Dagmar Versus 1001 Movies: June 2019

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, 28 June 2019

Crazy Rich Asians (2018)

USA
directed by: Jon M. Chu
written by: Peter Chiarelli, Adele Lim + Kevin Kwan (book)
starring: Constance Wu, Michelle Yeoh, Awkwafina
seen on 28. June, 2019

Gosh darn it, I let myself get confused by it being a "comedy" that I did not notice that it also said "romance" and "drama". The result was me suffering through two hours of approximately two good jokes and then an insufferable amount of romantic "drama". The film as a whole, its story, its execution, seem to me like it was made twenty or thirty years ago. It feels obsolete, I can't find anything fresh, inventive or noteworthy about it.

But at the same time I am shocked that some people criticize it only for it being "full of Chinese guys".