My all-time favourite


Lost Horizon (Capra, 1937)

The adventures of Robin Hood (1938), with Errol Flynn, oh yes

Rebecca (Hitchcock, 1940)

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Fleming, 1941)

The third man (Reed, 1949)

The longest day (1962); everybody was in the cast, including Paul Anka

Sleuth (1972); M. Caine vs. L. Olivier. Just the two of them.

The Sting (1973); brilliant!

Murder by death (1976)

Das Boot (1981)

Blade runner (R. Scott, 1982)

Indiana Jones and the last crusade (Spielberg, 1989)

The first ~10 minutes of Coppola's Dracula

Ghost in the shell (1995)



Things I've seen lately:


2011

Carnage - so french

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows II - somehow it was better than the book

I am number four - can't remember anything from this movie

Limitless - pointless

Source code - well, ok, i only saw half of it

The adjustment bureeau - eh

The iron lady - a sad story but a great performance

The green hornet - i didn't expect anything, i didn't get anything, fair deal


2010

Alice in wonderland - that third dimension was not really there

Amelia - what would they do for contraception in the 30s?

Black swan - i have to disagree with many of you: the movie was not good, the characters were underdeveloped and the timeframe was all wrong

Cemetary Junction - heavy but good

Clash of the Titans - was this zeus or tin man?

Cronicles of Narnia 3 - there is a narnia in each one of us

Dear John - beurkh

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows I - i *have* to quote peter on this: "harry potter and the gloomy gloom"

How do you know -

Inception - the paraphilology and mysticism developed around it pretty much screwed it

Iron man 2 - not worth a comment

Jonah Hex - wtf

Knight and Day - bad baaaaad movie

Prince of Persia - i want this antidust shampoo of his

RED - quite fun actually

Robin Hood - 'i love you marion' ... ooooooh please!

Salt - where did angelina's curves go???

Scott Pilgrim vs the world - on the search for originality somebody reinvented idiocy

Sex and the City 2 - when money is not an issue

Splice - a genetically manipulated movie

Shutter Island - trivial

The american - yaaaaaawwwwwn

The expendables - shoot em all movie with arnold in a cameo appearance

The fighter - amazing, christian bale can actually act!

The King's Speech - v-very g-g-good movie. shall i sing it for you? shit

The sorcerer's apprentice - seems like idiotic youth is hip

The tourist - i liked it (i guess i'm romantic after all)

The wolfman - is there any actor in the history of cinema that hasn't become a wolf yet?

Tron: Legacy - well well well, bruce boxleitner! it took me a while to figure it out

When in Rome - oh romance ... (not)


2009

2012 - the earth's crust melting, the tectonic plates moving, the poles shifting, and the guy flying a jumbo without a license

All about Steve - who the f*** could put together such a stupid "scenario"?

Avatar - my first movie in 3D, and btw, i also want a blue tail

Chloe - a bit too obvious

Coraline - gorry story, nice music

Couples retreat - this hardly qualifies for a movie

Dorian Gray - oscar wilde turned into soft porn; but still, quite powerful and b. barnes was a great choice

Double identity - it reminded me of the "mistake" (το λάθος; a. samarakis) though it had nothing to do with it

Duplicity - happy end

Fake identity - and val kilmer is always sexy

Harry Potter and the half blood prince - i love magic!

He is not that into you - the only bad thing about the movie was actually the title; ok also the fact that there are at least some women out there that are not that hysteric

Ice Age 3 - ok, that's enough

It's complicated - it had a great potential of turning into a very bad movie, but in fact it was quite good

Knowing - and how are all these kids supposed to grow up all alone there?

Public enemies - bad movie, irrelevant music

Push - psychic, ok, i can live with it; but screaming morrons making heads explode?

Sherlock Holmes - why did they have to give the characters these names? any other name would have fit better

Star Trek - spock and uhura??? this would take much more than a broken timeline

Surrogates - would 14 years be enough to reach this stage?

Terminator 4 - why was everybody talking with the same fake deep voice?

The fourth kind - they sold it for a real story and it wasn't, so what?

The girlfriend experience - can somebody please tell me who the guys in the plane were? (mind, i should have watched it till the end but it was so bad)

The imaginarium of doctor Parnassus - hmm

The International - reality posing for fiction

The Millenium trilogy - very, *very* good

The orphan - annoying in all respects

The princess and the Frog - silly

Up in the air - yeah, ok, it bears some resemblance to my reality but that's about it

Wolverine


2008

10000 BC - neolithic pyramids meet feathery dinosaures

21 - i only saw half of it, does this count?

27 dresses - how romantic ...

Body of lies - look, how can i put it, GOOD GUYS DON'T EXIST, ok?

Burn after reading -

Cassandra's Dream - somebody should tell this guy to stop

Cloverfield - well, at least it is no longer on my "to see" list

Cronicles of Narnia 2 - maintaining something of the magic of the first one

Dante 01 - in an era when nanotechnology can fix genetic anomalies at the chromosom level but cameras are crappy enough to have dead angles

Der Baader Meinhof Komplex

In Bruge - it made me laugh, though i'm not quite sure that was the aim

Indiana Jones and the kingdom of the crystal skull - shockingly bad

In the name of the king - bof

Irina Palm - dunno, somewhat disappointing

Iron man - sooooooooo bad, ooooooh-ho-ho

Jumper - i would never go to rome with any of the guys i haven't seen since i was 15

Married life - slow, sooooo very slow

Mamma Mia! - brosnan is a lousy singer but the movie is delightful

Meet Bill - it's never too late to take control of your life

Milk - chris said he cried when he saw it; well, i wouldn't go that far

Miss Pettigrew lives for a day - and a funny day it was

Over her dead body - quel horreur!

Passengers - imdb says "horror, thriller" but the only "horror" is the movie itself; let alone that the first scene is so explicit that all the potential "thrill" is gone

Quantum of Solace - since there is nothing good i can say about the movie, i can at least say i wish i look like j. dench when i reach her age

Quarantine - absolute crap (i know i'm repeating myself but it looks like a statement fit for many movies)

Righteous Kill - i think i liked it. i think

Sex and the City - i had never watched the series, and i don't think i'm going to do it now

Spiderwick Cronicles - and another book that magically turned into a movie, only this time the magic didn't work

Stargate Continuum - it made me go back and watch the entire series from the very begining!

The bank job

The curious case of Benjamin Button - other than the make up, it was rather boring

The dark knight - quite a dual (that between bruce wayne and harvey dent); and heath ledger reminded me of jack sparrow

The day the earth stood still - all these bugs, yuck

The happening - shyamalan at his worse (again)

The incredible Hulk - did i dream of it or was this iron man in the last scene?!

Then she found me - 39 and childless ...

The other Boleyn girl - makes you wonder when modern ethical rules were established

The Oxford Murders - this guy definitely looks like an elf

The signal - absolute crap

The X files: I want to believe - i also want to believe: i want to believe that one day cinema will reboot itself

Transsiberian - if this woman was less hysteric, there wouldn't be any story for the movie ...

Twilight - i was told teenagers liked it; i'm not a teenager

Valkyrie - not bad at all

Vantage Point - super-hero-happy-ending

Vicky Cristina Barcelona - i'm kinda tired having to play the role of woody's psychoanalyst for all these years, aren't you?

Wanted - what would you do if your name came up?


2007

1408 - are you scared? no. are you scared now?

300 - did spartans really look like this? boy, i was born in the wrong part of the country ...

American Gangster - could have been (much) better

Before the devil knows you're dead - whatever can go wrong will go wrong, including the movie itself

Beowulf - some things you have to do just to tick them off your list

Breach - ok-ish

Charlie Wilson's War - oh please, what is this, some pathetic attempt to justify the unjustifiable?

Death at a funeral - i think i've said it before: i LOVE british cinema

Eastern Promises - viggo tatooed

Flood - i like unrealistic disaster movies

Ghost rider - so, did the devil win in the end?

The Golden Compass - beautiful idea

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - as good as the prisoner of azcaban, peter agrees with me

The hoax - i saw it on the plane, didn't have to pay for it

I am Legend - no, you're crap

I am Omega - will you make up your mind?

I could never be your woman - completely silly

Juno - unexpectedly good

La vie en rose - such a wasted life

Lions for Lambs - yeah, whatever

Michael Clayton - tried 3 times, never made it to the end

Moliere - "parle moi la langue de moliere"

National Treasure 2 - one of the same

Next - thumbs up!

No country for old men - and this movie got 4 oscars??

Non pensarci

Pathfinder - i hope he found the path in the end

Pirates of the Caribbean 3 - yet another sequel

Premonition - nice

PS. I love you - pffff

Ratatouille - BRILLIANT!

Saw 4 - what, you expected a comment?

Shoot em up - yes, all of them, actors, director, spectators

Shrek 3 - worse than 2 worse than 1, i just hope there won't be a 4

Stardust - the older she gets the more spectacular she becomes (yes, michelle)

Sunshine - the guy lived for 7 years with no food, no water and no sun lotion

Sweeney Todd - 10!

The Bourne Ultimatum - jesus, i heard there's a fourth one coming

The mist - why? why am i waisting my time like this?

There will be blood - raw and barren characters, empty story, and 2 oscars; what's wrong with these people?

Transformers - good robots, bad robots

Zodiac - is it now cult, making movies about sociopaths?


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