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Billy Connolly to play Dain in The Hobbit movies

This set of films is for all of the Japanese films I want to and have seen. This doesn’t include anime or Studio Ghibli films.

Have Not Seen

Biruma No Tategoto

Rashomon

Sansho Dayu

Shichinin No Samurai

Kumonosu-jo

Ugetsu

Akira

For the next set of films, I’ll list the German movies I would like to see, plus the ones I have seen. I’m really looking forward to these since I took German for my college language requirements and I would like to keep what I’ve learned fresh and to learn some new vocabulary. I’d like to get the original German versions and use subtitles as little as possible.

Have Not Seen

Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes

Due to suggestions from friends, and my own interests; I’ve resolved to watch more foreign films. I have seen a few, and I’ve liked all of them. Here is a list of films that I have either been recommended, or seem to interest me from their description. I’ll split the list up into 4 posts, organized by nationality. Plus, I will add films that I have seen and would recommend to you. This one is for the French films!

So overall, I would say that this is a good movie. It’s definitely more of a family film than a blockbuster or date movie (unless your significant other really likes horses- like my girlfriend). Directed by Steven Spielberg and soundtrack by John Williams (definitely a good reason to go see it!).

The character stories in this movie were amazing- you really cared about the people. Unfortunately, at least for me, is where the problem lies. The movie makes you care about the people, and not so much about the horse…and it’s a movie about a horse. I’m not totally uncaring though, as there’s definitely one scene that made me cringe and feel bad for Joey (won’t spoil the details for those of you who have not seen it yet), but I feel like I cared more about Emilie, the German brothers (Gunther and Friedrich were their names, I believe), or the Narracott family, but not Joey.

I feel like in a way, this movie is like Pearl Harbor (the 2001 movie with Ben Affleck). By that I mean that they tried to combine two movie genres that don’t usually work well together (not all the time, there are some that did work out). Pearl Harbor was a war movie that had a romance plot shoved in, and War Horse is a war movie that had what I call a “horse movie” plot shoved in.

Even though the entire experience wasn’t all that enjoyable (an older lady tripped and fell on top of me walking up the steps of the theater, spilling a full soda onto my brand new argyle sweater I had just gotten for Christmas earlier that day), it was still a good movie despite my personal preferences. I would  definitely recommend you go see it.

I would rate it 4 stars out of 5