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I was mainly talking about the release to the US market, where less than 1% of the population understand either Hindi or Telugu.
But even for India, I guess I should rephrase my question to āWhy is Hindi required to be involved here?ā. Yes, Hindi dubbing makes way more sense than English dubbing, but what makes even more sense is having the option of leaving the original audio and having subtitles in whatever language you want.
RRR is great in any language imo, Iāve never been one to worry too much about subs vs. dubs.
Saw Men. Classic A24 weirdness, sufficiently unnerving and spooky with a slightly hamfisted central theme. If youāre an A24 fan you know what youāre getting. Highly competent, slow moving cinema thatās at least trying to make a point thatās more than explosions are cool.
Terminator 2 is my favorite movie of all time. This is blasphemy!
I feel like Iām missing a time travel meta joke in that Terminator article.
Here is a hot take- I really liked T3, especially the ending.
You can join my club, youāll be the 2nd member. Loved the ending.
Thatās nothing. I like alien 3.
My theory is that maybe even in India, the Hindi dub was more popular than the original Telugu. So maybe some genius at Netflix saw the numbers and wrongly assumed that more commonly spoken language with the wider distribution was the original language, and the one in the regional language was a dub. In other words, Netflix āthinksā the Hindi is the original.
Iād guess this as well.
Goddammit this better not be true after seeing the Netflix average salaries on some other thread here.
Iām very intrigued by Criterion Channelās new microbudget collection of movies made for $150,000 or less. You guys have probably already seen Night of the Living Dead, Carnival of Souls, and Eraserhead. I know Iāve recommended Chan is Missing as being an extremely pleasant gem to watch. Let me know if you know of any other good ones here.
Edit: Iāve seen Following, itās not bad.
https://twitter.com/criterionchannl/status/1532068546087632896?s=20&t=lolSb9m-juL3b9MBYgV-7A
If you like Jarmusch I would put Stranger Than Paradise on the list.
Oh man, Shadows was extraordinary. This guy Cassavetes, heās very good and extremely weird. Iāve seen this and Death of a Chinese Bookie, theyāre so gritty but human and moving.
Opening Night is one of my favorite movies.
I saw The shooting and liked it, but it was a long time ago. Iirc itās a western but has a vibe which is more similar to the European (Antonioni?) movies of the time (60s). It has Jack Nicholson and I also liked the female lead (I donāt think sheās done much else). If you like it thereās another western by same cast and director (ride in the whirlwind), and you can also watch ātwo lane blacktopā.
On that list I also watched Wanda recently. I donāt know if Iād recommend it, itās a bit depressing. I think itās mostly well known as an example of an early independent film made by a female director (Barbara Loden, also wrote and starred) and with a female main character. (She was the wife of famous director Elia Kazan but apparently he was not so happy with her going into filmmaking. She didnāt make another movie).
Sorry to interrupt, but:
https://twitter.com/MikeJudge/status/1532549921450205195?t=pvYZmsbFOXmeAXz6Ya_l0g&s=19
RRR very enjoyable. Jusy about the first thing I have seen on Netflix that lives up to billing, also one of the few action movies I have legit enjoyed since I was a kid. Hereās hoping there isnāt any troublesome politics embedded into it that I canāt discern!
Thereās a very subtle political message in RRR, but itās buried deep. You have to know a lot about Indian history to get it.