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A while back, Ocean's Twelve was playing on one of the premium channels nonstop and I saw it. Every. Single. Time.  Anyway, there's a scene in Amsterdam where Danny and Rusty are walking around trying to solve a problem in their heist. They're walking around the mark's premises sharing their problems with each other. When Danny mentions how hard it is to stay on the straight path he says something along the lines of, " I can't help it. I walk into a place and see all the angles." As he says that line, Rusty is looking off-screen towards the building in question as if he thinks he may have found a solution. I thought it was just a filler scene to show how Rusty figured out the solution but it was also meant to highlight exactly what Danny was talking about. Even though they spent the moment talking about how bad they are at managing hotels or hiding their criminal tendencies from other people, both of them still have a part of their brain working in the the background to find another way, another angle at solving a problem. Another scene I liked was in Ocean's Thirteen where Terry Benedict and Frank Catton work on a con together to get Willy Bank to hire Frank at his new casino. In Ocean's Eleven, Frank posed as a dealer in Benedict's casino where he and Linus work a con over Benedict to get the security codes for his vault. Benedict fell for it that time and now he's in on it with the same guy who conned him to fool someone else he despises even more than Danny Ocean.
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I just looked up The Strangers on wikipedia and it seems hard to be surprised by a scene that is on the poster.
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Jan 5, 2014 10:04
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PaleBlueDot posted:Finally got to see Frozen today, and there was a great little moment that passed without any direct comment, but was clever enough to make me giddy. Towards the end of the movie protagonist Anna is magic-freezing to death, and her funny snowman sidekick Olaf tries to light a fire and keep her warm, unaware that this will kill him. Anna tries to get Olaf to stay away, but Olaf just doesn't get it. It's just such a neat way to reference and mirror to the relationship between Anna and her sister Elsa. I think he kinda does know by that point in the film, since he says something like "Some people are worth melting for." But yeah, Olaf's situation is almost like an inversion of Elsa's. One thing about that film that only clicked for me later was that Even if Anna had managed to find Christof and get him to kiss her, it wouldn't have thawed her heart. Because, as Christof told her earlier, you don't fall in True Love with someone after knowing them for only one day. The only thing that could save her was sisterly love.
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Jan 5, 2014 13:37
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syscall girl posted:Then there was that ICBM launch code thing that was set to 00000000. That explanation is a bit misleading and it implies that the missileers could have launched nukes at any time they liked without Presidential approval. In reality, they didn't receive the Emergency Action Message from SAC (Strategic Air Command) Headquarters until the President had given SAC his order. The President would authenticate with SAC, and SAC would then send a coded message to the missile stations. It was only if that coded message matched a code that was already in the missile bunker that the missiles could be programmed with the co-ordinates for their destination and the launch instructions. The 1980's film Wargames has quite an accurate scene with it. McNamara wanted an additional code that had to be entered before the missiles could receive their codes, and it was this step that SAC thought was unnecessary.
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Jan 5, 2014 13:52
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Choco1980 posted:When I went and saw the second Hobbit movie last weekend, I had a woman like this who couldn't handle any shocks in the movie. If anything popped out she'd gasp and start kicking my seat. Whoopie. One of my favorite parts of that movie is how it shows how teenagers would actually use telepathy- to hit each other in the junk and screw around with.
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Jan 5, 2014 19:33
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Professor Shark posted:One of my favorite parts of that movie is how it shows how teenagers would actually use telepathy- to hit each other in the junk and screw around with. Honestly that's what I'd do with it and I'm far from a teen. That and figure out a way to make money.
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Jan 5, 2014 21:20
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Professor Shark posted:One of my favorite parts of that movie is how it shows how teenagers would actually use telepathy- to hit each other in the junk and screw around with. I loved it for exactly that reason. Me and my friends watched it and we were constantly laughing or asses off agreeing that we would be exactly the same.
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Jan 5, 2014 22:08
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Was just rewatching Big trouble in little China on netflix. Now I might be imagining things but I noticed Lo Pans headress has what looks like a hilt on one side and a blade on the other. Thought it was a pretty neat bit of foreshadowing.
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Jan 7, 2014 02:28
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Professor Shark posted:One of my favorite parts of that movie is how it shows how teenagers would actually use telepathy- to hit each other in the junk and screw around with. Telekinesis  But yes, this exact thing. It's one reason most superpower stories with young protagonists irritates me on a minor level, but Chronicle nailed it perfectly: teenagers are assholes.
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Jan 7, 2014 04:12
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I sincerely hope I'm not repeating. Cut to 1:01.00 into Point Break. Utah (Reeves) reports his daily activity to his superior, Pappas (the Buse). He discusses the movements of armed robbery target, Bodie (Swayze). Utah reports that he has surveilled Bodie and that he "..has lunch at 'Patrick's Roadhouse'" amongst other things. Nice touch Bigelow...
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Jan 8, 2014 14:42
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In 21 Jump St, Channing Tatum comments that the new drug they're invenstigating tastes like "BBQ cool ranch." The gym teacher, who is eating Cool Ranch Doritos in basically every scene he's in, turns out to be the supplier.
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Jan 9, 2014 06:07
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In The Big Lebowski, during the final bowling scene, Donnie misses a strike by one pin. I always just assumed it was foreshadowing as to the fate that was about to befall him. After watching again (for the millionth time) I finally noticed after his missed strike, he casually rubs his hand/forearm as if its hurting him(classic heart attack warning sign). A subtle and nice touch (and one that offers some relief from the apparent culpability of his friends, since it seems he was going to have a heart attack anyways).
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Jan 10, 2014 15:57
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Hoopy Frood posted:That explanation is a bit misleading and it implies that the missileers could have launched nukes at any time they liked without Presidential approval. In reality, they didn't receive the Emergency Action Message from SAC (Strategic Air Command) Headquarters until the President had given SAC his order. The President would authenticate with SAC, and SAC would then send a coded message to the missile stations. It was only if that coded message matched a code that was already in the missile bunker that the missiles could be programmed with the co-ordinates for their destination and the launch instructions. The 1980's film Wargames has quite an accurate scene with it. It's also basically the entire plot of Crimson Tide.
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Jan 10, 2014 19:17
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Coffee And Pie posted:In 21 Jump St, Channing Tatum comments that the new drug they're invenstigating tastes like "BBQ cool ranch." The gym teacher, who is eating Cool Ranch Doritos in basically every scene he's in, turns out to be the supplier. I never managed to put that together which is odd, because now that you say it, I can picture him doing it in every scene. I guess I just associated that with him just being a lovely, low-effort teacher.
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Jan 10, 2014 19:35
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ninjahedgehog posted:It's also basically the entire plot of Crimson Tide. Is it ever explained what the hell even happened there? How could SAC have mistakenly sent the launch codes to the sub? That just seems like such a deliberate action, I don't understand where the initial gently caress up was. Or maybe the original launch order was legitimate but for some reason they missed the order to cancel the launch? Its been a long time since I've seen the movie.
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Jan 10, 2014 20:04
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Basebf555 posted:Is it ever explained what the hell even happened there? How could SAC have mistakenly sent the launch codes to the sub? That just seems like such a deliberate action, I don't understand where the initial gently caress up was. Or maybe the original launch order was legitimate but for some reason they missed the order to cancel the launch? Its been a long time since I've seen the movie. The second one. They get found by a Russian sub while preparing to launch and in the battle the radio equipment is damaged in the process of receiving another EAM.
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Jan 10, 2014 20:11
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Mister Nobody posted:Was just rewatching Big trouble in little China on netflix. Isn't that knife that he pulls out and starts jamming into miao yin(sp?)'s arm and drawing blood?
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Jan 10, 2014 21:07
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Goofy thing from Les Miserables (2012) is near the end when Thenardier is getting thrown out of the wedding party he still manages to steal one of the waiter's wigs on the way out.
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Jan 11, 2014 06:31
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Having downed a few whiskey's I put on my favorite 'drunk melancholy' film; the director's cut of Bladerunner. Seeing it in 1080p for the first time I noticed that, as Deckard 'retires' Zhora she falls through several glass panes full of mannequins, one of which has a thick wire of lights coiling around it, like a snake.
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Jan 11, 2014 06:57
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I saw Disney's Frozen recently. Nothing spoilery, just that there's this one scene early in the film in a castle's gallery. One of the paintings is "The Swing" rendered in the style of the film. There's a few other paintings shown in that brief scene but I'm not sure if they have any irl sources as well.
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Jan 11, 2014 13:53
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In Black Dynamite, my favourite scene, there's something not particularly subtle but I dunno. Watch until the end of that scene then check the spoiler, or don't, whichever takes your fancy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdXJli0Bc4k&t=1888s Towards the end, when he's shooting, he has a 6 shot revolver, he fires about 11 shots without reloading.
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Jan 11, 2014 14:52
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Epileptic Monkey posted:In Black Dynamite, my favourite scene, there's something not particularly subtle but I dunno. Watch until the end of that scene then check the spoiler, or don't, whichever takes your fancy: Well, yeah. He's Black Dynamite. And the reveal of the Big Bad, while it isn't quite "subtle" is perfectly in line with 70's blaxploitation films.
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Epileptic Monkey posted:In Black Dynamite, my favourite scene, there's something not particularly subtle but I dunno. Watch until the end of that scene then check the spoiler, or don't, whichever takes your fancy: God I love that movie. My favorite little nod to terrible filmmaking is the first scene with Honey Bee, where the camera keeps going back and forth between her and Black Dynamite's faces and she has a tear on her cheek in one shot, then it's gone the next, then it's back again, then it's gone again. Also less subtle, but the Black Panther that says his stage directions out loud is great. "THE MILITANTS TURN, STARTLED!" is my favorite first line by a character in history.
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Jan 11, 2014 16:08
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No Country For Old Men was brought up in the irritating movie moments thread, and it reminded me of a somewhat subtle part in the same scene. When Anton finds the hotel the Llewelyn hid the money, he gets another room with the same layout and begins mapping it in his head. He checks a little wall between the closet and the bedroom. When he storms the other room, he shoots that same little wall without knowing whether or not there was someone hiding there. What an awesome movie.
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Decided to watch Dreamworks' The Lorax this morning when I noticed what looked to be a Minion logo on Ted's shoes. edit: v I know. I merely meant I had to stop and back track since my initial glance was "it looked to be a logo," and lo and behold, it is. Transmogrifier has a new favorite as of 22:06 on Jan 11, 2014 |
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Jan 11, 2014 16:46
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Transmogrifier posted:Decided to watch Dreamworks' The Lorax this morning when I noticed what looked to be a Minion logo on Ted's shoes. I don't think that just looks to be a Minion logo. What with it being Gru's Shoes it is a Minion logo.
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Jan 11, 2014 17:38
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Epileptic Monkey posted:In Black Dynamite, my favourite scene, there's something not particularly subtle but I dunno. Watch until the end of that scene then check the spoiler, or don't, whichever takes your fancy: Which parallels the car chase in Bullitt, where Steve McQueen makes something like 27 upshifts without ever shifting down and one car loses more hubcaps than it has wheels.
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Jan 12, 2014 01:55
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Her ends with Jacquin Phoenix exhaling in the same way he yelled at Samantha for doing.
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Jan 12, 2014 04:20
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Timecrimes: while Hector 2 is posing the young woman, he stands up at one point and you can clearly see him hold his wedding ring hand. I thought it was a nice foreshadow for how Hector 3 resolves the roof situation.
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Jan 12, 2014 04:39
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AlternateAccount posted:Isn't that knife that he pulls out and starts jamming into miao yin(sp?)'s arm and drawing blood? Nah, he uses a long rear end needle to draw blood out of her/himself( I think, I never understood what was going on there.)
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Jan 12, 2014 05:29
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Mister Nobody posted:Nah, he uses a long rear end needle to draw blood out of her/himself( I think, I never understood what was going on there.) Lo Pan needs to bind himself to, and then sacrifice, a special woman with green eyes to appease his demon Ching Dai. When this is done he will be free to walk the Earth in his true, powerful physical form instead of a broken old body. Piercing her flesh shows a) they have been bound, and b) his true form is coming back as it causes him to bleed.
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Jan 12, 2014 05:43
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I saw Lone Survivor on Friday & during the rescue scene you see an Asian guy with un ugly mustache sitting in the back of the Chinook helicopter with the other SEALs. That's supposed to be Petty Officer 2nd Class James Suh, one of the 11 SEALs killed during Operation Red Wings. The fact Peter Berg made it a point to cast people that at least looked like their real-world counterparts (even if they're shown on-screen for a second) was pretty neat.
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Supreme Allah posted:Lo Pan needs to bind himself to, and then sacrifice, a special woman with green eyes to appease his demon Ching Dai. When this is done he will be free to walk the Earth in his true, powerful physical form instead of a broken old body. Piercing her flesh shows a) they have been bound, and b) his true form is coming back as it causes him to bleed. If there is still any confusion please consult this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xiAbDkXDgg
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Coffee And Pie posted:In 21 Jump St, Channing Tatum comments that the new drug they're invenstigating tastes like "BBQ cool ranch." The gym teacher, who is eating Cool Ranch Doritos in basically every scene he's in, turns out to be the supplier. Doesn't the same teacher specifically mention that he accidentally created the drug when he burnt his chips on a bunsen burner?
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He says he was cooking meth when he dropped some of his Cool Ranch Doritos into it.
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Supreme Allah posted:Lo Pan needs to bind himself to, and then sacrifice, a special woman with green eyes to appease his demon Ching Dai. When this is done he will be free to walk the Earth in his true, powerful physical form instead of a broken old body. Piercing her flesh shows a) they have been bound, and b) his true form is coming back as it causes him to bleed. I got that he did successfully appease the God of the East and Equal of Heaven Ching Dai. I just cannot understand why he starts bleeding all of a sudden, the needle was nowhere near his bleeding fingers. Robo Pope posted:He says he was cooking meth when he dropped some of his Cool Ranch Doritos into it. I just realized the fact that its meth that the drug was made of, makes that whole scene where they try it incredibly dark. Mister Nobody has a new favorite as of 02:11 on Jan 13, 2014 |
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Mister Nobody posted:I got that he did successfully appease the God of the East and Equal of Heaven Ching Dai. I just cannot understand why he starts bleeding all of a sudden, the needle was nowhere near his bleeding fingers. I remember it being the fingers he was using to push the needle into the brides flesh and breaking his own skin from the effort.
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I saw the movie twice yesterday (my daughter likes repetition). He sticks the needle of love in Miao Yin's arm and then he bleeds from the same spot. His fingers aren't bleeding--he reached inside his robe to touch the part of his arm that mirrored where he'd stabbed Miao Yin, and he drew back bloody fingers.
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Lotish posted:(my daughter likes repetition) Go watch 'Run Lola Run' a few times in a row, it might cure her of that. 
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Lemon posted:If there is still any confusion please consult this video: This is absolutely glorious. Even got James Hong as a cameo. Perfect.
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