Happy Halloween!

It is time to glue your self to the TV and watch your favorite horror movies, all dressed up in to a zombie costume and eat candy. Or just go to the movies...

 

Subtitles Vs. Dubbing

As a film lover topic subtitles and dubbing is always interesting. If films are considered as art should they be changed with subtitles and dubbing? I found this more cultural question. People who watch lot of television and movies are influenced by  language. I come from a small country were we prefer subtitles, but what does that to do with our native language? If the translations are bad the richness of the language disapares. Who controlls the quality of subtitles and dubbing anyway?
 I prefer subtitles. Reading  the text below and watching the movie is not a difficulty since i am used to it. Some people could find that annoyng. In Europe big county's like France and German dub their TV-programmes and the dubbing is done with very good quality. I still find it strainge to watch Asian movies were Asian people speak fluent German, it just does not seem right!

But what about children who are just developing their language skills? For a child it makes a huge difference to watch a movie in mother language or in a foreign language. It is important for children to know their own mother language first and how to communicate with it. It is a huge advantivce to have a excellent vocabularity  in you mother language to really understand and learn new languages.

 I also prefer to read books with their original language but i can only dream of reading Russian classics in Russian! Sadly our language skills are limited. It is very rear to be able to read in more than four language and fully understand what it is said. Now days the world is only getting smaller and translating things is more and more important. We do not want that in multicultural exchainge there will be misunderstandings only because we have translated things wrong!! In today's business world English is the ruling language and in few years it will be maby Chinese. In economical aspect it would be cheaper if everybody would talk the same language. I found that horrible!

 Finnish people watch average 3 hours of TV every day! The question between subtitles and dubbing should be taken very seriously and specially the quality of it!

Looper

 Action movies with Bruce Willis are getting old but Joseph Gordon-Levitt is one of the actors who's face has still not became boring. The film Looper tries really hard. The theme time travel is always interesting and would have so much potential... but Looper falls in to all kinds of time travel cliches.
 People, waste your Monday evening with something else!

Perfect moment

 Sometimes you read a book, hear a song or watch a movie that just touches your soul. In that one special moment you can just forget yourself and melt away. In the world that is full of greed, hate and ugliness its very rare to really see the beauty that surrounds us. Beauty that forgives all. I found it on a baby's smile or how the summer rain softly touches my skin like little wet tickely kisses. Beauty surrounds us if we are only willing to see it.
 Very few directors can capture this on the film. You see a blick of it in Jean-Pierre Jeunets Amelie. You hear it in the soundtrack of the Single Man. And the last film i saw that got even close to it was Moonrise Kingdom. Yes Wes Anderson is getting only better.

Woody Allen in Rome

 Woody Allen-the director dinosaurs from another decade-is still keeping us happy by making movies. And what kind of movies? Hes last movies have been filmed in Europe, that brings some new angle on the background. But it is definitely NOT the Europe i live in..it is the fairytale Europe seen threw very American spectacles. Like Vicky Christina Barcelona and Midnight in Paris is To Rome With Love full of cliches. Don't let them bother you..cause Rome is wonderful city, if  you avoid filming the poverty, beggar's or the trash.
 To Rome With Love is a little bit chaotic comedy with lot of juicy character's. The Americans that Woody Allen has pictured with very loving irony. Giancarlo(Fabio Armiliato)-a opera loving Italian who sings amazing in the shower and Leopoldo(Roberto Benigni)-as a suddenly famous person are the sugar of this melange. Add few more very famous actors, love, adventure and comedy and you end up with a sweet slightly corny movie that you ether love or hate.

Zombies!

 Zombie movies are awesome! Specially if they are not too scary. Henry Selicks new stop motion animation Paranorman should shake up the boring film year!

 

Django Unchained

 Quentin Tarantino´s new movie Django Unchained comes out in December! The cast is more than awesome: Christoph Waltz, Leonardo Di Caprio, Jamie Fox and of course Samuel L. Jackson!

 Check out the teaser: