Last Movie You Watched

[Carlo Gesualdo]

Hercules the one rate 7 as it  so crappy it's good to watch,  perhaps I'm strange  but  I appreciate good and real real bad movie for there quality...

Now you're thinking  what so great about a movie like Hercules well itt's so kitsch it's cool because it's so bad and so wrong, I'm odd I guess.

a good new movie I  listen lately was Christian Bale  super movie rate 3 The prodigy about a magician, that was cool, even if it's been made in the past The Theme, Christian Bale is such an actor and a prestigious one.

He choose his movie I never seen him in  stupid movie so far?
He would be super in a movie on Gesualdo , like a super production well written story please we Gesualdo fan need such movie whiteout Christian Bale this movie would not be possible, he would make a formidable Gesualdo I'm pretty sure, the mockumantory document done by Werner Herzog does not s*ck but it's not a real movie after all darn please heral;d this idea, and put Harvey Keitel Hhas his uncle all great actor in the movie make it big think big. Hell yes!!!

[ritter]

Last night, Luigi Zampa 's Anni dificilli (Difficult Years) from 1948.

The ultimately tragic (but peppered with lots of humour) story of a Sicilian small town civil servant's  stance towards fascism. His being forced to join the Fascist Party (against his better judgement and his political views) turns against him in the end, and all but destroys his family in the process.

The scene in which the local party bigwigs summon the general manager of the opera house in the middle of a performance of Bellini's Norma, shocked by the anti roman choruses sung by the druids, to ask whether the work has been approved by the censors, is hilarious.

Beautiful acting by Umberto Spadaro as the grumpy, but also weak and good-hearted lead character, and Massimo Girotti as his son (whose life is also destroyed by the circumstances) isn't bad either.

A great testament to the flourishing of Italian cinema in the immediate post-WW2 period.

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Two Thousand Maniacs! (Herschell Gordon Lewis, 1964)

Surprisingly enjoyable "gore" movie. Someone commented well saying this is bad movie making at it's best.

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The Forbidden Photos Of A Lady Above Suspicion (Luciano Ercoli, 1970)

This is a "melodrama giallo", less violent than later giallo movies. Good solid plot. Great music by Ennio Morricone. Otherwise a bit awkward flick  as Italian movies tend to be for some reason (same cinematic tricks like sudden dramatic zooming applied to almost every scene no matter if it's called for or not, amateurish mixing of soundtrack etc.).

[Madiel]

In a Better World



Danish winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. Pretty good, though I'm not sure it's that good. Though one particular scene did make me cry a bit.

It really, really annoys me when people create English language titles that are not even close to being a translation of the original. The movie is actually called "The Revenge". What would have been wrong with that as a title? Especially when it makes far more sense for the content and themes of the film.

[aligreto]

13





A guy gets caught up in a high level, high stakes Russian roulette type gambling setup where there can be only one winner.

[André]

In a Better World



Danish winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. Pretty good, though I'm not sure it's that good. Though one particular scene did make me cry a bit.

It really, really annoys me when people create English language titles that are not even close to being a translation of the original. The movie is actually called "The Revenge". What would have been wrong with that as a title? Especially when it makes far more sense for the content and themes of the film.

Re: film titles. An intriguing issue indeed. I think it may be a legal/monetary issue. A 2016 film has that title (The Revenge).


https://www.klemchuk.com/ip-law-trends/trademark-copyright-mpaa-when-can-you-protect-movies-titles

[Madiel]

Re: film titles. An intriguing issue indeed. I think it may be a legal/monetary issue. A 2016 film has that title (The Revenge).


https://www.klemchuk.com/ip-law-trends/trademark-copyright-mpaa-when-can-you-protect-movies-titles

The Danish film was made in 2010.

[steve ridgway]

Re: film titles. An intriguing issue indeed. I think it may be a legal/monetary issue. A 2016 film has that title (The Revenge).

I used to get confused as a child by the continual references to TC in the cartoon Boss Cat but it turns out Top Cat was renamed to prevent the BBC inadvertently advertising a brand of cat food popular in Britain at the time .

[Florestan]

In a Better World



Danish winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. Pretty good, though I'm not sure it's that good. Though one particular scene did make me cry a bit.

It really, really annoys me when people create English language titles that are not even close to being a translation of the original. The movie is actually called "The Revenge". What would have been wrong with that as a title? Especially when it makes far more sense for the content and themes of the film.

In 1980s Romania they changed even the titles of well-known movies. For instance, The Three Musketeers was renamed Love and Honor and The Guns of Navarone became The Coastal Battery. I kid you not.

[Madiel]

In 1980s Romania they changed even the titles of well-known movies. For instance, The Three Musketeers was renamed Love and Honor and The Guns of Navarone became The Coastal Battery. I kid you not.

There are far more bizarre ones than that out there. Australian television had a comedy-game show called Show Me the Movie where they highlighted the more absurd ones, getting the contestants to guess which one of 4 ridiculously unlikely titles had been used for a film when translated for a given country. The answer was often the one that seemed furthest away from the original.

[Florestan]

There are far more bizarre ones than that out there. Australian television had a comedy-game show called Show Me the Movie where they highlighted the more absurd ones, getting the contestants to guess which one of 4 ridiculously unlikely titles had been used for a film when translated for a given country. The answer was often the one that seemed furthest away from the original.

[Madiel]

Examples...

https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/american-movie-titles-weird-translations

https://k-international.com/blog/movie-title-translations/

Some overlap between the two lists. Romania does get a mention in the first one.

[Todd]

Bone Tomahawk.  S. Craig Zahler's first flick is low-budget western-cum-horror done right.  The job is made easier by having Kurt Russell and Richard Jenkins in two key roles, but even Matthew Fox and Patrick Wilson do good work.  And who doesn't enjoy seeing Sean Young pop up on screen?  The story involves a sheriff and his small posse heading to the hills to rescue people from cannibalistic troglodytes.  It blends all of the same traits Zahler refined further in Dragged Across Concrete, though some of the camerawork here is (purposely) less stable.  A few of the static shots really pop out for their compositional excellence, too.  It appears that Zahler knows his X-Files ("Home", specifically) and his Cormac McCarthy.  Indeed, it seems like he could be the director who might be able to bring Blood Meridian to the screen.  Who would play Judge Holden now remains the key question for any such undertaking.

[Florestan]

Examples...

https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/american-movie-titles-weird-translations

https://k-international.com/blog/movie-title-translations/

Some overlap between the two lists. Romania does get a mention in the first one.

Thanks. Funny. Romania's The Prison of Angels is actually The Shawshank Redemption. 

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The Baby (Ted Post, 1973)

Despite of the weird premise this movie works surprisingly well and I liked it a lot.  0:)

[Wanderer]

Thanks. Funny. Romania's The Prison of Angels is actually The Shawshank Redemption. 

The Shawshank Redemption's Greek title is translated as (spoiler alert!) Last Exit: Rita Hayworth (Τελευταία Έξοδος: Ρίτα Χέιγουορθ).

[Madiel]

The Shawshank Redemption's Greek title is translated as (spoiler alert!) Last Exit: Rita Hayworth (Τελευταία Έξοδος: Ρίτα Χέιγουορθ).

Oh dear.

[Florestan]

Oh dear.

Otomh, I can't recall any allusion to Rita Hayworth in that movie. 

[Madiel]

Otomh, I can't recall any allusion to Rita Hayworth in that movie. 

A Rita Hayworth poster is the first of many. The original short story is actually called "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption".

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The Shawshank Redemption's Greek title is translated as (spoiler alert!) Last Exit: Rita Hayworth (Τελευταία Έξοδος: Ρίτα Χέιγουορθ).

Finnish title is "Rita Hayworth - Avain pakoon" which translates something like "Rita Hayworth - The Key to Escape". Not far from the Greek title semantically.