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Do you watch foreign films ?
No 8%  8%  [ 1 ]
Yes 58%  58%  [ 7 ]
Sometimes 33%  33%  [ 4 ]
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Do you watch actual foreign films ?

What is the last one you watched if so ?

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Spirited Away.


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what's a foreign film?


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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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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

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tree and a half wrote:
The Great Wall

:funny:
The film is 90% English.

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Algren wrote:
tree and a half wrote:
The Great Wall

:funny:
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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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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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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Cool. I wanted to watch Land of Mine but never got around it.


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Confidential Assignment, Korean do make some good action movies.


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Ofc.


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Jiffy wrote:
Ofc.

Just no reviews or comments about them.


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Mystery is powerful.

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Or is it?


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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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My apologies.

My short post:
tree and a half wrote:
Or is it?
...was intended solely as a mildly humorous rejoinder to your post:
Algren wrote:
Mystery is powerful.
I attempted to sustain the tone of mystery you proposed.

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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I have no such rule.

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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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