do you watch hollywood movies?

Feelgood · 18-12-2014 03:00AM

Links234 wrote: »

PS, she says kiri kiri, not kitty.

The foot hitting the door was priceless

You know I actually asked a Japanese person about the kitty kitty part and they said that its not part of the Japanese language. I was always wondering what she was saying.

What does kiri kiri mean?

Is confessions the one about he AIDS milk?

DaveDaRave · 18-12-2014 03:01AM

Man thirst was the best vampire movie ever, i like all that guys movies.

But just coz a movie is foreign with subtitles doesnt mean it cant have hollywood cheese levels. I love korean movies and i enjoyed Brotherhood of war but i found it crazily OTT cheesecore war movie.

currently watching stalingrad 2013, holy **** what great SFX, seems a little hollywood-ish so far but i have a massive boner for anything stalingrad related.

The Strawman Argument · 18-12-2014 03:09AM

Candie wrote: »

The key is a little discernment.

That's pretty much it.

Maybe if you're being repeatedly disappointed by the Hollywood movies that you go to see, you should perhaps dismiss the things that seem most likely to be of the same vein (e.g. if it's a Marvel film, it's likely not going to be very different from the rest of them; if it's directed by Zack Snyder, it doesn't matter how interested you are in the characters or whatever, he's gonna make a hames of it). Maybe focus on directors a bit more? It's probably the most reliable variable.
Outside of huge blockbusters, it's increasingly difficult to gauge where the cut off point between being classified as an indie and a studio supported film is too.

However, from my experience, the people who go on about watching loads of world cinema and love comparing them to the banality of Hollywood tend to have not really watched that much*.
"Oh I'm a huge film nerd! Watch loads of French films, Italian films, German.... Have you seen Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain?"

*Not attacking anyone on this thread, mind, most people don't do this

Feelgood · 18-12-2014 03:14AM

This was funnier than anything that has come out of Hollywood in the last 10 years IMO.

Billy86 · 18-12-2014 03:15AM

Allyall wrote: »

Foreign movies have always been popular, but I find the title of this thread a bit daft (edited what I really think).
It's near impossible to get away from them, surely it would be a more accurate title to ask if anyone watches foreign language movies or low budget etc.. as many/most do, but not everyone.

Both can have terrible or good movies though.
City of God, Man Bites Dog, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Old Boy, Amélie (The more popular titles off the top of my head) - and tons more are great movies.
But there are obviously plenty of great Hollywood movies too..
I dislike Tom Cruise (Got that in), and all the Hollywood cráp... But there are tons of original good movies from there too.

Not so much in the last 15 years or so. As someone mentioned earlier, the survive in Hollywood these days you just have to spend so much money that you cannot afford to take many risks, hence the incredible lack of originality coming out of there. That said, Hollywood is still creating some decent movies (partly because I have yet to get bored of the superhero cycle they are admittedly desperately trying to milk dry as quickly as possible) but compared to other parts of the world, they have fallen behind in terms of quality, but kept the lead in marketing.

As for the US in general though, there's still a tonne of quality and original stuff coming out of there.

lufties · 18-12-2014 03:18AM

JaseHeath wrote: »

A good film is a good film, be it from Hollywood, Bollywood or Jupiter. That'd be my 2c.

I read an article on why quality hollywood movies are in decline. Its because they have a massive market in china and russia which makes them generic , lowest common denominator, crowd pleasers. I passively watched(it was on at work) captain america and some chris o dowd romcom. Awful stuff, or perhaps i'm just cynical.

Honey Monster · 18-12-2014 03:21AM

OP is a hipster.

Billy86 · 18-12-2014 03:24AM

lufties wrote: »

I read an article on why quality hollywood movies are in decline. Its because they have a massive market in china and russia which makes them generic , lowest common denominator, crowd pleasers. I passively watched(it was on at work) captain america and some chris o dowd romcom. Awful stuff, or perhaps i'm just cynical.

On that note, if you haven't got around to it you should watch Moone Boy, I thought it would be just another piece of dross like most of the Sky home-made shows have been but it is absolutely brilliant, even won the Emmy for best international comedy a year or two back.

DoYouEvenLift · 18-12-2014 03:30AM

RonanP77 wrote: »

If I want to read I pick up a book, I can't stand subtitles.

Celine Icy Karate wrote: »

I can't abide a film I have to read. If I want to read, I get a book.

I pity people who like movies but think like this. I used to be one until I was convinced to give The Raid: Redemption a shot, after which I realised what I was possibly missing out on and changed my mind.

Allyall · 18-12-2014 03:34AM

Billy86 wrote: »

On that note, if you haven't got around to it you should watch Moone Boy, I thought it would be just another piece of dross like most of the Sky home-made shows have been but it is absolutely brilliant, even won the Emmy for best international comedy a year or two back.

Credit where credit is due. Sky seem to be the only channel turning out original or new comedies. I admittedly am not keen on some of them, but they keep coming.
It beats the cráp out of all the mind numbing reality shows. They really, really, really do my head in :mad:.

If I have a choice of watching a poor Sky comedy (just lie on couch and watch), over a shít reality TV show/*cráp documentary/another quiz, give me the braindead sky comedy any day.

*referring to the boy that's a tree, or the man woman, or the freak in my estate etc.. on Channel 4.

Billy86 · 18-12-2014 03:40AM

Allyall wrote: »

Credit where credit is due. Sky seem to be the only channel turning out original or new comedies. I admittedly am not keen on some of them, but they keep coming.
It beats the cráp out of all the mind numbing reality shows. They really, really, really do my head in :mad:.

If I have a choice of watching a poor Sky comedy (just lie on couch and watch), over a shít reality TV show/*cráp documentary/another quiz, give me the braindead sky comedy any day.

*referring to the boy that's a tree, or the man woman, or the freak in my estate etc.. on Channel 4.

Well yeah I probably was a bit harsh - making stuff in house is automatically a good thing even if the end product is poor (especially as you say, compared to the reality show merry-go-round of the last decade, though I do like Gogglebox oddly enough, if that counts?). My real point though was Moone Boy is about 10 leagues above these, easily the best show related to Ireland since Fr. Ted - I only got into it around a year and a half back, and it's amazing how little recognition it seems to get over here considering it is set in Boyle in 1989/90. The only logical reason I can think of for that is that people see it is a Sky sitcom and avoid it because they reckon it won't be any better than Trollied and the like (that's what I originally assumed and what a few people I have recommended it to have said also), bit of a shame really.

braddun · 18-12-2014 03:53AM

bollywood

Lingua Franca · 18-12-2014 04:01AM

lufties wrote: »

Can you name a few?

I don't mind Hollywood movies (my personal quirk is that I can't stand gratuitous violence, beat-em-ups are not for me) but if you're not watching non-Hollywood movies then you're missing out, in my opinion.

Hollywood does some terrible remakes of pretty awesome foreign movies. If they are prepared to do remake of something foreign then the original must have been pretty awesome and popular to begin with.

For example, the French director Luc Besson is famous in the English speaking world for making movies like Leon, Taken, The Fifth Element etc.

But he also made some hilarious, action packed movies like Taxi, which was then subject to a terrible Hollywood make over and made Queen Latifah the taxi driver. The original French Taxi movies are brilliant, and well worth digging out.

Hollywood also jumped on the likes of The Ring and Dark Water but failed to replicate the overwhelming sense of dread and despair that the Japanese originals provided. Less shock and gore, too.

There's been plenty of brilliant movies mentioned already. My DVD collection is stacked with really good foreign language films. There's plenty out there if you just, y'know, start a thread on the internet asking for recommendations. :P

Sorry for anyone who finds reading along a chore, you're missing out! I had to watch Inglorious Basterds in a Dutch cinema back before I moved here, so the French, Italian and German were not only almost incomprehensible to me but they were subtitled in Dutch. And I still managed to mostly follow and enjoy the movie.

Honorable mentions: Marion Cotillard won an Oscar for her portrayal of Edith Piaf in La Vie En Rose and deservedly so. As biopics go this one is outstanding and will send chills up and down your spine.

Likewise Roberto Begnini winning for Life is Beautiful. That's a really wonderful film and shouldn't be ignored just because it has subtitles.

I'm sure that for as long as this thread is open, OP, you will find striking recommendations.

mikom · 18-12-2014 04:03AM

Allyall wrote: »

Credit where credit is due. Sky seem to be the only channel turning out original or new comedies. I admittedly am not keen on some of them, but they keep coming.

Toast of London and Fresh meat disagree.

braddun · 18-12-2014 04:07AM

s n count

lufties · 18-12-2014 04:20AM

Billy86 wrote: »

On that note, if you haven't got around to it you should watch Moone Boy, I thought it would be just another piece of dross like most of the Sky home-made shows have been but it is absolutely brilliant, even won the Emmy for best international comedy a year or two back.

something about chris o dowd annoys the shoite out of me but will give it a go.

DoYouEvenLift · 18-12-2014 04:32AM

lufties wrote: »

something about chris o dowd annoys the shoite out of me but will give it a go.

Same, fuking hate him as an actor, if you can even call him that

Billy86 · 18-12-2014 04:47AM

mikom wrote: »

Toast of London and Fresh meat disagree.

Haven't seen Fresh Meat yet, but Toast is very good... the character names are absolutely hysterical!

Also lufties, the real stars of Moone Boy are Peter McDonald (from I Went Down) and the main kid's best friend - and I say that as someone who usually can't stand child actors, but he's hilarious.

Links234 · 18-12-2014 06:13PM

Feelgood wrote: »

What does kiri kiri mean?

Well, kiru is to cut, which is what I thought it might mean in the context, but I then read that kiri kiri is an onomatopoeia meaning a sharp pain, and there's a lot of onomatopoeia in Japanese.

Feelgood wrote: »

Is confessions the one...

Yes, and spoilers! :eek:

Capt'n Midnight · 19-12-2014 02:27AM

Links234 wrote: »

Anyone like Korean movies? some of them can be seriously ****ed up :eek:

still haven't watched Pulgasari yet

on a different note now I want to see these just to see how bad they are.
Ten Zan - Ultimate Mission , Inchon , Yonggary

If you like spagetti westerns / action adventure films set in the 1930's
The Good , The Bad, The Weird

Links234 · 19-12-2014 02:43AM

never heard of Pulgasari so I looked it up, North Korean monster movie!? :eek:

way ahead of you on The Good The Bad and The Weird

speaking of monster movies though, The Host was awesome!

Mal-Adjusted · 20-12-2014 03:23PM

The only Korean film iv's seen is "the host". Great film that puts all other monster movies to shame.

The_Valeyard · 20-12-2014 04:37PM

I think the best thing about Christmas is waiting to see what Christmas movie North Korea has allowed us to watch.

Paddy Samurai · 23-12-2014 04:22PM

Yeah I do ,but I find the more of them I watch the more dissillusioned I become with them.
The last few years I have been watching a lot of foreign films mainly french and japanese which I have enjoyed more.
I find TV series to be a lot more satisfying than a lot of the so called blockbuster films.Particularly Nordic Noir.

conorhal · 23-12-2014 04:27PM

Mal-Adjusted wrote: »

The only Korean film iv's seen is "the host". Great film that puts all other monster movies to shame.

Get yourself a copy of 'Oldboy' in that case, you're in for a treat!

AlanS181824 · 24-12-2014 02:36AM

conorhal wrote: »

Get yourself a copy of 'Oldboy' in that case, you're in for a treat!

+1

Love this!

Billy86 · 24-12-2014 02:38AM

If I had a hammer, I'd hammer in the morning, I'd hammer in the evening, all over this laaaaa-aaand!

DoYouEvenLift · 24-12-2014 04:29AM

conorhal wrote: »

Get yourself a copy of 'Oldboy' in that case, you're in for a treat!

anyone planning on watching oldboy: make sure it's the original Korean movie and not the poverty American remake. Your first oldboy experience has to be the real oldboy experience

RobbingBandit · 24-12-2014 04:52AM

Love Josh Brolin as an actor but couldn't agree with this more, westernisation of these Tartan Asian movies just does not do the originals credit. It is worth the subtitles the musical score to the film is awesome too.

DoYouEvenLift · 24-12-2014 04:38PM

The Raid remake is going to terrible as well, I just know it. I guarantee it'll be released for PG 12s or something to just ruin it. If it's not 18s like the original I won't even bother paying the cinema fee to see it

do you watch hollywood movies?

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