Joona Heikkilä

Joona Heikkilä

Favorite films

  • Vertigo
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Seven Samurai
  • Amadeus

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  • One Hour Photo

    ★★★★

  • The Outlaw Josey Wales

    ★★★★

  • It's a Wonderful Life

    ★★★★★

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

    ★★★★★

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  • Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith

    Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith

    ★★★

    This is not how you fix your past mistakes. You don't compensate your lack of emotional punches in the previous films by just making the next film as epic as you can. Yes, the action scenes are phenominally choreographed, but plot-wise and structurally speaking this film is just a big mess.

  • Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones

    Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones

    ★★★

    This one is far better structured than the last one. Scenes have more weight and motive put into them, but it still lacks the emotional punches it's trying to set up. You don't really feel anything while watching it.

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  • 2001: A Space Odyssey

    2001: A Space Odyssey

    ★★★★★

    It never feels like we're watching a story that's being told. We're just witnessing events that happen. And because of that, all the events don't make sense to us. Nobody is telling them through a narrative, so we are witnessing them like they really happen. And that's in a way that's too complex for us to understand.

    Of course people have been raving about that since the beginning. We want solid answers and have to know what this all means.…

  • Eraserhead

    Eraserhead

    ★★★★½

    It's been years since I last saw this film and I mostly remembered that it was really weird. Now that I saw it again, I know that my memory wasn't deceiving me, and this movie is just as weird and crazy as I remember, but in a really good way.
    I love surrealistic visions, and this movie offers some of the best stuff from that category. The visuals are everything here. They are beautiful to look at, but also extremely…