Posts by giovanni tiso
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I would be interested in how many films other folk get to in a year.
I'm sitting on four.
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I'm sort of unwinding all the accumulated tiredness and discovering how much of it there actually is.
I hear ya!
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Nice to see Pirating and general Downloading is driving the industry to take the next step in "Value Added" media releases.
As I might have pointed out in one of the copyright threads, it's exactly what happened when people started watching films at home on their tellies - films at the cinema became more spectacular. More spectacular doesn't mean better, however.
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Well, let's organise then. Anybody know what the schedule is for the bill?
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If McCarten is correct than it does make me wonder why Labour hasn't made a huge deal out of this.
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I thought we had just lost you to Twitter quite frankly.
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And yet a bunch of people who aren't fools have actually been to see it and their responses range from impressed to rapturous.
I'm not saying it's a bad film, just that not everything works for everyone. I assume that you and the others who liked it weren't put off by the trailers.
And just for the record, I spent a substantial amount of the year anxiously waiting for the release of 2012, which I fully planned to enjoy un-ironically. It's not always snobbery when you don't like the look or in fact the idea of something. Performance capture just gives me the creeps.
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Surely it's okay to not like this film on spec? I saw the trailers and thought they were awful, surely that's the whole point of promoting a film. If you don't like the look of it and the look is what is being marketed, then avoid.
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I think that's Space Oddity not Life on Mars
Yes, sorry. Brainrot.
and I'd imagine it was the record company's idea - I believe standard practice was to hand over a phonetic transcript and not tell the artist if it was an actual translation of their own words or not.
Oh come now, the man wans' t a child. I imagine he could have asked. But it's not specifically that the lyrics were awful (although they were), it's how badly he sang them. That said, you're right, it was very common practice. In fact Sting did it comparatively recently, enlisting Zucchero Fornaciari for an Italian version of Mad About You in 1992.
(It is the nature of Sting lyrics that they can only be improved, however.)
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I have Life on Mars in Italian. Sang by Bowie. It was called Ragazzo Solo / Ragazza Sola. Probably the worst song ever recorded.
(Really, what was with rockstars in those days thinking they could sing in other languages?)