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Spatula City posted:John Wick is not the action movie we deserve, but it's the one we need. It is dropped in somehow from a better Earth, from a reality where Hollywood action movies are good and clean and rad and powerful and Keanu Reeves is in his rightful place as an action star. Between John Wick and Man of Tai Chi, I like to think Keanu's on an upswing. I really want to see him do more directing, I think with his experience, he could do some more really good action and martial arts films.
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The dude who did the Italian dub Clint Eastwood for all the Dollars films, and presumably all other films, was mostly known for doing bible films before that. So in Italy the Man With No Name and Jesus Christ have the same voice.
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# ? Feb 9, 2017 16:20 |
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AlexF posted:[awesome German dub stories] Thank you for not just answering my question but also sharing that with us. I enjoyed it very much. I think the reason for that is because live-action dubbing is uncommon in The Netherlands (making it very fascinating). And when it happens it's all shows and movies aimed at children. This is the article that inspired that question BTW (a great read if you want more foreign VO stories): https://medium.com/matter/what-it-takes-to-be-the-french-jennifer-lawrence-9177abe68534#.m8sr5quq0
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# ? Feb 9, 2017 16:55 |
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Why not just use subs? That's what I prefer, so I hear the real voice and the original actor's inflection during a scene. I wish someone would greenlight a modern version of Emperor of the North.
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# ? Feb 9, 2017 18:26 |
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got any sevens posted:Why not just use subs? That's what I prefer, so I hear the real voice and the original actor's inflection during a scene. For me it's because subs don't sound like anything beyond noise. But I only speak English and a smattering of very rusty Spanish so that's the reason
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# ? Feb 9, 2017 18:30 |
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So does Danneberg do a cartoonishly American-accented voice for Schwarzenegger in German or what?
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# ? Feb 9, 2017 18:39 |
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In the German dub of the Simpsons the German Exchange Student is Swiss.
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# ? Feb 9, 2017 18:43 |
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FreudianSlippers posted:In the German dub of the Simpsons the German Exchange Student is Swiss. He does love chocolate so that works.
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# ? Feb 9, 2017 18:48 |
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TetsuoTW posted:So does Danneberg do a cartoonishly American-accented voice for Schwarzenegger in German or what? I wish. But it's actually super serious and an example of how dubbing doesn't always make things worse. Same goes for Voelz / Reeves btw. I seriously love Keanu but we all know how wooden his delivery often is. Voelz on the other hand has some serious acting chops and, most of the time, elevates Reeves performance to another level. So many people in our company were shocked when we screened Wick 2 internally in English and they heard his original voice for the first time. It's just a tad below what you're used to when you've only known Reeves' German voice before. So what I'm saying is: The German dub is the way to go with John Wick.
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# ? Feb 9, 2017 18:48 |
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This got tweeted out by the twitter account for The Great Wall before being hastily deleted: https://streamable.com/o2vcc
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got any sevens posted:Why not just use subs? That's what I prefer, so I hear the real voice and the original actor's inflection during a scene. After 10 hours of The Killing the subs kind of faded away and I felt like I could understand Danish.
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# ? Feb 9, 2017 18:53 |
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AlexF posted:I wish. But it's actually super serious and an example of how dubbing doesn't always make things worse. Do German actors in Hollywood movies get to do their own dub if they ask? Like if Christoph Waltz rolled up and wanted to dub Django Unchained would that be a thing? The only time I remember hearing about it was when Arnold wanted to do his own dub for a movie and he was basically told that, being Austrian and from that particular area of Austria, he sounded like a farmer when he spoke German.
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Tars Tarkas posted:This got tweeted out by the twitter account for The Great Wall before being hastily deleted: https://streamable.com/o2vcc I wonder if that's a WIP shot or if it's actually in the movie. Because if it's the latter I might actually want to spend two hours to see it while it's still in glorious IMAX 3D. got any sevens posted:Why not just use subs? That's what I prefer, so I hear the real voice and the original actor's inflection during a scene. Dubbing live-action movies in countries like France and Germany has been a thing for more than half a century. At this point it's not about what is practical or accurate, it's just what they are used to. It's like asking Americans to use Celsius or asking Brits why they don't drive on the right side of the road. Mierenneuker fucked around with this message at 19:05 on Feb 9, 2017 |
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MrBling posted:Do German actors in Hollywood movies get to do their own dub if they ask? Like if Christoph Waltz rolled up and wanted to dub Django Unchained would that be a thing? Waltz has been dubbing himself in pretty much everything, yeah. And he's quite good at it. Can't say that about everyone (Julie Engelbrecht was...interesting). Most German speaking actors have a clause in their contract that you have to ask them first if they want to dub themselves. If they say yes you have to give them a realistic timeframe in which they have to record their lines. If they are not available during that timeframe you are free to cast another voice actor for the role. Some US actors have the same clause but for a certain German voice actor. Jodie Foster, for example, knows the woman who's dubbing her quite well and insists on asking her first for every movie she's in. And as far as I can remember she's had that voice in pretty much everything I ever saw with her.
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Tars Tarkas posted:This got tweeted out by the twitter account for The Great Wall before being hastily deleted: https://streamable.com/o2vcc It's been taken down, what was it?
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# ? Feb 9, 2017 19:42 |
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A clip with a CGi creature that looked very unfinished despite the film having been out for months in some markets. All I can find now is this still image
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# ? Feb 9, 2017 19:53 |
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/\ /\ /\ What the gently caress?AlexF posted:I wish. But it's actually super serious and an example of how dubbing doesn't always make things worse. I don't have any stories as good as yours, but I do know that Hong Kong films were often shot wild, with no sound at all, and everything was done later. There was a particular actor, Danny Lee (who you might remember as the cop from 'The Killer') who spent first 10 or 15 years of his career without any audience hearing his voice, as it was deemed too high pitched.
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# ? Feb 10, 2017 00:15 |
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So, who greenlighted this apparently serious drama with Arnold Schwarzenegger? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLBrkK-ZnI0
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Snowman_McK posted:/\ /\ /\ What the gently caress?
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# ? Feb 10, 2017 06:45 |
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TetsuoTW posted:I def. remember some of the big hype around Hitman back in 1998 being "holy poo poo Jet Li isn't being dubbed for this drat have you heard what he actually sounds like?" IIRC it was a combination of his Cantonese not being very good and his voice being too wussy. He does have a weird voice for a leading man. And the Expendables taught us that he also has a really awkward throw. I meant to link to a gif, but I can only find 'Jet Li throw pillows' which is apparently a thing.
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# ? Feb 10, 2017 06:53 |
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Young Freud posted:So, who greenlighted this apparently serious drama with Arnold Schwarzenegger? I'm very curious about this one. It could be terrible schmaltz, but Arnold looks like he's holding it together well.
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# ? Feb 10, 2017 07:15 |
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I thought he was pretty good in Maggie, maybe he just feels he wants to go for dramatic roles as he gets older.
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MrBling posted:The only time I remember hearing about it was when Arnold wanted to do his own dub for a movie and he was basically told that, being Austrian and from that particular area of Austria, he sounded like a farmer when he spoke German. Most Germans would need subtitles to understand the Styrian dialect. Although Schwarzenegger can speak nearly flawless English and High German if he wants, but for his image the broad accent (English) and dialect (German) is what he uses except in very rare instances.
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Tars Tarkas posted:A clip with a CGi creature that looked very unfinished despite the film having been out for months in some markets. All I can find now is this still image i can't tell from the image, but i do recall the cgi for the creature is Not Good
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END ME SCOOB posted:I thought he was pretty good in Maggie, maybe he just feels he wants to go for dramatic roles as he gets older. This one looks interesting. It's probably high time he picked some less-demanding roles as he's pushing 70 this year. Scoot McNairy is quite good, too. I hope Arnold gets an Oscar one day. A real one - he's probably a shoe-in for a lifetime achievement at this stage. I also liked his drama beard.
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well why not posted:This one looks interesting. It's probably high time he picked some less-demanding roles as he's pushing 70 this year. Scoot McNairy is quite good, too. I think him shifting into Eastwood-ish late career dramas or thrillers is the best thing for him. He's charming enough to pull it off and they're way less physically demanding, obviously. Agree 100% about his beard too.
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# ? Feb 10, 2017 11:41 |
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got any sevens posted:Why not just use subs? That's what I prefer, so I hear the real voice and the original actor's inflection during a scene.
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# ? Feb 10, 2017 11:56 |
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Well movies are a visual medium first and foremost, theoretically they shouldn't really need words. That's what books are for.
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got any sevens posted:Well movies are a visual medium first and foremost, theoretically they shouldn't really need words. That's what books are for. I'd say audio is just as important in modern film, but this does hit on what bugs me about subtitles: they take the visual focus away from what the director/cinematographer intended. Unless they're put to good/interesting use (like "Nightwatch"), subtitles can be distracting (so can bad voice-over work, but it's individual tastes to decide which is more distracting).
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Young Freud posted:So, who greenlighted this apparently serious drama with Arnold Schwarzenegger? Watching Arnold in something serious can be jarring when most of what you see him in recently are Mobile Strike ads. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOlUeu8rCDU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SaIulk25dw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7yaMgee6VY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T94GDql7hk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGlYpkQfk_0
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well why not posted:This one looks interesting. It's probably high time he picked some less-demanding roles as he's pushing 70 this year. Scoot McNairy is quite good, too. I don't think he's good enough to even get the standard career appreciation Oscar. He just can't carry a dramatic role very well and that's what the academy looks for when they toss someone a "Best Supporting" for their career rather than the actual role. But an honorary award would be cool given the scope of his career. I can't say I think very much of any of his films since he left government. Even in Maggie which is probably the best film he's done in the past few years, I thought he was a bit lost in the role.
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Young Freud posted:So, who greenlighted this apparently serious drama with Arnold Schwarzenegger? I dug Maggie, so I think I'll see this.
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# ? Feb 10, 2017 19:30 |
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AlexF posted:I've seen John Wick 2 five times now (working on the German dub and all...) and it didn't get old yet. Quite the opposite. There's so much stuff happening and not explicitly spelled out that you'll pick up new things with every viewing. Without spoilering anything: I still don't know how you even begin to put together and then shoot something like the last set piece. Glad to hear some good word on the last set piece, that's where the first movie stumbled. It's something pretty common in action movies, blowing their load in a setpiece in the middle of the movie.
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https://twitter.com/crissles/status/830150270634037248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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# ? Feb 10, 2017 21:27 |
Pretty good marketing for a sequel to/remake of The Producers.
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# ? Feb 10, 2017 21:41 |
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Word is spreading all over town that Disney screened Beauty and the Beast today for a test audience and got 100/100.
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kiimo posted:Word is spreading all over town that Disney screened Beauty and the Beast today for a test audience and got 100/100.
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kiimo posted:Word is spreading all over town that Disney screened Beauty and the Beast today for a test audience and got 100/100. Dan Stevens futures always a strong invest.
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Hat Thoughts posted:Dan Stevens futures always a strong invest. That FX show look like a butt
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weekly font posted:That FX show look like a butt It looks dope. Or maybe some other kind drug. The ones that make you see things.
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