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DrBouvenstein posted:I just got back from an early showing of Iron Man 3, and there was a great little exchange with Tony and Rhodes (not really a spoiler) Check out The Way of the Gun , if you have yet to see it. It almost makes Heat look like a cartoon for the amount of correct gunmanship that is show thoughout Particularly the use of tactical reloads, which I don't think I have ever seen in any other movie (open to correction)
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Rewatched Dark Knight Rises tonight and noticed something that may or may not have been intentional. On at least two occasions Before her character reveal Miranda makes sudden Batman-like appearances behind people. She sneaks up on Bruce as he is entering the manor in the rain and later appears behind Gordon. Might be a hint about her ninja training, might just be weird editing.
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# ? May 4, 2013 05:16 |
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Luckluster posted:Rewatched Dark Knight Rises tonight and noticed something that may or may not have been intentional. On at least two occasions Before her character reveal Miranda makes sudden Batman-like appearances behind people. She sneaks up on Bruce as he is entering the manor in the rain and later appears behind Gordon. Might be a hint about her ninja training, might just be weird editing.
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# ? May 4, 2013 05:19 |
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...of SCIENCE! posted:I was gonna say, once you read about how Ken Kesey thought that mental illness literally did not exist and was just The Man keeping people down for being different it completely changes how you perceive the Chief's scizophrenic ramblings. What no please don't say this is true
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# ? May 4, 2013 05:37 |
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Sappo569 posted:
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# ? May 4, 2013 06:05 |
Xander77 posted:It also has really good use/misuse of cover and the best possible outcome of a Hollywood "roll to safety" maneuver. The one where he dives into a pit and it's filled with broken glass?
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# ? May 4, 2013 07:06 |
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Two Finger posted:The one where he dives into a pit and it's filled with broken glass? Oh yeah. That and the sheer amount of lead that gets thrown around without hitting anything make that final gunfight so amazing.
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# ? May 4, 2013 07:50 |
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Two Finger posted:The one where he dives into a pit and it's filled with broken glass?
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# ? May 4, 2013 08:42 |
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In Django Unchained, Dr. King was a dentist before becoming a bounty hunter. He goes after the Brittle brothers (peanut brittle) and Candie.
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# ? May 4, 2013 13:26 |
In Excision when someone spray paints "Pauline is a oval office" on her house they misspelled it and had to cross over the k.
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# ? May 4, 2013 14:59 |
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Augster posted:In Django Unchained, Dr. King was a dentist before becoming a bounty hunter. He goes after the Brittle brothers (peanut brittle) and Candie. I see someone read reddit the other day.
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# ? May 4, 2013 15:13 |
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mind the walrus posted:I see someone read reddit the other day. Was it you? Oh boy, it WAS you!
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# ? May 4, 2013 15:57 |
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In Ratatouille, Ego's typewriter's inner workings resemble a skull.
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# ? May 4, 2013 17:26 |
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fuckpot posted:She also utters the line 'Do what is necessary' to Bruce when he returns to Gotham and they meet up in the kangaroo court. That was a phrase said repeatedly by Ra's Al Ghul in Batman Begins.. In the scene where she's talking to Bruce at the fundraiser earlier in the movie her entire speech mirrors what Ra's said to Bruce back at the League headquarters way back in Begins.
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# ? May 4, 2013 20:47 |
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burnsep posted:Was it you? Oh boy, it WAS you! You're drat right it was.
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# ? May 4, 2013 20:50 |
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Roger Tangerines posted:In Ratatouille, Ego's typewriter's inner workings resemble a skull. He also checks the vintage of his wine before deciding whether to spit it out or swallow it.
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# ? May 4, 2013 22:49 |
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Roger Tangerines posted:In Ratatouille, Ego's typewriter's inner workings resemble a skull. And his office was a coffin and he a vulture. It's amazing how Pixar hid their most human character behind such a creepy design.
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# ? May 4, 2013 22:51 |
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I just had moment of clarity in regards to Iron Man 3. In the end, immediately after getting the shrapnel removed from his chest, Tony puts a necklace on Pepper. The chain is made up of the pieces of shrapnel, and they all point toward the pendant, which is a heart. Not sure how subtle they were going for, but it was interesting to see.
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# ? May 5, 2013 06:15 |
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It's probably only subtle to me because I'm a idiot but it only hit me half-way through Four Lions that the protagonist works in a bloody airport. I'm sure it was a blatant joke for everyone else.
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# ? May 7, 2013 23:45 |
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I thought he worked in a mall or something.
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# ? May 8, 2013 00:55 |
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:I thought he worked in a mall or something. Yeah I thought he was a security guard in a shopping center or a car park or something.
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# ? May 8, 2013 00:58 |
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Just saw Iron Man 3 and noticed a very subtle nod. At one point when Tony is fighting one of the Extremis solders(don't remember who), he tells them something along the lines of "Take it easy, Westworld." in reference to http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070909/?ref_=sr_1 . I think I'm the only one that laughed.
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# ? May 8, 2013 02:38 |
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Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny When Jack and Kyle are going into the Open Mic Night towards the end they argue over the pick in front of a wall of posted bills. One of them is for Prostitute Laundry from Sifl and Olly.
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# ? May 9, 2013 04:07 |
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Kiki's Delivery Service, much like any other Miyazaki film, is full of tiny flourishes and touches. The most impressive one is her flying. It seems so well thought out, it really feels like a real part of the world. There's physics and skill to it and they never explain that she has to really concentrate to do it, but every time she loses focus for even a second to think about something else she dips a little bit. And the turning by kicking off of things like she's on a raft or something really brings it all together. Also in Iron Man 3 Tony uses the Mark 1 suit to meet Rhodey at a bar. It's sort of like his shortrange travel suit I guess because it's covered in dings and paint scratches like he just uses it as a beater when he doesn't wanna waste power or something in one of his better suits. You can also notice damage on some of the other suits like the Iron Patriot as the movie progresses. Iron Patriot is covered in dings because Rhodey wouldn't care about his suits paintjob, but Tony's suits are mostly pristine.
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# ? May 9, 2013 16:09 |
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Unmature posted:Also in Iron Man 3 Tony uses the Mark 1 suit to meet Rhodey at a bar. It's sort of like his shortrange travel suit I guess because it's covered in dings and paint scratches like he just uses it as a beater when he doesn't wanna waste power or something in one of his better suits. You can also notice damage on some of the other suits like the Iron Patriot as the movie progresses. Iron Patriot is covered in dings because Rhodey wouldn't care about his suits paintjob, but Tony's suits are mostly pristine. That might have been his Mk. III, I didn't notice, but wasn't the Mk. I the scrap suit he built in the Afghani cave?
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# ? May 9, 2013 16:17 |
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Baron von Eevl posted:That might have been his Mk. III, I didn't notice, but wasn't the Mk. I the scrap suit he built in the Afghani cave? It was [OLD SUIT].
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Baron von Eevl posted:That might have been his Mk. III, I didn't notice, but wasn't the Mk. I the scrap suit he built in the Afghani cave? Mk I was the iron heap that he built in the cave (and, incidentally, the only one made completely out of iron). Mk II was silver in color, so it was probably one of the earlier suits, earliest being III. Although as seen in every movie he's been in, all his suits tend to get beat up pretty badly.
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# ? May 9, 2013 21:02 |
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The Mk II suit is also the War Machine suit in the second movie.
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# ? May 9, 2013 21:32 |
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Something I just noticed in Star Trek Generations. When Kirk and Picard are in the nexus and they enter Kirk's old house, there is a shot of Picard where you can see a Klingon Bat'leth and a TOS-era Phaser hanging on the wall behind him. It's out of focus and only shown for a second, but its a nice callback to the fact that Kirk collected weapons back in Wrath of Khan/Search for Spock.
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# ? May 10, 2013 00:35 |
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jabby posted:Something I just noticed in Star Trek Generations. When Kirk and Picard are in the nexus and they enter Kirk's old house, there is a shot of Picard where you can see a Klingon Bat'leth and a TOS-era Phaser hanging on the wall behind him. It's out of focus and only shown for a second, but its a nice callback to the fact that Kirk collected weapons back in Wrath of Khan/Search for Spock. So, if Soran hadn't shot him in the back/dropped a bridge on him, you think Kirk might have ended up one of those goony war vets gone to flab running those shady 'army surplus' stores that sells knockoff bat'leths and d'k-taghs and replica star fleet phasers with the barrels plugged along with POW-MIA dominion war flags while flashing back to iguana-men hiding in the trees?
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# ? May 10, 2013 07:17 |
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kizudarake posted:So, if Soran hadn't shot him in the back/dropped a bridge on him, you think Kirk might have ended up one of those goony war vets gone to flab running those shady 'army surplus' stores that sells knockoff bat'leths and d'k-taghs and replica star fleet phasers with the barrels plugged along with POW-MIA dominion war flags while flashing back to iguana-men hiding in the trees? No. Mostly because money doesn't exist in the federation. I think. Star Trek trivia is complicated.
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# ? May 10, 2013 09:14 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MUVGTdXkzk Deep Space Nine is the best.
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# ? May 10, 2013 09:18 |
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Unmature posted:It was [OLD SUIT]. Pretty sure it's not. It's one of the ones that open in the back that you can just 'step into', which is only used for the suits introduced in that film.
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# ? May 10, 2013 09:52 |
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mind the walrus posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MUVGTdXkzk queue that clip I can't find where scotty talks about buying an expensive boat.
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# ? May 10, 2013 10:37 |
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Dan Didio posted:Pretty sure it's not. It's one of the ones that open in the back that you can just 'step into', which is only used for the suits introduced in that film. I assumed it was the suit from Avengers, which HAS to have a method of putting it on that doesn't involve falling from a skyscraper.
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# ? May 10, 2013 14:55 |
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Polaron posted:I assumed it was the suit from Avengers, which HAS to have a method of putting it on that doesn't involve falling from a skyscraper. It might be. I don't think it is, though. I think the only time you see those suits is when they're in the glass cases. The point of him rocking around in a beat-up suit isn't that he's rolling around in a travel-suit or anything, though, it's because of his crippling PTSD and because his suits are the only place he feels safe.
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# ? May 10, 2013 16:08 |
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I thought it was so he woudn't ever have to find a bathroom.
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# ? May 10, 2013 17:26 |
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I really get the impression that in Iron Man 3 they used PTSD as a quick script replacement for alcoholism. I know in interviews, a few people on the production have said that Marvel asked them not to include anything about Tony's drinking problems. I get where they're coming from logically; Tony is a hero and having your hero drink to excess could easily come off as glamorizing and not a character flaw. The nerd in me however thinks Tony's drinking problem is a central part of his, admittedly, oft-lovely personality.
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# ? May 11, 2013 06:35 |
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It was immediately apparent to anyone who knows the character that he wasn't using alcohol as a salve except in that one scene where he's getting a bottle of wine out of his GIANT cooler and that Marvel/Disney went out of their way to expunge any alcohol abuse from his character. It's pretty sad, in a way. The movie was rife with great characterization and character development regardless, but there's almost something inherently pitiful about our society when the need for marketing exceeds the need to be honest about the human experience. Not to say Iron Man 3 wasn't honest, at least via the character Tony Stark... just that it could have been a nice commentary on vice and wealth in relation to genuine issues like PTSD and trying to be a better human being.
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# ? May 11, 2013 07:10 |
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mind the walrus posted:It was immediately apparent to anyone who knows the character that he wasn't using alcohol as a salve except in that one scene where he's getting a bottle of wine out of his GIANT cooler and that Marvel/Disney went out of their way to expunge any alcohol abuse from his character. It's pretty sad, in a way. The movie was rife with great characterization and character development regardless, but there's almost something inherently pitiful about our society when the need for marketing exceeds the need to be honest about the human experience. Not to say Iron Man 3 wasn't honest, at least via the character Tony Stark... just that it could have been a nice commentary on vice and wealth in relation to genuine issues like PTSD and trying to be a better human being. I liked the fact that the character struggled with PTSD, but the problem is that he never hit rock bottom. So the retirement poo poo at the end felt tacked on, and cribbed too much from batman's retirement. The ending wasn't deserved and it didn't make sense within the trilogy. If you want to get serious at the end, you have to earn it.
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