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...of SCIENCE! posted:If you look at Meiji-era Japan or Communist-controlled China you can see how religions and social institutions can vanish in less than a generation, it's really not that unbelievable that the Jedi could vanish in a similar span of time. It's not about the institution vanishing, it's about people not believing it ever was a real thing, when they were apparently the police force of the galaxy like twenty years ago. It would be more akin to the USSR trying to deny that the Czars ever existed.
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John Big Booty posted:Because George Lucas is an awful storyteller and has horrendous instincts.
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Pretty much every script ever written had tons of poo poo that was refined or discarded over the course of countless rewrites, the fact that people think that pointing out this fact about the movies George Lucas worked is some sort of  just shows what a worthless cargo cult attempt at film criticism has sprung up in the wake of the nerd backlash against Lucas.
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Jun 14, 2014 08:28
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You seriously don't see the humor in making Indiana Jones a pedophile?
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...of SCIENCE! posted:Pretty much every script ever written had tons of poo poo that was refined or discarded over the course of countless rewrites, the fact that people think that pointing out this fact about the movies George Lucas worked is some sort of Most screenwriters would not write their protagonist as having hosed a 10 year old, and not noticed that there was anything wrong with that. Regardless of how much (deserved or undeserved) flak Lucas has taken recently, you gotta admit that's kinda hosed up.
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Dr_Amazing posted:You seriously don't see the humor in making Indiana Jones a pedophile? *shakes bag of sand* This pussy looks to be about 18 years old. It belongs in a museum!
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...of SCIENCE! posted:Pretty much every script ever written had tons of poo poo that was refined or discarded over the course of countless rewrites, the fact that people think that pointing out this fact about the movies George Lucas worked is some sort of All great films had the protagonist be a child rapist at one point or another, it's really no big deal e: in it's a wonderful life he originally wanted to kill himself because his 12-year-old gf wanted to break up e: you don't want to know what the godfather was once scripted to do to his goddaughters e: casablanca? of all the preschools in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine e: dr strangelove, or how i learned to stop worrying and love the middle school class president e: Juror #3: It's these kids - the way they are nowadays. When I was a kid I used to call my father, "Sir". That's right. "Sir". You ever hear a kid call his father that anymore? Juror #8: Fathers don't seem to think it's important anymore. Juror #3: [looking at him] You got any kids? Juror #8: Three. Juror #3: I got one. Twenty-two years old. [takes photo from his wallet and shows it to Juror #8] Juror #3: Aah. When he was nine years old he ran away from a fight. I saw it; I was so embarrassed I almost threw up. I said, "I'm gonna make a man outta you if I have to break you in two tryin'". And I made a man out of him. with my penis e: dorothy molested toto e: james likes to bond with age 007 e: ocean's 11 year olds e: million dollar baby e: the mail order child bride of frankenstein e: E.T. the ephebophilic toucher e: some like it young e: the mods who knew too much e: the bridge on the river kawaii Lottery of Babylon has a new favorite as of 14:46 on Jun 14, 2014 |
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Depends on what you call a "great movie:" I Know What We Did Last Summer Camp The Unbearable Lightness of Being in Love With a Kid Earth Tweens Are Easy Brokeback Mountain Elementary School American Beauty christ there is no way i'm beating "bridge over the river kawaii"
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Are we still doing George Lucas jokes or is this just the worst possible variant of "let's invent porn parody titles"?
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Jun 14, 2014 16:50
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*pedophiliac parody porn titles
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My Lovely Horse posted:Are we still doing George Lucas jokes or is this just the worst possible variant of "let's invent porn parody titles"? It's just the least funny attempt at 'let's invent porn parody titles' ever attempted.
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GIANT OUIJA BOARD posted:It's not about the institution vanishing, it's about people not believing it ever was a real thing, when they were apparently the police force of the galaxy like twenty years ago. It would be more akin to the USSR trying to deny that the Czars ever existed. The assumption that the jedi were a big deal 20 years ago is one that comes from the later material. I can't recall any lines in the originals that would really suggest what we saw in the prequels. The Jedi could have been in decline for decades or centuries, and Vader killing them was the last gasp, leaving just obiwan and yoda as old dudes who couldn't stand up to him and would die with the last of jedi knowledge. It certainly would have been better that way.
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Maybe all remaining jedis were 12 years old when they had sexual relations with Han Solo That would explain everything
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:christ there is no way i'm beating "bridge over the river kawaii" Nope.
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Varjon posted:The assumption that the jedi were a big deal 20 years ago is one that comes from the later material. I can't recall any lines in the originals that would really suggest what we saw in the prequels. The Jedi could have been in decline for decades or centuries, and Vader killing them was the last gasp, leaving just obiwan and yoda as old dudes who couldn't stand up to him and would die with the last of jedi knowledge. It certainly would have been better that way. Yeah, and that's how I'd always assumed it was until the prequels came out and it was like "nope! Jedis everywhere!"
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Something that bugs me about The Bourne Legacy is how the bad guys just indiscriminately kill everyone in the program. Especially because the movie shows all of the various people don't actually know anything outside of their little section.
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It's good to see that in their alternate history the X-Men: Days of Future Past don't need to worry themselves with the carotid artery or bleeding all that much.
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:Depends on what you call a "great movie:" Fine, I'll beat it. 8 1/2.
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Frostwerks posted:Fine, I'll beat it. 8 1/2. please dont
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Those are my stats.
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Father of the Child Bride Aartek Into Darkness
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I would rename this thread PYF Instantly Unfunny Joke but you can't rename your own threads anymore unfortunately. Been watching House MD recently on Netflix, which is not a movie, but it does contain a couple of the most irritating elements of a serial TV show: Namely how formulaic the A-story always is. I love the show, really I do. The characters are great and the B-story is almost always interesting, but the patient-of-the-week side of it is almost always the same thing. In the first act, something is wrong with the patient but we dunno what it is!! Let's throw out some doctor-y words so the viewers remember this is a hospital show too. In the second act, we and/or House tried something but it didn't work and now the patient is worse! gently caress!! In the third act, House talks to a member of his team or Wilson and either he says something and stops in mid-sentence or someone else says something that gives him the magical cure to the patient's illness, complete with the camera zooming in slowly on his awed expression. In the denouement, the patient is now fine and the B-story has usually been resolved. Again, it shouldn't bother me because I still really love the show and it's supposed to be more about the B-story anyway (some would argue that the patients ARE the B-story), but god drat my eyes hurt from rolling them so hard when nobody listens to House in the second act despite him always being right in the third. CJacobs has a new favorite as of 10:45 on Jun 15, 2014 |
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House was essentially Scooby Doo, MD. Only a few episodes I've seen out of the first three or four seasons ever really broke the formula. I do remember the ferry crash episode as one of my favorites.
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It does make the episodes where they change it up stand out a lot, I will say that.
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Wild T posted:House was essentially Scooby Doo, MD. I thought it was meant to be Sherlock Holmes MD, hence the lead character's name. My doctor really is called House, and that show annoys the hell out of her.
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Jedit posted:I thought it was meant to be Sherlock Holmes MD, hence the lead character's name. Scooby Doo is ALSO Sherlock Holmes, being the obvious conclusion...
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Jedit posted:I thought it was meant to be Sherlock Holmes MD, hence the lead character's name. It's fairly obvious that's intentional. House, Holmes. Wilson, Watson. Crippling addiction, etc.
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Wild T posted:House was essentially Scooby Doo, MD. Only a few episodes I've seen out of the first three or four seasons ever really broke the formula. I do remember the ferry crash episode as one of my favorites. 
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Haha, the show just took a shot at its own formula; Cuddy asked House how he was going to figure out the patient's real problem and he said he was gonna go talk to Wilson about something totally unrelated and see what happens. I'm glad they're self-aware about it. edit: Oh man, this entire episode revolves around her, so the glimpses you see of the normal characters have them doing what they normally do. I love the episodes where you get to see an episode of House from the outside, man I love this show. 
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Wait, wait, we can;t be dine with Padeophile Film Club just yet... Bring me the head from Alfredo Garcia Jr Ok, now we're done. On to Mornington Crescent.
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Back on the video game thing, there's a powerful scene in Breaking Bad where Jessie is having a PTSD flashback while playing a light-gun video game. It was well shot and well done, but the game he was playing was RAGE, and that just threw me. It was cool to see a proper IP, it just didn't mesh that they changed a FPS to a railed light-gun shooter.
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Their flashing tongues, spitting out blood and poison.
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I stopped watching House after a few seasons, was it ever lupus?
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Your Gay Uncle posted:I stopped watching House after a few seasons, was it ever lupus? It was actually lupus one time. I think it was a time no else suggested it and even he was surprised.
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malal posted:Back on the video game thing, there's a powerful scene in Breaking Bad where Jessie is having a PTSD flashback while playing a light-gun video game. It was well shot and well done, but the game he was playing was RAGE, and that just threw me. It was cool to see a proper IP, it just didn't mesh that they changed a FPS to a railed light-gun shooter. And since Breaking Bad takes place "in the past" by anywhere from a few months to a few years (aside from the first season,) it technically wasn't released yet in the Breaking Bad world.
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malal posted:Back on the video game thing, there's a powerful scene in Breaking Bad where Jessie is having a PTSD flashback while playing a light-gun video game. It was well shot and well done, but the game he was playing was RAGE, and that just threw me. It was cool to see a proper IP, it just didn't mesh that they changed a FPS to a railed light-gun shooter. I think there actually was a RAGE railed shooter, but it was only released on iOS. So they were just 50% wrong. 
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DrBouvenstein posted:And since Breaking Bad takes place "in the past" by anywhere from a few months to a few years (aside from the first season,) it technically wasn't released yet in the Breaking Bad world. It wasn't released in our world either. That episode aired in the summer and the game didn't come out until that fall.
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Hollywood's idea that London is commutable (by any means) in a matter of minutes. Seriously every film that has shots in London gently caress up our geography so bad. 28 Days Later had people turning a corner at Wembly before arriving at Canary Wharf. This is a 15-20 min drive, even with 0 traffic. With dead bodies, abandoned cars and other poo poo that would have happened to the city it's an hour minimum. National Treasure 2 is just all over the loving place. Thor 2, he gets on a tube and asks if this train goes to Greenwich. A passenger replies saying it's 3 stops down the line. Problem being the line he was on doesn't go anywhere near Greenwich. Bourne Somethingorother (the 3rd one) has a sniper scene at Waterloo trainstation but even fucks up the geography of that once the chase starts. Is it really so hard to send out some sight and location scouts to figure out what would break immersion for anyone that has visited or lived in this city?
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Considering you used 28 Days Later as an example, safe to say that even you Brits are guilty of your complaint and it's not just a Hollywood issue.
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