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Razorwired posted:In Wristcutters Eugene reveals that he killed himself on stage by dousing his electric guitar in beer. He does so with a bottle of Dead Guy. I haven't seen that movie in forever, but how would a caveman be familiar with the story of Adam and Eve?
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For that matter, how would a caveman survive being frozen in a block of ice for tens of thousands of years and then just wake up after being defrosted in a suburban garage? I think there may be some plot holes in this C-list comedy starring Brendan Frasier and Pauly Shore. 
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Apr 1, 2013 20:14
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Maybe he was actually just hungry for some rrrrrribs!
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Apr 1, 2013 20:15
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QuickbreathFinisher posted:I haven't seen that movie in forever, but how would a caveman be familiar with the story of Adam and Eve?
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Apr 1, 2013 21:11
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My Lovely Horse posted:I think the implication is that he himself is Adam, which is something I never did catch on to despite having seen that movie many times but then I was 12 and in the field of appreciation for cinematic art, discovering theological implications took a backseat to seeing a dude make cave paintings in a suburban living room. If he was Adam, then he would have either been frozen before fathering children, thus preventing propagation; or shortly afterward. But as we see at the end, "Eve" was also frozen, therefore she was not around to raise any children either. Why, I'm beginning to think that this movie wasn't a documentary at all! Though it is about as sound as the creationist argument, so there is that.
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Apr 1, 2013 21:57
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I think he was just a really dumb proto human who was surprised at seeing the inner workings of the human body. I'm talking about Brendan Fraser, not the character. The director obviously liked this unscripted moment so much he kept it in the final cut.
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Apr 1, 2013 22:00
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The whole part is in a sequence where it dawns on him that he's long separated from his Caveman days. Him looking at the skeleton and then feeling his rib is his recognition that this ancient skeleton is/ could have been him. I can't believe I'm having to explain something from California Man.
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Apr 2, 2013 00:52
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It took far too long for me to realize the big grow-op at the end of Pineapple Express is the government testing facility from the beginning.
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Apr 2, 2013 03:23
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Coffee And Pie posted:It took far too long for me to realize the big grow-op at the end of Pineapple Express is the government testing facility from the beginning. Did you... take appropriate steps... before watching the movie? That, I've found, is the explanation for every blatant movie detail I missed from age 20-25.
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Apr 2, 2013 17:00
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To be fair they never actually come out and say it in the movie. Its easy to kind of gloss over the opening bit since once its over it has nothing to do with the rest of the film until the very end.
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Apr 2, 2013 22:55
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Just watched Jurassic Park (which has held up amazingly) and I noticed two things: First is when they're on the instructional ride learning how the dinosaurs were made and they force their way off before the ride is complete. If they'd stayed on the next section was showing the control room and they would have learned how the security systems were controlled 10 minutes into arrival. I don't know how that would have changed things, but it is funny they just missed something that they would find so important later. Second is: when Grant first notices Tim is following him and the kid says he'll get into whatever car Alan is in and Grant just stares at him it's not only annoyance, he's just noticed the kid is dressed in the exact same outfit as him. HelleSpud has a new favorite as of 20:00 on Apr 6, 2013 |
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Apr 6, 2013 19:52
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I was watching Fellowship of the Ring and drinking frozen lemonade spiked with vodka when I noticed that Saruman's tower and his staff have the exact same four point thing on the top  
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Apr 6, 2013 23:14
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Not any particular 'moment' in a movie, but I saw some people talking about the movie Moon in the Gif thread, and I didn't want to go off topic there, so I wanted to come over here to say that the director of that movie is the son of David Bowie, who many of you know was made famous by a song about an astronaut trapped in space. Moon is about an astronaut who is trapped in space.
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Apr 8, 2013 02:14
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The best-best part of that is David Bowie's real name is David Jones, but he changed his real name to his stage name. He named his son Jowie Bowie, who got so sick of the name that he changed his name to Duncan Jones. 
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death .cab for qt posted:The best-best part of that is David Bowie's real name is David Jones, but he changed his real name to his stage name. He named his son Jowie Bowie, who got so sick of the name that he changed his name to Duncan Jones. Actually his name was originally Zowie, and he went by Joey for a while.
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Apr 8, 2013 04:21
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death .cab for qt posted:The best-best part of that is David Bowie's real name is David Jones, but he changed his real name to his stage name. He named his son Jowie Bowie, who got so sick of the name that he changed his name to Duncan Jones. David Robert Jones. 
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mysterious frankie posted:Did you... take appropriate steps... before watching the movie? That, I've found, is the explanation for every blatant movie detail I missed from age 20-25. In my defense, I'd only seen it in full once. They played it twice in a row, and seeing the beginning right after the end, I had an  moment.
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Just watched Jurassic Park again, it's one of my favorite movies, in part because it's so well done - the attention to detail is incredible. For example, on this viewing, I noticed that when Dodgson meets Nedry at the outdoor cafe, Dodgson exits his taxi but doesn't bother to close the door. As he walks towards the camera, in the background you can see the taxi driver angrily get out, walk around the car, shut the door Dodgson left open, and make a "what the hell man" gesture towards him. Dodgson has like two minutes of screen time but they pack as much characterization in as possible. It's not really anything subtle, but the extent to which Jurassic Park treats its audience with respect is cool too. The computer systems, control room, and utility shed backup power box are all Hollywood-ized to a certain extent, but they're not the insulting caricatures of technology you usually see in blockbusters. For example, Ellie having to prime the generator, and then push "push to close," under the words "contact position." That may or may not be how it really works, but it feels realistic in that the viewer/Ellie wouldn't know what to just looking at it, but it isn't just meaningless techno-babble either - we understand that she's flipping the main circuit breaker back on. Basically the little esoteric technical asides that were a hallmark of Crichton's novels made it in to the movie too, and the world feels all the more real for it. Everything in the movie is justified in the world of the movie - there's no obvious stuff that's there only for the plot, and yet everything that we need for the plot to work (relevant characterization, little infodumps) is also provided. It's just such a coherent experience, and that's lacking in a lot of other movies. Another thing I can think of is right before the T-rex attack, the cars are stopped in front of the fence, in the dark and in the rain. There's a wide shot of both cars, and the door on the farther one is open. The next shot is a closeup on Grant's hand, held out the open door, filling up his canteen with rain. It wouldn't have been confusing if the wide shot didn't show the door being open, but they put in that extra work. When Tim and Lex are in the visitor's center, and they find all the deserts sitting out, the next shot we see starts on a huge plate of vegetables. What kind of kid is presented with cake and pie and gets broccoli instead? Oh right, Lex, the vegetarian! There's also the prominent closeup shots of shotgun shells being loaded - first in to the ground sonar machine at the dig site, and later when Muldoon and Ellie are stocking up for the trip to the maintenance shed. The first shotgun shell is supposed to help people get closer to a Velociraptor, the second is supposed to keep Velociraptors away from people. The shotgun shell used to observe is successful (the skeleton shows up in detail), the shotgun shell used to control is ultimately useless. Lastly, looking at the script, just before Gennaro gets off his little raft to go in to the amber mine, the dig leader says something in Spanish - it translates to "bet you $1000 bucks he falls." A few seconds later, Gennaro trips and almost falls.
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Prolonged Priapism posted:It's not really anything subtle, but the extent to which Jurassic Park treats its audience with respect is cool too. The computer systems, control room, and utility shed backup power box are all Hollywood-ized to a certain extent, but they're not the insulting caricatures of technology you usually see in blockbusters. For example, Ellie having to prime the generator, and then push "push to close," under the words "contact position." That may or may not be how it really works, but it feels realistic in that the viewer/Ellie wouldn't know what to just looking at it, but it isn't just meaningless techno-babble either - we understand that she's flipping the main circuit breaker back on. Any points Jurrasic Park gets elsewhere for decent representations of technology, it loses for 3D Flight Simulator UNIX Shell. 
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ProfessorProf posted:Any points Jurrasic Park gets elsewhere for decent representations of technology, it loses for 3D Flight Simulator UNIX Shell. http://web.archive.org/web/20070409024417/http://www.sgi.com/fun/freeware/3d_navigator.html
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ProfessorProf posted:Any points Jurrasic Park gets elsewhere for decent representations of technology, it loses for 3D Flight Simulator UNIX Shell. Why? fsn was a real thing and properly represented.
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Carthag posted:http://web.archive.org/web/20070409024417/http://www.sgi.com/fun/freeware/3d_navigator.html  I don't know what to believe anymore.
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Carthag posted:http://web.archive.org/web/20070409024417/http://www.sgi.com/fun/freeware/3d_navigator.html I've been hearing "UNIX system lol" for years. I'm glad I can tell those insufferable pricks to shut up now.
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Apr 8, 2013 16:43
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Len posted:I've been hearing "UNIX system lol" for years. I'm glad I can tell those insufferable pricks to shut up now. Funny thing is you could do the same thing with Compiz in a movie today and plenty of those insufferable pricks would scoff at it as being another example of Hollywood not being able to computer.
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Len posted:I've been hearing "UNIX system lol" for years. I'm glad I can tell those insufferable pricks to shut up now. Well no, her line is still wrong.
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Prolonged Priapism posted:When Tim and Lex are in the visitor's center, and they find all the deserts sitting out, the next shot we see starts on a huge plate of vegetables. What kind of kid is presented with cake and pie and gets broccoli instead? Oh right, Lex, the vegetarian!
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Apr 8, 2013 22:02
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For argument's sake what kid actually knows that jello is made from animal bones at her age? I mean I know it'd probably come up if she was researching vegetarianism, but isn't part of the joke that she's just a reactionary kid changing her diet as part of a vain attempt to find an identity?
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Apr 8, 2013 22:04
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If you know UNIX at that age, you should know that gelatin is loving animal bones.
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Apr 8, 2013 22:33
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Aphrodite posted:Well no, her line is still wrong. They don't make fun of the line itself but the way the computer looks. So they're still wrong.
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fuckpot posted:When she sees the dinosaur she has a spoonful of jelly. Now unless that happened to be some kind of vegetarian jelly then she is breaking the rules a little bit there. There is vegetarian jelly. My sister's a veggie and we have always had to go looking for it, because not all brands are. Same with jelly-based sweets; Haribo isn't vegetarian, others are.
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Prolonged Priapism posted:Lastly, looking at the script, just before Gennaro gets off his little raft to go in to the amber mine, the dig leader says something in Spanish - it translates to "bet you $1000 bucks he falls." A few seconds later, Gennaro trips and almost falls.
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Len posted:They don't make fun of the line itself but the way the computer looks. So they're still wrong. Wait, what's the problem, it was a UNIX system wasn't it?
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Apr 9, 2013 01:19
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The page says it only ran on IRIX.
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I am not a book posted:Wait, what's the problem, it was a UNIX system wasn't it? gently caress if I know. I'm just going by what Aphrodite said. Apparently IRIX is based on UNIX though and I'm not familiar with either of those things.
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Yeah, IRIX is Unix compilant, making it UNIX Also, in the spirit of Jurassic Park, here is the best painting known to man: http://www.galleryariana.com/raptor-vision-art/ 
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To keep the Jurassic Park chat going, I just remembered that the dig leader at the amber mine tells Gennaro that Hammond couldn't meet them (and deal with the family of the worker who died at the very start of the movie), because Hammond's daughter is getting a divorce. Tim and Lex being invited down to the island to spend time with grandpa and look at dinosaurs is a way to distract them from their parents separating. I'm pretty sure that's in the book too, and Lex is indeed a vegetarian because of her parents splitting up. So yeah it's reactionary and besides, a kid from the early 90s wouldn't have nearly as much exposure to what sort of foods are non-obviously animal based.
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In Jurassic Park the hunter, Muldoon, wears the same pants as Dr. Ellie Sattler. I don't think it means anything but I did notice it. The most obvious subtle hint in that movie is the seatbelts on the helicopter that manage to secure Dr. Grant even though they are both female clips.
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tobu posted:The most obvious subtle hint in that movie is the seatbelts on the helicopter that manage to secure Dr. Grant even though they are both female clips. This one took me a second, but yeah, Grant found a way.
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Vicissitude posted:This one took me a second, but yeah, Grant found a way. Dunno if you are quoting the movie on purpose but the two female clips working anyway is a nod to the future in which all the dinosaurs are female yet find a way to procreate.
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Another subtle Jurassic Park moment, this time a reference to the themes of ethics vs. advancement and unleashing something you can't control that run through the film. You may have noticed this photo on Nedry's monitor: It's J. Robert Oppenheimer, the "father" of the atomic bomb.
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