Thought we would do a movie or two at my condo.  She is mid 40s, speaks English a little bit.  Here are some movie candidates from my thumb drive:

 

Jaws

The Birds

Magnum Force

Psycho

Brokedown Palace

 

Birds is a bit drawn out, but has beautiful scenery...Jaws might be a bit more gripping, being Thai, she would probably like Magnum Force and Eastwood.  Psycho might be hard to follow till the end, and Brokedown Palace takes place here, but is banned...don't know how she would react to that.

 

Any comments, clues, or suggestions?  Which would you choose for movie night with a fairly new GF?

Have anything more recent? She wan't even born when most of these movies came out lol. Seriously, just ask her about her interests, scary, funny, love story etc. 

The Party, Peter Sellers. Funny and no language skills replied

 

 

Well, there's always Mr Bean - no lost in translation there.....

Go for something lightly comical with maybe a pinch of romance......

You could try out 50 Shades of Gray.....

 

Anything too psycho is not going to be easily understood or translatable...Or possibly even appreciated.....

 

Keep it on the light side with something she might relate to without the language getting in the way.....Keep something in reserve in case she doesn't like the first choice....

 

Make some wine coolers for sipping.....

 

Guessing you don't know where her tastes lie.....

Debbie does Dallas, Or deep throat? Lol

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44 minutes ago, moontang said:

Thought we would do a movie or two at my condo. 

That's not what i'd do.

1 hour ago, moontang said:

Thought we would do a movie or two at my condo.  She is mid 40s, speaks English a little bit.

Find a comedy with a midget and dark-skinned people.

Even better if it has bells and whistles at the 'funny' moments so she knows when to laugh.

1 hour ago, Vacuum said:

That's not what i'd do.

and what is it you would do?  It will be after dark on a Sunday...and she isn't really a night owl.  I cant download any new movies..do have great youtube and also a free netflix trial, which has been disappointing.

She did say she liked scary movies.

20 minutes ago, moontang said:

and what is it you would do?  It will be after dark on a Sunday...and she isn't really a night owl.  I cant download any new movies..do have great youtube and also a free netflix trial, which has been disappointing.

She did say she liked scary movies.

Intercourse springs to mind....

Cold mountain.  Thai girl took me to see this up in chiang mai years ago.

 

4 hours ago, pgrahmm said:

Well, there's always Mr Bean - no lost in translation there.....

Go for something lightly comical with maybe a pinch of romance......

You could try out 50 Shades of Gray.....

 

Anything too psycho is not going to be easily understood or translatable...Or possibly even appreciated.....

 

Keep it on the light side with something she might relate to without the language getting in the way.....Keep something in reserve in case she doesn't like the first choice....

 

Make some wine coolers for sipping.....

 

Guessing you don't know where her tastes lie.....

wanna get married?

Out of your list I've only heard about Jaws and Psycho. I'd say none of the above movies. If you want a scary bloody horror movie go with Saw series, I think there's 8 of them. If you want a bit of action movies then go for The Terminator or Die Hard film series. Mr. Bean tv series or Seinfeld if you want some comedy.

2 hours ago, moontang said:

I cant download any new movies..

Why not?

Need advice on what movie to look at with the G/F ?

can't go wrong with either of the first two

Its pretty easy to find Thai subs for western movies nowadays, and Thai movies with English subs. 

In the absence of Thai subs its visual or action movies, anything that you can follow with the sound off. Also Thais love horror movies, anything with a ghost in it, also easy to follow as visual with not so much dialogue.

 

There are some great Thai movies around, Romantic comedies like ATM error, Bangkok traffic love story, I Fine..Thank You..Love You. Action drama like the Ong Bak series, A prayer before dawn, The last executioner. GF will like because its in Thai and it gives you an insight into the Thai sense of humour and the stories they like etc.

I downloaded and watched Brokedown Palace on your suggestion. Enjoyed it immensely, but a weak ending.

14 hours ago, bbi1 said:

Why not?

Extratorrents and Kickass work perfectly without a VPN.

20 minutes ago, wgdanson said:

Extratorrents and Kickass work perfectly without a VPN.

I am not quite sure how to set it up on Chrome OS.

Nothing Hill... good romantic comedy, bit dated but still ok, can prolly find on YIFY torrent which also has a sister site for subtitles which can be added to movie when using VLAN media player...... Carry on Camping or Carry on Screaming could be a good laugh too


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12 minutes ago, moontang said:

I am not quite sure how to set it up on Chrome OS.

https://extratorrent.si/. Then you need something like BitTorrent app to download it.

Sorry for multiple posts, it’s obviously due to the awesome servers running windows XP in Singapore that  this forum uses...lolz

Look on youtube as there are movies uploaded on there that are fairly new .

Or treat her to the cinema for all it costs !! ????

2 hours ago, Peterw42 said:

Its pretty easy to find Thai subs for western movies nowadays, and Thai movies with English subs. 

In the absence of Thai subs its visual or action movies, anything that you can follow with the sound off. Also Thais love horror movies, anything with a ghost in it, also easy to follow as visual with not so much dialogue.

 

There are some great Thai movies around, Romantic comedies like ATM error, Bangkok traffic love story, I Fine..Thank You..Love You. Action drama like the Ong Bak series, A prayer before dawn, The last executioner. GF will like because its in Thai and it gives you an insight into the Thai sense of humour and the stories they like etc.

Thanks for the Thai movie recommendations. Do you know of a good torrent site to download these and other Thai movies.

 Why not buy a couple of new movies. Why such a cheapskate

20 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Find a comedy with a midget and dark-skinned people.

Even better if it has bells and whistles at the 'funny' moments so she knows when to laugh.

ha, you are always on the money. I used to just put on jackass (the really funny one, second I think).  took me a few years to figure out that it is counter productive for everyone actually bringing them home. I doubt a thai girl would be interested in an English movie. she would be happier if you took her shopping. let us know how you get on, I suspect she will spend the whole time on her phone so it probably wont make any difference what movie you show.

Angry Birds

22 hours ago, moontang said:

Any comments, clues, or suggestions?  Which would you choose for movie night with a fairly new GF?

I would suggest none of the listed films.

Thais loves comedy, preferably slapstick like mr. Bean, and romance.

A scary ghost-movie might sometimes also work – ghost appears in one-or-other-variety in something like 50% of Thai movies – but you should ask first, and a Thai-ghost-story might be preferred; however you might not fancy it...????

My wife likes the transporter movies and die hard type movies which suits me apart from the who , why , where and what during it that she asks !! ????