Nosferatu: I was looking forward to this movie, so, perhaps my expectations were high. It’s probably the oldest movie I’ve watched. I was sorely disappointed. I found it difficult to make sense of the film, and the music was horrendous. I watched the ‘Eureka Entertainment’ restoration version, which I’ve since learned has a really crap […]
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Movie: Rebecca (1940)
Rebecca: A Hitchcock mystery – the first film he made in Hollywood in fact. The film starts in Monte Carlo where the main characters of the film meet. Apart from the mystery parts of the film, I thought the young woman from an ordinary background marrying into a very rich family was well portrayed – […]
Movie: City Lights (1931)
City Lights: I’m still impressed with how Charlie Chaplin wrote, directed, starred, and composed the music for this film (and for many others that he made). I didn’t enjoy this movie as much as Modern times – it’s a different kind of humour though, it is not as much out and out slapstick humour as […]
Movie: Into the Wild (2007)
Into the Wild: I did not realise this film was based on a true story right until the end. But, during parts of it, I wondered if this was based on a true story, and if so, either I missed that at the beginning of the film, or, they didn’t mention it. This is the story of […]
Movie: Raging Bull (1980)
Raging Bull: I did not realise this was based on a true story, of a man who is still alive even now. The performances of the characters in the film were excellent, but, I didn’t enjoy the story as much as I expected I might. It was still worth watching. Jake La Motta is the real […]
Movie: Das Boot (1981)
Das Boot: I thought this was a great film. The portrayal of life under the sea, in a submarine was excellent – the lack of space, being practically blind, food going bad, etc. That the characters grew beards over time was an amusing touch.Obviously some of these things are valid for most boats.I was concerned […]
Movie: Metropolis (1927)
Metropolis: I think this is the oldest movie I’ve seen in the IMDB top 250 so far. It’s a sci-fi story set in a world where the rich have a great city, while the workers who keep the city running live underground. According to the introduction to the film, around a quarter of the original […]
Movie: The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Maltese Falcon: A real classic. Humphrey Bogart really is amazing in this film. He is a private detective, hired by a woman to find her sister. You find out rather early on things aren’t exactly how they might seem with her. The suspense for me was wondering how early on did Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) […]
Movie: Run Lola Run (1998)
Run Lola Run: At the start of this film, I just wanted the conversation with the boyfriend to be over. He was just too thick – the kind of character that I would normally expect in a horror film, not this kind of film. It’s Lola’s fault that this happened, because she had her scooter […]
Movie: All About Eve (1950)
All About Eve: As the title might imply, this movie is about a character called Eve. The movie starts with an award ceremony where she is receiving the highest award (which I forget the title of), and goes back to a few months (I think) when Eve came into the story, as a very polite, […]