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imtim83
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Joined: Mon Dec 27, 2004 5:55 pm Posts: 780
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 Foreign films
Do you watch actual foreign films ?
What is the last one you watched if so ?
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zwackerm
Hold the door!
Joined: Sun Jun 01, 2014 10:26 pm Posts: 21456 Location: West Chester, Pennsylvania
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Spirited Away.
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Heinrich Himmler
Cream of the Crop
Joined: Sat Oct 16, 2004 5:17 pm Posts: 2716 Location: Berlin, Germania
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what's a foreign film?
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Algren
now we know
Joined: Tue Oct 19, 2004 9:31 pm Posts: 68220 Location: Seattle, WA
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Technically, most of the films I watch are foreign as I'm not American. But for argument's sake, let's say a foreign film is a film not in the English language, then I watch about ten per year. Last one I saw was a Chinese action film a few weeks ago called Extraordinary Mission.
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tree and a half
Cream of the Crop
Joined: Mon Jan 11, 2016 11:38 am Posts: 2084
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 Re: Foreign films
European films used to make up the lion's share of my foreign language film consumption, but in recent years I've especially fallen for Korean movies - they seem to produce more of the kind of films I love - ie: old school story based movies like Hollywood used to make in the 80's and before. Foreign language films constituted 30% of my Top 10 of 2016 list. Here's my list of the foreign language films I've seen in the past year: China The Great Wall Kung Fu Yoga L.O.R.D: Legend of Ravaging Dynasties Drunken Master II The Mermaid KoreaFabricated City Vanishing Time: A Boy Who Returned The Handmaiden The Tunnel Train To Busan The Wailing JapanYour Name. Kwaidan The Wind Rises GermanyToni Erdmann France Elle
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Algren
now we know
Joined: Tue Oct 19, 2004 9:31 pm Posts: 68220 Location: Seattle, WA
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tree and a half wrote: The Great Wall The film is 90% English.
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tree and a half
Cream of the Crop
Joined: Mon Jan 11, 2016 11:38 am Posts: 2084
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Algren wrote: tree and a half wrote: The Great Wall The film is 90% English. That's true, as a China-US co-production it was well adapted to take a run at North American audiences, but it still feels like an altogether Chinese movie to me. Personally, I believe its failure resulted from western audiences perceiving it as too Chinese, despite Zhang Yimou's world film audience aspirations.
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Mon Apr 17, 2017 5:59 am |
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Jack Sparrow
KJ's Leading Idiot
Joined: Thu Dec 31, 2009 8:15 pm Posts: 36945
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Like Algren I am not an American and I don't watch a lot of Hindi movies so mostly all foreign movies for me. As for American foreign movies I watch Chinese, Japanese, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Korean, Thai, Singaporean (so a lot of Asian movies) plus French movies sometimes.
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Mon Apr 17, 2017 11:42 pm |
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imtim83
The Dark Knight
Joined: Mon Dec 27, 2004 5:55 pm Posts: 780
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Jack Sparrow wrote: Like Algren I am not an American and I don't watch a lot of Hindi movies so mostly all foreign movies for me. As for American foreign movies I watch Chinese, Japanese, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Korean, Thai, Singaporean (so a lot of Asian movies) plus French movies sometimes. I'm American and watch 50% if not 70% foreign films. Last one was a Danish film called Land of Mine.
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Jack Sparrow
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Joined: Thu Dec 31, 2009 8:15 pm Posts: 36945
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Cool. I wanted to watch Land of Mine but never got around it.
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Iseedasky
Speed Racer
Joined: Thu Oct 27, 2016 5:53 am Posts: 193
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Confidential Assignment, Korean do make some good action movies.
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Jiffy
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Joined: Sat Dec 18, 2004 2:27 pm Posts: 6152 Location: New York
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Ofc.
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tree and a half
Cream of the Crop
Joined: Mon Jan 11, 2016 11:38 am Posts: 2084
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Just no reviews or comments about them.
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Algren
now we know
Joined: Tue Oct 19, 2004 9:31 pm Posts: 68220 Location: Seattle, WA
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Mystery is powerful.
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tree and a half
Cream of the Crop
Joined: Mon Jan 11, 2016 11:38 am Posts: 2084
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Or is it?
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Algren
now we know
Joined: Tue Oct 19, 2004 9:31 pm Posts: 68220 Location: Seattle, WA
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Of course it is. The less we know about someone, the more powerful that someone is. They can be whoever they want themselves to be, or not, whenever they choose. They have a certain amount of power over others. The power of knowledge of themselves. Much like you, Bradley. Apart from your shit taste in films, we really know nothing about you, and you love holding such power.
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tree and a half
Cream of the Crop
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My apologies. My short post: tree and a half wrote: Or is it? ...was intended solely as a mildly humorous rejoinder to your post: Algren wrote: Mystery is powerful. I attempted to sustain the tone of mystery you proposed. Although, in fact, you seem to have broken your own rule of exposition with your own lengthy mansplaining scold. (Yes, a man can mansplain to another man. It's not a gender thing at all, but rather a character trait. Personally, I've seen far more women mansplaining than men. Though in their defence, women mansplain to women and men equally.)
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Algren
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Joined: Tue Oct 19, 2004 9:31 pm Posts: 68220 Location: Seattle, WA
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I have no such rule.
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Jiffy
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Joined: Sat Dec 18, 2004 2:27 pm Posts: 6152 Location: New York
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 Re: Foreign films
tree and a half wrote: Just no reviews or comments about them. Much like 99% of American releases.
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