Cinema

Thor was good but I don't know why it was in 3D, Thor didn't even throw his hammer out of the screen. Isn't that the most obvious thing to do? Pirates of the Caribbean was also in 3D, but I didn't wear the glasses for most of the movie and it was actually in 2D most of the time. This didn't seem fair considering the 3D movie tickets are 80% more expensive. The Transformers trailer was in 4D - it was so loud and offensive, I felt like I was being raped from four sides.

I saw Thor on opening night and there were 5 people in the screening. I watched Pirates 4 in maybe its third week of release and the screening was completely full. This is probably because Pirates 4, being a Disney movie, had a Japanese dub (and no one knows what a Thor is.)

I wonder if Pirates of the Caribbean would be as successful in Japan if it didn't get the Disney dub. Probably not, because few people prefer to watch movies with subtitles. International trailers for Spanish movies usually have no dialogue in them, an intentional omission by the movie companies because they know people will likely be turned off by the subtitles.

Then hipsters on YouTube call everyone idiots for not watching Pan's Labyrinth due to the subtitles. When Pan's Labyrinth is released on DVD it has an English dub in order to make it more accessible to subtitle averse idiots. But then hipsters criticise the existence of the English dub, despite supposedly wanting everyone to see the film.

Maybe Japanese audiences will never hear what Johnny Depp sounds like as Jack Sparrow, but they are seeing the film and that's what matters, right?

Toy Story 3 was interesting too, the Japanese voice actors did press appearances promoting the movie and some kids (hopefully not adults) were likely convinced that the Japanese dub is the original. But Toy Story 3 was amazing and if a Japanese dub posing as the original got more kids to watch it then I'm happy.

I thought about all this whilst watching Pirates of the Caribbean. I didn't concentrate on the film because it totally sucked.

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