I noticed that in America, we seem to not do national releases of very many foreign movies from overseas in theaters. When was the last time we had a foreign movie that spoke entirely in a foreign language? Hidden Dragon, Crouching Tiger? That other movie with a dude on a boat with a tiger? Talking about the last 20-30 years up until streaming services.
I think the American entertainment industry is trying to keep americans isolated. So they can't see movies from other countries where they can compare it to American made movies. So we can't see how bad american made movies are. To keep us from seeing other cultures and to see their perspective.. to see that they don't use ugly goblinas or trannies or POC. If you watch a chinese, korean or japanese movie.. most of the cast are handsome or pretty/cute and are like 99.9% asian lol. Maybe our country will be less woke when we actually see what other cultures around the world is doing.
Even with streaming services (which i dont use since they are all woke as hell), last big name was Squid Games? After that not much foreign things that took off. Maybe that Shogun show, but its niche.
I also notice.. movies aren't butchered as badly with translations and localization when compared to video games. But that is for a different day hehe.
Parasite won Best Picture Oscar on the 9th of February in 2020 and pulled in over $50 million in the US alone and $260 million worldwide on a $12 million budget.
The film was entirely subtitled for non-Korean speakers and was the first non-English language film to ever win Best Picture in the Academy's history.
It might not have done Marvel or Avatar money but people out there, like me, found it easily enough and watched it in theatres.
If more people went to theatres to see it the free market means that more places would show it.
Hollywood if full of agendas but I don't think the foreign market is something they worry about because people would rather see a rom-com or pew-pew at the cinema and films like this just don't have the appeal to the masses.
Interesting film too, lots of nods to the class system and poverty while still being a comedy.
What you're seeing IS actually the problem and leads to the skewed results that alucard noticed. Make no mistake, "the free market" has very little to do with what movie wins the Academy Awards in any year, whether it's Parasite or anything else. Movies can and should appeal to their home audience. Hollywood and it's movie system is for Hollywood alone. (not even America reallly...) But what they pretend to do is be the definitive say in The Arts, and they pick and choose foreign hits or the latest immigrant star from Africa to highlight. It allows them to virtue signal while remaining the gatekeepers of culture. It's a release valve of perverse incentives that actually plasters over the free market and lets participants feel like they've gotten a satisfying taste of worldwide culture through the small sampling of approved curated products that managed to make it big in America.
If not for the incestuous Hollywood network stretching its tentacles over the entire globe and deciding what values to promote, we might actually have a global free market of cinema and random foreign films in Podunk USA, beyond arthouse anime.
You make a good argument that Hollywood looks after its own and is quite parochial about what flavour of diversity it wishes to highlight on any particular year.
I suppose the next step into looking into this 'Art' is how it is altered to suit markets such as the Middle East or China rather than retain its original form regardless.
If, for example, in the recent Star Wars trilogy the character of Finn was minimised in Chinese advertising then how artistic is it to have him more central in Western advertising and if the women kissing in the background after a big battle was removed from the Middle East versions then why does the West have to see something which might not gel with their religious outlooks?
I certainly don't have the answers but it does drive home that art/product question and how those producing it are colonialist in the areas where they wish to spread particular messages but restrict others. Does Hollywood consider itself too grand to force the concept of homosexuality into areas where that can have someone killed but belittle heterosexuals for not watching it in areas where they won't be killed?
I said Hollywood was parochial earlier because culture, and its advancement across the world, is a form of church (With all the trimmings of illicit sexual behaviours, drugs and rock'n'roll).
...Not to mention the wide availability of anime proves that if what OP is suggesting were true, it would be failing spectacularly.
I'd never heard of it until now and it seems to be well regarded on IMDb.
I'll give it a look into, thanks for the question that turned into a suggestion :)
Sorry I can't help you out with the answer yet.
Don't be silly, it's just gone up by about 100 times in my estimates now! LOL
When Funimation (Crunchyroll now) dubbed the third Rebuild of Evangelion movie, they deviated so much from the script that Hideaki Anno was royally pissed.
Actual line from their version: "I love the smell of LCL in the morning!"
Anno was SO angry, he demanded the entire English dub be re-recorded with a more accurate script. And it was...about three years later. Not sure if it's on disc, but I can verify that this redone script is the one on Amazon Prime Video, which I took the 30-day free trial to see.
Only the fourth movie left for me to see, as of this writing. I have that on disc, so I can cancel the Amazon Prime trial now. I don't see what Adamrises was so angry about so far...
My point is, we need more men like Hideaki Anno in the world.
Weirdly reminds me of when Hideo Kojima shit talked a "fan" bitching about the lack of gay representation in the Metal Gear Series... that was fuckin hysterical...
Did that guy PLAY Metal Gear Solid 3?
Also, when was this?
I can't remember exactly when it was, but it was featured on either this board or c/funny (probably both) at the time...he basically said something to the effect of "actually, there was a gay character in every metal gear game... you, the player"
Probably in certain cities or ones with large Asian populations but I haven’t seen one personally in the theater since Crouching Tiger
Godzilla minus one.
I think that might be a local thing or you just not noticing.
My local megachain has random anime movies playing weekly, from classics to current flavor, with dedicated showings to certain subbed foreign movies in small runs as they come out. And that's just the corporate one. The drive-in plays all sorts of random shit and the local theater competitor will squeeze in anything that's popular enough regardless of origin.
Now most don't know that because they don't advertise it at all except inside the fucking building itself and on their own dedicated section of a website, so you need to be proactive in checking to see if anything is available but it is there.
But I can watch almost any Miyazaki movie or Akira or even End of Eva or the FMA movie in theaters at some point during the year. Same with every Godzilla from Japan as it arrives and a bunch of them playing randomly, as well as a bunch of famous Samurai movies.
BECAUSE
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With our borders being what they are, even the english language movies need subs.
*Americans. And possibly Brits.
Not a thing here (anymore). Nor in non-Anglo Western Europe, though I guess we can argue that the French would hate it too, though for, ehem, vaguely different reasons (i.e. their hatred of the English language)...
there was the SpyxFamily movie recently, that's about all I can think of.
was it a nation wide release?
I know it was advertised on regular movie ticket outlets, so I think so. I saw at an IMAX theater.
Theaters are the ones who decide what gets into their theaters, if they think a foreign movie will do well in their theater they'll pay for a reel and show it.
So the theater in my small town won't, but one in Omaha might. I've been to a couple of showings of Spirited Away in theaters.
I am a normie when it comes to international films, and I'll just say that most of them have horrible advertising. I won't know of them for the longest time.
Don't you have Boutique Art House Cinemas there? We have quite a few in Australia that show plenty of foreign films - and also our local Industry indie films. We also have a dedicated Channel on Tv and Streaming which is remarkably good if you love foreign films. (SBS World Movies - I'm watching American Hustle on it right now)
I quit going to art house theaters and cinema since the start of the collapse. Venturing into the exceptionally disgusting exceptionally liberal infested part of the city, stepping over homeless and syringes, is just too much for me. Can't enjoy anything when I'm malding over the deliberate destruction of my country.
I remember going to an arthouse cinema in the Mission District of San Francisco (the Roxie, I believe), and being utterly appalled by the state of the subway/metro station we got off at, to go there...
This situation just doesn't exist, for the most part, outside the US. Arthouse cinemas are generally in the inner city, or, if they aren't, they're in "trendy" inner-city neighbourhoods, some of which have only gentrified relatively recently (Haga in Gothenburg, Trojborg in Aarhus, Carlton/Fitzroy in Melbourne), so, while there are definitely plenty of "liberals" around, sipping lattes and such, there definitely isn't the drug-and-crime-riddled situation you see in North America, with such places...
At least not visibly, anyway.
And make sure you're wearing your mask!
If it saves one life...
hey, if nothing else, at least the smell of your own bad breath is better than the smell of decaying civilization...
Yeah, that was exactly my point. You just worded it more clearly and specifically, ha.
bamboozler by name bamboozler by nature ;)
The biggest foreign film I can think of is Monkey King by a Chinese cinema. The second one was more fun than the first, and I'm sad the third never came out.
I have seen Bollywood films playing at theaters near me.
We see what they are doing within our own countries and yet still decide to import more street shitting, child raping, church burning, welfare queening, barbarian/pajeet/jihadi/cartel/dindus into our society.
You have to be willfully ignorant to still be woke in 2024.
Not a thing in Aus, interestingly…
I would say more than half of the movie trailers I see are foreign-language, probably solidly a third of the total shown on linear TV are subtitled, and they’re one of the few things I still go to the cinema to see (but I love European and Latin cinema, which, I suppose, makes me the target demographic).
One of the local multiplexes (in the most “multicultural” area) even shows regular Bollywood films, meaning there’s obviously demand for that. So… That’s definitely not the case here.
Sweden, as far as I could tell, was fairly similar. Though I focussed on film festivals and premieres, while there, so I’m not 100% sure what it’s like during “normal” times.
They seemed to like their arthouse stuff just as much as Aussies do, though. So I guess this more of an American thing…
Godzilla Minus One, which was less than six months ago. It also won an Academy Award for best visual effects...
Rikki-Oh is the only foreign movie I’ll ever need.
As a European I'd say because most foreign movies are trash. Stuff from around here is all just award bait, i.e. leftist propaganda or artsy trash.
I don't even want to watch the shit that's being made here. Why would anyone in the US (outside of leftist fart-huffers)?
You know usually its Americans who think the entire world is just them.
For most of us, "foreign" movies are Asian and Indian not European fart sniffers that only ever air at a film festival anyway.
I found some of my favorite films from watching foreign releases. have you seen Kung Fu Hustle for example?