I took a look at the list of films this weekend and immediately deleted The Conjuring (cheap horror probably in black and white with a shaky camera), Turbo (animated) and Despicable Me 2 (animated). So I picked four truly obscure movies:
- Only God Forgives ($315,000): Bangkok gore with Ryan Gosling
- although Rotten Tomatoes reviewers only gave it a 35% rating, I rather enjoyed it
- probably because in all my visits to Thailand, I would not dare enter this dark venue
- Fill the Void ($83,900): Israeli film about the marriage of Orthodox Jews
- Rotten Tomatoes reviewers: 85%
- a truly educational movie about the family life of Orthodox Jews
- the men sing at Sabbath meals--women don't
- not from film, but most of the Jews killed in the Holocaust were Orthodox, and about a quarter of Israelis are Orthodox, while in America, 15%
- Secretly and Greatly (?): North Korean spies who all die in a South Korean village
- action comedy released last month, breaking all Korean box office records, mostly teenage girls because...
- ...the three featured NK special forces intruders, flower boy stars from TV soaps, reared as monsters, all end up with heart
- reasonably well attended, but everyone in the theater was of Asian descent
- Untold Story (?): subheading of "Internment of Japanese Americans in Hawaii"
- being only 57 minutes long, not a real movie, although the re-enactments were excellent
- there were only three people in the audience
- Actually, there is a 1964 book by Kazuo Miyamoto, entitled, Hawaii: End of the Rainbow, that provides a lot of details about this theme. I identified with this publication because the author went to Stanford, but perhaps two generations before me. I noticed that the current Amazon.com cover is totally different from mine, which looks like this:
Turns out that The Conjuring was well attended this weekend, ranking #1, pulling in $41.5 million. Not black and white, but in color. Vera Farmiga is a heck of an actress.
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