I almost tapped out in the first two minutes because it's programme teaser seemed to be going in a very boring hippy direction. I'm glad I stuck with it because then it disregarded all that bullshit and became the programme I actually thought it was going to be.
I'm also watching this, I've heard its good.
Finally saw this and thought it was the worst thing of his I've seen. I was bored most of the time, even though I usually enjoy learning about the 60s. It was just an uncritical listing of things he liked in his childhood, including the particular theme park they used to go to and the details of the rides. The 60s was the age of alternative culture going mainstream and consumerism really taking off and America fucking around with half the world. Fair enough that he never saw that in his childhood, he just liked the new ice cream flavours, but it's dull. As for the triumphant American century vibe of the moon landing, it just looks sinister now. The system that would destroy the world had flowered into full maturity. Woohoo.
I agree. I got bored and never finished it. Looks pretty, but it's relentless and one note. I felt it would have been better as a series, and thought I might come back to it, but it obviously wasn't appealing enough.
It would require some sort of tension that could be worked up into plot though. This movie had nothing.
It obviously wasn't really a plot driven thing, but it really really really lacked pacing. That could have easily been sorted in the editing. Very frustrating that it wasn't taken into consideration. It needed to have been better thought out from the beginning.
Very.
Then it should probably be on one of those threads about other streaming service recommendations.Not a Netflix offering (its on Paramount) but has anyone seen The Offer yet, about the making of The Godfather. Half way through a series off ten and its very revealing.
The Offer - Wikipedia
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It does, but not this one, according to some critics
WelI I enjoyed it as a watchable series, despite some very big doses of artistic licence and twisting of timescales.
i thought the theology was brilliantly done in the first half. they really understood Catholicism. then it got progressively sillier, but so did Catholicism, i guess
Yes, considering how the first two Godfather films are considered by both critics and audiences as 2 of the greatest films ever made, and also considering that the making of these films was a fraught and dramatic process, involving all sorts of unsavoury types up to all sorts of skulduggery. Probably up there with Jaws, Aguirre, Fitzcarraldo, Apocalypse Now etc as one of the most interesting behind-the-scenes stories about film making. So have no idea where you are coming from with this, apart from a place of ignorance
I'm coming from . . . I think they are fairly dull films. I just wasn't all that interested. People bang on about the sopranos too, and that is dull and irritating.
