Esteban Gonzalez Pro

Favorite films

  • The Count of Monte Cristo
  • Killers of the Flower Moon
  • Full Metal Jacket
  • North by Northwest

All
  • How to Train Your Dragon

    ★★★

  • Novocaine

    ★★½

  • Prey

    ★★★★

  • The Chosen: Season 4

    ★★★★

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How to Train Your Dragon

2025

★★★ Watched

"In case you forgot, our parents' war is about to become ours. Figure out what side you're on."

In order to capture the heart of the 2010 animated film it is important to ensemble a great team that knows the original and can manage to translate it to the live action remake. It's been 15 years since the original animated film came out and swept our hearts. The first step for this 2025 live action film was getting director Dean…

Novocaine

2025

★★½ Watched

"Time don't matter... Woulda hurt just as bad if I lost her the day we met... She brought the sunshine in my life."

The coolest thing about this film is Jack Quaid's nickname, Novocaine. I really like Quaid and his performance, he has that charm that makes him easy to root for. Despite that I wasn't a fan of this film for some reason. I just didn't buy the story, perhaps it just felt unbalanced the way it handled the…

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Good Will Hunting

1997

★★★★★ Liked 22

“I'd ask you about love, you'd probably quote me a sonnet. But you've never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable. Known someone that could level you with her eyes, feeling like God put an angel on earth just for you.”

The scene where Robin Williams’ Sean Maguire sits on a park bench with Matt Damon’s Will Hunting to have their little shrink session about life, love, and identity is perhaps my favorite cinematic moment ever. More than a…

The Great Dictator

1940

★★★★½ 6

"I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible."

That final five minute speech given by Chaplin shows his true genius as a director, actor, and screenwriter. He was capable of understanding better than anyone the social realities he was part of and made one of the best anti-Nazi propaganda films I've seen. Giving his character who had been…