Chateau Lloyd

My resolve not to pay the big bucks to see Godzilla: Minus One in the theater could not withstand the combined power of my family.  So the bunch of us trooped off Saturday to catch the matinee.

I've got a review underway for Bleeding Fool, some I'm not going to repeat myself.  It should post this week.

Suffice to say that it's a superb film, the kind one rarely sees this days.  Everything just worked, and the rawness of the emotion reminded me of Akira Kurosawa's Ran, particularly the part where a character wondered if he was already dead, living in a personal hell.  That was very reminiscent of Lord Hidetori losing his mind.

In short, solid. 

Something that I didn't mention in my review was how the subtitles seemed an afterthought, and other than lead roles, the rest of the credits were in Japanese characters.  I'm assuming the DVD release will have a revised version, but it felt very much like the American audience was an afterthought. 

It has pulled in a descent amount of money, and the number of screens continue to expand.  There are about 4,000 screens in the US, and this has appeared on about half of them.   In fact, 300 more were added last week.  The American box office to date is $34 million, and there does not seem to be much of a falloff. 

To put that in perspective, last week it beat Disney's latest clunker, Wish, as well as Ridley Scott's bloated and ahistorical Napoleon.

Not bad for a foreign film with a $15 million budget.