What the heck is with MTV and ruininng great works of literature, and Foreign movies? I thought that the remake of Wuthering heights was bad, but what they have come up with this time, takes the cake. MTV is buying the rights of a KOREAN movie called Volcano High, it’s about these kids that go to a high school for teenagers, that have super powers… The movie has a Harry potter feel to it, and seems pretty good IN KOREAN!!!
But MTV is dubbing the film with american actors, and is recording over the original soundtrack, with hip hop songs… Lord give me strength, I don’t think i’m going to survive this one…:smack:
Booooo! I watched it subtitled last month and it was great! In fact the translation astounded me. Usually Asian films tend to lose me with bad subtitling but not this time. Granted it loses a little something via cultural differences, but I recommend it…in it’s original Korean at least.
Not in the hip hop version though… It’s okay if they just want to dub it. But redo the whole sound track… Jpop is offended…
That was a cool movie, but never read the comics. Saw it at an International Film Fest this year. Quite frankly, some jokes won’t work in English (esp. the name thing with the long haired guy).
I hate dubbed Asian films, French/German films are passable since there’s some similarities between cultures, but normally they end up screwed up. For some reason, the subtitles tend to work better than voiceovers.
Dissapointed to hear about the change of soundtrack. The overwrought rock/guitar riffs really worked for that film.
Oh, and lovers of bizzare Asian movies should check out ‘Battle Royale’ too.
I had a dream not long after seeing this that Volcano High was the first in a series of said, ‘High’ films. The second being ‘Robot High’ and the third being ‘Monster High’.
Sadly twas just a dream, and I’ll never get to see the other schools in the district where they study disciplines other than fighting!
Oh, and I highly recommend the HK release of Volcano High on DVD. The video clips for the band that did the soundtrack (-phew- that’s a hell of a sentence) a GREAT!
Yeah Battle Royale is a really cool book, i’m getting the dvd for christmas… And what a happy christmas it will be.
I’m in a writing club and the writing assignment for the week was crossovers of anything you draw out of a hat. I got Battle Royale, and my little pony it’s not finished yet but, my friends say it’s hilarious.