Back with some actual content.
I have a family friend who has a massive box that is literally full of DVDs. Some are legit, but most (95%) of them are pirated. This box of DVDs is big enough for me to get excited about going over to their house. The first thing I do on arrival is run to the box and lift piles and piles of DVDs out, finding ones that I want to borrow. So the last time I went over, I borrowed The Accidental Spy, a Jackie Chan movie.
Or is it? Sure, it may star Jackie Chan, but "Produced by Jackle Chan"? I'm not sure I've ever heard of Jackle Chan! This calls for some Wikipedia!
Oh, what do you know, it's produced by JACKIE Chan. No problem, I'm sure it was a simple typo.
In case you didn't click the link above, it's a scan of the back cover of the DVD. And in case you didn't click the link above, I'm going to reproduce the blurb exactly as written-
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AN OSCAR FOR STORYLINE. Not to mention that the Warner Brothers logo that appears about three times on the DVD packaging shouldn't even be there, because the movie was distributed by Golden Harvest in Hong Kong and by Dimension Films in the USA.
Then there are the credits, which seem to be for a film called To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday. I mean, I had no idea that this film, whose cover states that it was directed by Teddy Chan and stars Jackie Chan, Eric Tsang and Vivian Hsu, was actually directed by Michael Pressman and stars Peter Gallagher, Claire Danes and Michelle Pfeiffer. Whoops!
Another point I wish to make is the MPAA rating. You may be unable to see it due to the quality of my scanner (sorry!), but it says R: Vampire Violence. I haven't seen the film, but a quick gander on Wikipedia makes no allusions to any vampires being present in the movie (well, they mention a cross, but that's about as close as it gets). I checked out the page for To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday, but that's not about vampires either. CRAZY!
You've really got to wonder though, how close the blurb matches up with the actual film. But somehow, with a description like that, I don't really feel like watching it any more.
3 comments:
My brain exploded just trying to decipher the first sentence of that blurb. Seriously. That's the most horrific example of Engrish I've ever seen.
HILARIOUS!
Lulz, this is awesome pre-sleep entertainment :P
But seriously, wth? That blurb is like. I'M SORRY PLEASE SPEAK ENGLISH NAO.
I want to know though, is the movie on the DVD actually "The Accidental Spy"? Because you know, I don't think I'd mind terribly whether or not the cover was wacko as long as the movie's there...XD;;
... i had watched that movie before... in a cinema >__> which is amusing to see how... badly they just stuffed it up
but yea you know that's like the most you can expect... kinda... >_>;;; whoever produced them tend to change wordings here or there (hence the jackle chan and the storyline) so that ppl can't exactly sue them due to violation of copyright... well or make it harder to sue them anyway. me no lawyer >_>
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