I just read Ebert's review of this movie and it sounds very interesting. Should I go and rent this movie now? Or will I wish I had started from the beginning with the first one?
shareI recommend that you watch from the beginning. It will leave more of an impact on you, as you will be emotionally connected to the people as you watch them age & go through life.
Absolutely. If you start with 49, it will come off as a completely different film altogether. It would be like seeing the very last scene of a movie-- you really wouldn't know the characters and you would miss most of the story.
shareWatching the whole series would be good, but you could probably skip 28 or 35 or 42 be fine. There is a lot of reviewing of old footage.
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What Would Jesus Do For A Klondike Bar (WWJDFAKB)?
Whatever you do, watch them all. ESPECIALLY do not skip 42. It's a masterpiece.
share> Whatever you do, watch them all.
The problem is that if you just go down to the renatl store and get all eight of them and watch them over the course of a week or month, you will be sick to death of seeing the same footage eight times.
If someone could edit all of the footage to create a one-hour special for each person, that would be great and you wouldn't have to see the same footage over and over.
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What Would Jesus Do For A Klondike Bar (WWJDFAKB)?
I'd definitely start from the beginning.
shareI’m going from 49, 42, 35, now there.
I don’t think it matters, save that you do it one way or the other.
It’s a cycle.
You can see this at the mall.
The young child that wanders away from the parent as they shop, over time the child becomes the adult now shopping and has to keep the parent, now older, from wandering off.
It's best to watch from the start just because the fun of the films is anticipating where the characters will be at the start of the next.
However, watching them all in a row can be a bit tedious as they heavily repeat footage from past films. So by the end you will have seen certain clips once in every film. I'd recommend maybe spacing them out over longer periods, as if you watch them all in a one day binge fest (as I did) you will inevitably end up fast forwarding through a lot of the heavily repeated older clips.
Your local library probably has the first 5 in a single dvd case. I had no idea that I would watch the first 4 straight. It was New Years Eve 2009/2010 and I was up till 3am. What is nice about the 49UP is that your TV subtitles work. The series was initially financed by a very left wing group trying to criticize the social stratification economic issues of England. Pay attention to which class drops out from the film.
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