's ex-boyfriend.
thoughts:
messy ass people. good lord. i love sports and drama so this was fun. incredible score
the matrix (1999)
watched: 6/29
imdb
When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.
thoughts:
i miss albert wesker.
As You Are (2016)
watched: 7/3
imdb
Set in the early 1990s, the telling and retelling of a friendship between three teenagers, as a police investigation prompts disparate memories.
thoughts:
being gay in a small town is hard and dealing with those feelings is even harder, this captured that incredibly well imo.
pearl (2022)
watched: 7/3
imdb
In 1918, a young woman on the brink of madness pursues stardom in a desperate attempt to escape the drudgery, isolation, and lovelessness of life on her parents' farm.
thoughts:
i loved the way this was filmed, the overexaggerated colors, everything. pearl's monologue to howard at the end was so good and probably my favorite part of the whole movie.
Ginger Snaps (2000)
watched: 7/4
imdb
Two death-obsessed sisters, outcasts in their suburban neighborhood, must deal with the tragic consequences when one of them is bitten by a deadly werewolf.
thoughts:
i can't believe it took me this long to see this movie, i loved it so much. i'm a sucker for movies about sisters and this one didn't disappoint.
The Loveless (1981)
watched: 7/4
imdb
Trouble ensues when a motorcycle gang stops in a small southern town while heading to the races at Daytona.
thoughts:
the platform we watched this on had a shitty and misleading synposis and this was not what i was expecting after reading it... wasn't super into it but young willem dafoe is just as hot as older willem dafoe so. yay.
Lisa Frankenstein (2024)
watched: 7/5
imdb
A coming of RAGE love story about a teenager and her crush, who happens to be a corpse. After a set of horrific circumstances bring him back to life, the two embark on a journey to find love, happiness - and a few missing body parts.
thoughts:
this was super cute... i love a weirdo girl and i loved the overprotective preppy mean girl sister lol
RE: Revelations 2 (2015)
completed: 7/6
steam
Revelations 2 sees the return of Claire Redfield, whom along with the daughter of Barry Burton, Moira Burton, must try to escape off a monster-infested island.
thoughts:
once again the dev team read a classic book and made it a games whole personality. this was better than rev 1 but not by much. i liked seeing barry again tho.
Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness (2021)
rewatched: 7/18
imdb
Federal agent Leon S. Kennedy teams up with TerraSave staff member Claire Redfield to investigate a zombie outbreak.
thoughts:
my favorite re "movie" simply because matt mercer doesnt voice leon lol. i dont get why cleon shippers tote this as the cleon movie when claire is visibly disgusted w leon's bootlicking but w/e
Resident Evil: Death Island (2023)
rewatched: 7/19
imdb
A t-virus outbreak in San Francisco leads to Alcatraz Island, where a new evil has taken residence.
thoughts:
i hate the resident evil movies. there. i said it. the characters are written terribly, the plots are terrible. they're just terrible. i keep watching them anyway.
Carnality
completed: 7/26
goodreads
Awarded a three-month stipend to travel and work, a Swedish writer flies to Madrid, where in a bar she meets a man with an extraordinary story to tell.
thoughts:
i hated 2 of the three narrators of this book, so the first half of it was pretty miserable. i don't think i was meant to like them, especially mercuro, so i kept reading and hoped my curosity about what his "extraodinary story" entailed would hook me. thankfully, i was so intrigued by this supposed evil nun that i kept reading. Sor Lucia was my favorite character(and the best written imo), her story was so interesting and i loved her 'in order to do good, sometimes you have to get your hands dirty' outlook. there were parts i wish the author had gone into more detail about or just spent more time on but i was instead forced to read far too many paragraphs of mercuro's revolting ramblings on women and society™ and how he didn't deserve the punishment he'd been given(he did). for my first read of the year(disgraceful...) it was good and i'm glad i stuck it out.
Resident Evil (2022)
rewatched: 7/27
imdb
Nearly three decades after the discovery of the T-virus, an outbreak reveals the Umbrella Corporation's dark secrets.
thoughts:
a lot of people hated this series but i enjoy it more than i do some of the "canonical" movies. i loved this interpretation of wesker. it was perfect, i could see him making clones of himself, unable to trust anyone's genius but his own. there was a lot that was VERY badly written but they really put their whole chest into writing albert and lance reddick did a phenomenal job portraying him. unfortunately, jade and billie wesker are not written well but that's because literally no one seems to know how to write teenagers in a way that isn't using horribly dated slang or ridiculous edginess. like holy fuck. talk to kids, do focus groups fucking something other than going on like. reddit or 4chan and being like, yeah this is definitely how an average teenager talks. billie was more likeable than jade imo but i only really disliked jade because she becomes weirdly into a guy that she continuously picks over her sister despite constantly promising her sister that she's always going to be there for her but then... leaves her multiple times or just completely ignores her in favor of hanging out with this dude. adult jade also makes stupid mistakes that frustrated me and i also disliked adult billie. I think this was because they'd been planning on exploring their adulthood more in the second season but unfortunately it was cancelled before they could. i do wish we'd gotten a season 2 and i do think it could've redeemed the show. i was interested in seeing what they were going to do with ada, learning more about wesker and ada's relationship and hopefully even seeing other resident evil characters. this whole series was a mess but it had it's fun moments and was definitely better characterization than whatever the hell welcome to raccoon city was.
Resident Evil 4 (2023)
replayed: 7/31
steam
Six years have passed since the biological disaster in Raccoon City. Leon S. Kennedy, one of the survivors, tracks the president's kidnapped daughter to a secluded European village, where there is something terribly wrong with the locals.
thoughts:
according to my new game+ information, this was my 10th playthrough on that specific file. I know this isn't entirely accurate because i have nearly 500 hours in this game as of 7/31. i've done multiple difficulty runs and started up new game runs just for fun. i love this game. it's my baby, my darling, my angel. i know it upside down and inside out at this point. sometimes i turn it on when i'm sad just to look at leon and walk around. it's a perfect remake. it took everything great about the original re4 and enchanced it with love and care. i love it so much and i'm still finding stuff i missed every time i play.
The Sopranos (1999)
rewatched: 8/6
imdb
New Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano deals with personal and professional issues in his home and business life that affect his mental state, leading him to seek professional psychiatric counseling.
thoughts:
i rewatch this show once, sometimes twice a year. it's so good and the ending stilllll fucks me up every time.
Silent Hill 2 (2001)
completed: 9/10
remake
Silent Hill 2 centers on James Sunderland, a widower who journeys to the town of Silent Hill after receiving a letter from his dead wife.
thoughts:
found a physical copy of this game for a really good price back home so i jumped and bought it. so glad i did. i've watched playthroughs of this game but after playing it, it's just not the same. i love this game and playing it for myself only made me love and appreciate it more. i played it totally blind without trying for a paticular ending and got the Leave ending. Can't wait to replay and try for the others!
True Blood (2008)
rewatched: 9/18
imdb
Telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse encounters a strange new supernatural world when she meets the mysterious Bill Compton, a southern Louisiana gentleman and vampire.
thoughts:
holy shit this show is terrible. why do i keep rewatching it. I think the first season is so good, i love this interpretation of vampires and the concept of them trying to "mainstream" with humans. sometime after season three it just nose dives into the worst written slop you've ever witnessed. it's so incredibly bad. sookie as a main character is so insufferable i could scream. she constantly puts her friends in danger and manages to make EVERY situation about herself no matter how much it does not involve her. She will not hesitate to throw herself or her friends under the bus for a man. and if it's not sookie pissing me off, it's bill, or its the weird subplots that just come in out of nowhere and sucker punch you. do not even get me started on the weird yakuza subplot of the last season. i should honestly read the books because i hear they're totally different than the show. maybe they'll piss me off less, who knows.
Silent Hill 2 (2024)
completed: 10/13
steam
Silent Hill 2 centers on James Sunderland, a widower who journeys to the town of Silent Hill after receiving a letter from his dead wife.
thoughts:
wow. like a lot of other people, i was skeptical of this remake. i'm sure a lot of other people were, like me, glad to be proven wrong. Without spoiling a game that has been out for 20 years, it was an incredible retelling. it did the original so much justice and improved it in areas i thought the original could've delved deeper into. my one gripe is that sometimes the face mocap fell short of expressing emotions and faces sometimes looked flat in moments of anger or extreme sadness(particularly laura's toward the end). the voice acting was very good, especially from james, angela, and maria. angela's sections hurt even worse than before, the fight with eddie was brutal. i loved that they gave maria more personality and dialog. she quips about what james is doing, you can have conversations with her now its just... so good. as a result of being so enamored with maria's new depth and topical comments, i ended up getting the maria ending. what can i say, i love women, even if james sunderland doesn't.
Whiskey When We're Dry
completed: 10/24
goodreads
In the spring of 1885, seventeen-year-old Jessilyn Harney finds herself orphaned and alone on her family's homestead. Desperate to fend off starvation and predatory neighbors, she cuts off her hair, binds her chest, saddles her beloved mare, and sets off across the mountains to find her outlaw brother Noah and bring him home.
thoughts:
i really loved this book, there were parts toward the end that frustrated me, especially particular characters, but for the most part i really enjoyed it. i really loved the writing style and jess is a main character i'll probably never forget.
Worry
completed: 10/27
goodreads
It’s March of 2019, and twenty-eight-year-old Jules Gold—anxious, artistically frustrated, and internet-obsessed—has been living alone in the apartment she once shared with the man she thought she’d marry when her younger sister Poppy comes to crash. Indefinitely.
thoughts:
i thought i was going to hate this book. in a way i do. despite so much of the dialog making me literally cringe or just roll my eyes i saw wayyy too much of myself, my sister, and our relationship in this book. they weren't dead-ringers for us, neither were their fights but so much of this book felt way too familiar. the way they fought and made up seconds after arguing. hating each other for being so alike but so annoyingly different. loving and being so dependent on one another because your childhood was so insane that you just start to resent one another for it. i found myself crying more than i care to admit and it made me really miss my sister.
Dead Reckoning (1946)
watched: 11/06
imdb
A soldier runs away to avoid receiving the Medal of Honor, so his buddy gets permission to investigate. Romance and death soon follow.
thoughts:
Dutch and I are participating in Noirvember this year! We're already a little behind bc we discovered it a little late. I think we'll be able to catch up though bc we love marathoning these movies. I'd forgotten I'd already watched this movie sometime toward the beginning of the year, even tho it's one of my favorites lol but it was a treat to rewatch. I love Lizabeth Scott as a femme fatale, her voice is soooo sexy lol. I also like that she's a bit wicked and blindsides bogart's character more than a few times.
High Sierra (1940)
watched: 11/06
imdb
After being released from prison, notorious thief Roy Earle is hired by his old boss to help a group of inexperienced criminals plan and carry out the robbery of a California resort.
thoughts:
Noirvember movie 2! Apparently this movie was Bogart's breakout role, which I can see why. I actually think I prefer when he plays a "bad" person in his movies, he's able to do this dead-eyed, violent look so well which is honestly a little scary. The leading lady, Ida Lupino is gorgeous and I loved her here. There's something about women's eyes in these old movies that are so... sad looking even when they're not meant to be. The movie itself seemed to take a minute to get to the actual heist and then it seems to just snowball like crazy from there.