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stayillogical
10/16/08, 03:54 PM
Inspired by the Random Entertainment poll. Who else loves those yellow subtitles? :-d
stayillogical
10/16/08, 04:04 PM
Has anyone else seen Turtles Can Fly?

Probably the only Iranian film I've seen, and I loved it.
jbaseball44
10/29/08, 06:50 AM
Have not seen Turtles Can Fly.

Last foreign film i watched was The Lives of Others last weekend. Great film.
WakingTheMisery
10/29/08, 07:35 AM
I only watch Korean and Japanese films for the most part.
stayillogical
10/29/08, 08:38 AM
I need to watch The Lives Of Others.
MIKEY_HORROR
10/29/08, 09:24 AM
Watch OldBoy. Kick ass foreign revenge film. One of my faves for sure!
Undue Noise
10/29/08, 01:11 PM
Have not seen Turtles Can Fly.

Last foreign film i watched was The Lives of Others last weekend. Great film.
The Lives of Others is amazing. I'd definitely recommend it.
doyouhas?
10/29/08, 02:29 PM
anyone ever heard of or seen After The Wedding? one of the best foreign films (or just films in general) ive ever seen.
Skadrist
10/29/08, 02:32 PM
Amores perros
TJ Wells
10/29/08, 03:38 PM
Tokyo Story
Rules of the Game
La Dolce Vita
Stolen Kisses
A Woman Is a Woman

Off the top of my head, those are my top 5 favorite foreign classics (additionally, I think Rules of the Game is the best film ever made).
WakingTheMisery
10/29/08, 04:02 PM
Life is Beautiful is where its at.
MIKEY_HORROR
10/29/08, 04:28 PM
a couple of my favorites.

Oldboy
Battle Royale
Audition
Sukiyaki Western Django
Versus

watch em people...not even joking....do it....for real..
Justin_stacy
10/29/08, 04:33 PM
Speaking of shitty yellow subtitles.

How about those awful moving subtitles. Its bad enough having to read and watch, but having to perdict the movement of the words too. Fuck that, I couldn't even give Nightwatch a chance because of this.
stayillogical
10/29/08, 04:48 PM
I love the yellow subtitles! I get irritated when they're white instead.
pshh
10/29/08, 08:52 PM
I only watch Korean and Japanese films for the most part.


Has anyone seen 'The Good, The Bad, The Weird' ? It's such a good action film entertaining from beginning to end. I highly recommend.

The most entertaining movie I've seen all year next to TDK.
a speedo model
10/29/08, 08:58 PM
Le Samourai
The Beat That My Heart Skipped
Dans Paris
AShannon04
10/29/08, 09:08 PM
I'm just now starting to broaden my movie horizons, so I haven't seen that many foreign movies yet, but The 400 Blows is great. I've got Seven Samurai and Rashomon coming on my Netflix fairly soon as well.
aminorthreat55
10/30/08, 06:43 AM
I love the yellow subtitles! I get irritated when they're white instead.
I think you are the only person in the entire world who likes the yellow ones over the white ones.
stayillogical
04/10/09, 12:24 PM
I think you are the only person in the entire world who likes the yellow ones over the white ones.

Hahaha... I was checking my old threads and just read this for the first time. I think it might be because I've grown up always seeing foreign movies with the yellow subtitles, so they're endearing to me. When they started to make more movies with white ones, or rather I watched movies with white ones, it threw me off. I have it engraved in my brain that yellow is what it is supposed to be, but of course, I do understand that some movies benefit more from the white ones.

I actually recently edited a short movie for a youth group I teach. They spoke in Spanish and I added the yellow subtitles, haha.