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DrSnakeLaser posted:I'm not even getting into how the T-rex managed to eat everyone on board the ship and in the cabin despite being locked inside. Unless there were some other dinosaurs the film never mentioned. There are. The scene was cut from the film, but originally the crew would have been eaten by stealth raptors. How the raptors got free, or how they released the T-Rex, well...I guess that's anybodies guess. For content: almost every time the University of California, Los Angeles shows up in film, we will see the students being lectured by a professor in the same loving room. You know the one: it is a long hall with old wooden furniture and a stone floor with a black-and-white checkers pattern. It is invariably a class on poetry, and at the end of it the professor will tell their students that papers are due next week. My problem with this is that (and I know this irrational, but hey! that's the thread!) those lectures are always of a level that a 6th grader could understand them. Yes, I know comparative literature is not the most thrilling field to see in action, but the UCLA has a pretty renowned literature department and this is just silly. Oh, and bonuspoints if the teacher is prof. McDreamy Beefcake who romantically recites a poem while everyone in the class looks bored with the exception of our protagonist, who finds this speaks to his/her sensitive soul. So not only are these English/comparative literature students attending a class for morons, but they are also bored to death by the prospect of a poem.
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Jun 19, 2014 21:48
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dpack_1 posted:Don't they briefly explain this by saying it uses the snow it plows as a clean water source as well as a way of cooling said super infinite energy machine? It was a global ice age. Snow and cold are not something they have to circle the globe to get. Just a build a bunker so everything doesn't have to be in a straight line.
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Jun 19, 2014 23:21
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Sobatchja Morda posted:For content: almost every time the University of California, Los Angeles shows up in film, we will see the students being lectured by a professor in the same loving room. You know the one: it is a long hall with old wooden furniture and a stone floor with a black-and-white checkers pattern. It is invariably a class on poetry, and at the end of it the professor will tell their students that papers are due next week.
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Jun 19, 2014 23:25
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God drat it do I hate movies that do the whole "start sentence- jump cut to a different scene -finish sentence" thing. As if a real person would just hold in the last two words of a sentence until the exact right moment when something else is happening.
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Jun 19, 2014 23:49
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Squalitude posted:Out of interest, how do you know all this? I saw the last 5 minutes of it while I was waiting for something else to start on the TV channel, and it was absolutely insufferable and terrible- but then I knew that it must be when I read the blurb for the film. How did you get through the entire film..? I watched the film more than a year ago, i saw it with some friends (i didn't pick it) otherwise i wouldn't have bothered. At the time i saw the actual film i had recently travelled to Ireland so i was even more familiar with the wrong shots and geography. I stayed with a friend who lived there and stayed there for two weeks. As he lived in a town smack dab in the middle of Ireland, we went to some of the places the film is supposed to depict and i got familiar with the the routes of trains and busses and stuff (we travelled alot those two weeks, and with no car it was basically trains and busses all the way). It's how i noticed the carst cliffs in the beginning of the film actually were the ones on the Aran islands, and not, as it's in the film, in Dingle. Never went to Dingle, but i did go to Aran. Also the anachronistic stereotypes became extra glaring for that reason. I'll name one: the roadtripping protagonist couple have to pretend they're married when they need to stay at a BnB because the lady owner is a catholic fundie. Like any owner of a BnB in recession Ireland is going to turn away tourist couples who aren't married. TLDR: Watched the film iwth company and thus didn't pick it, and recently having been to Ireland before watching the film made the flaws even more glaring and memorable. Falukorv has a new favorite as of 00:49 on Jun 20, 2014 |
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Jun 20, 2014 00:31
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Falukorv posted:Also the anachronistic stereotypes became extra glaring for that reason. I'll name one: the roadtripping protagonist couple have to pretend they're married when they need to stay at a BnB because the lady owner is a catholic fundie. Like any owner of a BnB in recession Ireland is going to turn away tourist couples who aren't married. Not Ireland but there was a British B&B owner who refused to rent to a gay couple for religious reasons a few years back.
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Jun 20, 2014 00:51
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Frostwerks posted:Not Ireland but there was a British B&B owner who refused to rent to a gay couple for religious reasons a few years back. Turning people away from an inn: Exactly what Jesus wanted.
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Jun 20, 2014 00:56
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Hey, he had to sleep in a barn, why can't they? Are they better than JESUS? 
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Jun 20, 2014 01:58
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dpack_1 posted:Don't they briefly explain this by saying it uses the snow it plows as a clean water source as well as a way of cooling said super infinite energy machine? More or less. If I'm remembering it right, the entire reason the perpetual motion engine is on a train is because the motion of the train in an unending loop is part of what keeps it perpetual. And the designer really liked trains. So the same engine couldn't just be hooked up to a bunker and work. It has to keep moving itself to maintain itself. In other words: Magic.
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Jun 20, 2014 04:34
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CJacobs posted:God drat it do I hate movies that do the whole "start sentence- jump cut to a different scene -finish sentence" thing. As if a real person would just hold in the last two words of a sentence until the exact right moment when something else is happening. Some show(Archer I think) made fun of that.
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Jun 20, 2014 05:00
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Gaunab posted:Some show(Archer I think) made fun of that. There was an episode of the Simpsons where the Army was running a wargame in which the objective was to capture Homer. Homer hides out at Moe's Bar, where Moe assures him that nothing the Army does will convince him to betray Homer. So then they do the thing CJacobs was complaining about : "Hey, some things mean more to me than money..." [cut to Moe receiving a huge stack of cash from the general hunting Homer] "Like a whole lot of money!" To which the general asks, "Why did you just say that sentence fragment?"
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Jun 20, 2014 05:35
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Gaunab posted:Some show(Archer I think) made fun of that. Archer does it literally all the loving time though, except the first and last bit of the sentence are said by two different characters, or sometimes it's just the second character makes a comment thats sounds like a response to whatever the first character said. That's my Irrationally Irritating Archer Moment. In my opinion it stopped being funny or clever after the first 50 times.
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Jun 20, 2014 11:02
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Die Hard is one of my favorite movies ever, but it bugs me every time they show the scene where they call Stockholm syndrome "Helsinki syndrome." Why?
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Jun 20, 2014 16:38
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Coffee And Pie posted:Die Hard is one of my favorite movies ever, but it bugs me every time they show the scene where they call Stockholm syndrome "Helsinki syndrome." It could have been intentional, to point out that the so-called "terrorism expert" wasn't very good at it. Or it could be an error. It's an 80s action movie, after all.
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Jun 20, 2014 16:44
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It's a well known blooper. Though I like Kozmonaut's theory on it being intentional, there has never been any indication that was the case.
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Jun 20, 2014 16:50
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I believe a similar mistake was made in an episode of Babylon 5. I'm wondering if it was a legit mistake, or a nod to Die Hard.
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Jun 20, 2014 17:04
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I always assumed some berk at the studio assumed they'd get a stern letter from whoever held copyright on stockholm syndrome.
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Jun 20, 2014 17:05
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Coffee And Pie posted:Die Hard is one of my favorite movies ever, but it bugs me every time they show the scene where they call Stockholm syndrome "Helsinki syndrome."  "Well, what's Helsinki Syndrome?" "It's when you're an idiot and get Sweden and Finland mixed up."
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Jun 20, 2014 17:29
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The expert who says Helsinki syndrome has a book called "Hostage Terrorist / Terrorist Hostage: A Study in Duality" which is an obvious joke on academia. I always assumed it was intentional that he's talking out of his rear end. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7VHiz1V7Fs (0:45 and on)
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Jun 20, 2014 17:48
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Wikipedia says it's a common mistake but it's not clear which is the cause and which is the effect.
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Jun 20, 2014 23:24
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Yuran M. Bazil posted:Archer does it literally all the loving time though Figuratively! Figuratively all the loving time.
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Jun 21, 2014 14:37
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FightingMongoose posted:Figuratively! Figuratively all the loving time. What about all the time that's not for loving? Literally, despite its meaning, doesn't always have to be used literally. Literally can be used figuratively and people should stop being such prescriptivist babies about it. 
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Jun 21, 2014 16:00
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It's a running joke on Archer, but I'm aware that I looked like a child when I made it.
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Jun 21, 2014 17:37
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In Thor 2, does the movie explain how Loki is imitating Odin at the end or where the real Odin is?
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Jun 21, 2014 19:04
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oldpainless posted:In Thor 2, does the movie explain how Loki is imitating Odin at the end or where the real Odin is? Nope, though the implication is pretty obvious.
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Jun 21, 2014 19:07
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oldpainless posted:In Thor 2, does the movie explain how Loki is imitating Odin at the end or where the real Odin is? For the first part, Loki can change shape.
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Jun 21, 2014 19:14
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oldpainless posted:In Thor 2, does the movie explain how Loki is imitating Odin at the end or where the real Odin is? It's a classic "what happens depends on business stuff." Hopkins has said he's not going to play Odin again. Obviously if they convince him to change his mind, he will be alive and in part 3. If he doesn't, Odin is dead. None of this makes the end any less jarring than if they had just gone with something definitive.
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Jun 21, 2014 19:55
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muscles like this? posted:For the first part, Loki can change shape. I always thought it was illusion rather than physical change.
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Jun 21, 2014 20:23
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thespaceinvader posted:I always thought it was illusion rather than physical change. In the movies you see him use illusions but its unclear on whether or not he's physically changing things when he does so. In the comics he can definitely actually change his shape to be other people.
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Jun 21, 2014 20:36
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Including a female horse. Complete with carrying sleipnir to term!
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Jun 21, 2014 20:39
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nucleicmaxid posted:Including a female horse. Complete with carrying sleipnir to term! This happened in a Marvel published comic as well as mythology?
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Jun 21, 2014 20:52
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MrJacobs posted:This happened in a Marvel published comic as well as mythology? It happened but as something characters have talked about happening in the past. There aren't issues of Thor where Loki is running around as a pregnant horse.
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Jun 21, 2014 21:02
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muscles like this? posted:It happened but as something characters have talked about happening in the past. There aren't issues of Thor where Loki is running around as a pregnant horse. Well that's mildly disappointing if only for the sheer absurdity of it.
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Jun 21, 2014 21:05
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Also currently Loki is going through a weird phase where he's not quite the same as he's been in the past so he can only shapeshift into versions of himself.
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Jun 21, 2014 21:10
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MrJacobs posted:Well that's mildly disappointing if only for the sheer absurdity of it. It would certainly attract a new demographic. That they couldn't get rid of. No matter how hard they tried.
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Jun 21, 2014 22:07
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Esroc posted:More or less. If I'm remembering it right, the entire reason the perpetual motion engine is on a train is because the motion of the train in an unending loop is part of what keeps it perpetual. And the designer really liked trains. So the same engine couldn't just be hooked up to a bunker and work. It has to keep moving itself to maintain itself. I haven't seen the movie yet, but in the original albums it's made clear that the Snowpiercer is not capable of running eternally.
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Jun 21, 2014 23:32
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oldpainless posted:In Thor 2, does the movie explain how Loki is imitating Odin at the end or where the real Odin is? Why is it Thor can see through his bullshit in the cell but not when he's posing as Odin?
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Jun 22, 2014 01:52
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Action Tortoise posted:Why is it Thor can see through his bullshit in the cell but not when he's posing as Odin? It wasn't really Thor literally seeing through the magic, Thor just knew Loki would be a broken mess after their mother's death.
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Jun 22, 2014 02:32
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mng posted:I was watching Back to the Future the other night and it reminded me of one of my peeves: Actors not looking like they are playing an instrument correctly. Fox did OK for the most part, but when he suddenly isn't holding onto the strings, or he's sliding up or down the neck while the pitch is going the opposite way it stands out. And it equally stands out nicely when actors know how to play/fake it enough to look good to the casual observer. This can also go horribly wrong. In Buffy The Vampire Slayer (TV) any scenes with Oz' band playing feature Seth Green on guitar, and he looks like he learnt to play the guitar for that role so he didn't appear to be faking when on camera. The result is a 'professional' band rocking out on stage while the guitarist looks like he's playing Bad Moon Rising at his 6th grade recital.
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