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Also wasn't everyone outside of the bathroom "in on it," so to speak?
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More Arrested Development stuff that I just discovered. Tobias, Lindsay and Maeby all go to a fictional Indian town called Shuturmug - Śutura murga is Hindi for "ostrich", a running theme throughout season 4. Goddamn, that show.
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All on Black posted:More Arrested Development stuff that I just discovered. Tobias, Lindsay and Maeby all go to a fictional Indian town called Shuturmug - Śutura murga is Hindi for "ostrich", a running theme throughout season 4. Goddamn, that show.  Daaaaaaaaayumn that's subtle.
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May 1, 2014 01:47
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All on Black posted:More Arrested Development stuff that I just discovered. Tobias, Lindsay and Maeby all go to a fictional Indian town called Shuturmug - Śutura murga is Hindi for "ostrich", a running theme throughout season 4. Goddamn, that show. 
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May 1, 2014 11:23
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Oculus spoilers the blending of the past and present actually starts before the characters notice it. After one of them changes a lightbulb by the kitchen counter in the "present," the film cuts to the past and one of the lightbulbs is still on the kitchen counter, but nobody seems to notice it.
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May 1, 2014 11:29
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I rewatched some old favorites, starting with The Emperor's New Groove. There's a hilarious moment I'd always (apparently) missed early in the movie after Kuzco tells Pacha that he's going to destroy his village; as Pacha is being escorted out, Kuzco says "oh and make sure to fill out a change of address form on your way out." What a total rear end! I also watched The Adam's Family, and during that part when Wednesday and Pugsly are talking to the girl scout there's a Tombstone Pizza billboard behind her head, and behind the Adam's children is a sign that reads "all major credit cards accepted!" Since the children are selling poisoned lemonade it's pretty funny commentary on the banking system in general.
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May 2, 2014 18:15
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Baron von Eevl posted:Also wasn't everyone outside of the bathroom "in on it," so to speak? Everyone except for Oddball and the Shifty Twins.
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In the mini-series 'Generation Kill' episode 5: They teams come across a dead Syrian fighter, and the battalion translator is going through his personal papers and passport: "His address in Iraq is the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad. Restaurant is 2 star, but room service is out of this world. And, if you go around the corner, there's a club where the ladies go, just say you are a friend of Uday's." I thought this was just some 'hey just say you're a friend of this guy, and he'll let you in.' - but it's Uday, the son of Saddam.
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May 2, 2014 19:15
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In Winter Soldier, in the scene when Nick Fury is waiting for Steve in his apartment, the song playing on the stereo is 1945 wartime hit "It's been a long long time." Minutes later, Steve is reunited with someone he hasn't seen since World War 2.
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May 3, 2014 01:12
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Heres Hank posted:In Winter Soldier, in the scene when Nick Fury is waiting for Steve in his apartment, the song playing on the stereo is 1945 wartime hit "It's been a long long time." Minutes later, Steve is reunited with someone he hasn't seen since World War 2. But did he kiss him once, kiss him twice, kiss him once again?
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May 3, 2014 02:51
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Nastyman posted:Everyone except for Oddball and the Shifty Twins. That would make a great band name.
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May 3, 2014 03:31
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I thought it was very brave of Winter Soldier to do a Transcendence parody.  Former Nazi scientist in hundreds of computers or not, it actually kinda bummed me out that Toby Jones' character welcomed his own death.  How can you hate on Toby Jones? He's like a Shrek character made real. It bums me out to see that guy suicidal.
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May have just noticed the most subtle joke in Robocop 2. Just before the scene when the main OCP guy is making his big presentation and robo-Kane & Robocop have their face off there's a shot of the someone ( the OCP bitch that put Kane's mind in the robot I think) rushing down the side stairs and she runs past a guy in a wheelchair. I guess that's their handicap seating up the back and round the corner. Which kinda shows what dick-bags OCP are....
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TheFallenEvincar posted:I thought it was very brave of Winter Soldier to do a Transcendence parody. Considering there was a very modern USB plugged into his system, there's a very high chance he was uploaded to other systems Maybe this is not so 'subtle' but I didn't catch it the first time: When Cap is fighting WS near the end of the movie you can feel the desperation mounting in Cap. He starts the fight hesitant, but near the end he 1)Lifts up WS by a neck, then slams him to the floor 2) Breaks his arm 3) Chokes out WS into unconsciousness. If that fight would have gone any longer I'm pretty sure Cap would have gouged an eye out and maybe broken another limb or two.
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We can talk about TV shows here, right? I doubt I'm the first person to notice this about Game of Thrones, but in a fantasy setting without dwarves in the "fantasy" sense, I like that the one dwarf character uses an ax in battle, a typical "fantasy dwarf" weapon.
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May 4, 2014 01:27
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C-Euro posted:We can talk about TV shows here, right? I doubt I'm the first person to notice this about Game of Thrones, but in a fantasy setting without dwarves in the "fantasy" sense, I like that the one dwarf character uses an ax in battle, a typical "fantasy dwarf" weapon. I think a chopping weapon would probably be best for someone his size anyway. I couldn't imagine him being a very good swordsman so you may as well give him a weighted, sharpened mass at the end of a long lever and let physics do the rest.
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May 4, 2014 03:36
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 This might be the reason why dwarfs use axes anyway
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C-Euro posted:We can talk about TV shows here, right? I doubt I'm the first person to notice this about Game of Thrones, but in a fantasy setting without dwarves in the "fantasy" sense, I like that the one dwarf character uses an ax in battle, a typical "fantasy dwarf" weapon. Early on, GRRM clearly had no idea what Tyrion was going to be. If you read the first 1/4th of 'A Game of Thrones', when some of the main characters are defined, Tyrion is literally a tumbling specialist. He jumps around on his arms and does circus flips. It's plain weird. Then at some point he apparently goes 'ah.. right. Dwarf.'
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Supreme Allah posted:Early on, GRRM clearly had no idea what Tyrion was going to be. If you read the first 1/4th of 'A Game of Thrones', when some of the main characters are defined, Tyrion is literally a tumbling specialist. He jumps around on his arms and does circus flips. It's plain weird. Then at some point he apparently goes 'ah.. right. Dwarf.' Tyrion's arms are stronger than his legs. It kind of makes sense that he learned to walk on his hands somehow, and it equally makes sense that he doesn't do it around his tight-rear end father who hates him for not being normal.
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May 4, 2014 10:02
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For the first time ever, in Wreck-It Ralph, I realized that in one of the opening scenes in the penthouse, when Ralph smashes the anniversary cake, the splotches of frosting on the Nicelanders' clothes have Tetris shapes in them.
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May 4, 2014 20:19
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Cowslips Warren posted:For the first time ever, in Wreck-It Ralph, I realized that in one of the opening scenes in the penthouse, when Ralph smashes the anniversary cake, the splotches of frosting on the Nicelanders' clothes have Tetris shapes in them. I thought they were just pixellated shapes, not specifically Tetris.
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I just found Killer Joe on Blu-Ray still in shinkwrap for three bucks at a thrift shop. Holy poo poo, this movie. One thing I noticed is that Joe's "I'm twelve, too" might not just be weird sexual role play. Earlier in the film Chris touches his shoulder as Joe is leaving and Joe totally loses his cool for the first time. I may be reading too far into it but I took it as a hint that Joe is a child abuse victim as well, hence his instant fixation on Dottie.
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Something funny I noticed in the new Spider-Man movie, Peter almost always has a beanie stuck in his pocket. What a great excuse for the hat-hair that no doubt comes with wearing a Spider-Man mask.
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May 6, 2014 23:05
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Amazing Spider-Man 2 I'm not sure if this was intentional but Rhino was initially a Russian gangster wearing a tracksuit. The current Hawkeye comic is filled to the brim with Russian gangsters in tracksuits.
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May 7, 2014 00:15
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That's just kind of a common way to depict that kind of character
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May 7, 2014 00:18
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In Hot Fuzz, while its a plot point that the local newspaper is riddled with spelling errors the subtle bit is how dedicated to it they were. Even when it wasn't the focus of the scene the newspaper had some kind of error on it.
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Baron von Eevl posted:Also wasn't everyone outside of the bathroom "in on it," so to speak? The hand dryer thing is precautionary in case one of the five people in the town who are still human wander inside, not to mention any possibility of other tourists we don't know about. It's really there, though, to set up a really great subtle moment: If you listen closely as Oliver leaves the bathroom in the Trusty Servant, when the door opens you can hear the hand dryer still going off.
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Action Tortoise posted:Amazing Spider-Man 2 More subtle is the clock stopping at 1:21...Gwen died in issue 121.
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In the Winter Soldier there's a scene where Robert Redford's character is talking with a British representative on some global council asking her how her trip was; she replies something along the lines of 'the flight went perfectly fine, but the drive to SHIELD headquarters didn't go as smoothe', to which Redford apologises for the traffic in the city. However, the rep is actually Black Widow. It was an unpleasant drive becasue she kidnapped the real representative.
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melon cat posted:A small aside- did anyone notice the similarity between Johnny Mo (leader of the Crazy 88) and Pai Mei? On top of the fact that the Pai Mei/Abbot White/White Lotus character is himself a kung fu movie trope and it's nearly canon that it's the same guy doing all this evil poo poo, usually as the leader of Wudang Clan and almost ALWAYS against the Shaolin. In Kill Bill 2, Bill even says that Pai Mei is 1000 years old. And then there's the whole story about Pai Mei killing off the Shaolin Temple which is a direct nod to Shao Lin v. Wu Dang, a movie that also starred Gordon Liu. In fact, Gordon Liu and Pai Mei have a pretty long history.
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The sheriff who investigates the church massacre and the ruthless old Mexican pimp are also played by the same guy, Michael Parks.
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MrAristocrates posted:The hand dryer thing is precautionary in case one of the five people in the town who are still human wander inside, not to mention any possibility of other tourists we don't know about. More World's End stuff: The hand dryer sound is to mask the sound of their hand-mounted human mulchers more than anything - a bar brawl, eh, whatever. The sound of grinding up a person? Bit more uncommon. At least, that's how I always saw it.
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I'm rewatching Kill Bill because it's too hot to do anything involving moving, and I noticed this: The cereal box where Copperhead hides her gun is called "KABOOM"  Also, there's this cool flow between this painting behind The Bride...:  That echoes the branch in the window in the immediate next scene...:  Which emphasizes both The Brides' focused rage and the the gunshot Copperhead gets off by distracting The Bride with chatter, before getting knifed. Chard has a new favorite as of 03:15 on May 17, 2014 |
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Chard posted:I'm rewatching Kill Bill because it's too hot to do anything involving moving, and I noticed this: Tarantino also appears in an Itchy and Scratchy segment mentioning violence is every where, including breakfast cereal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHpehxksVLA
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That scene in Kill Bill 2 where the Bride wakes up in a coffin and the camera rotates around to give a panoramic view of the interior is most likely inspired by The Vanishing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7_2j-XPR_k
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chapstickie posted:That's how I saw it. They hit the dryer to cover the noise and immediately start smashing things and making way more noise than it could cover. I thought it was funny though not subtle. It's something the teens did before they were absorbed. The blanks are fae-like in their adherence to the 'proper' way of doing things, and therefore when they start a fight even knowing that everyone else in town is in on it they follow the trappings of their former selves.
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Chard posted:I'm rewatching Kill Bill because it's too hot to do anything involving moving, and I noticed this: In case anyone is wondering, Kaboom cereal is totes real. It seems like one of those gag products invented just for a movie, especially given Tarantino's penchant for using fake brands in his films, but I encountered my first box almost 25 years ago. To this day, I still think it's one of the most hilariously honest product names I have ever seen. It's a super sugary hyper-activity inducing cereal called KABOOM.
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Centripetal Horse posted:In case anyone is wondering, Kaboom cereal is totes real. It seems like one of those gag products invented just for a movie, especially given Tarantino's penchant for using fake brands in his films, but I encountered my first box almost 25 years ago. To this day, I still think it's one of the most hilariously honest product names I have ever seen. It's a super sugary hyper-activity inducing cereal called KABOOM. I think old cereal boxes in his films is one of his trademarks. Fruit Brute cereal boxes appear in both Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction. Speaking of Tarantino names, I assumed at first that the 'Red Apple' cigarettes mentioned in Pulp Fiction were Lucky Strikes...The round red logo on the Lucky Strike packs could conceivably represent an apple, and the green logo on the menthol packs could therefore be nicknamed Green Apples. I thought I was pretty clever for getting this reference until The Bride walks past a Red Apples advertising billboard in Pulp Fiction and it's shown to be a completely different brand. Hoopy Frood has a new favorite as of 11:00 on May 17, 2014 |
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Action Tortoise posted:That scene in Kill Bill 2 where the Bride wakes up in a coffin and the camera rotates around to give a panoramic view of the interior is most likely inspired by The Vanishing. It's worth noting that they're referencing the original in that clip, not the American remake made in the nineties with the exact same title. That one would a prime example of a Hollywood ending: "Fortunately, Jeff has revived and is able to climb out of the grave and kill his tormentor with the shovel he had used to bury Jeff and Diane. The remake ends with Jeff and Rita back together, selling the story as a novel to a publishing company." It's a bit of a difference.
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