Why does everyone know martial arts perfectly? Why is the action so fucking crazy? Why did I just cry at the end. I cried without end. Because a family was torn apart. Because Paul Walker really died. Because the end was an honor for him. A fantastic movie that’s actually just okay. It lives through tragedy. Oh, my God, I can hardly write with my tears.
My ★★★★ review of Furious 7 (2015) on @letterboxd: boxd.it/1tJmmd
I just realized that I have to see the movie Closer from the year 2004. Thank you for your attention. 🍿
Letterboxd Pro Black Friday Discount is live. 👍 🍿
Waiting for the Letterboxd Black Friday Pro offer I don’t really need it, but I just support a good service and save a few Euros. 🍿
I am making progress: I have watched Fast & Furious 1, 2 & 4 by now. (I refuse to watch part 3.) I have started part 5. So far everything is wonderful. 🍿
Today I bought all parts of the Fast & Furious series on iTunes. Actually, I only like parts 1, 4 & 5, but somehow I really need to see the whole series, after I recently watched part 1 again. RIP Paul Walker. 🍿
In the film Unhinged, Russel Crowe freaks out and terrorizes a young woman who also had a bad day. Sounds like life itself. I just don’t know if it’s worth seeing. 🍿
🍿 I just watched the first part of the Fast & Furious series again. This is and was the best part of the series. The car races, the action and the sense of family are clearly in the foreground here and convince with their successful balance. Everything was simply done right here, which later only ended in action cheese.
By the way. Best review I’ve read today:
I give Paul Walker’s hair a 10/10 and this movie a 07/10.
The sequel to Ready Player One is coming, both as a book and a film. I loved the book, I liked the film. This one was completely different, but okay. I am especially looking forward to the second book! 🍿 📚
I had a bad experience with Warner Bros. on iTunes. Normally Apple upgrades movies to 4K for free if you bought them in HD. Warner Bros. takes movies out and puts them back on iTunes. You will have to buy them again. That’s what happened with Blade, which I first bought in HD on iTunes. Now I would have to buy it again.
And now you can pre-order Tenet for 16.99 EUR. I almost wanted to do that, but this is a Warner Bros. film. And it is now “only” announced in HD. That means l would pay double sometime. No thanks.
It is clear to me that I would have to buy 4K Blu-rays separately. But what about the Apple promise? Doesn’t everyone have to keep it? Or why not offer several versions for purchase in the iTunes Store?
It’s annoying, honestly. Yes, buying digital is stupid in a way, but whether we like it or not, it’s the future.
Quiet. Brutal. Honest.
It is not what happens in front of you, but what happens in your head. What the actors convey through their facial expressions and gestures. It is the past that occupies the present. It is a story about love and change. It is a story about human fate.
A very calm film with few but very intense moments. A film that makes you think. A film that shows a man who has finally found his way, but by an unfortunate coincidence is not yet allowed to follow it completely.
Ever since I first saw A History of Violence it has been a masterpiece for me. It is of course a kind of gangster film, but it distances itself from the genre as much as possible. It doesn’t bring the subject matter to the fore. Rather, it is forgiveness. It is love.
My ★★★★★ review of A History of Violence (2005) on @letterboxd: boxd.it/1s8OTh
I just started this important Letterboxd list: Movies others hate, but I like
It’s still work in progress.
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Today from the category of films others hate, but I like: Showgirls by Paul Verhoeven. Now available in 4K on iTunes. For a measly 16,99 EUR. 🤡 🍿
RIP Sean Connery 🥺
A very interesting, dark film. I like Jackie Chan in more serious roles, but at some point in the film I had the feeling that he was only decorative attachment. The film would probably have worked just as well without him. On the other hand, I only watched it because his name is on the cover. In this respect: Really good. Really oppressive, sometimes very brutal. A great synthie score is bubbling in the background, while the terror theme is well rolled up.
My ★★★★ review of The Foreigner (2017) on @letterboxd: boxd.it/1qORLB
Somehow my life. And then?!
I have updated my 4 favourite films on Letterboxd. There might be a few other movies there, but these are the ones I currently like best. 🍿
Hmm.
I just realised that (meanwhile) superstar Chris Pratt is playing in Her. 🍿
This is not a review. This is a reflection of my feelings. I saw Signs back then in the cinema and I found it scary. Not any more. Today it looks so much different. My God, did I feel for this family. It’s not necessarily about the aliens. The film uses them as a means to an end, to teach us about faith. To show us that not everything can be explained logically. Be it aliens or processes during the life of every human being. And even if you are a doubter about religion, Signs manages to make you think about it at least a little bit. The actors are first class, especially the 4 main actors: Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Rory Culkin and Abigail Breslin. In addition, the film is naturally scary and for me one of the best alien films I have ever seen. Only someone like M. Night Shyamalan manages to convey the obvious horror to the viewer through his mere presence, less his visibility. Throughout a masterpiece, which is more than just supported by the excellent soundtrack.
I believe that years ago I would have awarded even fewer stars than now. But now it’s just 5 stars, because I was feverish and cried. And that’s what makes films. When these emotions are pushed to the limit
My ★★★★★ review of Signs (2002) on @letterboxd: boxd.it/1pEqBl
On Letterboxd you can now tag films that belong to you. Just set the tag “own” and you get a new filter option. Great! Now I’m just missing the possibility to add some extra information: For example purchase price, date of purchase,… The official Tweet to it. 🍿
Panic room, check! Once again I have watched David Fincher’s work and I must say that I still like the film very much. It manages to create an extreme atmosphere in the smallest of spaces. The actors are superbly chosen, most notably Forest Whitaker as a rather involuntary criminal with a heart, Jodie Foster as a protector who overcomes her own fears and a very young Kristen Stewart who fits like a fist in the eye of rebellious youth.
My ★★★★½ review of Panic Room (2002) on @letterboxd: boxd.it/1pcjb5
A totally wacky, crazy action movie from a first person perspective: Hardcore Henry (2015). This deranged action flick is just fun. Besides, Sharlto Copley rocks in, shall we say, several ways. You just have to watch out that the shaking camera doesn’t make you sick. 🍿
Yesterday I watched 21 Bridges with Chadwick Boseman in one of his last roles. The film was okay, not very good, but okay. But I rather enjoyed his mere presence and acting. RIP Chad. 🍿
Blood Diamond. An incredibly intense film with fascinating shots. Considering that all this in the film is really happening day by day and the dramatic course of the story, I was once again guaranteed to cry. I love this film and I think too few people know it. 🍿