And what would you rate it out of 10? I saw Invisible (2017) on January 1st. It is a Spanish drama film directed by Pablo Giorgelli and stars Mora Arenillas as a pregnant teen. It was good, but not great. I would rate it 7/10.
shareThe last one I saw was a French movie called "Made in U.S.A" (1966). It was directed by Jean-Luc Godard, which, if anyone is familiar with Godard, you then know just by mentioning his name that it's a complex and hard-to-understand film lol. It was quite good though. 7/10.
I also watched "Home Alone" (1990) and "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991). Of course those are English-language films (I assume by foreign language, you mean not English), and I've seen them both before, but this time I watched them dubbed in Japanese. Japanese is my second language (and I'm not entirely fluent but I can understand a fair amount).
I wasn't crazy about the Home Alone dub. Overall it was good, but one of the things about dubbing in East Asian countries is, a lot of times a grown woman will do the voice of a young boy (I don't know why, if it's because of child labor laws or what). Such was the case here. I couldn't get used to Kevin's voice the whole movie lol. A grown woman trying to do a 9-year-old boy's voice just doesn't work; he sounded like he was 4. If he was actually 4, or if this were an animated film, it might have worked. But they should have just had a 9-year-old boy do the voiceover lol. Other than that, though, it was good. Normally Home Alone is 10/10 with me, but I have to knock the dub down to 7/10. Still good, but not great like the original English version.
As for The Silence of the Lambs, I thought the dub there was pretty good, but... well, the performances in the original film are some of the greatest in all of movie history, so nobody was going to measure up to Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster. Overall, though, the voice actors did a great job. Especially Clarice's actress. The actor who did Lecter's voice... I thought his voice was a bit too deep, and I wasn't entirely sure he conveyed the creepiness of Lecter's character as well as Hopkins did. But, again, it's Hopkins so nobody was going to measure up lol. All in all it was great. And my favorite scene, the scene where Clarice tells Lecter the story about the lambs, gave me chills as it always does. 10/10 for English original, 9/10 for Japanese dub.
I love Godard, but haven't seen Made in U.S.A. yet. I've seen 14 of his films, with Contempt and Weekend being my favourites. That's cool that you watch films with Japanese dubbing.
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shareApril 9th (2015 Denmark) "In the early morning of April 9 1940, the Danish army are alerted that the Germans have crossed the border. At the Southern border, the Danish Home Guard are ordered out to hold back the enemy until the Danish reinforcements can be mobilized."
And tonight or tomorrow I plan on watching:
Roads to Koktebel (2003 Russia) "After a widowed father (Igor Csernyevics) is fired from his engineering job due to his alcoholism, he and his 11-year-old son (Gleb Puskepalis) set out from their Moscow home on foot, jumping trains and hitching rides towards the Crimean coast. On the way, they barter a stay at the rural shack of a cantankerous recluse, Mikhail (Vladimir Kucherenko), but the father is shot in a drunken argument. He stays on with a tender nurse (Agrippina Steklova), and the son heads off by himself."
7:19 about the worst earthquake in Mexican history. It was alright but wouldn't recommend it. 5/10.
shareI just finished watching this https://moviechat.org/tt1417075/In-Darkness, a bleak, gripping, powerful, underrated film.
shareBaran - 8.5/10
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