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.

Tuesday, 28 March 2017

Arrival (2016)

USA
directed by: Denis Villeneuve
written by: Eric Heisserer + Ted Chiang (story)
starring: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker
seen: 28th March, 2017

Well, all right, the one main twist is rather good and I appreciate it. But I am not capable of perceiving Amy Adams as a positive heroine. Jeremy Renner is completely unutilized. And the same goes for the potential of this story. I would wish for the screenplay/tempo/message to be much more resolute, stark, definite, adamant. And put together with entirely different music, dear god. Away with all the shots of Louise waking up from her "dreams". I would maybe allow them to keep the very first waking up, but why do they continue to rehash the scheme without adding anything new?

I sometimes have trouble differentiating between commenting on what I saw and what I wish I would saw. In this case, I saw a series of meaningless, trendily aestheticized shots without justification. Not a single relationship shown on screen seemed believable. And here I am being negative again, so I guess I'll just stop and move on towards films that make me happy.


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