MicShazam

I do have good memories of watching dubbed TV on vacations in Germany and France. Didn't understand anything, but it was hilarious to watch Arnold and Bruce Willis crack oneliners with dubbing.

And I wasn't actually sure they also did it in cinemas. So you can't even go to some small art cinema and avoid dubbing in Germany?

Trollheart

No but I've definitely heard about it. I'll add it to the list. Thanks.

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Akai

I feel like this thread should be called "recommend foreign films to Trollheart cus he's a lazy mofo"

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Frownland

Hour of the Wolf
Oldboy
Ikiru
Dogtooth
The Bothersome Man (massively underrated)
Monty Python & the Holy Grail (top use of subtitles here)
El Norte

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MicShazam

Anyone who watches the American version instead deserves to be spanked.

Frownland

Why? They're identical except for some slightly different cinematography. I think they're both excellent.

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Trollheart

Yes! I forgot about that one! Hmm, maybe I've seen more movies than I remember or realise.

Anyone who's from the UK will have noticed recently a marked increase in the interest in foreign and subtitled dramas on TV. The Bridge, The Legacy, The Out-Laws, Below the Surface, hundreds of others, mostly Danish or Swedish. Not sure why, but it's brought to us some incredible drama (and in the case of The Out-Laws, ****ing top-drawer black comedy) that we would otherwise have missed, so kudos to BBC, Channel 4 and even RTE for that.

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Yac

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCECQQlomVg
See this.
One of the darkest movies I've seen. From my favorite Polish director, and there aren't that many of them that I respect
I'd say he's the Polish David Fincher, but I don't think this comparison does any od them justice.
It's dark, grim, grotesque. Very funny at times, but this humor quickly fades to show the ugliness beneath. And it's not the ugliness you could expect from an american movie, for example - there is little gore or whatnot. But the atmoshpere.. it's extremely heavy.
I'd love to hear what anyone who isn't a Pole thinks about this.

MicShazam

I suppose I just find the idea of the new one offensive. It only exists because Americans are weird about "foreign countries" and would never have given the original a chance. Meanwhile, in all sorts of other countries, even big cinemas are running movies not in the native language. If it's so similar, doesn't that just defeat the purpose of it even existing? Except of course for said purpose of overcoming weird American attitudes about other countries.