Ben Daniels

Favorite films

  • Ran
  • Z
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • Little Miss Sunshine

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  • Disclaimer

  • Brüno

    ★★★★

  • Who Is America?

    ★★★★

  • Thelma & Louise

    ★★★★½

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Disclaimer

2024

Watched

Wanky, self-assured, pompous, stupid, unreal, vulgar, cynical, hateful, redudant, hand-holding, withholding, uncomfortable, uninteresting bollocks. It would be hard to believe that this were a book, were it not for the entire excerpts that get narrated, explaining in flowery pretension exactly what we're looking at with our eyes at that moment, which we can of course work out quite easily on our own.

Disclaimer is possibly one of the worst series I've ever had the misfortune to watch. No amount of…

Brüno

2009

★★★★ Liked Rewatched

Biting satire dressed up in Dolce & Gabana; a crazy and daring movie that spends its nights risking it all to expose the prejudices of those around him - or simply make them deeply uncomfortable.

Sacha Baron Cohen is an absolute great of a performer, not just to put himself into terrifying situations, but that he can also be side-splittingly hilarious while doing so. Brüno is just another of his rare gems of comedy that will have you rollicking the way through it.

You couldn't come back to this often. But I'm glad when I do.

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The Big Lebowski

1998

★★★★★ Liked 62

It's taken me a long time to figure out why The Big Lebowski is such a cult movie and isn't more popular. The Coen Brothers have made some huge films, so why don't more people know this? Especially since this film stars Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi, Julianne Moore and others. Surely people would know this movie? Well. No.

The simple reason I think this is a cult movie is because it is a character movie. A lot of…

The Simpsons Movie

2007

★★★★ Liked 14

My friend said he didn't like The Simpsons very much.

We put this on.

He laughed at nearly every line.

The Golden Age of the Simpsons. Wow.