Back to the Future

Back to the Future... A young man is accidentally sent thirty years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his friend, Dr. Emmett Brown, and must make sure that his high-school-age parents unite to save his own existence.

Coolest movie ever made, period, filled with timeless characters and restless comedy.

It has one of the most memorable characters in the history of cinema, who in overall make this movie a lot easier to like and also, to watch.

Actors in this movie aren't the most talented ones, but fuck it this movie has... the coolest dude ever Marty Mcfly played by Michael J.Fox he's just terrific, he nails every scene that he is at, and that Nutty professor Dr. Emmett Brown played by Christopher Lloyd is also a very decent character.

These two guys are just the "Jackpot" for this movie, they add drama, they add comedy, they both dominate every scene where they are at.

From the technical side, Back to the Future is spectacular filled with great CGI, epic music and professional sound editing, this flick has better visuals than many movies made today.

Writing and storyline are pretty awesome, its arguable that the story is a bit broken and writing lacks of quality at times leading into some serious plotholes, but you have to admit that it's actually goddamn epic, can't argue that.

And Comedy is just stupendous, containing breathtaking jokes and funny characters, comedy of this movie is definitely not going to keep anyone cold.

Back to the Future for some hell of a reason is suffering because lack of professionalism, but at the end of the day it doesn't ever matter, because it's so damn enjoyable to watch, what makes this movie so great? Well It's nearly impossible to hate it and it's perfectly rewatchable.

Rating: 4/4

Ben-Hur

Ben-Hur...When a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge, it's the smallest possible plot synopsis, this movie has the enormous amount of plot details as even Holy Jesus is involved.

It's an Epic Adventure/Drama movie, among one of the greatest ever made, out of all the Ben-Hur movies, this 1959s version easily remains the best of the punch.

This movie has a humongous amount of characters, all adding great value to the story.

Acting is kept professional, Charlton Heston/Ben Hur is excellent, dominating every single minute out of almost four-hour running time.

Beautiful score and music choice, superb directing by William Wyler along with astonishing cinematography.

Although it's an impressive Adventure Epic, it has its class in building drama too, tragedy is owning spectacular part of the movie, all this adventure is builded on top of touching scenes and heartbreaking drama sequences.

Supreme writing, every scene worthy of its screen minutes, if you make it halfway through the movie, at some certain points you might feel that this is the end for granted, but no it's not going to be the end, it's not boring, actually it keeps you excited all the way till the end credits, because every time you think the story ends a new plot detail will emerge.

Ben-Hur is one hell of a ride containing many different ingredients, intriguing adventure, trustworthy History, touching Drama and most important of them all it will haunt you after leaving the cinema for a while.

Rating: 3,5/4

Requiem for a Dream

Requiem for a Dream...Tells a story of four Conley Island drug addicts, as their addictions run deep, and reality gets shattered.

Groundbreaking work from the director Darren Aronofsky, introducing the dangerous, disgusting, and sadly the real dark side of the drug addiction, brilliantly capturing the everyday struggles, and what it causes for both the addicts and to their families.

Featuring powerful performances by Ellen Burstyn and Jared Leto, send by sensational score, and altering a deep, heartbreaking tone.

Based on the book by Hubert Selby Jr, it's far beyond the lines, that the book failed to discover, writing is supreme, plot is miraculously correct, realistic and succeeds to achieve its goals.

Despite being a solid drama movie, its building psychological suspense and thrills around the drama and story, making some of the scenes look a bit creepy, gorgeous make-up and strong performances are very helpful in creating unreal atmosphere too, that later makes the movie something we call a Masterpiece.

Requiem for a Dream, it's a beautiful movie experience, but indeed featuring one of the worst scenarios that could happen to human-beings, handful of talent, it's that kind of movie that defines the decade.

Rating: 3/4

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind...a couple undergoes a procedure to have each other erased from their memories. But it is only through the process of loss that they discover what they had to begin with.

A hard to resist sci-fi/drama movie that focuses on destroying both your feelings and reality vision, since the story evolves in a mans head it's hard to fully understand the story.

Charlie Kaufman's writing style, vivid way of storytelling make it absolutely unique, brilliance in writing makes the story move forward along with the audience.

Directing is professional, Michel Gondry knew what to keep in and what to cut out.

Acting is miraculously surprising, Jim Carrey is American Roman Atkinson, but in this flick he proves to be a very talented actor, Kate Winslet's acting is absolutely beautiful, this all-star list of actors is really big, and they all gave up a spectacular performances.

While Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind has shown excellence in both directing, storytelling, and in acting, it still relies on the visual side of the movie.

Stunning visuals, brilliant CGI masterworks, every scene flows by like a mockingbird, masterclass of cinematography and CGI.

This movie makes you question reality, while you get to know the characters better and their backstories, every single character becomes a important aspect of your life, astonishing, romance genre has made an epic downhill ride since the past decade, due to originality and cheesiness, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is unique, special, beautiful and absolutely very important for the whole genre to be revived.

Rating: 2,5/4

The Notebook

The Notebook...A poor and passionate young man falls in love with a rich young woman and gives her a sense of freedom. They soon are separated by their social differences.

A touching drama movie that extensively keeps up with the audience, moving slow and steady, but once you enter the story, get to know the characters and live up to the mood, there simply isn't no way out but to watch it all the way till the end.

Acting is superb, starting from Rachel McAdams who is absolutely gorgeous in this movie, and Ryan Gosling surprisingly puts up a spectacular performance too, chemistry between these two is the reason The Notebook evolves deeper in your body, and getting much quickly into your heart.

There is one true excitement element, it's the unpredictability of the plot, you can't predict the story of The Notebook, you can't predict the destiny and choices of the characters till the end, surprising excellence in storytelling.

Capturing the emotions, intrigues, and mood of the 1930s the way they did it is simply exhilarating.

Character development, and powerful performances leave no other choice for you but to fall in love with the characters, the story, everything, and then in the end cry, certainly.

The Notebook is one of the most touching drama movie of the century, but sadly also one of the most underrated movie of all time.

Rating: 3/4

Candyman

Candyman...a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.

This movie is a complete mess-up, that keeps rolling down the hill since the very start, its racist, ridiculous, absurd and it fails to keep up its premise.

Horror in this movie isn't "Troll 2" kind of bad, but it fails to excite the audience, simply no intrigues at all, only good horror sequences, and literally only tolerable parts of this movie are the flashback kind of jumpscare scenes at the start of the movie, where the bad guy shows up for a second from nowhere.

Story is bad, writing totally sucks, I'm not even sure how this movie was published by Polygram and Propaganda films.

Even the acting is almost a complete garbage, Virginia Madsen is the only "OK" actor in it, the others are just a huge failure.

What's is the main ingredient of a Candyman movie? Well you guessed it, of course the Candyman itself, and could he possibly be even worse Candyman than he is in here? I think not.

From the first time you see the almighty Candyman, you know that the whole movie is screwed, he has ridiculous backstory, completely non-scary look, his voice sounds like James Earl Jones w suffocating, I'm not even going to talk about the shitty dialogues that the writers for some hell of a reason left in.

They took one of the worst horror stories, and made it into much worse horror movie, it has to be something right?

Anyways they made a sequel anyone "interested" yet?

Horror Level: 20%

Rating: 0,5/4

Turistas

Turistas... a group of young backpackers get into a bus accident, leaving them marooned in the rural Brazilian area, that's holding an omnious secret.

Turistas is a horror flick, filled with predictable plot and unscary horror sequences, it gets worse each time you watch it.

Only part that almost succeeds and has pearly tolerable taste, is the acting and the portrayal of the characters, less known Brazilian actors helped this movie to alter a much more realistic undertone.

Story is predictable, nonsense and a bit boring, I just have to mention Kiko's character, who is the worst of the worst, what were the writers thinking, this guy learns how to talk English twice as good within few hours, just ridiculous, not to mention other ultimately dumb characters, who destroyed this movie, catastrophic.

At least the horror is good right? It's not horrible, not okay either, but something between these two, Turistas tried to achieve something unreal with building psychological horror, which they didn't, this movie literally has no jumpscares, it's hard to believe that it could be a bad part, but in this case it is, watch it and you'll notice the cheesyness of it.

Turistas is a movie that just fails on almost every level, fails to keep up with the audience, fails to properly decorate the plot details, failing makes 90% of this movie, it's best to watch it once, it really does get worse after each time seeing it, it's embarrassing. 

Horror Level: 15%

Rating: 1,5/4

The Exorcist

The Exorcist... When a teenage girl is being possessed by a demon, her mother starts looking for help everywhere, from a doctor, psychiatrist and finally from a priest.

Terrifying, The Exorcist is not only a damn creepy horror flick, but a groundbreaking achievement of  Cinema History, redefining the whole horror genre.

Astonishing method of storytelling, quite not like anything we've seen before, writing is excellent, what we got here is very detailed backstory, The Exorcist uses spectacular way of making it one of the scariest movie ever made, with every scene adding value to the next, with every scene building more suspense, like a snowball rolling down the mountain, what you get in the end is something breathtaking and exhilarating.

With miraculously creepy and terrifying sounds, demonic voices, and far the most greatest volume differences ever, building suspense, making jumpscares way scarier than they would've been without it.

Acting, clean and professional, Linda Blair/Regan and Ellen Burstyn/Chris's mother and daughter chemistry makes it far more realistic, their performances were both astonishing, Max von Sydow/Father Merrin and Jason Miller/Father Karras did the finest acting job of their careers.

Make-up and CGI are playing a big role in here, cowork of these two elements are highly reasonable and important.

What makes this movie as horrific as it is? Only one word.. Reality. Just compare this with cliched haunting house movies, possession feels so intriguing and real because it could literally happen to everyone, if it indeed is a real thing, and we're bored to death because of  cliched ghost horror movies.

Only problem with this movie is that it has too similar characters, like too many priests etc.

Absolutely one of the most terrifying movies ever made, touching something deep inside everybody, honestly it might be hard for you to fall asleep for upcoming days, or weeks or what am I talking about, you might not sleep for years!

Horror level: 100%

Rating: 3/4

Rashomon (Rashômon)

Rashomon...After a samurai is found dead in the forest, three suspects are all telling the story from different point of view.

Richly detailed masterpiece, from a moviemaking legend Akira Kurosawa, who's glamour, unique vision and hard moviemaking style is perfectly presented in this Japanese action/drama flick, since most of the Kurosawa's movies are very difficult to understand, then Rashomon's story is complicated, but it ain't as challenging as some of his other masterworks.

One of the finest directing jobs with Rashomon of his entire career with Rashomon, every small plot detail add stupendous amount of intrigues to the story, as you can see it from three different perspectives no-one really made it completely clear which one is the truth.

Characters are evolving and developing with glory, maniacal, smart and very important to the story, truly even the smallest side characters gave a decent amount of drama to the story that was already filled with intrigues.

Miraculously packed action sequences, scenes brilliantly geo and choreographed.

Rashomon is a book, with only drawings in it, your quest is to calibrate and carve it in your mind, due to Kurosawa unique directing style, it's hard to always fully understand it, but it's one movie that clearly deserves nothing less than a watch, and being both great for movie buffs and regular people.

Rating: 3,5/4

The Third Man

The Third Man... a film noir drama/thriller that sets place in Postwar Vienna, Austria, when pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to Vienna, only to find himself investigating a death of old friend.

A breathtaking cinema experience, vivid, occupies all your senses and mind, classic that succeeds on almost every level.

Story is exciting, easy but on the other hand powerful and grabbing, not quite anything that world has seen before.

Having dark tone, suspense builds upon every scene, making story become more sensitive and intriguing after every minute.

Joseph Cotten really nails this role, Orson Welles well, of course not on the Citizen Kane level, but still spectacular acting skills, making this movie look even more thrilling, also the presence of loving woman character/Alida Walli makes this movie twice as dramatic.

Score capturing perfectly the emotions and doubling the worth of each action, creating synthetic, suspenseful atmosphere that making it easier for audience to keep a track on the story.

The Third Man is a powerful movie experience, with great storytelling, directing, everything is perfect in this late 40s drama/thriller movie, one of the finest movies that British cinema has ever offered.

Rating: 4/4

Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette)

Bicycle thieves... story about poor Italian family where bike gets stolen, father and son then go out to find the thieves.

Astonishing masterwork and a define neorealism masterpiece, beautiful art and a big part of Italian Cinema History.

With simple plot, characters and their doings surround you pretty quickly and it isn't hard to understand the story, easy and unpredictable, it's hard to believe that movie with such an easy story could catch you that quickly and deeply.

Acting is excellent, less known Italian actors made this movie succeed on such a high level, father and son chemistry took this Italian drama rolling to a completely new direction and motivating to take over darker and deeper undertone.

Heartbreak was perfectly captured, as you can see in some of the most touching scenes, it steals your heart for .

Bicycle thieves is stunningly beautiful movie, that is carefully carved into a masterpiece by one of the finest filmmakers ever, greatest movie of Italy cinema history and one of the greatest movies ever made, quickly stabbing you into the heart and evolving the movie bacteria all over your body untill there's nothing else in your mind than Bicycle thieves.

Rating: 4/4

Class Reunion (Klassikokkutulek)

Class Reunion (Klassikokkutulek)... about three middle-aged men, who are going to their high school reunion after 25 years.

Filled with restless comedy, Class Reunion as a movie is complete disaster, because a movie should be fully complete and smooth, but in this case scenes are just flying by like in some stupid TV-show.

Acting is awful, those three Estonian actors didn't knew what they were doing, not at all.

Comedy is okay, jokes well delivered to the audience, every single person laughed at the cinema for at least once, its frustrating but comedy in total wasn't as stunning , jokes are randomly put somewhere in  the dialogue, it might be funny, but in total it's completely catastrophic.

Plot insanely doesn't make sense at all, this movie should've been like at least 30 minutes longer, but in matter of fact I'm not sure how many people would still remain at the cinema till the end in that case because plot is boring and indistinct, story divided completely incorrectly, first character development was foggy, actually it took five times more time for those characters to mature during the film, than the class reunion itself lasts.

I went to the cinema with big hopes, being satisfied of the job they've done as the credits roll down, but not in the bloody hell I wasn't, only good part of this movie are jokes, overall this movie sucked, starting from the nonsense plot and ending with actors who didn't had even the slightest idea of what they were doing, don't set too big expectations for this movie or they will get crushed real big.

As hard as it might be to belive that, Class Reunion made only one enormous mistake, copying American movies and setting goals far too high for them to achieve.

Rating: 1/4

Casablanca

Casablanca... a story about two former lovers who meet once again in Casablanca, Morocco.

Groundbreaking and beautiful master art of cinema history.

Plot isn't anything difficult, in fact it's a bit empty, not in a bad way, but story gets most interesting in the end, dragging you into the bottomless ocean of love, and then the end is one of the most devastating in all drama history, everything in correct form, character doings made clearly sense.

Acting is miraculously good Humphrey Bogart with stand out performance, ridiculously fantastic acting, Ingrid Bergman gave perfect like performance too, but this three times Oscar winner greater years became later.

Chemistry between these two is the main complex reason why Casablanca succeeded on such a high level, with dark and deep undertone, mostly taking place in one area, Casablanca maintains under all those circumstances a favorable movie for all of us to watch.

This B/W drama achieved groundbreaking Cinematography goals, lights weren't dominating, some scenes where lights were necessary they were used, and Oscar-winning director Michael Curtiz, who was a household name back then, and has now become century defining moviemaking legend, nailed it with Casablanca, scenes couldn't be more perfectly directed than they were in it.

Casablanca achieved something that no-one has ever done before nor after, as wonderful as it is, Casablanca doesn't deserve to be called anything less than a masterpiece.

Rating: 4/4

M

M... a motivating drama, that builds suspense with exhilarating storyline, and brilliant moviemaking.

Astonishing storyline, about German city where a child murderer is free, police is unable to catch him so other criminals join in the manhunt, simple story, suspenseful as you can see the movie from three different perspectives along the two-hour runtime, this is just perfect, there wasn't any scene or plot detail that they could've possibly added and nothing to cut out, breathtaking art of filmmaking, and one of the finest of German culture.

After being the director that defined silent era, Fritz Lang started sound era with even bigger burst, that he ended the silent era with.

Characters and actors were one of the finest that German cinema has ever offered, and Peter Lorre/the actor of child murderer should've won the Oscar only for that horrified look only.

Visual side of the movie was groundbreaking at that time, and cinematography is something which Germans were known for all over the world, capturing shadows and manipulating light like no other, another thing that makes M great.

One of the most powerful and breathtaking movies ever made, with groundbreaking art of writing, acting, directing and of course manipulating light and shadows, M if it isn't yet then you should definitely add it to your watchlist, there are many movies that you will regret watching, but M is not one of them.

Rating: 4/4