h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Here is a very weird item from Cracked.com on the joys of terribly subtitled action flicks. Sorry about the scatological and weird take this author had on it but I thought you might enjoy it as you are fond of the action genre.

http://labs.huffingtonpost.com/highlights/quote/1866381/

There's a problem with the link you posted, but I think I found the piece you're talking about - is it a review of a really badly-subtitled print of The Raid? The writer's tenacity is impressive even if some of the jokes struggle.

Have to say he loses points for mixing up Riyadh (located in the centre of Arabia, home to the Saudi monarchy) and R'lyeh (located at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, home to Great Cthulhu and his unliving Star-Spawn). It's not that easy to do.

Glad you found it. I liked the Lovecraft reference even if some of the other jokes were forced. Was that the same Raid that you had written about?

Oh yes! There's only of those!

(Oh, hang on a minute: it looks like the new Judge Dredd movie has an extremely similar plot and sensibility, although it appears to exchange graceful martial arts for a bulked-up Kiwi in motorcycle leathers firing a machine pistol into people's faces.)

Sorry not my .

I was sure it wouldn't be! At its best, Judge Dredd is usually at least partly satire or black comedy, but I imagine it'd be very difficult to get tone across on the big screen, given the massive amounts of violence the strip also routinely includes.