More expensive that way too though. I'll maybe buy 1 or 2 things I love, but I'm happy with the catalogue of movies I get from netflix, Stan, prime and just watch most new movies at cinema. Plus accessing a genre of movie is much easier than hard copies.
I still buy DVDS and Blu-rays for similar reasons, but specifically because the majority of stuff being streamed is modern shite... because of course anyone over the age of 40 isn’t trendy enough to use streaming services, so they’re not catered for.
Finally saw all of Coco. I'd seen the first half or so a while ago but only recently saw the whole thing. It's a great movie but I especially appreciated all the references to pre-Columbian cultures in the "land of the dead" scenes, especially Spoiler when Ernesto throws Miguel and Hector into the partially-flooded cave, it has large Maya-looking glyphs on the walls, but I also read it as a reference to stories I'd seen in the news about Paleolithic human remains found in underwater caves like Chan Hol and Sac Actun. A bit of a stretch, but I kind of like that reading the more I think about it--the protagonists' emotional lowest point includes a symbolic reference to death, and also to some of the very earliest known inhabitants of the Americas, emphasizing "darkness" in more ways than one (darkness of death, darkness of the distant past, also it's literally a cave).
I don’t know that one - don’t think it’s available over here. There’s a number of channels available that show my kind of stuff; TCM, Talking Pictures, Yesterday, etc, but I’m talking about the streaming services.
I found a surprising number of great 70's Shaw Bros kung fu and Hammer horror films on Amazon Prime. But yeah, apart from occasional patches like that there isn't much that interests me.
Tonight’s film is going to be: The Fifth Element. Big bada-boom! Can’t think why I’ve decided on this one.
About ten years ago, I traveled to Germany and Belgium with a theater group that was presenting programs to children on American army bases and in private schools. At one private school, I did a reenactment of Susanna Dickinson, a survivor of the Alamo, for the English class. I went slow, kids struggled along until I described the first cannon shell with "BOOM!" Comprehension lit every face and we had some very happy moments of sharing. Of course, I had to add, "Big badda boom," and was delighted to get answering howls of "big badda boom!" from a couple of kids.
I watched Squid Game with English dubbing. You'd think that the world's biggest movie maker's biggest series dubbed into its highest paying language would allow it to hire great actors, but no, it's the usual standard of dubbing.
I despise dubbing in foreign films. It’s basically the dumbest thing ever, unless the actor is so devoid of talent that excising the audible part of their performance and replacing it with that of another actor actually adds depth. I like picking out phrases in foreign languages. I’ve been watching a lot of French movies and I love the sound of the language. Why would I want to listen to the dialogue in English?
Agree - if it's not animated, Don't Dub. You want to hear the actors' original performances, and it's not that hard to follow the subs once you've gotten used to it.
You can talk about how unrealistic superhero movies are, but nothing in them holds a candle to the small towns in Hallmark Christmas specials. We all live here in really nice houses, have gorgeous clothes, and meet in the town square every evening. Me, I own a modest bookshop, Kate makes pies, and old Dennis sells antiques. What’s meth? - Matt Braunger
I just consider that another form of fantasy and escapism. Real life is generally pretty horrible for people, and I definitely don't want to always be reminded of it.
Yeah, that's Takashi Miike directing. You can tell by the copious amounts of blood. That's a cool movie. I just saw this movie of his the other day. It's from a manga. It reminds me of something . . . almost like another show borrowed the basic premise. I guess it could be a coincidence. Kamisama no iu tôri == As the Gods Will Anyhow, it was harmless fun. I hope the story continues because it's clearly setting up part 2. Next up is Yakuza Apocalypse, which is a cross between a superhero movie and a mobster splatterfest. It looks absurd. I like that frog at the end.
although based on what I’ve heard about his other work, this one seems to be very restrained. In every sense, not just gore. A really beautifully shot movie and well paced, too. You get sort of a slow burn with lots of kneeling samurai yelling at each other in Japanese and then 45 minutes of basically the coolest action sequence ever.
I watched this really weird movie called Shuffle about a man who time travels to different points of time in his life and he tries to make sense of why that is happening. On a different note I watched Wonder Woman for the first time. This is the trailer
