Tuesday, December 04, 2007

Earl Murders Me Because I'm Having An Affair Pie...



I tried to watch Paprika tonight only to realize, quite rapidly, that approximately 33% of the dialogue was being translated. Lots of Japanese rapidly whizzing by, accompanied only occasionally by English fragments on the screen. I mean, it's probably fucked up enough without my having to guess at what the fuck they're saying.

Which meant I had to call Netfux to bring this to their attention (they don't seem to have a link on their site for "the movie is not fully translated") and she is sending me another one just for shits. If it continues to be a problem they'll research it but they haven't received any other reports about it (of course, it just came out last Tuesday and I doubt the masses have lined up to rent it, really).

But yesterday I did watch Waitress, which was quite cute. It almost got a little too depressing there in the middle, but it certainly had an upbeat ending. I mean really, here's why you should watch Waitress:


1. It's cute.

2. Leading lady has hot, heavy affair with Nathan Fillion. Yum.

3. They show lots of pies as she makes them. Yum.

So I recommend. Hard not to be sentimental about the director's untimely murder as well, especially since I recall her fondly from Hal Hartley movies, but regardless, the film is more than decent on its own.

7 comments:

SkylersDad said...

My only experience with Japanese translations comes from poorly dubbed Kung Fu movies, which are really quite funny.

Ellen Aim said...

Ok, now those are funny. This was just bizarre. And I'm one of those people who assumes for far too long that "maybe it's just me." But soon it was very apparent the movie just WASN'T TRANSLATED AT ALL.

So then I started watching The Glass Cage, a John Waters favorite I'll have to go into later...

The [Cherry] Ride said...

Nathan Fillion - not really.

Veloute said...

Oooo! I stopped reading after #2. Definitely adding to my #1 spot.

Ellen Aim said...

Cherry: I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say you obviously haven't seen Firefly. Am I right? 'Nuff said.

Vel: And the pies don't hurt either!

Triana said...

Mmmm...Nathan...ok, when is the boy going on a trip again and I can have a girl movie night? *nunenu*checks calendar*

Ellen Aim said...

Hee hee, that sound effect made me laugh. You could watch it and do that "Oh, I didn't realize he was in this!" thing. Ok, probably not.