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Peter Jackson is making The Hobbit
TheFuriousWombat:
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--- Quote from: TheFuriousWombat on 19 Dec 2007, 21:13 ---Probably. He's not a very good director. After all he's recently made War of the Worlds, The Terminal, Minority Report and AI. The 2000s are not treating him well and I don't see why this should change things. He hasn't made a decent movie in almost a decade.
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Munich
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This had some good scenes but it was overwrought and had a number of scenes that a better director could have handled with more delicacy and thus to greater effect. The flashback scenes, for example, not only made little sense since Bana's character wasn't there but they were also the antithesis of subtlety. Basically I found Munich to have moments of tension built into a messy framework.
--- Quote from: n0t_r0bert_b0yle!! on 19 Dec 2007, 23:04 ---Then how do you propose that we Anglophones aught to pronounce it?
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Well I can't type it out phonetically. It's less a 'Tin' sound and more a 'Tan' sound but...French sounding. I don't mean to be a dick about this but I just think people ought to pronounce these things correctly. It's not like we can't form those sounds so why shouldn't we? There's no need to anglicize something like this.
Orbert:
Actually, studies have shown pretty much the opposite to be true. Within the first few years of life, most people have heard just about every sound in their native language, and within the next few, they will learn to properly reproduce these sounds. The ability to pronounce vowels and consonants specific to another language becomes much, much harder for most people as time goes on. That's why people can live in, say, the United States for 30 years, speaking primarily English the whole time, and still have a distinct accent. Without specific coaching/training, they will never quite get the pronunciation the same as a native speaker, because their mouth was "trained" at an early age to produce different sounds.
Scandanavian War Machine:
burn
CloudyObsession:
I love TinTin. And now I can read TinTin in French.
Anywho, I've always been a Tolkien fan (I'm reading LotR for about the sixth time this winter), and a decent live-action Hobbit has long since been in order.
As far as a sequel, that makes me want to kill children.
Boro_Bandito:
Wow, its incredible ho much this thread has been completely derailed by a boy and his dog...
Over here, there was a show called RinTinTin, or something like it, on Cartoon Network. I'm assuming its the same character, don't remember much about it...
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