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Tom Ronca - 2006-02-18 23:45:12
Thanks for the heads up on "Night Watch". A friend of mine gave me a bootleg of this to watch some time ago, so I wasn't going to bother to see it in the theaters this go-round. I had heard that Fox Searchlight was going to do 'something interesting' w/ the subtitles on the USA release (the bootleg I saw had the standard white subtitling; which of course was not legible half the time anyway), but that wasn't quite enough to get me to see it in the theaters -- but your comments are; hopefully this new subtitling job will make it a little more intelligible as well; you really can't trust bootleggers when it comes to the subtleties of translating a movie. I'll catch it this weekend or next for sure!
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Tom G. - 2006-02-19 01:10:54
Yeah, the latest effort from Ms. Crow is pretty lame. Her previous release wasn't so hot either. She obviously is fully capable of writing some good tunes though. Maybe her recent split from Lance will result in a good batch?
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Paula - 2006-02-19 11:46:18
Tom #1: Weirdly, the entire intro voice-over (the 14th century battle scenes) are in English! And then the subtitles kick in at the present-day action. As for seeing it in a theater: I just also think half the fun of a film like this is being in a packed house with other excited vampire-lovers!
Tom #2: Sheryl is totally capable of writing a hook, and her lyrics can be thoughtful, but she just caves in to the pressure to have that radio-friendly, treacly production and overwrought vocal style which kills the mood of every song.
I think at this point in her career she should pull a Roseanne/Johnny Cash and just start writing from her heart, have Rick Rubin produce her record, and stop worrying about having hits.
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Tom Ronca - 2006-02-19 12:00:36
A few distributors, knowing that audiences are somewhat reluctant to see a subtitled film, have been experimenting w/ a 'mix' of dubbing and subtitling. Last years' "High Tension" was done this way for its' American release (and I heard the overall result was terrible). It seems like "Night Watch" was more successful in that regard -- and really, if you're going to dub anything in a foreign flick, it might as well be V.O.
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Paula - 2006-02-19 12:39:16
True.
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Sharpls - 2006-02-19 13:42:38
I was likewise disappointed by Sheryl's Come On Come On...and most of her albums, come to think of it, despite some really enticing singles, like "My Favorite Mistake." But I'll continue to follow her career in the hopes she can come up with something as staggeringly great as the second record, Sheryl Crow, still one of my favorite albums and my idea of a modern pop classic. I read on your link that she always uses certain classic albums as a reference point when starting a new album, and for her latest Wildflowers they were Harvest, Tumbleweed Connection, All Thing Must Pass. I haven't had a chance to check it out, but I fear great disappointment.
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Tom G. - 2006-02-19 14:24:01
Sharpls: When I made that comment about Sheryl Crow being capable of writing good tunes "My Favorite Mistake" was what came to mind. And when I first heard that song, I was really opposed to liking anything new from her since I was kind of burned out by radio overplay, but she got me again.
And Paula, I read some interview with her where she said she had a double album worth of tunes in mind and decided that "Wildflower" was going to be her "art" record and the next one more commercial. Yikes!
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anne - 2006-02-21 08:26:10
Isn't there a sort of "urban myth" re Sheryl that another musician/former boyfriend wrote most of her early popular songs and got no credit for them and he eventually committed suicide? Maybe it relates to songs from Tues. Night Music Club only, I'm not certain.
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Paula - 2006-02-21 10:25:09
Oh, god, that's a terrible story in many ways. As far as I know, she had a "Tuesday night music club" (hence the title of the album) that met and wrote songs together, and everyone was properly credited.
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anne - 2006-02-21 16:21:42
you're right. shame on me for spreading rumor on so little info. upon googling, it appears there was some tension btw the (properly credited) TNMC guys and Crow when she and the album took off. per this sf gate article, though, it was a bit of a soap opera: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1996/09/15/PK43609.DTL
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Paula - 2006-02-21 16:26:50
shame on me for spreading rumor on so little info
Oh, no problem, and to be clear, I didn't mean I thought you were terrible for saying it or anything.
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