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Jedit posted:The Big Bus came out four years before Airplane. Did Germany not get a release until the mid 1980s or something? Or is it not part of the progression? Well, whaddayaknow. It WAS released in Germany in 1976, and Airplane! in 1980, so I guess that makes Bus the first in that line. For some reason I always had it as after the two Airplanes, because I have a three-DVD-set of those three movies, with Bus on the third disc.
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the holy poopacy posted:Oh yeah, there are definitely a lot of problems with the character in general. I just think the "Supplies!" gag itself is relatively innocuous (in that it's at least subverting the expectations of racist stereotypes instead of just straight up indulging them.) STUPID YOU'RE SO STUPIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIID
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On somewhat the same topic I watched Independence Day for the first time and discovered that Will Smith doesn't say "Welcome to Earf" like all the memes suggested. He says "Earth" just fine. I guess it was just racism or what?
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Kevin DuBrow posted:On somewhat the same topic I watched Independence Day for the first time and discovered that Will Smith doesn't say "Welcome to Earf" like all the memes suggested. He says "Earth" just fine. I guess it was just racism or what? Yeah, it was 100% started as a racist thing, then perpetuated by a) racists, and b) people who hadnt seen the movie in years and just assumed he must have said it like the racist meme said, otherwise why would it be written under a picture of him?
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Kevin DuBrow posted:On somewhat the same topic I watched Independence Day for the first time and discovered that Will Smith doesn't say "Welcome to Earf" like all the memes suggested. He says "Earth" just fine. I guess it was just racism or what? It's a common misconception. To avoid censorship pressures from the US government over the White House scene, a late script change had Smith say "Earf" to establish the film in an alternate universe. It was Earf, but not for the reason chuds think, and was edited in remasters since evidently the US govt loved the air force propaganda
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Chocolate is really good with the kneeing people in the face action too, but it’s premise is a bit uh problematic
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the holy poopacy posted:Oh yeah, there are definitely a lot of problems with the character in general. I just think the "Supplies!" gag itself is relatively innocuous (in that it's at least subverting the expectations of racist stereotypes instead of just straight up indulging them.) It's almost a shame, because the 'Supplies' joke is genuinely well-constructed as far as jokes go. It just happens to have a racist stereotype as a central component of it.
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Cleretic posted:It's almost a shame, because the 'Supplies' joke is genuinely well-constructed as far as jokes go. It just happens to have a racist stereotype as a central component of it. When I saw UHF as a kid, I had no idea about the racist stereotype and just thought it was funny because "supplies" sounds like "surprise" and they're yelling supplies like surprise. Then again, that only proves it's not racist in the mind of an ignorant white child. And I mean...
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The supplies joke may have aged poorly, but fortunately, not everything with the Asian characters is bad. Calling the lady stupid for picking the box is timeless.
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The Japanese names for the Fast and Furious movies are *fantastic* and way better than the mess that's the original names. The Fast and the Furious - Wild Speed 2 Fast 2 Furious - Wild Speed X2 The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift - Wild Speed X3: Tokyo Drift Fast & Furious - Wild Speed MAX Fast Five - Wild Speed MEGA MAX Fast & Furious 6: Wild Speed - Euro Mission Furious 7 - Wild Speed: Sky Mission The Fate of the Furious - Wild Speed: Ice Break Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw - Wild Speed: Super Combo F9 - Wild Speed: Jet Break Wild Speed sounds like the greatest video game franchise that never existed.
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I like the fact that they thought the franchise would be over after Fast 5 and they had to change naming convention cause they couldn't keep escalating after MEGA MAX.
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If you want to talk about bad translated titles, in Portugal, Despicable Me was named "Grumpy Gru". I was super mad at the time because I wanted to watch it but I was afraid that being an adult male in my twenties walking up to a theater ticket office and wanting one ticket for "Grumpy Gru" would have someone triggering a silent alarm.
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Vandar posted:The Japanese names for the Fast and Furious movies are *fantastic* and way better than the mess that's the original names. It's funny because Wild Speed Max is like the most low key, chill FF movie.
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AceOfFlames posted:If you want to talk about bad translated titles, in Portugal, Despicable Me was named "Grumpy Gru". Were you also embarrassed to watch Mad Max?
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One of my favorite foreign titles I chanced across in a French video store: Kentucky Fried Movie was "Hamburger Film Sandwich", and Amazon Women on the Moon was "Cheeseburger Film Sandwich".
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Were you also embarrassed to watch Mad Max? Mad Max? Oh, you mean Help, we are driving on a crazy truck voyage: MEGA MAX
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Vandar posted:The Japanese names for the Fast and Furious movies are *fantastic* and way better than the mess that's the original names.
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Alhazred posted:There's also the Italian Job that was called the Wild Car Chase in Norway. And The Cannonball Run was The Worlds Craziest Car Race One I hardly can blame them for is changing the Sandra Bullock movie Miss Congeniality to Miss Undercover (title still in English), I don't think it would have done many rentals in Norway under the original title.
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Neito posted:There's a lot of moments in that movie that are just jokes because there was a few seconds there and they could fill it with punchlines. The match out the window turning into a grenade explosion, "Alright boys, let's take the pictures", the loving mirror scene where Kramer steps through it... The comedies that age the best are usually the ones that pack the most jokes in IMO. It means that if one joke ages badly it gets replaced by a different one pretty quickly
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evobatman posted:And The Cannonball Run was The Worlds Craziest Car Race In Denmark it was Driving With the Crazies.
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Shouldnt Tokyo Drift be California Drift in Japan?
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Amusingly I just discovered that Rat Race was apparently called No Brain Race in South Korea.
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Ambitious Spider posted:Chocolate is really good with the kneeing people in the face action too, but it’s premise is a bit uh problematic That movie made me really uncomfortable the entire time, but the action is amazing. In the 00s, there was a glut of HK movies being released on VHS with their titles changed to something involving Wu Tang. Like, Lord of the Wu Tang, which originally had the far cooler name, Kung Fu Cult Master, and is some weird rear end poo poo with an inexplicable cast. Jet Li, Sammo Hung, and I swear Jackie Chan has a cameo but don’t quote me on that. It starts with a guy exploding his own heart to own his enemies, and never stops going hard. I think it was meant to get a sequel, but the budget was so high that it never came about.
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:That movie made me really uncomfortable the entire time, but the action is amazing.
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:That movie made me really uncomfortable the entire time, but the action is amazing. I think that was when Wu-Tang clan struck a deal to re-release their favorites. Speaking of, highly recommend this book on the history of martial arts film, from the guy who brought us paperbacks from hell. 
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Ambitious Spider posted:I think that was when Wu-Tang clan struck a deal to re-release their favorites. Speaking of, highly recommend this book on the history of martial arts film, from the guy who brought us paperbacks from hell. That is an excellent book and actually mentions infamous bootlegger George Tan, who would go on to release all those Wu Tang tapes under the company name Xenon. He moved into the DVD age with Videoasia and Ground Zero/Xenon, usually stealing prints from Euro releases or just recycling VHS copies. I'm 99% sure he was a one man op most of the time because of the rampant typos on his case art and lazy errors like leaving in the menu screens from stolen content or accidentally recording himself changing the volume.
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Ambitious Spider posted:I think that was when Wu-Tang clan struck a deal to re-release their favorites. Speaking of, highly recommend this book on the history of martial arts film, from the guy who brought us paperbacks from hell. I very much doubt that it's worth the $40 they're asking for it.
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Jedit posted:I very much doubt that it's worth the $40 they're asking for it. Honestly, I don't know. I got the audiobook. If it's anything like Paperbacks from hell, it's probably on pretty great stock with lots of high quality poster reprints.So maybe, if that's your thing? Otherwise, I'd try to get it used or something.
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Jedit posted:I very much doubt that it's worth the $40 they're asking for it. And I think pocket trades should still cost <$10, but At least it's not a textbook.
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Circling back to someone’s comment on Airplane! from the last page, in Brasil it was titled “Apertem os Cintos, o Piloto Sumiu!” Which is “Fasten your seatbelts, the pilot disappeared”
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In relevance to the thread title, Chris Claremont is trying to retroactively get Kitty Pride an n-word pass https://twitter.com/ComicsXF/status/1555694944911822851
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Piell posted:In relevance to the thread title, Chris Claremont is trying to retroactively get Kitty Pride an n-word pass Nobody was forcing him to do this, right? Like, he had options. He could have chosen to literally do anything else. Nobody was holding his family ransom.
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A fun game you can play with Claremont comics is “is it racism or a fetish?” Of course, it’s often both. My favorite is when a middle-aged white cop and nurse are magically turned into hot Cheyenne teenagers and are just stuck that way. I think they start dating.
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Claremont is one of those creators where I keep forgetting he's not dead. Not because I remember him dying, but because his work exists so firmly in the past and he himself comes up so rarely after that point that I just mentally put him in the same category as people like Jack Kirby, and other people who died before I learned the importance of. And I kinda wish he stayed there.
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I AM GRANDO posted:A fun game you can play with Claremont comics is “is it racism or a fetish?” Of course, it’s often both. My favorite is when a middle-aged white cop and nurse are magically turned into hot Cheyenne teenagers and are just stuck that way. I think they start dating. He's not as bad as Whedon, but is not helping him that A: I associate them anyway, particularly with the 'what seemed progressive was actually just a slightly different set of creepy fetishes than was mainstream at the time, and B: that's a very low bar to clear.
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Piell posted:In relevance to the thread title, Chris Claremont is trying to retroactively get Kitty Pride an n-word pass "I can't be racist, I'm British" is a hell of a take.
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The quote retweets on that one are so funny because it's a mixture of people who know who Claremont is going "what?!" and people who do not know who Claremont is going "WHAT?!" Just complete confusion on the part of all parties at this racist comics man.
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Ambitious Spider posted:Chocolate is really good with the kneeing people in the face action too, but it’s premise is a bit uh problematic I don't see anything wrong with an autistic girl beating up gangsters to collect on her mother's old gangland loans in order to pay for mom's chemo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj3X-_tEKsw e. okay, the ice factory scene gets questionable mllaneza has a new favorite as of 06:34 on Aug 6, 2022 |
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Fish of hemp posted:Yes but it has the cool z at the end.
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mllaneza posted:I don't see anything wrong with an autistic girl beating up gangsters to collect on her mother's old gangland loans in order to pay for mom's chemo. Autistic people are problematic and it's best for polite society to not have them do anything or go anywhere, because shame Also some young adults diagnosed themselves here years ago, so now nobody is autistic and we should shut up and stop trying to be special or important or something else because abusive boomer parents beat that into our generation
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