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, 27 November 2020

Platoon (1986)

United Kingdom/USA
written and directed by: Oliver Stone
starring: Willem Dafoe, Tom Berenger, Charlie Sheen
seen on 27th November, 2020

There was a couple of brilliant moments, but it did not work for me as a whole, as a work of art. The author knows what he's talking about but at the same time it seems as he does not know what he's trying to say exactly. It is reflected in the protagonist who switches his personality in every scene (and they are not mood swings or anything like that, he just keeps changing his character) and Charlie Sheen is just too wooden to convey why. In conjuction with the bland voice-over it all seems like a school assignment on the topic of "war is bad". But damn, Willem is so angelically beautiful.

-"Feeling good's good enough."






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