Reviews written by ssj
I fucking loved this. Something about seeing the most magical and super of the Superman thespians in an intelligently constructed story makes Son of Jor-El my favorite Superman movie ever,...
An instructional music video for horror survivalists. Brief and compact. Enjoyed its high energy. Excellent use of text as a kinetic visual element. Maintained my interest all the way thru....
TMBTM opens up the interdimensional barrier yet again. It's like he knows which glowing gems to touch inside the pylon.
Bullwinkle: Hey, Rocky! Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat. Rocky: Bullwinkle, it says here that for you to inherit the fortune, you have to...
Turd polishing/turkey glazing at its finest. It's obvious a lot of Spicediver care and attention went into demucking the theatrical release and turning it into an altogether...
I was too inebriated to appreciate this movie when it came out, though I vaguely recall it feeling lengthy and rather talky at times in an unpleasant stage production kind...
TMBTM has managed to do a difficult thing: rescore a movie. The lyrics by Within Temptation often match the on-screen action/emotions surprisingly well. I can appreciate the amount of work...
The added scenes really flesh out the characters, and not just the green ones. Same amount of smash, more humanity. QuickCut helps to bring back some of...
The new score, when present, changes the tone of the movie. The music turns familiar scenes sublime, now oozing with depth and gravitas. A few scenes become art-house sci-fi, in...
Funky, cosmic, and meditative. Blueyoda's your interstellar DJ/cabbie, and be prepared for the possibility he'll drop you off somewhere other than where you left.
I just got time-machined. This edit took me back to the '70s and early '80s and gave this little hunk o' postmodernism a patina of, um, well, modernism. . ....
Genius wearing a lowest common denominator suit. Picks apart The Phantom Menace to expose precisely why there's stool on our theater seat and in our popcorn, so to speak. ...
This review is based on an online viewing of this video. RedLetterMedia takes a nekkid emperor (the metaphorical kind) and shows him to be even moar nekkider....
This B movie's got it all: vicious, unthinking eating machines, human fodder for said machines, sad cougars, hampered young romance, awesome boobs, and 'splosions. Best of all, it's all watchable,...
The musical pieces were really groovy. Kubrick's images and Adabisi's selections fit remarkably well; he's your DJ for this cosmic journey, and his touch is deft, aside from the opening...
Wow. Who would've thunk that a Supes serial with almost no physical conflict and almost no superhuman stunts would be more fun to watch than the Boy of Steel dodging...
Lynch's film can never be the Dune I imagined from my reading, but this has to be the best cinematic version yet. The division into chapters, the choice quotes, the...
small trims, better film. I won't have much need (ever) to whip out the ol' theatrical release, 'cause neg's version is tighter.
These chicks are seriously nuts. And their inner/outer torment is your ticket to some messed-up entertainment. The humor is wicked, and so is the pacing. The original films' fat has...
The first time I saw The Departed, it seemed rather long. Neg’s cut, despite being a little over two hours, is paced just right. One...
Man, this edit was fun! Grindhouse and Tarantino come together like mustard and tuna. Pushing things along to the Titty Twister was Buddha-level righteous and wise; there’s still enough time...
Very enjoyable trip down Memory Lane. As blueyoda noted, the editing is seamless; Attack of the Fembots truly comes across as a feature movie of its time, not a serial....
Trumps The Phantom Edit by chubby margins. This is now my definitive go-to version of Episold 1. Deal with that, Mr. Lucas. Certain parts are...
Boy, did TMBTM give Empire a wedgie. . . in a good way. This edit has so much fresh on it, it deserves a bootyload of notoriety. ...
Brilliant edit. Moving back the Death in the Family sequence and all those nips and tucks made the movie more solid, and it was already solid to begin with. At...
Couldn't stand the diarrheal theatrical version. But L8wrtr hoses away the cringe and the stool to reveal a very watchable cut, a feat which I considered impossible, even by an...
Nonlinear storytelling can make for great entertainment—take Pulp Fiction. But the degree of fragmentation also matters. Pulp Fiction’s nonlinearity worked because its fragments came in big enough chunks. ...
Scream 4’s ending is overblown and annoyingly dragged out. Fortunately, Neg applies his digital knife to the movie to give us a proper cliffhanger and a vastly improved ending. ...
The John Williams score works far better than the original music. It seems pretty wild that changing the music could raise the movie’s dignity (not as outlandish as it sounds!)...
Masterful editing. Rogue hacks away at boring filler to tell a story with grace and economy. A testament to the quality of this version: I don’t think I can watch...
With all the emasculation in the theatrical version, even women and inanimate objects were not spared. Geminigod rides like sunshine into orcish eyes to remove large elements of boolsheet, and...
This edit was great fun. Neglify chose a movie that, to begin with, didn’t take itself too seriously, making the edit even more enjoyable. One of the most obvious changes...
I was spoiled by viewing njvc's version before the theatrical cut, and comparing the two is like asking which one gives off more warmth, a campfire or a match? ...
Groovy. There’s no plot, per se, but there is a flow. In the spirit of an impressionist painting, this piece floats sound and images down the river of your mind....
This is the definitive version of Terminator 3, IMHO. When I first saw the T3 theatrical release, I didn’t think it was fixable. But UA’s painstaking work...
I had way too much fun watching this. This is now my favorite version of Star Wars–hands-down more enjoyable than the 1977 theatrical cut. If...