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Jasonic's Favorites: The Dark Knight Rises

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Hello, and good evening, Internet! As of this post, I am now up to THIRTY reviews on this blog! With that, this is the end of the superhero series that was allowed to definitively end and I'll say it is awesome despite people's criticisms. Released in 2012, The Dark Knight Rises was the highly anticipated third installment of the ever-popular The Dark Knight Trilogy that continues to be well-regarded even today. Critics loved it and it was a financial grand slam, creating one of the most excellent trilogies of all time, up there with the original Star Wars trilogy, Back to the Future, The Lord of the Rings, and more! This was one of the most hyped movies of last decade alongside The Avengers the same year and for many it lived up to expectations, regarded often as a worthy followup to the already fantastic predecessor, The Dark Knight. Despite that, the film has been slammed with criticisms moreso than its predecessors, some saying it was the worst/weakest in the trilogy ...
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Jasonic's Favorites: Elf

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Hello, and good evening, Internet! This has and always will be my favorite Christmas movie and it means way more to me after playing Buddy the Elf in a production of Elf Jr.: The Musical in 2019! Released in 2003, Elf is one of those recent Christmas movies that people continue to watch every year -- myself included. It was a critical and commerical success and has become a modern classic in the Christmas variety, continuing to charm people on a yearly Yuletide basis. It is one of those original movies that has never banked on the franchise route for good reason though it has since been adapted into Elf: The Musical -- and its Jr. version -- and an animated adaptation of said musical known as Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas. I, personally, am in the camp that's glad they never milked it to have a sequel and have simply adapted it into other forms, which allows this movie to continue to have a strong legacy in the name of Christmas movies. As a Christmas movie, I have alway...
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Jasonic's Favorites: Sonic the Hedgehog 3

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Hello, and good evening, Internet! This third Sonic movie swept the world almost a year ago and people say the film franchise keeps getting better -- it lives and learns! Released in 2024, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is the inevitable third installment in the Sonic the Hedgehog film series that continues to obtain warranted success. Even following the success of the financial lauding of The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Sonic 3 did well financially and critically and continues to prove that video game movies are becoming more profitable even as they keep going beyond one or two installments. Fans were almost nervous for this movie for a while due to the Mario movie's greater success as well as the lack of marketing we were gettting as late as August of last year -- the movie had been slated for December. Thankfully, we all got our fill in time for Thanksgiving as the world was treated to the trailers featuring Keanu Reeves as Shadow the Hedgehog as well as the unexpected, but warranted, ...
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Jasonic's Favorites: Five Nights at Freddy's

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Hello, and good evening, Internet! Freddy may not be the main character of this movie, but the franchise is still one of my favorites and I wanted to do this in anticipation for the upcoming sequel! Released in 2023, Five Nights at Freddy's is the movie adaptation of the ever-popular, ever-memed, ever-theorized indie game franchise that took the world by storm a little over a decade ago in 2014. Many discovered this game through the various popular Let's Players on YouTube (Markiplier, jacksepticeye, PewDePie, and CoryxKenshin to name a few), and the game quickly developed an online following of devoted fans and theorists including MatPat of Game Theory -- not excluding cringe fan artists and fanfic writers. That aside, it was the game that brought its creator, Scott Cawthon, to fame and relevance and thus Warner Bros. quickly jumped at the chance to greenlight a movie adaptation in 2015. After a brief development hell where the project was passed from different companies...
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Jasonic's Favorites: The Dark Knight

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Hello, and good evening, Internet! The impact of this film is among the greatest a Batman film has ever had on the general public and I'm more than happy to return to it as a fully-fledged Batman fan alongside the rest of the trilogy! Released in 2008, The Dark Knight was and still is one of the quintessential Batman and superhero films that many love for various reasons you'd still hear about today. While Batman Begins has been semi-overlooked for being the less popular film of the trilogy, this film cemented both Batman and The Dark Knight Trilogy in the modern cultural eye at the time. According to Wikipedia, it was quite literally the highest grossing film of 2008, the fourth-highest grossing film to that time, and the highest-grossing superhero movie of that time. Critics and fans lauded it for just about everything it did right and differently in a good way, especially with Christopher Nolan's established methods of directing and storytelling; for example, rathe...
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