'Rediculous' Customer & Critic Reviews

[bamwc2]

I do believe that Woody Allen's target audience has always been two or more single girls.

[Forrest Taft]

This was a good VHS movie. Was it a good movie? Not really so I'm glad it was in VHS and not DVD but it was realist.

[Gregory]

Has anyone else noticed that certain products at Amazon have a big slew of one-star reviews posted in a very specific time frame, by "users" who probably never saw the film, owned the product, etc.? People like this gleefully impish rotund man on YouTube with 400,000 subscribers may have something to do with it. "You could be a tremendous influencer here. I mean, really." I'm sure all those badly written reviews of Happy Feet 2 really struck a blow for reforms in IP law.
Excerpts of reviews by people who think they're outraged at the MPAA but don't really seem to know what it is:

its sucks its story is dumb its acting is horrable just dont get it by the way mpaa make a good movie 4 once

Seems like the MPAA is trying to cash in on this one. Really really shoddy work compared to the first one.

The MPAA can to shove this crap back into their black hole.

MPAA made this movie into a filmed abortion. i would rather see a genocide, start to finish, than this abomination.

Don't waste you money on the MPAA.

horrible horrible film made by horrible horrible people so that they can make money and extradite people. screw the MPAA and any of their movies

this movie...really, really, really, really, really do sucks.........and MPAA sucks too, but, all the staff that made the movie is great !!!...LOLzz

The movie industry and the MPAA think that they repeat this same thing over and over again and then expect you to pay for it over and over. No thank you movie industry and MPAA. I will not by buying your junk every again.

[domino harvey]

I was not able to understand the dialog. Too British. It would be nice to have a warning on these videos when there are strong British accents.

[tojoed]

I was not able to understand the dialog. Too British. It would be nice to have a warning on these videos when there are strong British accents.

That reminds me of the US DVD of "Gregory's Girl", which boasts "Original Scottish language Track".
Perhaps your customer is referring to that.

[domino harvey]

It's for My Left Foot. I am sympathetic to needing a subtitle track for some European accents (I couldn't imagine trying to follow Skins without one, for instance), but I just had a chuckle at there needing to be a "warning"--

WARNING: ACCENTS

[feihong]

i would rather see a genocide, start to finish, than this abomination.

Wow. Don't sugarcoat it for us, there.

[tenia]

You know, if Renoir's Toni ever gets a French release one day, everyone in France hopes there'll be SDH subs.
More generally, as a non-native English speaker, when I'm in Scotland and want to go to the theater, it's actually very useful to know if the actors will have strong accents or not, because without any subtitles to help me, it can make a great deal of difference to my enjoyment of the movie.

[MichaelB]

It's for My Left Foot.

My Left Foot? British? Dearie me.

Mind you, I saw an American friend the other day complaining that he couldn't take Mark Cousins' The Story of Film seriously because he allegedly sounded exactly like Billy Connolly. I can sort of see what he meant in terms of tone, but to my ears it's a massive stretch largely because Cousins is so obviously Northern Irish and Connolly so equally obviously Scottish.

You know, if Renoir's Toni ever gets a French release one day, everyone in France hopes there'll be SDH subs.
More generally, as a non-native English speaker, when I'm in Scotland and want to go to the theater, it's actually very useful to know if the actors will have strong accents or not, because without any subtitles to help me, it can make a great deal of difference to my enjoyment of the movie.

One of the toughest QC jobs I've done recently was proofreading the SDH subtitles on Tobe Hooper's Eggshells, while being fully aware that far more people than the deaf or hard of hearing might well be making use of them - since the film is an impressionistic account of the lives of stoned Texan hippies in the late Sixties, with all that that implies in terms of impeccable enunciation of carefully-crafted dialogue.

The problem was, the subs had obviously been transcribed by ear (understandably, since I suspect a fair bit of the dialogue was improvised) and were riddled with howlers - things like "Saint Louis, Missouri" were rendered as "Cincinnati"!

In the end, I asked for 64 to be changed - a personal record by a very long way. There are still half a dozen in there that I'm convinced are wrong, but neither I nor my colleagues could work out what the characters were actually saying, and with deadlines breathing down our neck we just left them in. But they're certainly a lot better than they were.

[EddieLarkin]

I recall noticing at least one instance of a Yorkshire colloquialism from Kes being butchered by the subtitles on the Criterion edition, though I forget now what it was or where it occurs.

[Roger Ryan]

...Mind you, I saw an American friend the other day complaining that he couldn't take Mark Cousins' The Story of Film seriously because he allegedly sounded exactly like Billy Connolly. I can sort of see what he meant in terms of tone, but to my ears it's a massive stretch largely because Cousins is so obviously Northern Irish and Connolly so equally obviously Scottish...

There are other reasons I have trouble taking the Cousins' work seriously , but I too initially mistook the "Belfast upspeak" as a Scottish accent. However, Cousins sounds nothing like Connolly to me. A co-worker of mine keeps thinking Connolly was a member of Monty Python because he "sounds just like those guys"!

[Mr Sausage]

You sound a bit like Billy Connolly.

[jindianajonz]

i would rather see a genocide, start to finish, than this abomination.

Wow. Don't sugarcoat it for us, there.

Was this a review for Schindler's List?

[zedz]

i would rather see a genocide, start to finish, than this abomination.

Wow. Don't sugarcoat it for us, there.

He's probably just one of those people who's really into genocides.

[Lemmy Caution]

A little genocide never hurt anyone ....

[mfunk9786]

IMDB review of Blue is the Warmest Color:

Just another anti-American movie full of filth. Used to be that a person had to put on a raincoat and dark glasses, travel to the seedy side of town to see filth like this. Now this filth is shown on some mainstream movie theatres. People wonder why America has fallen into such disrespect and shame, and movies like this are the reason. How low can the movie industry actually go? What is next, child porn and snuff films? All right thinking and decent Americans need to stay as far away from this garbage as possible. I think the day is fast approaching when Americans will finally pass a constitutional amendment to stop the production and screening of filth like this. I have recently read that no theatre in Idaho will screen this film. Stand up America, make your voice heard and take back your country. Boycott any establishment that shows this filth.

[jindianajonz]

Why would you need to wear a liquid proof raincoat to a porno thea- oh.

[matrixschmatrix]

I'm fascinated that a French production is the reason why America has fallen into such disrespect and shame. I really want to know how that amendment would work, too.

[knives]

No importing snuff?

[Zot!]

Is there actually a political component to this film? Or simply being lewd is anti-American?

[MichaelB]

I thought the situation was that no theatre in Idaho can screen this film? In other words, it's not their choice?

[jindianajonz]

Is there actually a political component to this film? Or simply being lewd is anti-American?

Well, the director has an Islamic sounding name, so that's probably enough of a reason for this fool.

[zedz]

I'm fascinated that a French production is the reason why America has fallen into such disrespect and shame.

The reason that America has fallen into disrespect and shame (internationally at least) has much less to do with lesbian sex scenes in French movies than it does to the attitudes embodied by Americans like that one.

[bdsweeney]

Is there actually a political component to this film? Or simply being lewd is anti-American?

Possibly looking into this too far, but it may well be some type of 'anti-American' trolling not written by an American. Mind you, what I'm basing that on is how 'theatre' is written in British/Australian English rather than the American English spelling of 'theater'.

[Matt]

The best clue that it's not written by an American would be that any word is spelled correctly.