DRAWMA KINGG Movie Reviews

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  • ANACONDA 2025 Movie Review – Is It Worth Watching?

    Would you put your face right next to a large snake if your best friend asked you to do so? Would you move to Los Angeles with your bestie to make movies together? Anaconda 2025 wasn’t really about snakes being all snakey and stuff. This was a movie about two things: friendship, and taking risks to do the thing that truly makes you happy in life!

    Early in the movie we get to see The Quatch (hope I spelled dat rite, spellin’ is important 2 luk like a kredibL riter). The Quatch is a low (or no) budget movie that the main characters made about the Sasquatch legend when they were kids. They found happiness in doing a fun project like that together and realize this is where happiness still can exist for them. These themes touched my overly dramatic heart as a writer that once said “Since I can’t seem to figure out how to get a job interview at any comic book publishers, I’m building my own personal website and writing anyway!.” This undertaking also led to my idea for Pictureless Comic Books as seen in Drawma Kingg Sidequest #s 1 through 4. I might have had no luck getting a job at a comic book company, but I was born to write comics! Now I have 4 issues available to read in the drawmakingg.com archive in just over 4 months time! Drawma Kingg Sidequest #5 is coming soon, and let me tell you, this one is an ADVENTURE! I think it will likely take the proverbial cake for best comic I ever wrote. I really hope you enjoy this upcoming exciting issue!

    January is going to be an anaconda of a month for drawmakingg.com! Classics, new movies, Drawma Kingg Sidequest #5 will probably be finished before February, AND BIG SECRET REVEAL – The Drawma Kingg theme song has been composed and recorded! We’re talkin’ just mixing and mastering stages now! Cheers to 2026 starting strong!

    It would be wrong of me not to comment on one particular concept in the film. Jack Black’s character comes to the realization that the movie has to be about something deeper, not just snakes. Didn’t we basically prove in episode number 36: ANGEL’S EGG Movie Review – What Is It About? that this is a myth? Movies don’t have to have a clear point! They can exist with or without appearing to be about something! But I’m probably wrong on all of this on account of being the man with (arguably) the lowest IQ in bipedal human history.

    Is It Worth Watching?: Surprisingly, my answer is yes. It’s not extremely funny, yet it is quite likable – mostly due to the actors/characters.

    Final Thoughts: 6/10 Crowns. The Dario Argento Inferno Poster was the best character, but Jack Black’s acting was really impressive in Anaconda. The themes of friendship and finding happiness were effective, making the film an enjoyable experience. 

    Thank you so much if you have read even a single episode of Drawma Kingg in 2025. It sincerely means the galaxy to me! Until episode #42 in 2026 – Dis Drawma Kingg is signing off!

  • CHAINSAW MAN – THE MOVIE: REZE ARC 2025 Review – What Is Love?

    Garden-Variety Hoe – The Movie was a generous gift to fans of yard tools. It was about feelings, love, romance, and lawnmowers. I am sorry, I think I keep messing up the title/premise. This week’s episode is about Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc and also the eternal question – What is love?

    Denji (Wheelbarrow Man’s real name) falls in love with Reze, a girl that enters his life seemingly out of nowhere. A few dates in, he discovers that Reze is a devil sent to kill him. Despite all the destruction caused in the climactic battle, Denji still wants to be with Reze. This is because human beings can’t just use logic to turn their feelings off.

    What is love, objectively speaking? Reze did not love Hedge Trimmer Man by any standard definition of the concept. Her actions showed that she did not care about his well-being. Denji, however, was presented as having the typical symptoms of love towards Reze. At the very least, I would say he had an infatuation or some kind of naïve crush.

    Dis Drawma Kingg has now opened up an important tangential question. When does it become “love” in the human brain? Is it at the stage of feelings, crush, infatuation, dating, relationship, or something that endures – like marriage? If I were to take a guess (which is probably not allowed in the philosophy genre), I would say that this poorly defined thing we call “love” surfaces in the brain during the dating stage. Any feelings of elation occurring at an earlier phase may just be a one-sided attraction or obsession. 

    Final Thoughts: 7/10 Crowns. Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc won me over with its thoughtful subtext of love versus feelings. The animation and the music were the other highlights of the film. My biggest complaint is that Power, one of the main characters in the franchise, is barely in it all. I regret that I was not able to fully answer – What is love? I feel like I had plenty of paragraphs to do this. Must’ve got sidetracked in the tool shed.

  • CAUGHT STEALING 2025 Movie Review – Is He Caught Stealing?

    Normally, I would love any movie about Catwoman, who even Marvel (Professor, of course – see Drawma Kingg Episode 2) agrees is the best superhero of all. This Caught Stealing movie where Catwoman falls in love with Elvis in the ’90s made no sense though. Didn’t Elvis leave this world in the ’70s? They both look very youthful for two people born before the end of the second world war. Triumphantly, Dis Drawma Kingg powered through to the end, because I had to know ONE THING! Is he caught stealing?

    One time when I was a kid I found a penny on the ground on the road next to a neighbor kids house. As I picked it up off the ground, the kid walked over to me and said it was his penny, because it was by his house. We argued what little we knew about property rights for two kids until his dad came out to review the situation. The neighbor kid, Little Johnny Johnson of the esteemed Jhonifus family, explained the situation more accurately than I would have expected to his Jhonified dad. Little Johnny Johnson Senior, the dad, sided with his son and demanded that I return the penny to his “family’s full monetary estate” immediately. Anticipating an adult to agree with me, I was mortified at his response. They, the Johnsons, got their penny back, and I have been cursed with a not-wanting-money complex ever since. Caught Stealing sounded like a movie title I could really RELATE to because of those couple of minutes I refused to give up a penny.

    The Good, the Bad, and the Ain’t Pretty:

    Good1: The acting was perfectly good, no complaints there.

    Good2: Great ’90s soundtrack!

    Good3 or Ain’t Pretty1: Walkin’ On Da Sun is in the soundtrack.

    Bad1: The plot: Oooh there’s a key that goes to something!

    Bad2: If you suspected the trailer kind of gave away the whole movie, you were right!

    Ain’t Pretty1: (or 2 if you count Walkin’ On Da Sun in this category) Catwoman is in less than half of the movie! You thought I was watching this movie for Elvis?

    Is He Caught Stealing?: No. The movie ends shortly after he takes the money.

    Final Thoughts: 6/10 Crowns. The actors are the only reason it deserves above a 5 (totally average) Crown rating. To be fair, 6/10 is pretty high for a movie about Catwoman and Elvis in their 20s with Walkin’ On Da Sun playing in the background. With that being said, Caught Stealing is oddly a very normal movie for director Darren Aronofsky. I was disappointed that the main character never really gets caught with the money. Under these circumstances, there was absolutely nothing my childhood self could relate to in the story. 

  • TRON: ARES 2025 Movie Review – Ending Explained

    In this age of grand cinematic competition, what really sells tickets is the presence or absence of Gillian Anderson. At least, for Dis Drawma Kingg anyway. I admit that I am assuming this holds true for all other ticket buyers. Tron: Ares was surely not the disgusting pile of garbage I expected it to be. It was a lovely pile of garbage! Well… I suppose I shouldn’t say “pile of garbage” since I really liked the film. Let’s say it was a lovely GARDEN of garbage. The filmmakers couldn’t possibly be offended by that, could they? Y’ see, rather than a Morbin Time sequel with a Nine Inch Nails soundtrack, it turned out to be a philosophical DEPECHE MODE movie with a Nine Inch Nails soundtrack. If you’re a lover of electronic music, you can’t get any luckier than that!

    Visually, Tron: Ares was excitingly exceptional! Green screen movies are not generally my favorites, but the special effects quality did not have me complaining at all. Early on, you see a creepy face talking to the Morbin Time guy. This is the real world creator of these digital entities communicating with his progeny. We experience a dialogue between God and his creation. Sacrilege! Not the being able to have a direct conversation with your creator part, more so the insinuation that Morbin Time is God’s most powerful and beloved of all his constructs!

    “I can’t put my love of Depeche Mode into words” says M. Time. Never have I related more to a movie in my entire overly dramatic life! This came after an earlier conversation about Depeche Mode. That’s right, not just one, but TWO Depeche Mode conversations occur in Tron: Ares. After the first one, I wrote myself a little note to jokingly write about how it’s a movie about Depeche Mode. When the second conversation happened near the end, I was like OMDMG (Oh My Depeche Mode Gods!) this really is about the philosophy of what it means to love Depeche Mode! This is when I realized I love Tron 3, because it was legitimately a movie made for people who love both Nine Inch Nails and Depeche Mode.

    Two main criticisms need to be addressed. First, Gillian Anderson was the best actor by far, and yet her character served no particular purpose to the plot. I wanted her to be the protagonist or perhaps turn out to be the primary villain. Instead, her character is written in such a non-crucial way that you could take her out of the whole script and the main plot would not change at all. In one scene she is attacked by one of the data peeps, but fortunately Dana Scully is a medical doctor. You can’t kill a doctor! They can just use their heal abilities. The implication is that she really dies, which makes no sense when she could have done doctor stuff to herself! I really disliked that plot hole. 

    Second criticism, the only Depeche Mode song we get to hear is Just Can’t Get Enough, a song from their first album written by Vince Clarke. Don’t get me wrong, I love Vince Clarke for his contributions to the first Depeche Mode record as well as his later groups, Erasure and Yaz/Yazoo. When discussing the glorious unmitigated beauty of Depeche Mode, Martin Gore’s songwriting is key! Vince Clarke left Depeche Mode after the first album, and Martin wrote almost every Depeche Mode song after that. Just Can’t Get Enough is literally the ONLY Depeche Mode song the average person might know that WASN’T written by Martin Gore. This was absolutely the wrong track to use in a movie that discusses the philosophical beauty of Depeche Mode’s songwriting. I’ve noticed that Just Can’t Get Enough shows up a lot in movies, TV shows, and commercials. I can only guess that it is somehow easier/cheaper to license Vince Clarke compositions than it is for Martin Gore compositions. That is just one of my many Depeche Mode conspiracy theories though. Another for example — keyboard player, Andy Fletcher supposedly has an unreleased solo album called Toast Hawaii that is said to have never surfaced because it was weak material, but maybe it is really due to it accidentally summoning evil demons when audible OR even more plausibly, because it was so epic that it outshined the band’s entire discography.

    Ending Explained: Ares realizes Depeche Mode’s music makes a human life worth living.

    Final Thoughts: 8/10 Crowns. Tron: Ares would have been 9/10 Crowns if we got a Martin Gore song and more Gillian Anderson in the plot. During the credits, I noticed Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross were also executive producers in addition to composing the score. A sci-fi movie about questioning God’s commandments and loving Depeche Mode? Doesn’t that kind of sound like Trent Reznor secretly had a hand in writing the movie as well? Enough of Dis Drawma Kingg’s conspiracy theories, I want to take a moment to thank YOU, the reader, for tuning in to the 30th episode of drawmakingg.com. My nonsense could not exist without the continued support of offbeat comedy lovers such as yourself!

    Much love,

    -Drawma Kingg