My opinions about few influential/famous films

2007-06-12

During the past few months, I saw several films, most of which are highly praised and widely considered as the best ones.

Here it goes, sorted by year of production, including my subjective score on a 1-10 scale (where 10 is best; I tried to be tough in scoring):

The Battleship Potemkin, 1925, 5/10: This one is really really old. And oh, it is full of propaganda. But I guess that considering how old it is (they made movies back then?) it’s not so bad.

Casablanca, 1942, 10/10: It’s a romance film, but very well set up. While I usually don’t even notice the (male) actors, Humphrey Bogart really made an impression on me.

The Searchers, 1956, 7/10: A western. Quite good, but I can’t say anything particularly remarkable.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, 1966, 9/10: A western too. The three main characters are just unforgetable, they make it a pretty good story. And the music is just perfect, if it was only the music with black screen, it would have got 8/10. ;-)

The Godfather, 1972, 9/10: I liked this film a lot, although I can’t really point out a single reason why.

Pulp Fiction, 1994, 4/10: I give four out of ten just because I don’t want to infuriate fans of Quentin Tarantino.

Fight Club, 1999, 8/10: I really liked the ideas displayed in this film. innocent look ^^

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, 2000, 2/10: Huge disappointment. This one got the two points solely for reminding me of a great sketch by Monty Python… I’m not on a wire!

I am planning to watch Citizen Kane, Seven Samurai and Schindler’s List. Any other recommendations?

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4 thoughts on “My opinions about few influential/famous films”

Drc 2007-06-12

Citizen Kane se mi nekde vali a jeste jsem si na nej neudelal cas :-(. Sedm samurajů rozhodne neprosvihni a hlavne potom nezapomen napsat jestli mas radsi samuraje nebo statecne :-D Jinak bych ti doporucil – podle me a Ingmara Bergmana – nejlepsi film vubec ;) : Film “Andrej Rublev” od Andreje Tarkovského (a nenech se odradit tim, ze to ma byt o nejakem mnichovi ^^ ) Jestli se ti tak libila Casablanca tak urcite ocenis film Emira Kusturici “Černá kočka, bílý kocour”. “Luis, I think… :D “ Křižník Potěmkin jsem videl a rekl bych ze jeho hlavni prinos je spis v remesle nez v obsahu – nebo ne? Jestli se ti libila hudba k Hodny, Zly a Osklivy tak se podivej na Tenkrat na zapade a rozhodne neprohloupis… (stejny reziser, stejny skladatel) U me plati u Kmotra a Tygr a drak to same – poustel jsem to s velkym ocekavanim :( Ale moc se mi libilo Jaro, leto, podzim, zima a jaro – ano to je to na co jsme chteli jit do kina a tobe se nechtelo :) Mozna ti jeste neco napisu – pokud si vzpomenu :)

Pápá Drc

Keo 2007-06-13

Rozhodně musím doporučit filmy Taxi Driver a Sling Blade – velice depresivní, ale působivé. Kmotr II je taky hodně dobrej a jestli se ti líbil první díl, tak tenhle bude taky. Ostatní ale prý za moc nestojí. Jak už psal Drc, Tenkrát na západě a Černá kočka bílý kocour jsou taky dobrý. Od Bergmana se mi líbila Sedmá pečeť (The seventh seal).

ignus 2007-06-15

Battleship Potemkin is famous mostly for its innovations in filming, montage, editing etc. For a contemporary audience its hard to notice how revolutionary the film was. So it has mostly historic importance :]

And how someone can give 4/10 to Pulp Fiction is really beyond me o_O

klaas 2007-06-15

I can recommend Old Boy to you. I was highly impressed by this movie. I think it’s because of the good plot, but it might also have been influenced by the mood I had when I saw it :)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364569/

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