It was bound to happen: bootleg DVDs of The Two Towers made in Asia are hitting black markets everywhere.
The first interesting thing about these bootlegs is that they’re not “screeners”, or in other words, they weren’t made using a videocamera brought into a theatre. These are high-quality direct digital copies made for distribution by the filmmakers to members of the Motion Picture Association of America in the hope of winning Oscar votes.
The second interesting thing is that they’ve been subtitled very horribly, which has produced some hilarious results:
More hilarity can be found at the Engrish TTT Captions page.
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