Brain wandered off again last night.
Jun. 19th, 2002 03:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynI sat down last night and tried to watch a copy of City On Fire that I'd gotten from Blockbuster on a free rental coupon. I was not happy with this movie. It looked very promising, but it was dubbed into English. They did a good job of syncing mouth movements to speech, but this came at the cost of natural-feeling dialogue - you could hear the actors reaching a point in the script that said 'STOP, WAIT FOR CHOW'S MOUTH TO START MOVING AGAIN'. The fact that the actor doing Chow Yun-Fat's voice sounded suspiciously like Matthew "Chandler from Friends" Perry didn't make the experience any easier, either, although that could've been an amusing movie in itself. . .
Anyway. I stopped watching about twenty minutes in. Dubbing is one thing when you're watching Return of the Five Deadly Venoms or Twin Warriors. It's another when the movie is set in the modern day and you're seriously trying to follow a plot. At least this was my free rental, so I don't feel bad about wasting the $. And at least a piece of backdrop dressing gave my brain a reason to go wandering merrily off early on in the flick, returning with something entertaining. A single corporate logo on a convenience store door, a logo I didn't think existed outside the United States.
"Strange things are afoot at the Circle K, Bill."
"Dude. You know what this means?"
"Yeah, dude, we're gonna have to infiltrate the Triads to get a passing grade in our current events class!"
Bill and Ted's Heroic Bloodshed, coming soon to a theatre near you.
Anyway. I stopped watching about twenty minutes in. Dubbing is one thing when you're watching Return of the Five Deadly Venoms or Twin Warriors. It's another when the movie is set in the modern day and you're seriously trying to follow a plot. At least this was my free rental, so I don't feel bad about wasting the $. And at least a piece of backdrop dressing gave my brain a reason to go wandering merrily off early on in the flick, returning with something entertaining. A single corporate logo on a convenience store door, a logo I didn't think existed outside the United States.
"Strange things are afoot at the Circle K, Bill."
"Dude. You know what this means?"
"Yeah, dude, we're gonna have to infiltrate the Triads to get a passing grade in our current events class!"
Bill and Ted's Heroic Bloodshed, coming soon to a theatre near you.
