What was the last movie you've seen?

[Jmustang1968]

but I also would've been fine if they were men and don't think that the movie was enhanced because they were women. Most of those roles could've been interchangeable and not bothered me.

I am having trouble imagining a dude

war rig driver stealing all the villain's husbands and driving off to the green land of the fathers.

Well...

I guess the wives would stay wives, but I think Furiosa character could've been either gender. The mothers didn't have to be the mothers, could've just been mixed genders etc... You are being explicit with the swap, obviously some story/setting elements would adjust slightly. But like I said, I enjoyed it the way it is.

[marurun]

but I also would've been fine if they were men and don't think that the movie was enhanced because they were women. Most of those roles could've been interchangeable and not bothered me.

I am having trouble imagining a dude

war rig driver stealing all the villain's husbands and driving off to the green land of the fathers.

Well...

I guess the wives would stay wives, but I think Furiosa character could've been either gender. The mothers didn't have to be the mothers, could've just been mixed genders etc... You are being explicit with the swap, obviously some story/setting elements would adjust slightly. But like I said, I enjoyed it the way it is.

Well now, hold on there a moment...

I'm starting to like my idea of a citadel of war women led by an aging hag in poor health who has delusions of godhood and sends our her damaged but skillful male driver, who has in reality smuggled out all the husbands.

The particular reason I found the subversion of

having Furiosa be a woman originally from a community of survivor women to be ultimately a plot positive is that if Furiosa were a man, it could be suggested that he was just offering the wives freedom so they could be HIS wives or his long lost community's wives instead of the villain's wives. Having Furiosa be a woman suggests that 1) she wasn't acceptable herself as a wife, thus her role as a war rig driver and that 2) she has experience with a community, however much in her past, that is welcoming to women and not interested in exploiting them and, as a matter of fact, lacks the ability to exploit them as there are no men to see them as baby-machines.

Furiosa also serves, in a way, to humanize Max, who is indeed quite mad by the time he's free of the grill of the pursuit vehicle. She brings him down in a way I'm not sure another dude (at least in this world) could, and without it becoming their tragic love story (or a love story at all).

[RCBH928]

for foriegn films would you rather watch it dubbed or subtitled? The problem with subtitles is that you always have to keep your eye on the screen and read every word

[Xeogred]

Subbed.

[isiolia]

I usually prefer subtitles. The more you watch with them, the less of an issue reading them becomes.

The main reason is that subtitles tend to provide a more accurate translation. The same expressions or ideas don't necessarily take the same time or syllables to say in English (or whatever) as they did in the original language. So if a dub is trying to match that, the script can get distorted.

Sometimes, of course, the dub can be better or work better for comedic timing. Or it's just preferable because I'm not watching the screen the whole time. Or the movie is dubtitled anyway (when they just take the dub and closed caption it, instead of using a separate script, like some of the recent Disney releases of Ghibli movies).

[Ack]

having Furiosa be a woman originally from a community of survivor women to be ultimately a plot positive is that if Furiosa were a man, it could be suggested that he was just offering the wives freedom so they could be HIS wives or his long lost community's wives instead of the villain's wives.

This comes across as you just thinking very little of men.

Also, Fury Road was absolutely awesome.

[CRTGAMER]

I was flipping thru the channels and saw an FPS video in action on the Sci Fi Channel. Hey wait a minute I have this movie, Doom! Perfect timing to catch it right at the start of the "game run" scene. Okay the movie is crap, but the FPS run always fun fro a rewatch.

Flipped thru more channels and spotted a colorized version of I Love Lucy! Caught just the last ten minutes of it, fun to see the 1950s sitcom in color. I hope it airs again, good move by CBS to bring back a "Retro Show" to be discovered by a new audience.

http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/i-love- ... 201473873/

In an effort to draw in viewers hankering for nostalgia, CBS will broadcast two colorized versions of “I Love Lucy” starting at 8 p.m. on May 17.

The one-hour special of the classic sitcom, which starred Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz as Lucy and Rick Ricardo, features episodes “L.A. at Last!” and “Lucy and Superman.”

“Lucy and Superman” follows the trials of scheduling kids’ birthday parties. It first aired in 1957 and features George Reeves, star of TV show “Adventures of Superman.” William Holden guest stars in “L.A. at Last!” which has Lucy and Ricky finally landing in Los Angeles because Ricky is appearing in a new motion picture. The special will also show additional material that has not been broadcast since the episode first aired in 1955.

[Exhuminator]

Silverado
My latest red beans 'n' rice western. I may have seen this before when I was a kid, I kind of got flashes of deja vu here and there. Anyway, the movie was well made and filmed nicely. The plot was rather vanilla and feel good Hollywood blandness though. I mainly wanted to see this because John Cleese was in it, but his part was very brief. I was taken aback by how much Kevin Kline resembled Robin Williams when they both have beards, mostly in the eyes. Anyway, not much else to say. It was an OK western, nowhere near the heights of the best I've seen in the genre, but it wasn't terrible either.

[prfsnl_gmr]

On Saturday, my wife and I watched:



A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014). It is a black-and-white vampire film, set in Iran, directed by an Iranian-American woman, with dialogue in Persian, shot in Southern California, and only released theatrically in the United States. The plot is wafer-thin, at best, but the film is incredibly moody, gorgeously shot, and well-acted with an absolutely spectacular soundtrack. It is definitely more of a mood-and-feeling film, and it reminded me in equal parts of Kathryn Bigelow's Near Dark and Carl Theodor Dreyer's Vampyr.

Also, the vampire, played by the beautiful Sheila Vand:

is one of cinema's best.

I highly recommend this film (especially to Ack, DSH, and Noise).

[Ack]

A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night has been on my radar since its release. I've been meaning to check it out but haven't gotten the chance yet.

Argh, so many movie recommendations. Fast is telling me to finally go watch Things to Come.