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Brickset Bendybadger Bonusball - SumoLego Edition, Part 三
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Aloha Bricksetters... Happy Friday to Everyone in the Forum!
I'm back again to do the Bonusball Extravaganza. The first fifty nine (59) unique posts get a number for Saturday's UK Lottery Draw. I'm sure someone can post the winning number on Saturday, as I still (still!) haven't been able to figure out which one is the correct one.
As I have a wide variety of extra sets, polys, figures and Lego-related whatnot in my inventory, the prize will be a bit of a "winner's choice". The only condition will be that whatever prize the lucky winner chooses - it will be revealed further below in thread.
Given than I am a Kurosawa samurai movie enthusiast - and that Rashomon is one of my very favorite Kurosawa films and my lovely wife can't stand the sight of subtitles, anything in black-and-white, the lack of happy endings and Japanese over-acting... the question of the day is:
What film do you wish your significant other, spouse, parent, pet, best friend, worst enemy, @Pitfall69, @Legoboy, children, or co-worker would appreciate just as much as you do?
As noted above, I tried to get my wife to watch and appreciate Rashomon, and it failed completely on all levels. She hated the subtitles, that it's filmed in black-and-white, the subject-matter of the story, the four different versions of the story, and the fact the film does not give the viewer the objective 'truth' of what actually happened.
Her answer for me would be Titanic. Probably because I always laugh at the end of the movie, and that I get exhausted from three hours of rolling my eyes, shaking my head and trying to leave the viewing area.
I spent twelve (12) hours in a Continuing Education Class yesterday, and I am doing my darnedest to spend this day avoiding the avalanche of work that accumulated on my desk, so pardon my rambling.
Enjoy!
I'm back again to do the Bonusball Extravaganza. The first fifty nine (59) unique posts get a number for Saturday's UK Lottery Draw. I'm sure someone can post the winning number on Saturday, as I still (still!) haven't been able to figure out which one is the correct one.
As I have a wide variety of extra sets, polys, figures and Lego-related whatnot in my inventory, the prize will be a bit of a "winner's choice". The only condition will be that whatever prize the lucky winner chooses - it will be revealed further below in thread.
Given than I am a Kurosawa samurai movie enthusiast - and that Rashomon is one of my very favorite Kurosawa films and my lovely wife can't stand the sight of subtitles, anything in black-and-white, the lack of happy endings and Japanese over-acting... the question of the day is:
What film do you wish your significant other, spouse, parent, pet, best friend, worst enemy, @Pitfall69, @Legoboy, children, or co-worker would appreciate just as much as you do?
As noted above, I tried to get my wife to watch and appreciate Rashomon, and it failed completely on all levels. She hated the subtitles, that it's filmed in black-and-white, the subject-matter of the story, the four different versions of the story, and the fact the film does not give the viewer the objective 'truth' of what actually happened.
Her answer for me would be Titanic. Probably because I always laugh at the end of the movie, and that I get exhausted from three hours of rolling my eyes, shaking my head and trying to leave the viewing area.
I spent twelve (12) hours in a Continuing Education Class yesterday, and I am doing my darnedest to spend this day avoiding the avalanche of work that accumulated on my desk, so pardon my rambling.
Enjoy!
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I'll go with the original Japanese Godzilla (Gojira)
Although any of the old American b-movies that feature giant monsters would be up there too!
My wife hates them all
What I cannot get her to watch, sit through, entertain the idea of, is Star Trek The Wrath of Khan.
I absolutely love that film and would love to share my excitement of the film with my better half but after nearly 15 years of trying to get her to sit down and watch it, all to no avail, I don't think I ever will do.
Unfortunately, anything subtitled is a big no no for my wife. She says she can't be bothered with them. It's shame, as I've seen some cracking films over the years.
It's almost disappointing when they get picked up by hollywood or wherever and get remade in English with more well known actors. One of the better remakes is Let The Right One In. I have to say that the remake (Let Me In was pretty good and stayed true to the original, but it still lost a little bit of noir magic all the same. Maybe it's because it had Chloë Grace Moretz as a lead, whereas Lina Leandersson in the original was totally unknown to me so her character was more believable.
Not that I believe in vampires of course ;-)
Which doesn't just cause issues with Rashomon, but basically any Kurosawa movie. The bluray of Sanshiro Sugata (and Part Two) hasn't been watched yet since I acquired it last year, because "do I really have to watch another Kurosawa movie?"
But the 1 movie I probably never get her to watch anymore is 2001: A Space Odyssey. Personally I love the allegory and that is is largely non-verbal. When we went to see it earlier this year though at our local philharmonic, it seemed to cause her physical and mental agony to "have" to sit through it. Made worse by not being able to simply get up and get out of the room...
Most people suck...
Unfortunately, my wife is just unable to stay awake while watching it. :-(
Thanks for doing this for us @SumoLego!!
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Although she didn't enjoy The Lego Movie or The Lego Batman movie nearly as much as I did, even though she does also enjoy Lego, so I guess those two are my answer.
As a side note, she had never seen Star Wars prior to us dating. Lucky for me, when I showed them to her she quite enjoyed the films. We also showed them to her younger brother (he'll be 10 in just under two weeks) and converted him to the fanboy level. I'm not sure her parents were thrilled with that, but oh well.