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"Baffling murders, fascinating plot twists and remarkable camera work all contribute to this spellbinding, time-honored film noir written, directed by and starring Orson Welles (Citizen Kane, Touch of Evil). Hired to work on a yacht belonging to the disabled husband of femme fatale Rita Hayworth (Gilda, Separate Tables), Welles plays an innocent man drawn into a dangerous web of intrigue and murder. The subject of great controversy and scandal upon it's initial release, The Lady from Shanghai shocked 1948 audiences by presenting Hayworth with her flaming red hair cut short and dyed champagne blonde. Decades later, The Lady from Shanghai is considered vintage Welles, his famous hall of mirrors climax hailed as one of the greatest scenes in cinematic history."
I repeatedly wonder how such sloppy product descriptions often persist for so long at Amazon.
Will no doubt have a look at all-region Blu-Ray players after this. There are several other titles which I know are region A releases that I would like to get my hands on. Don't know how common these players are, but I'm sure there are some decent ones out there.
Obviously now that you mention it, I should have checked blu-ray.com first, which I usually do in these cases (as well as read the product details better too, of course).
Didn't read the product description, and had to look it up myself. Incredible!
Ah, cool! I looked up one Blu-ray player yesterday that needed a special transmitter in order to send the correct codes to your player. Seems like quite a hassle really.
That's how I used to switch region codes on my old DVD player. Some brands didn't even need to be hacked, you just entered the code. I have an old Seiki Blu-Ray player that was like that, but most Blu-Ray players nowadays need to be pre-hacked before you enter the code. There are specialized websites that sell them.
And I liked that I'm growing as a Bond fan, learning new things, getting a bit matured to understand every aspects of being a Bond fan, and learning such etiquettes on how to be a Bond fan, I'm kind of growing and upgrading (and yes, improving).
One of the great things and essences about joining a community is where you can learn something, like getting into discussions, being able to open up and understand different perspectives and thoughts.
Now, I'm learning of how to share my thoughts and perspectives in a respectable and thoughtful way rather than just being a so called "rants" (if you know what I mean).
At the age of 20, I've learned to be a fan without any biasness, not just narrow minded fans who are biased towards things because some relies on nostalgia, because it's more popular and they tend to join the 'hive minds'.
I imagine Blu-rays might be a bit different (learned that this weekend). The Blu-ray external drive that I used to rip the film plays American DVD releases with no trouble at all, but won't play the Blu-ray disc. Different types of coding, I expect.
I will have to try and find an European alternative to the site you linked to @Revelator. I'm sure the must be similar sites out there.
That's very unfortunate @Ludovico. Does it leave you with time to look for other opportunities? I've been in the same situation twice myself, and know how difficult this can be.
Sorry to hear that, @Ludovico. I know you were enjoying that job better than the last place you worked. I wish you all the best and hopefully you'll be able to hold on to your job, or if it comes to it, find another suitable job.
I can barely believe this. People never would have stood for it.
That's probably why they didn't do it. There are some crazy ideas that I'm glad our politicians did not even ponder. It would have been a moment where even I would have tried to get an illegal gun somehow.
From the party that gave us..
The Conservates are such a steaming shower of shit, that I COULD believe that they would consider that. And you just know that a year after the British cat cull, they would find out that cats weren't even the problem.
Right on...
Yup. And now they'll be known as the party of wannabe cat killers.
Exactly what I thought. I know the Tories are regressive swines, but revising some failed lunacy from the 17th century?! Mind you, a couple of years back every Tory MP voted for a motion that said animals weren't sentient beings and couldn't feel emotion or pain! That's the level of ingrained clodwittery we're dealing with here...
They've clearly been reading the Red Grant serial killer playbook, and the David Dragonpol one too. Both started out their criminal careers killing defenceless animals.
In any event, I'd have hidden my pet cat Millie away rather than allow the state to kill it. Such stupid laws must be wilfully disobeyed by the civil populace.
They are not only slimy, lying, and self serving, but nutters too.
I am thinking of getting into shape, now if only I could find a punching bag with Matt Hancocks face on. He has the most annoying face ever seen in British politics.
Well, it looks like it's fine for them, such hypocrites, telling to revise those books because they contained offending and bad passages, but what about this?
Killing innocent animals are a lot more worse than every words that Fleming put on page!
Edit: Or maybe they would going to revise that too because that would be offending and not good for youths, right? Instead of killing cats, make it, "they're just going to make those cats sleep".
And yet, let's face it, it happens zillions of times a day if you count all the livestock raised for exactly that purpose (Disclaimer: I do enjoy eating meat - too much, probably -, but try to get it from sources where I can be fairly sure the animals were treated half-way decent while they were alive). And the Danish government culled a million or so mink, every single one in Denmark, after the Covid-19 virus was detected at several farms (those poor minks, of course, had that coming either way). We are just more sensitive when it comes to pets, especially our own. Which, I guess, is human nature.
People are getting a lot more worse as time goes by, very disappointing.
It's no different to killing numerous dolphins in Faroe Islands.
I wish many people will protest in this.
But that's it. People have learned to protest the wrong things; they no longer protest the right things. Obviously killing cats would neither have been a solution, nor something that is ethically defendable. I'm also confident that the UK government wouldn't have gotten away with any of that. Not that many cat lovers who would've agreed having their pets killed, that's for sure.
That's all true and well said. Thankfully the excesses of the UK Government in this area can sometimes be stopped by the courts, such as the stopping of the proposed TB-related badger cull in Wales by Pill LJ and the two other judges sitting in the Court of Appeal back in 2010:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/jul/13/welsh-badger-cull-halted
I imagine any proposed government cull of domestic cats in the UK during the Covid-19 emergency would have similarly ended up in the courts where the ultra vires ("beyond the powers") doctrine might well have been applied to put the brake on government ministers' powers.