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Wed Aug-17-05 08:37 PM
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"I'm gonna tell you right off the bat this movie's in a foreign language," |
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snarled the video clerk with hand raised in testimony as I approached with a copy of Jeunet's "A Very Long Engagement" ... as if I had perhaps recently strangled a 4 week old puppy after placing its 3 day old feces on the hood of her car.
"I know," I smiled.
Gotta love Amerika. :D
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Wed Aug-17-05 08:38 PM
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1. you're going to abandon me and watch a movie, aren't you? |
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Wed Aug-17-05 08:44 PM
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i'm seeing du double today :crazy:
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Wed Aug-17-05 08:41 PM
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2. Probably had recently dealt with a nasty customer |
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who ranted about renting the movie only to discover all the characters spoke some "fer-ah-newer" talk and had trouble reading the subtitles with them fancy words.
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Wed Aug-17-05 08:59 PM
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Wed Aug-17-05 08:42 PM
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3. People actually complain about that |
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Edited on Wed Aug-17-05 08:43 PM by Hardhead
"This here movie is in some furrin' language or somethin! Ah couldn't unnerstan a word of it! They all tawk like a buncha communisss."
There are subtitles, sir.
"Hell-far! Ah don' wanna READ a MOVIE. You READ a BOOK, not a MOVIE. You WATCH a MOVIE."
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Wed Aug-17-05 09:03 PM
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11. Many in my family hate subtitles, and feel they're being cheated |
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Edited on Wed Aug-17-05 09:05 PM by Rabrrrrrr
on a movie if they have to read along. THey don't care that overdubbing never catches the true sense of the tone or mood of a scene; or that it interferes with the flow of action sometimes. Nope, gotta have the ENTERTAINMENT served up on a plate for them.
Along with a good percentage of Amerikuns, who are too fucking stupid to be left alone, let alone breed. They don't get the idea that sometimes we watch movies because they're ART. But, let's face it - the majority of America thinks Top Gun and Independance Day are really fucking good movies.
Same goddamn thing with the fullscreeners, who insist on having the movie fullscreen, because otherwise "we're losing like a third of the movie that's been chopped off" as they complain about widescreen.
Took me YEARS to convince my brother-in-law that widescreen actually gives the WHOLE picture.
He still won't buy widescreen, though - I think he secretly has never admitted that widescreen has the full picture, even though he ACTED like he finally understood it that one day when I explained it for the 30th fucking time.
AMERICANS ARE JUST TOO GODDAMN DUMB.
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Wed Aug-17-05 09:25 PM
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12. You make me raff, Rabrrrrrr |
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"who are too fucking stupid to be left alone, let alone breed"
:rofl:
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Wed Aug-17-05 09:53 PM
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13. LOL, I agree about the original language and Widescreen format. |
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When I wanted to rent 'Das Boot' (pre-dvd days), it was only available in my town in English (to rent), so I purchased my own copy in the original German.
I will say this about English translation - you don't have to keep rewinding during the action sequences to catch the dialogue you missed. But, even that was better then the non-synchronized alien speak of an English dubbed copy.
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Wed Aug-17-05 11:25 PM
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Edited on Wed Aug-17-05 11:25 PM by Spider Jerusalem
All the foreign film I have is subtitled; I refuse to watch a dubbed film, on general principles. And the pan-and-scan fullscreen movies suck, too; maybe the shift to HDTV and 16: 9 ratio will finally cause people to realise that widescreen is far superior.
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Wed Aug-17-05 11:21 PM
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The "read a movie" line is used on me a lot because of my love of subtitled anime.
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Wed Aug-17-05 08:52 PM
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thanks to the NetFlix subscription I don't even really notice subtitle anymore. Not to mention that there are some damn good furrin' movies out there.
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Wed Aug-17-05 11:22 PM
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19. there is nothing... NOTHING greater than jeunet's use of color |
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it wows me every time :D
another great match up with cinematographer bruno delbonnel... just as striking as amelie...
the pans with the train movement were mind blowing
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Wed Aug-17-05 08:55 PM
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6. my only minor problem with subtitles is i have to pause it |
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if i just want to pop into the other room for even a minute. if i can't see the screen i don't know what the heck is going on.
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Wed Aug-17-05 08:56 PM
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7. If you like Audrey Tautou |
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Wed Aug-17-05 09:56 PM
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14. Or "He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not," for what you might call |
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the dark side of Amalie. :evilgrin:
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Wed Aug-17-05 09:59 PM
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15. I've been considering that one |
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will check it out. :thumbsup:
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Wed Aug-17-05 11:18 PM
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17. of all her films, she is the most beautiful in that... |
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Wed Aug-17-05 08:58 PM
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8. And...it had...subtitles!!! |
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Let's face it, sundog...people who rent foreign films...like most of us here...really hate America. :cry:
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Wed Aug-17-05 09:00 PM
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10. when you return it you should ask for your money back |
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and say you didn't know it was going to be in a foreign language.
just to get her going.
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Wed Aug-17-05 09:59 PM
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16. Dennis Leary highly recommened this movie on Letterman. |
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He said Jody Foster did not one but two nude love scenes in it.
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