What film did you watch last night?

[AndyRM]

Drag Me to Hell - 6.5/10

If you like Sam Raimi, you'll like this. It's not his best, and it's kind of like Evil Dead in a modern city setting, but it's an alright way to spend 90 minutes.

Plus every time I see The Classic I'm happy.

 

[stephec]

All Quiet on the Western Front

Excellent film, but I'm not a fan of the dramatic dur dur DUR!!! every five minutes or so.

When the timeline jumped to 07/11/18 with over an hour of the film still to go I wondered how it was going to fill the time, but it all worked out nicely.

9/10.

 

[AndyRM]

His House - 9/10

Very effective story of refugees* haunted by their past, trying to escape it and assimilate. It's very clever, genuinely scary and also incredibly sad on many levels, even if I did find some of it a bit obvious.

*gammons, beware!

 

[DRM]

All Quiet on the Western Front

Excellent film, but I'm not a fan of the dramatic dur dur DUR!!! every five minutes or so.

When the timeline jumped to 07/11/18 with over an hour of the film still to go I wondered how it was going to fill the time, but it all worked out nicely.

9/10.

Agree the “music” for want of a better word was quite bizarre, meanwhile I was quite hoping that one of the chosen men stood in the courtyard at 10:45 would just stick a round straight through the German equivalent of General Melchett of Black Adder goes forth fame, but it was very good and brought home the whole pointless waste of millions of lives over 4 years for absolutely no gain give or take a few meters 9/10 from me too

 

[stephec]

The other thing I found a bit strange about it was that because it was dubbed the Germans speak with Southern English accents, I'm too used to films like Von Ryan's Express where all the baddies speak English with a German accent. 😂

 

[AndyRM]

The other thing I found a bit strange about it was that because it was dubbed the Germans speak with Southern English accents, I'm too used to films like Von Ryan's Express where all the baddies speak English with a German accent. 😂

Could you not have watched it in German with English subtitles? Generally I find that dubbed films are absolutely hopeless.

 

[AndyRM]

Overdose - 5/10

Standard French police gubbins, although without the usual betrayals. A bit meh really, but I've seen worse.

 

[Adam4868]

Santa Sangre....gave it a second viewing last night and still as nuts !
Best description....somewhere between genius and madness 😁
@AndyRM sure you've seen it...if not I know you'd like it.

 

[gbb]

The other thing I found a bit strange about it was that because it was dubbed the Germans speak with Southern English accents, I'm too used to films like Von Ryan's Express where all the baddies speak English with a German accent. 😂

Could you not have watched it in German with English subtitles? Generally I find that dubbed films are absolutely hopeless.

You're right about the English accents, it's quite obvious and slightly odd.
BUT, did the film makers do this deliberately ? Rather than giving you the voice of the 'enemy', they gave you a voice you relate to in everyday life, makes it closer to home, something you can relate to and therefore empathise more with, rather than...ah, those damn Germans. Emphasising they were people just like you and me ?

 

[AndyRM]

Santa Sangre....gave it a second viewing last night and still as nuts !
Best description....somewhere between genius and madness 😁
@AndyRM sure you've seen it...if not I know you'd like it.

Not for a while, thanks for the reminder!

 

[ianrauk]

Could you not have watched it in German with English subtitles

This is what I do for what ever foreign film or tv programme I am watching. I just can't get on with dubbed. And with something like All Quiet On The Wester Front, you lose a lot of the drama with dubbed, which is more often then not, very poor.

 

[AndyRM]

This is what I do for what ever foreign film or tv programme I am watching. I just can't get on with dubbed. And with something like All Quiet On The Wester Front, you lose a lot of the drama with dubbed, which is more often then not, very poor.

The first time I read it when I was young it was one of those really old school translations where they'd made everything more English, sentence structure, names, the lot. I was about half way through before I realised it was from a German perspective...

 

[matticus]

The first time I read it when I was young it was one of those really old school translations where they'd made everything more English, sentence structure, names, the lot. I was about half way through before I realised it was from a German perspective...

<impossible to resist:>


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK-kWRAVmRU

 

[stephec]

Could you not have watched it in German with English subtitles? Generally I find that dubbed films are absolutely hopeless.

I didn't twig until about ten minutes in when I suddenly thought, 'is he from Luton?' 😂

 

[DRM]

You're right about the English accents, it's quite obvious and slightly odd.
BUT, did the film makers do this deliberately ? Rather than giving you the voice of the 'enemy', they gave you a voice you relate to in everyday life, makes it closer to home, something you can relate to and therefore empathise more with, rather than...ah, those damn Germans. Emphasising they were people just like you and me ?

It was on Netflix, there were various options of dubbed in to English, English with subtitles and German, or German with subtitles that you could select prior to watching it