Posted on 05/20/2005 8:23:12 AM PDT by Puppage
EATONTOWN, N.J. -- Star Wars "Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith" got lost in translation for some fans at a movie theater in Eatontown.
It seems there was a reel mix-up and at some point in the film Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi started to speak Japanese.
People at the Loews Cineplex at Monmouth Mall chanted, "stop the movie, stop the movie" during Wednesday's midnight premiere.
The lights came on and the manager told the audience that the movie would not continue.
Loews marketing senior vice president John McCauley said the audience was offered to squeeze into other theaters, get a pass for another showing or receive a refund.
It was not known how the Japanese version was spliced in.
OH NO!
Run for your lives! It's Godzirra!
I've got a secret I've been hiding under my skin
My heart is human, my blood is boiling, my brain I.B.M.
With a purposeful grimace and a terrible sound
He pulls the spitting high tension wires down
Helpless people on a subway train
Scream bug-eyed as he looks in on them
He picks up a bus and he throws it back down
As he wades through the buildings toward the center of town
Oh no, they say he's got to go go go Godzilla
Oh no, there goes Tokyo go go Godzilla
History shows again and again
How nature points up the folly of men
- 'Godzilla' by the Blue Oyster Cult
ROFLMAO! That hurt my sides...
". . .Ruke Skywalker"
Isn't that Ruke Skywarker?
The embarrasing thing, though, is that the Japanese audience that got the American film probably didn't have any problem understanding the movie, what with English being a second language there and all.
I have my moments. :)
See you this weekend! I'm leaving in 15 mins.
Ruku Sukaiwoka
" I seriously doubt this story; non-animated foreign movies in Japanese theatres are almost never dubbed into Japanese."
This is true of movies for the theater , but home videos ( and of course DVDs ) can be purchased in Japanese .
Exactly!
lol
I would love to have been there. =]
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