Follow us on other platforms: https://linktr.ee/therankedpodcast #thenun #thenunii #thenun2 #nun2movie Follow along as RANKED reviews a new movie release every week of 2023, slowly compiling the best films of the year into our sacred hierarchical list. Previous Episode 2023 RANKED List: 1. Oppenheimer 2. Beau Is Afraid 3. Infinity Pool 4. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 5. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem 6. Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One 7. John Wick: Chapter 4 8. Tetris 9. Gran Turismo 10. Air 11. Creed III 12. Sound of Freedom 13. The Flash 14. Fast X 15. Asteroid City 16. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 17. Shazam! Fury of the Gods 18. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves 19. M3GAN 20. missing 21. The Machine 22. Barbie 23. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny 24. Scream VI 25. The Super Mario Bros. Movie 26. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania 27. Renfield 28. The Equalizer 3 29. Blue Beetle 30. Evil Dead Rise 31. The Pope’s Exorcist 32. Magic Mike’s Last Dance 33. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts 34. Knock at the Cabin 35. Insidious: The Red Door 36. The Last Voyage of the Demeter 37. Plane 38. Haunted Mansion 39. Cocaine Bear 40. Knights of the Zodiac The Nun 2 left me none too pleased. A corny opener, but I’ll never be able to make that joke again so let’s savor it. Once again a demon entity possesses someone in order to get a thing it needs to break into the physical world, and yet at the same time it is capable of affecting the physical world for things like murder regardless of having a meat puppet do things for it because it doesn’t need the magical thing it needs to do stuff with, thereby having it both ways at all times while withholding some basic limitation by which to hang a conducive or interesting plot. So once again we get a cookie-cutter, snooze-inducing story with minimal character development pocked by jump-scare set-pieces that admittedly are sometimes fresh but obnoxious all the same because they’re still f*****g jump-scares. Mostly they lead to more laughter than scares, but maybe that’s a point in the movie’s favor… So the heroes have to get a magical thing to stop the demon and then they do in banal Harry Potter fashion, bringing to mind the eternal wisdom of Peter Jackson in not relying heavily upon magic to carry the dramatic fire in Lord of the Rings, because magic in storytelling is more often than not too simplistic and meaningless and in this case lowers the dramatic majesty of Christianity to the triviality of paganistic wizardry. Support the show by using these affiliate links: GET A BUG-A-SALT HERE: https://amzn.to/3Cya379 GET ALL THE BOND MOVIES HERE: https://amzn.to/2Vo1JWP If you enjoy our work, here's our crypto tip jar: BTC: bc1qz6s04aw2qdkl946uttpqgtqv06utfd287vmu90 Dogecoin: DKzAwyN3neSeWfSwTBPcDp1NJafypqWooe Our individual channels: Charles: https://www.youtube.com/@Flavorful_Chunt https://www.youtube.com/@FilmHacker McCurdy: https://www.youtube.com/@ryanmccurdy9423 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rankedpodcast/message