Dr. Emmett Brown: Don't worry. As long as you hit that wire with the connecting hook at precisely 88 miles per hour, the instant the lightning strikes the tower
[giving what he just said some thought]
...everything will be fine.
Say what you want about how well made, good and entertaining today's blockbusters are. They simply don't measure up to this. Robert Zemeckis - Romancing the Stone (1984) was good, but you really hit the nail with this one.
I'm…
This is the original summer blockbuster, and will remain unmatched. Jaws was a big thing in Norway too at the time, my brothers talked about it, and made their little brother envious. Because when it came out, I was a few years too young to watch it at the theater. My older neighbor however did, and I still remember him telling about the experience. He took me through the whole film and gave everything away, finishing it all off with…
What a weird (and disappointing) experience this was.
Brian De Palma is one of my favourite directors. Still, I had not seen this, partly because over the last few years I have had less interest in watching films than I used to. So this one, along with Redacted and Passion, had been put on hold.
If the remaining two are of the same caliber as this one, it looks like I haven't missed much.
First, it has the look of…
A rewatch just to make sure that I didn't miss out on anything back in 2007.
But no, I was right back then. it's a shit film.
This film has always given me a deep sense of unease. This feeling particularly applies to the first part, which takes place at basic training. In fact, I feel that what the recruits are exposed to affect myself directly. The whole film deals with partial degradation of human dignity and the self, but the way Kubrick throws this in our faces already from the beginning grabs me every time.
The haircut-sequence is an important part of this. As before a…
[wakes up, strapped in front of a television set. One hand glued to a remote control. A recording starts.]
Hello, Jacob.
I wanna play a game.
In your own eyes, you used to consider yourself quite the connoisseur of good films. No one could come up to you and convince you otherwise. Not with your library of good taste.
Still, a while back you decided to watch the complete Saw collection back to back. You voluntarily chose to do so…
