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, 21 February 2020

Rocky (1976)

USA
directed by: John G. Avildsen
written by: Sylvester Stallone

starring: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burgess Meredith
seen on 21st February, 2020

I cried like a little baby, but not at the end, I cried during the scene of Rocky shouting loudly at the old man offering himself as a manager. The actual end seems a litte bit tired, like there wasn't enough time to finish it to perfection, but still finish it enough to be done with it and unleash it upon the world. I can't imagine this story needing any other instalment to tell it better or expand on its theme (and I probably won't watch any other Rocky movie because of that). I don't see it as a "sports movie", to me it's a new wave film: little dialogue, a lot of emotion, humanity dissected. Damn.

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