What are the biggest movies you haven't watched yet?

[CyberCubed]

Originally Posted by Prowler

I can't help but notice that people from countries where dubbing is commonplace struggle at reading subtitles. I've been watching stuff with subtitles since I was a little kid. When you're 6 years old they're hard to keep up with sure, but by the time I was 8-9 it was no issue.

If you could watch all of those Asian movies you mentioned with English subs back in the day then I don't see why you couldn't nowadays. My maternal grandmother dropped out of school after 4th grade and she never had trouble reading subtitles when watching TV.

I just can't be bothered. Obviously with Japanese/chinese movies or anime, you're used to watching subtitles because you have no choice there a lot of the time or the the dubs are awful and ruin the show.

But if we're speaking about stuff like French films, German films, etc...I just can't be bothered.

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

I just can't be bothered. Obviously with Japanese/chinese movies or anime, you're used to watching subtitles because you have no choice there a lot of the time or the the dubs are awful and ruin the show.

But if we're speaking about stuff like French films, German films, etc...I just can't be bothered.

But why? It's the same thing. A film in a foreign language with subtitles. And the French and German languages should technically sound less foreign to your native English ears than Japanese and Chinese do.

For me and everyone else in Europe and outside the USA, American movies and tv shows are all foreign. Ever thought about that?

[CyberCubed]

For me, it's either english or Asian. I just can't be bothered with all the other countries in the world. Like I sometimes forget all those other countries actually exist, like in my mind it's only the U.S. and Japan basically. The two most important countries in the world for animation, TV shows, videogames, and technology.

It's funny how without the U.S. and Japan, like 90% of the modern day entertainment would be gone. Like what are all the other 50+ countries in the world doing?

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

For me, it's either english or Asian. I just can't be bothered with all the other countries in the world. Like I sometimes forget all those other countries actually exist, like in my mind it's only the U.S. and Japan basically. The two most important countries in the world for animation, TV shows, videogames, and technology.

It's funny how without the U.S. and Japan, like 90% of the modern day entertainment would be gone. Like what are all the other 50+ countries in the world doing?

Never change

[sdp]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

For me, it's either english or Asian. I just can't be bothered with all the other countries in the world. Like I sometimes forget all those other countries actually exist, like in my mind it's only the U.S. and Japan basically. The two most important countries in the world for animation, TV shows, videogames, and technology.

It's funny how without the U.S. and Japan, like 90% of the modern day entertainment would be gone. Like what are all the other 50+ countries in the world doing?

Sacré bleu

[Barkworm]

There are about two German films per decade that are worth a damn. Anatomy of a Fall was excellent but that was a German-French production.

[IMJ]

I had to look that up because at first I wasn't sure if you were talking about Tarsem Singh's "The Fall", which was a great flick.

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by Barkworm

There are about two German films per decade that are worth a damn. Anatomy of a Fall was excellent but that was a German-French production.

Das Boot is one of the greatest movies of all time, but other than that, I must say most German movies aren't very appealing to me. I did like Der Untergang and Goodbye, Lenin; though. Er ist Wieder Da... I preferred the book.

Portuguese cinema is pretty lousy too. Its golden age was at a time where movies were often still in black and white. Occasionally you'll find a gem but it's surrounded by trash.

The problem with Portuguese cinema is that first of all, production values aren't that high. We're a small country with only 10M people, so that's already a handicap. And the State does not give it enough funding. So that's another shot in the foot.

But that would be easily overlooked if the scripts and the plots of most movies were actually good. Portuguese cinema has a lot of pseudo-intellectualism in it and the actors talk like they're on a ****ing theatre play. It just sounds goofy and unnatural. It's like they plucked them right off the stage before they began rolling the cameras. And again, we're a small country, so it's like the actors and directors are usually the same faces and names and nepotism is rife and it's very hard for up and comers to break into the industry. And the insistence of directors casting a celebrity or two for minor roles is also ridiculous. I remember watching a movie where former footballer Luís Figo was on the screen for like 20 seconds where he made out with a hot chick wtf

Result: The movies end up being more appealing to the directors, their friends and other pretentious European intellectuals instead of the general audience. We have a severe lack of those classic blockbusters. There's a big lack of Portuguese action movies. It's all deppresing pseudo-intellectual **** or comedies. Or a movie whose selling point is a hot woman getting naked in it with sex scenes, but yet is not good enough to sit through 2 whole hours throughout it just to watch those partss.

[CyberCubed]

It's ironic when you realize America and Japan make up like 90% of the entertainment in the world. There's like 100+ countries in the world and only 2 of them are worth a damn. The U.S. and Japan create the best TV shows, videogames, anime, and CG movies.

Two countries out of 100+ countries in the world. How is it every country on the planet is lacking except for two? All the biggest movies are from America. All the biggest shows are from America. Japan has anime and videogames. What are all the other countries doing?

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

It's ironic when you realize America and Japan make up like 90% of the entertainment in the world. There's like 100+ countries in the world and only 2 of them are worth a damn. The U.S. and Japan create the best TV shows, videogames, anime, and CG movies.

Two countries out of 100+ countries in the world. How is it every country on the planet is lacking except for two? All the biggest movies are from America. All the biggest shows are from America. Japan has anime and videogames. What are all the other countries doing?

Well being the 2 biggest economies in the world for most of the last 80 years does that!

China has surpassed Japan a long time ago in terms of nominal GDP, so its movie industry being rather lousy is actually rather embarrassing for a nation of 1 billion people...