I watched a total of three movies last year and two of them sucked. I don’t think I’ve seen a movie so far this year, and I’m looking for suggestions. What’s a movie that you really love?
I watched a total of three movies last year and two of them sucked. I don’t think I’ve seen a movie so far this year, and I’m looking for suggestions. What’s a movie that you really love?
I don’t deal in absolutes, but one move I watched recently that I really enjoyed was Predator: Badlands (2025).
Like a Verhoeven move from the 80s, Predator sneaks in genuine and interesting themes into an ostensibly crappy sci-fi movie. The Thia character is good feminism that reminds me of Lewis in Robocop (1987). That is to say she’s powerful without being coded masculine. And her relationship with Dax is as a partner and eventually a mirror. Dax’s character arc can be summed up as overcoming toxic masculinity. Just delightful, I watched it twice in two days.