Marcel Meyer

Marcel Meyer

Favorite films

  • Oppenheimer
  • Blade Runner 2049
  • Parasite
  • The Wolf of Wall Street

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  • Nickel Boys

  • Twisters

  • La Cocina

  • A Complete Unknown

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  • Twisters

    Twisters

    Disappointing because the tornados were not practical... :(

  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist

    Incredibly overrated. Longer review will follow, but for now I have to say that I have not seen a movie that is such aggressive Oscar bait in many years. There is almost nothing original or artistically interesting here...

    EDIT:
    The only review that I found that at least mentions the issues that I have with the film is the one by Richard Brody of The New Yorker
    (https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/the-empty-ambition-of-the-brutalist). In principle, I consider this movie to be empty. It is so…

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  • A Real Pain

    A Real Pain

    Jessie Eisenberg proves that he doesn't need a script by Aaron Sorkin and a director like David Fincher. He can make a great movie (almost) on his own. What helps him greatly is that Kieran Culkin is at least equally as talented, giving perhaps the best performance of his career.

    A light-hearted yet gut-wrenching story about the dissonance between what people carry within themselves versus what they present on the outside. Applicable to the relationships between close and less close…

  • Megalopolis

    Megalopolis

    Jesus Christ, what is this movie??? Am I too stupid, is Francis Ford Coppola stupid? What is reality, what is the point? I would go to sleep now but I've slept through half the movie, so...

    Everybody, please rewatch
    - Apocalypse Now
    - The Godfather
    - The Conversation
    instead and do not waste time or money on this clusterfuck of an old director's gigantomania...

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