Well, “Good News” is now “Good Newwz” because people are DUMB. And this is reminding me of all the other times that slight spelling changes and similar have INFURIATED me far more than they logically should. I can’t be the only one, right?
Do any of the following bother you?
Koi Mil Gaya-Krrish-Krrish 3-WHERE IS KRRISH 2!?!?!?!
Vivek Oboroi to “Viviek” Oboroi-HOW DO I EVEN PRONOUNCE THAT?
Ajay Devgan to Ajay “Devgn”-PEOPLE NEED VOWELS!!!!!
Hey Baby to Hhhheyyyy Bbbabbbyyyy-I LITERALLY DO NOT KNOW HOW TO SPELL IT!!!!
Karz to Karzzzzzzzzzzzzzz-MORE Zs WILL NOT MAKE IT A BETTER MOVIE THAN THE ORIGINAL!!!!
Good News to Good Newwz-THAT ISN’T A WORD!!!!
I am aware that this is clear buried resentment, as a bad speller who is constantly struggling I am angry at folks who just carefree change the rules without worrying about it. But also, I’m a little bit right, right? This is just WRONG!!! BURN IT ALL DOWN!!!! STONE THEM TO DEATH WITH DICTIONARIES!!!!
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About vowels: I had a student with no vowels. None. Smrz, it’s Eastern European. I offered to give him a vowel transplant, since my -ough maiden name has the one he needed to make it Smurz, like it’s pronounced.
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Doesn’t Hebrew have no vowels? And they had to add on little symbols over the letters for modern Hebrew? This blows my mind.
On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 11:13 AM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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LOL My Central European last name has 9 letters and only one of them is a vowel, but really not even a real vowel because it’s “a” with the tail – “ą” (read like nasal o as in own). Living abroad with this last name is a struggle, and in fact I hardly use it because nobody can write or spell it.
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Yes, but would you change the spelling of your name because an astrologer told you it would bring you good luck and thereby irritate everyone around you who can’t remember how to spell it any more? Surely not!
On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 2:18 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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Sure not.
I was checking upcoming movies list few days ago and when I saw this Good Newwz I was sure some B-grade movie wants to get some publicity by using the title similar to Good News (like with Veere Di Wedding and Veerey ki Wedding btw they only managed to confuse me and I never remember which one is which). Because in my head : bad grammar in the title=bad movie.
I think I will still use the old name, because the new is stupid, but can we also talk about how ugly Akshay looks on the poster?
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SO BAD! Especially compared to Diljit and his normal youthful face.
On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 3:00 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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I will not see a movie if it has novelty spelling. Yes, I will go that far.
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I don’t know, I feel like this is going to end up backfiring on you at some point. For example, this means you would have to give up the wonders of Shivaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay and sex in a tent hanging off the side of a cliff.
On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 3:17 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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I looked that up and saw Ajay’s film company is called Ffilms and laughed out loud.
Govinda is bound to make something misspelled at some point (although idk, it seems like the kind of thing he would randomly deeply hate) and I will probably watch that, let’s be honest.
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I feel, for a company that constantly miss-spells titles, “F films” is remarkably honest about their mission statement.
On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 2:16 AM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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Speaking of Krrish I don’t care how much I’m lusting for Hrithik at the moment, nothing on earth will persuade me to see any of those films. His hair and clothes are sooooooooooo bad, like even more than normal for someone who has had famously bad hair and clothes over the years (I was watching Kaho Na Pyaar Hai and my hubby spontaneously commented on how bad his clothes are in that).
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Oh oh! You MUST watch Koi Mil Gaya! It is far higher quality in every way than the Krrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrishi. Like, the lighting is better if nothing else. And Hrithik looks weird, but he is supposed to look weird, it’s a highly stylized film. And the dances are great. And Preity is adorable. And Rekha is surprisingly affecting.
On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 4:06 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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I tried Koi Mil Gaya and it creeped me out with the manchild business. **shudder**
Speaking of bad clothing, why does Hrithik have Che Guevara on his back while performing at a Filmfare award ceremony? Good gawd.
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What I find confusing about Che in India is that some of the time in south India it is legit, they are dedicated communists who have Che posters and Lenin posters and Marx posters and actually know who all of them are and walk the walk and talk the talk. And other times, it is even more clueless and fashion focused than it is in the West.
Try Koi Mil Gaya again! Or at least watch the songs because they are charming.
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I’ve got one to add to your list: Dola Re Dola drives me nuts. Yes, Madhuri & Aish dance beautifully, yes it’s a spectacle, yes I even like the music BUT IT MAKES NO SENSE IN THE NARRATIVE. There is absolutely no way in hell the respectable married woman is dancing with a tawaif at a family party, much less making it into a competitive dance off over the man they both love. I know most people can brush that aside and just enjoy the beauty of the song but ugh it drives me crazy.
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Heck, if we are talking about that kind of thing, Mahanati. The whole movie. It’s just so dumb.
On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 3:03 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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Talking about the things that make no sense in the narrative: entire Kalank plot.
Dola Re Dola is only one song in 3 hours long movie. Kalank is like a collection of illogical stuff, one after another. Pre-partition India. Poor, stupid girl is choosen to marry a noble man (why her? Are all the noble families dead? How is this even possible?). She doesn’t want him but agrees (he is rich, good, intelligent and looks like Aditya Roy Kapoor, how a girl can resist him?). Her new family appreciate her so much they let her do what she wants: she wants to study music in a brothel? Sure, all married women from respectable families do this! She wants to work? Why not? She wants to roam around the worst parts of the city with a famous, half naked casanova? I don’t see nothing wrong in that! what wrong can happen?
But the worst thing is that a lot of people read this screenplay and nobody said: it’s all rubbish and we won’t fund this.
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You forgot the bullfight
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I didn’t even know there wasn’t a Krrish 2 and now I’m angry.
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It is infuriating, isn’t it? The extra r was already bad, this is just unacceptable.
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I was so confused about Krrish 3 and someone explained it to me that it can’t be Krrish 2 because Krrish itself is a sequel. I went along with it then but that still makes no sense! Also, I didn’t even realize that there are so many Rs in Krrish.
I hate that it’s Good Newwz but the thing that makes it worse is that the balloon logo looks so cheap and tacky. I can get over the illogical spelling if the logo didn’t look so bad.
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I had so many people explain to me “No no, it’s Koi Mil Gaya-Krrish-Krrish 3. Krrish 3 is the third film.”. But, NO! You don’t call “The Hobbit” “Lord of the Rings 1”, right? Koi Mil Gaya is a whole different stand alone story. Plus if they wanted to make things like that, they should have called it “Koi Mil Gaya: Krrish” or something, like “Star Wars: A New Hope”.
Agree about the balloons. The photoshop is also really really bad on the poster, like comparing the arm width to head size and shape just makes it obviously wrong. How hard would it have been to get the actual people in a room together at the same time instead of cutting and pasting?
On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 12:02 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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Yes! Also was the first Star Wars movie retroactively renamed A New Hope? I’m planning on trying Star Wars this winter break before the new movie comes out so I’m slowly learning some things about it.
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I think it might have been A New Hope all along? Lucas was trying to imitate the Saturday serial feeling of Flash Gordon, where each story is just part of a longer story. A lot of the things about that movie are so odd, it really shouldn’t have been the hit it was.
With Star Wars, I am of the 4-5-6..1-2-3 camp, the order in which the films were released not the chronological order. 1-2-3 call back to things in 4-5-6 in a way you can appreciate more if you watch this way, and 4-5-6 are soooooo much better and you need that kind of love for the films to get you through 1-2-3.
On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 2:14 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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Hmm, that’s what I’ve been told about watching the movies. To make sure to watch them in order of release date.
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