Maroni

Maroni

Favorite films

  • Inception
  • Interstellar
  • The Wrong Guy
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

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  • Contact

    ★★★★

  • The Social Network

    ★★★★

  • The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

    ★★★

  • Dune

    ★★★★½

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  • Contact

    Contact

    ★★★★

    Very Interstellar-y!

    Some pretty amazing effects in this flick. That wormhole scene! Sheesh. This film deserves a theatre experience I think.

    Also, I just want to say that I love that  opening sequence, the camera zooming out from earth, and we’re being led backwards through time, as evidenced by radio and television transmissions which get older and older, ending with the first transmission into space, from Adolf Hitler himself. Then its just silence.

  • The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

    The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

    ★★★

    There was like, no tension in this. Just Nazis getting killed. Nothing goes wrong. Actually, at one point, one of the heroes gets shot in the shoulder. That’s it. And evil Nazi guy learns at one point that he’s being punked, leading to a couple minutes of tension, which then pays off in a pretty anti climactic manner. 

    Now, I get it. It’s based on a true story apparently. And if this is really how it happened, well then, whatever.…

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  • Perfect Strangers

    Perfect Strangers

    What... the hell... just happened.

  • The Wrong Guy

    The Wrong Guy

    ★★★★★

    This is possibly the greatest film I've ever seen. Every line is so perfect, so well crafted, the plot so zany, it is all I can do to get through every day without quoting this movie 10 times. The basic premise is, Dave Foley walks in on his boss, who has just been murdered, and then runs, thinking the cops are after him. Except that they saw the surveillance footage of the actual murderer (brilliantly played by Colm Feore) and…

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