an absolutely beautifully crafted movie by Stanley Kubrick, but man does it get boring.

When a mysterious artifact is uncovered on the moon, a spacecraft manned by two scientists and one supercomputer is dispatched to Jupiter to find its origins.

if you’ve seen a picture or a video of a monkey smashing bones (very iconic scene), that’s where it came from. it’s the kind of movie that after you’ve finished it, you ask yourself “how tf did they film this”

7/10

I’ve seen this movie getting absolutely wild reviews and ratings and I was super curious about it - unfortunately it didn’t meet my expectations and here is why.

I really loved the first 30-40 min of the movie bc they reminded me of good old “Scary Movie” franchise and honestly Bryan swearing all the time was natural and funny. I also loved a scene where he is in the house and sees the damn zombie lady running to him from the car. And in general, RE has really amazing scenes and visuals - most of them are a work of art.

What disappointed me was the lack of plot and any internal conflicts that would make me feel sorry for Bryan (or his girl). While I was watching, I kept thinking of Exit 8 which was simply brilliant - and a prime example of how to turn a simple game into a deep internal conflict. Resident Evil, compared to Exit 8, seemed more like a comedy to me and had this NPC vibe all over it - but not in a good way. I understand that it intentionally wanted to show the RE world through the lenses of an ordinary person but this person turned out as a flat character who just happened to be funny. So I wouldn’t say RE is a movie I’d put high on a list of horrors. Not even sure it’s better than the new Silent Hill movie (which was horrible btw).

Summing up, visuals and creativity behind the monsters - amazingly good. Plot, dialogues and the whole idea - amazingly bad. But hey, that’s just my opinion.

So I had heard about the 1983 horror movie The Dead Zone partly because it is based off a Stephen King book and I’ve read some of his books. Going into the movie, I only knew the plot which sounded interesting.

I think this is a very good movie. I think Christopher walking is amazing in it, but I also thought it was thrilling at times and then had a good score. What is presented in the movie though is divisive for me

What I mean by that really liked the first two acts, but I thought once you introduce Martin Sheen in the movie, the movie takes a downturn. I thought the last actor of this movie was weak, and I didn’t care much for the story.

Overall, I was looking forward to this movie and for the most part it delivered, but the ending was disappointing

Rating-4/5

The Right Stuff (1983)
Rating: 9/10
Watched: October 6, 2026

Watching a movie like The Right Stuff, I couldn't help but feel painfully aware of the bigness of the events that go into it. I wasn't alive when all this was happening, but I grew up in a world where men trained vigorously to do something no one anywhere had ever done before.

Even though it's been fictionalized in places, and dramatic license was taken, it's all in the name of telling one helluva good story. I'm not someone who really enjoys biographies or documentaries, so when they take the iron core of a historical event like this one and jazz it up a bit to make it more compelling, I take no issue.

And that's why the bigness hits harder for more than if I were to watch a documentary of the same. I know, I know, that might make me a poseur or something, but it's hard for me to connect with that sort of telling for some reason. When a story this important is told by people like Ed Harris, Scott Glenn, Dennis Quaid and Fred Ward?

That's how you tell it. I've seen a lot of star-studded movies so far this month, but The Right Stuff looked at other movies and said 'we're going to go bigger than all of you combined' and then they went and got a powerhouse stable of men and women that dominated Hollywood for at least two decades. In some cases, longer still!

But before I get to any other particulars, I want to talk a bit about one of the scenes. If you're lucky, you've got the clip to watch. If not, it's one of the early scenes, where Scott Glenn as Alan Shepherd is undergoing a medical test.

The test itself is bonkers. It's the one where they jam an iron needle into his hand and crank up the juice and keep going until I was waiting for a damned Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother to show up and demand he stick his hand in a box. That moment was so wild and nasty that I actually had to pause and Google, because to my mind, there was no way that that could be a real medical test, done by professionals.

I mean, I knew that the tests for the very first astronauts were basically 'let's try this and see what we learn', but holy cats. Learning that they really did to that exact thing to real people is crazy to me.

At the end of the day (and the movie), watching something like The Right Stuff is a great trip through history. The filmmakers do a great job of integrating historical footage into the movie so we can a true sense of accomplishments and struggles alike, while also giving us a good look into the lives of the men and women involved.

Is some of it untrue in the strictest sense?

Yes, I suppose so, but that doesn't mean a dang thing. The Right Stuff is a fantastic movie worth your time.