If you're planning on buying Slumdog Millionaire
Don’t! I just put the DVD in to watch the special features, since I’ve seen the movie twice recently. It advertises a making-of featurette, commentary, 12 deleted scenes, and More! Unfortunately, Fox screwed up and sent out discs where the only special feature on the disc is trailers for other movies. Fox has already set up a hotline for a replacement disc, but any DVD on the shelf now may be screwed up. So save yourself the hassle I’m about to go through trying to get a replacement
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Second time in the last month I’ve been ripped off by a movie studio putting out DVDs. I’ve been dying to see Let The Right One In, so I picked up the DVD and was about to watch it, to find an article showing how the studio replaced the original theatrical subtitles with a dumbed down version, I guess for us dumb Americans. They’re going to fix that too, but unfortunately if you bought it already you’re SOL.
You should have posted earlier. Hutch and I just watched Let the Right One In the other night… I wouldn’t have sent it back (via Netflix). It may be dumbed down, but at least it would have been free.
Also, Hutch and I noticed a striking disparity between the dubbed words and the subtitles. We knew one of them was lying to us. I guess now we know which. A shame, since the American voice acting was terrible (as usual).
I told you the subtitles were wrong! The dub quoted The Hobbit correctly, whereas the subtitles did not.
Yeah, here’s the original article on Let The Right One In with tons of screen shots for examples:
http://iconsoffright.com/news/2009/03/let_the_wrong_subtitles_in_to.html
I blame Sammy and his insistence upon subtitles for my not liking that movie even more than I did.
Well, I’ll give them props for one thing. I received my replacement DVD less than 24 hours after I requested a new one. Left California at 9pm and got to my house at 9:30am.