The ship will suck us!

July 16, 2013 1:11 PM

What if the movie Titanic was translated into Japanese with a crappy online translator then translated back into English? Japanese Titanic, that's what.
posted by Cat Pie Hurts (25 comments total)

Yeesh. For once, the YouTube comments are funnier than the video. Including the ones trying to sell stuff.
posted by Curious Artificer at 1:18 PM on July 16, 2013 [1 favorite]

That just wasn't all that funny, sorry.
posted by Mister_A at 1:20 PM on July 16, 2013 [1 favorite]

4.3 million views since *June 28th*? Why??
posted by absalom at 1:25 PM on July 16, 2013 [2 favorites]

I love these. I saw a bootleg version of a Harry Potter movie that was dubbed in Chinese with subtitles translated back into English. There was a very long scene where Harry and Snape professed their mutual respect and love for each other. Maybe this treatment will finally render this movie watchable for me.
posted by munchingzombie at 1:27 PM on July 16, 2013

DO NOT WANT.
posted by entropicamericana at 1:29 PM on July 16, 2013 [1 favorite]

DO NOT WANT.

More specifically, The Backstroke of the West!
posted by capricorn at 1:32 PM on July 16, 2013 [6 favorites]

Smosh is still around, eh?
posted by livejamie at 1:34 PM on July 16, 2013

More specifically, The Backstroke of the West!

Thanks.
posted by entropicamericana at 1:36 PM on July 16, 2013 [1 favorite]

I got through 30 seconds, congratulate me.
posted by zardoz at 1:36 PM on July 16, 2013 [1 favorite]

Oh, it gets much better after 30 seconds, zardoz. You should have stuck with it.
posted by Curious Artificer at 1:39 PM on July 16, 2013

entropicamericana, I figured it's possible someone here has not seen the glory that is TBotW and if so this must be remedied at once.
posted by capricorn at 1:43 PM on July 16, 2013

God! I want to slit my wrists by saw the drek!

guess what I did there?
posted by TheLittlePrince at 1:47 PM on July 16, 2013

OK, I'll give you that most of this video is just played out "so funny we be must, sound like drunk, I yoda" Chingrish humor.....

But... the end.... Oh my god. For me, the last scene more than makes up for the beginning (and is probably funnier as a result). That was absolutely hilarious.

A++ would watch again!

and I think I shall
posted by Debaser626 at 1:58 PM on July 16, 2013

Whew, that was a tough one to get through.
posted by spiderskull at 2:00 PM on July 16, 2013

kids these days.
posted by OwlBoy at 2:02 PM on July 16, 2013

Oddly, I was mostly amazed that the translation maintained so much of the meaning, despite the dopiness. Machine learning FTW
posted by blahblahblah at 2:04 PM on July 16, 2013

Translation Party (previously)
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 2:10 PM on July 16, 2013

There are languages from which machine translation is pretty good. Not perfect of course, but Spanish you don't have to perform many mental contortions at all to figure out the original meaning.

Japanese is not one of those languages.
posted by JHarris at 2:15 PM on July 16, 2013

Jimmy has fancy plans! ...and pants to match.
posted by Navelgazer at 2:18 PM on July 16, 2013 [3 favorites]

その部分の合計より少ない
posted by Flashman at 3:50 PM on July 16, 2013

その部分の合計より少ない

to japan people, english ducks like sound barfing
posted by pyramid termite at 4:03 PM on July 16, 2013

funny idea, horrible execution

i mean, really, really horrible execution

i mean: really.
posted by MoxieProxy at 4:12 PM on July 16, 2013

And there are people who think these machines will be ready to contain their immortal consciousness, any day now.

"Please, may now I singularity you?"
"Yes. Gutter rat whore me, and I shall bliss."
posted by Twang at 4:18 PM on July 16, 2013 [1 favorite]

Not quite excruciating, but cringeworthy.
posted by Pudhoho at 4:34 PM on July 16, 2013

Yes, cringeworthy is the right word for it. I think it would have been funnier if they had put the captions against the original clips, as in the Backstroke of the West.
posted by tickingclock at 8:30 PM on July 17, 2013