The Big Picture: Americana

jad4400

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dex-dex said:
THERE DOING A TIN TIN MOVIE?
my life as a six year old was all about tin tin.
Ditto, I actually gasped in excitement when Bob mentioned this, here's hoping they get the feel right or I'll be madder that Captain Haddock at an AA meeting.
 

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jad4400 said:
dex-dex said:
THERE DOING A TIN TIN MOVIE?
my life as a six year old was all about tin tin.
Ditto, I actually gasped in excitement when Bob mentioned this, here's hoping they get the feel right or I'll be madder that Captain Haddock at an AA meeting.
Well, the Poster for the Tintin movie looks badass, so hopefully the movie is also great.
 

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My Ears went deaf half way through from the awesomeness that is TINTIN!
Are you serious? This is going to be a film!?
My life, is now complete. Wait, do you think a Babar movie would be to far fetched?
 

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Someone may have already mentioned this, but in regards to The Smurfs, after watching the trailer for it, they come out of a package that is clearly labeled to be from Belgium.

So at least the film isn't TOTALLY ignoring their origins. I'm not saying that'll make the movie any better but...Hey, it's a nice note to have.
 

LasseZ

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You won't start using cliffhangers like that at the end of every episode like in 40's movie serials, will you?
 

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Hubert South said:
Notice that all "counter-examples" Bob listed are campy, in-name-only "adaptations" very loosely based on the matter and mostly a result of the difficulty of getting Us made films into said countries. (Using Turkish Star Wars as an example is just bad, bad research).

On the flipside, all american "adaptations" are either verbatim movieola copies of the original, or manage to turn rather dark, or otherwise original films into mid-level dross by incorporating all the necessities that the average US moviegoer needs to feel good about himself.

Let The Right One In did not need a remake, especially not one two (?) years after the original. Neither does the Millenium trilogy.

America, if you must, must turn to other cultures and mythologies for inspiration and rape them beyond recognition, at least do it with something that is older than 5 years, you lazy shmucks.
Just y'know, not too lazy to well, oh i dunno', invent cinema so it could be known today period you ignorant fucking ingrate. I say ignorant because aparently you aren't aware that the reason Hollywood basically owns international film (and they do, quit dreaming) is because it was invented here. Y'know on one of our more active days. When we weren't inventing the computer so you could piss off on us about that too! FUCK you!!
 

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Strain42 said:
Someone may have already mentioned this, but in regards to The Smurfs, after watching the trailer for it, they come out of a package that is clearly labeled to be from Belgium.

So at least the film isn't TOTALLY ignoring their origins. I'm not saying that'll make the movie any better but...Hey, it's a nice note to have.
I went to check the trailer when I read that and...
OMG. Is that a Scottish Smurf? What the...?
But I'm happy to see Azrael was kept. He's the best character in the Smurf books.
 

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It would have been cool if you mentioned the spoony one, the cinema snob, or even Lesser known ed glaser. The first two has done many reviews of legendary knock offer movies and even celebrated in some of there awesomeness and decent cheese actors. Ed glaser in paticular has a show called deja view in which he talks about famous movies that had gotten a rather interesting knock off such as say Nigerian titanic.
 

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mikev7.0 said:
Just y'know, not too lazy to well, oh i dunno', invent cinema so it could be known today period
Cinema was invented through a succession of discoveries, inventions and perfecting of previous inventions from various countries. The cinematograph itself was a French invention, its name created by Léon Bouly and used again later by the Lumière brothers for their invention. Which used Edison's Kinetoscope. Which itself relied on previous experiments and innovations from Europe, for instance William Friese-Greene's chronophotographic camera, patented in 1889.

Earlier, if I quote wikipedia, "Moving images were produced on revolving drums and disks in the 1830s with independent invention by Simon von Stampfer (Stroboscope) in Austria, Joseph Plateau (Phenakistoscope) in Belgium and William Horner (zoetrope) in Britain."

Of course we can go back earlier and earlier until it's simply photography, or even earlier than that. But the fact is that depicting cinema as a solely American invention is misleading. It was the product of scientists from all over the world which influenced one another until we reached what we have today. And I stopped at the cinematograph, because that's the word we still used today, but quite obviously many other innovations have happened since.
 

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The Longest Yard is a remake of Mean Machine, not the other way around. but still, great video.

edit: andd i just proved my self wrong. a quick google search shows a 1974 The Longest Yard movie. just the pic you used was from the latest one so didnt even know lol.
 

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mikev7.0 said:
Hubert South said:
Notice that all "counter-examples" Bob listed are campy, in-name-only "adaptations" very loosely based on the matter and mostly a result of the difficulty of getting Us made films into said countries. (Using Turkish Star Wars as an example is just bad, bad research).

On the flipside, all american "adaptations" are either verbatim movieola copies of the original, or manage to turn rather dark, or otherwise original films into mid-level dross by incorporating all the necessities that the average US moviegoer needs to feel good about himself.

Let The Right One In did not need a remake, especially not one two (?) years after the original. Neither does the Millenium trilogy.

America, if you must, must turn to other cultures and mythologies for inspiration and rape them beyond recognition, at least do it with something that is older than 5 years, you lazy shmucks.
Just y'know, not too lazy to well, oh i dunno', invent cinema so it could be known today period you ignorant fucking ingrate. I say ignorant because aparently you aren't aware that the reason Hollywood basically owns international film (and they do, quit dreaming) is because it was invented here. Y'know on one of our more active days. When we weren't inventing the computer so you could piss off on us about that too! FUCK you!!
Whoa there buddy. The post you're quoting was a tad inflamatory but that's no reason to get worked up about it. Cinema was a bit of a group effort on the part of the people of the world. In fact I seem to recall a lot of the early innovations actually occurring primarily in France (though I might be wrong). I get a bit cheesed myself that people often seem to paint US with a broad brush but posts like this just reinforce negative images of US in a lot of people's minds.

edit: looks like someone else already beat me to the history of cinema
 

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I really want to hear, even briefly, what MovieBob thinks of the Les Miserables anime. That's quite an interesting specimen right there, though it's actually pretty good, so not much making fun of it could be done. But taking a look at it as an adaptation would be fascinating.
 

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We do good Americanizations as well, e.g. Insomnia.

When you cover the TMNT anime, I'd be interested to hear five seconds on how you found the 2007 CGI film done by Imagi. I found it to be sorely underrated for what it was, and had some outstanding visual design, but maybe your super-cinema eyeballs know something I don't.

And I guess Power Rangers is okay for the kiddies today, but I liked it better the first time when it was called Voltron.

Anyway, all this plus: great episode, plus: SAMURAI PIZZA CATS!
hooray I'm not the only one who knows about samurai pizza cats!
 

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I'm just gonna say it: nowhere near enough of those were porno for me to care, and what about the ever-popular Tourist Omer ridiculously thorough Star Trek rip-off for Turkish audiences? Where's Mister Spak and the Kaptan?!?!
 

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Okay so Bob just proved that it has all been done. Good to note, onward to July and Captain America! Excelsior!