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Riverdance: The Animated Adventure (2021)
What????
I was wondering why there was an animated Riverdance. I was confused as to how an animated set of dancers could ever hold a candle to the real thing. I find out that they can't. And let's not discount the tired old "beloved family member must die" in order to set our intrepid dancers on their story line. I'd say was disappointing, but it was pretty much exactly as expected.
The Lobster (2015)
Probably the weirdest movie I have ever seen.....
.....and I have seen Zardoz.
"The Lobster" is a weird horrible world where you must pair up or be turned into an animal. Even escaping from the system lands you in the same system, but rebranded. Yeah, it's a social commentary, but I am not sure what it's trying to comment on, except to exhort people to stop living by other people's rules.
Everyone is remarkably stupid. The women seem to refuse possible matches, and are also refused, and thus are turned into animals. Unless the point is that they are already animals, in how they behave in this system. Very little humanity is expressed so......
Definitely worth the watch, just to see the weirdness of it all. Fair warning It is is dark, depressing, and morbid.
Misty (1961)
A time capsule and loving homage
As a Marylander, this film is clearly a loving homage to the islands of Chincoteague and Assateague. A darling film, with a cast containing many locals, and actual Beebe family members (and their accents), this film has heart. Had to be a labor of love, or they would have brought in professional actors for it all, and left the look and feel of the locals on the cutting room floor. Instead we get a time capsule of a Mayberry style life, that was unique to the nation. You can still go to the pony crossing, and you can still buy ponies, but after some folk thought they could put the foals in their car trunks for the ride home, things changed, and they cost a lot more than they did then.
My 9-year-old daughter is sitting next to me, here in 2012, transfixed by this 1961 film. A must see.
Tri orísky pro Popelku (1973)
Yes, there is a dubbed version.
I have it. It's wonderful, richly costumed, and magical. It's a throw back to the earlier versions of Cinderella where she goes to the ball three nights in a row-each in a different dress--sort of like "Cap 'O Rushes". I just wish there was a dubbed option on my disk for my kids. I remember seeing this on TV in the 70's and I SWEAR it was dubbed--and with a different voice actor for each role--not "Polish Style". It may have even been an After School Special. This version is glorious, as Cinderella does not wait around to be rescued. I don't want my daughter waiting around for anyone, so this is a much better "role model" than the Disney Cinderella--by far. I still like the Leslie Ann Warren version, but if this was properly dubbed, I throw her over in an instant.
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Truly awful
How can this movie be getting such good ratings? Why did they spend SO MUCH TIME on the lava planet when we KNEW we were there just so Vader could get scarred and get his suit? Just jump in the cock-a-doodle lava already and tell me something about the story I don't already know! Why was everyone able to move about said planet and not even break a sweat--even down near the actual flow? What? No fumes? Did nine months really pass??? I certainly could not tell. I can tell you that I am a mom of full-term boy/girl twins, and when I was Padme's size, I still had 12 weeks to go. No way that tiny tummy produced those gargantuan babies.
Now don't even get me started on the "It's alive" scene with Vader.I was laughing so loud that the guys in front of us turned around and stared at us. It was just awful. Why was he chained to the table? How is it that there are so many fine young actors in the world, and they get one that can't act for Annekin? Can he do anything but glower like a con geek? I certainly had no feeling that he truly loved Padme. Thank god for Ewan McGregor If it wasn't for him, this movie would have been sheer torture to watch.