Some years back, my intro to Keaton was through a screening of some of his shorts. The General was hist first feature length film I saw, and it was partly due to its ranking on the 2012 list. I was somewhat disappointed. I think I was hoping for more comedy, less action. And yet, it does remain impressive in terms of stunts it does. I ha…
Some years back, my intro to Keaton was through a screening of some of his shorts. The General was hist first feature length film I saw, and it was partly due to its ranking on the 2012 list. I was somewhat disappointed. I think I was hoping for more comedy, less action. And yet, it does remain impressive in terms of stunts it does. I haven't revisited since finally getting myself to watch more of his features, which were probably closer to what I was expecting. I do wonder how it'd play on rewatch, with my expectations more correctly set for what I was getting.
Some years back, my intro to Keaton was through a screening of some of his shorts. The General was hist first feature length film I saw, and it was partly due to its ranking on the 2012 list. I was somewhat disappointed. I think I was hoping for more comedy, less action. And yet, it does remain impressive in terms of stunts it does. I haven't revisited since finally getting myself to watch more of his features, which were probably closer to what I was expecting. I do wonder how it'd play on rewatch, with my expectations more correctly set for what I was getting.