Slog - Comments on Jar City http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/jar_city Saw Jar City last night: two thumbs up! An entertaining, chilling, slightly magical police procedural. Made me want to move to Iceland. But what I want to talk about is the poorly punctuated subtitles. There's nothing more distracting in a film. I was repeatedly ripped out of the thriller's grip by ellipses with two dots rather than three and misplaced quotation marks. Maybe it's an affliction of a former copyeditor; maybe it didn't bother any one else. What was most galling was the akward typo in the final frame's giant caption: "English sub—titles by [Name Withheld]." Jeeezus. Awful proud of... Copyright 2008 Sat, 07 Jun 2008 10:59:40 -0800 Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:40:43 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Eric F How akward!

]]> Eric F http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/jar_city#c1042583 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/jar_city#c1042583 SIFF Sat, 07 Jun 2008 11:16:40 -0800 Comment by six shooter You get what you pay for. (I have a million copy-editor jokes, but only copy-editors think they're funny.)

]]> six shooter http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/jar_city#c1042585 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/jar_city#c1042585 SIFF Sat, 07 Jun 2008 11:23:23 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Closed up, definitely. This is wonderful.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/jar_city#c1042586 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/jar_city#c1042586 SIFF Sat, 07 Jun 2008 11:25:43 -0800 Comment by keshmeshi It's bad enough that they didn't close it up, but to use an em-dash. Sheesh.

My pet peeve is white subtitles in a black-and-white film.

]]> keshmeshi http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/jar_city#c1042648 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/jar_city#c1042648 SIFF Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:19:08 -0800 Comment by catnextdoor As a aid-wearing deafy addicted to subtitles (one really does miss much without them) I totally understand/feel for you. That's gotta suck. It's bad and kinda funny when the news does it...in a film made by responsible adults though...lame.

]]> catnextdoor http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/jar_city#c1042753 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/jar_city#c1042753 SIFF Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:23:01 -0800 Comment by MarkyMark Just the other day I was watching one of the old "Brokeback Mountain" Internet parody videos, which kept repeatedly showing titles containing the word "fish'in"; I wanted to puke.

]]> MarkyMark http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/jar_city#c1042816 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/jar_city#c1042816 SIFF Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:11:13 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle ... wow, you guys really have no lives ...

I watched the movie too. I disagree that it mattered.

Now, the eating of sheep heads and other things might have warranted a tad bit of warning for the mostly veggie crowd that watched it ... but SUBTITLES? ... no.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/jar_city#c1042820 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/jar_city#c1042820 SIFF Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:40:43 -0800