JakobKolness

Watcher of cinema. Writer of film and fiction. Father to a beautiful dog child.

Favorite films

  • GoodFellas
  • Pulp Fiction
  • Titanic
  • A.I. Artificial Intelligence

All
  • Man of Steel

    ★½

  • Superman Returns

    ★★★★½

  • Supergirl

    ★★★

  • Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

    ★★

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Man of Steel

2013

★½ Watched

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David S. Goyer really is one of our worst writers. This script is filled with interesting moral questions and provides all the wrong answers to them. The last hour of this thing is the loudest movie ever made. 

I also just don’t like Henry Cavill as Superman. I never got the “he looks like Christopher Reeve!” He doesn’t. He fills the role of Superman physically, big guy with a sculpted face, though…

Superman Returns

2006

★★★★½ Rewatched

the son becomes the father, and the father becomes the son

Love this movie. Understands its core character and his world better than any attempt since the original 1978 film. Routh is perfect in the role. Spacey, I’ve always argued, is the most successful Lex Luthor translated to the big screen. Shoulda been Keri Russell as Lois, but Bothworth is not terrible in the role. I wish superhero films these days cared more about heart and hope the way this…

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Mare of Easttown

2021

Watched

so this definitely isn’t about a horse

Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation

2015

★★★★½ Rewatched

“Hunt is uniquely trained and highly motivated - a specialist without equal - immune to any countermeasures. There is no secret he cannot extract, no security he cannot breach, no person he cannot become. He has most likely anticipated this very conversation and is waiting to strike in whatever direction we move. Sir, Hunt is the living manifestation of destiny - and he has made you his mission.”

One of our great movies.