![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
::chews on her MST3K: The Movie DVD:
May. 13th, 2008 11:12 pmI got my MST3K movie DVD! It's just dawned on me that I've waited half my life to own a DVD of this - I first saw the movie when I was 12 and I'm now 24. It's super barebones - no extras, not even chapter stops. Wait, that's a lie - there's one strange extra...
So, how change up a movie you've watched like... a million times before?
Switch on the French language track!
Yes, they dubbed the Mystery Science Theater movie into French at some point. There's a German dub as well, but that was already known to the fandom and wasn't included (said German dub has a strange fan following over there that caused some wank a while back). There's someone translating the French jokes on the big fandom message board and many of them are baffling. Or really literal.
"Ah, POOPIE!" turns into "Excréments!", for example. That one I could make out on my own.
From the board translations: "Sissy cat. I could take you too!" is dubbed into "That cat is back. I hope he won't barf on us again!"
So. I'm curious as to why this dub exists. The movie tanked in the North American market. It's based on a TV series that would have only been broadcast in the US at this point.
Now excuse me as I return to the land of 12-year-old fangirl joy. I'm going to curl up in his sock drawer and sleep for days.
So, how change up a movie you've watched like... a million times before?
Switch on the French language track!
Yes, they dubbed the Mystery Science Theater movie into French at some point. There's a German dub as well, but that was already known to the fandom and wasn't included (said German dub has a strange fan following over there that caused some wank a while back). There's someone translating the French jokes on the big fandom message board and many of them are baffling. Or really literal.
"Ah, POOPIE!" turns into "Excréments!", for example. That one I could make out on my own.
From the board translations: "Sissy cat. I could take you too!" is dubbed into "That cat is back. I hope he won't barf on us again!"
So. I'm curious as to why this dub exists. The movie tanked in the North American market. It's based on a TV series that would have only been broadcast in the US at this point.
Now excuse me as I return to the land of 12-year-old fangirl joy. I'm going to curl up in his sock drawer and sleep for days.
