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19 Oct 2014, 7:42 pm
19 Oct 2014, 10:45 pm
Campin_Cat wrote:
Jory: Your last post reminded me of the first time I had seen Ralph Fiennes (I forgot about him being in "Schindler's List"). He was in "Maid in Manhattan", and did a flawless American accent. I had no idea he was British until.... Maybe not until "Harry Potter". Now that you mention it, there was no reason, really, that he couldn't have been British.
It bothers me less when the actor does such a good job that you'd never be able to tell. Gary Oldman has played plenty of characters who could have been British but for whatever reason it was decided that they needed to be American, but it's fine since he can pull it off flawlessly. Other actors, though, are just terrible at it. I already mentioned Sam Worthington in Avatar and Terminator Salvation trying and failing to hide his Australian accent, but there's also Charlie Hunnam in Pacific Rim, Daniel Craig in Tomb Raider, Cary Elwes in Saw, and so on. No reason whatsoever that these characters need to be American.
It's as if Hollywood executives think that everyone in the audience is such an idiot that they can't fathom the idea of a British person -- GASP!! -- traveling to America and living here. I was so happy when I watched The Invasion, which takes place in America, and found that they let Daniel Craig keep his accent. But then that movie bombed, so maybe Hollywood is onto something with their fake Americans.
20 Oct 2014, 2:53 am
Jory wrote:
It's as if Hollywood executives think that everyone in the audience is such an idiot that they can't fathom the idea of a British person -- GASP!! -- traveling to America and living here.
No way! That really happens? OMG
Jory's mention of The Invasion reminds me of something else that annoys me: Cancelling good shows! The Invasion was so exciting! Like a series version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, which is one of my fave movies.
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20 Oct 2014, 4:07 am
Jory wrote:
Evil_Chuck wrote:
Oh, and widescreen. Please give me something that fits my TV. I don't care if the bits on the end are cut off. And Blu-Ray. I don't need it for crying out loud. I don't need to analyze in detail every pore of skin on an actor's face. And the discs are so sensitive and easily damaged they make DVDs look sturdy. It's a bad trade-off.
On the contrary, Blu-rays are a hell of a lot more durable than DVDs. They're made with a scratch-resistant coating that makes it practically impossible to inflict the kinds of scratches and scuff marks that interfere with playback, at least through normal use. When I heard about the scratch-resistant coating, I thought it was just marketing BS; but after buying, owning, and using a couple of hundred Blu-rays, I can tell you it's true. I had one where glue from the cardboard packaging had stuck to the surface and I scrubbed the hell out of it to get it off, and there wasn't a scratch to be seen on it. If it had been a DVD, it would have been ruined beyond repair. I've had countless problems with DVDs, but none with Blu-rays.
You make a good point. Blu-Rays may be more durable than DVD's if they're well taken care of. The downside is that if you do actually penetrate the polymer coating and scratch one, you can't fix it. The disc is gone because the data has been scraped right off. Whereas with DVDs any scratch, scuff, or scrape you get on it that doesn't penetrate all the way to the other side of the disc, can still be fixed with a professional buffing machine. I hang around a video game store where they're used all the time and I've fixed a lot of discs myself. You can't do the same thing with the Blu-Ray discs that are used for PlayStation 3 games. When somebody brings one in one of those for us to clean, all we can do is put it on the "polish" setting; otherwise the machines will just erode the polymer and rub off the data. With DVDs, at least when mine do get damaged, there's a cheap and easy fix. Nothing about Blu-Ray is cheap, especially on my budget.
And that's the most important part, really. I can afford to maintain a DVD collection much more than I can afford to start a Blu-Ray one, plus I tend to resist a change until I no longer have a choice in the matter.
20 Oct 2014, 10:26 am
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20 Oct 2014, 10:03 pm
-Any female character in movies that are only there for the lead male character to sleep with, or for the male audience to oggle. They rarely have much character beyond posing seductively and sweating suggestively. Obviously a trophy for the male audience's wish fulfillment character, and that's it. 
-Whenever movies 'hurt' animals as 'comedy.' Cats are often the victims in this, either being tossed about, handled roughly by a kid, or some character trying to run one over. I've seen this before in some 90's comedy movies, so not sure if this still goes on as I rarely watch comedy these days.
20 Oct 2014, 10:55 pm
SpirosD wrote:
They even changed the James Bond movie title License Revoked into License to Kill because they thought Americans wouldn't understand what revoke means.
The other story I've heard is that audiences in test screenings said they didn't like the title because they associated the term "licence revoked" with a driver's license being nullified. Whatever the case, I think they made the right decision to change it, because Licence Revoked doesn't even sound like a Bond title.
Though I still think they were wrong to change Tomorrow Never Lies to Tomorrow Never Dies... but now we're getting off-topic.
21 Oct 2014, 3:13 am
21 Oct 2014, 6:05 am
Jory wrote:
SpirosD wrote:
They even changed the James Bond movie title License Revoked into License to Kill because they thought Americans wouldn't understand what revoke means.
The other story I've heard is that audiences in test screenings said they didn't like the title because they associated the term "licence revoked" with a driver's license being nullified. Whatever the case, I think they made the right decision to change it, because Licence Revoked doesn't even sound like a Bond title.
Though I still think they were wrong to change Tomorrow Never Lies to Tomorrow Never Dies... but now we're getting off-topic.
James Bond test screenings are usually made in the UK where the films are produced. Anyway, I to prefer the title License to Kill, and it refers to his 00 status. License revoked can be anything, his drivers, his to kill one, his fishing one or whatever else you need a license.
Something I also hate about films, is that foreigners always speak English along with there native language, every Russian speak English, every Japanese, even ancient Samurais speak English like in The Last Samurai, every German also speaks English, mostly in WW2 films, and Arabs who live in the desert and who have never had access to library in their life also speaks English, along with their foreign tongue.
Take Inglorious Basterd, great film, but why have the German officer switching from French to English if not just to make it easier on the audience, plus it's dumb because 70% of the movie was not shot in English, most of the time they are speaking German and French. And notice every German in the film speaks English and French.
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