Lacey
Tibby
Now with 25% more rootin' tootin'
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Post by Lacey on Apr 2, 2008 19:14:19 GMT -5
Well, of course they have to stick around to investigate..
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Post by solgroupie on Apr 3, 2008 14:21:27 GMT -5
or make out.
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Post by imdebbie on May 10, 2008 14:23:52 GMT -5
How about when people walk into a bar and ask for "a beer" and never name the brand name. What is the bartender a freaking mind reader? I mean there's Bud, Bud Lite, Miller, Miller Lite, Coors, Coors Lite, etc. etc. etc. Does this bother anyone else? Not as much as the more recent movie trend of blatant product placement. Especially when it's completely out of character for the person to use said product. My mom used to watch a soap opera called Passions. And they got to where they were doing very blatant ads out of no where. One was, no joke, for a Brita water filter. "I'm just going to install this...."
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dharmabums
Nanite
By day, an ordinary comic magician...
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Post by dharmabums on May 27, 2008 21:40:23 GMT -5
I'm really, really irritated by movies where characters speak English when they're not English or American. And I'm particularly annoyed when the characters are supposed to be European (French, German, whatever) and they just have an English accent, like England is "generic Europe." Haha, that bothers me too. Also, in that new-ish movie 10,000 BC - a movie about cavemen - all the characters speak perfect English and it just really bothered me. Of course they didn't talk like that. It was a bad movie and a stupid idea to make a movie about in the first place.
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Post by Captain Hygiene on May 27, 2008 23:14:54 GMT -5
It doesn't tick me off so much that they speak English, but when they start off with one or two sentences of German, French, Russian, etc., (just to let you know they're foreign) and then all of a sudden they're speaking English with an accent. Either just have them speak English for simplicity, or go all out and do subtitles the whole time. It looks the most stupid to do a mixture of both.
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Post by tokiyoke on May 31, 2008 16:26:05 GMT -5
I hate when a foreigner, who has spent his whole life in his own country speaks flawless English complete with a lot of obscure words and phases, and idiomatic expressions.
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Post by Father Mannix on Jun 2, 2008 8:03:32 GMT -5
How about when people walk into a bar and ask for "a beer" and never name the brand name. What is the bartender a freaking mind reader? I mean there's Bud, Bud Lite, Miller, Miller Lite, Coors, Coors Lite, etc. etc. etc. Does this bother anyone else? I used to work as a bartender and I've actually had people do that. Of course, the part that they leave out of the movie is the "OK, what kind of beer?", but people do actually do that. Stupid people for the most part.
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Post by angilasman on Jun 2, 2008 14:36:48 GMT -5
At least they explain the whole "why does everyone speak English?" thing on Doctor Who (The Tardis telepathically gets inside your head and translates spoken and written langauges). You have to explain why all these aliens have British accents and why everything is written in English!
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Post by Chuck on Jun 2, 2008 18:10:11 GMT -5
Not as much as the more recent movie trend of blatant product placement. Especially when it's completely out of character for the person to use said product. My mom used to watch a soap opera called Passions. And they got to where they were doing very blatant ads out of no where. One was, no joke, for a Brita water filter. "I'm just going to install this...." Tell your mom that Andrea Evans is going back to One Life To Live.
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