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 Posted: 07 Apr 2021 at 10:57am |
 This was pretty good.
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Posted: 07 Apr 2021 at 5:18am |
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I'd never even thought to look for it on there before. I can see there's several uploads.
Arrow Video in the UK released a book and blu-ray set last year (and a standard blu-ray reissue more recently). This is the very that includes the dialogue track, as the film would have been exhibited for US audiences of the time. |
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Posted: 06 Apr 2021 at 4:48pm |
I think I watched it on YouTube. It's well past the copyright period of 75 years, so it should be freely available.
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Posted: 06 Apr 2021 at 3:15pm |
 Little known Japanese take on H. G. Wells' character. It's got much more of a crime narrative, involving the theft of a valuable necklace, than the 1933 film. The special effects are similar but not as good despite this being from 1949. It's pretty solid overall. This is the first time the film has been released outside of Japan, by Arrow Video, along with 1957's The Invisible Man vs The Human Fly, which I also have lined up to watch.
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Posted: 06 Apr 2021 at 2:12pm |
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On Arrow Player there are black and white and the hand coloured prints of the film. I watched the black and white version, but I might give the colour a look as well another time.
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Posted: 06 Apr 2021 at 12:33pm |
The version I saw didn't have any spoken dialogue at all. It had been hand coloured though, which gave it a weird look. Funnily enough, respectable stage actors refused to appear on film at the time as film wasn't seen as a serious medium, so there's all manner of dancers and less scrupulous performers in this movie.
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Posted: 06 Apr 2021 at 7:16am |
 A meeting of the Italian giallo and the German Krimi genres. It's a basic but decent enough plot, but this has to have the worst special effects I've ever seen: model vehicles that are completely obvious and really ugly green screen scenes with thick black lines around the edges to highlight exact why images have been layered to create a scene.
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Posted: 06 Apr 2021 at 3:56am |
 Hell of a thing for 1902. Wasn't expecting it to have spoken dialogue either (it's still silent of course, technically, the dialogue is part of the audio track. Apparently they'd use a narrator on stage back in the day and the restoration recording reflects this). Obviously extremely inaccurate today, even more so than Fritz Lang's later Woman in the Moon almost 20 years later and it seems more like fantasy than science fiction per se, with the characters even introduced as being wizards, but this is sci-fi movie history right here. Worth a watch for that reason alone.
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Posted: 05 Apr 2021 at 4:08pm |
 Final part of the Yakuza Papers saga, although there's three more films that are stand alone from the main series with the same actors playing different roles. Really solid series overall.
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Posted: 05 Apr 2021 at 12:54pm |
I´ve watched this one recently. I wasn´t too impressed either. It had moments and I generally love dystopian/post-apocalyptic themes in movies, but this one was more of a twisted love story than anything.
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Posted: 05 Apr 2021 at 12:36pm |
 I wasn't sure if I had seen this before. I had, but it wasn't particularly memorable the first time, so I was about half way through before I realised I had seen it. Anyway, interesting story, but poorly executed. Tim Robbins just seemed like he was coasting in this one.
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Posted: 05 Apr 2021 at 12:32pm |
We have this on DVD. Both my missus and I thought something quite similar to you. And neither of us want to watch it again.
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Posted: 05 Apr 2021 at 12:18pm |
 Part 4 of the Yakuza saga I'm watching.
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Posted: 05 Apr 2021 at 10:44am |
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I liked it. It was crazy, funny, and moving:  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2584384/
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Posted: 05 Apr 2021 at 8:44am |
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It had potential, but it´s ultimately not that great. Very predictable:  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2076822/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
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Posted: 04 Apr 2021 at 2:27pm |
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Posted: 03 Apr 2021 at 11:10pm |
 I don't know what I was expecting here. Enjoyed the music and the anarchy, but this required just a bit much suspension of disbelief for some of the random destruction and violence scenes.  Complete arse. Trying to be a mix of Deliverance, Almost Famous, and Signs. It's just a fucking boring mess.
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Posted: 03 Apr 2021 at 4:10pm |
 Whether you like the music or not, this is an interesting slice of music history. It goes back to the beginnings of ABBA and what all the band members did before they got together. It also shows how they created the music. Even if you don't like it, there's a depth and complexity in the music here which is often missing from modern pop music. Could have done without the "Mamma Mia!" rehearsal clips, because the original vocals are so much better.  (Yeah, you can probably tell I was watching DVDs with the better half last night, who was a teen in the 70s.  )Not seen this in a while. I actually went to see it at the movies when I was a kid. A lot of it went right over my head then... Anyway, it's mostly good harmless fun. Some great songs and choreography, and some absolutely filthy humour, once you're old enough to get it...
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Posted: 03 Apr 2021 at 2:49pm |
 This was surprisingly pretty solid, given the middling reports I've seen for it. A psych horror with an atypical premise and female killer.  This has more potential than is utilised, but it's also a decent movie, combining the odd bedfellows of horror and romance. It perhaps would have been better though if it had left the viewer wondering about a few things at the end instead of a rapid change in pace and tone to wrap it up.
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Posted: 03 Apr 2021 at 1:45am |
 Part 3 of the Yakuza saga I've been watching. No dip in quality yet - it feels more like one really long film so far. Lots of action although sometimes difficult to follow who everyone is with so many characters and shifting allegiances.
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