First Man

First Man is one of the most boring movies of all time. Even the most awesome scenes of flying rockets and experimental planes seem so disorienting and boring, having no music doesn’t help much – That were my initial thoughts while watching the 1st part of First Man. Luckily I continued to watch the second half of the movie a couple of days later. Still slow .. slow .. family .. slow.. and then spoiler alert comes the moon landing, and the orchestra starts playing the best haunting yet calming music, and the same disorienting shorts of flying the spacecraft become the most exhilarating moment in the history of cinema (after Interstellar docking scene – of course) I might re watch this movie again once, some day, but I have watched the moon landing scene with full volume almost every night for a month, and occasionally now. Its scenes and music like these make even a bad movie worth watching.

The Raid

The Raid is not your regular action movie. I have watched quite a few Japanese, Chinese, Korean action movies, they are known for their grace and elegance. But not this World renowned Indonesian movie. It shows you brutal and ugly hand to hand combat scenes one after another, that you yourself like the protagonist are out of breath. Would not recommend to people with weak stomach, but to all else do watch the movie once. Not very rewatchable unless you are really into hand to hand combat scenes. But it is a movie you will get recommended a lot, so lets get it done with.

Transcendence

Transcendence is a good movie. It has a great concept, life after death by transferring your consciousness into an AI and then the AI does much more. Such a brilliant concept, but the movie felt a bit straightforward. Visuals, music, cast everything is great, just the story could have been much better. Nevertheless, Transcendence is a good watch. I have watched it a couple of times now, might watch it again after a few months.

Top 10 films by Christopher Nolan

Insomnia – 2002 ‧ Thriller/Drama ‧ 1h 58m Dunkirk – 2017 ‧ War/Action ‧ 1h 47m The Dark Knight Rises – 2012 ‧ Action/Thriller ‧ 2h 44m Batman Begins – 2005 ‧ Action/Fantasy ‧ 2h 20m Tenet – 2020 ‧ Action/Thriller ‧ 2h 30m Memento – 2000 ‧ Thriller/Mystery ‧ 1h 54m The Prestige – 2006 ‧ Mystery/Drama ‧ 2h 10m The Dark Knight – 2008 ‧ Action/Adventure ‧ 2h 32m Interstellar – 2014 ‧ Sci-fi/Adventure ‧ 2h 49m Inception – 2010 ‧ Action/Sci-fi ‧ 2h 42m