Introducing the Dwights??? - Clubland (2007) Discussion

Hopefully they'll change it back.

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Nope. That's it.

Release is Wednesday July 4th in NY/LA.

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[–] rochefort1 17 years ago

Yeah, it's a pretty generic title. "Introducing the Dwights" could be about anything...

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[–] sweiland75 17 years ago

Americans are dimwits. Why do they need to change the title?

Only fools are enslaved by time and space.

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[–] robertcampopiano 17 years ago

I'm an American an I am not a dimwit. I checked IMdB and there's a film called Clubland that came out in 1999 and the title of this film was probably changed to avoid any copyright law conflict or violation, since the naming rights of the earlier film were (presumably) not purchased by the Australian fimmakers. I'm a big fan of Australian films and have been for years. I'm so glad they finally started showing the first Mad Max film with the original soundtrack. You have no idea how crappy the dubbed version is. It's nice to hear the dialog as originally scripted. I wish more Australian films reached our shores. I guess there's always DVDs.

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[–] dathaler 17 years ago

I concur with robertcampopiano..let's not cast aspersions on Americans over a film's name.

And as for the poster who thought the American title was vague and nonspecific, tell me what's so detailed and specific about "Clubland"?

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[–] Cienna 17 years ago

I wondered about the change of name. I'm not sure Introducing The Dwights is a good title. Not that keen about the title Clubland either. It's hard to come up with the perfect title and something that hasn't been used before. Perhaps "In the Spotlight"....

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[–] wujou_mao1000 16 years ago

now i know the Scotish film 'Trainspotting', the British CGI film ' the magic roundabout' both were dubbed for the americans but Mad Max? hell, never knew that. is any english out there thats not american or canadian really that hard to understand?

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[–] Dave-137 17 years ago

Neither title is inspiring, although Clubland might "mean more" or "something different" in Australia than it does in the US.

Filmgoer123 posits in another thread that the film, in the US, is being wrongly promoted as a "fun comedy," when it is, in fact, more a dramatic presentation with comedy elements. Filmgoer further states his belief that this will hurt the film ... some people won't come to see the film who would have otherwise, and others who do come to see a family comedy will be upset that the film is not one.

I think the US title, Introducing the Dwights, might be coming from the same mindset ... repackaging the film as something it isn't, giving it a lighter, more comedy-based air in the marketing than is truthful. I guess I can't say whether this will help sales, but I prefer a more honest approach. On the other hand, perhaps the new title reflects just not much thought at all. (I agree with another poster that copyright concerns might have prompted the shift away from Clubland.

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[–] roell29 16 years ago

They intentionally mis-marketing films like this in order to marginalize them. This is a very human movie which therefore conflicts with major dehumanization operations being conducted on all fronts. We are headed for an Orwellian nightmare society with no place for movies like this. When they screw up the marketing so that there's no audience, then they can say, "See, the masses have no interest in this cr@p anyway. They want more torture porn and zombie flicks." Hint - the zombies are us.

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[–] ellavemia 15 years ago

I'm one of the idiotic Americans who had never heard of this film and watched it the other night on cable with the "dumbed down" title. Since I realize I am completely ignorant, can someone please tell me how the title Clubland fit the film or somehow described the film better than Meet the Dwights? Speak slowly and only in short sentences, please.

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[–] CalendarGirl 15 years ago

LOL. I agree the title Clubland doesn't do the film justice. I would've passed it over thinking it was about a rave or something else I wasn't interested in.

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[–] westhamu 15 years ago

You sell yourself short ellavemia. You're not an idiotic American. I think it's more that the US does not have the sort of clubs depicted in the film (I could be wrong) and whoever had to market it thought it needed a name change. It probably didn't. 'Clubland' is not a great title either, by the way, but it refers to the vast western suburbs of Sydney where these huge clubs proliferate with cheap beer, poker (slot) machines and bad acts. I am born and bred Sydney and worked in these sorts of clubs as a young bloke. The movie was actually taking a pot shot at these establishments and how crap they are. Because some useless marketing spin doctor didn't think that Americans would have the nouse to work that out they probably tried to market it as a laugh aloud comedy (which it isn't) but which 'Meet The Dwights' implies more than 'Clubland' would. Hope that helps.

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[–] ellavemia 15 years ago

It all makes sense! I think we might have clubs of that sort but I haven't personally been to one. I tend to agree with an earlier poster that if it had been called Clubland here I would have mistakenly assumed that it was about raves or something so the name change does feel more appropriate for this region. No matter. I thoroughly enjoyed the film, whatever it's called.

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