Introduction

1001 movies you must see before you die. Must I? Let's see.

My name is Dagmar and I am from Czech Republic. I have a bachelor's degree in screenwriting. I study movies. I watch movies. I write about movies. I kind of mention movies a lot. I even cross stitch things I like in movies. My views on cinema could be described as peculiar. My views on the "1001 movies" list as complicated. It happens a lot that I get the feeling it wasn't that necessary to see some particular movies. Sometimes I'm really grateful I saw them. And there are also times when I don't watch any new movies for six months straight. And they keep adding new movies every damn year so I might have to never die to watch them all.

What's the score right now?
606/1245 - That's 639 left to see.
I started this experiment on July 3rd 2009 and the latest update was made on April 19th 2023.

You can find the full list here.

Friday, 20 July 2018

The Big Short (2015)

USA
directed by: Adam McKay
written by: Adam McKay, Charles Randolph + Michael Lewis (book)
starring: Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt
seen on 20th July, 2018

-"Tell me the difference between stupid and illegal and I'll have my wife's brother arrested." 

I had to fight the film's fidgety style all the way through, but its message softened my heart in the end. I would say this film has to be (morally) about five-thousand-times better than The Wolf of Wall Street, and yet/because of that almost nobody cares about it now and definitely nobody will care about it in a couple of years, while Leonardo will receive praise indefinitely, and golly gosh, that pisses me off so much.

Nevertheless, I still think that Adam McKay should sort of ease on those "though guy statements", at least in the beginning. And this also seems to by my favourite role of Steve Carell.

(I read there was supposed to be Scarlett Johansson under a waterfall instead of Margot Robbie in a bubble bath, and I would much prefered the first option, because Scarlett is an actress capable of expressing irony while Margot Robbie is not.)

-"The small investing he still does is all focused on one commodity: water."


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