@avclub-9157f95e30001c641c8c4d1adf84f6d1:disqus , yeah the bad translations are part of the fun for me too.  But it changes things up, too - the original dialogue can actually be (intentionally) hilarious.  So when you're relying on the subtitles you don't get the jokes the way they were intended.  It's still fun but…

I speak OK Cantonese - enough to tell you that I'm not getting 95% of the jokes.  And the translations don't help because the jokes are mostly puns. So the translators usually change the dialogue up completely to make corny, obvious jokes that have little to do with original conversations.  This can make the already…

Ugly circular twin towers as album covers
Modest Mouse did it five years earlier on The Lonesome Crowded West (which shows the Seattle Westin).

Nothing wrong with looking at the faults of the Allies, and there were plenty. But those faults don't change the fact that they the regimes they defeated were much, much worse. Their cause was just, and if you believe otherwise contemplate for a few moments a world where the hegemonic powers had been Nazi Germany…

I know a lot of Brits who hated U-571 because it portrayed the Americans as capturing the Enigma machine when actually the Royal Navy first captured an Enigma machine in May 1941. But I digress…

OK, so you want to take 500 years of the history of all English-speaking people, talk about every bad thing they did, and then stack that up against Germany and Japan in WWII. Doing so of course ignores the fact that, by the 20th Century, the democracies, even the imperial ones, were relatively benign.

@ The Archmage of the Aether: No, the Allies weren't automatically good nor were the Axis were automatically evil. The Allies did some truly awful stuff, and there were some decent people fighting in the uniforms of Germany, Japan and Italy.

@SLS, I definitely agree that Lust/Caution had a pretty compelling atmosphere, although the glacial pacing left me a little cold. (I mean really did that part in Hong Kong really need to last over an hour?) But when it was good it was amazing, and I don't just mean the T&A.

@ SLS - I'll grant you that being inside the B-17s on Memphis Belle was pretty dang cool. The rest of the movie was terrible, though, just a pastiche of WWII cliches. And the party when they fly around the target for a second time to get a clean bomb run ranks right up there among the most egregiously inaccurate…

Andy Best, ask the people of Hong Kong and Singapore whether they liked living under your English empire or Japan's empire better. Ask yourself whether who the more noxious racist was: Churchill or Goebbels? If you can't distinguish degrees of evil, then you're the one who has failed to realise the basic meaning of…

Ugh, Memphis Belle was just unwatchable and I love airplane flicks. And while Enemy at the Gates had some decent battle scenes, it was overall a pretty muddled mess.

I actually thought the camp scene was one of the better scenes in BoB, even if it was fictional. I mean if you weren't affected when the German speaking paratrooper had to order the inmates back inside the just liberated death camp, you have no heart.

@Mr. fhtagn, I guess I no longer paean the Great Leader Kim Il-Sung. If you'd followed the link you might have gotten an idea why I was butchering the English language, but then I guess I wouldn't have gotten the free grammar lesson.

I paean the Great Leader, Kim Il Sung. True story. http://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

Shocking, huh? Her credibility as an artist is shot.

Another reason Celine Dion sucks
At about 1:15 in that video, there is a shot of a sunrise over Hong Kong. Except that if you live in Hong Kong, you know that the view in that shot is looking WEST, meaning that it's actually a sunset being played in reverse. And she thought we wouldn't notice. You suck, Celine, and…

Enkidum, I'm not demanding a simple message, it's just that the Project Mayhem portion of the movie stalls out. The first half of the show—watching the narrator break away from his world of IKEA and support groups was nothing short of thrilling. Perhaps the second part was supposed to be about the danger of…

Exactly. It could have gone so many interesting directions by trying to answer the questions it asked in the first half. It brings up interesting questions about materlialism, masculinity, violence and how we react to it all. But then it doesn't have the answers so instead it concludes with an unsatisfying love…

LIB, I'm guessing you're bankers/lawyers in Brooks Brothers suits who begin streaming into Midtown Manhattan bars around 5:30 every night, drinking Amstel Light, shouting things like "fucking Jeter, pull your head out!", and pumping your fists while singing/yelling "Johnnie used to work on the dock. Union's been on…

The Star Wars franchise should have stopped after that Christmas special—that was never going to be surpassed.