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Post by charliebrown on Aug 29, 2013 16:48:38 GMT
I watched Iron Man 3 on my flight back home, and oh man, he is sexy:
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Post by spaceflower on Apr 14, 2014 0:35:20 GMT
I was watching two thrillers tonight.
There was a rape and violence and the main villain was played by Alexander Skarsgård (Straw dogs). Stay out of the deep south of USA!?
The other one was about rape and violence and the main villain was played by Stellan Skarsgård (Alexander's father). The girl with the dragon tattoo. (Stay out of Sweden too!)
Must be a coincidence but I got the feeling that the Skarsgårds went to USA to play villains.
And can anyone give me a reason why the Swedish film (and book) titled "Men who hate women" turned out into the longer "The girl with the dragon tattoo" in English? Was the Swedish title too straightforward in Englich? Too unromantic? The titles of American films usually stay untranslated in Sweden. With some exceptions, like "Mozart and the Whale" which was "translated" into another English titel "Crazy in Love". Obviously "Mozart and the Whale" was considered too odd in Sweden.
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Post by DGoeij on Apr 14, 2014 1:31:19 GMT
Titeling things seems to become weird across continents. I think I remember some author complaining that even between UK and US publishers, books get different titles at times, which just sounds amazingly daft.
I can see the point of changing the title sometimes if you change between languages, you can make use of different puns and what not.
We recently saw the Captain America, Winter Soldier.
I thought it was really good. Bit more of a spy-thriller tale with superheros and action scenes. I like this Captain America, they made an interesting, believable human being, the last boy scout, into a super hero and he works really well against the backdrop of the secret services, with their blurring of the lines of right and wrong. The actor carries that persona well.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Apr 15, 2014 0:00:13 GMT
I was watching two thrillers tonight. There was a rape and violence and the main villain was played by Alexander Skarsgård (Straw dogs). Stay out of the deep south of USA!? The other one was about rape and violence and the main villain was played by Stellan Skarsgård (Alexander's father). The girl with the dragon tattoo. (Stay out of Sweden too!) Must be a coincidence but I got the feeling that the Skarsgårds went to USA to play villains. And can anyone give me a reason why the Swedish film (and book) titled "Men who hate women" turned out into the longer "The girl with the dragon tattoo" in English? Was the Swedish title too straightforward in Englich? Too unromantic? The titles of American films usually stay untranslated in Sweden. With some exceptions, like "Mozart and the Whale" which was "translated" into another English titel "Crazy in Love". Obviously "Mozart and the Whale" was considered too odd in Sweden. Maybe "Men who hate women" isn't odd enough becuase that is the general feeling in America so they have to change the title to something that will actually be noticed? That is a wee bit cynical of me but when you watch movies you do notice a tendency to put women down.
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Post by Yuki on Jun 22, 2014 14:17:53 GMT
Ender's Game.. it was decently good..
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Post by JoeP on Jun 23, 2014 12:41:51 GMT
Was it faithful to the book?
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Post by Yuki on Jun 23, 2014 13:13:22 GMT
I haven't read the book yet (it's on my reading list), but what movie rendition has ever been faithful to its original book?
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Post by JoeP on Jun 23, 2014 13:37:13 GMT
It's a scale - from "tried to be reasonably faithful" to "not even recognisable"
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Post by Kye on Jun 23, 2014 14:01:58 GMT
I liked the book, but I haven't seen the movie.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Jun 24, 2014 11:42:16 GMT
Is that the book that was written by a racist homophobe or some such? Not sure if that comes across in either book or movie though.
I just finished reading Cloud Atlas which I enjoyed. I haven't seen the movie but watched a trailer and didn't like the look of it. They seem to be trying to force messages down your throat. What is it with film makers thinking audiences are completely stupid?
Haven't been to the cinema for a while so I think the last movie we saw was Captain America: Winer Soldier which was terrific! Best Marvel movie outside of Avengers I reckon.
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Post by JoeP on Jun 24, 2014 11:58:16 GMT
Yes, the author is a bit of a wacko and sounds quite unpleasant. What is it with film makers thinking audiences are completely stupid? Many Americans are pretty stupid, and the rest are being conditioned into not having to think.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Jun 24, 2014 12:03:44 GMT
To the detriment of us all.
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Post by Yuki on Jun 24, 2014 13:28:32 GMT
Cloud Atlas - I actually enjoyed the movie quite a lot, but I expect the book to be far better.. thanks for reminding me of it Barbora.. I'm also planning to read Simulacron-3, which was the basis for the movie The 13th Floor (on my top list of sci-fi movies).
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Post by spaceflower on Jul 4, 2014 0:50:59 GMT
I went to the cinema with may daughter and we saw and liked The Grand Hotel Budapest. Makes me want to read Stefan Zweig (the film was "inspired" by his works about the interwar period in Vienna).
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Post by raspberrybullets on Jul 5, 2014 5:47:29 GMT
That looked like a movie I would enjoy watching.
We went to see X-Men Days of Future Past last weekend. It was diverting enough I suppose, especially the bits with Jennifer Lawrence. And young Xavier was not as annoying this time round. But I felt it wasn't really worth my time at the cinema. It started out promising enough but ended up being the same old story that was repeated in the last 5 movies - the X-men against Magneto infront of an audience at a large public event.
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Post by Yuki on Jul 7, 2014 14:25:23 GMT
"Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain", a surprisingly enjoyable movie, since I don't like French movies in general..
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Post by Mari on Nov 29, 2014 17:26:46 GMT
Chocolat. I'd nread the book years ago and was intrigued. I liked the film. They changed the plot a little bit, but not enough to annoy me.
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Post by Alvamiga on Nov 29, 2014 17:42:19 GMT
I saw Prometheus the other day. I now understand the lacklustre reviews. Unfortunately, it suffered a lot from doing that thing where it is setting up a load of events all through the film that suddenly all come together 5 minutes before the end to make a very contrived link in with the previous Alien films. It felt like it didn't have any direction of its own.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Nov 30, 2014 11:23:05 GMT
Re-watched Wall-e yesterday - that is a cute movie.
Otherwise, looking forward to seeing the third Hunger Games.
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Post by kingedmund on Dec 17, 2014 6:32:01 GMT
I saw Prometheus the other day. I now understand the lacklustre reviews. Unfortunately, it suffered a lot from doing that thing where it is setting up a load of events all through the film that suddenly all come together 5 minutes before the end to make a very contrived link in with the previous Alien films. It felt like it didn't have any direction of its own. I like it for the most part but wasn't surprised that it was linked to aliens. Always wondered how they were created.
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Post by Mari on Dec 31, 2014 10:33:20 GMT
I saw Annie in theatre yesterday. It was a fun musical with new songs and people being surprised by the singing (which made it feel more set in real life somehow). It will never be the classic the original Annie is though. Mostly because they focused on the wrong plot points IMO. That said, I'd watch it again if it was on TV.
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Post by Alvamiga on Dec 31, 2014 15:44:30 GMT
I enjoyed the way they did the singing thing in Enchanted, with the guy not understanding how everyone around knew the song and was joining in.
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Post by Mari on Dec 31, 2014 16:06:19 GMT
Yes, that happened here as well, but now also with some of the singers wondering why in the world they were singing. Disney has also caught on on this and in their musical Teenage Beach Movie they pretty much challenge all musical clichés. The story is crap, but it's pretty funny and the songs are nice.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Jan 1, 2015 8:45:22 GMT
I recently didn't see the Hunger Games Mocking Jay part 1. We finally managed to get around to the cinema to see it today and they bloody sold out of tickets! With like a hundred other films released either today or on Boxing Day you'd have thought people were too busy watching that!
We did however see the Lego movie yesterday and that was cute although I felt a bit too sickly sweet at the end there with the humans; additionally wasn't pleased that the girl, instead of having her own agency and deciding on who she wants to be with, was given by Batman to Emmet like an object. We also finally saw Dispicable Me 2 which was hilarious but again, they just slightly ruined it by having the perfectly competant woman suddently not be able to do anything to help save herself at the end.
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