Joel

Favorite films

  • Whiplash
  • Requiem for a Dream
  • Top Secret!
  • Once Upon a Time in America

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  • My Life in Ruins

  • Flight

  • A Man Called Ove

  • Back to the Future

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My Life in Ruins

2009

Watched

In German this movie is called "My Big Fat Greek Summer" and yes, I fell for it. I kept waiting and waiting and waiting until after two thirds of the movie I realized I'm not watching My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

Airplane!

1980

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

Still the peak of hilariousness and pulling no punches

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The Burning Plain

2008

★★★★½ 2

What a terrific movie.

Seeing this at 3.1 average here on Letterboxd and have overall rather mediocre ratings is quite a shocker for me. The acting, how the story was unfolded, the minimalistic sound design, the visuals - and more - made me feel very immersed in the story. Only in the second half it could have been maybe 5 or 10 minutes shorter, but seriously, that's all I can say negatively about it and I can't give it less than 4 1/2 stars.

Feels so underrated!

Whatever Happened to Mason Reese

1990

1

I saw this when I was little, after having seen Rush Hour. It terrified me for months, and now that I rewatched it, that trauma came back, it's still haunting me.

I'm not sure about Brett Ratner, whether he raped someone or not, I will eternally hate him for this.