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Post by tdenmark on Sept 14, 2019 12:18:43 GMT -6
Only if it's in Japanese though! Egads, those Disney dubs are awful Oh, I don't know, that might be a little harsh. I was able to enjoy them with my family when my kids were little. Though I'd agree the original Japanese subtitled is better. |
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Post by Starbeard on Sept 14, 2019 15:22:01 GMT -6
Only if it's in Japanese though! Egads, those Disney dubs are awful Oh, I don't know, that might be a little harsh. I was able to enjoy them with my family when my kids were little. Though I'd agree the original Japanese subtitled is better. I think I'm just not a fan of the Disney style of dialogue overload since the late 80s. The original Totoro dub isn't great, but I'd much rather have that. I couldn't quite put my finger on why the Disney dubs seemed so off to me until watching Hong Kong bootlegs of Ghibli movies that weirdly used Japanese or old dubs, but subtitles were the Disney closed captions. There would be huge sections of time with dialogue silence, or at most very simple dialogue (which is part of what makes these movies so charming, I think), while the Disney captions just kept chattering away to fill the 'dead space' with explanatory dialogue and 'characterization' lines, and the tone is always so sassy. So not objectively awful, but it effectively turns them into Disney movies, which is not at all something that tickles my interest. I can see why they'd do it that way though, and they're smart to do it. |
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Post by tdenmark on Sept 23, 2019 14:39:22 GMT -6
the tone is always so sassy. I agree! I'm so tired of the sassiness and general disrespect and know-it-all attitude Disney likes to imbue their characters with, especially in child characters. Definitely clashes with the somberness and respect that is in Miyazaki's work and Japanese culture in general. |
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Post by owlorbs on Oct 20, 2019 14:54:04 GMT -6
As an aside, anybody here also on Letterboxd?
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Post by clownboss on Oct 21, 2019 9:36:41 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2019 9:10:34 GMT -6
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Post by fingolwyn on Nov 7, 2019 0:42:52 GMT -6
As with others here, I found it difficult to choose only 10. I found I had to choose between X and Y a lot, and was quite surprised to find no space left for others like the original Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, early Toho Godzilla movies, and movies that have been on my "Top 10" lists in the past (like Leon the Professional, The Godfather, and Excalibur).
In no particular order:
Eldorado (John Wayne western, could have easily chosen Rio Bravo instead)
Rollerball (the 1975 version with James Caan...the remake sucked)
Dr. Strangelove... (my choice for a comedy)
The Big Sleep (Bogart & Bacall in a Philip Marlowe noir, could have chosen Murder My Sweet and Casablanca instead but didn't have room)
The Masque of the Red Death (Vincent Price in a Corman Poe flick, could have chosen The Haunted Palace or The Tomb of Ligeia instead)
Fist of Fury (not The Big Boss. I wanted to choose Come Drink with Me with Cheng Pei-Pei, but couldn't justify not having a Bruce Lee movie)
Jason and the Argonauts (the list needs a Harryhausen movie, and I would have chosen The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, but the skeleton fight scene is better than Sinbad vs. the Siva golem)
The Three Musketeers/The Four Musketeers (the Richard Lester classic(s). Choosing them as one movie is not cheating)
Tombstone (a modern western classic, better than Silverado, which was my other choice)
Dirty Harry (my Clint Eastwood choice, instead of Good/Bad/Ugly or Josey Wales since I already have some westerns)
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Post by captainjapan on Feb 21, 2021 11:37:56 GMT -6
There are "my favorite movies" and then there are movies that are masterpieces. Sometimes they're the same: The Shining Raising Arizona Ghostbusters Moulin Rouge Goodfellas The Shawshank Redemption The Natural Brazil Mad Max:Fury Road Adaptation Ooo! Evil Dead 2/3 (doesn't matter which) Is that too many?! I am well aware of my list of favorite movies from around the time I first started playing d&d in the 6th grade. The difference is stark with one exception: Ghostbusters. I still get almost as much enjoyment re-watching Ghostbusters as when I was twelve years old. Full disclosure: I was not allowed to go to the theater to see Ghostbusters because my mom thought it would be too scary. I had to wait for it to come out on home video. Before that, a friend, who actually went to see it, just described it to the rest of us. Then we could make proton packs and traps out of cardboard and duct tape and run around the neighborhood pretending more effectively. We all at least knew what the Ghostbusters looked like from magazine pictures. Ghostbusters wasn't my absolute favorite though. That would be a tie between Superman, Back to the Future, and the Temple of Doom. So, now you know about how old I am. What were you're favorite childhood movies? I'll bet they were a lot different. Maybe your moms were more agreeable than mine was? |
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Post by howandwhy99 on Feb 21, 2021 12:52:05 GMT -6
I still think the last 10 minutes of E.T. is the most emotionally honest film in recent American history.
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Post by stevemitchell on Feb 21, 2021 13:27:34 GMT -6
For John Wayne choices, I see votes for Chisum and El Dorado--well, I like both films, but they don't begin to touch Red River, Fort Apache, or The Searchers.
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Post by retrorob on Feb 21, 2021 13:34:45 GMT -6
1. Jeremiah Johnson (best movie ever made probably)
2. Conan the Barbarian (with Arnold)
3. Seven Samurai
4. Blade Runner
5. Excalibur
6. Once Upon a Time in the West
7. The Seventh Seal
8. Rocky
9. Nosferatu (Werner Herzog)
10. The Duellists
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Full Metal Jacket
Cross of Iron
Predator
Alien
Last of the Mohicans
Unforgiven
Apocalypse Now
Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes
Mad Max II
Star Wars (episode IV)
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Post by geoffrey on Feb 21, 2021 16:20:54 GMT -6
Let's see...
1. Star Wars (1977 version)
2. The Empire Strikes Back (1980 version)
3. Return of the Jedi (1983 version) [because I wouldn't want to be left hanging for the rest of my life]
4. King Kong (1933 version)
5. Jason and the Argonauts (1963 version)
6. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
7. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (because I would want something Star Trek, and this is the best of them)
8. Ben-Hur (1959 version)
9. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (because Harry Potter is something my daughter and I enjoy together)
The first nine were pretty easy for me. I'm not sure what my tenth would be.
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Post by yesmar on Feb 21, 2021 16:48:04 GMT -6
Not in any particular order…
Brazil
Ran
Blue Velvet
Dazed and Confused
Mandy
mother!
Shadow of the Vampire
The Shining
Upgrade
Apocalypto
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Post by DungeonDevil on Feb 22, 2021 4:29:35 GMT -6
Not many fans of Bergman, Fellini, Truffaut, Dreyer, Bresson, Goddard, Rohmer, Lang, and Kurosawa, it seems. Well, they better have a streaming service for the Criterion Channel on MY desert island--but I'd also want my personal copies of The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, The Haunting, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Thing, and The Long Riders, among many others. I had film courses as a part of my B.A. where we had to pour over Bergman's and Dreyers oeuvres ad nauseam. I'm only partially familiar with Lang's work (mostly Metropolis), Fellini's Giulietta degli spiriti and his segment "Toby Dammit" in Spirits of the Dead. BTW, the desert island I would be stuck on would have no electricity, but an abundant native distaff population.  |
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