Bwahahahaha I'm imagining if they'd had him literally say he was on her in Russian, that would have been highly unfortunate but really rather funny....
If baffles me why these, let's be fair, really lucrative franchises can't go and find someone who actually speaks the language to check the translation. It really can't be that hard, surely? They could afford to play big bucks, but even just finding a Russian grad who had some grasp would be a start, y'know? Hell, I haven't spoken Russian on a regular basis for 15 years, and I could do a better job than they usually do when using Russian in movies and on TV shows. *sigh*
I've long since stopped being surprised when this stuff gets messed up, and I'm sure they work on the principle most of their audience won't know if they make huge, glaring errors, but it would just be so easy to do a much better job :-/ and when you consider how much cash these movies make, you'd think they could find someone who had a better grasp of Russian/German/whatever than bloody Google translate. *facepalm*
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If baffles me why these, let's be fair, really lucrative franchises can't go and find someone who actually speaks the language to check the translation. It really can't be that hard, surely? They could afford to play big bucks, but even just finding a Russian grad who had some grasp would be a start, y'know? Hell, I haven't spoken Russian on a regular basis for 15 years, and I could do a better job than they usually do when using Russian in movies and on TV shows. *sigh*
I've long since stopped being surprised when this stuff gets messed up, and I'm sure they work on the principle most of their audience won't know if they make huge, glaring errors, but it would just be so easy to do a much better job :-/ and when you consider how much cash these movies make, you'd think they could find someone who had a better grasp of Russian/German/whatever than bloody Google translate. *facepalm*