Miiko Valkonen

Miiko Valkonen

Relieved to finally stop working in the movie theater.

Favorite films

  • Mulholland Drive
  • Stranger Than Paradise
  • Barton Fink
  • Julien Donkey-Boy

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  • You Don't Mess with the Zohan

    ★½

  • I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry

    ★★★

  • Click

    ★★

  • Reign Over Me

    ★½

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  • You Don't Mess with the Zohan

    You Don't Mess with the Zohan

    ★½

    This is the goofiest one yet. The writing is abominable but the visual gags are so zany that they managed to get some chuckles out of me. Maybe across the board the worst accents ever committed to film, with a particular shout-out to Chris Rock's Jamaican accent.

  • I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry

    I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry

    ★★★

    In 2007, I think that there was a large group of preteens who would only take in the message of "I know we all love to casually slur the gays, but we should maybe stop" from the mouth of Adam Sandler.

    The first 30 minutes of this film almost made me turn it off. The fat jokes, the bimbo-fication of every single woman on screen...my fiancee and I have a pretty high tolerance for dated stuff, and even can laugh…

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  • A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

    A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

    If there's one moment in this movie that will be forever lodged in my brain, it is the shot with the disco ball, where the main guy approaches the vampire, and you think she's gonna bit him but they make out.

    Now THAT'S cinema!

  • The Killing of a Sacred Deer

    The Killing of a Sacred Deer

    The stylizations that made "The Lobster" so excellent return in Lanthimos' follow-up film, but with severely dampened impact. While they served a thematic function in The Lobster (highlighting the impassable gulf of human connection in our modern world), here the deadpan, stilted dialogue filled with interminable filler phrases just comes off as awkward and tepid. I honestly felt drained halfway through the movie when I realized there's hardly ever a pause to breathe in dialogue scenes; the most visceral part…

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