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cloudchamber posted:You might have been on a cached version of the site. I'm sure I cached that trailer I've never watched before in my life too?
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Make that three. Man, that site's cluttered.Bobfromsales posted:There are bad overtures. That's nice.
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In the future, if you need to know if a site is down, just use https://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com or half a dozen other similar sites.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:In the future, if you need to know if a site is down, just use https://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com or half a dozen other similar sites. Somebody linked that and it was wrong.
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morestuff posted:Do I need to see Ip Man to follow Ip Man 2? It's opening at a theater near me soon. Haven't seen the first, but IP Man 2 rules. So no But IP Man is on Instant.
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NeuroticErotica posted:Haven't seen the first, but IP Man 2 rules. So no Instant being NetFlix?
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EVERYTHING I SAY ABOUT JAPAN OR LIVING IN JAPAN IS COMPLETELY WRONG, BUT YOU BETTER BELIEVE I'LL 
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kapalama posted:Instant being NetFlix? yeop
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morestuff posted:Do I need to see Ip Man to follow Ip Man 2? It's opening at a theater near me soon. Ip Man is a pretty straightforward Chinese action yarn set during World War II with some pretty good to great fight work at times. I doubt you'll miss anything super crucial.
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:Ip Man is a pretty straightforward Chinese action yarn set during World War II with some pretty good to great fight work at times. I doubt you'll miss anything super crucial. I thought it was about a man engaged in a bitter Intellectual Property dispute.
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:Ip Man is a pretty straightforward Chinese action yarn set during World War II with some pretty good to great fight work at times. I doubt you'll miss anything super crucial. Ip Man 2 is Rocky 4 And no, I am not saying this in a bad way.
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therattle posted:I thought it was about a man engaged in a bitter Intellectual Property dispute. Funnily enough there was some issue between Ip Man and another production about the same character (Ip Man is supposedly the guy who trained Bruce Lee).
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therattle posted:I thought it was about a man engaged in a bitter Intellectual Property dispute. I thought it was going to be about a guy who everyone thinks is just a nerdy network administrator, but actually jumps into the server closet in order to transform into a superhero known as IP Man. Announcer voiceover: "It began as a simple IP address conflict on the network...that exploded into a threat to the very core of the Internet. Only one man can stop it...*dramatic fanfare*...IP MAN. Coming to theaters in Summer 2011."
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Lasher posted:In True Romance Christian Slater is guided by Elvis Val Kilmer and we never really see his face. Is this a reference to something else? Because the comic book "Preacher" came out that same year and it also uses this trope where the main character is guided by John Wayne, but Wayne's face is never shown. I rewatched True Romance with Tarantino's commentary track (which is a non-technical, mindnumbing machinegun talk almost entirely about things other than the actual film) the other day, and I think he mentioned there was a practical reason for not showing Kilmer's face. If you still want to know I can check it.
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Could it cost money to use Elvis as a character like that? I see the IMDB credit just says "Mentor" instead of "Elvis".
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Schweinhund posted:Could it cost money to use Elvis as a character like that? I see the IMDB credit just says "Mentor" instead of "Elvis". I remember that from the commentary. He said they weren't sure whether they could use the name Elvis, so they went with The Mentor to be safe. Also, some time after the film came out QT found himself watching it in the company of Lisa Marie Presley, which he was pretty excited about until he remembered the "I'll gently caress Elvis" bit coming up.
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 I've got this Stargate SG-1 DVD set and although I do love it somewhat, but the box is slightly too big to fit on my DVD shelf perfectly and I'm wondering if anyone would be able to make up ten cases with covers in them (printed on proper glossy paper of course) that I could just transfer the DVDs to and then chuck out the box. Its a super nice box but its just a bit annoying. Is there a website that does this or would someone on here do it and how much would it likely cost me?
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One way in which you might be able to save a little money and still have a decent looking product would be to go to your local Blockbuster (if you can find one). Since most of them are going out of business, every thing in most of the stores will be available for purchase on the cheap, including the blank DVD cases (they call them Amarays). They aren't the greatest, (The plastic sleeve is necessarily loose and a bit on the cloudy side. In addition some have built in locks.) but if you are looking to print all new inserts anyway, you might be able to get them for cheap to free. See also: Google The only problem I'm seeing is that most amarays only hold 1 or 2 disks, and from what I can find, there are over 50 disks in that box. I can see why you would want to break that up, into easier to fit boxes, but I don't know if you can get 50 freebies. FWIW, I believe that the standard sizes for DVD inserts are 275mm x 185mm, but the best thing to do would be to measure to be sure. So while it would be possible to do this, at a conservative estimate of $1 per each holder, there's $50 right there just for storage. If you want high quality, multi-color printing on top of that, edge to edge in a non-standard size, that could run you upwards of $2 per insert (assuming you farm it out) so your looking at about $150 to save yourself some shelf space, and you may not like the end result.
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Not sure if this is the right place for this, but it kinda looks like it. It's a question about a completely unimportant minor point of The Dark Knight, but it's not too bad guys, I promise. It's more about the US Justice system I guess, than the intricacies of masked vigilante vs clown terrorism. It's mentioned in the film that when Dent decides to take on the mob, that everyone will be after him and he has to be whiter than white. They will be looking for dirt on him, to crumble his reputation. Batman 'stops' him killing a guy because otherwise all the mob gang they arrested will be set free (or something like this). What I don't understand is why? How does the respectability and newly discovered criminal record of a District Attorney somehow alter the charges brought against criminals that have nothing to do whatsoever with what he's done? Is that a US thing or something made up for plot convinience? Just because the prosecutor was found doing something vastly illegal, how does that end the case that he's working on, rather than just bring in a new guy? Apologies in advance.
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Whoever replaced Dent wouldn't be a White Knight like him, so wouldn't have the moral fortitude to carry through with keeping the bad guys off the streets. It's a not a matter of legal technicalities, it's that Dent's plan relies on having someone like Dent leading it. While there are legal issues related to prosecutorial misconduct which might cause problems for Dent's replacement, I don't think that's what's most important to the plot.
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Fat Turkey posted:Not sure if this is the right place for this, but it kinda looks like it. It's a question about a completely unimportant minor point of The Dark Knight, but it's not too bad guys, I promise. It's more about the US Justice system I guess, than the intricacies of masked vigilante vs clown terrorism. This might not be plot specific, since I haven't seen The Dark Knight since it was in theaters. That said, it is more that the District Attorney (as in the elected or appointed figurehead, not just "a" district attorney who works in the office) is a political figure. He needs money and approval for most of his actions, and he has a political career. If he is going to start a pressure campaign, he will need backers, and probably need to force people into siding with him who otherwise would like to have nothing to do with his actions. Anything to discredit him, as a political figure, would derail his campaign. He would lose funding, political support, political allies, and would open the door to people undercutting his actions with personal attacks. You simply can't take on a powerful mob in a corrupt city without a lot of support. Legally, though, unless they could prove it affected a particular case, him being charged or convicted would have no affect on matters he already tried.
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The specific lines are: "If anyone saw this, everything would be undone. All the criminals you pulled off the streets would be released." It does seem to imply that Dent's actions would cause the release of everyone he put away which is basically what Fat Turkey was asking about.
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Butthole Prince posted:The specific lines are: "If anyone saw this, everything would be undone. All the criminals you pulled off the streets would be released." It does seem to imply that Dent's actions would cause the release of everyone he put away which is basically what Fat Turkey was asking about. "If anyone saw this, and nobody is actually here so this is a hypothetical, you would be arrested and tried for murder and your replacement as D.A. may not be as effective at cleaning out the mob from this city." doesn't have the same ring to it.
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Butthole Prince posted:The specific lines are: "If anyone saw this, everything would be undone. All the criminals you pulled off the streets would be released." It does seem to imply that Dent's actions would cause the release of everyone he put away which is basically what Fat Turkey was asking about. Yeah, I'd just chalk that up to dramatics; either intended with Batman trying to convince Dent, or simply for the sake of the screenplay itself.
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I took it as the criminals arrested were in pre-trial confinement, not in prison. If Dent went down, the next guy to take his place wouldn't have the balls to prosecute the mob and they would all walk.
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Nierbo posted:Thanks for your reply. I used to work at video ezy so I have lots of empty DVD cases that I've amassed over the years (probably should have said that) but like you said most of those only hold one or two dvds. I thought maybe there was some sort of online service that I could request high quality inserts in cases but I guess that would let pirates have a good looking collection which they don't deserve. I did click your google link and I found 10 dvd cases that hold 6 dvd's each (which is perfect because theres 10 seasons of SG-1) but that still leaves me with no inserts as I have no printer. I'm a huge stickler for having my collection just how I like it so I guess I could just buy a printer, but I'd really prefer not to. Why do silly things like this get to me. This site has a bunch of DVD insert templates. Just find out what size you need and design some super simple cover. Take it over to Kinkos or some other copy store to print it. You could even spend a little bit more and get it printed on nicer glossy paper or something. I've done basically this for a couple blurays that came in funky sized boxes and while it doesn't look super professional or anything, it gets the job done.
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I was doing some thinking earlier today and I was mulling over recurring themes in films and what-not, essentially little quirks or props or events that would repeatedly appear in specific films in order to establish some sort of message or understanding within the film. However I branched out and I got one of those terrible situations where you're trying to think of something and you've got it right on the edge of your brain but you can't really pin-point it exactly. What I'm trying to remember is this, there is/was a specific director who would constantly reference his other films within his work, more so in the theme of recurring props or background elements than anything else. For example, (and this is a made up example, not something I remember exactly) there could be a red car of a certain make in some important scene in one of the films, and in one of his other films that same car can be seen somewhere in the background of a scene within that film. This is pretty drat vague, but I distinctly recall that there is/was a director well-known for this. I'm fairly certain there are also several directors that could do this consistently but a good list of directors that are known for this would help just as much.
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Alfred Hitchcock has a cameo in most of his films, Quentin Tarantino usually has a "feet shot," Sam Raimi used his own Oldsmobile in a lot of his early films. Any of these near the mark?
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JebanyPedal posted:I'm fairly certain there are also several directors that could do this consistently but a good list of directors that are known for this would help just as much. Sam Raimi's Oldsmobile Delta 88 shows up in most of his films. Woo has his signature doves.
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It won't help you find this specific instance, but the IMDB trivia sections are full of stuff like that, usually labeled "Director Trademark".
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I probably should have just thought harder for a little bit. Turns out it was Werner Herzog, I was thinking about things such as the car going in circles in Even Dwarfs Started Small and how it was similar to the end of Stroszek. Of course there's also his trademark use of animals within all his films. Thanks for the help though guys, and I had no idea about Sam Raimi's reoccurring car! I just noticed that it's present in pretty much the entire Evil Dead series.
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Thanks for the quote BP, that's the one I was thinking of. The DA thing is a little hard to understand for me, because in England we don't have anything like that, so I found it tough to grasp. I can understand that he needs strong political backing and is the only "good guy" who will do it, as in that noone else will stand up. But it was that line about how everyone that walked that made me wander if it was a procedural thing. I don't mind accepting it as a dramatic line though, because it is relatively unimportant, I just wanted to know if it was actually based on anything real. Thank you internet!
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Fat Turkey posted:Not sure if this is the right place for this, but it kinda looks like it. It's a question about a completely unimportant minor point of The Dark Knight, but it's not too bad guys, I promise. It's more about the US Justice system I guess, than the intricacies of masked vigilante vs clown terrorism. I took it to mean that anyone who was prosecuted by him (or at least the higher-ups with big lawyer money) would appeal their conviction under the premise that their prosecutor was corrupt; he was caught (in this hypothetical scenario) extorting a confession under highly illegal means, who knows what other methods he resorted to, evidence he falsified, etc. At the very least their lawyers would probably be able to challenge the chain of custody of any evidence that passed through Dent's hands. Honestly though my understanding of the justice system is based entirely on Law and Order episodes: I remember at least once this same premise (If you gently caress up here all of your past convictions will be under scrutiny) was levied at Stabler when he did something stupid.
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Tender Bender posted:I took it to mean that anyone who was prosecuted by him (or at least the higher-ups with big lawyer money) would appeal their conviction under the premise that their prosecutor was corrupt; he was caught (in this hypothetical scenario) extorting a confession under highly illegal means, who knows what other methods he resorted to, evidence he falsified, etc. At the very least their lawyers would probably be able to challenge the chain of custody of any evidence that passed through Dent's hands. Plus if part of that chain of custody is "we got it from batman" I would guess they kind of just throw the case out.
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JebanyPedal posted:I was doing some thinking earlier today and I was mulling over recurring themes in films and what-not, essentially little quirks or props or events that would repeatedly appear in specific films in order to establish some sort of message or understanding within the film. There is a lot of overlap of Quentin Tarantino's characters throughout all his movies. I think there is a movie on youtube that shows how all his movies can be seen as 1 connected story.
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Schweinhund posted:There is a lot of overlap of Quentin Tarantino's characters throughout all his movies. I think there is a movie on youtube that shows how all his movies can be seen as 1 connected story. If you can find a link to this, I'd like to see it. I know "V. Vega" from Pulp Fiction and Resevior Dogs was roughly the same character but he's the only one I ever heard of. Ah, neat. Thanks. VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV Barometer fucked around with this message at 02:40 on Mar 10, 2011 |
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Barometer posted:If you can find a link to this, I'd like to see it. I know "V. Vega" from Pulp Fiction and Resevior Dogs was roughly the same character but he's the only one I ever heard of. Vic and Vincent are brothers. Also, Mr. White used to work with Alabama from True romance, and Earl McGraw appears in From Dusk Till Dawn, Kill Bill, Planet Terror, and Death Proof.
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JebanyPedal posted:Thanks for the help though guys, and I had no idea about Sam Raimi's reoccurring car! I just noticed that it's present in pretty much the entire Evil Dead series. It also shows up in Darkman during the helicopter scene and in the Spiderman movies, I believe.
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