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Some Guy TT posted:luv when its impossible to tell whether a movie has been hosed up in translation somehow or if its just doing weird artsy fartsy bullshit for the hell of it i remember watching The Big Short and taking a bit to realize id accidentally turned on the audio description
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indigi posted:same Oh yeah, this also happened to me too, same as with District 9. Hard agree. You don't even need to know Korean to understand the gist of those scenes tbh. The subtleties are lost, but you get a cool experience out of it instead.
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double negative posted:lmao candace owens got kanye to buy parler definitely not a reason to feel bad for ye but he could not be getting grifted harder
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indigi posted:same similar thing happened to me first time I saw Snowpiercer. I was watching it with my Korean buddy and he was cracking up at all the little snide remarks that dude makes about the main character and summarizing as best he could. Mostly it was that dude calling Chris Evans a dipshit pig IIRC
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DoombatINC posted:thinking fondly back on Fangs (1974), a horror movie about the ramifications of cuts to education, the importance of adult friendships, and the devastating effects of Sousa compositions Loving all of the shots of cars falling off of cliffs in this trailer, please tell me that the full film has even more. galagazombie posted:I know it’s waaaaaay less important than the advent of streaming on the list of things that killed theaters, but TV’s also just got too good. Used to the best you could get even with unlimited money was some staticky tube tv with a tiny screen that wasn’t even in the right ratio for movies. Now you can get a crisp lcd screen the size of Alaska in 16:9 ratio for the lint in your pocket. So theatre’s can’t even really offer much in the way of the “experience” either. The only thing they still have that can’t yet be replicated is a crowd for communal hooting and hollering, and even that is something that isn’t needed, or is often downright harmful to all but certain genres. And if you have enough friends you can replicate that too. Had a similar conversation with the missus the other day, though I can't remember what prompted it. I've never been a huge junkie for the theater experience but I told her that some people just like the experience of a theater-scale screen and sound system and she just couldn't wrap her head around why that might be. It's not we have a great TV at home either!
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it's more seeing it with a crowd than the big screen + sound for me. the only movies I've seen in theaters since roni have been Fast 9 and EEAAO and I don't think I would have enjoyed either nearly as much watching at home. even if it's only a half-full theater, everyone coming together to break out in spontaneous applause when a car is driving in space or going deathly silent while two rocks text each other is powerful e: actually I saw Batman in theater but it was before work at 10am on a Tuesday and there were two of us
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I ain't going back in a theater til there's a sterilizing vaccine, sorry Sad Triangles: The Motion Picture
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C-Euro posted:Loving all of the shots of cars falling off of cliffs in this trailer, please tell me that the full film has even more. its lousy with the dang things, whenever the snake man kills someone he puts their body in their car and shoves it off the same cliff, leaving a comical pile of twisted scraps along the side by the end
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I saw Nope in the theater but it turned out to be simply bad, I'm still angry about that one. I cannot imagine a hypothetical movie that would get me to go to a theater again.
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Open Source Idiom posted:The first time I saw... I want to say it was District 9 but this was yonks ago... it was a bootleg DVD version that didn't have any subtitles for the scenes with the aliens, and it was a thousand times better. I thought the audience was being encouraged to see the aliens as actual aliens, albeit ones who'd syncretised with earth trash culture, and the film was doing this cool, quasi-experimental thing and that's why everyone loved it and was talking about how smart and impressive the film had been. Some movies work better when they aren't working properly. I grew up on a beat-to-poo poo VHS copy of Aliens, and it ruled--everything was grimy and sweaty and textured and dark. When I finally got my hands on the blu-ray years later, everything just felt too clean. I'm sure there are some nostalgia goggles at play here, and a movie like that is gonna hit harder when you're a kid no matter what, but I do still miss that hosed up VHS. Dropping the subtitles is something I wish happened for a lot of movies. "People always need to know what's being said" is a concept filmmakers as a whole should get over. It's a visual medium, goddamnit!
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POWELL CURES KIDS posted:Dropping the subtitles is something I wish happened for a lot of movies. "People always need to know what's being said" is a concept filmmakers as a whole should get over. It's a visual medium, goddamnit! me and the "subtitles should always be on, even in theaters" crew getting ready to street brawl with this post
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Pryor on Fire posted:I saw Nope in the theater but it turned out to be simply bad, I'm still angry about that one. I cannot imagine a hypothetical movie that would get me to go to a theater again. my next one will probably be, embarrassingly, indiana jones
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POWELL CURES KIDS posted:Some movies work better when they aren't working properly. I grew up on a beat-to-poo poo VHS copy of Aliens, and it ruled--everything was grimy and sweaty and textured and dark. When I finally got my hands on the blu-ray years later, everything just felt too clean. I'm sure there are some nostalgia goggles at play here, and a movie like that is gonna hit harder when you're a kid no matter what, but I do still miss that hosed up VHS. dialogue: who needs it, really
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POWELL CURES KIDS posted:
I'll kill you m8 Drives me up the wall when the subs just say something like "speaking Spanish"
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POWELL CURES KIDS posted:Some movies work better when they aren't working properly. I grew up on a beat-to-poo poo VHS copy of Aliens, and it ruled--everything was grimy and sweaty and textured and dark. When I finally got my hands on the blu-ray years later, everything just felt too clean. I'm sure there are some nostalgia goggles at play here, and a movie like that is gonna hit harder when you're a kid no matter what, but I do still miss that hosed up VHS. Silent Films really were the pinnacle of the form
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I want Antonymous to put himself back in the "fight scenes and songs and jokes that don't advance the plot should be cut from movies" mindset and address that point, because I'm curious Is all that flowery speech just more window-dressing that distracts from the core truths of the artwork, or is dialogue the only part of the film you really need because written word is the soul of narrative? I could see this going either way
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Communist Thoughts posted:I'll kill you m8 that's always funny cause what if you know Spanish but you're deaf or hard of hearing or you just like subtitles on. drat annoying
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double negative posted:lmao candace owens got kanye to buy parler thats a classic decision made by an independent thinker
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Communist Thoughts posted:I'll kill you m8 it'd be funny if they just cut out the bullshit and made the subtitle say "who cares"
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loquacius posted:dialogue: who needs it, really is that a Christopher Nolan quote
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The best subtitle gag was in Eastbound and Down Season 4, when all of Stevie's Mexican kids are subtitled even tho they all speak English lol
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I'm gonna start wearing a google glass so I can get subtitles everywhere
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:The best subtitle gag was in Eastbound and Down Season 4, when all of Stevie's Mexican kids are subtitled even tho they all speak English lol All of Danny McBride's HBO shows are so good.
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loquacius posted:it'd be funny if they just cut out the bullshit and made the subtitle say "who cares" [FOREIGN GIBBERISH]
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I saw DUNC in theaters and have no regrets.
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what a bunch of pearl-clutching nerds. "oooh, we wanna know what the characters are saying" you disgust me you ever watch a comedy with subtitles? have fun getting every single punchline ruined 1-2 seconds in advance, you loving losers
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AnimeIsTrash posted:All of Danny McBride's HBO shows are so good. everytime I try to get someone to watch EB&D they think it's gonna be like all the Apatow-produced stuff of that era, and then it ends up being one of their favorite shows because how could it not be Vice Principals, on the other hand, no one has heard of. One of the best shows HBO has made and people just have no idea it exists lol
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It's criminal that there are only 2 seasons of Vice Principals but they ended it so well.
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Eastbound & Down has the most accurate depiction of cocaine usage. The loving scene where he's doing a line off the barrel of a rifle 
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awful lot of people itt who somehow didnt see top gun maverick in theaters, because they're Idiots
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mastershakeman posted:awful lot of people itt who somehow didnt see top gun maverick in theaters, because they're Idiots Just too much bullshit, it was like watching a cartoon. They might as well have had Maverick shoot down X wings and some dragons after orbiting Mars
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POWELL CURES KIDS posted:Dropping the subtitles is something I wish happened for a lot of movies. "People always need to know what's being said" is a concept filmmakers as a whole should get over. It's a visual medium, goddamnit! There is a movie called A Hidden Life which is what you want. It's set in Austria during WW2 and sometimes the actors speak English, sometimes they switch to German. Sometimes there's subtitles, sometimes there ain't. Great movie for high-powered edibles, as well
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i watch foreign films unsubtitled and just glean the plot by carefully examining the actor's facial expressions, because i am not a philistine
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I saw Nope as my post pandemic movie. Great film I probably won't be going back again for a good long time
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Zokari posted:i watch foreign films unsubtitled and just glean the plot by carefully examining the actor's facial expressions, because i am not a philistine I consume media through a camera obscura with cotton balls stuffed in my ears
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i play video games with my tv turned off because it's an interactive format goddamnit!
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Communist Thoughts posted:Midsommar is stool elevated above the toilet bowl Would I like Midsommar?
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POWELL CURES KIDS posted:Some movies work better when they aren't working properly. I grew up on a beat-to-poo poo VHS copy of Aliens, and it ruled--everything was grimy and sweaty and textured and dark. When I finally got my hands on the blu-ray years later, everything just felt too clean. I'm sure there are some nostalgia goggles at play here, and a movie like that is gonna hit harder when you're a kid no matter what, but I do still miss that hosed up VHS. There should be filters added to video players to fix that problem.
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Zokari posted:i play video games with my tv turned off because it's an interactive format goddamnit! Heard about a interesting game where your head was put into a deep sea diver mask, that created complete darkness. And you had to shoot spears as enemies, that were located from beep sounds.
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