Thursday, October 12, 2006

Worst Line Ever



I didn't really intend this site to be used for movie reviews but here goes. This is a good movie, violent, but what did you expect? Anyways I saw it here in Taiwan and it has the worst line ever (as comic book guy would say) at least if you are in Taiwan. *Note- If you still haven't seen it this does not give away anything critical to the plot* Jack Nicholson is a gansgter and he is trying to sell computer chips to Chinese gangsters and some Chinese official, and these can apparently be used to fire missles. They are not sure of the deal, so Jack says "If you chinks wanna nuke Taiwan anytime this century, you gotta talk to me!". Oi vey, or as they say here aiyo. I cringed. This is just about the worst thing you could possibly say here in many ways. In America probably nobody would notice, but being in Taiwan... To combine a racial epithet, along with the Chinese threat of attack, and on top of that to make it a nuclear threat (which nobody here even contemplates, they just think of regular missles or a ground/sea invasion). Just about the worst thing you can say. My girlfriend tells me that the subtitles were not edited, in Chinese they said the same thing. I wonder if this movie is playing in the mainland?

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