Hello, my name is Douglas Campbell, I review movies and occasionally TV on YouTube.
I went into Resident Evil (2026) pretty much completely blind. I genuinely had no idea what was in store because I have not played a single Resident Evil game in my 29 years of life. I thought it was just zombies but there are mutants, witches and all kinds of insanity. Unless there’s a lore based reason, it seems Capcom does whatever the hell they want with horror and work it out canonically later. I really enjoyed Barbarian and Weapons, so I was curious to see what Cregger would do with a Resident Evil movie…I thought it was just okay…I didn’t hate it, but this was the worst of his three horror films so far, which is still pretty good.

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I wrote a piece on my Substack recently that has echoed in my mind for a minute about the state of film criticism, especially as it relates to auteur-driven risk-taking films. Films that lay it all on the line for the sake of art and expression. Films like Megalopolis, Babylon, and most recently Digger. I'm thinking the hundreds of million dollar risks that get pounced by critics who complain of their "excess" that are "doing too much". That's the general hostility and vibe I get from critics with these kind of projects.

The films I mentioned are all different films, and I'm not suggesting they're all successful. I've disliked ambitious auteur projects myself. But I've noticed how quickly conversations around these films become dominated by their budgets, box-office failures, and whether they were worth the financial risk. The films themselves almost become secondary to the spectacle of their failure. That there's a sort of glee that the critics take in a major Hollywood risk failing, as if they're parroting the tune of the top brass of Hollywood studios who don't want to fund expensive art in favor of sure-fire moneymakers.

A critic obviously isn't obligated to like a film, and I don't think filmmakers should be immune to harsh criticism just because they have an ambitious vision. But should critics have some responsibility beyond evaluating individual works? Shouldn't they also advocate for the continued existence of a film culture where filmmakers can take enormous creative risks, even when those risks don't pay off commercially? I mean on some level critics should endorse projects that fit the vision for the landscape they want to see, instead of punishing films that contribute to that. Especially, when the reaction to mediocrity is uneventful.

As I mentioned, I wrote a longer piece about this in relation to the violent responses to Digger that I felt were completely unwarranted. But, I'm genuinely curious if other people here have thought about this dynamic in modern film criticism. Please let me know your thoughts. I will also gently put my substack link if you want to read more of my thoughts:

https://abhinavyerramreddy.substack.com/p/why-do-critics-punish-creativity?r=38m95e&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer

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This movie was a lot of fun. And it somehow managed to find the perfect balance between being a big budget action movie and a proper character driven story. There was no big bad/save the world type of conflict. Instead we got a much smaller story about mistakes being made, trying to clean up those mistakes, along with the struggle of trying to do the right thing and the consequences that came along with it.

Despite what the cast sheet may say to the contrary, this was just as small of a story as Homecoming, and I'm really happy about that. Spiderman's always been a character that could hang in there with the biggest of threats, and Infinity War and Far From Home proved just that. But this character's story is always at it's best when he's just hanging around the neighborhood balancing superhero life with being a high school kid. And Tom Holland has gotten that balance down perfectly 

But as great as Tom was, this movie was all the more better thanks to all of the returning characters from the previous franchises, including the movie's worst kept secrets. And with their involvement in the story, Does this count as the live action spiderverse? It did feel a bit like that with the more experienced spidermen offering just a bit of wisdom to the newest webslinger. All three of them together were really fun to watch, not just in action, but more so in the quiet moments where they could just compare notes on their lives. And their Spidermen therapy session was hilarious.

Then we had most of the previous villains get a second chance at life. And I love how they weren't immediately villainous in this one. Due to the circumstance of their introduction to this universe, their alter egos got to take a pause and we get to somewhat return to their personal tragic stories. Doc Oc and Osborn were excellent characters to tell those small stories through, with Doctor Connors providing some surprising wise insight here and there. And William Defoe and Alfred Molina were so much fun to watch as the villains trying desperately to not be the bad guys, and kind of returning to their origins of the scientists who's experiments hadn't yet gotten away from them. But no matter how much this story humanized them (which has honestly become a thing for SpiderMan movies), they always end up as the bad guys. But it was cool to see Peter's main mentors from their respective trilogies helping to teach MCU Peter a lesson or two.

But I can't talk about their ultimate destinies without talking the destiny of Peter Parker.  I read somewhere a while ago that Spiderman can never have everything he wants. He can't be a great superhero, with the love of his friends and family, and a regular civilian life. It's almost like a rule for the character; his curse. And because being a superhero is the part that can never budge, it's always the other two that have to suffer. And this movie just drove home that point; even when he wins, Peter Parker still looses. And yet it's all necessary for Peter to grow and become the best version of himself.

Everything about this movie just feels like the most SpiderMan story I've seen on screen yet. They even did the "with great power" scene. And not just in a way that felt obligatory, but was actually really impactful. It is hands down the best live action Spiderman movie we've gotten, and arguable one of the best MCU movies so far. It even got the chance to address some of the previous mistakes by prior movies and somewhat remedy them here. And then it posed a few major questions for the character moving forward.

It was also cool to see J.K Simmons back as J. Jonah Jameson, but he really just felt like a cameo. But seeing as he is actually in this universe, it is cool knowing that we may get to see him in more movies going forward. And I will always advocate for more Benedict Wong in a story for more than 1 scene. And with the confirmation of his promotion, I really do hope that he's got a prominent role in the The Multiverse of Madness.

Everything else was nearly perfect. Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers have once again written a fantastic story that does the comic books justice, with Jon Watts bringing it to life; flawlessly blending the major action pieces with the smaller, personal journey of the character. This team is 3 for 3 on nailing SpiderMan movies and I think they've found the magic formula for nailing this hero.

I must rant a bit as I've just now watched the new adaptation of He-man.

I was awful! I went into it fully expecting it to be over the top campy, but this was aggressive campy. Also, how dare they being Arora into this?!

It was so so so bad.

Nope! Everyone is fired! That. Was. Horrible.

We all go to the movies check them out if we like them we give them great reviews if we don’t like them we give them good reviews so that way more people come out to the movies so that way the studios can’t get incentivize to me good movies and they’re actually turning a profit to where they’ll have enough money to actually make a good movie I’m not a Hollywood show regular guy that just grew up loving movies in the 90s from Hood movies Hollywood Classics I just wish they could give the money to people who care but I guess our best hope is to put enough money into it collectively with the studios and a whole triple down economics situation goes down the pipeline where we can get more cold classics, like Napoleon dynamite, and all of our other loved films

can we PLEASE talk about how predictable the actual storyline was??? 😭 bear literally makes a wish for nikki to love him more than anyone in the world and suddenly she becomes obsessively attached to him. like wow, who would’ve thought a supernatural wish would have consequences???

nikki starts acting possessed, watching him sleep, freaking out whenever he leaves, literally TAPING THE DOOR SHUT, and we’re supposed to be shocked that things get progressively worse??? the second she started acting weird it was obvious she wasn’t herself. there was barely any mystery to unravel.

TW: this is where bear lost me. after the restaurant scene, where he basically confirms that nikki’s personality has been completely altered by his wish, he STILL chooses to have s3x with her??? mind you, the real nikki never consented to any of this. she never chose to fall in love with him, never chose to be in a relationship with him, and certainly never chose to have her bodily autonomy stripped away. the version of nikki he’s sleeping with is literally a product of HIS wish.

and the camera focusing on her face during that scene??? her expression is practically EMPTY, and you can literally see tears running down her face. it’s heavily implied that the real nikki is still conscious somewhere inside her own body, forced to experience something she never agreed to. that’s not intimacy, that’s SA. and the fact that bear KNOWS something is terribly wrong with her but continues anyway??? disgusting. also why was it so aggressive?

what makes it even worse is that he doesn’t seriously attempt to undo what he’s done until the consequences start affecting HIM. like are we supposed to sympathize with this man??? he literally took away someone’s free will because he couldn’t handle the possibility of her not loving him back.

and the whole dead cat situation??? her feeding bear his own CAT was disgusting, sure, but since when does throwing in disturbing scenes automatically equal good horror? 😭 it felt like the movie was relying on grossing people out instead of actually building suspense.

then nikki kills sarah, and later ian gets shot. was i supposed to be sitting there with my jaw on the floor??? by that point they’d already established that she was dangerously obsessed and willing to hurt anyone who got between them. the violence was graphic, but the escalation itself was SO easy to see coming.

and don’t even get me started on the ending. bear realizing his death could undo the wish, taking the pills, nikki using the last wish to make him love her back, and then the original nikki finally returning after he dies??? the whole ‘be careful what you wish for’ message was practically being screamed at us from the beginning.

i’m not saying every single detail was predictable, but the MAJORITY of the movie followed exactly the direction i expected. and that’s coming from someone who barely watches horror. 💀

also, can someone explain what was supposedly so revolutionary about this plot??? because to me it was basically a supernatural obsession story stretched into almost two hours, with a few disturbing scenes thrown in to convince everyone it was terrifying.

i genuinely want to know what part had everyone so shook because i must’ve watched a completely different movie. 😭

Hello, my name is Douglas Campbell, I review movies and occasionally TV on YouTube. This week I let my subscribers suggest some films for me to cover, and ultimately Spirited Away was chosen.

I love various forms of animation, Anime however is an area of media I haven’t explored much of. I was excited to finally see Spirited Away because I’ve heard so many good things about Studio Ghibli. The film was good, I’m glad I checked it out finally, but there were a few things I was surprised about while watching the film and doing research after the fact.

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What Nomadland is... or what it should be, is a documentary.

I'll go first, 
I'm only ranking the movies that I saw that came out this year.

• Black Panther

• Deadpool 2

• Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

• Infinity War

• Solo

• A Quiet Place

• The Incredibles 2

• Ant Man & The Wasp

• Tomb Raider

(The list is misleading because except for Black Panther and Tomb Raider they are all really close together).

I would love to see any of the above movies again.

The movies listed below I don't ever really need to see again in life.

• Ready Player One

• Pacific Rim Uprising

• Annihilation

• Sicario

• Proud Mary