What are you watching?

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The above video explains a common occurrance in statistics (and how it's used to game public perception of random expectation.)

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I was looking over the Twitter profile of this guy (the creator of Sonic the Hedgehog) :


He was paying tribute to the creator (one of few female game designers, Rieko Kodama) of Phantasy Star and Skies of Arcadia in March 2022


https://www.destructoid.com/rieko-kodam ... -sega-art/

I came to the same conclusions as the video, in that the insider trading accusations were targeting him since he put a dart board on himself over the years. The problem is he was actually responsible twice for insider trading (and did way more than $20,000, but up to a million in another company)

Sonic creator Yuji Naka arrested (again) for insider trading
https://www.polygon.com/23465970/sonic- ... quest-tact

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuji_Naka

He was "on his way out" over the years, from both Sega, but also Square Enix (and he seemed to be underperforming or underdelivering several times if you read his Wikipedia.)


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The Death of Stalin (2018) and other junk

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https://www.vice.com/en/article/ywxnxk/ ... e_facebook

https://video.vice.com/en_ca/video/how- ... 6028a79877



Random crap
https://archive.org/details/bitchute_-_ ... video_2021
https://archive.org/details/societyglitchaugust2017

I recently redownloaded GTA IV and recall this almost exactly.


https://youtu.be/kPeb493B6d8?list=RDJXEhtFb8Was

GTA V has an interesting "Easter Egg" that seems to segway into Red Dead Redemption 2, regarding a Mount Chiliad used for end game sasquatch/shroom hunting.

This Half-Life "universe" story is compiled by the same video creator who does a pretty good job.



Municipal Courts are incentivized to screw people over
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginal ... rison.html

Though I can see a benefit in getting people off the road that pose a threat to society (such as DUI/DWI or posing a public threat of abuse or at risk of harming others) the above article does highlight some of what shows up on this list of warrants:
https://www.waco-texas.com/files/shared ... ntlist.pdf

You could find some correlation to this as well (basically societal exploitation and the byproduct of inadequate standards to healthcare, and a byproduct of consumerism.)

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GTA TV playlist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPeb493 ... XEhtFb8Was




Abridged retelling of All Tomorrows, a story written and illustrated by C. M. Kosemen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Tomorrows



Kenji Mizoguchi movies (with English subtitles)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... ZsDjhqzexy

The Director had surprisingly high recognition when you study film. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/search?s ... 0mizoguchi

It's easier than trying to find the downloadable subtitles to append to a dvd. . .

I might just resort to downloading them on Archive.


The only source of 'A Geisha' (1953) with English subtitles I could find (though I suspect it was retitled "Musicians of Gion" as a continuation of an earlier 1936 'Sisters of Gion' film) I'll attempt to
https://ok.ru/video/2057286453870

One of two color films he did. (Taira Clan Saga aka Shin Heike Monogatari and the French name for the movie is 'Le Heros Sacrilege.') (subtitles https://subdl.com/subtitle/sd14006/tair ... monogatari )


That and Princess Yang Kwei Fei (1955) (subtitles https://subdl.com/subtitle/sd1624768/pr ... g-kwei-fei )
. . . Though the subtitles don't seem to match and might be a bad (good?) joke. . . At one point a nobleman is talking about another guy trying on robes and talking about their beauty, and then a woman is presented, they mention, "too bad the Emperor wasn't attracted to your daughter." It was difficult not to laugh.

Their is also a Zatoichi Jidaigeki (period drama) character that had 22 films made (and likewise, it's rare to find much on the series.)


It's easier to go to the movie above (click on the icon) and find the movies at the bottom, because searching for it doesn't easily compile the order sequence from 1-22.
https://archive.org/search?query=zatoichi&page=3


I just realized their are two different English dubs for Akira
https://tapefreaks.blogspot.com/2019/11 ... kiras.html

The DVD version I've seen first was the 'Streamline Dub" which I actually prefer, because it just makes sense for the personality of the anime.


I had to stop watching the new one because it just doesn't vibe with what it should be (though I will continue to watch it.)

Update: Only 2 versions of the English dub exists, and the one I was used to is the Pioneer dubbing which apparently is the newest adaption (though I assumed it had an even newer version by Pioneer; it seems it was reintroduced with the original movie release as well as the option to switch between their newer version.) https://dubbing.fandom.com/wiki/Akira#Dubbing_History

Admittedly I like the changes with the 2001 introduction as it just matched the character of the story. I'm still confused, especially after checking the Manga, as it all seems very different depending on how you analyze it.

Akira complete manga
https://archive.org/details/akira-book- ... Book%2001/

vol 1 alt printing
https://archive.org/details/manga_Akira ... 3/mode/2up

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Movies only



A list with timestamps

Spoiler

Show

30. Oldboy - 2:48
29. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans - 7:00
28. Citizen Kane - 11:21
27. My Dinner with Andre - 15:32
26. Akira - 19:17
25. Gone with the Wind - 23:57
24. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover - 27:45
23. Mirror - 32:23
22. Ordet - 35:43
21. La Haine - 39:31
20. Love Exposure - 44:02
19. Persona - 47:59
18. Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles - 51:55
17. Mulholland Dr. - 55:50
16. The Searchers - 1:00:39
15. Barry Lyndon - 1:05:00
14. The Night of the Hunter - 1:08:58
13. Tokyo Story - 1:13:46
12. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - 1:17:48
11. Taxi Driver - 1:21:14
10. Apocalypse Now - 1:25:25
9. Yi Yi - 1:30:52
8. Seven Samurai - 1:35:46
7. Andrei Rublev - 1:41:10
6. Spirited Away - 1:46:38
5. Fanny and Alexander - 1:50:47
4. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy - 1:54:44
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey - 1:58:48
2. Sátántangó - 2:04:28
1. The Godfather Part I & II - 2:10:42

Some of them:
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/satantango
7 hrs? Satantango [English Sub]
https://archive.org/details/satantangosub

3hr
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/andrei_rublev




It's debatable which version to watch and most of Tarkovsky films really demand that you isolate yourself in a room with nothing else present to distract you. Apparently different versions have different audio samples.

I forgot about this one
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Story





I came across these:
https://archive.org/details/film_one
https://archive.org/details/cnmps
https://archive.org/details/15_alice

The last one has Bicycle Thieves (1948) which should have made the top list, and 'The Circus' (1928) is widely regarded, though these versions have subtitles in Thai or something and it get's really distracting to see subtitles overlayed with it (except The Circus is a silent film and places the text differently. . .)
The second link has Will Penny (1967) which is a decent western with Charlton Heston (and his favorite role).

Bourne Trilogy is also pretty good (I noticed the Bourne Legacy in the other links, and am reminded why I didn't watch it.)


A bunch of foreign films
https://archive.org/details/2-comando-commando-1985

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La Haine (1995) is a longer version than the Youtube video
https://archive.org/details/la-haine-fr ... i-d-no-tag

Subtitles (use the one titled SUBDL.com__hate.la.haine411417 for the Archive video)
https://subdl.com/subtitle/sd12715/hate-la-haine

You will need to auto-translate (though I'm going to be looking for the subtitles in English)


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Considered one of the greatest silent era films (contemporary to Metropolis)


Stalker - the other Tarkosvky film (the other is Andrei Rublev) though not listed in the top movies.

I've tended to find the backstory of the film more interesting than the movie, and have yet to watch it not distracted.

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If you wanted to know what watching all the reels in the national archives felt like:
https://archive.org/details/usarchive_webdev17









https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/insiang_2007








Ancient Aliens is complete BS (I have a recent video which goes over pretty well why all of it is bullshit.)




Cherry 2000
https://tubitv.com/movies/312171/cherry-2000


Tons of really weird documentaries

https://archive.org/details/DocuCollection


BBC Horizons documentaries
https://archive.org/details/BBCHorizonC ... 12Episodes
https://archive.org/details/bbchorizon3 ... n14nov1994


Random VHS including 911 footage recorded
https://archive.org/details/societyglit ... litch.avi

Old VHS movies converted to digital
https://archive.org/details/video_archive_553-cd-207


Harakiri by Masaki Kobayashi (subtitles https://subdl.com/subtitle/sd14250/harakiri-seppuku )


You can download these documentaries and more: https://archive.org/details/okis-weird- ... +Cult.webm




Of course, it helps to listen to, 'Bonnie Tyler - Holding Out For A [Hiroo]' to feel inspired: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWcASV2sey0

His autobiography, 'Hiroo Onoda No Surrender My Thirty-Year War [with myself]'
https://archive.org/details/hiroo-onoda ... war_202111

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0:25 The guy is thinking, "this better be worth the $20 this BS Journalist is paying me."

https://www.quora.com/Is-conspiracy-the ... rustworthy





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Earlier I had posted a movie by Andrei Tarkovsky, titled 'Andrei Rublev,' based on a circa 1400 Eastern Orthodox painter who only has 2 authenticated paintings attributed to him (considered the best representation of Russian art. . .)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(Andrei_Rublev)

The Explanation Of This Famous Icon Will Give You A Deeper Understanding Of The Trinity
https://catholic-link.org/andrei-rublev ... explained/

The movie
https://youtu.be/je75FDjcUP4

A lot of the words in the subtitle are Russian slang which I was hoping to find find a list of to make it easier (though I'll probably just look it up as the movie progresses and try to stay focused.)

Russian Slang used:

Skomorokh (Jester)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skomorokh

"God made a priest and satan made a skomorokh."
Dialogue: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060107/ch ... /nm0125909

So in the film, you have a jester/bard/skomorokh who are the antithesis of the religious orthodoxy and who demonstrates free artistic expression amongst the serfs, and upon entering the shed to dry off in the rain, the painter (Andrei Rublev) and monks have a noticeable presence that has a starkly different demeanor from the leisurely activity that preceded them, and they soon witness the establishment come soon after to suppress the revelrous behavior (which was presumably reported by those who were witnessing them from outside the building looking in.) From the beginning of the film, it's evident that they are setting the stage for a critique of expression as an art form.

Some analysis
https://divinemagazine.biz/andrei-ruble ... -identity/



To get some back story:



I consider the movie Solaris to be one of his more approachable films but even then it's evident you can't always know what to expect. I can see the influence of Kurosawa's 'Seven Samurai' in how he directed Andrei Rublev (but likewise it's incredibly easy to see Korosawa's much later film, 'Ran' to be inspired from Andrei Rublev with the opening skomorokh/jester,) and '2001 A Space Odyssey' in Solaris, but I'm not sure to what extent his films are more of a byproduct of Cinema or time and place of where he's filming, as I can also see certain visual storytelling elements in 'Come and See,' from 1985 directed by Elem Klimov.

Solaris movie (the only way I could find a viable download was by using F12 and CTRL+F and searching .mp4 to open the video in another link, for download; using youtube downloader would constantly stop and reset, and any Solaris video on Archive is in a different subtitle language.) https://www.bitchute.com/video/ooPLFNdLzb9K/









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Birdman


Space Ghost
https://archive.org/details/SpaceGhostA ... owSegment1


https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1018699-shaft

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Toshiro Mifune's 7 Best Performances, Ranked
https://movieweb.com/toshiro-mifune-bes ... ai-trilogy

Samurai (Musashi) Trilogy by Hiroshi Inagaki




3hr 30 minute movie Chushingura by Hiroshi Inagaki (translation: 'The Treasury of Loyal Retainers' aka 47 Ronin starring Toshiro Mifune)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055850/


The backstory of the 47 Ronin situation that leads to seppuku (circa 1700)
https://www.japanistry.com/sengaku-ji-temple/

It's reminiscent of an earlier situation a century before where you can still find bloody floorboards used for ceilings in 5 historic Kyoto buildings after Fushimi castle was dismantled in 1623, following earthquake damage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fushimi_Castle
https://www.samuelhawley.com/bloodceilingphotos.html



Kenji Mizoguchi also covered the 47 Ronin and specifically created it during WW2 as a propaganda piece, though his film is mostly remembered for it's capacity to strain the viewers attention.
https://akirakurosawa.info/2010/09/15/f ... i-1941-42/

This covers the topic of the differences in both Mizoguchi and Inagaki's version (Chushingura) of 47 Ronin.
https://briandanacamp.wordpress.com/202 ... sterpiece/

Kurosawa also made a propaganda film, titled, 'The Most Beautiful,' and hated himself for it (mostly because it comes across as just that, and he didn't have creative control at the time.)

Kenji Mizoguchi version of The 47 Ronin (1941) (Genroku Chūshingura)


Both are just over 3hr 30 minutes long, and I have no opinion of which should be watched (since I have yet to fully watch either.) The newer Inagaki's movie has many more recognizable actors if you ever watched any Kurosawa movies, so it might be a bit distracting. Mizoguchi is more sterile in his approach sometimes.


Inagaki's 1962 movie rating (7.8)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055850/
More films by him https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrit ... hi_inagaki

Mizoguchi 1941-42 movie rating is (7.2)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033654/

A film came out in 1958, titled, 'The Loyal 47 Ronin' by Director Kunio Watanabe (7.4)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0198371/?ref_=tt_urv

And a 1978 film, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077135/

And of course (one I also didn't watch) starring Keanu Reeves
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1335975/

Basically, the films are boring and only intended for history. Despite Inagaki using Toshiro Mifune (who despite starring in it is not referenced on IMBD. . . oddly) along with costar Takashi Shimura being at the height of their careers, the film wasn't as successful as it could have been.

Personally I will probably start on Kenji Mizoguchi's version and then start on Inagaki's Toshiro Mifune's Samurai Trilogy (found on Archive org) prior to Inagaki's 47 Ronin, though I might do a run through of them all-at-once. . . if deciding to start on the 47 Ronin story while looking into little details if I get bored.

Better discussed:


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Gojira Fantajî: SF Kôkyô Fantajî
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087343/




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MANGA: Attack on Titan
by Hajime Isayama
https://archive.org/details/attack-on-t ... Empire%29/

It had some critical success (it made close to half a billion USD over the last decade) for Manga, movies (animated and live action,) and games
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Titan

Subbed and dubbed versions exist
https://www.adultswim.com/videos/attack-on-titan

The following will need to have these added https://subdl.com/subtitle/sd1342/shing ... -no-yumiya



Considering a season is about 12 gigs of data (plus spending time adding the subtitles)
I might just leave it at this:




In Japanese it goes by Shingeki no Kyojin (and has Arabic subtitles)

Subs https://subdl.com/sc/shingeki-no-kyojin ... an/english

Season 2
https://archive.org/details/shingeki-no-kyojin-s02
Subs https://subdl.com/sc/shingeki-no-kyojin ... on-titan-2

Season 3
https://archive.org/details/shingeki-no-kyojin-s03
https://subdl.com/sc/shingeki-no-kyojin ... eason-2018

Shingeki no Kyojin: The Final Season Part 1 (in Spanish)
https://archive.org/details/shingeki-no ... nal-latino
sub https://subdl.com/sc/shingeki-no-kyojin ... rth-season

Shingeki no Kyojin: The Final Season Part 2
https://archive.org/details/shingeki-no ... son-part-2
Subs https://subdl.com/sc/shingeki-no-kyojin ... son-part-2

For some reason the subdl search only works using google.

The animated series is significantly better than the live-action and games, as far as story development where it seems to have been dumbed down.

These are from the game series (and look stupid)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_CUWvR9kMk


It could be perceived as a bildungsroman akin to 'Ender's Game,' but with a stronger classical Greek/Roman lore in space?

It's easy to overlook it and assume from the title it was some kind of continuation of Titan A.E. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_A.E. ), or that it's referring to the Titan moon, but it's got actual mythologically inspired titans (which presumably in this series are real things that would have crossed over into myth based on the fact they exist, per se.)


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Lord of the Rings cartoons circa 1970s (click on the link for more in comments)



A lot of archival footage from space missions
https://archive.org/details/usarchive_webdev17

The #2623 video has features JPL Viking mission, with the Chief Engineer Gerald Soffen who was married to a Japanese women named Hoshi who did a lot of reviews during the 1950s to 1960's on Japanese foreign films ( https://www.rottentomatoes.com/critics/ ... fen/movies .) Gerald would have worked alongside Gentry Lee who would also be a Lead Engineer for Galileo, as well as worked on the Viking mission. I believe this is the credits for the video short https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12809632/

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A shorter 45 min anime https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2591814/

The Garden of Words (2013)



Anime! on TMS Official Channel
https://www.youtube.com/@AnimeonTMSOffi ... /playlists

Entire series (probably more rational than using Archive). I would go over the Lupin series (starting with Castle of Cagliostro.)


Star Wars and Conan movies, etc.
https://archive.org/details/httpsarchiv ... orporation

"Cyber Ninja" movie 'Mirai Ninja: Keigumo Kinin Gaiden' in English


Overlord anime https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Overlord_episodes


These seem good:
Season 1
https://archive.org/details/overlord-12 ... p-yurasuka

Season 2
https://archive.org/details/OverlordSeason2
Alt https://archive.org/details/overlord-ii ... p-yurasuka

Season 3
https://archive.org/details/overlord-ii ... p-yurasuka

Season 4
https://archive.org/details/overlord-iv-11-bd-1080p-sam


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Satyajit Ray's films are in this (Pather Panchali of the Apu Trilogy)
Along with Kurosawa's Rashomon
etc.






Subtitles (and in sequence)
https://subdl.com/subtitle/sd43235/pather-panchali
https://subdl.com/subtitle/sd49364/aparajito
https://subdl.com/subtitle/sd220135/the ... apur-sansa



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Klaus Kinski wouldn't approve.


Full movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=QHsNtNBZdeE

Seems my supposition is correct. . . Kinski would release his film around the same time, and they were mocking him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paganini_Horror


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I'm going over a lot of Kurosawa's work now and just realize I forgot about a movie similar to Ikiru and High and Low, about an Industrialist who was in fear for his life brought on by paranoia following WW2, called, 'I Live in Fear' and discovered the earliest work of collaboration with Kurosawa as a Writer, working with Toshiro Mifune's first acting role in Snow Trail, alongside Shimura, with a music score by the guy behind Godzilla movies.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039423/
https://archive.org/details/ginrei-no-hate



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Gate of Hell by Teinosuke Kinugasa

https://archive.org/details/gate-of-hell



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I recommend checking out this channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@OldFilmsRevivalProject




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James Stewart movies like Broken Arrow, or Winchester '73 are pretty decent.

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Viridiana(1961) by Luis Bunuel

https://subdl.com/subtitle/sd1621233/viridiana




His films are highly regarded
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/luis_bunuel











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Sci-Fi movies
https://archive.org/details/fav-neolite69

The Day the Earth Stood Still -1951 in original Black and White


A colorized version I've never seen before









More:
https://archive.org/details/jet-attack
https://archive.org/details/y-2-mate.is ... 6270780022
Minimalism https://archive.org/details/@minimalist_channel


https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050706/

https://subdl.com/subtitle/124618/mon-oncle

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/jacques_tati
https://archive.org/search?query=creato ... s++Tati%22




mr hulot’s holiday

https://archive.org/details/les-vacance ... t.-english


Marcello Mastroianni movies (you will have to guess which ones they are based on the year of release and actors credited)
https://archive.org/search?query=subjec ... 2movies%22
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrit ... astroianni

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Supposedly a 3 hr version exists (though has never been released) but my suspicions are that the video was played at a slower rate, and is really a 2 hr 30 min. No english subtitles exist to my knowledge for the 2hr 30 min, though the 2 hour version has English subs.,

2hr 36 minutes with english sub download (which does extend the full length though is a bit choppy due to delaying subtitles until after the foreign text)
https://archive.org/details/cabiria-191 ... ored-remix

Regular 206 min
https://www.bitchute.com/video/UrxhRu8o7IqA/


I was looking up The Nights of Cabiria (Le Notti di Cabiria) and the only Italian audio version (basically not a horrible Russian dubbed one) was uploaded to a porn website of all things, which had a surprising number of vintage films. . .






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CAMP DE THIAROYE (1988)
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/camp_de_thiaroye

Full 2hr 30 min version (I've only seen 1 CD versions, or 2 hours) (using fdown net)
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=702697080651303

I just confirmed this works 100% for the video
https://subdl.com/subtitle/sd1624354/camp-de-thiaroye




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A crazy amount of videos
https://archive.org/details/@larry_storch

And some other stuff apparently
https://worldscinema.org/2019/03/branko ... tion-1965/

https://www.freegreatmovies.com/






EVEN DWARFS STARTED SMALL (by Herzog https://www.freegreatmovies.com/Movie-D ... Herzog/649 )
1970
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/even_d ... rted_small
https://tubitv.com/movies/269876/even-d ... rted-small




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James Bond movies
https://archive.org/details/20211123_20211123_2246

Ranked from best to worse
https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/gu ... nd-movies/



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Some Indian films have been recently colorized, though I will need to look over them (my interest in Indian cinema extends mostly to Satyajit Ray.)

https://indiancine.ma/JPO/info


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I've looked over some of the newer Star Wars movies (I tended to only gloss over anything after Episode 1, and the only 'Star Wars' anything I was really interested in was KotoR, which I fully understand why the original game writer is reluctant for any movie adaptation of the game to be made, considering how abysmal everything looks to be.)

Is Disney to blame or did someone have an influence on the success of the original trilogy (and notice that when George Lucas' wife divorced it was as the third movie was coming out, which is noticeably regarded as less superior to the first two films.)

Why Star Wars Trilogy Editor Marcia Lucas Hates the Sequels
https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/star-w ... s-sequels/