tree and a half wrote:
The Great Wall
The film is 90% English.
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| Author: | imtim83 [ Sun Apr 16, 2017 8:50 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Foreign films |
Do you watch actual foreign films ? What is the last one you watched if so ? |
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| Author: | zwackerm [ Sun Apr 16, 2017 8:59 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Foreign films |
Spirited Away. |
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| Author: | Heinrich Himmler [ Sun Apr 16, 2017 9:00 pm ] |
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what's a foreign film? |
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| Author: | Algren [ Sun Apr 16, 2017 10:34 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Foreign films |
Technically, most of the films I watch are foreign as I'm not American. But for argument's sake, let's say a foreign film is a film not in the English language, then I watch about ten per year. Last one I saw was a Chinese action film a few weeks ago called Extraordinary Mission. |
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| Author: | tree and a half [ Mon Apr 17, 2017 5:19 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Foreign films |
European films used to make up the lion's share of my foreign language film consumption, but in recent years I've especially fallen for Korean movies - they seem to produce more of the kind of films I love - ie: old school story based movies like Hollywood used to make in the 80's and before. Foreign language films constituted 30% of my Top 10 of 2016 list. Here's my list of the foreign language films I've seen in the past year: China The Great Wall Kung Fu Yoga L.O.R.D: Legend of Ravaging Dynasties Drunken Master II The Mermaid Korea Fabricated City Vanishing Time: A Boy Who Returned The Handmaiden The Tunnel Train To Busan The Wailing Japan Your Name. Kwaidan The Wind Rises Germany Toni Erdmann France Elle |
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| Author: | Algren [ Mon Apr 17, 2017 5:34 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Foreign films |
tree and a half wrote: The Great Wall The film is 90% English. |
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| Author: | tree and a half [ Mon Apr 17, 2017 5:59 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Foreign films |
Algren wrote: tree and a half wrote: The Great Wall The film is 90% English. That's true, as a China-US co-production it was well adapted to take a run at North American audiences, but it still feels like an altogether Chinese movie to me. Personally, I believe its failure resulted from western audiences perceiving it as too Chinese, despite Zhang Yimou's world film audience aspirations. |
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| Author: | Jack Sparrow [ Mon Apr 17, 2017 11:42 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Foreign films |
Like Algren I am not an American and I don't watch a lot of Hindi movies so mostly all foreign movies for me. As for American foreign movies I watch Chinese, Japanese, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Korean, Thai, Singaporean (so a lot of Asian movies) plus French movies sometimes. |
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| Author: | imtim83 [ Wed Apr 19, 2017 7:53 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Foreign films |
Jack Sparrow wrote: Like Algren I am not an American and I don't watch a lot of Hindi movies so mostly all foreign movies for me. As for American foreign movies I watch Chinese, Japanese, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Korean, Thai, Singaporean (so a lot of Asian movies) plus French movies sometimes. I'm American and watch 50% if not 70% foreign films. Last one was a Danish film called Land of Mine. |
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| Author: | Jack Sparrow [ Wed Apr 19, 2017 2:08 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Foreign films |
Cool. I wanted to watch Land of Mine but never got around it. |
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| Author: | Iseedasky [ Wed Apr 19, 2017 4:59 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Foreign films |
Confidential Assignment, Korean do make some good action movies. |
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| Author: | Jiffy [ Wed Apr 26, 2017 2:44 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Foreign films |
Ofc. |
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| Author: | tree and a half [ Sat Sep 09, 2017 4:51 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Foreign films |
Jiffy wrote: Ofc. Just no reviews or comments about them. |
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| Author: | Algren [ Sat Sep 09, 2017 6:46 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Foreign films |
Mystery is powerful. |
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| Author: | tree and a half [ Sat Sep 09, 2017 6:52 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Foreign films |
Or is it? |
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| Author: | Algren [ Sat Sep 09, 2017 6:55 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Foreign films |
Of course it is. The less we know about someone, the more powerful that someone is. They can be whoever they want themselves to be, or not, whenever they choose. They have a certain amount of power over others. The power of knowledge of themselves. Much like you, Bradley. Apart from your shit taste in films, we really know nothing about you, and you love holding such power. |
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| Author: | tree and a half [ Sat Sep 09, 2017 10:00 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Foreign films |
My apologies. My short post: tree and a half wrote: Or is it? Algren wrote: Mystery is powerful. Although, in fact, you seem to have broken your own rule of exposition with your own lengthy mansplaining scold. (Yes, a man can mansplain to another man. It's not a gender thing at all, but rather a character trait. Personally, I've seen far more women mansplaining than men. Though in their defence, women mansplain to women and men equally.) |
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| Author: | Algren [ Sat Sep 09, 2017 12:14 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Foreign films |
I have no such rule. |
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| Author: | Jiffy [ Tue Sep 12, 2017 11:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Foreign films |
tree and a half wrote: Jiffy wrote: Ofc. Just no reviews or comments about them. Much like 99% of American releases. |
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