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Godzilla: Final Wars (2004, Japan, DVD)
I have just two words for this film: Surround Sound. Godzilla: Final Wars is so far hands-down the best test for the 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround Sound set up I have. I couldn’t put the volume past halfway for fear of vibrating glasses off shelves. The Surround track was very well mixed and freaked me [...]
Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003, Taiwan, DVD)
A moviemaker’s movie, Goodbye, Dragon Inn is not for everyone. Actually, I’d bet that 99.99% of all Americans would dislike it because there’s virtually no action and dialog in the film. Set almost entirely in an old Taiwanese movie theater, the action and dialog one gets is in the movie “Dragon Inn” (a 1966 martial [...]