::chews on her MST3K: The Movie DVD:

[teddog]

I 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.

Comments

[commanderteddog.livejournal.com]

Actually, my timeline was off - I saw the movie from a rental in 1997, not 1996.

HA! They might have been looking for us at one point. I didn't steal the tape, but I returned a damaged one, which lead to me getting my own copy.

OH! Wait! I think I remember this store now. I don't remember the Doctor Who videos, but I remember a store that carried geeky stuff - might have become a kids store later?

Silver Snail was too far away from the main clump of stores, I think. It was kinda off on its own.

I remember the Eaton Centre and Jackson Square right before it tanked hard. Probably right before that woman was killed in the mall, I think, which was the start of the end. Things like the old food court, the Eaton Centre having decent stores, Jackson's Square having TWO bookstores and a Marks and Spencer's. The Central Library still makes me feel warm and fuzzy - I have a big soft spot for brutalist architecture. It doesn't feel harsh or cold. It's comforting. I love how the stairs are kinda all over the place, how the windows reach up to the sky, the blue tiles on the first floor, that neon and steel art piece. All of it makes me happy.

Right now, though, the rest of that complex is depressing. Hey, I have two questions for you about old school Jackson's Square. One - what was that sitdown restaurant by what's now the new food court and the fitness club? It's an old style of restaurant-in-a-mall, having windows and this wood paneling separating it from the rest of the mall. Two - was the fitness club always a fitness club? I know there's an entrance over by the outside entrance to the library, but I recall something almost like a patio being there back in 1994/1995, but whatever it was, it was long closed. These were before my time, so I'm curious.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

OH! Wait! I think I remember this store now. I don't remember the Doctor Who videos, but I remember a store that carried geeky stuff - might have become a kids store later?

I think that could well be the one!

Silver Snail was in mini-clump of cool stores for the longest time. Next door was The Book Villa, which at that time was a very cool bookstore, with a huge SF section. It also sold the most esoteric magazines, stuff like UFO Universe and Soldier of Fortune. Now it's basically a variety store with a large magazine rack. Also nearby Rock'N Tees, back when it wasn't just a glorified head shop.

I confess I have the same feeling for "Brutalitarian" architecture, because that's what buildings were like when I was a kid. In the 90s, things suddenly started being pastel. The Hamilton Eaton's Centre is a perfect example of that, actually.

Whenever I come back to Canada across the Buffalo border crossing, I get a little weird warm glow when I see the big sweeping, concrete border booths on the Canadian side. It's toally Trudeau-era Canadiana, and it reminds of being a kid. It almost seems to say "Come home, weary traveller, return to the warm Socialist embrace of Mother Canada!" ;)

The restaurant was the "Elephant and Castle," which is a minor chain of pub-style restaurants that lie somewhere between Swiss Chalet and Kelsey's in terms of food and price. The one at Jackson Square wasn't very good. velvetpage and I had lunch there, after I bought her a promise ring in 1995.

As for the health club, I'm sure it was something else, but for the life of me, I can't remember what.

[commanderteddog.livejournal.com]

More Eaton Centre remembrances: Do you remember the Ben and Jerry's?

Hee. Thus proving how young I am, I don't remember Rock'N Tees before it was a head shop. I do very vaguely remember that Silver Snail was by an old movie theater, an Odeon twin, I think?

The pastel thing was kinda odd. I like some aspects of it, like the skylights and the glass elevators. The problem with it, at least in what I feel, is that the light colours degrade quickly when the mall starts going downhill. In blunt terms, the pastel is too sterile and it gets dirty too fast, unlike the warmer earthy tones of the 1970s and 1980s and the grays that were common in the 1980s. For example, I think that Centre Mall rotted more gracefully than the Eaton Centre did, even through they almost pull from the same pool of colours. The Eaton Centre was on the lighter end of the pastels, unlike Centre Mall, which was more gray with a mix of the earth tones, especially in the old food court.

My heart is in late 1980s Southwestern Ontario. I can't begin to explain to you why this is, other than it is what it is. So, I dig concrete and... uh... honestly, whatever Expo 67's architecture was called. Space age? Add in a touch of 1970s/1980 mall design and that's my ideal world. It would look like a fusion of the Hamilton Central library, Ontario Place and some mix of Square One and the Toronto Eaton Centre. X)

Ah! Thanks. I was always curious about that restaurant. No worries about the health club. It's hard to dig up info on Jackson Square - the mall doesn't even have a website.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

...that Silver Snail was by an old movie theater, an Odeon twin, I think?

Not directly - there was one sort of around the corner, which I believe was indeed an Odeaon. I saw a Bugs Bunny movie there around 1983, and I think I saw a double-feature of Star Wars and Empire there for my 7th birthday in 1981. In any case, we had dinner before the movie at The Old Spec, which was this great buffet restaurant downtown in the old Spectator building. They had a lot of old printing press equipment about.

I can't begin to explain to you why this is, other than it is what it is.

It's where you were a kid. It represents a period in your life that was (I assume) safe and free from responsibility. Even people with fairly bad childhoods (like, people growing up in WII Europe) experience this. My dad has dreams about Holland just after WWII, and how happy he was to get some sugar on a piece of bread for his birthday.