"I Am Cuba" documentary - General Tiki

M MrBaliHai Tiki Socialite Behind the Cheddar Curtain Joined: Jun 01, 2002 Posts: 1031	M MrBaliHai Posted posted on Mon, May 15, 2006 1:14 PM I just received my "I Am Cuba" DVD from Amazon, and watched it last night. I loved the cinematography, and the nightclub scenes were glorious. However, the heavy-handed propaganda that suffuses the film got old pretty fast, and the Russian narration that overlapped and drowned out the actors' dialogue on the soundtrack was incredibly freakin' annoying! It's like listening to a constant echo coming back in the wrong language. It came close to ruining the entire experience of watching the film for me. I'm amazed that the DVD menu doesn't provide any way to turn off this narration. Why couldn't they have stuck this on the SAP track when they remastered it so the viewer could choose to enable or disable it?

I just received my "I Am Cuba" DVD from Amazon, and watched it last night. I loved the cinematography, and the nightclub scenes were glorious. However, the heavy-handed propaganda that suffuses the film got old pretty fast, and the Russian narration that overlapped and drowned out the actors' dialogue on the soundtrack was incredibly freakin' annoying! It's like listening to a constant echo coming back in the wrong language. It came close to ruining the entire experience of watching the film for me.

I'm amazed that the DVD menu doesn't provide any way to turn off this narration. Why couldn't they have stuck this on the SAP track when they remastered it so the viewer could choose to enable or disable it?

Post #232074 by MrBaliHai on Mon, May 15, 2006 1:14 PM