by Chris Marshall:
For all the mean things I’ve said about musicals in the last
few posts, I really don’t hate them. There are just plenty of other things I’d
rather be watching, especially in cases, as with West Side Story and The Sound of Music, where I’ve seen the movies before. I feel like I’m not really
adding anything to my life by sitting through them again.
But I’m no cheater, and the rules of this project state that
I have to watch every movie, even if I’ve seen it before. Early on, that didn’t
matter much, because Casablanca was
the only movie I had seen before 1950. As we get closer to the modern era, though,
I’ve seen more of the winners, and it can feel a little tedious re-watching
things.
This is doubly true when dealing with films that are almost
three hours long. I appreciate West Side
Story, but I don’t love it,
certainly not in the same way that I do The Godfather, which I’m looking forward to seeing again. Perhaps I was a
little too resentful of its existence when I watched it this time around, but I’m
trying to be fair nevertheless.
