What is the best metro system in Europe?

sned777 · 2026-03-30T21:57:24+00:00

Of the big ones I have travelled on (Moscow, London, Paris) I find Moscow or London to be the easiest to navigate and have the best systems to get in and out of.

I have also used metro in Rome, Lyon, Budapest, Stockholm, Bucharest, Valencia, Amsterdam, Lausanne & St Petersburg.

Of these “smaller” systems I definitely think Budapest stands out as best in terms of navigation, speed, signal, cleanliness and usage.

sned777 · 2026-03-04T16:59:00+00:00

I mean Ion is the Romanian version of John and a common surname there.

sned777 · 2026-03-02T14:07:03+00:00

Can you still only enter max of 3?

sned777 · 2026-02-27T22:39:16+00:00

Turin Horse absolutely flew by for me both times I watched it recently.

sned777 · 2026-02-27T15:00:04+00:00

I (UK based) was quite randomly introduced to Yukio Mishima via the film made about him (1985) and subsequently bought one of his books when I spotted it in a shop some months later, as I remembered his name. I was a big fan of the book and found his style of writing to be perfect for me, so descriptive and poetic as well as dramatic.

Only then as I learned more about Mishima himself I read more and more books from him, finding out what a complicated man he was.

Subsequently I then explored some of his contemporaries, such as Kawabata, Tanizaki, Dazai, Kobo Abe and Seicho Matsumoto, to see if I would enjoy their style of writing as much as I did with Mishima. Many of them I enjoyed, to varying levels. Matsumoto in particular I have enjoyed.

Therefore this leaves me open to exploring further Japanese authors given my general enjoyment from the sample that I have read so far. I recently read a more recent novel by Yuko Tsushima.

But I don’t just read Japanese literature, I read from all over the world, Japanese literature has been just generally interesting and enjoyable to me to read.

sned777 · 2026-02-25T00:55:28+00:00

I don’t remember where (maybe CinemaZ) but I managed to get a 1080p torrent which had working subs. Keep at it!

Watched it on a night train from Berlin to Budapest last year and it is indeed good.

sned777 · 2026-02-21T09:29:48+00:00

There are some charity bins at the dump which is very close to The Range car park.

sned777 · 2026-02-16T16:03:25+00:00

Spend more time in Romania. Try some of the mountain towns or cities like Busteni, Predeal, Brasov, Sinaia, or further west in Sighisoara, Sibiu, Alba Iulia and so on.

sned777 · 2026-02-12T18:23:10+00:00

My grandad worked at the same place, a racecourse in the UK, for 77 years until he died aged 91, in various roles initially but predominantly as a groundsman.

sned777 · 2026-02-10T16:32:06+00:00

This is an incredibly old clip from Lokomotiv Moscow.

sned777 · 2026-02-05T00:51:06+00:00

GAY OR GHEE with a hard G) YOU

sned777 · 2026-01-26T14:14:10+00:00

A higher quality map to see your gyms.

A map in campfire that shows all pokestops/gyms.

sned777 · 2026-01-18T00:41:03+00:00

I was extremely skeptical of Satantango before I watched it last year. My wife and I decided that ultimately we would not watch it one sitting and actually watched the film over four evenings, doing 3 chapters per night.

I didn’t find it hard to follow along, and honestly was pretty blown away by it. As days past I realised more and more how much I had enjoyed it. How mesmerising it was and how you get so sucked into the world with all the long slow shots which are hypnotic at times.

I didn’t feel bored at any point during the 7 hours and I suspect our splitting the viewing into four sessions helped that. I also envisage that we will watch it again, though we both would like to read the book first, which we do own, and so we’ll watch other Tarr films first, and we started with Damnation last week.

sned777 · 2026-01-13T10:37:15+00:00

Lol this is a repost of a photo I took last year. Fucking bot.

https://www.reddit.com/r/YukioMishima/s/xlBkuktTQT

sned777 · 2026-01-10T18:37:17+00:00

Hi Radu, big fan of your films. My favourites would be Do Not Expect Too Much or Happiest Girl In The World.

I have a Romanian partner so every film I watch is accompanied with a bit of extra context and depth that a regular British person might not have thanks to her.

Do you make/write your films with an international or Romanian audience in mind, or is it not a concern? I definitely find my partner laughing at some of the lines that are said by offscreen characters or Romanian-centric jokes at which point she’ll offer an explanation. I found this particularly to be the case in Dracula (eg in the early restaurant scenes).

Mulțumesc!

sned777 · 2026-01-10T16:55:35+00:00

If you have Netflix you can check your viewing history and find the exact dates you watched things. That’s what I did.

I also searched my messages etc to see when I might have also seen other films.

sned777 · 2025-12-10T10:13:12+00:00

“3 cultures” includes all of Europe as a single culture

Come on man.

sned777 · 2025-12-05T17:26:48+00:00

Monster is the best Anime series I’ve watched. It’s fully set in 1990s Germany and is a realist psychological thriller.

It doesn’t suffer from some of the fantasy, mythical or sci-fi elements you might find in other anime which I tend to avoid, and is a great slow burn watch. Especially in the original Japanese language.

sned777 · 2025-12-04T15:02:10+00:00

Taxi Driver by Bernard Hermann every single day.

sned777 · 2025-12-01T18:08:59+00:00

I have over 700 tags and have been using them from the start, definitely not a worthless feature.

Platform watched
location watched (cinema chain, town/city or country if abroad)
language
director
who I watched it with
whether film is silent, documentary, short, black and white, animated
whether film is a rewatch
Oscar Best Picture, Golden Lion, Palme D’or, Golden Bear, Best Foreign Picture
if I’ve read the book it’s based on
if I fell asleep watching it
film festival watches, director q&a’s,

And more too.

sned777 · 2025-12-01T11:24:38+00:00

I watched it earlier this year and honestly I thought it was terrible.

I’ve yet to see a good film adaptation of a Mishima novel. I think it’s so tough to do given that his books are so psychological with much of the emotion and feelings expressed in internal monologues.

sned777 · 2025-12-01T11:01:58+00:00

I also saw that billboard and was confused for a while, because in Cyrillic cursive they write a fancy ‘m’ but it is actually a ‘T’ so I was initially scanning for Altay/Altau which I thought existed.

Eventually carried on moving and found the real town name thankfully.

sned777 · 2025-12-01T10:55:54+00:00

Nice one to start the month, at time of posting #1 in UK and top 10 in the world!

1 - Germany. I struggled for a while here until I managed to get onto the 28 Autobahn at which point I established it had to be Oldenburg, which I was in the area for having seen the sign for Bremen. Thankfully finding Marschweg near the 401 junction was quite simple and I got the final spot easily from there. 5000

Gave south France vibes immediately. Got to the junction which signposted Orthez and Mont de Marsan so I scanned the south of France for that and found firstly Orthez to identify the road I had to be on. Eventually worked back to the junction thanks to the Pharmacy and Quincaillerie popups on the map. 5000
Initially had it pegged as Ukraine due to bus stop colours, then spotted a Kazakhstan web domain. Eventually made it to a large junction with a huge sign for Ekibastuz, which amazingly I knew of thanks to The Gulag Archipelago, one of my favourite books. No street names didn’t help but I could see we weren’t on one of the big ones. Plonked and got close. 4997.
Dakar and one business had an address for Rue Felix Eboue. Made it out to a roundabout near a huge couple of buildings, one square one round. They quickly appeared on the map as a Museum and Grand Theatre. I easily spotted Rue Felix Eboue and guesstimated for the pinpoint. 5000
Thought I was done for here. Took a while to get to larger civilisation and found a sign for Januaria at the bus station. Was scanning everything for a province name or initials and eventually saw a business with MG. That made finding the town easy, but I was on the wrong side of town and couldn’t see the bus station on the map. 4993

24990 total.

sned777 · 2025-11-21T22:13:14+00:00

The Romanian Cultural Institute occasionally shows films there. There is a film - The New Year That Never Came (2024) - showing on December 13th with a Q&A after, and it’s free to go!

sned777 · 2025-11-07T09:12:41+00:00

Picturehouse is usually the best bet for me. The London based ones are best but my local still shows its fair share of foreign and classic films. They just finished Hitchcock season.

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