Davis 3,443 Posted December 16, 2024 Share Posted December 16, 2024 1 hour ago, filmmusic said: I wanted to ask, has anyone seen A Boy Called Christmas (2021)? They want to show it at my school, the last day (the day before Christmas Eve). Is it suitable for children (grades 1 to 6)? Moreover, will it keep their interest? I only read the book, it was good. Have you seen KLAUS? It's kind of a modern Christmas classic animated film. Off the top of my head these are all good choices: - Jingle All The Way - The Santa Clause - Rise of the Guardians - Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas filmmusic 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Edmilson 9,595 Posted December 16, 2024 Popular Post Share Posted December 16, 2024 Rise of the Guardians is pretty good. Another great choice: Arthur Christmas. It's from Aardman, who made Chicken Run, Wallace & Gromit, Flushed Away... Super fun for kids and also adults. filmmusic, Tallguy and Davis 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmmusic 2,375 Posted December 16, 2024 Share Posted December 16, 2024 3 minutes ago, Davis said: Have you seen KLAUS? It's kind of a modern Christmas classic animated film. Yes, I have seen it. But I don't remember anything about it. I just found it in Greek too. 1 minute ago, Edmilson said: Another great choice: Arthur Christmas. I remember liking this one.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmilson 9,595 Posted December 16, 2024 Share Posted December 16, 2024 7 minutes ago, Davis said: - Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas Some parents may complain this one is too scary for their children, even if the kids aren't scared at all Btw @filmmusic how Home Alone is called in Greek? Here it's "Esqueceram de Mim", with roughly translate to "They forgot about me" I miss those days when the studios allowed our translators to have fun with naming a movie, these days they mostly just translate the English title verbatim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmmusic 2,375 Posted December 16, 2024 Share Posted December 16, 2024 1 minute ago, Edmilson said: Btw @filmmusic how Home Alone is called in Greek? It's almost the same. ΜΟΝΟΣ ΣΤΟ ΣΠΙΤΙ, translated "Alone at Home". Edmilson 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davis 3,443 Posted December 16, 2024 Share Posted December 16, 2024 7 minutes ago, Edmilson said: how Home Alone is called in Greek? In Hungarian it's called Tremble, Burglars! 7 minutes ago, Edmilson said: Some parents may complain this one is too scary for their children There are always some parents who think they know better what their children like than their children. It's one of the greatest stop motion animated movies ever made. I bet there are parents who think Arthur Christmas isn't suitable for children, either. Edmilson 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmmusic 2,375 Posted December 16, 2024 Share Posted December 16, 2024 17 minutes ago, Davis said: Have you seen KLAUS? It's kind of a modern Christmas classic animated film. By the way, we may live in a twisted parallel universe since Klaus is #169 at top 250 imdb films, and E.T. is NOT in this list at all!!! Tallguy and Davis 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmilson 9,595 Posted December 16, 2024 Share Posted December 16, 2024 8 minutes ago, Davis said: In Hungarian it's called Tremble, Burglars! That's a super fun title Davis 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davis 3,443 Posted December 16, 2024 Share Posted December 16, 2024 2 minutes ago, filmmusic said: By the way, we may live in a twisted parallel universe since Klaus is #169 at top 250 imdb films, and E.T. is NOT in this list at all!!! It doesn't mean anything. Everyone who loves films knows how great E.T. is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bespinGPT 8,952 Posted December 16, 2024 Share Posted December 16, 2024 40 minutes ago, The Train Station said: The 2090 one. Duh Can we ban him... or something? 16 minutes ago, Edmilson said: That's a super fun title In French, it's "Maman, j'ai raté l'avion" (litteraly "Mom, I missed the plane!") And the 2nd movie is "Maman, j'ai ENCORE raté l'avion!" (Mom, I missed the plane AGAIN!) Edmilson 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davis 3,443 Posted December 16, 2024 Share Posted December 16, 2024 24 minutes ago, Edmilson said: I miss those days when the studios allowed our translators to have fun with naming a movie, these days they mostly just translate the English title verbatim. Hungarian movie titles can be pretty wild. Alien -> The 8th Passenger: Death Aliens -> The Name of the Planet: Death Alien 3 -> The Final Solution: Death Batman Begins -> Batman: It Begins! Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? -> We Are Not Afraid of Wolves! Die Hard -> Give Your Life Dearly Edmilson and filmmusic 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tallguy 4,809 Posted December 16, 2024 Share Posted December 16, 2024 27 minutes ago, Edmilson said: Some parents may complain this one is too scary for their children, even if the kids aren't scared at all My objection to Nightmare when my kids were little was that there are a couple of super gross things in it. The guy with the axe in his head is a bit much but the child with his eyes sewn shut was just over the top for me. Of course I also feel that way about people's legit gross Halloween decorations. I don't know if it would have scared them or not. That wasn't the issue. And this is someone who dressed as Jack Skellington long before you could buy an off the shelf costume for it! (Ahhh, I miss being that skinny!) 10 minutes ago, bespinGPT said: Can we ban him... or something? Hey, which is better, the original Maltese Falcon or the remake? (Has anyone seen the original? I haven't.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davis 3,443 Posted December 16, 2024 Share Posted December 16, 2024 3 minutes ago, Tallguy said: The guy with the axe in his head is a bit much but the child with his eyes sewn shut was just over the top for me. I was 12 when I first saw TBTNBC, and loved it. These things never bothered me one bit. The entire film was so entertaining, so much fun and the songs and score so great that I never for a second felt scared. And I had already seen BATMAN and BATMAN RETURNS. I knew I was watching an animated movie, not a documentary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Dimitrescu 9,170 Posted December 16, 2024 Share Posted December 16, 2024 4 minutes ago, Tallguy said: Hey, which is better, the original Maltese Falcon or the remake? (Has anyone seen the original? I haven't.) I have Davis 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davis 3,443 Posted December 16, 2024 Share Posted December 16, 2024 Me too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Dimitrescu 9,170 Posted December 16, 2024 Share Posted December 16, 2024 Pre-code talkie. It was nice when we had TCM in Australia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 9,446 Posted December 16, 2024 Share Posted December 16, 2024 21 minutes ago, bespinGPT said: In French, it's "Maman, j'ai raté l'avion" (litteraly "Mom, I missed the plane!") And the 2nd movie is "Maman, j'ai ENCORE raté l'avion!" (Mom, I missed the plane AGAIN!) But… he didn't actually *miss* the plane… 9 minutes ago, Tallguy said: Hey, which is better, the original Maltese Falcon or the remake? (Has anyone seen the original? I haven't.) I didn't even know the Huston was a remake. bespinGPT 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmmusic 2,375 Posted December 16, 2024 Share Posted December 16, 2024 6 minutes ago, Marian Schedenig said: I didn't even know the Huston was a remake. Me too! Tallguy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bespinGPT 8,952 Posted December 16, 2024 Share Posted December 16, 2024 25 minutes ago, Davis said: Hungarian movie titles can be pretty wild. Alien -> The 8th Passenger: Death (In french from France it's the same idea "Alien, le 8e passager" [Alien, the 8th passenger]) Aliens -> The Name of the Planet: Death ("Alien, le retour", [Alien, the return]) Alien 3 -> The Final Solution: Death (simply "Alien 3") Batman Begins -> Batman: It Begins! (in Québec, "Batman : Le Commencement", [Batman : The beginning]) --> Fun fact, in french, the term "Alien" is accepted. It have the exact same two senses it have in english. Quote 1. To have come from elsewhere; extraterrestrial. Synonym: extraterrestrial 2. Figuratively. A person foreign to an environment; an animal or plant species that appears in an environment that is not its own. Davis 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmilson 9,595 Posted December 16, 2024 Share Posted December 16, 2024 1 hour ago, Davis said: Alien -> The 8th Passenger: Death 43 minutes ago, bespinGPT said: Alien -> The 8th Passenger: Death (In french from France it's the same idea "Alien, le 8e passager" [Alien, the 8th passenger]) Wait, there too? I thought this "8th Passenger" thing was exclusively for us Brazilians! The original Alien is known here as "Alien: O 8º Passageiro" ("The Eight Passenger"). Aliens is "Aliens: O Resgate" ("Aliens: The Rescue"). The others are just the English name translated (or not, since Covenant and Romulus are also... Covenant and Romulus here). Batman Begins retained its English title (I think WB Brazil just thought "Batman: O Começo" might be a little boring). The sequels added the word "Batman" before "O Cavaleiro das Trevas" (The Dark Knight) and "O Cavaleiro das Trevas Ressurge" ("The Dark Knight Rises"). I guess they were worried people would think this isn't a Batman movie. Usually, superhero names here are translated. For example, we don't know Spider-Man, the Avengers, Wonder Woman and Justice League here, but rather "Homem-Aranha", "Vingadores", "Mulher-Maravilha" and "Liga da Justiça". Batman has always been Batman and Superman used to be "Super-Homem" until the early 2000s I think. The most curious case is Daredevil. Here he is known as "Demolidor", which can roughly be translated to... It robs the character of his religious associations though. I guess religious moms wouldn't let their children read a comic about the "Diabo Ousado" Davis 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davis 3,443 Posted December 16, 2024 Share Posted December 16, 2024 1 hour ago, bespinGPT said: --> Fun fact, in french, the term "Alien" is accepted. It have the exact same two senses it have in english. 8 minutes ago, Edmilson said: The original Alien is known here as "Alien: O 8º Passageiro" ("The Eight Passenger"). Aliens is "Aliens: O Resgate" ("Aliens: The Rescue"). The others are just the English name translated (or not, since Covenant and Romulus are also... Covenant and Romulus here). It's the official title, but in Hungary everyone calls the first film Alien. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Dimitrescu 9,170 Posted December 16, 2024 Share Posted December 16, 2024 I call it "Alien One". Jamie Dutton and bespinGPT 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davis 3,443 Posted December 16, 2024 Share Posted December 16, 2024 10 minutes ago, Edmilson said: Usually, superhero names here are translated. For example, we don't know Spider-Man, the Avengers, Wonder Woman and Justice League here, but rather "Homem-Aranha", "Vingadores", "Mulher-Maravilha" and "Liga da Justiça". Batman has always been Batman and Superman used to be "Super-Homem" until the early 2000s I think. I think Spider-Man gets translated in (almost) every country, mainly because of the comic book that is primarily for children. So in Hungary he's called Pókember. Batman stays Batman, although the first film is called Batman - A denevérember, but every other Batman film they kept the "Batman" just like the comics. Same with Superman. 10 minutes ago, Edmilson said: "Demolidor" Demolition Man here is A pusztító, which means The Demolisher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie Dutton 7,692 Posted December 16, 2024 Share Posted December 16, 2024 20 minutes ago, The Train Station said: I call it "Alien One". I call it Chapter 24 In the Complete Adventures of Indiana Jones: Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. Glóin the Dark and Lady Dimitrescu 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,712 Posted December 17, 2024 Share Posted December 17, 2024 21 hours ago, Edmilson said: Unfortunately, yes. I haven't seen it but those who have says it's utter crap. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/home_sweet_home_alone Yeah. check those scores. Hated by critics and audiences pretty much equally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 13,875 Posted December 17, 2024 Share Posted December 17, 2024 9 minutes ago, Sweeping Strings said: Yeah. check those scores. Probably by Hans Zimmer. Sweeping Strings 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davis 3,443 Posted December 17, 2024 Share Posted December 17, 2024 Adventures in Babysitting - Watched it for the Kamen score, but outside of Elizabeth Shue’s dancing at the beginning, it felt boring, so I turned it off after the hook man arrived to save the kids. Knight Moves - I’m still in love with Diane Lane. That woman is simply gorgeous, super sexy. Josh Brolin was so lucky. Oh yeah, the film was watchable, a decent B movie. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 10,853 Posted December 17, 2024 Share Posted December 17, 2024 Fun fact: the UK title for ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING, was A NIGHT ON THE TOWN. Davis 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Jamie Dutton 7,692 Posted December 18, 2024 Popular Post Share Posted December 18, 2024 Davis, filmmusic and Tallguy 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Dimitrescu 9,170 Posted December 18, 2024 Share Posted December 18, 2024 I always liked the helmet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tallguy 4,809 Posted December 18, 2024 Share Posted December 18, 2024 "It's THE ROCKETEER!" I love that film on a ridiculous level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie Dutton 7,692 Posted December 18, 2024 Share Posted December 18, 2024 I like it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post A24 4,666 Posted December 18, 2024 Popular Post Share Posted December 18, 2024 I only remember one thing ... LSH, Edmilson and Davis 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Dimitrescu 9,170 Posted December 18, 2024 Share Posted December 18, 2024 Beautiful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie Dutton 7,692 Posted December 19, 2024 Share Posted December 19, 2024 Davis and Lady Dimitrescu 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 10,853 Posted December 19, 2024 Share Posted December 19, 2024 Good movie, with three great central performances, gorgeous cinematography, and a lush John Barry score... aaaand it has Herbie Hancock. What's not to like? Jamie Dutton and Davis 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,712 Posted December 19, 2024 Share Posted December 19, 2024 Tomorrow Never Dies - a Bond of two halves, the second being not really as good as the first. Still ... seeing as the first half contains such cracking action sequences as the pre-credits at the arms bazaar and the car chase that never gets out of the car park, the gorgeous Teri Hatcher and the chucklesomely sinister Dr Kaufman it could be much, much worse. Jonathan Pryce's megalomaniacal media baron villain looks less and less like action movie fantasy with each passing year. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 10,853 Posted December 19, 2024 Share Posted December 19, 2024 Delicious. Jay 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 40,593 Posted December 19, 2024 Share Posted December 19, 2024 Jonathan Pryce is having a great time in that movie, and its aweosme! tomsmoviemadness 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tallguy 4,809 Posted December 19, 2024 Share Posted December 19, 2024 I love TND but to this day I cannot believe how unsatisfied I was by Pryce's Bond Villain turn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 40,593 Posted December 19, 2024 Share Posted December 19, 2024 What do you mean? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tallguy 4,809 Posted December 19, 2024 Share Posted December 19, 2024 18 minutes ago, Jay said: What do you mean? I mean I didn't like his performance (or maybe just the writing?) very much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 40,593 Posted December 19, 2024 Share Posted December 19, 2024 Aw, that's too bad. I loved watching him ham it up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tallguy 4,809 Posted December 19, 2024 Share Posted December 19, 2024 9 minutes ago, Jay said: Aw, that's too bad. I loved watching him ham it up Yeah. I don't know what more I wanted. Maybe more ham? Really I just wanted to see Mr. Dark play Hugo Drax. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,712 Posted December 19, 2024 Share Posted December 19, 2024 Apparently Pryce wanted to play it 'hammier', but was denied. Still, there's always the video conference scene ('There's no news ... like bad news!') and his mockery of Wai Lin's martial arts moves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tallguy 4,809 Posted December 19, 2024 Share Posted December 19, 2024 27 minutes ago, Sweeping Strings said: Apparently Pryce wanted to play it 'hammier', but was denied. Still, there's always the video conference scene ('There's no news ... like bad news!') and his mockery of Wai Lin's martial arts moves. He does have the line about German efficiency that I liked. Sweeping Strings 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie Dutton 7,692 Posted December 19, 2024 Share Posted December 19, 2024 Sweeping Strings 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 10,853 Posted December 19, 2024 Share Posted December 19, 2024 33 minutes ago, Sweeping Strings said: ... his mockery of Wai Lin's martial arts moves. I absolutely love that bit. It's probably my favourite bit in the entire film. "Pathetic." Tallguy and Sweeping Strings 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie Dutton 7,692 Posted December 20, 2024 Share Posted December 20, 2024 tomsmoviemadness 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Dimitrescu 9,170 Posted December 20, 2024 Share Posted December 20, 2024 Token of our appreciation Jamie Dutton 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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