@jaketropila.bsky.social
Film critic, editor, licensed troubleshooter, problem eliminator. May good luck plumb snow you under.
Went ahead and finished this up. “Fall in the Light” leading into “While the Earth Sleeps” is the greatest one-two needle drop punch ever.
08.10.2025 06:06 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Now watching Godzilla '98 for the first time (oh, boy!). Everyone who has seen this has called it a terrible Jurassic Park ripoff. Even Dalton, my three-and-a-half year old son, was savvy enough to point out that this is a dinosaur footprint, not a Godzilla footprint.
08.10.2025 04:03 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The full list:
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Last October, I solicited a ton of 70s and 80s horror films rec’s. I did not watch nearly as many as I wanted to, but I kept the list to continue this year and share for all. I’ll also happily take more recommendations, all I ask is that they are not ones included on this list.
07.10.2025 21:49 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Threw on the first 90 minutes of Strange Days last night… man, what a picture.
07.10.2025 15:09 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
GHIDORAH, THE THREE-HEADED MONSTER (1964, Ishirō Honda)
04.10.2025 22:37 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1It’s Friday night. Dalton just said “Daddy, let’s watch two movies.”
He is my son.
New Ep! It is Shawntober once again, where we subject @MrGlinis to new horror films he’s never seen. Up first, we’re kicking things off on a downer note with the films of Andrzej Zulawski, discussing The Devil, Possession and Under the Silver Globe. Enjoy.
www.optimismvaccine.com/episode/the-...
Another big pile of dino crap from Colon Trevorrow. We talk poop from a T-rex’s butt with returning friend of the pod @jaketropila.bsky.social about JURASSIC WORLD: DOMINION, a movie about bugs and wasting Laura Dern’s time.
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03.10.2025 14:08 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
THE CAT (1992, Lam Nai-Choi): Come for the extraterrestrial feline throwing down with a dog in a junkyard, stay for the amazing hand-crafted visual effects and myriad of Hong Kong stunt people setting themselves on fire in the name of art.
03.10.2025 14:07 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Kicking off my October watches with this.
03.10.2025 04:36 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I do plan to post here more, if only because some good people seem to have migrated here permanently. I miss the homies.
01.10.2025 23:22 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Should probably delete my FaceBook page. Every once in a blue moon I’ll open the app and be greeted with an A.I. video of Jesus Christ teabagging a skeleton to resurrect a child from the dead, and the comments are numerous people chanting “AMEN.”
01.10.2025 23:21 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Happy “Haunted” by Poe season everyone.
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Was genuinely unprepared for how beautiful this set is. Cannot wait to watch this.
01.10.2025 18:10 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1Holy hell this looks incredible
01.10.2025 15:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
September 2025
Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla
Ghost Killer
Godzilla, Mothra, and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack
Godzilla vs. Hedorah
Godzilla vs. Megalon
Mothra vs. Godzilla
The Naked Gun
One Battle After Another
Too Many Ways to Be No. 1
Where To Land
For InReviewOnline, I wrote about DEMONLOVER, its eerie prescience, the brilliance of Olivier Assayas, and how everything feels bad.
inreviewonline.com/2025/08/27/d...
MAHJONG (1996, Yang): Maybe the most beautiful film about the last gasp of youth.
27.08.2025 16:37 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“Your fake is more real than real.”
26.08.2025 05:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A CONFUCIAN CONFUSION (1994, Yang): An intimate look at a core group of friends, lovers, and work colleagues - typically a mix of all three - as they navigate art, careers, relationships, and expectations in one of the world’s wealthiest cities. Really just the loveliest time.
26.08.2025 05:55 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Seldom visit here anymore, but this has been my life, lately:
25.08.2025 21:44 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
New Ep! Having given the Baby Assassins a deserved spotlight, it seemed only appropriate to discuss Baby Geniuses, the passion project of OV supervillain Steven Paul. That’s right, we watched and discuss Baby Geniuses & Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2. Enjoy!
www.optimismvaccine.com/episode/the-...
Terrorizers, released on Blu by Nova Media
22.08.2025 16:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The gang’s all here
22.08.2025 15:31 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
At last
22.08.2025 15:24 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Back on the pod extolling the virtues of Chisato & Mahiro and their many fun adventures.
11.08.2025 19:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New Ep! We’ve covered the adventures of Xander Cage. We’ve covered the Ti West/Mia Goth trilogy. And now, we are covering the Japanese XX film series. Join us as we discuss XX: Beautiful Hunter, XX: Beautiful Prey, and XX: Beautiful Killing Machine. Enjoy.
www.optimismvaccine.com/episode/tapl...
New Ep! Our weekly ideas often verge on the idiotic, and this week’s slate follows suit by having the audacity to attempt the impossible: replacing Arnold Schwarzenegger. We discuss Jingle All the Way 2, Kindergarten Cop 2, and Eraser: Reborn. Enjoy.
www.optimismvaccine.com/episode/schw...
