Change Your Image
pauvog
Ratings
Most Recently Rated
Reviews
Civil War (2024)
War journalism in American Civil War
What a great movie. I really enjoyed it.
I didn't watch any trailers beforehand, but I was a little afraid it could get boring. The theme offered a lot of chances to make it a dull movie: getting lost in nowadays daily political business to much or trying to send some boring and obvious message.
None of that happened. Instead the film focused on a group of war journalists and their journey throug the war plagued country. It focused on their experiences and emotions. I really like the character development. Even if it was predictable I still felt with them. Also the film achieved to show nuances. It was not all black and white showing the journalists as holy saviors, but the movie portrayed them as human beings, seeking adrenaline and also doing stupid things for their own interests (risking theirs and other lifes for the best shot).
While entertaining the movie got me thinking about the importance of war journalism and the brave men and women doing it.
After we left the cinema, I felt I wanted to keep on watching - that's when I knew it was a great movie.
Saltburn (2023)
Great picture destroying itself in minutes
Saltburn is a great and entertaining movie.
It has all a masterpiece needs: great acting, and an intriguing storyline, a special atmosphere and an amazing scenery.
A young and ordinary scholar from Oxford sneaks himself into an aristocrat family where he tries to please and adapt, hopelessly trying to become part of the group.
Weird scenes unfold and the feeling alternates between awkward and funny. You don't really get what exactly is happening and always wonder what the story has still to offer. As other "ordinarys" surrounding the family get thrown out for shallow reasons and members of the family begin to die, a suspicion grows. But it's still not clear, as the main character seemes to be devastated about the death of felix. In the end everything falls apart.
Ending here it would be a great movie. You could talk about what you think happened. And the discussion could begin, what it was about: I think it could best be seen as an allegory to modern day capitalism and it's mechanisms destroying everything from inside out.
Also it could be a symbol for the difficulties of modern day humans to connect in a meaningful way and the somehow growing distance in a world where everything seems so close and everything can be achieved.
Like that it would've been a masterpiece for me. Unfortunately they decided minutes from the end to include a flashback where everything gets explained and every ambiguities gets destroyed. A very cheap way to explain the twist, that beforehand was laid down so nice and quietly all throughout the film. Somehow the movie destroys all that for cheap reasons - ironically its fate is very similar to its characters.
While i was honestly dissapointed by the ending, its still a good movie, just not the masterpiece it could've been.
Sophia, der Tod und ich (2023)
Hilarious melancholic Movie
What makes this movie unique is its great humour.
It begins with the death knocking at a young man's door, explaining the man he has 3 minutes left to live. The young man shuts the door calling the death a freak. After the death walks through the door he realizes there is something more to it.
The man than decides to go visit his mum, which he hasnt seen for some time, with his (ex)girlfriend.
The movie portrays a deep sadness but always combined with great great humor. I had a few loud laughs in the open air cinema, where we watched it.
The absurd scenery works as an allegory for life and death itself. It often asks big questions and sometimes only hints at meaninglessness and absurdism. As the death realizes he's captured on earth for a while he opens and closes the door in the train just because he can and it doesn't matter anyways.
After all time was flying with this movie.
Isi & Ossi (2020)
Great feelgood movie
I really loved this movie.
I chose it on a regular weekday because me and my girlfriend didn't have much energy for a to demanding movie. So I expected a mediocre movie based on the description.
It was much much better than that. The movie has very funny moments, a really heartwarming love story and on top of that addresses poverty issues in an surprisingly honest and adequate way. Also it doesn't hesitate to get dirty if needed. The friend of the main character really talks dirty and hits on the main characters mother consistently. So the film isn't washed up like 95% of comparing romcoms.
Instead his poverty gets quite feelable in comparison to the insane richess that her family has. The feelings in the love story were portrayed quite believable. And the sound track is just amazing.
Really good and unexpected film experience for me.
Der König von Köln (2019)
Entertaining movie with a little food for thought about public service
Very entertaining piece. It lives from the great characters which really deliver the atmosphere from the big - but at the same time very small - city of cologne.
It shows insights on how corruption can and did take place. I genuinly love the parts about the state executors and how they take part in the corrupt system.
The movie achieves to give you a realistic and thoughtful insight into how corruption can sneak into righteous citizens and eat them from the insight over time. At the same time it doesnt take itself too serious and has a lot of brilliant and fun moments. For example when ash cleans the toilet or when he cuts the art piece into pieces for his client. The manager middlehof at the same time maybe is a little over the top. But again i dont find that the movie takes itself to serious here. Its portrays the manager with a winking eye in the end.
So overall it was a very entertaining movie with a little bit of food for thought about public service and public good.
Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
Tremendously bad story
The story is really, really awful, which is disappointing because it kind of destroys the amazing scenery and the incredible world Cameron created with Pandora.
The story is not creative, its not coherent and its not interesting. The bad guy from part 1 (i dont even remember his name) gets recycled and wants to take revenge on jake. Doing that he captures his children several times and each time they manage to either free themselves or get freed. The bad guy kinda has a son who doesnt like him because hes so bad, but the son still saves his fathers life in the end of the movie which is unlucky because now well have to see him again in part3. During the third part there is a dramatic scene on a sinking ship, which weirdly reminds of Titanic, but is not really sound, because the Navy just learned how to dive really long and do it for way longer time for fun and suddenly its a huge issue.
Only very few characters develop real depth, most stay superficial. The bad guy for example has nothing that makes him interesting. Hes just bad and thats it. Thats the biggest problem of the movie - they just missed the chance to create an interesting plot to place their world on. Thats why i think if they continue like this there will never be an Avatar legacy like other great Fantasy or SciFi universes have it. Which I find sad, because i really like the Navy and their world - i watched the first movie twice in theater. But there are to little characters and to little depth in them.
Obviously the good part about the movie are the amazing pictures. Its just astonishing and fun to watch. The best parts where the ones just showing the characters swimming around in the nature and exploring the seas. Also the first whale hunting was interesting to watch - altough again not really connected to the rest of the story.
So yeah, overall great pictures that cant make up for the really disappointing story.
Triangle of Sadness (2022)
Great Movie: wild, absurd, funny
I really enjoyed watching the movie. It is funny, wild, intelligent, greatly absurd and has some really nice pictures.
The movie connects very nice pictures and interesting scenes from the life of superrich (with obviously overdrawn but still not dull scenes) with intelligent critique of the governing economic circumstances and of different aspects of human nature.
The movie has a lot of fun with its wildly absurd sceneries like on the ship when everyone starts puking or in the beginning in the first chapter, when they argue over minutes over the money which makes you really feel uncomfortable. The "absurd" theme goes throughout the movie and also the movie again and again reaches to surprise you, because its not forseeable and it also does not try to convince you of something, which is pretty rare these days.
The only thing that was slightly forseeable for me was the ending where abigail went with Yaya and... - I understand it was needed for some dramatic open ending and the ending also kept me thinking for a while, but it was the only moment in the movie which felt a little to predictable for me.
All in all a great and very entertaining movie.
Never Grow Old (2019)
Certainly underrated movie
It's a fresh western with a pretty dark atmosphere and quite thrilling until the end.
As others mentioned especially the dynamics and power shifts in town are interesting. Some of the characters get pretty interesting and deep. The movie has some symbolism in it and at the same time is nowhere near being pathetic.
Some moments of the movie go right under the skin and it really creates an intense and dark atmosphere. Overall the film was quite entertaining and one of the better movies i've seen recently - 8/10.