John-Michael

Favorite films

  • Jurassic Park
  • Jennifer's Body
  • Clueless
  • A Walk to

All
  • How to Train Your Dragon

    ★★★★

  • The Talented Mr. Ripley

    ★★★★

  • To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar

    ★★★½

  • Fireworks

    ★★★★½

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Hurry Up Tomorrow

2025

Watched

You know what would have been more successful? If Abel just paid Jenna Ortega to star in a visual album and be the star in 10 different music videos just dancing around and lip syncing because watching him on screen was crazy unbearable. 

It felt like 10 somewhat decent music video concepts all stitched together to make 1 elaborately overly stylized feature that had no real plot or way to connect the “plot points”. 

HATED the dream sequence, it went…

Sacramento

2024

★★★½ Watched

First off, as a Sacramentian, I’m gonna be biased here so let’s get that out of the way. The shots of Sac were beautiful, seeing places like Gunther’s and Dive Bar highlighted were wild, and Angarano really captured the beauty of what Sac looks like. There was one scene in particular where the midday sun is cast through the greenery and trees and it immediately felt like summer of 2013 again. There is a magic to the cinematography and color…

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The Invisible Man

2020

★★★★★ Watched

the visuals, tension, and score (soundtrack) create the perfect ambiance.

Blonde

2022

Watched

Well that was a depressing, anticlimactic, and confusing experience. What was the actual point?

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