Can you name the movies from their Babelfish translations?

created by bazmerelda

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Source: Babelfish
The original movie titles have been translated into a different language using Babelfish. This translation was then translated straight back into English to give you your clues.
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Hint	Movie	Language
My Honest Lady		Dutch
It Puts in Place the Saddle that it Burns		Japanese
The Close Acquaintances of the Third Form		Russian
Glacial Period		French
Madame and Hobo		Chinese
Fraud Air		German
The Congeniality of the Misalignment of Axes		Russian
Frightful Film		Italian
Seashore		Korean
The Club of the Small Lunch		Portuguese

Hint	Movie	Language
The Intended for the Adolescents Wolf		Russian
Forehead/Outside		Italian
Legal Golden Hair Blue Eyes Woman		Chinese
Water Bottle Roster		Korean
Bobbin of Infancy Garden		Portuguese
Float Young Lady Daisy		Dutch
Fracture of Point		Greek
Ugly Aardwolf		Chinese
The Compatriot Teases Holiday		Korean
A Leader and a Mister		French

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Babelfish Movies III Quiz

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Created May 19, 2011 in Movies
Featured Jul 9, 2011
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	ncr1119:	Jul 9th, 2011 at 16:18 GMT		29 points
	I'm still wondering how axes have anything to do with the word "miss".

	bazmerelda:	Jul 9th, 2011 at 16:23 GMT		9 points
	Outtakes from the archived comments. These are the ones which are just too twisted to be allowed in the quiz. [Answer to Frightful Film] - The Terrible Cinema (Russian) / Horrible Movie (Korean) Chariots of Fire - Sudden 2 wheel tank (Korean) Spirited Away - There is a vigor, it left (Japanese) / Sharp Party (French) The Dam Busters - The Condemnation Chaps (German) City Slickers - Polishing Machines to Mould City (French)

	TheGreatZo:	Jul 9th, 2011 at 16:30 GMT		9 points
	"Vacation" should definitely be enough to answer "The Compatriot Teases Holiday."

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	grita6689:	Jul 9th, 2011 at 16:51 GMT		1 point
	Damn it! I tried National Lampoon's "Christmas" Vacation, because of the holiday part.

	charolastra:	Jul 9th, 2011 at 17:46 GMT		12 points
	I love how Babelfish decided to go with one of the most obscure meanings of "cop" ("a conical mass of thread, yarn, etc., wound on a spindle"), leading to the translation "bobbin."

	DougButcher:	Jul 9th, 2011 at 18:00 GMT		-3 points
	Bette Midler did a film called Beaches. The movie sucked, but it should be an acceptable answer.

	tulliuscicero:	Jul 9th, 2011 at 18:01 GMT		5 points
	I typed "I Was a Teenaged Werewolf", which was the original film, instead of Teen Wolf. Blurgh!

	antwandelfiglo23:	Jul 9th, 2011 at 18:16 GMT		21 points
	Oh the Russians, still thinking that Miss Congeniality was about the alignment of axes. When will they learn?

	Riko:	Jul 9th, 2011 at 19:08 GMT		12 points
	@jamesj0324: Actually that is very useful information. See how Dutch (a Germanic language like English) tends to be quite close to the answer, while Romance languages (French, Italian) are a bit further off but still in the ballpark and languages from a non-Indo-European language family (Chinese, Korean) have the most variance.

	adjamemnon:	Jul 9th, 2011 at 20:26 GMT		10 points
	I think "Ugly Aardwolf" will now replace "Coyote Ugly" in my vocabulary. Thanks Chinese!

	pete32782:	Jul 9th, 2011 at 21:13 GMT		2 points
	@antwandelfiglo23: Maybe they just wanted to align their axes towards the movie screen?

	abard124:	Jul 9th, 2011 at 21:35 GMT		2 points
	I have to give this quiz props for including my favorite movie ever, It Puts in Place the Saddle that it Burns!

	Wayward_Sean:	Jul 9th, 2011 at 21:42 GMT		18 points
	For everyone wondering about "the misalignment of axes", the word axes is referring to the plural of axis, not the plural of ax/axe. Thus, if you are not aligned properly with both the x and y axis (such as a crosshair on a gun) you are going to "miss".

	eab21:	Jul 9th, 2011 at 21:51 GMT		5 points
	Definitely the funniest one so far. My favorites were "It Puts in Place the Saddle that it Burns, "The Congeniality of the Misalignment of Axes," and "Water Bottle Roster."

	bazmerelda:	Jul 9th, 2011 at 22:37 GMT		10 points
	@jamesj0324 and @Riko: The language occasionally helps in an even more direct way. Some of the words translate to words which have homonyms in the given language and translate back with the wrong meaning (as opposed to translating back a synonym which is more common). For example Babelfish Movies I has the clue 'Clean Woman (Japanese)'. If you speak Japanese you'd know that clean translates as 'kirei' but that kirei also means pretty. So Clean Woman must be Pretty Woman - having the language can be a big help if you know the language. So I just like using the language as a clue as it allows people to use a wider range of knowledge to help them beat the quiz. It also means you can check the answers yourselves in the source and check the possible validity of any alternates you come across.

	ktappe:	Jul 10th, 2011 at 02:43 GMT		6 points
	The one that amazes me the most was "Legally Blonde". If the translation had just ended at "Legal Golden Hair" I would probably have gotten the answer, but I concentrated on the "Blue Eye Woman" portion of the translation & got thrown off. It fascinates me that the Chinese include the concept of blue eyes with blonde hair, perhaps because Chinese are all black haired and brown eyed, they grouped the Caucasian features all into one word.

	stormymac:	Jul 10th, 2011 at 03:15 GMT		4 points
	@DougButcher Yes it should, but, if you type in Beaches, you automatically get The Beach so it doesn't make a difference.

	peeples1:	Jul 10th, 2011 at 05:45 GMT		1 point
	Wow. I was actually watching My Fair Lady as I took this. Lucky break?

	GalacticFetus:	Jul 10th, 2011 at 12:24 GMT		6 points
	Not ashamed to say I did a small celebratory limb flail as I got 'The Compatriot Teases Holiday' correct.

	gene:	Jul 10th, 2011 at 13:59 GMT		2 points
	"It Puts in Place the Saddle that it Burns" is one of my favorite movies of all time. Almost as funny as "Yangu Furankenshutain".

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	eab21:	Jul 11th, 2011 at 18:22 GMT		2 points
	@Rob42: Yeah, that's kinda the point...

	volkstraum:	Jul 11th, 2011 at 21:57 GMT		2 points
	"The Compatriot Teases Holiday" seems like a much more involved plot.

	Tom_Tildrum:	Jul 14th, 2011 at 16:31 GMT		5 points
	I was reminded of Silence of the Lambs: "It Puts in Place the Saddle that it Burns, or else It Gets the Hose!"

	defineexistence:	Jul 19th, 2011 at 03:27 GMT		4 points
	Shouldn't "officer and a gentleman" be accepted for the last one? Aren't articles irrelevant in the quizzes?

	wandering_goat:	Jul 20th, 2011 at 04:18 GMT		1 point
	Is China not aware that there exists such an animal as a coyote? An aardwolf is a completely different animal (hyena family vs. canine).

	featherfish81:	Aug 9th, 2011 at 22:52 GMT		1 point
	Ugh, I apparently typed Beaches too fast, because it didn't give me Beach, and I didn't know any other movie that involved the seashore.