So colossal, guys.
Quick Update: While I haven’t posted about my film viewing in a while, rest assured, I’m still making progress on the list! I’m so determined to finish it by the end of the year it’s a little ridiculous. I’m in the mid 40’s now but just life has been hectic with work and school so any movie post between “In The Heat of the Night” and this one (#74-50) will be dated between the two posts so the reviews stay in chronological order. I WILL GET TO THEM!!
Okay guys, I can’t even give you a basic synopsis of this film. I tried on four different occasions to watch it but I just couldn’t do it. It wasn’t that it wasn’t good (my opinion thus far is that it wasn’t) but just the way the flow of the story was set up didn’t cut it for me. There are four separate stories being told but they all were just overlapping and I thought it was hard to get a complete hold of how each story was being told. The running theme was that each of the four stories — that were set during four very different timelines — would show some sort on intolerance going down. Seemed interesting enough but I just couldn’t do it.
There’s like 20 different versions of this film (okay, maybe more like 4) and they all have a running time of roughly three hours. WHHYYYYYYY!?!? I just really could’t. I tried. I hate myself a little bit for having skipped but if I couldn’t watch ONE movie in a month’s time it wasn’t going to happen.
Real quick though: let me say that it was not lost on me that I was watching a hundred year old film. My husband and I were both like, “Wow, this is cool.” The version we were watching was remastered and restored beautifully, but obviously there’s only so much that admiration will help you get through a movie. Overall, I just can’t. How is this one of the first movies we have to kick the top 50 off with? In 1998, this movie wasn’t even ranked! This means that #49 is the debut spot for this film. HOW?! Someone please explain this to me and point me in the direction of the version in which we get one complete story at a time. KTHNXBYE.
I tried watching this film on Hulu – CLICK HERE to be directed there.
Here is the version of the film that’s on YouTube (it’s in the public domain so it’s a decent copy). If you make it through, let me know how it is, yeah?
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