Maarten Rogier Pro

I like a bit of everything. I increasingly tend to ramble on about language use in film.

Favorite films

  • The Heiress
  • Broken Mirrors
  • Grand Hotel
  • Party Monster

All
  • Invasion

    ★★★

  • Oysters at Nam Kee's

    ★★½

  • De mannenmaker

    ★★★

  • The Minister's Wife

    ★★½

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Gravity

2013

★★★★ Watched

“You’re watching Gravity? With Scarlett Johansson? With the moon crashing on the earth?
...
Ah Gravity! With Bruce Willis!”

- movies according to Ori

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Invasion

2024

★★★ Watched

Veragua, she’s so pretentious. Shut up, it’s fucking Venezuela 🙄 Veragua

Ik snap niet dat je er pas op je marinier eindexamen achter komt dat je hoogtevrees hebt? Was het een schriftelijke LOI cursus?

Het begon wel oke, vond het heel geloofwaardig dat het Nederlandse leger totaal incompetent is. En ik vond die mariniers op de basis ook wel leuk (eigenlijk vooral die ene met het machinegeweer in zijn joggingbroekie) maar heel veel personages verdwijnen uit de film om plaats te…

Oysters at Nam Kee's

2002

★★½ Watched

I feel like everyone was so excited to have Schuurman in her prime playing a stripper that they forgot about a coherent plot. They were more consistent with the koortslip.

It's Amsterdam around the time I moved there, Schuurman is gorgeous, Weber is a rising star... there is some charm, just wish it was a better movie.

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Bikini Beach

1964

★★★★ Watched

This movie has everything:
- Frankie Avalon in a double role as an Austin Powers-esque Beatles parody
- Annette Funicello with a horrible bird’s nest on her head
- a talking hawk
- an ape that can surf and drag race
- the ape harassing girls, Don Rickles and the talking hawk
- drag races (and a little surfing)
- three completely different antagonists
- the return of Candy’s man-destroying hips
- another bikini-clad woman with destructive powers
- painted portraits that react
- Boris Karloff
- a milk drinking werewolf
- a milk drinking werewolf sitting under a picture of Hitler

The Hell of '63

2009

★★ Watched

It’s so screamy.

I liked that they actually spoke Frisian and I guess it looked okay, but everything else was bad: generic plot, mediocre acting, especially the reporter guy, no tension, no chemistry between the lead actors and those stupid cgi-wolves that serve no purpose.