http://techdirt.com/articles/20100420/1303349118.shtml

Quality

I think Bratty bought it after seeing the clips

The absolute best one is unfortunately long gone... with Hitler complaining about all the Downfall parodies on the net!

"I'm a serious actor, Godd*nm it!... F*cking Youtube..."

That was a good one, one of my personal favourites was when M$ cancelled his XBLA account

Constantin probably thinks that it will help sales. It will probably have the opposite effect as it no longer is in the public eye. Also it is only one scene that is repeatedly parodied. People will have have to rent or buy the movie to see the rest of the film.

Well, I bought the movie after seeing so many parodies. What's more, I bought it twice, because I accidentally bought the one that isn't even subtitled in English, so I've got two copies

Big_D, do you want the German one? It's no use to me!

And, for the record, it is EXCELLENT.

Already have a copy, thanks anyway.

It is a very good and thought provoking film.

For me, the biggest problem was always that I understood the speech, the first time, I got really confused!

I did wonder how german speakers coped with the differing text and trying to ignore the dialogue.

It's even worse if they dub it. I speak fairly basic Italian (i.e. I can get by as a tourist but I wouldn't want to try to hold a conversation with a native) and when the Italian football was on TV and they were interviewing a player, they'd leave the player's speech (which was usually in Italian) on and dub an English translation over it. So I'd get about every third word in Italian that I could understand crashing into the English translation. It was like two people talking to me at once. Gave me a headache.

There was a funny interview with Freddie Michalak a few years back immediately after an international rugby match, where he was talking through a translater who was speaking over the top of him. At one point the answer he gave in french was along the lines of "just tell them anything that'll keep them happy, I've had enough of this poop"

I've been to Italy a few times and that IS a standard Italian conversation.

When I was in Sweden I would go to the cinema and watch American films with Swedish subtitles. My Swedish is not that great, but I can read it better than listening to it.

Just about every news program and BBC documentary that gets shown over here has that. It is really annoying, I get half the conversation in English, half in German and I end up not understanding anything!

I wish they would either dub and remove the original voice or subtitle the interviews!

I wish they'd be consistent, too.

There's a trend nowadays for anyone with a reasonably thick accent to be subtitled. Even if they're speaking English. It drives me nuts. I find it only takes a short while to "acclimatise" to an accent, but producers now treat us all like gibbering idiots.

To be fair to the producers, vast swathes of the population do indeed appear to be gibbering idiots.

But by pandering to them, the quality lowers. Everything is now couched in terms so low even an amoeba can follow, and it alienates those of us who have more than two active brain cells. Treat the viewer/listener with a bit of respect, and assume we might actually already know what you're talking about. If we don't we can go look it up, or switch over to a soap or some idiot reality show.