The Backend
Will Marvel’s current Phase Meh ever end?
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Far too rarely am I asked about my favourite films and TV shows😉.
The short answer: Fight Club and Mr. Robot.
For anyone craving for more options , here’s my list of unmissable films and TV shows in chronological order:
“Mess Effect: Journey to the Center of Meh“
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So many jokes, so few laughs – almost impressive.
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Mad indeed: Uneven, insane, somehow brilliant. And as Rami as it gets.
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About the Book
This defining movie guide and blog companion contains a plethora of equally passionate and subjective movie reviews published by the title-giving nerd on his blog rafenew.world between 2015 and 2020.
The second chapter gathers even more (German) pieces written for his former website nidwirkli.ch between 2003 and 2006. Some of the older texts may not have aged too well. But they bear not only witness to the coming of age of the author’s writing style, taste and character – they document two decades worth of evolution in cinema, pop-culture and society itself.
Each one of the more than 160 articles comes with its own QR Code, providing an interactive experience including free videos, graphics and even more digital content available on rafenew.world.
Being first and foremost a vanity project, this title delivers hours and hours of reading material, opinions, trivia, callbacks and, most important, fun for everyone lucky enough to have been a child in the eighties.
About the Author
Raphael Röthlin – designer and software engineer by trade, nerd at heart – was born and raised in a small Swiss farming village. Today he works and lives in the city, in a nice apartment – without a cat, but making the best of the situation.
Ordner now and enjoy!
So I guess this will be one of those articles:
I DID plan to review «It Chapter Two» but since it has become so cumbersome to catch a not dubbed movie in all its original glory in Lucerne, this will be – once again, after «Planet Terror» – one of those not-really-a-review-but-just-reminding-everybody-there-was-this-great-picture-apology-for-a-review.
This time around Taylor Hackford’s 1997 «The Devil’s Advocate» will be the proof that the nineties where anything but bland, mediocre or unqualified to make an impact in movie history whatsoever.
I will not be able to write anything specific about this picture, ’cause almost anything would be a spoiler to anybody who has managed to not have heard about this marvelous film. And I guess anybody who HAS seen it will have had their mind made up by now – loving or hating the shit out of it.
I just remember how I reeeeealllly loved it when I first saw it in the theatre because I didn’t know anything about it and loved the surprising experience oh so much (not unlike «From Dusk Till Dawn» just one year earlier).
Aaaand… I just lost interest in writing anything more about «The Devil’s Advocate» just watching Al Pacino in my most favourite movie of his (though many critics claim this movie was the beginning of the end of his career). Goodbye, thanks for reading…
One last thought: I’ve seen this movie time and time again, and even after more than twenty years, it still more than holds up – it’s a most entertaining, thought-provoking movie you really should consider to revisit or give it a chance to view the first time around if you have the chance.
Great – just great!
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Note to self: Don’t publish this text! It’s not ready and not any good!
Note to yourself: Too late! Nobody will read it anyway. And the ones who will, they might appreciate the tip!
Note to self: But this article is really bad!
Me: I don’t care! We’ve come this far. I won’t let go all this work go to hell!
I: But I have a reputation to uphold!
Me: No, you don’t! Reputation implies readers, you don’t have those!
I: Fair enough!
Me: You sure?
I: Shouldn’t we at least make some effort to wrap it all up?
Me: Well, we could. But wouldn’t it be much less effort to just let it be as it is and call it intentional, maybe even clever?
I: Yeah, all right, but I won’t proofread it!
Me: No Prolemo! Didn’t matter the last time.
I: Ok. But this is the last time we do this.
Me: sure!
I: Ok. All I want is people to watch «The Devil’s Advocate». Cause it’s really…
Me: Yeah, yeah, I know: One of our favourite movies that we almost forget it existed.
I: Yeah, exactly…
Me: Ok, Press «Publish» then?
I: Ok. But it’s really the last time we do this?
Me: Sure…
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| Characters | 🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷 |
| Acting | 🐷🐷🐷🐷 |
| Drama, Baby! | 🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷 |
| Fun | 🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷 |
| Humour | 🐷 |
| Visuals | 🐷🐷🐷 |
| Music and Sound | 🐷🐷🐷🐷 |
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