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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]

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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.

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The Premonition (Robert Allen Schnitzer, 1976)

Parapsychological horror movie from mid 70's and I must say I had expectations which were not entirely met. Somehow I felt the thematic material of this movie to be disjointed as if the makers of this movie didn't know how to put all the ideas together in a coherent way. The movie expects the viewer to understand the motivations, but gives very little background about the characters: Who are Andrea and Jude exactly? Okay they met in mental hospital, but what else? What's the backstory? Why did Andrea loose her mind five years ago? How does the Parapsychological visions fit to everything? Why does Sheri have her visions? The movie avoids giving answers and when the movie ended I felt confused. What was this about? Was this about guilt of abandoning your child? Was this about the fear of losing your adopted child? Was this about science not giving all the answers? This movie had all these themes, but it all was incoherent. Schnitzer was very young when he directed this and it shows. Music by Henry Mollicone is very good. Not a bad movie, but not a good one either. I expected more.

[Madiel]

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

The box office takings in Greece and Finland must have been terrible.