They do this? You are yanking me chain!
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Find and replace “ou” with “o”?
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There are a few rules and spellings which make it easy enough - I just don’t understand why anybody would bother. Then again, I also bang my head trying to understand why anyone would pay the extra money to remake a UK television series in the English language for US markets instead of simply showing the original. The series already exists, so wouldn’t the profits be greater? ACK!
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Born on the Fourth of July? Rain Man? The Color of Money?
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Never seen:
Avatar, Titanic, any movie starring Rajinikanth in its entirety (this must be fixed), the wire, the sopranos, or anything by Kurosawa.
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for one thing many british shows run on seasons of 6-8 episodes, for another thing british standards for language and nudity are not as restrictive as the ones on broadcast for the u.s. finally, large minorities of the u.s audience want characters that sound “american.”
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Paging Dr @penguinchris…
Kurosawa is someone I’ve been trying to catch up on in recent years. Hadn’t seen any until a couple of years ago, but they’re fantastic.
Who?
(I guess I should add Indian cinema to my list).
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Grimlins
American Pie
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British series have short seasons, though. The whole UK run of The Office is, what, 12 episodes, whereas the US run was nine seasons of over 20 episodes each. How is a US TV Channel going to make much money from a show that can’t even fill one US season?
Edit to add: Never watched the US version of The Office. Disinclined to try and catch up with it now.
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i read that when i was around 16 or 17 and thought it was an immensely evil book with ridiculous characters. several years later i read about someone in the reagan administration who thought that book was a guide to life and government. so i read it again and felt that it was enormously evil as a philosophy. i’ve since heard many republican and “libertarian” politicians exclaim how important that book was to their political point of view so i read it about once a decade to remind myself why so many republicans and “libertarians” are so fucked up.
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I think this is my issue with US TV. I see that there are 100 episodes and I give up before I get started.
I borrowed Arrested Development from the library, but I couldn’t face binge watching so much in a really short period of time so I’ve only seen a few episodes.
Oddly, I have seen the US House of Cards but not the UK one (I have read the book, though).
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Those things were a bit tricky to adapt. On one level all of that is faithful to the books, but much of it is only barely shown even by book standards. And something that doesn’t come across as well (although, to its credit, the show does try on occasion) is the deconstruction angle that is a huge part of the books.
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I did too! Part of it was a sort of reader’s pride, a determination just to read the whole thing. Then I carried on with The Fountainhead. Part of it also was just trying to figure out what was so “great” about them.
Ugh. I guess pride wenth before the waste of time (or something).
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That speaks to your character.
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I have House of Cards, and the UK miniseries one, in my Netflix list, but I don’t know when I’ll have time for it. I’m a huge Kevin Spacey fan, but I just don’t have time to get caught up on 4 seasons.
I’ve also never seen Big Bang Theory even though essentially everyone of my coworkers says I need to.
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Oh gawd, I hope not!
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Not trying to sell you on it, or suggest you’d like it. But the women are basically running the show by the end of season six.
ETA: I’ve done that too. I’m compulsive about finishing books I start, so once I’m more than a few pages in, I’ll drag myself through the torment. I did that same thing with Atlas Shrugged, but at least I learned never to start anther Rand novel.
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If GoT doesn’t make you nauseous, then you have deep, deep seated issues.
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Same here, if giving up after ten minutes of one episode counts. It was the laugh track that especially put me off. I hate being reminded when I’m supposed to laugh.
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I know I’m something of an anomaly, but I never have much of an emotional reaction to fake violence. I think it’s a defense mechanism. I hated getting surprised as a kid when I’d see horror films, so I’d just keep my attention split between the screen and my own immediate environment, so when something scary happened it was just a bit of light and noise coming from the screen. I did that for so long that now I can’t disengage the part of my brain that sees scripted choreography and special effects, even if I don’t know how it works. But if I ride past a dead squirrel on the road or see news footage of a real disaster, I get nauseous. Odder still, I can lose myself fully in a book, but not a screen. I think it’s because I’m in control of the reading experience, but just a passive audience for the screen. Plus, I’m rarely not doing something else while I’m watching a TV show or movie, making it easy to keep the action at arms length.
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