Upon thy belly shalt thou go….
Leaving Las Vegas is a movie about what would happen if someone hired Nicolas Cage to pretend to be a drunk. Â Elisabeth Shue half redeems the movie.
This is a strange Subtitle Goof — it’s not a goof. Â The goof is with the caption, an English translation from the Latvian pimp patrol. Â The subtitle actually corrects the caption.
Sometimes you’ll see a movie or read a book, and you’ll think, “Man! I wish I had written that!” This is one of ‘em. The key to a good movie is to be able to empathize with the protagonist. Â Have you seen “Basic Instinct 2?” What a spiteful piece of crap. You don’t care if Sharon Stone’s character kills them, or if she gets killed, or if everyone dies. JUST EVERYONE DIE AND GET THE MOVIE OVER WITH!
Now, really good movies let you empathize with more than the protagonist. Like A Simple Plan. You don’t have to like the character, but you have to care about what happens to them.
All of the major characters in The Lives of Others are sympathetic. Even the scummiest of them I could understand. This is the best movie I’ve seen this year.
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Should be “Looks like a 50th.”
He’s actually saying [from "The Raven"]: “And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon that is dreaming….”
An inspiring story, to be sure. Wikipedia has everything. It would have been better, though, if Will Smith had one of those memory-loss-inducing lights like he had in Men in Black. This should be, “Were you in the street….”
This is something of a strange pasttime, I admit, but I get disappointed when I watch a movie that doesn’t have a mistake in the subtitles. I’m really disappointed when they don’t have subtitles at all, like one of my favorite movies, “Session 9.“
I hadn’t seen Two Moon Junction in 15 years, and I don’t remember it being such a dorky movie. Â Couldn’t make it all the way through.
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I was very surprised with Lucky Slevin – it’s now one of my favorite movies. Of course Josh Hartnett gets instant bonus points for having been in a movie scored by Cliff Martinez (“Wicker Park“).
Instead of “anorexia,” he’s saying, “I have ataraxia.” And it’s “weirdo.”
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Black Narcissus was a decent movie. My local library has several DVD titles from the Criterion Collection, so I’ll cycle through them.
”They [the drums] beat all night while he’s ill.” Very effective, later on…..
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The Bourne Supremacy and its predecessor The Bourne Identity are required viewing. Watch them if you haven’t.
Here (“I’m gonna ask you some some simple questions.”) is a form of parablepsis called dittography — the unintentional repetition of characters. See a Biblical example (II Samuel 6:3-4). Or another at Leviticus 20:10.
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My kind of movie.
“You said money was is no object.”
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Memento is another excellent movie and is one of the few I own. I scarcely get to watch it though, since my wife gets vexed by movies with shifting time, like Somewhere In Time or Dead Again.
Remember Sammy Jankis.
“Probably left in in your room.”
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The Usual Suspects is the greatest movie of all time.
The reason for the whole “Subtitle Goofs” category is that I usually watch movies after the kids have gone to bed, and movies are usually mixed in a kid-sleeping-unfriendly manner. I can’t make out a lot of dialogue without turning the volume up too high, so I read most of my movies.
“Does that mean I get railed every time a truck finds it’s way gone?”
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Hudson Hawk is one of the greatest movies of all time, right next to The Princess Bride and The Usual Suspects.
Bunny, ball ball.
“The Vatican extends its jealously to the lucky bidder.”
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