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[Diego440]

I live in a house with a chihuahua and a toddler. I need subtitles at all times.

Ever since I moved back with my mom, my study is right next to the kitchen and whether it's someone doing the dishes, using the blender or my stepdad watching the news at high volume well into the night, subtitles are a must.

I'm the same. My girlfriend is Japanese and prefers it when I turn the subtitles on. Her English is good, but sometimes in films people talk too fast for her liking. It's become a habit now that I generally turn them on even if I'm watching something alone.

English is sort of my first language, but I find that using the subtitles I understand a lot more that I wouldn't normally pay attention to in the first place.

 

[FoolKiller]

Ever since I moved back with my mom, my study is right next to the kitchen and whether it's someone doing the dishes, using the blender or my stepdad watching the news at high volume well into the night, subtitles are a must.

Noise is only half the problem. Sometimes the toddler sleeps and the wife says, "Turn it down," until sounds from something like the air conditioning/heating unit can make it hard to hear.

 

[Diego440]

I know the feeling. Kinda defeats the purpose of having a 5.1

I just saw:



Sleuth (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1972) -- Milo Tindle and Andrew Wyke have something in common, Andrew's wife. In an attempt to find a way out of this without costing Andrew a fortune in alimony, he suggests Milo pretend to rob his house and let him claim the insurance on the stolen jewelry. The problem is that they don't really like each other and each cannot avoid the zinger on the other. The plot has many shifts in which the advantage shifts between Milo and Andrew.This is one of those great British movies from the '70s, which is based on a play, but still manages to be comepletely plausible and believable, even if it's 138 minutes of two people talking to each other in three or four rooms of a single house, basically. Needless to say, the plot is dialogue-driven, but so masterfully written that it's beyond belief. Truly one of the great witty movies. 8.5/10

 

[niky]

I live in a house with a chihuahua and a toddler. I need subtitles at all times.

Which is why when the wife is asleep, I end up watching Japanese cartoons. Yay subtitles!

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On the topic of English accents... I sure wish they'd put subtitles on "The Full Monty" when I watched it with my wife. I spent half the movie translating for her.

 

[livemusic]

Some British accents are hard to get. The other day I was watching an Isle of Men's TT documentary called Closer to the Edge, with no subtitles and I had to really bring the volume up so I could understand something. I'm not even sure that Guy guy was speaking in English.

 

[F1 fan]

Some British accents are hard to get. The other day I was watching an Isle of Men's TT documentary called Closer to the Edge, with no subtitles and I had to really bring the volume up so I could understand something. I'm not even sure that Guy guy was speaking in English.

To be honest, most British people have difficulty understanding Guy Martin.

 

[FoolKiller]

On the topic of English accents... I sure wish they'd put subtitles on "The Full Monty" when I watched it with my wife. I spent half the movie translating for her.

The US has a tendency to cater to special interest groups, such as the deaf and hard of hearing, so closed captioning has been around on almost every station as long as I can remember, and nearly all DVDs have a subtitle track. Even streaming services like Netflix are starting to have them available. It is also possible to find digital conversion software that will carry the subtitle channel over, so when I put my daughter's Elmo and Thomas DVDs on the PS3 hard drive I still have subtitle options.

 

[niky]

Sadly, we watched it on TV. Still wondering if it's worth buying a copy to watch again.

 

[Schwartz]

Moneyball
If you are a fan of baseball and you understand the game, it is great.
Its not your average baseball movie.

 

[35mm]

So, you gave us your opinion on two films you didn't actually watch?

And the second one is called "No Strings Attached."

Actually, it's Friends with Benefits.

And if I may add, it is not that bad a movie, in my opinion. But you have to keep in mind that it is a Romantic Comedy after all.

 

[Submerged]

To be honest, most British people have difficulty understanding Guy Martin.

The problem with Guy Martin (after watching the TT races) is that his speech isn't consistent. He has changes in his speed of talking and pauses at slightly odd times and can be quite unpredictable with his expressions sometimes.

This is what people have difficulty with when speech is not standard and they have to work hard to understand the sounds to form into words.

I use the subtitles in all TV programmes as I am hard of hearing. It is really useful especially when the dialogue goes by at a mile a minute! Now, I can get away without using subtitles on some programs (News, BBC Four and documentary programmes) but for everything else, subtitles are required.

Also, it tells you the song that they play. VERY useful.

To be fair, for a newcomer using subtitles it is more work to read the words, see the action and expressions used and understand how the word fits in with what's going on at the same time. Rather than just sitting there, watching the action and hearing what's being said.

I do feel a bit lost sometimes without subtitles as i don't get the reassurance of knowing what is being said until a nanosecond later after the words have been mentioned.....

I recently saw Bee Movie. I thought it was an average film with some good points being made but it was rather predictable with what was going to happen with the end result. Some comedy stuff wasn't really hitting the mark as it should have and some bits were a bit stale actually, but it was an ok movie to pass the time with.

 

[DA__dogg]

Just watched Kill the Irishman, an excellent movie about Danny Greene, the infamous mafia honcho in the 70's era Cleveland. It gets a 10/10 from me. I'm a bit biased because I love mafia movies but this one is just as good as Donnie Brasco or The Goodfellas imo. The Godfather still rules all.

 

[Nessy]

Ouch. I take it you can watch Japanese films without subtitles? Watashi no Kannojo wa nihon jindesu.


I hear that Hollywood is working on an Oldboy remake. Oh dae-su does not approve... And no one can replace the beautiful Kang Hye-Jeong as Mido .

I recently watched Låt den rätte komma, or "Let the right one in". It was a good film. The fact that the American remake changed the boy's name from "Oskar" to "Owen" is all the sign I need not to watch the remake. Couldn't they just have called him "Oscar"?

(Slightly off topic)
I've always wanted to learn Japanese, bought a tutorial DVD book thing... didn't get very far unfortunately .

With regards to Oldboy remake, no... just No!

Same with Let the right one in... loved the original, see no point in watching the remake.... and the name thing is just ridiculous.

 

[F1 fan]

(Slightly off topic)
I've always wanted to learn Japanese, bought a tutorial DVD book thing... didn't get very far unfortunately .

It's a very difficult language to learn. What really annoys me is the multiple aphabets. Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji. I started with Hiragana and decided one night to take a look a Katakana. I was annoyed to find that the letters are the same, but the symbols are different. Same goes for Kanji.

As I'm moving to Japan, I have to at least make an effort, but I'll be sticking to Romaji, which is Japanese written in English writing. I have heard of many western people who are able to converse in Japanese fluently, but can't read or write. If I can get anywhere near this, I'll be happy. It helps that I'm marrying my Japanese teacher though.

With regards to Oldboy remake, no... just No!

Unfortunately, it's going to happen. Given that Oldboy is a Korean film adaptation of a Japanese comic, I don't see a problem with someone doing a remake if and only if they do it right. I doubt they will get it right though.

Same with Let the right one in... loved the original, see no point in watching the remake.... and the name thing is just ridiculous.

They also changed the girls name from "Ellie" to "Abby"... It was all the sign I needed to not watch it.

 

[axletramp]

Watched 'Inside Job' the documentary about the 2008 financial crash.

I really enjoyed this and it expanded my limited knowledge of how it happened and who was involved. The guy conducting the interviews was refreshingly determined to get the answers he wanted and he definitely knew when he had someone on the hook - there are some highly entertaining moments when senior politicians and financial leaders are uncomfortably squirming and completely caught out as liars.

What I took away at the end was just how deep and far up the political ladder the corruption and lying went and the reasons why those responsible will never come to book.

I also now know who Keef's avatar is.

All-in-all definitely worth a look if you, like me, weren't up on all the facts and figures why the world is in such financial mess. Just be prepared to feeling angry, frustrated and even more hateful for those 'in charge' by the end.

 

[Diego440]

21 (Robert Luketic, 2008) -- The fact-based story of six MIT students who were trained to become experts in card-counting and subsequently took Vegas casinos for millions in winnings. The movie has a couple of good actors: Laurence Fishburne and Kevin Spacey and is well acted by them, though the rest of the actors in it aren't that much up to par, plus the movie has many instances where these supposedly ultra smart kids explain things like if they were retarded, probably in an effort to dumb down the facts, like a math major will not recognize the Fibonacci sequence when presented in the first 8 digits. Oh well. The movie does manage to remain interesting, and though it's predictable to the end, it was decent and fun. The problem for this type of movie is that they tend to remind the viewer a lot fo Ocean's 11, and once you go down that road, it's hard to come on top of it. Still, with a 123-minute runtime, it manages nicely to remain interesting, though only on a relaxing and not extremely riveting level. 6.5/10

 

[CAM]

I saw the Beavis and Butthead movie recently, running around in the White House saying "I am the great Cornhol-io, bow to Bunghol-io! Heh heh, heh heh" had me rolling laughing .

 

[Sanji Himura]

The Grey - The movie was near terrible, but the whole subject of surviving an airplane crash just appealed to me to plop the seven bucks down to see it. Now I regret it. The movie ends when it got to the good part and that is all that I am going to say without spoiling it. 6/10

 

[Omnis]

Watched Robogeisha with some friends. We had a couple of laughs but it's such a bad movie. It's SOOOOOO LONG. One of those ridiculous japanese B-movies.

 

[Nessy]

It's a very difficult language to learn. What really annoys me is the multiple aphabets. Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji. I started with Hiragana and decided one night to take a look a Katakana. I was annoyed to find that the letters are the same, but the symbols are different. Same goes for Kanji.

(Off topic), An old workmate of mine was in a similar situation (has a Japanese partner, and hopes to eventually move out there to teach English).. his Japanese is quite good, but he told me he always gets ribbed by his partner's friends when out there, they say that when he speaks in Japanese, he says things that only a female would say... i didn't ask him exactly what he mean't, i'd just assumed it was similar to maybe French (feminine/masculine)... is this right, or do you think they were ribbing him because maybe the way he accentuated the words literally sounded feminine? ... (anyway back on topic)

Watched a pretty decent Danish film (subs) last night, 'In A Better World'.

Basically it's a film about the friendship formed between 2 boys whilst attending the same school, 1 has recently lost his mother to cancer.. the other 1 is getting bullied at school, anyway they form a friendship, and go about righting things that they perceived as being wrong... though eventually things get out of hand, won't go into anymore detail as it may spoil it for others that might want to see the film.. anyway, pretty decent and i think i'll give it a 7.5 out of 10.

 

[Mac K]

I watched Drive with Ryan Gosling. I read mixed reviews on it, some said it was completely terrible, others said it was the greatest movie of 2011, so I went in with mixed feelings. The movie has a nice cast of cars if you're into American cars, but the movie itself was epic. Once you figure it out, it becomes an enjoyable movie, Ryan doesn't talk much, but it really adds to the suspense and mystery of the movie and his character as opposed to Faster( which isn't even comparable except that the main character is a fairly silent wheel man). The movie's soundtrack was excellent as well(as I type this, the soundtrack is blasting through my headphones) and the camera work was spectacular, there were a lot of in car shots, which looked great at night and at sunrise/set. The movie also was quite graphic, but in a good way, you kill someone and it gets messy, I hate it when movies tend to dumb that down, this doesn't. The acting was also quite good, Ryan Gosling was great, Ron Perlman was awesome as always, Bryan Cranston was great and Albert Brooks was as well. Overall it was great, but don't go in expecting a cliche Hollywood action feature this one was light on action, but everything else was near perfect. I recommend it for sure, just make sure you watch it in HD, SD won't do it all justice.

9/10

 

[Emman1984]

I love you Beth Cooper

 

[Negrumir]

I watched "The Man From Nowhere" on Hulu last night. No need for Hulu plus to watch that particular one, so that's good.

Turns out it was a Korean film made fairly recently, I thought it was pretty good.

Even though I don't understand Korean, I could tell that there was emotion and feeling behind the lines. This is good, because I've seen plenty of foreign films that just seem like the lines a recited for the purpose of filling the gaps between fight scenes that are heavy on wire-work and unrealistic special effects.

This film was a well paced movie with a pretty good story. I won't spoil it, but there wasn't too much in the plot that was amazingly groundbreaking or mind-blowing. That said, it was pretty gritty and serious without getting cheesy. Thus: "Pretty Good."

The fights in it were different than I expected. I was sort of expecting a martial arts movie, but this seemed a bit more like the Bourne films in the style of the moves used. In fact, some plot points, as well as a bunch of the content seemed to be inspired by those movies. Not to say it was a rip-off, but I felt like there was definitely some influence from them; that's not necessarily a bad thing though. It was brutal and very bloody; but quite exiting and satisfying to watch.

Be warned though, it's littered with profanity and gore. There's also some nudity too. I wouldn't recommend watching it with kids in the room.

 

[shmogt]

Just started watching the new underworld awakening. Is the first maybe 5min supposed to be in Russian?

Edit:
Ok I watched it. Gotta say it was pretty sweet. Action packed the entire time. A lot of people said it was really short and I guess it was, but no time to relax for the whole thing. It had that creepy feel throughout as well which just made it sweeter. Ending was so tricky. Left it open for another one, but almost made you want it too much. This type of ending would of been better for a tv show since the wait of the next season wouldn't be that long. Now I'm just gonna be waiting forever until the next one is made to see how it all goes down.

 

[TheCracker]

I love you Beth Cooper

 

[Diego440]

The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy, 1973) -- A police sergeant is called to an island village in Summerisle in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. Stranger still, however, are the rituals that take place there, where religious paganism rules and everyone lives by a code of sex=prosperity. In his quest for the girl, he finds more and more mystery. The movie plays itself quite nicely and though it sometimes gets too hippy/free love/nuts and barley for my taste, the party mystery story, part horror movie blends well and is the highlight of the movie. The ending is surprising and hard to forget and I've seen the title on many Top Ten horror lists and was always curious about it. I thought it'd be different, and being a 70s horror movie, it lacks a bit of the surprise/scare factor, but makes up in psychological uncertainty. 8/10

 

[Driving Park]

Haven't posted here in a while, but I've been watching movies pretty regularly these days so I have stuff to contribute.

Pulp Fiction

Somehow I managed to live a full 18 years before watching this classic. But I did, and even though it was entertaining and well done, it's so off the wall that the only rating I can give it is a Q out of 10.

Children of Men

Just got done watching this. My friend said it was really good and he turned out to be grossly underexaggerating. What a fantastically written, fantastically directed, fantastically acted, and most of all fantastically shot film (the camera work was astonishing, especially in the later parts of the film where the very long takes come into play). It was well paced with an intriguing plot, and most importantly it was believable throughout. It made me feel like the director wanted to ensure this Hollywood film was as close to reality as possible. From my relatively inexperienced movie watching standpoint, I cannot find fault with it. 10/10.

 

[shmogt]

Watched Goon. I like how it is about the fighters in hockey. They have a small love story going on. The whole thing is kind of unfinished. Like none of it really matters. The guy fights people and that's it. I think they could of made it a lot funnier. The end where he is going to fight the best fighter in hockey was good. There is a big lead up and actual fight was on. Overall 6/10

 

[Emman1984]

Cool Running and The Sixth Man Classic

 

[Diego440]

Being There (Hal Ashby, 1979) -- A simple-minded gardener named Chance, who has spent all his life in the house of an old man, Chance is put out on the street when the old man dies; with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television. After a run in with a limousine, he ends up a guest of a woman and her husband, an influential but sick businessman. Now called Chauncey Gardner, Chance becomes an unlikely political consultant. Being one of the last movies by Peter Sellers, I've always had a soft spot for this movie, ever since I saw it as part of a class in college. The movie itself is an absolute masterpiece, where the character is very simple and unconscious to his surroundings, yet he radiates an image of compley self condifence. It's thje kidn of movie that has you thinking of it even after it's over, due to the different meta-meanings in each scene and how they relate to the whole. Really a movie made better thanks to thegenius that was Peter Sellers. 9/10

The Day After (Nicholas Mayer, 1983) -- The frightening story of the weeks leading up to and following a nuclear strike on the United States. The bulk of the activity centers around the town of Lawrence, Kansas. I heard a lot about this movie when I was a kid and as an alarmist movie about the devastating effects the outcome of the nuclear retaliation could've had during the Cold War, it works well, even if a bit too graphic for no sake. But as a whole, the movie isn't very good, especialy when seen nowadays, that everything is somewhat different. The purpose of the movie was to show what the aftermath of a nuclear war would be like for the American way of life and to remind everyone why it should never happen, but it only works when you think back to the time when the Soviets were under a constantly rotating leadership and Reagan did nothing but talk smack, making the threat very real and the reality check the movie delivers was very much needed; thus, it looks like a lot of BS now. 5.5/10