Heroic Times (Deaf Crocodile)

Picture is very good…

Clipped directly from the BD.

…but they really need to proofread their subtitles! This movie has lots of typos.

Skip Samm Deighan’s superficial commentary. She approaches Heroic Times from the viewpoint that animation is only for kids. Now, before you correct me by saying that she defends animation as not only for kids, the fact that she constantly brings it up is, in fact, surrendering to the idea that animation is kid stuff. Her commentary is filled with filler: “I wanna talk about…,” “…as I said…,” “…I will talk about later…” And then there’s her maddening uptalk.

Processed by National Film Institute Hungary.

Zander the Great (Undercrank)

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Excellent.

Clipped directly from the BD.

The Amityville Horror (1979, Vinegar Syndrome)

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All-around excellent. No processing errors caught my eye. Natural-looking grain and not overly scrubbed. In this brief clip, flaws in the source are visible when you look for them, but they are completely fine.

Clipped directly from the BD.

I viewed the UHD. Its HDR10 is believable and non-blinding.

The Tragedy of Man (Deaf Crocodile)

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The Tragedy of Man (2011) is a movie that absolutely needs to be dubbed. Gorgeous animation, but the constant dialog means that my eyes are always at the bottom of the screen.

Add to that, impenetrable King James-style dialog:

Dialog is flying by while everything onscreen is moving, flashing, or doing some interesting thing. Add in this stilted olde English, and it’s impossible to keep up.

When movies were subtitled in the nitrate era, not every line got translated. I’ve seen prints where a single line covers entire scenes. We should return to that.

Then there’s the ridiculous vocabulary:

You can do pretentious writing in a spoken translation. That is, in a dub. It’s unreadable when put into subtitles.

And speaking of unreadable:

Give me a fucking break.

DUB MOVIES IN THE LANGUAGE OF THE AUDIENCE.

And an error that should’ve been caught:

Drunken Master (Eureka)

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While the processing wasn’t egregious enough to make any notes while watching, splices tended to be replaced by a combination of microloops, frozen temporal cloning, and interpolation. Still, a light hand overall.