General Movie Thread

[Sarah]

I watched Southland Tales yesterday.  It was a very peaceful experience.  There's something about movies like that that just makes me sit back and take what I'm dealt without question.  I was a little thrown at first by all the once and present SNLers (and that one Mad TVer), but then I decided to accept their presence as part of the silliness/earnestness and just enjoy the ride.  It was a very safe ride, maybe a gentle log flume, but I wasn't in the mood for anything more raucous anyway.

[Wes]

The part where Kevin Smith shows up in terrible old man/wizened baby make-up is like the part of the log flume where the log shoots off the flume and crashes into the Gravitron next to it, badly injuring seven or eight amusement park attendees.

[Sarah]

Luckily for me, I didn't recognize him and didn't remember that he was in the movie till I saw his name in the credits.  I also missed Janeane Garofalo's appearance.  Of course, my eyes were half shut through the whole thing:  I tend to watch movies like this in a kind of acquiescent daze.

[Bryan]

I watched the "making of Southland Tales" featurette first, and it looked like they were making a really cool movie. Then I watched the movie, and it wasn't so cool. I admired the insanity of it, but don't really think they pulled it off. There's lots of cool moments, and some funny lines.

[Matt]

Has anyone seen/heard of this movie The Grand? Alls I know is that it's a poker movie, and has one of the greatest "What The Fuck?!" casts of all time:

David Cross
Gabe Kaplan
Dennis Farina
Richard Kind
Cheryl Hines
Woody Harrelson
Tommy 'Tiny' Lister
Jason Alexander
Ray Romano
Michael McKean
Shannon Elizabeth
WERNER HERZOG!

[Martin]

Seen it. Underwhelming. Yes, even with that cast.

[Big Plastic Head]

Seen it. Underwhelming. Yes, even with that cast.

True. It is a turd.

[A.M. Thomas]

I finally saw Let the Right One In, then looked it up online and discovered that the English subtitles were bastardized.  And now I feel betrayed.  Really good movie, though.  Not looking forward to the remake.

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

Just watched it the other night myself.  It was awesome, though for the first 3 or 4 minutes it defaulted to English overdubbing, which was weird and confusing.  The idea of a remake is depressing.

How were the subtitles bastardized?

[eastgrandforks]

The DVD subtitles are different from the US theatrical version. The DVD has a more terse, literal translation, and some of the humor and nuance is lost.

[Chris L]

The DVD subtitles are different from the US theatrical version. The DVD has a more terse, literal translation, and some of the humor and nuance is lost.

Some dialogue is also randomly translated as "bork bork bork," which is just offensive. 

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

The DVD subtitles are different from the US theatrical version. The DVD has a more terse, literal translation, and some of the humor and nuance is lost.

Some dialogue is also randomly translated as "bork bork bork," which is just offensive. 

[A.M. Thomas]

The DVD subtitles are different from the US theatrical version. The DVD has a more terse, literal translation, and some of the humor and nuance is lost.

Yeah.  Here's an article explaining it:

http://screenrant.com/let-the-right-one-in-dvd-scandal-kofi-6533/

It's not a huge deal, but it bothers me that I didn't get the original tone of the film.  Defaulting to English dubs is such a blatant sign of bad DVD production too.

[crumbum]

The DVD subtitles are different from the US theatrical version. The DVD has a more terse, literal translation, and some of the humor and nuance is lost.

Some dialogue is also randomly translated as "bork bork bork," which is just offensive. 

A few months ago I rented a bootleg of 'Rec' before it was released in North America (and just before the remake came out); it turned out someone with second-rate English skills had subtitled it, possibly on their home computer. The picture quality was also poor and at a number of critical points near the end the subs read things like 'you can not see it, the monster is coming. it was very scary at the theater.'

[Bryan]

Whoa! 8 full-length Herzog films streaming for free on youtube!