Finally September has come! Let the Letterboxd Season Challenge 2015-2016 begin! I started off a bit early, as I will be on holiday in a couple of weeks, so a head start will definitely come in handy.
Letterboxd Season 2015-2016 Week #1
Roger Ebert Week: Watch one of Rogert Ebert's Great Movies
My complete schedule can be found here
In general, what I will do in most of these weeks is browse the suggestion lists by average rating. That way,…
Just about made it through till the end. What a laughable drag. Guess I’ll pass on parts 4 and 5. It’s just not for me.
So damn tiring… At least in the first film there were personal motives, a genuine revenge movie. Here it’s just the “one badass good guy against armies of trained men shoots 173 guys and comes out on top” kinda storyline. The action scenes are done well, but become so damn tiring after 2 hours. And they shoot freaking cities apart, but the subway is somehow off limits or something? This one annoyed me to no end… I almost turned it…
This is one of those rare occasions where 90% of my LB friends absolutely love or adore a film, when it leaves me cold and a bit amazed by the almost universal love for it.
I see a few merits, most notably the performances by especially Ronan and Metcalf. Other than that I was mostly bored and couldn’t connect to the characters even one bit. Most of them felt like cardboard cutout stereotypes and hardly any more interesting than we…
