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Heck, even "The Magic Roundabout" which was an animated cartoon from the UK (and was in english) got dubbed (and renamed "Doogal") just so it would sound American.
Its ridiculous.
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Personally however I would say leave it as is and do another project.
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1. Del Toro wasn't the director for the 1st one, he's was the producer, and is going to be producer for the remake as well.
2. It makes sense for him to want to produce a remake cause it's easy, and it'll probably bring him even more money than the original.
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I mean we all got to work and earn a living. But Del Toro is much more creative then to get on the Remake train. I really want to think the best of the guy but you are likely right. It is about a quick buck
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Producing stuff like this remake is an excellent way for him to help self-fiance those projects.
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I'm not saying that's a good thing, but that's the reasoning. They're the intended audience for the new version, not fans of the original
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One of the great aspects of the theater is that they have assigned seating so you can enter the auditorium at your own leisure before the movie starts.
About 20 minutes before a screening of Pan's Labyrinth, when the auditorium was still filling up, a soccer-mom with 4 little kids ignored the assigned seating cause she didn't like the row of seats SHE selected in the very back, and migrated to a section of empty seats in the middle that clearly weren't hers.
When a pair of people who did select 2 of those seats inevitably showed up a few minutes later, they politely said something like "oh sorry these are our seats" and showed her their tickets- as people do occasionally end up in the wrong section.
The lady just matter-of-factly said "Well I was here before you."
When the couple explained the assigned seating, she suggested they just take 2 of the seats in the back she had bought since she didn't think it was reasonable to uproot her brats from the seats they've recently acquainted themselves with.
Two of ushers came to see what the problem was and obviously sided with the couple asking the lady to move her and her kids back to their original seats.
So the lady angrily gets all her shit and kids together and moves out of the row... only to take another empty row of seats in the row just behind the couple's section.
The usher has to talk to her again and asks her to return to her original seats.
The lady then loudly exclaims "The theater isn't even full!"- Obviously not taking into account that it was still 10 minutes before showtime so obviously people were still in the process of coming in.
The usher then explains that this screening, like every other screening of the day was actually sold out, so yea, it was going to be full.
The lady, surprised, ask: "Really? But isn't the movie in Mexican!"
She eventually did go back to her own seat with her kids, but about 20 minutes into the movie they walked out.
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i boycott all yarm and hope you do as well.
08/05/09
This movie was confused and just not equal to the hype. Especially the terrible ending.
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An 8 year old is probably the only one that CAN'T see the plot contrivance coming from a mile away.
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Then I went to watch it and it didn't scare me even a little bit, the plot was very unoriginal, and as Plague said, everybody could see the plot contrivance coming from several kilometers away.
I am absolutely flabbergasted to find that the non-Spanish public here appear to have loved it here, because every spaniard I talked to thought it just sucked, so, until now, I thought it was only a case of a bad movie which had gr€a$ed all of the media to create a lot of buzz
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- Nothing moves The Blob!
- X-men, go and save the city!
- Welcome, to die!
Sheesh, you have just awaken the beast in me.
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American's won't read subtitles.
I really worry about the American entertainment industry. I think one of the only emerging spots for original ideas are video games and those are really only in their infancy (story telling wise).
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It's not just an American thing.
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See the Production notes in [en.wikipedia.org]
to read a funny story of Spanish dubbing/censorship: The Franquists thought adultery was inmoral, so they changed two characters who hooked up into being siblings (appearently they didn't think incest was such a mortal sin)
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