miércoles, 30 de julio de 2008

Summer blockbusters available here

Don't feel sad for me, stuck out here in Guatemala and missing out on all the summer blockbuster movies. Okay, maybe feel a little sad for me, because the other day we watched a bootleg of Hancock, and the sound was so bad that we were pretty much relying on the subtitles in Spanish to understand what they were saying. But at one point I was like, "Wha'? What'd they just say?" so we went back a bit and when the character says (not to give too much away) "My first wife died giving birth to Aaron," the subtitle in Spanish translates into "My first wife ran away with a yoga instructor." Huh? Did the translator not understand what the character had said, or did he just think that line was too much of a downer and wanted to zest up the comedy a bit? Anyway, these were the absolute cheapest bootlegs available, sold by dudes walking around with big backpacks of DVDs, so maybe now we'll buy them in the market where you can preview them a bit and check for the quality.

1 comentario:

heidi dijo...

funny change in line!