TV/Movies Megathread

[Viking]

New Godzilla trailer: http://www.ign.com/videos/2014/02/25/godzilla-trailer-2

I quite like the look of that.

Two quibbles:
1 - Not enough Jean Reno.
2 - Pseudo-Inception horn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2jUhnCU9iA

wasn't Jean Reno in the Broderick/Diddy Godzilla?

[Duque de Bragança]

The Spanish-language version of Dracula (1931) is notoriously better than the original.

Yeap, weren't it for Bela Lugosi, it would be better known. It was lost and then refound in the '70s IIRC.

[Sheilbh]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2jUhnCU9iA

It's a pet hate of mine. It's so common in trailers I wouldn't be surprised if it was used for Pride and Prejudice.

[The Larch]

Be Big (1931)
In those days there wasn't dubbing or subtitles; so Stan and Ollie did the film three times.  Once in English, then in Spanish and then in French.  They read their lines off of cue cards with the words written phonetically.  Say un o-tra bone ga-shee

Yes.  Later on, dubbing caught or was enforced by the State for political reasons (digression) but since French people were used to their accents the dubbers had to make a British-accented French dub. 

Same happened in Spanish dubbings. 

Btw, regarding the different language versions of classic films, I've read in some places that the Spanish language version of Lugosi's Dracula (for a long time believed to be lost but found and restored in the 70s) is regarded as much better than the English language one. Turns out that they shot the English language version during the day and, using the same sets, they shot the Spanish version at night with a different cast and crew. Apparently the Spanish version crew could check what was recorded by the English version crew and tried to one-up them with the lighting and the camera angles. Besides, it also seems that the Spanish version was slightly "racier" and the actresses showed some more skin than the English version ones. It is also 20 minutes longer, so the story is supposedly better developed. I've always been curious about it, would rather like to watch it.

Edit: Damn! One tries to write a long post and not just one but two other guys trample over my anecdote. 

[Savonarola]

The Spanish-language version of Dracula (1931) is notoriously better than the original.

Yeap, weren't it for Bela Lugosi, it would be better known. It was lost and then refound in the '70s IIRC.

That's the problem with Spanish Drácula.  Carlos Villarías is just some guy with a cape, Bela Lugosi is Dracula.

[Savonarola]

Same happened in Spanish dubbings. 

Btw, regarding the different language versions of classic films, I've read in some places that the Spanish language version of Lugosi's Dracula (for a long time believed to be lost but found and restored in the 70s) is regarded as much better than the English language one. Turns out that they shot the English language version during the day and, using the same sets, they shot the Spanish version at night with a different cast and crew. Apparently the Spanish version crew could check what was recorded by the English version crew and tried to one-up them with the lighting and the camera angles. Besides, it also seems that the Spanish version was slightly "racier" and the actresses showed some more skin than the English version ones. It is also 20 minutes longer, so the story is supposedly better developed. I've always been curious about it, would rather like to watch it.

Edit: Damn! One tries to write a long post and not just one but two other guys trample over my anecdote. 

It's well worth seeing.  It's not so much that the story is better developed as George Melford put a great deal of effort into generating atmosphere.  With the exception of the first fifteen minutes Browning's version feels hopelessly stage bound.

Interestingly Melford couldn't speak Spanish; but he did a few Spanish language pictures.

[Savonarola]

"Tu m'as encore mis dans un beau pétrin" but I'm not sure if they said it themselves first and the dubbers just recycled it or if it's a dubber translation.
Need to check the Laurel & Hardy murder case in French to be sure.

Thanks, I never would have gotten that idiom.

[CountDeMoney]

Sweet Jesus. Nerds.

It's so going to tank.

[Ed Anger]

Sweet Jesus. Nerds.

It's so going to tank.

I hope the usher urinates in Tim's mouth afterwards too.

[CountDeMoney]

New Godzilla trailer: http://www.ign.com/videos/2014/02/25/godzilla-trailer-2

That is a wholly unrealistic and incredibly unfair example of an aircraft carrier's short-range defensive capabilities.   

[garbon]

I don't understand. Why would we want Godzilla of all things to focus on looking realistic? Get me an overgrown lizard duking it out with a moth.

[jimmy olsen]

I don't understand. Why would we want Godzilla of all things to focus on looking realistic? Get me an overgrown lizard duking it out with a moth.

Looks like there are a few other monsters running around.

[Queequeg]

I don't understand. Why would we want Godzilla of all things to focus on looking realistic? Get me an overgrown lizard duking it out with a moth.

It towers over skyscrapers, has that awful pre-70s tripod gait, has massive scales, and can somehow resist all known human weaponry.  I wouldn't call that realistic. 

[garbon]

I don't understand. Why would we want Godzilla of all things to focus on looking realistic? Get me an overgrown lizard duking it out with a moth.

It towers over skyscrapers, has that awful pre-70s tripod gait, has massive scales, and can somehow resist all known human weaponry.  I wouldn't call that realistic. 

I just meant the general vibe of the preview. Didn't seem particularly cheesy or campy.

[Queequeg]

That was the entire point of the original Godzilla.  The original Godzilla is straight-up horror.