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?

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un-dubbed version

[fiorenza-a.livejournal.com]

There's a dubbed version? I can't imagine Steve Bisley dubbed...

Haven't seen Fury Road (or the awakening Star Wars - latter omission to be rectified shortly, hopefully).

Just catching up on Death in Paradise, which seems to have started without me.

[merentha13.livejournal.com]

That is a terrific picture - I see a new wall paper for my computer at work!!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I'm rather chuffed you like it enough to want to look at it alot - thanks! *g* I thought it had a sort of stained glass quality with the branches, only not... anti-stained glass... or something. *g*

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!

RE: un-dubbed version

[murphybabe]

Sorry to jump into BSL's thread, but WHAT HAPPENED to Death in Paradise? Where are Fidele and Camille? I'm not convinced...

[murphybabe]

That's an interesting photo in its own right though. The weather is a bit grim, isn't it? Although it was sunny here yesterday, with just drizzly bits here and there, and today has started with glorious sunshine, so I am lucky up here. Hope you can get out and shake the fidgets out of your legs, and take some more pics!

I watched the originals of Mad Max, so I won't watch the new versions. I very rarely like updates - but then I'm not much for films anyway, I just don't have the attention span. But it's interesting that they took it in a new direction rather than just re-doing the originals. That has to be better than repeating the first formula, hooray! And strong female characters, even better!

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

Ah, the gloom of rain. Very well done!

I haven't seen the new Mad Max movie. I did see the originals, and I seem to recall the first one having Mel Gibson's voice, so I guess I saw the undubbed one. It's weird when you run across that. I always loved Michael Rennie, especially his voice. One movie of his that I finally was able to get hold of, was dubbed! It turned out it was made in Italy. But why they would dub his voice along with the rest is a mystery.

RE: un-dubbed version

[fiorenza-a.livejournal.com]

They both left to pursue their careers, I'm glad they kept Camille's Mum though.

I couldn't see any reason why she had to leave the series just because her daughter had - and neither, apparently, did the producers.

I like the new characters - but it did take a while to get used to them.