Your friends are going to movies to see a new asian movie and they ask you to come along and you answer: “Actually I bought the dvd two years ago. But okay, I wanna see on big screen”.
Someone asks you to come see an english language movie and you reply “No, I don’t want to have to listen the dialogue”.
You realize what the “schoolgirl fuss” is all about.
You refuse to watch dvds that don’t have mono track.
You hate Disney and want to kill the Weinstein brothers.
- You refer to japanese films with their original titles
You start buying foreign language movies without subtitles
You claim you can understand them without subtitles
You’re watching a japanese wip film and you can name all the actors who play the guards… and the prisoners
You feel the need to praise a film no one has ever heard of
You take pleasure of knowing people don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about
You greet your friends with a yakuza girl gang greeting
You use HK triad hand shake to confirm deals
You’ve given a serious though on buying a school uniform… even though they don’t use school uniforms in your country… and you’re no longer in school
You think Steven Seagal is cool because he went to Japan and married a japanese girl
You refer to japanese films with their original titles
You start buying foreign language movies without subtitles
You claim you can understand them without subtitles
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God, that sounds familiar. I usually say that I can tell by the body language and odd words.
[quote=“Hung Fist”]
You feel the need to praise a film no one has ever heard of
You take pleasure of knowing people don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about
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Haha, I do that all the time.
[quote=“Hung Fist”]
You’ve given a serious though on buying a school uniform… even though they don’t use school uniforms in your country… and you’re no longer in school
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Luckily, I had school uniforms in my country. All the other kids hate having uniforms, but I totally loved it. Too bad, I don’t go to school anymore.
-You start listening to Asian music, reading about Japanese fashion trends and reading all manner of translated Japanese books.
-People wonder why you love girly Japanese pop music and yet hate all pop music in English.
-People genuinely worry about your mental condition after you tell them about what you describe as the best Takashi Miike scenes.
-You actually like that people think you’re insane for watching Miike.
-Your brothers and sisters routinely tell people that you “don’t watch films in English” when they ask if you want to see a new movie.
-You cry when you encounter a Jackie Chan dub that doesn’t sound at all like Jackie Chan speaking English.
I think we should re-title this topic into “Facts of Asian movie fans”. Cause those are facts ;D
[quote=“Angel”]
-You cry when you encounter a Jackie Chan dub that doesn’t sound at all like Jackie Chan speaking English.
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You even cry when it’s Jackie himself doing the english dub. And yet you don’t mind none of Jackie’s cantonese and mandarin films prior to Police Story 3 feature his real voice…
[quote=“Hung Fist”]
I think we should re-title this topic into “Facts of Asian movie fans”. Cause those are facts ;D
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Tell me about it. It almost isn’t even funny. It makes me feel like a complete loser.
[quote=“Hung Fist”]
You even cry when it’s Jackie himself doing the english dub. And yet you don’t mind none of Jackie’s cantonese and mandarin films prior to Police Story 3 feature his real voice…
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Hahahaha, so true. Man, that just made me think how illogical I can sometimes be.
When you say to a friend (while watching a DVD in his house): “Can we please switch to Cantonese audio, because Mandarin gives me a headache!” ;D
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Assuming Cantonese is the intended audio of course. Even if most of the cast were really Mandarin speakers. Watching a Cantonese film in Mandarin is not an option.
