Hitler rant videos

[Scrag Meister]

Yes I saw one of these a while back, I think it was Hitler claiming how great he was at Modern Warfare (the game!).

Found it amusing, but then I am a gamer too.

[northernladuk]

Must be something wrong with me then? I thought they were freakin hilarious. The Usain Bolt one was first one I saw and I was howling with laughter... Maybe it was just the moment

[threaded]

The subtitles for Top-Gear in Danish often make me laugh. There is an awful lot more down there than what is on the broadcast sound track. The reason is the video arrives at the translators in the raw, without the music etc. so they hear all the stuff that gets edited out, and it ends up in the subtitles.

[Sysman]

Hmm, somehow it makes a difference to me; I find a sort of disjoint in my mind between understanding the spoken words and the written words and that throws me off the humourous content. It’s strange; consciously I can see it’s funny, and I certainly have no silly political objections to taking the piss out of tulipler, but somehow it just doesn’t get me laughing as I’m distracted by the language disparity. I have the same problem watching a TV programme that’s poorly subtitled, as so many are here in NL.

I can manage to switch off during the ranting bits (probably got an ex-boss to thank for that), but in the straight dialogue I have similar problems.

I have a strategy for avoiding subtitles on telly - watch it sitting at the dining table rather than on the sofa and my eyes focus more easily on the top of the screen. That doesn't work if the dialogue switches to something like Japanese, as then I do want to concentrate on the subtitles.

Cinema is the worst as here the English version will normally have subtitles in German and French, and I try to read both.

Out of synch dubbing drives me so nuts that I'll switch channels.

[Mich the Tester]

I quite like them. The xBox one is good. And the one I mentioned last week: http://forums.contractoruk.com/light...own-video.html is ripe for a cuk version.

Understanding German makes absolutely no difference.

Hmm, somehow it makes a difference to me; I find a sort of disjoint in my mind between understanding the spoken words and the written words and that throws me off the humourous content. It’s strange; consciously I can see it’s funny, and I certainly have no silly political objections to taking the piss out of tulipler, but somehow it just doesn’t get me laughing as I’m distracted by the language disparity. I have the same problem watching a TV programme that’s poorly subtitled, as so many are here in NL.

[SizeZero]

This video contains content from Constantin Film, who has blocked it on copyright grounds.

[NotAllThere]

I quite like them. The xBox one is good. And the one I mentioned last week: http://forums.contractoruk.com/light...own-video.html is ripe for a cuk version.

Understanding German makes absolutely no difference.

[Moscow Mule]

Anyone seen them on youtube? The clips with the subtitles?

A more pertinent question might be "Who hasn't seen them?"

The best one I saw was Hitler complaining about his rant being hijacked by the internet, and that laughing about Nazis wasn't funny. Oh the irony.

[norrahe]

Isn't this very old news? These things have been doing the rounds for months.

[MarillionFan]

Anyone seen them on youtube? The clips with the subtitles?

I just watched a couple and I can't see what's so funny, but then I understand what he's saying and somehow the joke doesn't work for me. Maybe if you don't speak a word of German it's funny.

http://www.youtube.com/results?searc...ler+rants&aq=f

This is one meme that I can miss. Sure, I can see the humour, but understanding the spok language somehow kills off the joke.

L

mich . Are you saying that you're a Nazi??!

[voodooflux]

According to Mashable this meme may have run its course if the movie studio responsible for Der Untergang get their way...

The movie studio responsible for the award-winning, German-Austrian film Downfall (German: Der Untergang) has asked YouTube to take down several videos from the massively popular subtitled “Hitler finds out…” meme, and the site has complied.

Search YouTube and you’ll still find hundreds of Downfall parodies, but click thru to some of the bigger ones and you’ll now get the message, “This video contains content from Constantin Film, who has blocked it on copyright grounds.”

According to TechCrunch, the first Downfall parody to be taken down was the one about the iPhone 4G leak, but other popular parodies followed. At four million views, “Hitler Gets Banned from Xbox Live” was one of the most watched and thus among the casualties. The remaining videos might get taken down soon as well.

Each parody video takes a scene from Downfall in which Hitler throws a tantrum when he learns that he cannot win the war. Fake subtitles are then applied to make it appear as if he’s having a tantrum about something else. The topics have ranged from Michael Jackson’s death to Hitler learning that he’s the subject of an out-of-control YouTube video meme.

Downfall director Oliver Hirschbiegel told New York Magazine that he laughs at the parodies. “You couldn’t get a better compliment as a director,” he said. Unfortunately, Constantin Film’s legal team isn’t as easygoing about it.

[shaunbhoy]

My old man recounted a story that during the war, in an attempt to fool the Bosche into thinking we had more planes, we built a few wooden airfields in the Home Counties. Wooden hangars, wooden control towers, wooden gun emplacements, wooden spitfires etc.
Apparently Jerry flew over and dropped a few wooden bombs on them.
No sense of humour? Mmmmmmmm........not so sure on that one.

[TimberWolf]

Some people make ze joke Germans haf no sense of humour. Vell I don't find zat funny.

[HairyArsedBloke]

Try this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMi776jah1w

[Mich the Tester]

Anyone seen them on youtube? The clips with the subtitles?

I just watched a couple and I can't see what's so funny, but then I understand what he's saying and somehow the joke doesn't work for me. Maybe if you don't speak a word of German it's funny.

http://www.youtube.com/results?searc...ler+rants&aq=f

This is one meme that I can miss. Sure, I can see the humour, but understanding the spoken language somehow kills off the joke.