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Ugly In The Morning posted:Wolverine, definitely, but Storm's growing role waaaaay overshadowed Rouge. Holy poo poo Storm was bad in those movies. Especially the toad scene in the first one. I've heard third-hand that not only that a case of awful line delivery, but it was apparently the punchline of an otherwise cut running thing of Toad having lines throughout of "Do you know what happens when a toad does X" before doing X thing, which makes the whole "The same thing as everything else" a payoff to an extremely obnoxious character tic.
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RyokoTK posted:The X-Men films are just misnamed. They're The Tepid Adventures of Wolverine and Rogue. The rest of the cast (aside from Xavier and Magneto, I guess) are pretty much irrelevant except to pick up comic book cred.
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Nov 27, 2013 08:27
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hyperhazard posted:Bill Nighy. That's a nitpick that always irritates me. The monster is Frankenstein Senior's son, so of course he has the last name.
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Nov 27, 2013 09:07
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Choco1980 posted:I've heard third-hand that not only that a case of awful line delivery, but it was apparently the punchline of an otherwise cut running thing of Toad having lines throughout of "Do you know what happens when a toad does X" before doing X thing, which makes the whole "The same thing as everything else" a payoff to an extremely obnoxious character tic. Also Halle Berry didn't realise it was meant to be a joke. For which she can be forgiven, because it wasn't funny anyway.
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Nov 27, 2013 09:57
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RyokoTK posted:I know that. You would think that Wolverine, the guy with a metal laced skeleton, would probably not try to engage him directly. But they beat Magneto in the third movie by doing that sooooo...
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Tunicate posted:That's a nitpick that always irritates me. The monster is Frankenstein Senior's son, so of course he has the last name. Well he is Adam Frankenstein, so calling him Frankenstein works.
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Nov 27, 2013 10:08
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Tunicate posted:That's a nitpick that always irritates me. The monster is Frankenstein Senior's son, so of course he has the last name. Ok, I'll give you that. Jut because it helps me sleep better at night. 
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Nov 27, 2013 14:07
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KoB posted:The worst part is that the culprit always admits it instead of just keeping quiet and getting off with insufficient evidence. Or how when first confronted with the crime, they never say, "Nope, I didn't do it. I'd like a lawyer please." It's always, "Well...you can't PROVE it."  Uhh...that's basically a confession. Edit: Oh...beaten, that'll teach me to not refresh before posting.
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Nov 27, 2013 20:38
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Cyclops dying offscreen is one of my bigger irritating moments in X-men. Nothing is worse than a sequel that has to do something hackneyed and obvious due to being unable to get an actor back. Actually the entire third movie is my irritation with X-men. DrBouvenstein posted:It's always, I swear this happens in every other episode of Law and Order, except most of the time it's the defense lawyer smugly saying it.
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Nov 27, 2013 22:34
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Well it would be a pretty annoying program if they just went "Well we'll see you in court" and then you had to watch 30 hours of legal proceedings to get the pay off. Or a really successful one.
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Nov 27, 2013 22:41
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:Well it would be a pretty annoying program if they just went "Well we'll see you in court" and then you had to watch 30 hours of legal proceedings to get the pay off. If you pay attention to the dates on the title cards in Law & Order, you'll notice that during the courtroom sections time does actually advance in huge swaths. Like it will go a month between two sequential scenes. So it's basically assumed all the boring parts of lawyering happened In between.
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Nov 27, 2013 23:52
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Blast Fantasto posted:If you pay attention to the dates on the title cards in Law & Order, you'll notice that during the courtroom sections time does actually advance in huge swaths. Like it will go a month between two sequential scenes. I enjoyed Homicide for the way that at the end of the day, there were always a bunch more murders that were still unsolved. There usually wasn't some big payoff smug win with a one-liner thrown in, but that continuous grind of a day to day stressful job.
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Nov 28, 2013 03:02
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One of the many things I love about The Wire is that they'll often have really solid evidence against a criminal, but they have a high-priced enough lawyer that they end up walking on most of the charges because the States Attorney is so overworked that they'll take any kind of deal that gets SOME prison time and allow them to move onto the next case. In the first season, they end up arresting the kingpin of a drugs organization that makes millions and kills with impunity. They have an eyewitness, hundreds of hours of wiretaps, financial paperwork coming out the rear end etc.... and the kingpin ends up getting 7 years and serving barely 2 before getting out on parole. <- Season One spoilers. Jerusalem has a new favorite as of 07:35 on Nov 29, 2013 |
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Nov 28, 2013 04:14
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The Duke of Ben posted:I enjoyed Homicide for the way that at the end of the day, there were always a bunch more murders that were still unsolved. There usually wasn't some big payoff smug win with a one-liner thrown in, but that continuous grind of a day to day stressful job. Also they showed the lawyer character was just as hardworking and overwhelmed as they are. It was still weird to see Željko Ivanek as a decent guy since I am so used to seeing him as a shithead in other things.
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Jerusalem posted:One of the many things I love about The Wire is the massive spoilers I post in other threads so I can ruin the experiences of others. Suck it, nerds. Use spoiler tags next time.
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Nov 28, 2013 08:04
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LeJackal posted:Use spoiler tags next time. It finished over five years ago. Anyone who wanted to see it spoiler-free has had plenty of opportunity by now.
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Nov 28, 2013 08:24
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Jerusalem posted:One of the many things I love about The Wire is that they'll often have really solid evidence against a criminal, but they have a high-priced enough lawyer that they end up walking on most of the charges because the States Attorney is so overworked that they'll take any kind of deal that gets SOME prison time and allow them to move onto the next case. One could easily argue that Levy is the most despicable character in the show and the guy hasn't touched a gun in his life. It's really frustrating. I look at someone like Wee Bey and he's this terrifying guy but at least he has a code, twisted as they may be. Levy doesn't care about anything except money. And I think at one point McNulty points out that Levy is pretty much invincible and no one will go after him. Mu Zeta has a new favorite as of 09:10 on Nov 28, 2013 |
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Jerusalem posted:the kingpin ends up getting 7 years and serving barely 2 before getting out on parole.
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LeJackal posted:Use spoiler tags next time. Hey dude, I'm sorry I spoiled you, I know it bugs me a lot when it happens to me. The show has been over for half a decade now so I basically didn't even think that anybody who wanted to watch it wouldn't have done so by now, but I can imagine how annoying it must have been to come into a thread that is supposed to be about movies and get spoilers for the first season of a television show. I hope it doesn't put you off watching, there is still a ton more to the show and the events that occur are probably only half as important as the characterization and exploration of themes that the show does so well.
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Watching the Alien collection on BR and seeing certain scenes over and over has revealed something that I think'll bug me more than it should: So, the chestburster. Hell, I'll even show an image of a really fancy model. How the gently caress is a flat-faced, flesh-foreheaded thing getting through a sternum? The drat thing is designed to prevent stuff from the Outside to getting to the Soft Bits inside, and while I'm not a doctor, I figure the same bone prevents a Soft Bit from getting out. This shouldn't bug me, but it kinda is 
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 Like this, but with aliens. edit: Serious answer: Who knows.
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Acid blood, or something. Worst heartburn you'll ever have.
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If the AvP games are a reliable source, the chestburster chews its way past the bone of the sternum, then forcibly rams itself through the soft, squishy tissue beyond. Apparently they have the bitey-tongue already at that stage.
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MisterBibs posted:Watching the Alien collection on BR and seeing certain scenes over and over has revealed something that I think'll bug me more than it should: Eggs are designed to keep the outside world from getting inside and smushing the baby chick, but the baby chick can easily pierce its way through. The ribcage has pretty good compressive strength, but that doesn't mean it has to have....un-compressive strength. Rupture strength. Explosion strength. Something like that
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Malachite_Dragon posted:If the AvP games are a reliable source, the chestburster chews its way past the bone of the sternum, then forcibly rams itself through the soft, squishy tissue beyond. Apparently they have the bitey-tongue already at that stage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g79LLNFG40
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In Fight Club in one of the fight scenes, maybe the one where Jack beats the face off of Angel Face(I think that's the one), I am convinced that David Allen Grier is standing in the yelling crowd. He's toward the back, but I'm pretty sure its him and I'm pretty sure you can hear his voice in there somewhere. Its only for a split second, and I'm not even sure if its him, but holy poo poo does it irritate me.
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Huh, some of those examples work, kinda, to reduce my annoyance! I have another example of an irritating moment, but with a twist: the moment became irritating because of a third party. There's a scene in Catching Fire where the main character, played by Jennifer Lawrence, has put a spigot into a tree. She's looking up at it, eagerly, waiting for the water to come out, which she eagerly consumed. The problem? I saw this movie with my roommate, who has known me long enough to know that while I can dish out dirty jokes, I can't take them. The fact that I have a bit of a crush on Jennifer Lawrence didn't help. So during that scene, my roommate leans over and whispers something along the lines of "Pretty hot, eh?". After a second of confusion, I got the joke. The end, right? Nope! I took someone to see the movie last night (since they didn't have any family around), and sure enough, my brain decided to see that scene in that context. My normal brain knows its not like that, but the Crude Male Brain can't help but make that joke. And it annoys the hell out of me.
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Just thought of another one. When television shows do cliffhanger endings at the climax of an episode, only for the cliffhanger to fail to pay off at the start of the next episode. This creates a situation where the scene is ONLY tense because of where the episode ends. Earlier series of 24 did this a lot and it's pissing me off because I can't think of any specific examples, but it will be something like this. Character A pulls a gun on their best friend - Character B. "I've been waiting to do this a long time..." Intense staring, bassy music, credits. At the start of the next episode you get a 'previously on' that shows the same scene again and rolls into... "Here, you know I could never shoot these things," Character B hands the gun to Character A. "Now let's go get that son of a bitch." It's obvious how writers use this to create tension, and its not inherently bad writing I guess, but it really irks me.
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Captain_Indigo posted:Just thought of another one. When television shows do cliffhanger endings at the climax of an episode, only for the cliffhanger to fail to pay off at the start of the next episode. This creates a situation where the scene is ONLY tense because of where the episode ends. Earlier series of 24 did this a lot and it's pissing me off because I can't think of any specific examples, but it will be something like this. I couldn't keep watching 24 for that reason. The "need" to have each episode end with a tense climax meant that a lot of episodes had things happen which would have ruined Jack Bauer's career, or worse. Instead, an episode or two later, he's okay with whoever he beat up, disobeyed, or whatever else to an hour or two before, their time.
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Jerusalem posted:Hey dude, I'm sorry I spoiled you, I know it bugs me a lot when it happens to me. The show has been over for half a decade now so I basically didn't even think that anybody who wanted to watch it wouldn't have done so by now, but I can imagine how annoying it must have been to come into a thread that is supposed to be about movies and get spoilers for the first season of a television show. I hope it doesn't put you off watching, there is still a ton more to the show and the events that occur are probably only half as important as the characterization and exploration of themes that the show does so well. speaking of the wire, that scene with Avon & Daniels in s2 is so weird, it's way outside the norm of the show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMjWuEi_zwI No spoilers in the clip really.
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Captain_Indigo posted:Just thought of another one. When television shows do cliffhanger endings at the climax of an episode, only for the cliffhanger to fail to pay off at the start of the next episode. This creates a situation where the scene is ONLY tense because of where the episode ends. Earlier series of 24 did this a lot and it's pissing me off because I can't think of any specific examples, but it will be something like this. Wait, this actually happened in 24? That sounds like something out of Goosebumps.
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Sailor Viy posted:Wait, this actually happened in 24? That sounds like something out of Goosebumps. Yeah I was going big Goosebumps here. "She felt a cold hand grab her shoulder" END CHAPTER It was her brother. They talk about dinner.
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MJBuddy posted:Yeah I was going big Goosebumps here. "She felt a cold hand grab her shoulder" END CHAPTER Best goosebumps one was in the book where the guy gets brain switched with a bee. The chapter ends with him getting bit in half by a bigger bug. then the next chapter starts with him admitting it didn't happen and he only imagined it.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiHvu4RfNNw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bszMsPl-EHY These videos about the Goosebumps TV show are pretty much the funniest way I can get across to you that that poo poo was just nuts sometimes. I used to LOVE Goosebumps when I was younger, but looking back on the books and the show now, man was it retarded!
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CJacobs posted:These videos about the Goosebumps TV show are pretty much the funniest way I can get across to you that that poo poo was just nuts sometimes. I used to LOVE Goosebumps when I was younger, but looking back on the books and the show now, man was it retarded! was it goosebumps where like there was a cursed uh lighthouse and this one kid had to finish any sentence with like "with(out?) my pants". i remember some kind of supernatural show like that
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Carthag posted:was it goosebumps where like there was a cursed uh lighthouse and this one kid had to finish any sentence with like "with(out?) my pants". i remember some kind of supernatural show like that That was Round the Twist. Episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul9JseIEEyI
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hyperhazard posted:Bill Nighy. The supernatural elements are what really bother me about that movie, because Frankenstein is science-fiction, not fantasy. Yeah, now we know that shocking a dead body won't revive it, but back in the 1810s people didn't know everything that electricity can and can't do. Mary Shelley wrote at a time when galvanism was scientifically postulated, so it counts as science fiction. If Frankenstein waved a magic wand over Adam or bound a demon into Adam's body, then Frankenstein would be a fantasy and I'd be okay with throwing gargoyles and poo poo into the mix, but I think it's inappropriate to put magic elements into what's been well established as scifi. EDIT: 'Course, my English major boyfriend would respond to my complaint by reminding me of death of the author and how context doesn't matter when analyzing a text, but I was a history major and I'm ALL ABOUT CONTEXT.
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Death of the Author is one essay and my irrational irritation is that it gets thrown around every time you want to call an author on an opinion.
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It's not really an adaptation of Frankenstein is it? I thought it was just "this character in an action movie," like Van Helsing or something. Plus, the life-by-electricity thing is from the movies. In the book, it's some vaguely described process involving alchemy. So to me the better question is not "is the source material science fiction or fantasy," since that's imposing modern-day genres on something from a time before they existed, but rather "does this movie look like a big bunch of bullshit"
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