Rob Jones

Rob Jones

Favorite films

  • Cinema Paradiso
  • Harakiri
  • Big Fish
  • The Evil Dead

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  • Memoir of a Snail

    ★★★★

  • Any Given Sunday

    ★★½

  • The Elephant Man

    ★★★★½

  • The Emperor's New Groove

    ★★★★

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  • The Fall

    The Fall

    ½

    I think The Fall thinks it's a very clever film, done in a very clever way about a very clever topic, but ultimately what it amounts to is a load of bollocks about a questionable stuntman and little else. It was shot in 28 locations over four years, and according to the director no sets or stages were used. In other words, there is absolutely no question that this piece of dogshit has the highest carbon footprint per meaningful moment…

  • Butterfly Vision

    Butterfly Vision

    ★★★½

    This is a very thoughtful, nuanced take on how war impacts ordinary people. It doesn’t make excuses for them but it shows how it can turn people into far right nationalist extremists just as easily as it can turn people into heroes. It’s a war film that happens completely away from the war itself, but rather it goes into the psyche of those who’ve been there. 

    There aren’t any big, gruesome death scenes and there isn’t a budget just for…