Raphael Georg Klopper

Raphael Georg Klopper

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"As far back as I can remenber, I've always wanted to be a filmaker!"

Niterói - RJ (Brazil)
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Favorite films

  • In a Lonely Place
  • Heat
  • Once Upon a Time in America
  • Rio Bravo

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  • Dragon Fist

    ★★★

  • Spiritual Kung Fu

    ★★★

  • Safety Last!

    ★★★★½

  • Alexander

    ★★★★

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Dragon Fist

Dragon Fist

1979
★★★ Liked Watched

Yet another Jackie playing brooding martial-arts hero on tragedy-ridden journey. Shot back to back or simultaneously with Spiritual Kung Fu and coming almost like a remnant of Jackie's past as a voiceless and still undefined identity as the comical kung fu craft-artist we all know and love today, that was already on the verge of achieving mega-stardom already following after Drunken Master and Jackie's own directorial debuts Fearless Hyena and The Young Master. Though I'm probably on the minority that…

Spiritual Kung Fu

Spiritual Kung Fu

1978
★★★ Watched

In the same year Jackie was about to breakout as a major star thanks to Yuen Woo-Ping's push with the dual masterstroke of Snake in the Eagle’s Shadow and Drunken Master released in 1978; it also came accompanied by Spiritual Kung Fu, another supplement of his Lo Wei directed joints that was still trying to find the right sellable cashing in material for Jackie, that by today standards can only be seen as a weird relic from a period that…

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Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer

2023
★★★★★ Liked Watched 13

The Beautiful farce known as Legacy

Gone are the days to expect a new Christopher Nolan movie with high anticipation, awaiting for yet another wave of inevitable praise to what undoubtedly will be yet another undisputed mind-bending masterpiece.

Many are the reasons for such, the more obvious being the world now coming to admit how unquestionably overhyped Nolan often got, or maybe how bolder he began to vary ever since Interstellar onwards (and for the arguable better), or how all…

The Batman

The Batman

2022
★★★★½ Liked Watched 16

“The best DC/Superhero movie since <The Dark Knight” – has already become a scratchy refrain that “expert critics” have already turned into a mold to copy with each new DC release that goes against everything that went “wrong” in the last years of tenure at Warner and their miserable attempts to match Marvel in building their own shared universe.

While in the midst of all this, with studios increasingly concerned with just leveraging franchises – and while this film is…

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