TV/Movies Megathread

[Syt]

Star Trek Prodigy, Ep. 4. The visuals are still gorgeous. The abse premise of the plot was ok. But man, the main character is really not doing it for me. I guess they set him up as a self-centered jerk to have him undergo an arc where he becomes a selfless hero, but he's just soooo insufferable. And the the guys on board still need to learn to work as a team (poignant moment when one of the characters asks, earnestly, "Why did you save me last?"). But it feels for every step forward there's one or two back.

Not quite giving up on it yet. There's still some mystery (how did the ship get to the Delta Quadrant, and where is its crew?). And I'm reminding myself that the start of Star Wars Rebels was likewise very basic and aimed at kids, and it became a lot more later on.

[Josquius]

Found this bit on subtitles intetesting.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/oct/14/squid-game-netflix-translations-subtitle-problem

Was searching for something else though... Apparently the Spanish translation was machine translated and is causing a tizzy amongst Spanish translators. All articles seem to be purely in Spanish though.

[celedhring]

Found this bit on subtitles intetesting.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/oct/14/squid-game-netflix-translations-subtitle-problem

Was searching for something else though... Apparently the Spanish translation was machine translated and is causing a tizzy amongst Spanish translators. All articles seem to be purely in Spanish though.

Yeah, this has been causing a stir. Netflix is using machine translation for a lot of stuff and then pays a pittance to translators to just revise it. The results are often disastrous.

[Duque de Bragança]

Found this bit on subtitles intetesting.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/oct/14/squid-game-netflix-translations-subtitle-problem

Was searching for something else though... Apparently the Spanish translation was machine translated and is causing a tizzy amongst Spanish translators. All articles seem to be purely in Spanish though.

Yeah, this has been causing a stir. Netflix is using machine translation for a lot of stuff and then pays a pittance to translators to just revise it. The results are often disastrous.

Oh yes. This is even worse than the self-proclaimed translators who claim to be so because they happen to know a bit of the source language.

Some crappy dubbing, even by the admittedly stygianly low standards of dubbing, has shown up as well. It can be hilarious though, unlike bad subtitles.

[Maladict]

Found this bit on subtitles intetesting.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/oct/14/squid-game-netflix-translations-subtitle-problem

Was searching for something else though... Apparently the Spanish translation was machine translated and is causing a tizzy amongst Spanish translators. All articles seem to be purely in Spanish though.

Yeah, this has been causing a stir. Netflix is using machine translation for a lot of stuff and then pays a pittance to translators to just revise it. The results are often disastrous.

Not just Netflix. And translators have been under-payed for years.

Watched the first two or three eps of Squid Game the other day. I got bored.

[The Brain]

What's the USP of Squid Game?

[The Larch]

Marvel has just announced a new X Men animated show with the Wolverine meme. 

[celedhring]

Found this bit on subtitles intetesting.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/oct/14/squid-game-netflix-translations-subtitle-problem

Was searching for something else though... Apparently the Spanish translation was machine translated and is causing a tizzy amongst Spanish translators. All articles seem to be purely in Spanish though.

Yeah, this has been causing a stir. Netflix is using machine translation for a lot of stuff and then pays a pittance to translators to just revise it. The results are often disastrous.

Not just Netflix. And translators have been under-payed for years.

Watched the first two or three eps of Squid Game the other day. I got bored.

I admit I'm slogging through it myself. The games are cool, but the the show is really slow in getting to them.

One of the fun things is seeing how some of those games are very similar to playground games I played myself as a kid, despite the cultural and geographical distance.

[Savonarola]

Not Another Teen Movie (2001)

I saw this was available on Netflix streaming.  It works when it parodies John Hughes movies and teen rom-coms (the cameo by Molly Ringwald () at the end was great.)  It falls apart when it parodies gross out movies and raunchy teen sex comedies; the joke in those movies is that the characters' behavior or what's happening to them is either gross or outrageous - making it grosser or more outrageous doesn't make it funnier.

[The Brain]

I love Not Another Teen Movie.

[Josephus]

Found this bit on subtitles intetesting.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/oct/14/squid-game-netflix-translations-subtitle-problem

Was searching for something else though... Apparently the Spanish translation was machine translated and is causing a tizzy amongst Spanish translators. All articles seem to be purely in Spanish though.

Yeah, this has been causing a stir. Netflix is using machine translation for a lot of stuff and then pays a pittance to translators to just revise it. The results are often disastrous.

Not just Netflix. And translators have been under-payed for years.

Watched the first two or three eps of Squid Game the other day. I got bored.

I admit I'm slogging through it myself. The games are cool, but the the show is really slow in getting to them.

One of the fun things is seeing how some of those games are very similar to playground games I played myself as a kid, despite the cultural and geographical distance.

Yeah. I only watched the first episode and I remember when i was in cub scouts we played a version of "Red Light Green Light" only we called it Lighthouse. (the caller would turn around like a lighthouse). Needless to say, we didn't have any killings in it. If you were seen moving you got sent out. Winner was the first person to tag the Lighthouse person.

[celedhring]

Found this bit on subtitles intetesting.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/oct/14/squid-game-netflix-translations-subtitle-problem

Was searching for something else though... Apparently the Spanish translation was machine translated and is causing a tizzy amongst Spanish translators. All articles seem to be purely in Spanish though.

Yeah, this has been causing a stir. Netflix is using machine translation for a lot of stuff and then pays a pittance to translators to just revise it. The results are often disastrous.

Not just Netflix. And translators have been under-payed for years.

Watched the first two or three eps of Squid Game the other day. I got bored.

I admit I'm slogging through it myself. The games are cool, but the the show is really slow in getting to them.

One of the fun things is seeing how some of those games are very similar to playground games I played myself as a kid, despite the cultural and geographical distance.

Yeah. I only watched the first episode and I remember when i was in cub scouts we played a version of "Red Light Green Light" only we called it Lighthouse. (the caller would turn around like a lighthouse). Needless to say, we didn't have any killings in it. If you were seen moving you got sent out. Winner was the first person to tag the Lighthouse person.

For some bizarre reason, we know it as "English hide-and-seek" over here.

In the version I played the person tagging the counter had to run all the way to the start line, and the counter could catch him/her and steal the win.

[Sheilbh]

Yeah I think i'ts called Granny's footsteps here - but I definitely remember playing it.

[celedhring]

We also played something similar to the game the "recruiter" plays with the protagonist in the subway station (trying to turn over those pieces of cardboard). We used coins or cardboard tokens instead. You could keep any token/coin that you were able to turn over.

There's also when they play tug-of-war, which is pretty universal.

And that's where I'm up to. 

[Josquius]

Their version of marbles is dumb.