366 Photos - 29/366 - One of those completely rainy days...

[byslantedlight]

I thought it was only supposed to last for the morning too, but it's been all day...
It's been a busy week - and I'm all behind in replying to comments again, I'm sorry. Tomorrow, or Sunday at the latest cos there's a vague chance that there might be moments tomorrow when it doesn't rain, and my legs are all wanting-to-be-out-of-the-house-ish. *g* Definitely not enough exercise today!

Today I finished work and finally crashed to watch Mad Max: Fury Road. I wasn't entirely sure what to expect - I loved the Mel Gibson ones (though only the first one in the original un-dubbed version - grrr!), and they don't seem that long ago, and... but I thought they did a really good job. They didn't try and copy the originals, they took it somewhere else completely. And so good to see strong female characters - I hadn't been expecting that! Anyone else seen it?

Comments

RE: un-dubbed version

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised you've seen anything else, living over here - I've tried to find the proper version for years and years, since I first got here (about 5 years after it came out) - and couldn't. Well, not without paying a fortune, anyway. But yeah, it was dubbed with American voices so that an American audience could understand it (which is just patronising, if you ask me, quite apart from completely changing the film), and that was the release that was available here on video and then dvd for years... You could eventually get hold of the original version in dvd, but that was relatively recently. There's a slight effect like that in the new movie, where some of the actors (and Theron, obviously) have American accents, which would be fine, but if the world's exploded in apocalypse, then how would she have got there? And besides she says she grew up in a place in Australia, so it doesn't make sense there, either... If they'd just given her (and the others) a get-out clause then fine, but... it niggled at me when I was piecing together the story... Good movie apart from that, though!

RE: un-dubbed version

[fiorenza-a.livejournal.com]

Ahh...that's why then.

I've never seen it on DVD or VHS, only on telly - and that was definitely Australian.

I would say America thinks the world is American, but I'm beginning to think it's just the TV/Film execs these days - the Americans I meet online seem very attuned to the fact that there's a whole other world out there, where people don't just look foreign - they actually are foreign. With whole other ways of doing things.

Good to know there's a dodgy version out there though - I shall avoid!