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Hey, I know lists are dumb but I want to exchange a bit and hear where you are in the world of cinema, what impresses you or moves you and why. In a sense of "pitch it"-

It would be great to hear about some movies, doesn't matter if you follow the ten films pattern:



Aguirre The Wrath of God

Aguirre is a slow burner for some minutes (while having the opening shot). Then there's a moment when Herzog lets a drop condensate on the camera lens. You first think what, what does the director mean here? Why is the director interchanging with me like that?

In the second thought you realize the humidity in this jungle. And while you realize how important that realization is, and appreciate the directors decision to let you join this world entirely, you find yourself with a head to toe bastard on a raft while """"real"""" indigenous people play panflutes as they learned it and in a way they see the world, like our culture has Michael Jackson.

It may not be for everyone but if you bite, it will be truly dominant toward you. And what's also astonishing is message. It has none, it just takes you somewhere you don't know.


Jurassic Park

While Jurassic Park once appeared as if marketed as cash grab, it has pure substance throughout. Likewise, you wouldn't have expected this mass of esthetic from what seemed offered to you as a bland product. It's not a product. I don't like the topic of my closing question because this stuff should be secondary but why has Jurassic Park the best CGI until now? The picture is completely clear. There are dinosaurs. I think the choice of placing some animatronics in there gives huge visual balance to the creatures that are not there. It's super innovative in every aspect. Beautiful.


Snowpiercer

This movie made me think if it's my favorite of all … and that is big thing to say for me because we're old, most of us, and you know that means there's relativity everywhere, so that most of us go with a top ten list, as I do here no worries.

The movie feels as if there is a person laying out his entire intelligence into each single moment; it's super organic. On top of that, pointing the superficial stuff, it's an awesome cast. The main villain's face is not earlier revealed than in the climax, and it's no one less than Ed Harris waiting for you, hitting harder than in Truman Show where he already was great, wasn't he? Before that sequence, Chris Evans has a soliloquy which might be goofy to many, as goofy as the whole movie might be to many; if you take him for real as the movie, the whole plot changes in retrospective, dramatically; possibly the best acting I've seen. The movie is between banality and glory. Your evaluation of what happens is deliberately designed to be indefinable and bigger. I mean this, I mean this. Language everywhere. I believe even the cheesy parts are placed as an equivocal body, speaking to you "have you waited for cheesy love, think trice what I am, I am cheese, kiss kiss". Crazy flick.


Interstellar

My newest entrance into this list. Displaying the most believable approach on time travel - check. It's kind of a different way of time travel though and I believe there's the key. What can I say, when a Science Fiction movie so heavy on SF is be seen as a drama other than there must be something beyond. Don't read on when haven't watched because the spoiler is here and it's what makes the movie awesome: So the father leaves his little daughter to go to space to safe earth. Yay, some mainstream cinema. Then simple said, the father loses time out there in space while his daughter on earth becomes scientist in his footsteps, hoping to bring him back. He returns in last minute to, now older than her, meet her at her own deathbed. Never seen before. More than that … the daughter takes over the serene part of an understanding parent toward her now younger father and says that he should go out to space again to watch for that other person he left who he can't let alone there…

From sight on dramaturgy whoever sees that as shallow mainstream plotting or cheesy is ready for a ticket to Arkham sanatorium.


Hurt Locker

If you want to see who cleans our political bullshit, then let this great directress show you not less than how they do so, told in an honest way. As a pacifist I however adore soldiers because they face the conflicts of our failures. This statement of mine is pervert and needs to be pervert to mirror how pervert the situation is. The movie is just about double standard. Realism in purest form.


Mulholland Drive

A fever dream. Not a movie one can write about.


Bringing Out the Dead

The complete underdog in this list I feel. I already said on this board that Nicolas Cage is terrific from my sight. He makes fun. I never dare to say it before that I liked him even more in Bad Lieutenant, because his performance there splits opinions heavily.

So, he's at his best here, and there's John Goodman in it, and Scorsese directed and not to forget, it's written by Paul Schrader.

The movie is a late 90s gift. A fun and easy 90s game, no questions, just run.


Rear Window

While I have some long reviews here about storytelling, dramaturgy, acting etc… this one is all about atmosphere. The movie is calm and warm.


Shutter Island

Horrific. Horror is not my genre. I don't understand the genre. Films like The Exorcist do rather disgust me than scare me.

Shutter Island on the other hand goes deep and shocked me heavily when watching it first time. To sell it in those days ago, they went with calling it a thriller. Oh no, it isn't. It's somehow an arthouse horror.

I once said in a film discussion somewhere: Those who watched it in cinema with their friends, awaiting a thriller, must almost pissed themselves while watching. Great plot and mystery. Also one of the biggest, well-crafted twists I believe.


Raging Bull

I never reflected why I like that movie so much. I tell you this: from the outside, most movies made by Americans look like "world"-movies. But this is an American movie. It shows a microcosm of American people as they are without thinking about any impact-on-scenarios. Raw stuff.


Wildcard, probably displaced by Interstellar (not entirely sure yet if it's a fact):

The Edge

Special mentions:

Star Wars

Star Wars is different to me. It's somehow the Nibelungensage of our times, the most important cultural interpretation of storytelling. How should I rate that?

Happy new year!



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