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Re: You have no taste snoopcester Send a noteboard - 01/09/2010 10:34:14 AM
Fair enough. It wasn't exactly the first movie from this list I intended to see anyway.


Good plan, at least they had it near the bottom as well but I suspect even that is more about the hype around the books.

I can tell. Maybe I should give it another chance, then.


You just need to enjoy it for what it is, a really good version of the old 1970s Japanese films done with a bit of humour.

Oh, close enough to perfectly understood, in the respective parts of the country, except perhaps for heavy dialects that would likely not be understood by all French/Dutch viewers themselves either. (This fact notwithstanding, Flemish television has taken to subtitling Dutch television programmes (and the other way around, but that makes more sense), but then again it has also taken to subtitling Flemish television programmes in which anyone speaks anything remotely resembling dialect.)


Ah, I wasn't sure how much the dialects would make it difficult. With the subtitling, it does seem to be more and more common for it to be done when I'm really not sure there is a real need - I can't remember what it was on but I was over at a friend's house a few weeks ago after a night out and the best thing on TV was some american reality TV type show, there was a woman who spoke really clear english with a slight Japanese accent and they felt the need to provide subtitles. Which was quite funny:P

Anyway, yeah, we do have a foreign language knowledge advantage, and even a native language advantage of sorts for Dutch and French movies respectively. It's more a matter of popularity and what is shown, I guess. The Walloons see a fair amount of French movies, but in Flanders really nearly everything is American. In my local movie theatre, there's usually ten to twelve movies playing at any given time, and eight to ten of those will be American, with the rest either Flemish (increasingly so of late, admittedly), French/Walloon or from other origins. Rarely Dutch. There was another theatre with a more arthouse choice of movies (if you can call it arthouse; it kept playing Amélie once a week for literally a year straight), which obviously means more non-English, but it's closed now due to lack of visitors, so well...


I guess over all the key factors are probably the same - the American films have the biggest budgets and the biggest names, as well as the most aggresive promotion, so it outweighs over factors.
I guess Amelie isn't as popular as they hoped;)

Yeah. But then you're not really an average Briton, either. :P Even if I have no idea how your foreign languages are, now that you mention it...


I'll take that as meant in a good way:P
My grasp of foreign languages is pretty shocking, though it is from it being something I just have no ability with despite trying rather than not caring.
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Empire's 100 Best Films of World Cinema Legolas - 31/08/2010 02:50:01 PM 1490 Views
As for my quibbles with the list... Legolas - 31/08/2010 03:01:43 PM 870 Views
Since it's "World Cinema," does that automatically exclude U.S. films? *NM* Palatine - 31/08/2010 05:51:00 PM 409 Views
It usually means non-English language films *NM* snoopcester - 31/08/2010 06:36:34 PM 406 Views
Not only that, it also seems to exclude British, Australian and other English-language ones. Legolas - 31/08/2010 07:57:19 PM 761 Views
No one minds Australia's exclusion. All they make is bad Jackie Chan films. *NM* TaskmasterJack - 31/08/2010 10:55:18 PM 296 Views
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert would've been a shoe-in otherwise... *NM* Legolas - 01/09/2010 12:14:28 AM 293 Views
And after somebody brought up Requiem for a Dream in the other thread... Legolas - 01/09/2010 02:15:51 PM 714 Views
Hey I've only seen 21 ironclad - 31/08/2010 03:40:54 PM 794 Views
My opinion of their list rose by a fair bit when I saw La vita è bella was not on it. Legolas - 31/08/2010 07:56:15 PM 783 Views
What exactly is Battle Royale doing there? Lordling - 31/08/2010 04:07:46 PM 890 Views
Juno is Canadian-American though. ironclad - 31/08/2010 07:40:20 PM 760 Views
I'm quite surprised to see that La Vita e bella (Life is Beautiful) isn't on the list. *NM* Missa Sedai - 31/08/2010 04:51:53 PM 525 Views
Me too. Pleasantly surprised. *NM* Legolas - 31/08/2010 07:57:47 PM 402 Views
Really? I thought the movie was fantastic and well-made. *NM* Missa Sedai - 01/09/2010 12:36:05 AM 415 Views
In fairness, Roberto Benigni being an overrated ass doesn't mean his only good film isn't good. Legolas - 01/09/2010 01:01:21 AM 823 Views
We may have to fight, now. Camilla - 01/09/2010 10:47:45 AM 766 Views
He's so ridiculously full of himself. Legolas - 01/09/2010 02:10:27 PM 806 Views
Re: He's so ridiculously full of himself. Camilla - 01/09/2010 02:15:34 PM 782 Views
I've seen 28, so nearly a third snoopcester - 31/08/2010 06:50:43 PM 755 Views
I've seen Zatoichi among those you name... Legolas - 31/08/2010 07:59:14 PM 736 Views
You have no taste snoopcester - 31/08/2010 08:10:26 PM 843 Views
Re: You have no taste Legolas - 31/08/2010 08:34:03 PM 809 Views
Re: You have no taste snoopcester - 31/08/2010 10:02:45 PM 777 Views
Re: You have no taste Legolas - 31/08/2010 10:21:25 PM 791 Views
Re: You have no taste snoopcester - 01/09/2010 10:34:14 AM 835 Views
Re: You have no taste Legolas - 01/09/2010 01:56:48 PM 756 Views
Re: You have no taste snoopcester - 01/09/2010 02:55:56 PM 716 Views
I've seen a Belgian film lately ironclad - 31/08/2010 10:14:12 PM 610 Views
No, but I've heard a fair bit about it. Legolas - 31/08/2010 10:23:49 PM 778 Views
Good point Camilla - 01/09/2010 11:06:15 AM 738 Views
I've seen a whopping 4.....but in my defense, I hate subtitles, so I just don't watch these movies *NM* Brian - 31/08/2010 07:49:38 PM 446 Views
Well, you miss out on a ton, then. *NM* Legolas - 31/08/2010 07:59:33 PM 375 Views
Indeed....many of them are available on Netflix streaming though, so maybe I'll watch some soon *NM* Brian - 31/08/2010 08:17:39 PM 417 Views
only 11 myself and i don't think that my neighbour totoro is as good princess monoke *NM* Foxhead - 31/08/2010 08:20:15 PM 474 Views
only saw like 15 of them, but I think the list is somewhat weird. *NM* jh - 31/08/2010 08:32:34 PM 412 Views
Only seen 8 nossy - 31/08/2010 10:43:15 PM 726 Views
Re: Only seen 8 Legolas - 01/09/2010 12:17:17 AM 965 Views
Re: Only seen 8 nossy - 01/09/2010 04:27:38 AM 796 Views
Some of those films are really not Jen films snoopcester - 01/09/2010 10:36:36 AM 788 Views
You might be surprised what I'll watch. nossy - 01/09/2010 04:09:05 PM 783 Views
I wasn't suggesting you wouldn't watch them snoopcester - 01/09/2010 04:38:57 PM 808 Views
You mean you have discovered movies jh - 01/09/2010 08:10:12 PM 773 Views
That's a lot of Asian movies... Legolas - 01/09/2010 11:54:59 AM 806 Views
Yeah, I tend to really like even the silly ones. nossy - 01/09/2010 04:11:41 PM 977 Views
Re: Yeah, I tend to really like even the silly ones. Legolas - 01/09/2010 04:24:34 PM 749 Views
Re: Yeah, I tend to really like even the silly ones. nossy - 01/09/2010 04:36:54 PM 744 Views
I've seen 7 and plan to see at least 3 more! WTF?!?!?! Cannoli - 01/09/2010 01:14:45 AM 814 Views
I've seen 32. Tom - 01/09/2010 04:27:31 AM 809 Views
Nice. I agree with a lot of your assessments. Legolas - 01/09/2010 02:02:30 PM 848 Views
Well, I don't think that she could have made that movie IN Iran... Tom - 02/09/2010 09:51:17 PM 730 Views
Night Watch? Really? Fun book, bad movie. *NM* Ghavrel - 01/09/2010 07:29:58 AM 352 Views
Yeah the film wasn't much to write home about, opposite to what the trailer made you believe *NM* ironclad - 01/09/2010 11:37:05 AM 332 Views
Re: Empire's 100 Best Films of World Cinema Camilla - 01/09/2010 11:05:17 AM 845 Views
Re: Empire's 100 Best Films of World Cinema snoopcester - 01/09/2010 11:31:59 AM 781 Views
Re: Empire's 100 Best Films of World Cinema Legolas - 01/09/2010 02:09:20 PM 689 Views
Re: Empire's 100 Best Films of World Cinema Camilla - 01/09/2010 02:19:58 PM 714 Views
I've seen like 10 BlackAdder - 01/09/2010 11:35:58 AM 790 Views
I've seen eight but Cache is on tonight so I'll watch that. Stephen - 01/09/2010 03:56:31 PM 698 Views
I've seen one Haneke movie (La Pianiste), and I've decided I'm going to keep it that way. Legolas - 01/09/2010 04:08:55 PM 762 Views
I haven't seen any of his other films so I'm not sure what to expect really Stephen - 01/09/2010 04:26:40 PM 753 Views
So what did you think? *NM* Legolas - 02/09/2010 09:43:18 PM 292 Views
Same, except it was "Funny Games" that did it to me *NM* ironclad - 01/09/2010 08:30:34 PM 381 Views
8 MonCul - 02/09/2010 08:59:44 PM 764 Views
I sense a few amazon.com orders coming soon. Vodalus - 19/11/2010 06:20:53 AM 825 Views
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