Introduction

1001 movies you must see before you die. Must I? Let's see.

My name is Dagmar and I am from Czech Republic. I have a bachelor's degree in screenwriting. I study movies. I watch movies. I write about movies. I kind of mention movies a lot. I even cross stitch things I like in movies. My views on cinema could be described as peculiar. My views on the "1001 movies" list as complicated. It happens a lot that I get the feeling it wasn't that necessary to see some particular movies. Sometimes I'm really grateful I saw them. And there are also times when I don't watch any new movies for six months straight. And they keep adding new movies every damn year so I might have to never die to watch them all.

What's the score right now?
606/1245 - That's 639 left to see.
I started this experiment on July 3rd 2009 and the latest update was made on April 19th 2023.

You can find the full list here.

Monday, 5 November 2018

Dumbo (1941)

USA
directed by: Ben Sharpsteen
written by: Otto Englander
starring: Edward Brophy, Sterling Holloway, Herman Bing, Verna Felton
seen on 5th November, 2018

-"Did you ever see an elephant fly?" -"Well, I've seen a dragonfly." 

Hot damn, under all that "cuteness" lurks a very dark story and cudos for doing so, but other than that it feels exactly like a short film streched into a theatre release under the whips of a moneygrabbing studio overlord trying to make the cheapest film possible after a string of financial flops. And to make drunk clown caricatures of animators who went on strike over being paid fairly for their work, that is real freaking low.


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