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17 years ago @ /Film - The Road Movie Trailer · 0 replies · +1 points

Exactly my thoughts! Well put.

17 years ago @ /Film - What Did You Think of ... · 0 replies · +1 points

I agree and feels it's a little odd nobody's mentioned it yet. It's not just the story, I think some of the scenes resembled those in the original Star Wars movies. For example the one where they exit warp/hyperspace next to a destroyed ship/planet. The small ship vs the giant evil one. The scene where Kirk on his motorbike in a flat farming landscape looks at the space ship being built while the sun sets feels very much Luke when he looks at the sky on Tattoine. The fight with Nero from platform to platform on the mining ship vs the Luke/Vader fights in Star Wars.
The hangar when Kirk sneaks on board looks like the hangar in Episode IV and the scene towards the end where the heroes are awarded medals resembled the ending of Episode IV right down to the red clothes of the audience.
I mean this in a good way though! As someone said before me Abram has brought back the magic from the first Star Wars movie!

17 years ago @ /Film - First Look: Sylvester ... · 0 replies · +1 points

The 80s haircut is in place I see!

17 years ago @ /Film - Magnolia Thinks Blogge... · 0 replies · +1 points

I'm Swedish and without having seen the English subtitles more than in the previous article I can tell you that they were not literal, for example the jerk off statement was left out, the dialog at the pub was shortened and Eli and Oscar at the jungle gym was gone.

Basically all examples at the Icons of Fright page proved that the first translation was much much better.

17 years ago @ /Film - Director's Cut of... · 0 replies · +1 points

In Sweden the hardest rating a film can get is 15 which means you have to be 15 or older to get in, we don't have anything like NC-17 or 18 cert. I think the last film that had to be cut was Casino and that was for the violence not lovemaking...

Borat was in fact "barntillåten" that is, anyone was allowed in the cinema.

17 years ago @ /Film - Who Changed the Subtit... · 0 replies · +1 points

All non Swedish movies are subtitled here in Sweden and I read an article about the translation/subtitling of movies. Supposedly the subtitles are usually "dumbed down" for the DVD releases.

When a movie is shown on the big screen around 80% of the dialog is translated in the subtitles but when it's later released on DVD only 60% of the dialog is left in the subtitles.(Don't quote me on the actual figures) The theory here is that when you're at the theater you pay closer attention to the movie while at home you're more distracted and therefore can't read as much.

That said, the examples here of the DVD-translation are just plain stupid. In many cases the subtitles aren't even shorter, just different and/or wrong.

17 years ago @ /Film - Box Office: Watchmen P... · 0 replies · +1 points

Loved the movie.
Hadn't read the comic but will now.
Best: the dark tone, the foreboding feeling, the visuals, the antiheroes, the music, the montages
Worst: The gore and sex (What's wrong with me? ;-) )
The movie had great characters, I thought the Silk Spectre and Dr Manhattan characters were the most interesting but felt I needed more character background for the Comedian and Ozymandias. Nite Owl and Rorschach weren't as interesting.
Plot wise I think the ending (which I heard were changed) was great, the intellectual "villain" actually might have done the "right thing", never seen that before. Also liked that the world of the Watchmen wasn't black and white so to say.

As to why the movie "failed" at the box office, I think it has to do with the tone of the movie. It's pitch black. The main characters aren't all good or even likable, there's Armageddon on the horizon and then ending isn't exactly "happy" either...

17 years ago @ /Film - 2008 Oscar Foreign-Lan... · 0 replies · +2 points

Sweden had it's annual "mini-Oscars" called Guldbagge-galan a couple of days ago. Everlasting Moments and Let the Right One In took most of the awards. LTROI got best director and best adapted screenplay. I have absolutely no interest in seeing Everlasting Moments.

In Sweden you can sort all movies made into 3 categories;
* Historical drama (Everlasting Moments) often about some famous Swedish personality
* "Police-thriller", during the last couple of years it feels as if 50% of all Swedish movies were about either policeofficer Kurt Wallander or Martin Beck.
* Drama about middleaged couples having problems. Usually they sit around a dining room table talking.
Mikael Persbrant is always in all three types of movies. It's so depressing. I was very happy to see Let the Right One In finally getting some acknowledgment. There have also been some movies outside of the three categories in recent years; Farväl Falkenberg and De Ofrivilliga are two that spring to mind.

I'm so sick of 90% of the swedish movies and although I'm swedish and live in Sweden I've only seen three swedish movies on the big screen this year and a couple more at home. For comparison, I've watched maybe 20 american movies at the cinema and maybe 40 at home.

17 years ago @ /Film - Box Office Tracking: Y... · 2 replies · +3 points

Looking at the list with most $100 mill films... First Tom Hanks, ok. Second Tom Cruise, ok . Third Eddie WHO???
Just kidding, but it is a bit surprising I think...

17 years ago @ /Film - First Look: Mickey Rou... · 0 replies · +1 points

I think the trailer for the original was brilliant but the concept wasn't enough for a whole movie. If you saw the trailer, that was it, you had basically seen the whole movie. Perhaps they can flesh out the story some in the remake.

Mickey just keeps getting more creepy looking.

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