Star Wars: Backstroke of the West
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i saw revenge of the sith last weekend at a local theater with my friend joe who was in town on business. it was much better than the first two movies and a fitting end (err.. middle) to the star wars saga.
the next day i was walking past my friendly dvd salesperson and decided to check out the revenge of the sith. i was assured the quality was good and for 7rmb why not give it a shot.
aside from the counters on the top of the screen and a distorted perspective it was ok- not high quality but watchable. the captions were a direct english translation of the chinese interpretation of what the script was saying. it varied from being somewhat close to the script to being 'far far away'....
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amazingly enough, the beginning scroll is mistranslated even though the words are right there on the screen!
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'the backstroke of the west' is the english translation of the chinese title, which i'm not entirely sure is the 'official' title.
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count dooku talks tough.
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that's chancellor palpatine speaking, talking about obi wan.
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general grevious gets some bad news.
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the general considers punishing his troops.
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sounds like something yoda might acually say... maybe.
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troopseses!!!
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anakin gets frustrated with the jedi council.
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this seemed completely random until i figured out that 'jedi council' was being translated into chinese then back to english as 'the presbyterian church'.
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i won't post any spoiler screen shots for those who haven't seen the movie yet- this is a memorable scene towards the end of the film. needless to say, obi wan wasn't actually speaking like yoda in this scene.