Memento is a movie which, like Donnie Darko, makes you think. It’s also a movie which you shouldn’t watch when you are either tired or have troubles concentrating, because you will feel like the main character. He has no short-term memory and because of that can’t make new memories. To be able to live normally he has set up a system to make let himself know what he should do. Continue reading
I can’t remember that I’ve watched a feature-length Charlie Chaplin movie before. Of course I knew him, as the man is an icon. This was the first movie I saw and he was a genius. A really amazing first contact with his movies.
This is the first Chaplin movie with sound, which he uses to great effect for both funny purposes as a political message for the whole world to hear. Continue reading
District 9 has impressed me. It’s a sci-fi movie with a very different style and story than your “standard” sci-fi movie. It shows the issues aliens are having, living in houses built from trash and not being accepted by anyone. The movie has been made for a relatively small budget (20 million), but looks great. The movie starts as a documentary, which is very original and it slowly morphs into a normal movie format. Continue reading
Donnie Darko with Jake Gyllenhaal, with some smaller roles played by Patrick Swayze and Drew Barrymore is a very memorable movie. Donnie Darko has a very original concept and ideas which force you to almost watch this movie twice before you start to understand what happened. Once you finish watching it you’ll be thinking about it, something that movies don’t manage to do very often. Continue reading
Since 2004 I’ve been rating each movie I see. At the moment that makes a total of 615 titles. From this list there are only a small number of movies that I’ve rated a 10. I can’t really make a specific order (although I do know what my favorite movie is, which I will discuss in this series as well), but will be discussing them all in the weeks to come.
The first movie is Before Sunrise, with Ethan Hawke (Jesse) and Julie Delphy (Celine). They meet in the train in Vienna and Jesse manages to get Celine to keep him company during the night he has to wait in Vienna until his plane leaves. Continue reading