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Just watched A Good Day to Die Hard and while it certainly isn't a subtle film, I did notice one little thing which may have been unintentional but I thought it was neat anyway: John and his son "shoot the glass" to escape the bad guys during the hotel shootout halfway through the movie, kind of like how Hans Gruber shot the glass to escape from John in the first movie
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The scene in Die Hard Hans had another henchman or two with him all with automatic weapons, they had McClain cornered and were trying to kill him. The glass was to prevent him from fleeing.
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Mar 8, 2013 16:41
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There were some callbacks to the first one though, they used a lot of the score, which I really liked.
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Mar 8, 2013 16:44
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beep by grandpa posted:The scene in Die Hard Hans had another henchman or two with him all with automatic weapons, they had McClain cornered and were trying to kill him. The glass was to prevent him from fleeing. I'll have to watch that movie again. I only recall them shooting the glass, and later John is pretty much stuck because of all the glass everywhere.
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Mar 8, 2013 16:46
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OilSlick posted:I'll have to watch that movie again. I only recall them shooting the glass, and later John is pretty much stuck because of all the glass everywhere. Hans noticed his lack of shoes earlier and ordered the glass to be shot. "Shoot the glass!"
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Mar 8, 2013 16:48
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It's especially funny cause he goes "schiess den fenster" a couple times but the henchmen don't get it. The he yells "shoot the glass" and they do.
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Mar 8, 2013 19:03
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Coffee And Pie posted:There were some callbacks to the first one though, they used a lot of the score, which I really liked. That would be because AGDTDH is the first Die Hard sequel that was written from the start to be a Die Hard sequel. The rest are just scripts that shoehorned in some references to past events but were completely unrelated.
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Mar 8, 2013 19:12
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Fiancee bought me the Die Hard box set for our anniversary and i just noticed something watching the original with her Right before McClane hands Gruber the unloaded Beretta, he drops the mag and racks the slide. On the bluray at least, you can clearly see he drops the slide on an empty chamber. Nice touch, I thought. Plus, now she knows why I love this movie.
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Mar 11, 2013 01:02
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This got pointed out to me the other day, but this rather funny and endearing scene from Lilo and Stitch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNj1XTnXc_M Becomes depressing once you remember that Lilo's parents died in a car crash caused by bad weather
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Mar 11, 2013 01:06
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Hayden posted:Fiancee bought me the Die Hard box set for our anniversary and i just noticed something watching the original with her Right before McClane hands Gruber the unloaded Beretta, he drops the mag and racks the slide. On the bluray at least, you can clearly see he drops the slide on an empty chamber. Yeah. You can see him subtly holding down the slide stop, the little lever that would hold the slide open on an empty magazine. What irritates me about that scene is with the way the Beretta 92 is designed, Hans would have to be blind to not see that the chamber is empty.
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Mar 11, 2013 01:33
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Hayden posted:Fiancee bought me the Die Hard box set for our anniversary and i just noticed something watching the original with her Right before McClane hands Gruber the unloaded Beretta, he drops the mag and racks the slide. On the bluray at least, you can clearly see he drops the slide on an empty chamber. On a similar note: Near the end of the first Tremors movie Burt hands Melvin an empty revolver to motivate him to run for the rocks. Two minutes later the first thing Burt does when he gets his gun back is to check to see if it is loaded. One of the rule number ones with firearms is to assume it is loaded until you have visually inspected it, no matter what.
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Mar 11, 2013 03:47
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I'm watching the director's cut of Alien and noticed something interesting: When Kane starts examining the egg sac in the derelict ship, you can see the moisture dripping up from the sac. This meant they filmed that moment of the movie with the camera upside-down and the egg hanging from above. It's another thing that helps sell that there's something unusual about the area.
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Mar 11, 2013 09:01
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Android Bicyclist posted:I'm watching the director's cut of Alien and noticed something interesting: I love the IMDB note for that. quote:A close-up of the Alien egg when Kane is looking at it shows water droplets falling upwards off the egg, revealing that the shot was done with the camera upside down. (according to Trivia, this is an intended effect by Ridley Scott) It's on the goofs page under "incorrectly regarded as goofs". I just love the idea that there are people out there who think that the egg was hung from a ceiling accidentally.
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Mar 11, 2013 16:54
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Leovinus posted:I love the IMDB note for that. Thank you for reminding me that AMDB exists.
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Mar 11, 2013 17:36
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Kind of a silly one, but at the end of Wayne's World they have the Scooby-Doo ending, and it turns out Rob Lowe was Old Man Withers, who owns the amusement park. It's an amusing little joke about Scooby-Doo. But in the first part of the movie, when Wayne goes into the doughnut shop, he sees Old Man Withers sitting there and asks him how his amusement park is doing.
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Mar 11, 2013 18:51
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DrBouvenstein posted:Kind of a silly one, but at the end of Wayne's World they have the Scooby-Doo ending, and it turns out Rob Lowe was Old Man Withers, who owns the amusement park. It's an amusing little joke about Scooby-Doo. Holy crap! Love that movie, seen it dozens of times, never picked up on that. That just brought a smile to my miserable face.
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Mar 11, 2013 22:53
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My favorite thing about the Big Lebowski is that the Dude lifts sayings from everyone in the film and uses them whenever he gets the opportunity("in the parlance of our times/her life was in our hands!") but when he has to formulate his own response since he can't use anyone else's, he's at a total loss for words ("yeah, well, that's, like, you're opinion"). Also, when Maude asks him to talk about himself he mentions being in the music industry and she suddenly perks up and just as suddenly looks disappointed when he actually meant that he was a roadie for Metallica. They just had sex and she was using him to bear her child and was hoping that there may be something impressive about the Dude.
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DrBouvenstein posted:Kind of a silly one, but at the end of Wayne's World they have the Scooby-Doo ending, and it turns out Rob Lowe was Old Man Withers, who owns the amusement park. It's an amusing little joke about Scooby-Doo. Also, in the first movie, they have a red-rope licorice dispenser in the MirthMobile. The second film has Garth offering some to Honey Horné, and then at the end, he and his nerd girlfriend are eating some. I like consistency!
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Mar 13, 2013 02:03
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In the beginning of Platoon the focus is more on the visuals and not so much on the dialogue which is mostly just chatter between the troops and over the radio. Over the radio: move it out. Six says we're jamming 'em up back there. Barnes to the radioman: Tell that dipshit to get hosed! Radioman: Be advised, we're moving out shortly.
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Mar 13, 2013 20:08
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Guilty posted:This got pointed out to me the other day, but this rather funny and endearing scene from Lilo and Stitch: There's a lot that's depressing about the film, when you think about it. The matter-of-fact way she talks about losing people and the way she expects to be abandoned by her loved ones at every turn, the way she sees Pudge as the weather spirit that killed her parents (and the looks on the adults faces as they realise that), the bit where she throws away her doll, then comes running back to hug it... And none of it's from a 'it was all the kid's dying dream' bullshit grimdark perspective, it's all explicitly there onscreen. That it manages to be as funny and uplifting as it is is a miracle.
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Guilty posted:This got pointed out to me the other day, but this rather funny and endearing scene from Lilo and Stitch: I hate you for telling me this but at the same time I love it. Lilo and Stitch has always been my favorite Disney movie, this just drives it home.
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Mar 14, 2013 16:52
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This is more a general Lord of the Rings thing, but Gimli asking for one hair from Galadriel's head is a reference from Tolkien mythology, expanded upon in Unfinished Tales. In it, another elf, Feanor, asked three times for a strand of hair from Galadriel, and he was denied all three times. When Gimli asks, though, he gets three strands. Now up to here it's all in-book stuff that's irrelevant here. What the movie adds is Gimli recounting his request to Legolas, who responds with no words, but just smiles warmly. But he has this sort of knowing look in his eyes, which, knowing Jackson and Walsh, is certainly intentional. He knows the story, and the significance of getting three hairs. I thought that was a cool thing on Jackson's part to put in, having Gimli recount the story to the one guy who'd know the meaning behind what Gimli would see just an abundant act of generosity. At least, I'd like to think it's intentional, otherwise it's just reading way too far into it. 
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Mar 14, 2013 21:45
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TV moment but there was an episode of King of the Hill where Peggy discovered that Nancy was having an affair with John Red Corn. She contemplates telling Dale the truth the entire time but realizes that bringing it up would destroy the good relationship Dale has with Joseph. At the end of the episode Hank and Peggy walk into the house and step over a sleeping Lady-bird, the episode closes on her resting on the mat.
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Mar 15, 2013 05:50
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One of my favorite little moments comes from Inglorious Basterds. In the scene where Landa and Shoshanna are in the restaurant, Landa orders strudel for them both. This is rather innocent. However, before she can take a bite, Landa suddenly remembers that he forgot to order the whipped cream for the topping. He orders it and won't let Shoshanna eat until it comes. We get a heavy-handed shot of the cream being put onto the strudel, and then Landa eats. After watching her eat, he asks her about it, and you see her kinda grimace and swallow. The reason for this, and him relaxing after her eating is because whipped cream wasn't readily made Kosher until the late 1950s. Before this, a large amount of cream was made with gelatin, which is decidedly non-Kosher. Now, it was possible to make it Kosher, without gelatin and with a blessed animal, but Shoshanna has no way of knowing if it is. Now, non-dairy creams can more easily be Kosher, but that wasn't invented until 1945, so this has to be natural whipped cream. In addition, the likelihood of it being Kosher in German-occupied France is slim-to-none. Shoshanna being willing to eat this indicates that she's not a practicing jew. That said, I believe that Landa knew who she was and was just having fun with her, toying with the prey, so to speak. They don't bring this scene up, or really talk about it at all. It's simply a nice little note and shows that Landa does his homework.
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Mar 15, 2013 06:28
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I always thought the point of it was that Shoshanna had been hiding on a milk farm and, presumably, isn't keen on dairy products anymore even apart from what you said. But that's very interesting and gives the scene a whole new spin. Good catch.
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Mar 15, 2013 06:52
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Shoshanna didn't strike me as particularly beholden to tradition or religiously mandated sensibilities/restrictions. She was in a fairly progressive relationship.
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Mar 15, 2013 06:58
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Orange_Lazarus posted:TV moment but there was an episode of King of the Hill where Peggy discovered that Nancy was having an affair with John Red Corn. She contemplates telling Dale the truth the entire time but realizes that bringing it up would destroy the good relationship Dale has with Joseph. At the end of the episode Hank and Peggy walk into the house and step over a sleeping Lady-bird, the episode closes on her resting on the mat. I don't understand what Ladybird on a mat has to do with Joseph and Dale.
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bamhand posted:I don't understand what Ladybird on a mat has to do with Joseph and Dale. They let a sleeping dog lie.
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MichiganCubbie posted:One of my favorite little moments comes from Inglorious Basterds. In the scene where Landa and Shoshanna are in the restaurant, Landa orders strudel for them both. This is rather innocent. However, before she can take a bite, Landa suddenly remembers that he forgot to order the whipped cream for the topping. He orders it and won't let Shoshanna eat until it comes. We get a heavy-handed shot of the cream being put onto the strudel, and then Landa eats. After watching her eat, he asks her about it, and you see her kinda grimace and swallow. Doesn't he also order her a glass of milk to drink and you see her freak out a little bit?
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There's a reason Christoph Waltz got so many nominations and won so many awards for his work in Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained. Obviously he didn't write the scripts, but it's such a joy to watch the way he plays his characters so well. The scene with the French farmer in the beginning of Basterds is one of my favorites, the tension and amount of unspoken dialogue between them is amazing. Seriously, look at his list of nominations and awards for those two movies alone.
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Mar 15, 2013 10:31
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Baron von Eevl posted:Doesn't he also order her a glass of milk to drink and you see her freak out a little bit? I always assumed that this (and the creme bit) was because (Not sure if I should spoiler this, but going to just in case) he knew she was hiding out in the dairy farm at the beginning of the movie.
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Mar 15, 2013 11:41
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This is probably a really stupid question but in The Rocky Horror Picture Show is there any significance to Frank, Riff Raff and Magenta being present at Ralph and Betty's wedding? I always just assumed it was a weird little detail that didn't mean anything but I'm curious if there's something I'm missing.
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Mar 15, 2013 12:25
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Ez posted:This is probably a really stupid question but in The Rocky Horror Picture Show is there any significance to Frank, Riff Raff and Magenta being present at Ralph and Betty's wedding? I always just assumed it was a weird little detail that didn't mean anything but I'm curious if there's something I'm missing. It's just a fun weird detail. Of all the movies to start picking apart for subtlety, I think we can skip Rocky Horror.
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Chantilly Say posted:It's just a fun weird detail. Of all the movies to start picking apart for subtlety, I think we can skip Rocky Horror. I'm not picking anything apart I'm just curious. I don't think any other movie has done that before. I love Rocky Horror, it's so unique 
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MichiganCubbie posted:One of my favorite little moments comes from Inglorious Basterds. In the scene where Landa and Shoshanna are in the restaurant, Landa orders strudel for them both. This is rather innocent. However, before she can take a bite, Landa suddenly remembers that he forgot to order the whipped cream for the topping. He orders it and won't let Shoshanna eat until it comes. We get a heavy-handed shot of the cream being put onto the strudel, and then Landa eats. After watching her eat, he asks her about it, and you see her kinda grimace and swallow. Oh, man. That's one of my favourite scenes in the movie and I never caught that. He totally knew.
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Mar 15, 2013 13:47
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Halifax posted:I always assumed that this (and the creme bit) was because (Not sure if I should spoiler this, but going to just in case) he knew she was hiding out in the dairy farm at the beginning of the movie. I think this is a better interpretation than the cream being non-kosher. And presumably the strudel itself would not have been kosher because of being made of butter that is not rabbinically kosher.
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In The Incredibles when the villain launches the rocket it comes out of a volcano. It looks real cool, and makes aesthetic sense being a villainous launch. However there might be a logistical reason (like almost every scene in a Pixar movie has): the plume, heat and direction would go unnoticed by govt agencies watching for ICBM launches because it would be interpreted as a volcano eruption.
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Ez posted:This is probably a really stupid question but in The Rocky Horror Picture Show is there any significance to Frank, Riff Raff and Magenta being present at Ralph and Betty's wedding? I always just assumed it was a weird little detail that didn't mean anything but I'm curious if there's something I'm missing. I would guess that it is because that's how was done in stage production and the film was made by the director of the state version. They don't have too many extras in smaller stage shows like that.
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Talibananas posted:I think this is a better interpretation than the cream being non-kosher. And presumably the strudel itself would not have been kosher because of being made of butter that is not rabbinically kosher. Can't it be both? Landa above all LOVED to toy with his prey as much as he possibly could, in the creepiest way possible if the italian scene is any indication, although this bit from the opening sequence has me leaning mostly towards the latter interpretation. "Now if one were to determine what attribute the German people share with a beast, it would be the cunning and the predatory instinct of a hawk. But if one were to determine what attributes the Jews share with a beast, it would be that of the rat. If a rat were to walk in here right now as I'm talking, would you treat it to a saucer of your delicious milk?" Nastyman has a new favorite as of 16:25 on Mar 15, 2013 |
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Chantilly Say posted:It's just a fun weird detail. Of all the movies to start picking apart for subtlety, I think we can skip Rocky Horror. Do you get it, they're EATING MEATLOAF get it?
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