Mostly Martha

Mostly Martha (2001) is the first German film I've ever seen. I thought it was very insightful on looking into German culture as I would be watching a video that depicts Germany. I thought it was better than reading culture texts as it is hard to understand German culture by merely reading articles. 

What I tried doing for this movie was read the subtitles, and look for the German translation of the word. Many times, I've heard the translation in numerous cases in German nouns and verbs. But for the most part, with the speed of the dialog spoken fast, it was hard to understand most of the movie. Nevertheless, I thoroughly enjoyed the movie.

I heard that American movie No Reservations (2007), was filmed based on Mostly Martha. So I went into Youtube and saw the trailer for No Reservations. My God, was it horrible. The plot, the characters, and even the humor (i.e. Martha's towel catching on fire when Mario forces her to make a decision whether to boot him out) were exactly the same. Hollywood, because of you millions of people had to wastes hundreds of minutes of life.