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nim the cat (STILL choking in air pollution) Started conversation Nov 13, 2000
Well, during the past three days I had a lot of time (courtesy of an ill-functioning server) so I watched "Showdown in Little Tokyo" with my mother (great by-play of the characters!), "Something about Mary" with both parents and I loved it especially the ending, then ... "Lost in Space" two times and "star Wars episode one" and last night "Blazing Saddles", Persian dubbed but with English subtitle so I could enjoy the jokes in both languages. Persian dubbing is great, isn't it? (well, at least it used to be before the revolution... )
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nim the cat (STILL choking in air pollution) Posted Nov 21, 2000
/puts a jug of pan galactic gargle blaster on the table/
this should attract some angles - they are very *spiritual*!
It is 11:20 am now, I ate very little for breakfast so I got hungery and bothered our housekeeper to make me fried potatoes ...
OK,... "Mary" - no, people are like that! I thought it was fun. What *was* sickening (and true) was the detctive's (Matt Dillon?) attitude to her brother and other "mongoloides". People usually don't know what's going on there... and again it is true (the attitude, I mean). People are like that.
I don't remember "lost in Space", though I remember my brother telling me about it. I can only remember Mr. Spock and then a few scenes from - what was the serial where the moon gets separated from the Earth? I don't remember the name right now, but I have at least one novel from it. (BTW, if you gat the date right, I wasn't even born when you saw Lost in Space!)
I loved the movie though - first I got a good VHS copy which had half an hour missing, then I got a very bad CD copy and finally a DVD version copy. I don't know though if it's the same you meant.
They were strong at dubbing, weren't they? Actually, they still are. Just take a good look at "Due South", isn't it funny. And all the old John Wayne movies and the westerns ... I prefer Farsi dubbing to German dubbing. The German language is too close to English, so they just try to say the same thing and it isn't funny anymore. In the persian dubbing they have to replace all the jokes with things related to our own culture. "Blazing Saddles" is a prime example - I could read the english jokes and hear the farsi dub. Sometimes they were saying something completely different but just as funny. BTW, I'm looking for Mel Brook's "Space Balls". Have you seen it? I saw twice in Germany - dubbed of course and I want the English original. And sorry - I don't buy dubbed movies. But I can ask around - maybe someone has them.
I'm not sure about the quality of the Menace - it's not handicam but not DVD version either - and it is not full screem (I think ...)
Well. I've bought Mad Max III and American Ninja and Jet Li's "Fist of Legend" but I haven't been able to watch them yet - too busy at the SM project. I was at the computer last night until 1 am - my eyes are burning ...
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Falern Posted Nov 23, 2000
Psh Psh Psh!
DA! you are right. people are nasty creatures. maybe i don't like it, because I wish they were not. That mocking of disabled or sick people is not funny to me. Ihave the same feeling about the previous movie of the diredtors, "Dumb and Dumber". cheating with a blind disable kid is more offending than funny.
The series was "Space 1999", staring Martin Landau & Barbara Bain. The original idea belongs to Harlan Ellison. Producers called him and asked for a soft idea suitable for a SF TV series. he gave them a dozen of obvious SF themes, but they rejected all, said they are so much complicated, and demanded another. somewhere I read he called it the most stupid idea he has eve sold. nevertheless, except the main theme, it was a good series.
I have a copy of spaceballs. I Copies it from METV (Israel chanel for middle east), but it's full of noise.
Please nim, check my list before shopping, especially when you want to buy an SF. I recently got a DVD copy of Mad Max Trilogy.
no time for fore watching movies, so no news. i'm still on 20th minuete of "Anna and the King."
Psh Phs Psh! Hey, have you ever heard of someone feeding a cat with Bubble around here? how does it tastes anyway? I hope it's not like Ghormeh Sabzi. (I hate IT!)
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nim the cat (STILL choking in air pollution) Posted Nov 25, 2000
My dear friend,
If you think I'm going to printout your list and lug it around in the case I get to buy a movie, you're wrong
I liked the movie "Starship Troopers". As I said, Heinlein painted a good picture of a future society based on the society at the time of writing the novel, but the film has taken it much farther. I don't know who wrote the script, but s/he made a damn good job of veiled references. For example, the shower scene, where the one girl admited that she had only joined because she wanted children and they gave permits easier to citizens, meaning that there are strict birth restrictions. All in all, the female characters are much stronger in the movie (in the book there are almost no female characters) . Also, there is a closer look at the insects and a better show of the advertisement/brainwashing for joining the service (did you realize that the advertuisement for PSI, the specialist who said that the insects are not intelligent, and the survivor in BA were the same person?). I also liked the starships. There is a trend that spaceships in movies have to be fast, but the ponderous slow moving ships here are closer to the reality. Sorry to disagree with you.
Have you seen "Princess Mononoke"? It's anime, not SF but about japanese folklore. The name translates to "Monster Princess" or closer "Spirit Princess" 3-4 years ago it had a much bigger boxoffice in Japan than the Disney movie of the year (Lion King I guess). Unforunately the copy I got is in Japanese. I had to go into the internet to understand the story. I have another anime from the same producers in English, "Warriors of the Wind", which IS kind of SF. It's one of my favorites.
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