Mads Ej

Mads Ej

Favorite films

  • The Hateful Eight
  • Mary and Max
  • Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
  • The House That Jack Built

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  • The Abyss

    ★★★★½

  • Confess, Fletch

    ★★★½

  • Minions: The Rise of Gru

    ★★★

  • Despicable Me 3

    ★★★½

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  • The Abyss

    The Abyss

    ★★★★½

    “When you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.”

    I just went and watched a special screening of the new 4K scan of the extended edition, which runs at just under 3 hours. I had never seen the movie, since it isn’t available on streaming anywhere and generally just is hard to find, but I have wanted to for a long time and finally had the perfect opportunity. I don’t know how the movie looked before,…

  • Confess, Fletch

    Confess, Fletch

    ★★★½

    This was a fun murder mystery comedy, where we follow an investigative journalist as he is suspected of murder, while also trying to find out about some stolen paintings.
    The story is pretty good, but it had a lot of stuff happening that could make some of it overly confusing and sometimes a little hard to follow. It also pretty much skipped the introduction and just threw us into all the confusion without letting us know the characters, which didn’t…

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  • Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

    Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

    ★★★★★

    “People, they love blood. They love action. Not this talky, depressing, philosophical bullshit.”

    I enjoyed this just as much as the first time I saw it, or maybe even more. This is one my all time favorite movies and if Letterboxd allowed you to showcase five favorite movies, this would definitely be one of my picks. (Edit: after some thought it has made it to my top 4) 
    The movie has a fun and original story about the movie/acting industry…

  • Mirror

    Mirror

    ★★★½

    I am not sure what I think about this movie. 
    I understand that it is Andrei Tarkovsky’s most personal movie and an autobiography to some degree but i still didn’t really get it.
    The movie has a very unique way of telling it’s story by constantly jumping in time and having the same actress cast as the main character’s mother and his wife without making her look any different. I get that it is supposed to be dreamlike and appear…

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