After the jump, you can watch the trailer for Brazilian action movie Elite Squad 2, the highest-grossing Brazilian movie of all time (which plays Sundance next month). I enjoy Brazil, as they seem to be a world leader in hot women, badass ass kickers, and not giving a f*ck. If there were an Olympics of not giving a f*ck, Brazil would host, and nary a f*ck would be given.
The gritty Brazilian cop movie “Elite Squad 2″ has quickly become the country’s biggest homegrown film of all time, and is on track to surpass overall champ “Avatar.”
Brazilian trade magazine Filme B said on Wednesday that “Elite Squad 2″ has raked in about $59 million after a two-month run in theaters, eclipsing the 1976 release of “Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands” as Brazil’s most successful hit. “Avatar” ended up with about $61 million.
“Elite Squad 2″ centers on a special police unit that battles armed drug dealers in a Rio de Janeiro slum. The film’s release coincides with an intensifying police and military crackdown in the beachfront city’s favelas ahead of the 2014 football World Cup and the 2016 Olympics. Recent conflicts have left scores of people dead in two of the city’s most crime-ridden neighborhoods. [Yahoo/THR]
While it doesn’t look quite as impressive as India’s highest-grossing movie (so popular that people bathed the 61-foot poster in milk and threw flowers at the screen), it does have sweet-looking violence and strangely-translated subtitles. So go to the for awesome trailings onward now! Sh*t!
[it has come to my attention that you need to click the little "CC" button in the bottom right corner in order to see the subtitles.]
“No thief can point the finger on anyone, f*ck! That’s my order!”
On that note, how awesome would it be to take a Van Damme movie, run the script through Google Translate into Portuguese, then translate it back to English and re-film it? I would bank roll that today.
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Finally. Clean shaven cops.
I never knew they made a follow-up to the Beastie Boys’ ‘Sabotage’ video.
Just don’t expect this movie to have any hairy chase scenes.
The leader of Elite Squad goes rouge after his partner gets waxed by the drug lord.
It’s still not as good as the Brazilian Karate Kid. I came so hard during the “wax on, wax off” scene.
strangely-translated subtitles.
True but dull story: I was cooking dinner the other night while my roommate with horrible taste was watching a rerun of that Shatner lawyer show. The Shat told a judge (from memory) ‘You’re a douchebag. I don’t get on well with douchebags.’ which the subtitles translated as ‘You’re a homo. I don’t like homos.’ A job well done there.
My question AR is, not why, but why with subtitles?
Uhh, subtitles my ass
Because I’m a filthy furriner, that’s why.
And they didn’t literally translate it as I suggested, but I assumed the Danish equivalent would be of even less interest to the Drunkariat.
Will I enjoy this if I haven’t seen Elite Squad 1 yet?
Recent conflicts have left scores of people dead in two of the city’s most crime-ridden neighborhoods.
That actually sounds a lot worse than it really is. In Brazil, scores are never higher than 2-1, so that’s not really that many people who have been killed.
*cough*soccersucks*cough*
Dunno, I like to think of it as the sequel to Police Squad. ‘A darker, grittier, contemporary reimagining’, as I imagine the director would describe it.
Oh, cool… wait, we have exported that shit to your colo(u)r spot on a map not titled United States as entertainment? That’s cruelty.
Are you a foe? Yes, must be. Never do that to an ally. Probably Al Queda. Ya! Take that haji!
USAA!USA!USA!
Unleash the Two and a Half Men! On to VICTORY!
If you run with Vinky’s film idea, you end up with a Stallone film.
Yes, but we did send you Brigitte Stallone Nielsen. It’s only fair.
Erm, <strike>, not <em>. In other news, I’m drunk.
And by “Stallone film” I mean a sheen of sweat that stinks of HGH and baby oil.
Seu Jorge playing a bossa nova version of Jailhouse Rock or GTFO.
Well, Brigitte was alright until she got Stallone film on her.
And acted with Grace Jones.
I’d love to see Brigitte Nielson, Grace Jones and Neil Patrick Harris in a MMF threesome porno.
“I’d love to see Brigitte Nielson, Grace Jones and Neil Patrick Harris in a MMF threesome porno.”
Two women that look like men, and a man that wants to be a woman. Its so Meta.