Movies (and occasionally face slaps) (Part 1)

Id go as far to say if you like traditional sitcoms in general.

This is a pretty great film you can watch on prime. Very interesting take on racial politics but also funny and suspenseful.

The Northman. Not really sure how to rank this one, very mixed emotions. At times I was thinking this is pretty damn stupid but it also held my attention and had some cool stuff going on. One thing Iā€™m sure about is I didnā€™t like the color scheme.

Skarsgardā€™s traps are out of control.

I can at least see Tom Holland as a young Nathan Drake. Mark Wahlberg as a younger Sully, though? Nah.

Almost as bad as getting Kevin Hart to play a humorless, brooding, super jacked soldier in Borderlands.

So from the Elvis trailer I saw at Maverick, it looks like the Elvis actor is playing a young Travolta as Elvis. Looks horrible. But I bet the rubes turn out in droves.

I hate to tell you this, but you are engaged to my wife.

Donā€™t ever show her ā€œking arthur legend of the swordā€ or you will see it over, and over, and overā€¦

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Excalibur, however, is wonderous - one of my favourite films.

I think itā€™s really impressive that Boorman could make a movie like this and a movie like Deliverance. And heā€™s got a bunch of other good films to. Heā€™s got a great filmography and is perhaps a little underrated as a director. He has a lot of Best Director nominations but no wins.

Saw Top Gun 2 on the big screen today. Itā€™s a perfectly good summer popcorn movie, and itā€™s even a cut above most tentpole action movies. The aerial sequences are great, but as a whole it doesnā€™t impress as much as the recent Mission: Impossible entries. At times, it could have given the audience a little more credit. But still way better than a sequel to a nearly 40-year old seeming one-off has any right to be.

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Saw Maverick today and enjoyed it a lot myself. As a disaffected teenager, I wasnā€™t a fan of the original Top Gun but later mellowed and learned to enjoy it for what it was. Solid sequel that actually had a little more meat on its bones than the original, had pretty high stakes while still being fun as hell.

Also liked how they used Val Kilmer in what I would assume is gonna be his last movie appearance.

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So, I decided to check this out on Netflix.

Why the fuck is dubbed Hindi the only audio option? Itā€™s super distracting.

Iā€™ll probably finish it, but why canā€™t they just leave it in the original language?

That is really weird. How much effort did they have to go through to do remove that option?

Netflix in the US has it in subtitled Hindi. What a gorgeous movie, so many amazing shots.

Iā€™m pretty sure eyebooger is in the US.

Iā€™m still confused, though. Did you actually watch it in Telugu? Or did you watch an English dub with Hindi subtitles? If the latter, then it doesnā€™t sound like eyebooger had that option.

OIC, sorry I got confused. Netflix US only has Hindi audio with various subtitles.

https://twitter.com/blgtylr/status/1531814690355036165?t=wz5TmuLjXgCnd-S2ugcN4w&s=19

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Yeah, and thatā€™s extremely annoying.

What I want for literally any movie not in English: Original audio, English subtitles.

Why is Hindi involved at all here? Imagine if the only option to watch Parasite was with Japanese audio.

Sucks, because I was pretty amped to watch this, but now my excitement has been cut in about half because of this.

I watched When Harry Met Sally again not too long ago and it is still an absolute banger. Meg Ryan in that movie, while almost certainly too irritating to live with in real life, I think is my ideal woman.

That should be obvious. Itā€™s an Indian movie. If youā€™re marketing it in India (which I assume is the primary target market), Hindi dubbing caters to more people than English dubbing.