Or maybe you would. I wouldn't know. I'm not your conscience.
In any case, this posting's title comes from the anti-dvd piracy ads they have at the start of dvds and its relevance pertains to a film we saw whilst in Phuket.
One afternoon, I can't remember which and it isn't relevant anyway, we flicked on the hotel tv to the movie channel to discover they were showing Troy. With subtitles. In English. Which is kind of strange considering it's an English speaking film.
Now whoever pirated this movie and decided to add these irrelevant subtitles really did a half-assed job of it. It was like they listened to the dialogue once and then just wrote whatever they thought was said. The highlight for me was when Achilles was informed by his second in charge that his cousin had been killed. I can't remember Brad Pitt's actual lines at the time but it was something epic and anguished and accompanied by him striking his second in command in a mighty fashion. Unable to translate the line, the pirate just wrote the subtitle as "Shit!"
The lesson here: don't buy pirated dvds, kids. Although they can be quite entertaining in their own way.
On a related note, we found that the stalls selling pirate dvds (Spiderman 3, Shrek 3, etc) and video games really weren't particularly good value at all. Being an ultra-cool guy, I got quite excited when I saw a wall of Nintendo DS games (Pet bought me a Nintendo DS for Christmas last year), including the Justice League game and many Star Wars games (ultra-cool guy, remember?) But when we found out the price and converted it back to AUS$, they really weren't much better than what you'd buy on sale at Target, and for something dodgy it just wasn't worth the risk.
But that's enough about Phuket. There's no sense in living in the past. Unless your present and your future suck.
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