Aerial View Of Vatican City
Originally uploaded by plemeljr. There are two multiplexes in Oviedo, one within walking distance, the other needs a bus, and an awareness of the finish time of the film (or a bus and taxi). They both show pretty much the same programme, which doesn’t include anything not in Spanish. They’re not big on V.O. releases here, apparently there is a cinema in Gijon which does them sometimes…
We don’t let that stop us though… I still like going to the cinema once a week or so. I was tempted to go and see ‘Let the right one in’ the other day but I reckon I’ll wait and see it in an original version with subtitles… some films just need to be seen with the original performances because, despite the skill of the dubbers, something is lost when you see dubbed films.
I saw Star Trek last week, and it was fine… they included Chekov’s difficulty with his w’s but Scotty! By all accounts Simon Pegg’s accent was geographically diverse but all I got was some slightly differently accented Spanish (I still can’t really tell accents apart, some of the South American ones yes).
Yesterday I went to the cinema intending to see something worthy but there wasn’t anything like that on (until 11pm… and I wasn’t going to hang around) so I did Angeles y Demonios. Which, as the Kermode said (I listened to the podcast this morning) is the stupidest film for a very long time. I was waiting for the equivalent of the ‘Get me to a library, now.’ line from the DaVinci rubbish and sure enough… with a straight face and daft hair Tom Hanks said ‘I need a map of Rome with all of the churches on, now.’
The exposition was a little hard to follow and the wayward Northern Irish by way of Tasmania accent from Ewan McGregor was utterly lost (apparently no big loss there) but the last half hour was laugh out loud utterly stupid. I had low expectations and they failed to be met by some considerable degree. The additional effort required to keep up in another language made it bearable… in English I’m pretty sure I would have been throwing things at the screen.
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Am surprised you didn’t shout: ‘Show me to the exit…now!’ ;) Sounds hysterical.
“…in English I’m pretty sure I would have been throwing things at the screen.” that made me laugh out loud
So Ewan McGregor´s accent isn´t scottish… well anyway I love that accent