Coming Soon... Recommend and Discuss Theater/Cinema Films
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It's more about action than actors around here. Anything about comic books, pirates, zombies or dinosaurs is popular. The actors you see most are the usual action stars, Donnie Yen, Tom Cruise, Jackie Chan, Liam Neeson, Chow Yun Fat. Those types.
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HaileyMcComet:
It's more about action than actors around here. Anything about comic books, pirates, zombies or dinosaurs is popular. The actors you see most are the usual action stars, Donnie Yen, Tom Cruise, Jackie Chan, Liam Neeson, Chow Yun Fat. Those types.
Aren't there any Art Cinema-type movie theaters in Hong Kong?
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Of course, but any movie has to get by the censors. The government only allows so many foreign films in each year, so any company that goes through all the trouble wants to make as much of a profit as possible. The only reason to release your movie in China is to take advantage of the enormous audience. A movie about two people talking over dinner is never going to make a billion dollars and is a lot harder to subtitle than a Michael Bay.
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HaileyMcComet:
Of course, but any movie has to get by the censors. The government only allows so many foreign films in each year, so any company that goes through all the trouble wants to make as much of a profit as possible. The only reason to release your movie in China is to take advantage of the enormous audience. A movie about two people talking over dinner is never going to make a billion dollars and is a lot harder to subtitle than a Michael Bay.
And so much is loss in translation, in subtitles--French films dialogue comes across as simplistic, even simple minded, often--due to this particular cinematic faux pas or foible. The Chinese (this may sound racist?) are often considered the smartest race, seems like they'd appreciate more sophisticated and deep movie fare than action and super hero movies (?)--films that are more meaningful. It's said that in the future, human actors will be supplanted by robots, holograms and the like...sadly, it appears that may already be happening where you are (?)
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Just saw THE BOSS. I actually went to sleep in one part. Several laughs, but not exactly what I expected. I'll give it two stars. Psyched about The Huntsman: Winter's Wars tomorrow. Will come back and weigh in (smile).
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SusyLuvsPaul:
And so much is loss in translation, in subtitles--French films dialogue comes across as simplistic, even simple minded, often--due to this particular cinematic faux pas or foible. The Chinese (this may sound racist?) are often considered the smartest race, seems like they'd appreciate more sophisticated and deep movie fare than action and super hero movies (?)--films that are more meaningful. It's said that in the future, human actors will be supplanted by robots, holograms and the like...sadly, it appears that may already be happening where you are (?)
It's not up to me what is and isn't racist, but calling Chinese people smarter is a racial stereotype that you probably don't want to use. China is a very large country with an enormous population. It's the United States plus an extra billion people. There's no way all of those people could ever possibly be the same. Chinese subtitles are terrible, even in Chinese language movies. They cut out important points in dialogue for political, religious or social reasons, or simply because the person doing the subtitles doesn't understand. Numbers are routinely inverted. George Orwell's book is 1948 and Columbus sailed in 1942. The worst one was Back to the Future where Madi Mai Fulai travels from 1985 to 1955. That really confused the translator. When Marty wakes up in 1955 and thinks it was all a dream, his mother, Luolan Bei Ensi says, "You're safe at home in 1985", which completely destroys the scene. Dr. Bulang needs "112 volts", which isn't all that impressive. Fortunately, 88mph is 88mph backwards. There are more artsy movies in China, but they're infinitely less popular than the computer explosion movies. I think you might be confusing Chinese with Japanese. Chinese people love to watch things blow up. They invented fireworks, after all. Most movies are more computer effects than acting these days, not just in China. That new "live action" Jungle Book is 99% computer animation. They still need actors for the voices, though.
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Stella McCartney is in the new Absolutely Fabulous movie! http://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/full-trailer-unveiled-for-absolutely-fabulous-the-movie/ar-BBskNKx?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=HPCDHP
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Watched the Danish Girl. Eddie Redmayne was amazing. Great movie, yet it made me cry.
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Want to see Alice Through The Looking Glass
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the Ghostbusters reboot movie released a preview or trailer which has prompted a Net backlash (mostly from men, I noticed) saying they hate the preview and hate that the classic Ghostbusters was remade at all and especially that it was remade with all female starring cast, and claim the movie looks like it's not gonna be any good, not funny, at all, etc.--how much can you really tell from just a movie trailer, though
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Micheal Keaton will play McDonald's fast food joint founder Ray Croc in a new movie. I think that's a crock (bad pun, sorry) ! A movie about that. Ugh
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SusyLuvsPaul:
Micheal Keaton will play McDonald's fast food joint founder Ray Croc in a new movie. I think that's a crock (bad pun, sorry) ! A movie about that. Ugh
Working titles include "Rat Man", "Beetle Juice" and "Raymond Dangerously".
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There are a few good movies coming out. I want to see Through The Looking Glass & Finding Dory
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Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant co-star in a new comedy to premiere this August ! I'll love viewing that pairing...two of my faves, and in something funny I forget its title "Absolutely Fabulous" movie comes out in July, I think. "Ghostbusters" all-female reboot on July 15.
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Finding Dory's coming out this summer
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Am going to see "Neighbors Part 2" this weekend. The first one was really wild and funny so this one doubtless will be a wild ride too.
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Nothing that great out there currently.
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Cannot wait for Beauty and the Beast:
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"Maggie's Plan" with Greta Gerwig and Ethan Hawke was out May 20, read a review in The New Yorker which was less than totally glowing, but that won't deter me from seeing this, to form my own opinion-- Rebecca Miller (Arthur Miller's daughter, married to Daniel Day-Lewis) directed . Was annoyed the New Yorker review revealed too much of the plot, used a lot of spoilers--thanks a lot It did say the flick is kind of "screwball" which sounds promising.
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Finally finished watching Casanova last nite. Amazing ending!