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Das Cinema
Feb. 6th, 2006 08:53 pmI'm sitting here looking forlornly at the beat-up VHS case of "Das Boot" I picked up from the library, because I really want to see it, but I really don't want to see it dubbed, and dubbed this version is. Yet the tape appears to be the only copy in town. Sigh. On the bright side, the reason the Nikopol comics haven't shown up yet is that there actually aren't any in the entire county (wait for it), so the library is going to buy them for me to borrow.
Continuing the German WWII movies theme, I watched "U-571" last night, which, though it turned out better than I expected from the case and cast, pretty much proved Saturday's point about Hollywood movies vs. world cinema. ( spoilers and dissatisfaction, etc. )
That's all I'm going to get into, because the rest is more of the same big-budget historical-fiction beef. I will add, though, that Harvey Keitel remains creepy, Matthew McConaughey remains boring, Thomas Kretschmann remains a chameleon, and a scene near the beginning made me add one more category to the post about sexy foreign language-speaking from last week.
Continuing the German WWII movies theme, I watched "U-571" last night, which, though it turned out better than I expected from the case and cast, pretty much proved Saturday's point about Hollywood movies vs. world cinema. ( spoilers and dissatisfaction, etc. )
That's all I'm going to get into, because the rest is more of the same big-budget historical-fiction beef. I will add, though, that Harvey Keitel remains creepy, Matthew McConaughey remains boring, Thomas Kretschmann remains a chameleon, and a scene near the beginning made me add one more category to the post about sexy foreign language-speaking from last week.
