SillyIsSilas

SillyIsSilas

Top 4 reflect what’s been on my mind lately, not necessarily my all time faves.

Favorite films

  • La Dolce Vita
  • 8½
  • The Gospel According to Matthew
  • Cinema Paradiso

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  • Macbeth

    ★★★★★

  • The Substance

    ★★

  • The Straight Story

    ★★★★

  • American Movie

    ★★★★½

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  • La Dolce Vita

    La Dolce Vita

    ★★★★★

    *Recommended by @ceiliog

    Unfortunately I don’t have much to say about La Dolce Vita although I wish I did. I was unsure wether to give it a 4.5 or a 5 but I’ll go with a 5 to be safe.

  • The Visitor

    The Visitor

    ★★

    The Visitor is a complete mess. Despite what some might say, I’d argue the film is actually coherent—just utterly ridiculous and absurd. Honestly, I have no idea what it’s trying to be. There’s plenty of religious imagery and thematic elements, but none of it seems to amount to anything.

    The cast is surprisingly decent, but even they can’t salvage the film. The biggest issue is the lack of a compelling protagonist, making the story completely disengaging. The character with the…

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  • Planet of the Apes

    Planet of the Apes

    ★½

    A desperate, spiteful and quite sad attempt of an allegory for the church’s rejection of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. 

    This film has such a great and original concept (for the time) but uses it as an excuse to make a long winded, one sided argument about religion. The subtext of this film is so overtly clear to the viewer that it makes it super obvious how poorly written the film is, as if all the plot holes aren't enough.…

  • Taxi Driver

    Taxi Driver

    ★★★★★

    Over the course of about 2 weeks I’ve been rewatching this film in parts, about 20 minutes every now and then. Tonight I saw the last 20 min of the film.

    It hasn’t been all that long since the last time I rewatched Taxi Driver and my opinions haven’t changed all that much. I still think this film is a masterpiece but I must say the second act really wasn’t as good as I remember and even a little disappointing…