Strange Harvest

A horror movie made to look exactly like a Netflix true crime documentary. So clever and well done. I'm such a sucker for creativity like this.
The one thing I thought while watching it, though, was how much sense it made watching this on my computer screen - just like I would a Netflix documentary - and how I'm not sure how I would have felt watching it in a theater. Might not have felt cinematic enough? But that's a small thing. Great acting, great details, lots of fun.

Nobody 2

The first Nobody was honestly pretty solid for the first 2 acts. The action was pretty tight. It wasn't TOO cliche'd. And then came the final act and it got super goofy and the action got silly and they just tried to do too much.
Well, evidently, the makers of the movie loved the 3rd act, because Nobody 2 just runs it right back. I'm not saying it wasn't enjoyable in parts, but extremely paint by numbers and hacky/corny, and just kinda Home Alone for adults in a waterpark, I guess?

The Long Walk

This would probably make a better play than a movie. A big treadmill on the stage, small character studies.
There was a lot more pooping and long held headshots than I expected or honestly cared for. Especially the pooping. And, you guys, <whisper>I think it's a metaphor for capitalism</whisper>.

Eddington

If you hesitated, like I did, to watch this because you weren't up for a COVID movie, don't worry, it breezes right through that in the first 30 minutes or so.
The last hour is a fever dream. The SolidGoldMagikarp AI company is an amazing inside baseball reference that shows Ari's thinking about this more deeply than most of us. Can't wait to rewatch.

Fantastic Four: First Steps

Marvel managed to make their Superman – very old IP, kind of boring characters – into a heartfelt, human story that I enjoyed.
Also, more importantly, my boys enjoyed it. For some reason we've forgotten these movies are for kids.

Mountainhead

Laughed out loud at times. But it supposedly took Jesse Armstrong just 60 days to write and you can kind of tell.
BUT "I’m worried about him… I heard he’s circling the jet just to fall asleep" is one of the funniest and depressing and of our times things I've ever heard.

And much like Succession, there are several lines like this one intermixed with lots of circling dialogue in various rooms. But, also just like Succession, I've watched it twice now and I'll probably watch it at least a third.

Sinners

One of my red flags is that I'm a jerk about actors' southern accents.
I think I came in thinking it'd be something completely new and different, and was a little disappointed when it wasn't.

Good music. Okay action. Questionable southern accents.

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Strange Harvest

movies October 28, 2025

Nobody 2

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Eddington

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Mountainhead

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Sinners

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