Recently Watched Films

It does depend on how what will only be my second viewing of The Rise of Skywalker goes, but I'm quietly confident that this is actually the best movie of the sequel trilogy. It still has some obvious re-hash from the original trilogy, but I think it still manages to work as its own thing. It's only got better with re-watches, unlike The Force Awakens. 

Decent independent zombie movie:

I prefer the reimgained Netflix series, but this is really good too.

As a kid, I was always the biggest fan of Return of the Jedi, but I think I do have to acknowledge that Empire is the pinnacle of Star Wars now. 

Another one that for some reason I never re-watched until now. It holds up a bit better than Solo and the direct lead in to the original movie is pretty great. 

Hypnotic and fascinating. 

The original. Not sure what else I can say, that hasn't been said many times over by many people since it's release. Been a while since I last saw it, but it loses nothing. 

I mostly liked this. Tom Cruise is too small to be a proper Reacher, but for probably the first 3/4 of the film he projects a proper Reacher vibe. Then inexplicably he starts channeling that lame arsed character from the Mission Impossible movies (can't remember, and hate those movies, so don't care), before a final flick back to Reacherisms. Loved the action sequences, which seem so plausible when Lee Child writes them, but are so utterly ridiculous when put on screen. And Rosamund Pike seemed to be just phoning in her performance.

It's my favourite of the prequels too. I think it has more iconic scenes in it than the others. Whatever else people might think of the movie, the pod race holds up against any action sequence anywhere in the entire franchise.