TV/Movies Megathread

[Josquius]

12 Years a Slave- Pretty good. Though reading the wikipedia article about the guy concerned they seem to skip a few things in the film. Like Solomon's time as an overseer.
Quite sad to read about how the guy later just dissappeared again. And amazing it would be so worthwhile to traffic one guy like that.

[Savonarola]

Be Big (1931)

Laurel  and Hardy  are planning to take their wives to Atlantic City on vacation; but just as their ready to leave the club calls Ollie and tells him he and Stan are to be honored at their club with a surprise stag party.  Hardy feigns illness, the wives leave, and as the boys put on their club uniforms Hardy puts on Laurel's boots by accident.  Hilarity ensues as he tries to take them off.

Stan really milks the gag of Ollie trying to take off his boots for all it's worth.  It is funny, but it could have used more variation.  "Sons of the Desert" released two years later has a similar premise, but is better done.

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

Lucky Dog (1921)

This is Stan Laurel film which, coincidentally, co-stars his future partner Oliver Hardy.  Stan was Charlie Chaplin's backup when they were in the same theater troupe, and in this film he's largely a Chaplin knock-off.  Hardy played a caricature of film villains in those days; in this one he sticks up Stan and then tries to blow him up with dynamite (or "Bolshevik Candy" as it's euphemistically referred to in the film.)  It's not a Laurel and Hardy film (those wouldn't come about until 1927), but it is the first pairing of the two.

[Admiral Yi]

Ga-shee?

[Savonarola]

Ga-shee?

Gâchis is what I used for "Mess." 

[Kleves]

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

[lustindarkness]

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

Saw it on my phone, can't wait to get home watch it in all its glory.

[jimmy olsen]

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

Woah! Looks epic!

[Ed Anger]

Sweet Jesus. Nerds.

[Eddie Teach]

Prediction: Oscar snub for Cranston

[Sheilbh]

I am embarrassingly excited by the Lego Movie

[Sheilbh]

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

[Duque de Bragança]

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. 

[Savonarola]

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. 

How is Hardy's trademark line: "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into", translated in the French dubs?

[celedhring]

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

[Duque de Bragança]

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. 

How is Hardy's trademark line: "This is another fine mess you've gotten me into", translated in the French dubs?

"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.