tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801441755423984496.post2988248415679237283..comments2024-03-05T17:26:44.559-08:00Comments on Roman's Movie Reviews and Musings: Gamera vs. Guiron (1969) – MST3K ReviewRoman J. Martelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09545497713474664555noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801441755423984496.post-60868840817576926172017-12-30T09:47:36.681-08:002017-12-30T09:47:36.681-08:00Gotcha. That does make a lot of sense. Japanese ha...Gotcha. That does make a lot of sense. Japanese has a lot of words that mean multiple things but it all depends on the context of the sentence to figure out which meaning to go with. Took about a semester of the language about 10 years ago and that was one of the real struggles I was having (as well as having a very poor teacher).Roman J. Martelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09545497713474664555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801441755423984496.post-88190989165925636082017-12-30T08:44:30.093-08:002017-12-30T08:44:30.093-08:00As I understand it, the whole star/planet controve...As I understand it, the whole star/planet controversy stems from how the Japanese word hoshi can mean either a planet or a star (in the sense that they're both lights in the night sky), and the translators apparently Just Didn't Care. Tragically, this sort of mistranslation still happens. I don't know if you remember Nobunaga the Fool. It was an anime series with a concept (in this case Oda Nobunaga teaming up with Joan of Arc and Leonardo da Vinci) that sounds awesome on paper but falls flat in execution. Anyway, the setting has two planets, one based on Sengoku era Japan and the other on (mostly) Renaissance era Europe. Their names get translated as Star of the East and Star of the West respectively.Sitting Ducknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801441755423984496.post-50065338696136675372014-11-25T16:30:00.031-08:002014-11-25T16:30:00.031-08:00Yeah, I've got a similar movie that taught me ...Yeah, I've got a similar movie that taught me the joys of "so good its bad". Its a horrible 80s fantasy flick called "Wizards of the Lost Kingdom". It was just plain stupid, and silly and bizarre. My friend and I watched that thing a bunch of times on VHS, I think we wore it out. I keep hoping to see it get a DVD release one of these days, because I bet it holds up as a cheesy bad movie.Roman J. Martelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09545497713474664555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801441755423984496.post-58852923275917237552014-11-25T11:17:46.658-08:002014-11-25T11:17:46.658-08:00I first encountered films from the early 60s such ...I first encountered films from the early 60s such as "King Kong vs Godzilla" or "Mothra vs Godzilla" (in the theater no less) while still part of the target audience. Yes, my friends and I knew they were cheesy even then, but we didn't care. This film I saw at 16, and it might have been the first I enjoyed purely on a so-bad-its-good basis. If so, it brings to mind WC Fields' line about the woman who drove him to drink: "That's the one thing I'm so indebted to her for." If this film did indeed drive me to the so-bad-its-good habit, I am in its debt.Richard Bellushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10108081864942272619noreply@blogger.com