A good movie

There is something about foreign films that I seem to love.  I love America, don’t get me wrong.  And when it comes to movies well obviously we make good ones. 

The thing is, I love stories.  After all, that is why I write.  I love to read them, tell them, hear them, and live them.  But one thing I hate about Hollywood blockbusters is they are often simply unbelievable. 

For example, I went and saw some fast furious movie not too long ago with some friends.  It is hard to watch a movie like that, primarily because it could never happen.  Dragging a full safe with a one car through all of the concrete pillars and all that.  Let alone, the actors are not even close to real…

But something that has always annoyed me, and probably will forever, is the Germans speaking English with a German accent.  Watch a WW2 movie and they are speaking English with a heavy German accent.  And to make it worst, they say German words while speaking English to add to the fact that they are German. 

I have noticed this with watching a lot of the foreign films, and that is that they are not so big on having the Germans speak there language in a German accent.  Don’t get me wrong, it works in most cases.  But it fails to pull me into the story. 

Can you imagine a epic story like The Lord Of the Rings, and having the elves speak…I don’t know, English with an Irish accent? 

I just watched the best movie I have seen in a while.

Arn: The Knight Templar

The movie was a good story.  Full of love, hate, enemy’s trying to outdo there enemy’s.  There was human kindness, as well as the bad parts of the species.  It was, all in all a very good and moving story. 

This movie drew me into the story.  And I have to admit, that is hard to do in most cases.  I am writing, reading, or doing something online during most movies.  It has to do with the ADD and all that. 

Anyhow, right of the bat I decided that it was going to be hard to watch, as I was restless and trying to watch what I believed to be a Swedish movie.  

The coolest part of the movie, well at least to me, was that it was multi language.  The character went all over the world, and they spoke the appropriate language for that part of the show.  It went from Swiss, to Latin, to English, to Swiss, to English, to Arabic, to English, and then to Swiss again.  I may be leaving some out.

At one point, the English speaking person was mad at the Swiss person for knowing the language of their enemy, Arabic. 

This trait of a movie isn’t unseen in other movies.  This was just a good story, told nicely, with the added realistic approach to world travel….Language.