Recently Watched Films

Just a bit nuts...

Hayao Miyazaki's return is quite possibly his strangest film but in typical Studio Ghibli style it is beautifully animated and enjoyable. If this does turn out to be his last, which we have to face reality that it might be at his age, he's at least ending on a high note. Apparently though he's still working so we never know!

A contender for the most mental superhero movie ever made. 

I used to have Django on DVD but I got rid of it because the picture quality was shit and it didn't have the original Italian soundtrack (I read once that the English dub doesn't accurately translate the film). This version however is fully restored, looks fantastic and has the Italian audio and English subs. 

I don't recall if I saw this in English or Italian before, but I watched with the Italian audio this time. As I said earlier, I'm pretty sure when I saw this before it was the only one of the three in decent quality. Like Django it also stars Franco Nero and actually copies a small part of its plot in a homage sort of way. 

Considered as the Zapata Western (although Duck You Sucker has a claim on that status too), I definitely enjoyed this one more being able to watch it in quality. I'm pretty sure when I saw this before I was watching an upload on Daily Motion or something so not exactly legal.  I stuck with the Italian audio as with the other two films in the set, but I'm thinking maybe this one should have gone with the English: there were a few parts in the film where the soundtrack reverted to English due to Italian audio not existing. I've seen this happen in other films before in collector's editions where the English and Italian versions have different cuts but the modern blu-ray is uncut and makes do with the soundtrack. It's a little jarring, but it doesn't happen often. If I recall that this happens when I eventually want to see this again, I'll probably try it with the English audio. 

All in all an excellent little collection.