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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
A 7/10 for me. And why?
It's a great piece of entertainment. However, Its not even one of my top 100 favorite films. If I go for making a list, am sure this one won't even make it to my top 300.the vfx in some scenes are too bad. The story drags too much in some parts.
Vanilla Sky (2001)
Why critics don't like this movie
I personally enjoyed this movie in a time when I was young and the twist in the movie was mindblowing. That was a time when I didn't understand the Grammer of cinema that well. It still remains as one of my top favorites, however, I do understand why it has failed to impress the critics. The biggest problem I see is the need for exposition. This movie takes a very intelligent plot and ruins it by putting some extreme exposition in the end. It tries to connect all dots and consider its viewer is incapable of connecting them.
All this movie needed were a few more rewrites of the script and it would become a solid 8 in the books of critics am sure.
Taxi Driver (1976)
A film open to interpretations even after decades
What I take from this movie might be completely different than what others do. This is one of those masterpieces which appeal to each individual in a completely different way. While most people I know believe that de Niro's character actually died and the end was his imagination before he died, and Scorsese explained it was all literal, the common ground I find and I think that makes more sense is that most of the movie was his imagination except for its end. I think it was in his imagination he fell in love and tried to help Jodie Foster, while in reality he remained an ordinary Taxi Driver. In the last scene however he actually meets the girl he imagined he was in love with, and he only realizes that after she gets out of his cab. He doesn't charge her because for some strange reason which even he doesn't understand he likes her. And just as he moves away from her he realizes this was the girl he imagined. Before she leaves, she calls him by his name and most viewers would think she knows him from the past, but I think she doesn't. She just reads his name written close to the meter on his taxi. Just like the senator figured out his name.
What the film in my opinion is actually trying to tell is how a taxi driver dreams of being a hero according to his own understanding of his surroundings.
The Social Network (2010)
Stop comparing it to Zuckerberg's actual life
While it's understandable why a lot of people try to compare this to the real events in Zuckerberg's life, I think it's not something we need to understand that it's a movie and not a documentary on his life. His life never followed Aristotle's poetics which is considered a Bible for storytelling in the eyes of Aron Sorkin. This Zuckerberg comes from the mind of Aron Sorkin. And I think it's one of the best scripts I've ever come across.
Enemy (2013)
An inspiration for young film makers
Enemy is not really a masterpiece in my opinion. It is however a great film for all the young film students who badly need something like Enemy to understand the Grammer of cinema. The movie lacks in so many ways and that's another reason why I would recommend this to young film students who can take something from this and make it in their own style.