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MichaelB wrote:I wonder what "DUB" might stand for? Deeply Unsatisfactory Burbling?

tenia wrote: Tue Jun 11, 2024 11:40 am I suppose it's only a way for him to textually emphasis it's a dub and not the OV (since he covers plenty of foreign movies).

must be a lot of Marxist indoctrinated people down voting people with a legitimate gripe with being force fed a propaganda remake of a classic film in place of a classic 1994 film, in a supposed classics collection. get your head on straight people.

eerik wrote: Wed Jul 17, 2024 7:58 am Average blu-ray.com user:

must be a lot of Marxist indoctrinated people down voting people with a legitimate gripe with being force fed a propaganda remake of a classic film in place of a classic 1994 film, in a supposed classics collection. get your head on straight people.

Orlac wrote: Wed Jul 17, 2024 12:59 pm

eerik wrote: Wed Jul 17, 2024 7:58 am Average blu-ray.com user:

must be a lot of Marxist indoctrinated people down voting people with a legitimate gripe with being force fed a propaganda remake of a classic film in place of a classic 1994 film, in a supposed classics collection. get your head on straight people.

Which films are they talking about?

TechnicolorAcid wrote: Wed Jul 17, 2024 1:12 pm

Orlac wrote: Wed Jul 17, 2024 12:59 pm

eerik wrote: Wed Jul 17, 2024 7:58 am Average blu-ray.com user:

Which films are they talking about?

The Little Women ones.

Orlac wrote: Tue Jun 11, 2024 2:58 pmThere is an annoying poster on Blu-ray.com who tends to write words like "cut" and "not" in CAPS. It's like being shouted at.

MichaelB wrote: Wed Jul 17, 2024 2:02 pm

Orlac wrote: Tue Jun 11, 2024 2:58 pmThere is an annoying poster on Blu-ray.com who tends to write words like "cut" and "not" in CAPS. It's like being shouted at.

Considerably more annoying is the same poster's habit of posting absolute cobblers about Indicator releases (and, I daresay, others) without fact-checking first.

He keeps doing it, so I can only assume that he's got some kind of Tintin cosplay fantasy going about being an intrepid journalist - but a proper journalist would of course do the necessary fact-checking bit before going public.

A case in point: someone on an obscure Jean Rollin fan group on Facebook grasped the wrong end of the stick about whether or not there'd be any more Indicator Rollin discs - he was French, so may well have misunderstood "nothing scheduled for now" as "no more ever", and in any case he was talking to someone from distributors Limewood Media, not anyone from Powerhouse themselves. Anyway, he posted that the Rollin series had prematurely come to an end, and our mutual friend was so convinced that this was MAJOR BREAKING NEWS that he excitably recirculated it across multiple platforms with much bigger audiences - in the process wasting a fair amount of the time of more than one member of the Indicator team as they tried to put a lid on it. And this wasn't a first offence.

(Why don't people fact-check these things, when it could hardly be easier? A mere PM to me would sort everything out immediately, and it's not as though he didn't already know this, on account of the last time he seriously misled people.)

MichaelB wrote: Wed Jul 17, 2024 2:02 pm

Orlac wrote: Tue Jun 11, 2024 2:58 pmThere is an annoying poster on Blu-ray.com who tends to write words like "cut" and "not" in CAPS. It's like being shouted at.

Considerably more annoying is the same poster's habit of posting absolute cobblers about Indicator releases (and, I daresay, others) without fact-checking first.

Sexy by this movie

TechnicolorAcid wrote: Fri Oct 18, 2024 3:13 pm From an Amazon review of Jungle Blue that reads:

Sexy by this movie

Dear Laura Palmer, Queen Of Heaven:

Everyone loves you so very very much. I love you so very very much. I remember you and hold you in my mind laughing, dancing, radiant, a star. It is how everyone remembers you unless they are remembering when you were sad, when distant, when impulsive, when cruel, when manipulative. Laura it is all all right. What you were was how to be in a place where the angels themselves could not stand to be. It was you who gave them the courage needed. They looked up and saw you there. They saw you accept death over corruption. They saw you and they knew you like they have always known you. Dear Laura you are in my heart, you who have known the worst in man, and the worst in what is not. You found how to be, and how to be you, uncompartmentalized, yet giving each person the you you thought they loved the best but they loved you because they saw you, radiant and shining and full of love. They saw you that way because you saw them. You saw them and their lives of total depravity, ruled by whim and appetite and blindness, manipulated by even darker parts of themselves and not themselves, that which fed upon and cultivated and delighted in the very worst of man. Venality, base abjection, these are the common currency of life, how life ebbs and flows and turns. That is not nothing because without baseness, venality, life could not be, would not be. That which purposefully manipulates baseness and venality into a complex crisis of hurt and pain and suffering and humiliation and betrayal, life turned into an inescapable trap, awareness of which only adds layers of hurt, that is not only a which, but a who as well. The who that that is, although addicted to engineered suffering, is just as petty and cruel and low and base as that upon which it feeds. That which truly loves us without suffering and causing suffering in return can only do so at a distance so far away that it is like starlight. That which truly loves us and wants and hungers close is close enough to hurt and to damage and to rend and tear. Dear Laura you understand that life is not possible without layers of venality, of baseness and corruption, of desire both transcendent and selfish, that life entails hurt, entails suffering. You chose to not be a vehicle for that which would feed upon the suffering of others. You wouldn't be surprised at how many could not make that choice when necessary. I love you Laura Palmer. I have loved you more than half my life and for what is left of it. You who are to me my shining star, my patron saint, the very Queen Of Heaven sitting atop a throne of office no one else is brave or wise enough to hold. To me you are always alive, always present, watching over your town and your loved ones, visiting them in dreams and visions, speaking through the wind in the trees, through the pulse of your lifeblood which survived your very death, as all of what you were and are and always shall be. Hail To Thee Laura Palmer Queen Of Heaven! Know That You Have All My Heart For Now And For Always. <3 <3 <3 Love, nathaxnne

Randall Maysin Again wrote: Fri Oct 18, 2024 10:30 pm From Letterboxd. I am speechless:

Dear Laura Palmer, Queen Of Heaven:

Everyone loves you so very very much. I love you so very very much. I remember you and hold you in my mind laughing, dancing, radiant, a star. It is how everyone remembers you unless they are remembering when you were sad, when distant, when impulsive, when cruel, when manipulative. Laura it is all all right. What you were was how to be in a place where the angels themselves could not stand to be. It was you who gave them the courage needed. They looked up and saw you there. They saw you accept death over corruption. They saw you and they knew you like they have always known you. Dear Laura you are in my heart, you who have known the worst in man, and the worst in what is not. You found how to be, and how to be you, uncompartmentalized, yet giving each person the you you thought they loved the best but they loved you because they saw you, radiant and shining and full of love. They saw you that way because you saw them. You saw them and their lives of total depravity, ruled by whim and appetite and blindness, manipulated by even darker parts of themselves and not themselves, that which fed upon and cultivated and delighted in the very worst of man. Venality, base abjection, these are the common currency of life, how life ebbs and flows and turns. That is not nothing because without baseness, venality, life could not be, would not be. That which purposefully manipulates baseness and venality into a complex crisis of hurt and pain and suffering and humiliation and betrayal, life turned into an inescapable trap, awareness of which only adds layers of hurt, that is not only a which, but a who as well. The who that that is, although addicted to engineered suffering, is just as petty and cruel and low and base as that upon which it feeds. That which truly loves us without suffering and causing suffering in return can only do so at a distance so far away that it is like starlight. That which truly loves us and wants and hungers close is close enough to hurt and to damage and to rend and tear. Dear Laura you understand that life is not possible without layers of venality, of baseness and corruption, of desire both transcendent and selfish, that life entails hurt, entails suffering. You chose to not be a vehicle for that which would feed upon the suffering of others. You wouldn't be surprised at how many could not make that choice when necessary. I love you Laura Palmer. I have loved you more than half my life and for what is left of it. You who are to me my shining star, my patron saint, the very Queen Of Heaven sitting atop a throne of office no one else is brave or wise enough to hold. To me you are always alive, always present, watching over your town and your loved ones, visiting them in dreams and visions, speaking through the wind in the trees, through the pulse of your lifeblood which survived your very death, as all of what you were and are and always shall be. Hail To Thee Laura Palmer Queen Of Heaven! Know That You Have All My Heart For Now And For Always. <3 <3 <3 Love, nathaxnne

Semi-abstract animation, the geometry of dancing bodies. Some of it's quite lovely, but it doesn't stand up to rigid C21 social critique. Cultural appropriation, say whaat?