Did they all get horribly re-dubbed for Merkin audiences?

Tokyo - Three short films smushed together because they all take place in, well... Tokyo! There was one really bad film, one good one, and one excellent one that makes it all worth while. Hikikomori (the excellent one) reminds me of a visual version of Gibsonian prose. So much attention to the smallest details in it and it all gradually blends together to form a cogent whole of a story.

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Originally posted by heavyboots:
Tokyo - Three short films smushed together because they all take place in, well... Tokyo! There was one really bad film, one good one, and one excellent one that makes it all worth while. Hikikomori (the excellent one) reminds me of a visual version of Gibsonian prose. So much attention to the smallest details in it and it all gradually blends together to form a cogent whole of a story.

i think that played the film festival in february, was hoping it would get a proper release, but not seen any sign of it yet. need to remember and see about picking it up.

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Originally posted by lithos:
Did they all get horribly re-dubbed for Merkin audiences?

Only the first one.

We saw Public Enemies yesterday, entertaining movie. You knew what was going to happen, but it was still gripping at the end. Well-acted, too.

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Originally posted by lithos:
Did they all get horribly re-dubbed for Merkin audiences?

It was dubbed? Been so many years since I have seen it I thought they still spoke with Aussie accents?

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We saw Public Enemies yesterday, entertaining movie. You knew what was going to happen, but it was still gripping at the end. Well-acted, too.

my dad has been going on about this since he is interested in the history of a lot of the old gangsters. Dillinger was apparently only shot twice when they killed him, unlike Bonnie and Clyde. Did the film restrain itself or was the end a horrible overdone Michael Bay style bloodbath?

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Originally posted by editengine:
It was dubbed? Been so many years since I have seen it I thought they still spoke with Aussie accents?

From Wikipedia:

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When the film was first released in the United States, all the voices, including that of Mel Gibson's character, were dubbed by U.S. performers at the behest of the distributor, American International Pictures, for fear that audiences would not take warmly to actors speaking entirely with Australian accents...The original Australian dialogue track was finally released in the U.S. in 2000 in a limited theatrical reissue by MGM, the film's current rights holders (it has since been released in the U.S. on DVD with both the US and Australian soundtracks on separate tracks).

And, for the helluva it - the first ten minutes of [i]He Died With A Felafel In His Hand.

FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE!!!!!

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Originally posted by heavyboots:
Tokyo - Three short films smushed together because they all take place in, well... Tokyo! There was one really bad film, one good one, and one excellent one that makes it all worth while. Hikikomori (the excellent one) reminds me of a visual version of Gibsonian prose. So much attention to the smallest details in it and it all gradually blends together to form a cogent whole of a story.

i think that played the film festival in february, was hoping it would get a proper release, but not seen any sign of it yet. need to remember and see about picking it up.

queued

Tokyo! - 3 alien directors' reflective rampaging romp through old futureland. Highly recommended. http://tiny.cc/X0Zwn

Sadly I never made it to the theater when TOKYO was playing here in April....

Disaster Movie - thought it might shade over into 'mildly amusing' or 'so bad it's good' territory, but it's just dumb, bad and unfunny throughout.

The Spirit - flawed but intriguing.

Robin Hood - Season 3 finale

Ludicrously cheesy and awesome.


Virtuality - pilot

Head-explodingly good.
2001 + Sunshine + Big Brother + Existenz

Killshot - Feels like a made-for TV movie from the start but this old dog's got something interesting and deadly tricks up its sleeve. Rourke maybe not a one-comeback-wonder.

year one - i'm not especially a fan of jack black, he has his moments, but thought michael cera might temper him, and there had been some decent reviews. its rubbish. it had one funny line in it for me. the rest was just utterly dull.

new town killers - they must have put it on for an extra couple late showings after having problems last weekend. young 20-something guy is offered the exact amount of money that will get his sister out of debt from the bad guys, if he'll play hide and seek. turns into thriller of cat and mouse round edinburgh at night. of course there are some cheesy bits, like the big flashing red tracker thats been stuck to his jacket - well duh, of course they are tracking you idiot! and you keep waiting for the parts to fall into place where it all makes sense, but in the end it doesn't - so on the one hand it avoids this false moral/easy explanation, but on the other it just seems a little empty other wise.

the hangover - yeah its a mildly less stupid version of dude, where's my car, set in vegas, with a tiger and tyson. has its moments, actually enjoyed more than year one, go figure.

so frustrated by the blockbusters at the moment. just not interested. and what is the point of having an 18 screen cinema thats only showing about 5 films??

also frustrated. s.darko played, one off showing on friday night, which i could have seen instead of year one. but i forgot. and the cinema didn't twitter a reminder until after i went offline, so i didn't see it till the day after. for those that don't know, s.darko is a sequel to donnie darko, which has very little to do with original team, except that the younger sister is in it. trailer looked curious, though i expect it to be dubious.

Watched Let The Right One In. It was enjoyable. Solid acting from the young stars. An interesting tale of young love, growing up and of course, the rampant murdering that characterizes the life of a 12 year old vampiress.

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Originally posted by editengine:

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Originally posted by theminx:

We saw Public Enemies yesterday, entertaining movie. You knew what was going to happen, but it was still gripping at the end. Well-acted, too.

my dad has been going on about this since he is interested in the history of a lot of the old gangsters. Dillinger was apparently only shot twice when they killed him, unlike Bonnie and Clyde. Did the film restrain itself or was the end a horrible overdone Michael Bay style bloodbath?

There were some bloodbaths, and the Babyface Nelson guy was pretty over the top, but they weren't just confined to the cops shooting the bad guys: there were enough unglamourous gangsters-shooting-everyone-else scenes that you didn't automatically side with the gangsters, the way you do so often with these movies. Although how can you really side against Johnny Depp?

The end was very low key (with respect to the number of bullets and shooters), and sounds like it was fairly accurate.

Torchwood : Children of the Earth - Day 1

Not bad.
It feels weird, watching Torchwood again, after giving up early in the previous season.

Tour de France 2009

Eurosport channel: Just how good is it to see Lance back on the Le Tour? Wicked. Yesterdays break made for some quality viewing, with team mate and supposed Astana team leader and race favourite, Contador missing the move and losing some 41s to the old man.

Afternoons at work will be all bareable for the next few weeks, thanks to the live net commentry

Virtuality - What Arkan said. Wow! They could take this show soooo many interesting places and I will bet dollars to donuts that it dies by episode 7?

The Taste of Tea - A huge thanks to whomever (Limulus perhaps? the WGB search is being its usual helpful self!) recommended this one a few pages back. If you like quiet, quirky little movies that take a couple hours to really get to know the characters, bump this one up in your queue.

Finished Season 5 of Entourage and really enjoyed it. It's hard not to root for those Hollywood douchebags.

I also watched The Express, which is a story about the first black Heisman trophy winner. It's a good story, but the movie was kind of flat. Not terrible, but very standard. The director really loved watching the ball spin on kickoff. Used it overlong, not once but twice.