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Cipher13 · Mar 16, 2004, 04:12 AM

WTF? I just got the DVD today, and Pizza Hut has replaced Taco Bell. Any mention of Taco Bell has been altered by a voiceover to Pizza Hut; I've not yet reached the point where they actually visit "Taco Bell", but... what the hell?

Cipher13 · Mar 16, 2004, 04:17 AM

Yep, they've even changed the logo to the Pizza Hut one.

Though they missed the decals on the window, which still have the Taco Bell symbol...

Lateralus · Mar 16, 2004, 04:21 AM

...Why?

rjenkinson · Mar 16, 2004, 04:25 AM

Originally posted by PowerMacMan:
...Why?

because...

-r.

Cipher13 · Mar 16, 2004, 04:27 AM

Thanks for that. That was my first thought, but then I dismissed it, as Taco Bell is present here too... isn't it in Europe?

Either way, it's bloody annoying.

- - e r i k - - · Mar 16, 2004, 04:30 AM

This was done on the original release. The version I saw in 1996 had Pizza Hut. I didn't notice any irregularities, but then again it wasn't a very memorable movie though

rjenkinson · Mar 16, 2004, 04:36 AM

Originally posted by - - e r i k - -:
This was done on the original release. The version I saw in 1996 had Pizza Hut. I didn't notice any irregularities, but then again it wasn't a very memorable movie though

no irregularities? apparently, you see stallone eat a taco at "pizza hut."

-r.

Lateralus · Mar 16, 2004, 04:39 AM

So stupid... I'm almost tempted to buy the movie to see that.

- - e r i k - - · Mar 16, 2004, 04:39 AM

Originally posted by rjenkinson:
no irregularities? apparently, you see stallone eat a taco at "pizza hut."

-r.

I could care less what he was eating where. It was a mediocre movie and it's been eight years since I saw it. They may have changed the place of eating, but since we had neither Taco Bell nor Pizza Hut in Norway at the time I could care less. I did get the "in the future the fancy restaurant is a Pizza Hut (or Taco Bell)" joke though.

philzilla · Mar 16, 2004, 04:47 AM

Originally posted by - - e r i k - -:
This was done on the original release. The version I saw in 1996 had Pizza Hut. I didn't notice any irregularities, but then again it wasn't a very memorable movie though

quit thinking everything you see/do is the original version. duh. learn manners. cipher passes things on to -r, and i get scraps from -r. you get what i'm to lazy to notice.

where the **** is Norway again? is that the one that looks like a limp dick?

- - e r i k - - · Mar 16, 2004, 04:55 AM

Originally posted by - - e r i k - -:
This was done on the original european release. The version I saw in 1996 had Pizza Hut. I didn't notice any irregularities, but then again it wasn't a very memorable movie though

Fixed.

- - e r i k - - · Mar 16, 2004, 05:00 AM

Originally posted by philzilla:
where the **** is Norway again? is that the one that looks like a limp dick?

It's the one right next to you that supplies you with all the good football-players

Cipher13 · Mar 16, 2004, 05:13 AM

Originally posted by philzilla:
where the **** is Norway again? is that the one that looks like a limp dick?

This must be made into a Norway shirt

/me begins work

Originally posted by - - e r i k - -:
This was done on the original release. The version I saw in 1996 had Pizza Hut. I didn't notice any irregularities, but then again it wasn't a very memorable movie though

Didn't notice the Taco Bell decals on the windows? The dubbing?

BTW: Demolition man rocks.

philzilla · Mar 16, 2004, 05:31 AM

Originally posted by - - e r i k - -:
It's the one right next to you that supplies you with all the good football-players

tell it to someone who fives a **** about football, nyah

and, yes, it IS a good movie. i love it.

dillerX · Mar 16, 2004, 06:41 AM

voodoo · Mar 16, 2004, 08:00 AM

Originally posted by philzilla:

where the **** is Norway again? is that the one that looks like a limp dick?

Your souped out cranium is thinking about Sweden. I wouldn't.

You stupid French people

Liverpool is in France right?

Oneota · Mar 16, 2004, 08:47 AM

Originally posted by PowerMacMan:
So stupid... I'm almost tempted to buy the movie to see that.

Since you're in Tulsa, you'd get the Region 1 DVD, which most likely has Taco Bell instead of Pizza Hut. I think it was only the overseas markets which suffered from the editing.

Cipher13 · Mar 16, 2004, 08:52 AM

Our VHS and TV versions are unedited, though, which is strange.

It's on on Friday or Saturday night, so I'll have to watch to make sure...

Anyway, I'll take a few clips of the dubbing/compositing for those who wanna see it.

andi*pandi · Mar 16, 2004, 08:55 AM

Taco Bell is just funnier sounding than pizza hut. It's not like it's complimentary to taco bell, they are kind of slamming it, so I don't see why they'd go to so much trouble to dub/edit in Pizza Hut.

Resume your amusing insults.

Spheric Harlot · Mar 16, 2004, 09:11 AM

Originally posted by Cipher13:
Didn't notice the Taco Bell decals on the windows? The dubbing?

BTW: Demolition man rocks.

Nobody would notice those here, since there IS NO Taco Bell. And the dubbing doesn't really cut through the German synchronization.

And I liked Demolition Man too. Not enough to buy the DVD, but it was fun.

-s*

Eug Wanker · Mar 16, 2004, 10:28 AM

That truly is lame, even if Europe has no Taco Bell.

scaught · Mar 16, 2004, 01:24 PM

someone call sylvester stallone and tell him theres a thread with TWENTY + replies in it about demolition man.

voodoo · Mar 16, 2004, 01:34 PM

Originally posted by scaught:
someone call sylvester stallone and tell him theres a thread with TWENTY + replies in it about demolition man.

har har har scotty

disectamac · Mar 16, 2004, 02:26 PM

speaking of changing movies to accommodate different cultures. I think it kind of sucks that other countries get really crappy translations from American movies. I'm talking about subtitling. It's horrible in some cases. Words get lost in translation, some words don't even get bothered to be translated and sometimes entire sentences are left out. It takes away so much from a movie.

It happens often the other way around too. I've seen foreign films that are translated horribly into english. I'll sit and listen to conversations in a movie and at the same time read subtitling that is not even close to what the characters are really saying.

ghost_flash · Mar 16, 2004, 02:36 PM

Maybe because now Taco Bell has Pizza Huts in them? They want t piece of the product placement pie.

http://www.ci.mocity.tx.us/news/2003...%20Hwy%206.JPG

mitchell_pgh · Mar 16, 2004, 02:51 PM

I'm just waiting for the Wizard of Oz where Dorothy is drinking a Coke and eating a McDonalds happy meal...

She will fly a Hover vacuum sweeper, the shoes will be Nike, etc. etc.

ghost_flash · Mar 16, 2004, 02:57 PM

Originally posted by mitchell_pgh:
I'm just waiting for the Wizard of Oz where Dorothy is drinking a Coke and eating a McDonalds happy meal...

She will fly a Hover vacuum sweeper, the shoes will be Nike, etc. etc.

They did do an M&M's commercial with the Wizard of Oz...

http://ad-rag.com/108146.php

Spheric Harlot · Mar 16, 2004, 03:30 PM

Originally posted by disectamac:
speaking of changing movies to accommodate different cultures. I think it kind of sucks that other countries get really crappy translations from American movies. I'm talking about subtitling. It's horrible in some cases. Words get lost in translation, some words don't even get bothered to be translated and sometimes entire sentences are left out. It takes away so much from a movie.

It happens often the other way around too. I've seen foreign films that are translated horribly into english. I'll sit and listen to conversations in a movie and at the same time read subtitling that is not even close to what the characters are really saying.

Subtitles are a special case, because there usually isn't enough time to read the entire text and still watch the movie.

what I always find embarrassing is when it's obvious that the translators simply didn't understand what was being said. In German-synchronized Simpsons episodes, you can take virtually any line that doesn't work at all in German, translate it literally back to English, and work out exactly what they misunderstood - partly phonetically, partly because they simply didn't have the cultural background to understand a joke.

My favorite is actually in "Kindergarten Cop", where they mistranslate the Gettysburg Address (of all things to **** up!) as "Four hundred and seven years ago..."
This on a major Hollywood production; that just kills me everytime.

-s*

Judge_Fire · Mar 16, 2004, 03:49 PM

Originally posted by disectamac:
speaking of changing movies to accommodate different cultures. I think it kind of sucks that other countries get really crappy translations from American movies. I'm talking about subtitling. It's horrible in some cases.

Subtitling beats dubbing, though.

I'm grateful that this country never resorted to that - people up here actually speak and understand english quite well and I'd attribute it to the exposure.

Is the Schwarzenegger Presidential Library still in the film, BTW?

J

Cipher13 · Mar 16, 2004, 04:08 PM

Originally posted by Judge_Fire:
Is the Schwarzenegger Presidential Library still in the film, BTW?

J

That part used to be funny... now it's bloody hilarious

Spheric Harlot · Mar 16, 2004, 04:25 PM

Originally posted by Judge_Fire:
Subtitling beats dubbing, though.

I'm grateful that this country never resorted to that - people up here actually speak and understand english quite well and I'd attribute it to the exposure.

Size of the market probably has to do with that.

- - e r i k - - · Mar 17, 2004, 04:55 AM

Originally posted by Judge_Fire:
Subtitling beats dubbing, though.

I'm grateful that this country never resorted to that - people up here actually speak and understand english quite well and I'd attribute it to the exposure.

Agreed. One can get more out of a movie by reading subtitles than being distracted by out of sync audio and visuals.

Cadaver · Mar 17, 2004, 09:47 AM

Then I'm glad I have the original US DVD release - Taco Bell and all.

And yup, the reference to the Schwartzeneger Library is even funnier now!

Hugi · Mar 17, 2004, 02:07 PM

Originally posted by voodoo:
Your souped out cranium is thinking about Sweden. I wouldn't.

A better image:

- - e r i k - - · Mar 17, 2004, 02:46 PM

Originally posted by Hugi:
A better image:

That's a pretty limp rendition of Scandinavia...

tooki · Mar 17, 2004, 04:38 PM

I'll never look at a map of Western Europe the same way again...

Originally posted by Cipher13:
Thanks for that. That was my first thought, but then I dismissed it, as Taco Bell is present here too...

I hereby formally apologize to the Australian people for inflicting that culinary blight upon you.

(Sorry, I have little respect for meat that comes dried in a package labelled "add hot water" and "suitable for human consumption".)

tooki

voodoo · Mar 17, 2004, 07:30 PM

Originally posted by Hugi:
A better image:

Ya thanks. This Euro rendition of Scandinavia is really getting us a bad rep.

Morale is.. without Norway, Scandinavia is like a limp penis.

Yes.

wang_himself · Mar 18, 2004, 06:14 AM

With a captial F, **** product placement in movies