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Written by Matt Gray on 2025-01-19 at 20:31

Let’s see if I’ve got enough brain to watch this for the first time.

I’m not counting the time it was on a distant CRT in a coach on a 1000+ mile coach journey 20+ years ago.

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Written by Matt Gray on 2025-01-19 at 20:39

First impression after 20m:

Everyone’s mumbling and it’s very slow.

(I was expecting it to be slow. I can only watch slow films if I’m ill, so it’s kind of the point)

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Written by Matt Gray on 2025-01-19 at 22:15

It’s still going.

They’re still mumbling.

The mumbling is now sometimes in Italian.

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Written by Matt Gray on 2025-01-19 at 23:18

It’s still going.

They’re still mumbling.

This is why I don’t watch highly acclaimed films.

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Written by Matthew Booth on 2025-01-19 at 20:33

@mattgrayyes You're in for a treat!

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Written by Cornelius K. on 2025-01-19 at 20:41

@mattgrayyes Mubles intensifies.

Hoping you get some enjoyment out of it though.

Wishing you a speedy recovery. :_)

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Written by Cornelius K. on 2025-01-19 at 20:41

@mattgrayyes aaand that turned into a Blofeld emoticon...

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Written by Konstantin :loading: on 2025-01-19 at 21:00

@mattgrayyes Perfect for 1000+ mile coach rides.

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Written by kym on 2025-01-19 at 21:35

@mattgrayyes yes, mumbling! i had to watch it with subtitles on

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Written by Athanasius on 2025-01-19 at 22:05

@mattgrayyes I found it slow, often poorly acted, mostly poorly directed, and the cinematography often sucked. I never felt motivations of characters were being clearly portrayed, it was just trudging from one scene to the next with little connection.

I would say "well, it's a 50+ year old film", but there are good films from that long ago (i.e. The French Connection).

I'm also told that the original source material (based on a book, right?) was worse.

I then suffered through watching the sequel, which was a bit better, but not by much.

Yeah, I know I'm probably in a minority, given how many people rave about it being one of the greats.

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Written by Gussy05 🏳️‍⚧️ on 2025-01-19 at 22:28

@mattgrayyes I just never had any desire to watch it, and I'll be honest, I still don't haha!

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Written by Gussy05 🏳️‍⚧️ on 2025-01-19 at 23:21

@mattgrayyes I would reccomend 'The Room' for braindead nonsense. But I have a feeling you will have seen it.

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Written by Tom Hayward on 2025-01-19 at 23:23

@mattgrayyes under no circumstance should you watch The Barber Of Siberia. I think after about 2 hours the first bit of plot started to happen.

I have watched a few odd films in my life, but that was the slowest.

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Written by stella on 2025-01-19 at 23:32

@mattgrayyes this is why i always use / request subtitles

so many movies have this issue where i just cant understand the speakers

part of it is because of my neurodivergency and speech processing issues, but its still so much worse in films compared to real life that there must be another factor

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Written by KSP Atlas on 2025-01-22 at 15:29

@stella@wetdry.world @mattgrayyes@chaos.social I think it's because they mix the audio weirdly, they make the voices quieter and the background louder, no idea why, it just makes it hard to understand

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Written by Niko (Martin) :heart_ace: on 2025-01-20 at 00:32

@mattgrayyes

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Written by Annavirrpanna on 2025-01-19 at 20:51

@mattgrayyes

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Written by Alda Vigdís 🇵🇸 🇱🇧 on 2025-01-19 at 20:52

@mattgrayyes I was a 13 year-old pseudo-intellectual when I rented the whole series one-by-one as a part of "old films are free with new films and you get a free bag of crisps" deal.

I'm still not a real intellectual.

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Written by The Film Canary on 2025-01-19 at 21:33

@mattgrayyes Distant CRT on a coach is the way Francis Ford Coppola intended it to be seen.

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Written by David on 2025-01-20 at 02:01

@mattgrayyes I’ve never watched it either and I really should

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