In the past, I have did this twice: collecting three movies into one posting. Those were times when I watched many films in a row and so it was appropriate to make one posting out of them. Coincidentally, these three were also watched in a row: On my plane ride from Berlin to Atlanta. ;) I can’t wait for my flight back to Berlin! Hopefully they will have some better movies than I had this time.
In fact, they had one title I really wanted to see, North by Northwest. But without subtitles and in horrible audio quality, I totally couldn’t understand the dialogue! After seeing the last film, I had 30 minutes left and started with the Star Trek movie, but I totally fell asleep after staying up about 8 hours to see for the other films and dinner, hahaha.
And so these were my choices:
Che
Honestly this movie was a borefest. Sure, I was interested and the film totally got me into the topic: I wanted to know more about Che, I wanted to know more about how they led their guerilla war (perhaps guerilla tactics are one of the most fascinating aspects of war) and all of it was extremely interesting. However, the narration of the film was just utterly dissatisfying. It wanted to be original, but for me, it completely failed at that. While I can give them credit for showing a certain interesting aspect of it (and with Benicio del Toro, they also had a great actor for the role), everything about this film felt so wrong and dishonest to me. Does that make sense?
The Boat that Rocked
Speaking of films that are wrong: This is definitely another great example. I cried at the end of the film, knowing perfectly that I find the whole movie utterly ridiculous. I know that I loved the movie for the way it dealt with music and how it transpired its lifestyle, but I also hated the film for being so ridiculously childish about the „revolution“ and „government is evil“ part. So what can I say? Sometimes the emotions I have for a film doesn’t really reflect upon my opinion on it.
I do want the soundtrack though! Ahaha.
The Birds
I can’t believe I have never actually seen this classic. I feel the same about „Psycho“. I do remember that I have seen parts of the movie, such as the scene when the children run out of the school, I have just never been able to relate those scenes to a story. In fact, this seems to happen to a lot of Hitchcock movies: Certain scenes (like the shower scene in Psycho or the staircase in Vertigo) are tremendously famous and I knew them a long time ago, but I actually never knew anything about the stories surrounding those films.
At any rate, I must admit that I didn’t particularily enjoy watching this film, although I do enjoy how there is a whole bunch of websites about the film, and how there are so many different interesting interpretations concerning the birds. I am very glad to have finally seen this classic and it was a valuable experience, but I don’t think I would watch it again.