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I still haven't seen episode 3. But I think after watching the others so many times growing up, I never really got into the new ones.

Edited, Jul 22nd 2011 11:49am by someproteinguy

I can totally agree with this statement.

RIGHT? Thanks for taking one of the most iconic villains in movie history and making him a pansy *** teenager who misses his mommy. I mean, really? The story of a fall to the dark side could be so cool. "Wah, I dreamed that my wife was going to die... so I'm gonna kill all these children" never really made sense to me.

Shia LeBeouf and Hayden Christensen need to both be dropped into vats of corrosive acid.

Omg this.

Honestly, part of the problem was the story lines too. I mean, the movies would have been way better without the awful casting choices, but the stories had problems. Like protein said, they tried to pack too much in (which is already an issue if a quarter of the movie is going to be jedi battles).

Consider episode 5 (which is clearly the best in the series--*waves hand* you agree with me, move along). The WHOLE plot boils down to:

-Opening scene on Hoth, intended to show Han and Leia's growing attractions, how much the trio have come to care about each other, and Luke's growing Jedi powers.

This proceeds to be the plot of the whole movie. And it was awesome.

So...WoW is going to be officially released here, it seens. And translated.
I checked some of the names and words. Urgh. Names shouldnt be translated, honestly.
Lady Sylvanna Windrunner becoming "Dama Corredora dos Ventos Silvana" just...urgh.

Unless they turn into something unexpectedly humorous. In that case they should be translated and then changed again later once everyone has had a good laugh.

Yeah, I won't raise my children in Dutch/Gujarati even if I could, that much is clear. I just wish that I'd been brought up in German/Russian or something, and I know a few people who have only been brought up in the country's language and not their parents' other language(s), and don't think it's good.
I would teach them the other languages later on (and before they're ~12 or so) if it makes some sense, but not from the start. I also might end up having them take Arabic lessons should it become relevant. I personally wish I'd gotten them as a child when I wanted to; similarly I'll give my children the opportunity to learn the languages they fancy if they express a strong interest and don't start a new one every few months.




The funny thing is that the only somewhat significant Muslim sect that has vastly different customs in reality (Sufis) is the one not involved in any wars. The Sunni vs Shia conflicts are mostly about which family has power; In Bahrain it gives the royal family an opportunity to a) suppress the masses and b) receive powerful allies with Saudi Arabia and UAE, for example, when the actual religious conflict is really not all that relevant. It's of course always been like that with religious wars, the motives tend to be related to something completely secular.
It's of course not as simple as that but a lot of the stuff going on is totally against Sharia in my opinion and these people really don't have that much credibility when you try to base their actions on scripture.

In Europe there's not much conflict because no one really cares about any religion at all. Most European countries have a strict policy of either ignoring that people want to live out their beliefs at all, or "respecting everyone" for the sake of public image and political correctness.
This all gets to be a bit different when you notice the Libertas/Freedom parties that have started cropping up everywhere and seem to have virtually no policy beyond some very broad undifferentiated Islamophobia. Bleh.



Edit: re: names
I agree they shouldn't be translated. Actually on a similar note to the children thing, I've been trying hard to think of a name I could give a child that could be pronounced by my parents and wouldn't end up completely ridiculous sounding in whichever country I'd potentially raise children in. Meh.
Although the Dutch version of Harry Potter is totally lulzy.

Edited, Jul 23rd 2011 6:13am by Kalivha

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Ghost Stories had a great dub. The anime itself is really boring, and the people doing the translation into English knew that, so they just said **** it and redid the entire script and instead of a "scary" story turned it into a comedy. It's one of the few (if only) animes I suggest people watch dubbed instead of subbed. The DVDs have the usually options. Regular subs so you can watch the actual anime, the comedy script sub so you can watch with the original voices but the humorous script, and the dub with the humorous script.

It's official now!

I just bought Mafia 2 today and I'm loving it. I've just gotten past the very beginning of the game though, I'm in chapter 4 or something.
It's only my second game on playstation 3 and the graphics are just amazing to me.

The city, Empire Bay I think it is, is awesome and the game's athmosphere is awesome.
I love driving around in the old cars and listening to old music. I loved that they had kept the songs from Mafia in the radio, I remember laughing my *** off at one of the songs back in the day when I played the first game.
I recommend the game to everyone.