Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald (1997)

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A project that took way longer than it should have...
Nevertheless, I finally present to you Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald, from 1997!

This movie tells the story of the cast & crew of a radio drama's late-night broadcast—the drama itself being an adaptation of a script submitted by a writer for a contest where the winner would have their story turned into a radio drama. After having done a run-through of the drama before it's set to go live, the cast & crew are seemingly ready for the final run.

Until the lead actress of the drama (played by the wonderful Keiko Toda 😍) decides she refuses to participate anymore unless she's given permission to change her name.

With only minutes left before they're scheduled to go live, the producer gives her permission—but then the other cast members decide they want to change their names as well, and even go as far as to have the setting changed and other aspects of their characters as well! Consequently, this begins a comedic chain of events where both the cast & crew improvise the story as the live broadcast goes along, much to the dismay of the original script writer.

I was recommended this movie by a friend back in January 2023—I don't remember how the movie was brought up, but I was looking for new stuff to watch since I had caught COVID at the time and had to isolate in my room.

The movie was FANTASTIC. Literally kept me on edge and there's tons of chuckle-worthy moments as well. The subs? Not so much. The version I watched didn't have very good subs and kind of affected my enjoyment of the movie, somewhat. I later found out that there was a better set of subs out there but even that had its own issues too.

The rest is self-explanatory. This project was started in March that same year, finished with re-translation & re-timing that same month, and...well, the rest is followed by delays & stalling, from my end. I didn't send it out for TLC until May, and I didn't get it QC'ed until July later.

All that was left at that point was for me to give it a final watch so I could make any edits along the way, but it was here when I only began looking at it once in a while and there was a brief period of time where I didn't even check it for months. Ultimately this was finally finished this past week, but if I had put in the effort for it this probably could have been posted in 2023.

That pretty much sums up the history of this project, but I'm not entirely finished with it just yet. Right now I just wanted to focus on getting the movie out ASAP but I intend on releasing a v2 at some point in the future with tons of extras and maybe a Spanish translation of this movie. We'll see.

Enjoy!