How many times have you faced
someone whose mouth is agape before the words “You don’t like…?” are shot from
their mouth, roaring towards your opinions like a bullet to the side of a large
barn door. You attempt to justify your opinion but you get a shake of the head
in return. After a while you begin to make concessions. You stutter that “It’s
not as bad as…” or “I didn’t hate
it.” But it’s no good. That person now looks at you like you are something brown
and stinky on the bottom of their shoe. I get this look often and not just
because of my personality. Just as there are films which you may be embarrassed
to like, there are others which you are embarrassed that you don’t like. While
I don’t dislike any of the films below, I don’t like them as much as ‘society’
tells me I should. I expect ‘society’ will now also hate me for the opinions
I’m about to express below, but anyway here are Six of the Best Films I Should
Like More But Don’t.
Showing posts with label North by Northwest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label North by Northwest. Show all posts
Sunday, 19 May 2013
Sunday, 2 September 2012
North by Northwest
Alfred Hitchcock’s tale of mistaken identity and Cold War
spying has gone down as one of the most highly regarded films in history. It
was nominated for three Academy Awards, is ranked at 55 in the AFI’s 100 Years
100 Movies ranking and holds an 8.6/10 on IMDb. Carey Grant plays Roger
Thornhill, an Ad Man who is abducted by James Mason’s ‘Townsend’ character
under the suspicion that he is the spy George Kaplan. Thornhill is chased
across America from New York to South Dakota
via Chicago by
the Police and Townsend, meeting the seductive Eve Kendall (Eva Marie Saint)
along the way. In this next sentence I’m going to say something that will
probably draw a lot of negative comments along the lines of “You don’t know
what you’re talking about” or “You mustn’t have been watching it right” but not
only do I not think North by Northwest is
a great film but I personally believe it is the worst Alfred Hitchcock film I’ve
seen so far. The film undoubtedly features some great stand out moments but as
far as suspense and thrills go, this one left me cold.
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