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Krinkle posted:Holy poo poo. "Well, this place is over. Time to hit the road and never look back." Pretty much this. And this was a cat that would jump off the balcony to a lower roof to stalk a goose. Otherwise fearless but had some brain defect that made balloons the devil.
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Probably something to do with a fear of flying predators or some poo poo
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Taeke posted:in Dutch, so the title was different, Engelieren instead of Langoliers English-to-Dutch translations never seem to make sense or are anywhere near what the author was trying to convey. Thank god, it has fallen out of fashion among tv-shows and movies.
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Oct 5, 2015 20:59
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This is still cracking me up. (He's such a sour pickle sometimes!)
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I follow several indie filmmaking in Chicago Facebook groups, and someone posts a poster/promo materials like this every single day: 
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Dienes posted:I thought the story was he was so hosed up on drugs he didn't remember writing the book Cujo. It's both. Cujo he doesn't remember writing at all because he was drunk throughout it, though he's said he has read the book and liked it so it's a shame he doesn't remember any of it. Maximum Overdrive he was drinking and coked out of his skull and had no idea how to make a movie.
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I.C. posted:This is still cracking me up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pneqbLj48A
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syscall girl posted:Pretty much this. Nitrox posted:Probably something to do with a fear of flying predators or some poo poo To an animal anything that moves by itself without legs or wings or eyes or a mouth might as well be some kind of eldritch horror. My bird is terrified of a purple yoga ball and I don't know if it's because it's messed up center of gravity causes it to wobble forever or because nothing in nature should be that huge and purple. You know a balloon is a nothing wrapped around a fragile skin, an animal doesn't. Imagine a malevolent hovering bowling ball that just followed you around and was constantly threatening to cave your skull in.
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Oct 5, 2015 22:40
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Reminds me of this one,
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Angela Christine posted:Reminds me of this one, Yeah that's some True Detective poo poo to cats. E: Mew Detective
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IndustrialApe posted:English-to-Dutch translations never seem to make sense or are anywhere near what the author was trying to convey. Thank god, it has fallen out of fashion among tv-shows and movies. Langoliers to Engelieren is sort of forgivable, albeit unnecessary, giving it a slightly more divine/damned connotation without making it overtly religious, but generally speaking I completely agree. I'm in the translation game myself now after being a secondary school English teacher (vmbo/havo) and after that studying English on a university level, and good god is the quality horrendous. I'm glad we're sort of moving away from dubbing in the last couple of years. They seemed to have realised that ever since we started doing that in earnest over a decade ago the level of English in kids has been suffering, but even subtitles are often just bad. As for novels and such, if you do need to read a Dutch translation my advice is to wait a couple of years. The first translations are usually poorly done because of the time constraints but they do get better in later editions. Maybe that's just my experience though. Speaking of King translations, 11/22/63 is one of the last novels I actually read in Dutch a couple of years ago. A friend gave it to me and I had a summer job with loads of downtime and my god, was it bad. I mean, I loved the story itself despite its flaws but literally every other sentence was translated awkwardly in such a way that I genuinely couldn't help but reverse-translate it to the original English, realising that it wasn't actually written as poorly as it seemed in Dutch. Often it felt little better than a semi-corrected google translate. I was looking for a funny picture related King or the Langoliers but all I got was a meme telling me Pacman was the first Langolier, so this'll have to do. I would love to have this rock though and perk it on top of my Four Past Midnight copy.  
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The only thing my stupid cat seems to be afraid of is the music of Tom Waits. I don't know if it's his voice or the percussion or what, but he'll wake up out of a sound sleep and leave the room if the man comes up on shuffle.
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Angela Christine posted:Reminds me of this one, Eyes Wide Shut really was Kubrick's worst film.
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He's a Cubs fan. Cut him some slack.
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Crow Jane posted:The only thing my stupid cat seems to be afraid of is the music of Tom Waits. I don't know if it's his voice or the percussion or what, but he'll wake up out of a sound sleep and leave the room if the man comes up on shuffle. I had a dog that hated "Love my way" by the Psychedelic Furs. When MTV would play the video he'd go apeshit barking at the TV.
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davebo posted:Bronson Pinchot in a made for tv movie? How did that go wrong? I like when mean pacman ate the airport. Fun fact: I grew up in Maine, and that was filmed at Bangor International Airport. My mom worked at the town hall in the dinky little hamlet we lived in, and the day after that aired, the phone rang off the goddamn hook with people FREAKING RIGHT STRAIGHT THE gently caress OUT about OH LORDY LOU WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO NOW what do you mean sir I SAW IT LAST NIGHT ON THE TEE-VEE THEM MONSTERS DONE ATE UP THE AIRPORT sir that was a movie NO I SAW IT ON THE TEE VEE THEY ATE UP THE AIRPORT HOW WE GONNA GET PLACES NOW movies aren't real, sir WHAT IF THEY COME FOR US it was just a pretend story, sir, that didn't really happen I BET IT'S THEM COMMIES AFTER US AGAIN sir i promise you the langoliers are not communists WELL WHAT ELSE COULD IT BE THEN it is a movie. it is not real. it was a story. NO I SAW IT MYSELF ON THE TEE-VEE Apparently similar phone calls happened at many, many other town halls in Maine. There's a reason people call Downeast Maine the deep deep south of the far far north.
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DrVenkman posted:It's both. Cujo he doesn't remember writing at all because he was drunk throughout it, though he's said he has read the book and liked it so it's a shame he doesn't remember any of it. Maximum Overdrive he was drinking and coked out of his skull and had no idea how to make a movie. It must be really weird to read someone you wrote but don't remember.
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No way that dog is real, it is the size of your average horse
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Yeah that's fake as hell. The Guinness holder for world's largest dog is massive, but nowhere near that big:
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Human small
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mind the walrus posted:Yeah that's fake as hell. The Guinness holder for world's largest dog is massive, but nowhere near that big: That's not nice to say about the lady on the right
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Oct 6, 2015 04:30
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Angela Christine posted:Reminds me of this one, Corey looks a lot cuter in real life.
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china bot posted:I follow several indie filmmaking in Chicago Facebook groups, and someone posts a poster/promo materials like this every single day: Yeah, rip.
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Parrotine posted:No way that dog is real, it is the size of your average horse I also heard this isn't an official Super Mario Bros. Movie:  
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Taeke posted:As for novels and such, if you do need to read a Dutch translation my advice is to wait a couple of years. The first translations are usually poorly done because of the time constraints but they do get better in later editions. Maybe that's just my experience though. No you're right, as a former public librarian I've been subject to horrible translations of English novels on a daily basis. There's a lot of money to be made with going "eh, good enough" when you're translating dime-a-dozen thrillers and romance novels.
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mind the walrus posted:Yeah that's fake as hell. The Guinness holder for world's largest dog is massive, but nowhere near that big: What a loving celebration of diversity.
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Taeke posted:Langoliers to Engelieren is sort of forgivable, albeit unnecessary, giving it a slightly more divine/damned connotation without making it overtly religious, but generally speaking I completely agree. I'm in the translation game myself now after being a secondary school English teacher (vmbo/havo) and after that studying English on a university level, and good god is the quality horrendous. I'm glad we're sort of moving away from dubbing in the last couple of years. They seemed to have realised that ever since we started doing that in earnest over a decade ago the level of English in kids has been suffering, but even subtitles are often just bad. I used to watch The Wire on 13th Street (theme channel broadcasting just crime shows) and it was hilarious how bad the subs were with some of the slang used in that show. At one point it translated "knockos" as junkies which is like the polar opposite. I used to pick up a lot of English from subbed cartoons which is why I find it disappointing that they've actually started to walk away from subs in the past 15 years. They've actually gone back and dubbed shows that used to be subbed before... like Life with Louie*. There's also all those live-action Disney shows that feel even faker than they already are with dubs. *Was that show even popular enough to spend money on a dub?
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Taeke posted:I was looking for a funny picture related King or the Langoliers but all I got was a meme telling me Pacman was the first Langolier, so this'll have to do. I would love to have this rock though and perk it on top of my Four Past Midnight copy. I feel like that looks more like a real life Chain Chomp.
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Mierenneuker posted:I used to pick up a lot of English from subbed cartoons which is why I find it disappointing that they've actually started to walk away from subs in the past 15 years. They've actually gone back and dubbed shows that used to be subbed before... like Life with Louie*. There's also all those live-action Disney shows that feel even faker than they already are with dubs. Fox Kids/Jetix had oodles of money to spend, so they dubbed everything. Disney then came in and continued the practice. Nickelodeon/Nick and Cartoon Network are both dubbing their shows for quite some time now. Lazy Dubbing is even worse than lazy subbing: The literal translations of expressions and word play, jokes falling flat because and the laugh track now missing the joke by a mile. The sound levels are usually way off as well. It's me, having a dubs vs. subs discussion in the funny pictures thread.
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Back when Sweden started importing foreign TV and movies it was considered too expensive to dub most things, so we went with subtitles (and thankfully still do, don't know about kids' cartoons though). This is an oft-quoted reason for Swedes being pretty good at English. Anyway here's a funny picture. 
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Solice Kirsk posted:People that give animal's people names are the worst. I have a different opinion about the worst people and it involves apostrophes.
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Trent posted:I have a different opinion about the worst people and it involves apostrophes. You hate people in Star Wars/Trek?
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Mierenneuker posted:*Was that show even popular enough to spend money on a dub? I've seen it dubbed in Greek, so probably. Then again I've also seen Twipsy, Fantomette, and Cyrano 2022 dubbed in Greek so who the hell knows. All except Cyrano were on the channel that later became Fox Kids (it was on subscription TV), so it COULD have been a network thing, with the providers of the shows also paying for the dubbing. Or maybe the channel just made that much money.
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Trent posted:I have a different opinion about the worst people and it involves apostrophe's.
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