Beginning of Film History

  Dominic Mayhall Aguirre, the Wrath of God      When you originally mentioned that this movie was about German actors playing Spaniards, I thought that was a brilliant idea. I know that because the director was German, he'd use German actors, but the concept of a movie about conquistadors speaking German sounds like comedy gold. Though, I was able to watch the movie in dubbed English, so I did that. The dub was pretty good for one dubbed in the 70s where some dubbers drank on the job.     That opening scene and that shot by the mountain side with the misty atmosphere was beautiful. All while a hymn is played lavishly in the background. This type of scenery in movies always impresses me whether it was filmed past or present. Even more so if it was filmed in the past, because to this day I don't know how some of these frames were done using video wizardry. Using that large river must've been hard to navigate around, but I'm glad they used it. It adds a form ...

  Dominic Mayhall 2001: A Space Odyssey's Epicness          I have always heard about this movie, and I always thought it came out in 2001. I also know that David Bowie has a song called "Space Oddity" that he wrote six months after seeing this film. I was very clueless knowing what A Space Odyssey was really about. I'm glad I finally got around to watching it I was really impressed.          There have been a couple space movies that I've seen that have probably taken inspiration from this movie. One that I just watched recently and that I love was "Interstellar". Both movies rely heavily on visuals more than actual dialogues. And as a viewer I prefer that more than having to pay attention to what the different characters are saying. The beginning of the movie has that iconic song with the timpani called "Also Sprach Zarathustra" by Richard Strauss. I've heard that song so many times in other forms of media and I read somewhere els...