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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023)
Better than I expected!
Yes, the movie is long (like most these days), but it wasn't boring even for one minute!
I felt with Snow as he tried to navigate the world of Panem. It is a movie about his turmoil, how he got corrupted.
I don't get the hate against Rachel Ziegler. She might not be the best actress on earth, but she did really well. And her singing was amazing!
I'm sure that more women than men like this movie, because it's with singing and a love story etc. But this movie was definitely better than I expected! When the movie ended, I even thought that I liked It more than the old movies. If I could 7,5 I would. 7 wouldn't be fair and 8 is a bit high. But 7 just doesn't show how much I enjoyed this movie.
The Haunting of Hill House: The Bent-Neck Lady (2018)
Heartbreaking!
I was sobbing, no ugly crying. The fate of sweet Nell is truly heart-breaking.
One of the best episodes of any show I've ever watched.
This episode alone makes the series worth watching, though the other episodes are also superb.
This episode still haunts me to this day, as the tragedy is just unbearable.
I'm not a horror fan and I never watch horror movies, because I get nightmares. Even though this series us nightmarish, the drama part made it worth watching, even for someone like me who doesn't like horror.
The horror is part of the series, but woven into the drama perfectly. Superb series!
They Cloned Tyrone (2023)
Not my cup of tea
Well, I guess I'm not in the target group, because I neither got the film nor found it funny at all.
The pacing was... weird... there was some action and suddenly the characters just sat around and talked nonsense... why? Why were they talking like they weren't surprised or excited about the events unfolding, but talking like they're chilling at home with friends?
Anyways... I fell asleep at some point, but my husband watched it till the end and told me that it didn't get any better, but even weirder.
I'm happy for anyone who enjoyed this movie. But this is obviously targeted at a specific group and anyone one else can't follow. Very excluding.
Oppenheimer (2023)
Nolan did it again
I wasn't expecting too much - a movie about a physicist and a nuclear bomb? It seemed like one of those boring movies, an autobiography with boring sequences.
Well... but this is a Nolan-movie! And although I have to admit that there were some movie-goers who left early (probably because they couldn't keep up with Nolan), I was hooked from beginning to end.
In the middle of the movie it became so oppressive that I cried for about half an hour.
Spoiler alert:
I started crying when they nonchalantly discussed that they had preselected 12 cities in Japan to drop the bomb on. It was an ice cold decision that cost 200.000 people, most of them innocent, their lives. I was bawling my eyes out by the time that the other scientists cheered after realising that the bomb successfully detonated in Japan, while Oppenheimer imagined a charred body that he stepped into.
I cried for all those people who died. And I heard others cry in the theater...
The incredible mundane political drama is put in its place, when Strauss is told that he was probably too insignificant compared to what Oppenheimer and Einstein talked about to acknowledged by Einstein, though he took it as an insult.
The revelation in the end of the film that Einstein was in deep thought after Oppenheimer pretty much told him that he set the world on fire, is even more chilling, because it makes a large part of the political drama in the movie pale in comparison to the monstrosity created by Oppenheimer and others.
RIP Oppenheimer, I hope you've found your peace eventually!
The cast is incredible. Who impressed me the most is probably Robert Downy Jr. Who played Lewis Strauss. Incredible performance and in my eyes deserves an Ocar for this!
I don't know how Nolan does it again and again... but he does.
Firefly Lane (2021)
Incredibl heartwarming
The ups and downs of a friendships over decades, through trauma and happiness.
Wonderfully written. It really is heartwarming to watch how close two women go through the years, almost like sisters.
Katherine Heigl is doing a great job portraying Tully, a famous TV presenter and career woman.
Sarah Chalke is doing just as good as a housewife who regrets not having a career.
The drama im their lives is always around the next corner and keeps you at the edge of your seat.
BUT: I think women will enjoy this more than men, because it reminids is of that one girlfriend in our childhood that we lost contact with, the one that got away. And that friendship we still mourn after aöö these years. I wish my friendships could have been that strong...
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2022)
Amazing
Ok, first off: I'm not a huge LOTR Fan. I loved the movies, but I never read the books, but I didn't like the Hobbit movies. The Hobbit movies were boring, honestly. Not one character was interesting to me.
The Rings of Power on the other hand has many characters that are intriguing. Even the plot was a bit slow at times, I really liked the characters.
I also loved Galadriel. In the movies she has an evil side to her. And in the series she's still young, not wise, but flawed. Really interesting to think she would one day become this unearthly being.
I loved that Sauron played them all. He is a lot more handsome than I'd imagined, but he's deceiving as ever.
I love this series and can't wait for the next season.
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
The feelings
It rarely happens that I remember how a movie made me feel. But I remember the feeling this movie gave even years after. Or rather feelings. It made me angry and calm, sad and happy at the same time. How can a movie make you feel contradicting feelings at all at once?
There might be movies with more action, excitement, better cinematography etc. But no other movie has ever made me feel the way I felt the first time I watched it.
It's a true masterpiece and deserves the number one spot as the best movie of all times.
I simply love this calm, emotional, surprising movie.
The Horn (2016)
Nice entertainment
The landscape you get to see is breathtakingly beautiful and the rescue missions are exciting. However, there is a lot of bragging about the quality of the pilots, the helicopters, the mountaineers and the doctors. In my opinion, they can brag a bit about the quality of the services they provide, but it's just too much.
Funniest quote (not exactly sure what it's supposed to mean): "the smallest part of the helicopter is not a screw or something. It's the pilot's brain."
Couldn't stop laughing for ten minutes straight!