Coordinating their new lives and getting along won't be easy for Eric and Holly, but somewhere between the conflicting schedules and drastic lifestyle changes, the reluctant couple realizes that with a help from Sophie, they're starting to resemble a real family. Now, in order to raise Sophie right, this bickering pair must put their differences aside while mastering the fine art of parenthood. When their goddaughter Sophie's parents both perish in a tragic accident, Holly and Eric are informed that they were singled out as Sophie's caretakers in the event of an unforeseen disaster. Their first date was a nightmare, and now they're about to become a family. I hope he gets cast in more mainstream films in the future.Holly (Katherine Heigl) is a caterer whose career is just getting off the ground Eric (Josh Duhamel) directs sports for a major network. I must add in closing that Tomas Griffith really is a good actor. Sit back and let our boys win one for the Gipper. The good guys are invincible, the bad guys thoroughly expendable. The plot is the old “rescue my ‘Nam buddy from the rank jungle prison he’s being held in by the psychotic Communist general with thousands of troops under his command premise. It also looks like it had a generous budget, or at least a lot of cooperation from the Philippine army, judging by the amount of gunfights, soldiers, Armoured Personnel Carriers and explosions that feature throughout the film. “This B action movie is shot with a bit more competence than other films in the genre. Here’s a good example from the cover of a 8 kuai movie with the title “EVENTUALLY VIETNAM WAR”: instead of making something up in Chinglish. Some of the smarter (although lazy) guys in the DVD copying business seems to copy some text from e.g. I still think the original Backstroke of the West was the funniest, though. Related: If you liked the crazy English subtitles, a blog called Middle Kingdom Stories has made it a regular feature. More: There’s a Flickr group called Crappy Bootleg DVD Covers with more of the same (although not all necessarily funny). I got through about 20 minutes of it before I turned it off. In case there is any doubt, it is indeed a horrible movie. The movie’s full title is Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God. ![]() Note the quotes on the front at the bottom, and at top right (in red) on the back. Sometimes they choose less than favorable reviews to display prominently on the DVD jackets, however.īelow is just one example of this phenomenon. ![]() ![]() The more “professional” pirates often turn to movie reviews on the IMDb. I once saw an English synopsis on the back of a pirated DVD jacket that looked something like this: “Sfhtmcp hirncoae nsf doijwp sd dgv pmayq icbs ht yfksbn gxksmzbnc hfjr oisjgf tcwtq nsiv cpsj Fxhstr utn vgbgj doivpb mndlc jvnbh dyr.” You get the idea. This happens most often when the DVD jacket is created way before the DVD’s official release. However, it is also not unusual to find DVD jackets with English text thrown on for appearance only (why would Chinese customers care if the English synopsis is totally wrong?). In many cases the pirates do an extremely professional job, creating either an almost exact replica of the official release, or an original design which is hardly inferior to the official DVD release’s case design. Another source of pirated DVD amusement is the actual DVD jacket the pirates create to sell the movies on the streets. These are both pretty commonplace in China. I’ve talked about funny examples of pirated DVDs’ English subtitles and funny examples of pirated DVDs’ Chinese subtitles.
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