Mads Ej

Mads Ej

Favorite films

  • The Hateful Eight
  • Mary and Max
  • Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
  • The House That Jack Built

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  • Robots

    ★★★½

  • Under the Stars in the Sky

    ★★★

  • Tarzan

    ★★★★★

  • Flow

    ★★★★

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  • Robots

    Robots

    ★★★½

    Piper: She's a little artsy-fartsy. The artsy's okay, but once she gets fartsy...

     I remember seeing a lot of marketing for this movie as a kid and I really wanted to watch it, but somehow never got around to it before now, where I found it to be great fun and it holds up well.
    We follow a young robot, who goes to the big city wanting to find work as an inventor for his big idol, but he must…

  • Under the Stars in the Sky

    Under the Stars in the Sky

    ★★★

    I was able to catch this movie at an early screening a little more than a week before the premiere, so I didn’t know what to expect, but it was a decent watch.
    The movie is a pretty standard biopic about the Danish musician Tommy Seebach, who we follow at the end of his long career, where he struggles to stay relevant among the many new young stars. Even though he writes his best song yet, he still has trouble…

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  • Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

    Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

    ★★★★★

    “People, they love blood. They love action. Not this talky, depressing, philosophical bullshit.”

    I enjoyed this just as much as the first time I saw it, or maybe even more. This is one my all time favorite movies and if Letterboxd allowed you to showcase five favorite movies, this would definitely be one of my picks. (Edit: after some thought it has made it to my top 4) 
    The movie has a fun and original story about the movie/acting industry…

  • Mirror

    Mirror

    ★★★½

    I am not sure what I think about this movie. 
    I understand that it is Andrei Tarkovsky’s most personal movie and an autobiography to some degree but i still didn’t really get it.
    The movie has a very unique way of telling it’s story by constantly jumping in time and having the same actress cast as the main character’s mother and his wife without making her look any different. I get that it is supposed to be dreamlike and appear…

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