Lydia
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Well, the statement was cited by me
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Well, the statement was cited by me
It reassures me that this does not happen exclusively to me. But unfortunately it happens to me very often.(I certainly sometimes see while answering something that I misunderstood a comment completely, stop my answer. So I ask myself, how often I didn't get it at all).
I have to take a look at the whole thing in peace, because it's a bit extensive. But what I have seen so far is really very easy to understand.I hope you liked Richard's video (the guy is a professional for many years and has a very clear dictation, which makes him very easy to understand for us foreigners).
I don't know all of them, but of course I know that "Seven Samurai" is a classic. I actually don't like samurai and martial arts movies. That's why I don't like Kill Bill that much, too. I prefer Tarantino movies like Django Unchained. For me this is his absolute masterpiece. Of course, the actors also make it. I think Tarantino and Christoph Waltz are a fantastic team. And of course it's the dialogues again that make it so special.Easier available (I think both still on Bluray with German subtitles) are two of my all-time favorites from other Japanese directors, "Twilight Samurai" from Yôji Yamada (2002), not what one would expect from a "samurai flic", very subtle often times; the other "Sword of doom" by Kihachi Okamoto, much older, from 1966, and more of an action movie than the other, today not very well known but very, very influential, one of the scenes the best sword fight I have ever seen (kind of). (And no, I don't have that wonderful memory I admire in others. I had of course to look up the names of the filmmakers). Kill Bill (which are two of Tarrantino's movies I don't like as much as most of his others) absolutely pales in comparison (ok, of course only my opinion).
It reassures me that this does not happen exclusively to me. But unfortunately it happens to me very often.
I actually don't like samurai and martial arts movies.
I don't know all of them, but of course I know that "Seven Samurai" is a classic.
But I also like movies like "Memories of Matsuko" - available on Youtube in full length in German. The beginning might take some getting used to, but then it gets better and better. If you like this kind of movies....
Good ones, yes; really, really good ones, no. And most are simply acceptable, no more nor less, or just bad. When talking about movies I often mention some older ones, because they are important (and still a joy to watch), but I don't believe that older movies in general are better than those produced today (if you'd look carefully at what was made more than, say, 50 years ago, you'd see that the percentage of (near) masterpieces is probably as high as today and many movies are rightly forgotten or only shown as cheap tv fudder). Only in old times they had it far easier to be original. Nowadays it's harder and harder to have an idea that nobody else had before (so some of my favorite movies are only a few years old).Well, the world is full of good movies
You (or your wife ) have convinced me. I will watch it. I'll probably start with Yojimbo. I still can't imagine that I will like it, but we will see... I am curious.
Haha, that always happened to me with "Dr. Strangelove". I fell asleep every time I saw (or didn't see) this film because it was only shown in the late show. But that was a long time ago and I haven't seen it until today. And at that time we didn't have Internet or even DVDs. (Shriek , I won't say how long ago that was exactly, Helmut) But we had a few wonderful little cinemas that showed such films. I can't remember how often I watched Kubrik films there.Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968) is probably a hell of a movie and visually setting a standard not surpassed for decades, but as often I tried, I couldn't watch it. Everytime I fell asleep within 5 to 10 minutes, no matter how awake I was, even unsuccessful with watching it in parts. Usually I woke up at the end credits.
...but I still don't like it today - as a movie. For me it is more a source of optical inspiration.
* In this context, I highly question @Hasdrubal´s hypothesis that language determines thinking, aka Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. As a semi-retired IT professional I admit that is has value in coding languages. However, such musings on linguistic relativity have no place in this forum.
On the other hand, James Joyce, who selectively did neither, was a noted linguistic 3D modeller.
* Fortunately, great thinkers have invented religion, football, nationalism and MAGA for those who want a simple reality.
As to Joyce: most of us use language at the very idiot level and never much progress from advanced kindergarten simplicity.
* @Lydia: I apologise that we (Hasdrubal and I) have hijacked your thread to waffle on about totally unrelated matters. Sorry
I apologise that we (Hasdrubal and I) have hijacked your thread to waffle on about totally unrelated matters. Sorry
Absolution granted.Well, I do also apologize but actually am quiet sure that Lydia will give us absolution.
Okay, I'll be honest. I haven't responded for so long because Yôjimbo was lying on my bedside table the entire time, waiting to be watched. I put it off again and again with the excuse that I didn't have time right now. But in reality, I just couldn't imagine liking it. But I was wrong. I really do like it. It may not become my absolute favorite film, but I was decidedly pleasantly surprised and glad about your tip, without which I probably would never have seen it. The movie is really superbly staged, suspenseful, entertaining, clever and it even has a certain sense of humor that I wouldn't have expected at all. I don't know how to describe it as a whole - it's probably not the appropriate word, but ... - saucool.Please let us know how you appreciated it.
You don't know how I had to cajole my wife to actually watch the thing.
The strange thing is that I didn't find the film glorifying violence at all back then. How it would be if I saw it for the first time today, I don't know. Of course, how a film affects you depends a lot on when you see it (at what age, in what times, under what circumstances, in what mood...) - Anyway, there were no skinheads in our cinemas at that time and... yes, I still like the film today.your little cinema was a blessing, which reminds me of seeing a nocturnal of Clockwork Orange with another long haired friend. With us in the cinema where some 40 skin heads which resulted in an interesting intermission (you probably know in which scenes they stood up. Us anticipating this as the beer bottles flying around (and we were right, of course), sitting right in the middle of the skin heads)
Thanks, let's see where it will take me.So I wish you a happy voyage into the older world of cinema