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VanSandman posted:I understand every word in this sentence, even when you failed to use proper loving capitalization, and yet it is still utterly meaningless. Oh, good, so it wasn't just me. 
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Sagebrush posted:Oh, good, so it wasn't just me. I read it four or five times and I'm still not convinced it's not a "no soap - radio!" joke.
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Dec 11, 2012 10:33
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Twitch posted:Also, if you pay attention to the scenes portraying television and how the characters in Robocop react to it, you notice a bunch of scenes where people talk about the 6000SUX or the "I'd buy that for a dollar" guy, but there's only one offhand mention of the civil war in Mexico, and no mention of a defense satellite misfiring and killing several thousand people. Not to mention an apartheid South African government building a neutron bomb and threatening to nuke the blacks. The television news shorts in Robocop are great for quick jokes that encapsulate everything that was wrong with the 80s. And as you point out, even funnier that all the horrible things going on are drowned out by rampant consumerism and lovely television entertainment. I'm fairly convinced that Paul Verhoeven is a time-travelling social comedian, because all of his really over-the-top satire inevitably comes through within a decade.
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Dec 11, 2012 13:18
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Wild T posted:Not to mention an apartheid South African government building a neutron bomb and threatening to nuke the blacks. The television news shorts in Robocop are great for quick jokes that encapsulate everything that was wrong with the 80s. And as you point out, even funnier that all the horrible things going on are drowned out by rampant consumerism and lovely television entertainment. I'm fairly convinced that Paul Verhoeven is a time-travelling social comedian, because all of his really over-the-top satire inevitably comes through within a decade. And that the President was visiting the defense satellite at the same time that it "accidentally" misfired and killed all those people in Santa Barbara, including a former president.
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Dec 11, 2012 14:38
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BigHouseOfBooty posted:In planes trains and automobiles when steve martin has his first interaction with john candy there is a short clip of a dirty ny city puddle with a shower curtain ring floating in it. Later on in the movie we very briefly see steve playing with his balls waiting for candy who arrives in a semi truck. I'll take a stab at this. John Candy's character is a shower curtain ring salesman, so I get that part. Does Steve Martin play with his balls in a subtle way?
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Dec 11, 2012 15:19
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Pocket Billiards posted:I'll take a stab at this. john complained about this earlier in the movie. And yes its subtle, this is the fourth time i watched the movie and the first time i noticed these things. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Dec 11, 2012 16:26
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Twitch posted:There are a ton of great subtle moments in Robocop. I love how all of the police cars scrape on the ramp out of their garage, which is just a great detail, intentional or not. From memory, I believe this is one of the earliest indications in the film that Robocop still has some of Murphy's personality in there.
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Dec 11, 2012 16:34
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GazChap posted:Actually, I'm pretty sure most of them don't - it's just the ones driven by Murphy that scrape on the ramp (including when he's Robocop) I like the idea that the first time he does it, it's because he's unfamiliar with the station and eager to get out and bust criminals. So he goes too fast, bottoms out on the ramp and throws a few sparks. The next time he does it, he's driving the same car with computer-controlled driving abilities and his normal measured, deliberate pace. But the car still bottoms out because now he's just freaking heavy.
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Twitch posted:Finally, from the ED-209 demonstration to the final scene of the movie, at least several weeks, if not months pass. The loaded handgun is sitting in the OCP board room the entire time. I've seen Robocop half a dozen times and never thought of that. 
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Dec 12, 2012 04:07
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Wild T posted:I like the idea that the first time he does it, it's because he's unfamiliar with the station and eager to get out and bust criminals. So he goes too fast, bottoms out on the ramp and throws a few sparks. 
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Dec 12, 2012 15:59
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I just watched Christmas Vacation, and there's a scene where Clark brings his boss a gift. The boss ignores Clark and has him put the gift on a table with a bunch more from other employees. What I never noticed before is that all of the presents are the same exact shape and size - a little box tied onto a larger box. It's a small little office gag of everybody thinking to get the same cliche gift.
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Dec 13, 2012 03:27
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All on Black posted:I read it four or five times and I'm still not convinced it's not a "no soap - radio!" joke. Yeah I don't get it either.
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Dec 13, 2012 03:49
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BigHouseOfBooty posted:john complained about this earlier in the movie. And yes its subtle, this is the fourth time i watched the movie and the first time i noticed these things. He complained about playing with his balls? Shower curtains? Are we just being trolled or are you that bad at explaining yourself?
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Dec 13, 2012 03:59
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Cart posted:He complained about playing with his balls? Shower curtains? Are we just being trolled or are you that bad at explaining yourself? I mean, he calls Steve Martin out for playing with his balls, but I too am lost here. There's a difference between "Subtle movie moments" and "things that happened in a movie."
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Dec 13, 2012 04:14
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By the way, Planes Trains And Automobiles, Uncle Buck, Home Alone and Christmas Vacation...All same director and same city (chicago) But goddamn, if all of those houses are not THE same house, they have to be on the same street. Is it the street the director grew up on?
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OnlyJuanMon posted:By the way, Planes Trains And Automobiles, Uncle Buck, Home Alone and Christmas Vacation...All same director and same city (chicago) Same area - Evanston/Winnetka, just north of Chicago. Extremely wealthy area. Nearly every John Hughes movie is set in the North Shore area.
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Dec 13, 2012 04:21
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Chunk posted:Same area - Evanston/Winnetka, just north of Chicago. Extremely wealthy area. Nearly every John Hughes movie is set in the North Shore area. If you watched a lot of his movies, you probably know how to get around New Trier high school, which is enormous.
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Dec 13, 2012 04:25
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Alastor_the_Stylish posted:If you watched a lot of his movies, you probably know how to get around New Trier high school, which is enormous. All I know is don't cut through the cafeteria.
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Dec 13, 2012 06:10
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There's some pretty cool call forwards in Toy Story 2 that reference Toy Story 3. The prospector asks Woody if Andy will take him when he goes to college, which is a central point in 3, as well as telling Woody in the airport conveyor belt room that he's destined to end up rotting in a garbage dump somewhere - which turns out to be the climactic scene in 3. I'm sure there are others. That's such an excellent series.
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I was watching the Coen's True Grit tonight and noticed that "Lucky" Ned Pepper has four leaf clover grips for his six shooter.
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Dec 17, 2012 09:40
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Radio! posted:Yeah I don't get it either. The shower curtain ring is foreshadowing. John Candy's character is a shower curtain ring salesman. The playing with the balls thing is a callback to an earlier seen where Candy chastises him for playing with his balls.
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Armyman25 posted:I was watching the Coen's True Grit tonight and noticed that "Lucky" Ned Pepper has four leaf clover grips for his six shooter. I wonder if prop guys ever just do this kind of stuff because they finished their piece but the item in question won't be in a shot for another two weeks. In Watchmen the .45s in The Comedian's apartment have something like "Richard Nixon - 1970" on the grip.
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Dec 17, 2012 22:34
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Pocket Billiards posted:The shower curtain ring is foreshadowing. John Candy's character is a shower curtain ring salesman. So wheres the semi tie in? I dont even care about this but the post was so confusing I want to understand anyway
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Dec 17, 2012 23:11
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the_american_dream posted:So wheres the semi tie in? I dont even care about this but the post was so confusing I want to understand anyway The scene where they nearly die when the car goes between two semis and Steve Martin's character briefly sees John Candy's character as the devil?
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Razorwired posted:I wonder if prop guys ever just do this kind of stuff because they finished their piece but the item in question won't be in a shot for another two weeks. In Watchmen the .45s in The Comedian's apartment have something like "Richard Nixon - 1970" on the grip. The prop guys for the LOTR movies were apparently completely insane as they did stuff like put horses on the lining of King Theoden's armor, which isn't shown in the movie at all.
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Dec 18, 2012 00:52
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the_american_dream posted:So wheres the semi tie in? I dont even care about this but the post was so confusing I want to understand anyway It's a surprise that he's inside the semi if I recall correctly. Which is why it was spoilered.
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GAINING WEIGHT... posted:There's some pretty cool call forwards in Toy Story 2 that reference Toy Story 3. The prospector asks Woody if Andy will take him when he goes to college, which is a central point in 3, as well as telling Woody in the airport conveyor belt room that he's destined to end up rotting in a garbage dump somewhere - which turns out to be the climactic scene in 3. I'm sure there are others. That's such an excellent series. As long as you're mentioning Toy Story 3, I always thought the opening action scene was pretty great as it directly references the two other "play time" sequences in the series, the first scene in Toy Story 1 (force field dogs and the dinosaurs that eat them) and the scene in 2 when Woody gets his arm ripped (death by monkeys, Evil Dr. Porkchop).
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muscles like this? posted:The prop guys for the LOTR movies were apparently completely insane as they did stuff like put horses on the lining of King Theoden's armor, which isn't shown in the movie at all. I read an interview where Bernard Hill said that despite those details never actually being shown in the movie, the great detail and craftsmanship of his costume helped him get into the role. When he put it on, he didn't feel like an actor portraying the King of Rohan, he became the King of Rohan. Similarly, the sheer amount of detail and quality of the props in Blade Runner came about because filming was halted for months for various reasons. All the downtime meant that the prop guys could go completely all-out with detailing while they waited. The iconic neon tube umbrellas came about during that downtime. It's one of the things I absolutely love about Blade Runner, it feels so gritty and real.
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I love the magazines in Blade Runner, they're crazy as poo poo. Death penalty snuffs 12 jurors in freak accident. With a full color spread too.  Scratch & sniff centerfold  More here: http://sciencefiction.tumblr.com/post/23608072333/these-are-fictional-magazine-covers-from-blade
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In Argo, at the Iranian embassy in Turkey, the wall behind the worker has a very obvious patch a different shade to the rest of it where the Shah's portrait must have hung only recently.
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GazChap posted:Actually, I'm pretty sure most of them don't - it's just the ones driven by Murphy that scrape on the ramp (including when he's Robocop) I'm with you on this explanation. It has two purposes: it shows that Murphy is not just a machine, he still has his own personality. It also provides indications to his partner as to his identity. The gun twirl is the much more obvious counterpart to this.
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Pocket Billiards posted:The shower curtain ring is foreshadowing. John Candy's character is a shower curtain ring salesman.
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KozmoNaut posted:Similarly, the sheer amount of detail and quality of the props in Blade Runner came about because filming was halted for months for various reasons. All the downtime meant that the prop guys could go completely all-out with detailing while they waited. The iconic neon tube umbrellas came about during that downtime. It's one of the things I absolutely love about Blade Runner, it feels so gritty and real. Blade Runner is why I ordered one of these.
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mystes posted:So BigHouseOfBooty was actually posting several different small subtle moments, right? I think the confusion was that the initial post sounded as if it was describing some sort of larger connection incorporating all these elements. Yeah, it was two little subtle moments with a minor bit of spoiler text about the film's happy ending, only it was written like it was being dictated by someone having a stroke.
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A couple callbacks to Casino Royale in Skyfall, one of which may be unintentional, but still a neat parallel. At the Macau casino, Bond warns Eve not to touch her ear so as not to give away her earpiece. This, of course, he knows from experience since that's exactly what Carter did at the beginning of Casino Royale, essentially blowing the mission in Madagascar. Also, Bond's first conversation with M in Casino Royale ends with her saying "And Bond... never break into my house again." So she'd understandably be a bit miffed when supposedly dead Agent 007 announces his return by waiting in her dining room for her to get home.
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I always liked that moment in Shaun of the Dead where Pete comes in and tells them to stop playing music and then Ed says, "Next time I see him, he's dead". Just perfect.
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Giant Enemy Cliche posted:I always liked that moment in Shaun of the Dead where Pete comes in and tells them to stop playing music and then Ed says, "Next time I see him, he's dead". Just perfect. That movie has tons of little things that you won't see until the 300th viewing. In the same scene, Pete tells Ed: "You want to live like an animal? Go live in the shed, you thick gently caress!" Zombie Ed lives in the shed at the end.
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Coffee And Pie posted:That movie has tons of little things that you won't see until the 300th viewing. In the same scene, Pete tells Ed: "You want to live like an animal? Go live in the shed, you thick gently caress!" Zombie Ed lives in the shed at the end. The "plan" they formulate winds up being the plot of the movie. I can't remember it all but it describes what happens at each place they visit and definitely ends something like "then shots down at the Winchester", the pub where they make their stand with the old lever action rifle.
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teamdest posted:The "plan" they formulate winds up being the plot of the movie. I can't remember it all but it describes what happens at each place they visit and definitely ends something like "then shots down at the Winchester", the pub where they make their stand with the old lever action rifle. "Take car. Go to mum's. Kill Phil, grab Liz, go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for all of this to blow over. How's that for a slice of fried gold?"
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VogeGandire posted:"Take car. Go to mum's. Kill Phil, grab Liz, go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for all of this to blow over. How's that for a slice of fried gold?" Nah I found it though: "bloody Marys in the morning, a bite, a couple, a little princess and stumble back to the Winchester for shots" Wasn't the plan conversation but an earlier one, sorry. I think this has shown up in the thread already.
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