Jason Filley - SnakeLegs » Subtitle Goofs http://www.snakelegs.org Upon thy belly shalt thou go.... Fri, 09 Jul 2010 22:02:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Leaving Las Vegas http://www.snakelegs.org/2007/11/18/leaving-los-vegas/ http://www.snakelegs.org/2007/11/18/leaving-los-vegas/#comments Sun, 18 Nov 2007 07:45:38 +0000 Jason Filley http://www.snakelegs.org/2007/11/18/leaving-los-vegas/ Leaving Las Vegas is a movie about what would happen if someone hired Nicolas Cage to pretend to be a drunk.  Elisabeth Shue half redeems the movie.

This is a strange Subtitle Goof — it’s not a goof.  The goof is with the caption, an English translation from the Latvian pimp patrol.  The subtitle actually corrects the caption.

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]]> http://www.snakelegs.org/2007/11/18/leaving-los-vegas/feed/ 0 The Lives of Others http://www.snakelegs.org/2007/11/18/the-lives-of-others/ http://www.snakelegs.org/2007/11/18/the-lives-of-others/#comments Sun, 18 Nov 2007 07:39:57 +0000 Jason Filley http://www.snakelegs.org/2007/11/18/the-lives-of-others/ 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.  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.”

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He’s actually saying [from "The Raven"]: “And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon that is dreaming….”

]]> http://www.snakelegs.org/2007/09/08/the-dead-zone/feed/ 0 Fracture http://www.snakelegs.org/2007/09/02/fracture/ http://www.snakelegs.org/2007/09/02/fracture/#comments Mon, 03 Sep 2007 02:38:35 +0000 Jason Filley http://www.snakelegs.org/2007/09/02/fracture/ What a great movie.  Watch it.

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The plural of head is “heads.”

]]> http://www.snakelegs.org/2007/09/02/fracture/feed/ 0 The Upside of Anger http://www.snakelegs.org/2007/07/03/the-upside-of-anger/ http://www.snakelegs.org/2007/07/03/the-upside-of-anger/#comments Wed, 04 Jul 2007 01:44:29 +0000 Jason Filley http://www.snakelegs.org/2007/07/03/the-upside-of-anger/
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Lime disease….?

]]> http://www.snakelegs.org/2007/07/03/the-upside-of-anger/feed/ 0 The Pursuit of Happyness http://www.snakelegs.org/2007/04/16/the-pursuit-of-happyness/ http://www.snakelegs.org/2007/04/16/the-pursuit-of-happyness/#comments Mon, 16 Apr 2007 05:03:51 +0000 Jason Filley http://www.snakelegs.org/2007/04/16/the-pursuit-of-happyness/ 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….”

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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.“

]]> http://www.snakelegs.org/2007/04/16/the-pursuit-of-happyness/feed/ 0 Wild Orchid http://www.snakelegs.org/2007/03/06/wild-orchid/ http://www.snakelegs.org/2007/03/06/wild-orchid/#comments Tue, 06 Mar 2007 04:49:01 +0000 Jason Filley http://www.snakelegs.org/2007/03/06/wild-orchid/ Another dumb movie.

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]]> http://www.snakelegs.org/2007/03/06/wild-orchid/feed/ 0 Two Moon Junction http://www.snakelegs.org/2007/03/03/two-moon-junction/ http://www.snakelegs.org/2007/03/03/two-moon-junction/#comments Sun, 04 Mar 2007 03:23:40 +0000 Jason Filley http://www.snakelegs.org/2007/03/03/two-moon-junction/ I hadn’t seen Two Moon Junction in 15 years, and I don’t remember it being such a dorky movie.  Couldn’t make it all the way through.

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]]> http://www.snakelegs.org/2007/03/03/two-moon-junction/feed/ 0 Lucky Slevin http://www.snakelegs.org/2007/01/06/lucky-slevin/ http://www.snakelegs.org/2007/01/06/lucky-slevin/#comments Sat, 06 Jan 2007 21:17:08 +0000 Jason Filley http://www.snakelegs.org/2007/01/06/lucky-slevin/ 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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  Lucky Slevin Anorexia  Lucky Slevin Wierdo

]]> http://www.snakelegs.org/2007/01/06/lucky-slevin/feed/ 0 Black Narcissus http://www.snakelegs.org/2006/08/28/black-narcissus/ http://www.snakelegs.org/2006/08/28/black-narcissus/#comments Mon, 28 Aug 2006 06:08:10 +0000 Jason Filley http://www.snakelegs.org/2006/08/28/black-narcissus/ 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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