Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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I liked 13 Going On 30, too.
I also kind of enjoyed Dirty Dancing 2, despite the fact that it's kind of stupid, Patrick Swayze was embarrassing, and the dancing was nowhere near up to par. I expected to hate it, and I just ended up not minding it, and kind of liking some of the clothes.
I was surprised at how unfunny Mr 3000 was, but I probably shouldn't have been.
I laughed my ass off at Harold and Kumar Go To Whitecastle, but I was expecting that.
Oh! I was surprised at how crappy most of the singing in Phantom was, and also at how bad the ADR was. Films that cost that much money should be able to afford both voice doubles and booth time.
I expected Harold and Kumar to suck mightily, but instead spent half the movie gasping for breath.
This isn't exactly a surprise, more like a bemusement.
We have the 3-disc Region 2? I think? set of Le Pacte des loups, and we have always watched the French version with subtitles. Just for giggles last evening, we watched the Brotherhood of the Wolf version, and I could swear it was recut, with some additional illustrative or illuminary footage for the American market. Does anyone know for sure?
The dubbing was, for the most part, quite well done. But the voices for Marianne and Gregoire were wrong, wrong, wronger than a wrong thing. All and completely wrong.
I saw Brotherhood of the Wolf in the theatre, and as I recall it was in French with English subs. I'll take the subbed version with the original voices over the dubbed, almost without exception.
Speaking of which, On Demand is showing Once Upon a Time in China, in Cantonese with English subs! This sort of thing usually turns up dubbed on Starz. Even on IFC.
I was surprised at how much I enjoyed I, Robot. (Also, Club Dread made me laugh so hard I almost peed. Didn't see that one coming. I've been meaning to see Super Troopers for months.)
When I was at the store picking up Angel S5, I just grabbed Empire Records and That Thing You Do- they were two of my college favorites and when I made the jump to DVD I somehow missed getting them. All is now as it should be.
I heart "That thing You Do!" not least because neither I nor my dad came out of it kvetching.
Beverly, I can't say for sure, having only seen the French language version, but I do remember hearing that they recut for the American release. Not sure what the changes were.
We got our (new! big!) TV yesterday and watched the new DVD version of Empire Strikes Back to break it in. Of the three, TESB has the fewest changes, and some were actually good. None (in this movie) were out-and-out bad. Anyway, that's not my topic. My topic is how much hanging out with you people has ruined me!!!! I swear to dog I saw the HoYay between Han and Luke.
So let's call that my biggest surprise.
Otherwise, I was expecting to either hate Amateur or just feel that it was a waste of time, but I ended up liking it quite a bit.
There's a Wallace and Gromit movie coming out this fall! Wheee!!!
WOOHOO!