Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-05-03 (Friday)

On 5/5/2024 1:47 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:

anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:

Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

I watched:
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ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS:

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I bet!
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What did you watch?

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Hey, thanks for asking!

 Also.
 The Plex offered a list of 50 best submarine movies. There are only 49
entries on it though. :-) Some of which are great choices, some of which
I’ve never heard of and some of which are downright dogs.  Specifically,
“the forbidden room“ which I nominate for “worst movie ever made“
 

An infinitely long list to add to.  :)

I finally saw “the atomic submarine“ which is kind of goofy, but not in a
good way, but it does definitely form the basis for a couple different
voyage to the bottom of the sea episodes.
 Also, the Plex had GODZILLA MINUS 1
 The subtitles on Godzilla minus one are about five seconds ahead. So when
the subtitles say.
Bad.
Bad.
Bad
Bad
Bad!
You know something bad is about to happen
 The special effects are beautiful to look at, although as usual, nobody
understands physics
 I was unhappy that boats and ships start and stop instantly like
automobiles.
And that giant explosions a short distance away from them doesn’t cause
them problems from waves. It was seriously liked they blocked out the
action with shopping carts in the parking lot.
 And they keep saying jet planes, but you know propellers
 Godzilla swims like an alligator which is really really cool but then he’ll
stop and stand up waist deep as called for. But later in the movie we find
out that he’s not standing on the bottom he can just float like that.
 And I’m still puzzled by the scene where the subtitles call for them to
push the levitation button
 I did find a lot of the production design charming, where it both looks
real and like a toy at the same time. They split a fine line there, and did
it very well.
 Honestly, I think I’d wait for a better version to surface
 

I saw that in theatres back when.  I thought it was a great homage to the original "Man in a rubber suit" Godzilla while also being a good story.
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