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bobkatt013 posted:Its all explained in the novelization of the movie - The shark may be acting under the influence of a vengeful voodoo witch doctor. That the studio paid for that piece of garbage to be novelized is my irrationally irritating moment.
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# ? Jun 30, 2014 21:58 |
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You also forgot how the fist kill in Revenge it seems like the shark set it up so he could lure Dead Meat Brody out to the dock. What an awful movie.
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# ? Jun 30, 2014 21:58 |
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Pook Good Mook posted:That the studio paid for that piece of garbage to be novelized is my irrationally irritating moment. Grease 2 had a novelization.
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# ? Jun 30, 2014 22:00 |
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WAR CRIME SYNDICAT posted:Similar thing: I was bored and watching some crime procedural called The Glades, and an episode had the main character talking to some kid saying he saw him playing X-Plane, then in the same breath saying he can't get to level 10. A few episodes later, and they've gone from referring to it as an xbox 360 to calling it an "Xstation". I assume it had something to do with Microsoft, but it was still strange. Oh, and the same show is ridiculous for advertising the Kia Optima. Girl gets held hostage in one, hostage taker comments on all the amenities. They even took to doing car commercial style shots anytime a Kia Optima was on screen. I mean, there's in-show advertisement, and then there's IN-SHOW ADVERTISEMENT. Bones wouldn't shut up about the loving car
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# ? Jun 30, 2014 22:05 |
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Aleph Null posted:NCIS had them working with someone who had the high score in all the MMOs. Star Gate Atlantis had one of the "nerd" characters trying to impress the boss by saying he had a lv 75 charcter. This was level cap was 70. I don't know if this was deliberate or not. Jackie Chans, Rumble in the Bronx. The kid plays a Sega game gear with no game in it. Surf Ninjas! Another game gear is played with out a cartridge or the wrong one. Edit. No show will ever beats Heros for car advertisements. The Nissan Versa! I still shout out "Nissan Versa!" when ever I see one drive by. Darth Freddy has a new favorite as of 22:08 on Jun 30, 2014 |
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DrBouvenstein posted:It's not the shark, it's Roy Scheider's wife. I could have sworn at one point the shark had a flashback too, although I refuse to do any research on this topic. Fake videogames are pretty bad but for my money nothing beats Law and Order websites. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG-2zZfLm-U&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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# ? Jun 30, 2014 22:34 |
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WickedHate posted:Grease 2 had a novelization. Grease 2 also had Adrian Zmed and bowling. So, gently caress Grease 2.
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# ? Jun 30, 2014 23:17 |
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DrBouvenstein posted:It's not the shark, it's Roy Scheider's wife. I would watch this film if it was about an entire family of Adrian Brodys getting chased by a shark with a Brody grudge.
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# ? Jul 1, 2014 00:32 |
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DrBouvenstein posted:Jaws: The Revenge There's a dude in that film who gets grabbed by the shark towards the end of the film. You see him underwater literally being eaten alive by the shark. Test screenings found that audiences loved that character and were sad he died, so... after being visibly eaten alive on-screen and also being underwater for at least 10 minutes he suddenly resurfaces at the end of the film a little bruised and battered but otherwise okay.
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# ? Jul 1, 2014 01:55 |
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I think it was in CSI NY where they get into some kind of faux Second Life to look for a suspect and when the ingame avatar starts running away the main character switches to a gamepad and tackles him down, which makes the suspect confess. There is also an episode where there is a death at some kind of Xbox 360 event. They end it with the entire crew playing Gears of War for like three minutes.
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# ? Jul 1, 2014 04:40 |
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WAR CRIME SYNDICAT posted:Similar thing: I was bored and watching some crime procedural called The Glades, and an episode had the main character talking to some kid saying he saw him playing X-Plane, then in the same breath saying he can't get to level 10. A few episodes later, and they've gone from referring to it as an xbox 360 to calling it an "Xstation". I assume it had something to do with Microsoft, but it was still strange. Oh, and the same show is ridiculous for advertising the Kia Optima. Girl gets held hostage in one, hostage taker comments on all the amenities. They even took to doing car commercial style shots anytime a Kia Optima was on screen. I mean, there's in-show advertisement, and then there's IN-SHOW ADVERTISEMENT. Watch The Last Stand. There's a terrorist outdriving all the cops in this sweet sportscar that only one dude in the FBI knows about and he goes to great lengths to explain all the car's features and why it's so good at schooling cops. There was a weird tales show in Disney Channel years back called So Weird. Good show early on, Henry Winkler had a funny episode. One of the episodes was about a guy designing a game that could program kids into becoming obedient Stepford children. There's shots of the kids holding handhelds like Gameboy Colors while a voice is heard hypnotizing the kids. But when the main character gets a copy of the game, it's in a CD jewel case that's obviously way too big to fit on a handheld.
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# ? Jul 1, 2014 05:28 |
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Action Tortoise posted:Watch The Last Stand. There's a terrorist outdriving all the cops in this sweet sportscar that only one dude in the FBI knows about and he goes to great lengths to explain all the car's features and why it's so good at schooling cops. Eh, that can be explained fairly easily. Games are programmed on computers before being put onto a cart. The CD could have been a copy of the original source.
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# ? Jul 1, 2014 05:41 |
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Azran posted:I think it was in CSI NY where they get into some kind of faux Second Life to look for a suspect and when the ingame avatar starts running away the main character switches to a gamepad and tackles him down, which makes the suspect confess. It was Real Second Life. The actual one. Well, they claimed it was. Does SL even have a 3D client?
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Action Tortoise posted:Watch The Last Stand. There's a terrorist outdriving all the cops in this sweet sportscar that only one dude in the FBI knows about and he goes to great lengths to explain all the car's features and why it's so good at schooling cops. What are the features? I do not want to watch what looks like a really bad movie.
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# ? Jul 1, 2014 06:41 |
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Avenging_Mikon posted:It was Real Second Life. The actual one. Well, they claimed it was. Does SL even have a 3D client? It's all 3D, I think.
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Razorwired posted:This bit gets extra funny when you remember that Sulu is the only member of the bridge crew that had close combat training. And it was loving fencing. I'm a terrible person for answering a Star Trek question pages late, but this makes sense in the original cannon. The universe is incredibly peaceful (at that point in the series) thanks to all the tech. The idea that fancy phaser wouldn't be enough and crewmen would be called on to fight man-to-man is pretty hard to believe. So it would have made sense, had the New Series not injected a ton of violence.
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# ? Jul 1, 2014 07:14 |
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Inzombiac posted:It's all 3D, I think. The over-shoulder camera kind? I thought it was all isometric.
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# ? Jul 1, 2014 07:26 |
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Frostwerks posted:What are the features? I do not want to watch what looks like a really bad movie. If I recall correctly, it's fast, painted black and the driver is wearing night vision goggles. It's literally an old urban legend.
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# ? Jul 1, 2014 07:39 |
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Darth Freddy posted:Edit. No show will ever beats Heros for car advertisements. The Nissan Versa! I still shout out "Nissan Versa!" when ever I see one drive by. Good lord, VERSA! NISSAN VERSA! was the single most effective car advertisement to ever be targeted at me. (A nerd who watches Heroes) It was so out of the blue.. and Hiro really, wanted that drat car. It killed me when I saw it, and I still think that line for every Versa I see. Then they tried it again with the Rogue and that's when I went 'hey wait I think nissan is trying to strike gold twice here' and it wasn't funny anymore. Then Heroes died and nobody remembers the third season. It's getting a reboot though.
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# ? Jul 1, 2014 09:09 |
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While we're on the subject of improbably-stealthed vehicles, it always annoyed me in Batman Begins that all he had to do was switch the Tumbler's lights off and decelerate slightly, and somehow all the pursuing cops including a helicopter with a searchlight trained on the vehicle immediately lost sight of him.
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# ? Jul 1, 2014 09:09 |
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Darth Freddy posted:Edit. No show will ever beats Heros for car advertisements. The Nissan Versa! I still shout out "Nissan Versa!" when ever I see one drive by. Burn Notice (Hyundai Genesis Coupe), White Collar (FORD FORD FORD!), Warehouse 13 (Smart, all kinds of Toyotas) and Fringe (Nissan Leaf, IIRC) were pretty blatant about it too, just off the top of my head. To the point of having entire scenes just to point out nifty gadgets or amazing fuel mileage. They were so goddamn grating.
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# ? Jul 1, 2014 09:51 |
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muscles like this? posted:Something that bugs me about Les Miserables is how Jean Valjean keeps telling Javert that he'll come back and turn himself in and that he's a man of his word but never actually does. Jean Valjean does turn himself in, escapes again, then gets caught again where he's sentenced to death, then has it changed to life imprisonment in the form of slave labour. While on a boat transporting him, he saves a crewman's life and they all cheer and demand he gets set free, to which the overseer says gently caress off, so Valjean fakes his death by falling into the ocean and is reported dead. The badass gets himself back to land, and head off to Thenadier's Inn to find Cosette. Obviously cut from the broadway production due to being too loving cool, also boats are expensive.
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# ? Jul 1, 2014 11:38 |
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Azran posted:I think it was in CSI NY where they get into some kind of faux Second Life to look for a suspect and when the ingame avatar starts running away the main character switches to a gamepad and tackles him down, which makes the suspect confess.
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# ? Jul 1, 2014 12:18 |
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You mean Stargate: Atlantis, right? Because even in a sci-fi show when that plot showed up it was pretty weak... And that wasn't meant to be theoretically realistic.
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# ? Jul 1, 2014 12:38 |
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Pretty much the entire Nissan lineup features prominently in Heroes.
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# ? Jul 1, 2014 13:48 |
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Frostwerks posted:What are the features? I do not want to watch what looks like a really bad movie. Despite what I posted, there's a cool fight scene at the end. Give it a shot.
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Azran posted:I think it was in CSI NY where they get into some kind of faux Second Life to look for a suspect and when the ingame avatar starts running away the main character switches to a gamepad and tackles him down, which makes the suspect confess. If this is the scene I'm thinking of he doesn't even use a gamepad, it's just a plain old calculator. There is also a scene in Life where they have to play Prince of Persia: Sands of Time up to a certain level to unlock a list of victims or something stupid, and they're all trying and failing and there is a 20 something girl in the background mime playing a controller, it's really dumb and if I wasn't phone posting I'd find the video on YouTube
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# ? Jul 1, 2014 13:54 |
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Action Tortoise posted:Despite what I posted, there's a cool fight scene at the end. Give it a shot. Let me put it this way: I'm not going to spend money to watch this movie period. Spoil away.
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# ? Jul 1, 2014 15:48 |
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Avenging_Mikon posted:The over-shoulder camera kind? I thought it was all isometric. Over-shoulder.
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# ? Jul 1, 2014 18:35 |
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The movie's not even out yet, and i already hate Lucy. I'm pretty sure the very first line in the trailer is Morgan Freeman saying that Lucy is the first person to use more than 10% of her brain.
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May Contain Nuts posted:Ok, but does Saturn's blue sky come with fluffy white clouds? Saturn, Texas does! Maybe that tiny shithole that literally used to be called Possum Trot gets way bigger and more important in the future.
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# ? Jul 1, 2014 20:55 |
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DrBouvenstein posted:The movie's not even out yet, and i already hate Lucy. Hey man 10% that's pretty impressive, I've yet to get the hang of this whole involuntary breathing thing myself
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# ? Jul 1, 2014 21:05 |
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DrBouvenstein posted:The movie's not even out yet, and i already hate Lucy. A good way to endear the audience to a protagonist is to have her shoot a man for the crime of Not Speaking English in the trailer.
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# ? Jul 1, 2014 21:17 |
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KozmoNaut posted:Burn Notice (Hyundai Genesis Coupe), White Collar (FORD FORD FORD!), Warehouse 13 (Smart, all kinds of Toyotas) and Fringe (Nissan Leaf, IIRC) were pretty blatant about it too, just off the top of my head.
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# ? Jul 1, 2014 23:29 |
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seems apropos
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# ? Jul 1, 2014 23:37 |
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Frostwerks posted:Let me put it this way: I'm not going to spend money to watch this movie period. Spoil away. Good news, it's on Netflix! But I'm watching it now and all that's really said about it is that it's a Corvette 01 and has 1000hp and Forest Whitaker sums it up nicely with, "I've got a psychopath in a Batmobile." Oh, and it's faster than any chopper. Most of the first part of the film is showing this car weaving past SWAT.
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# ? Jul 1, 2014 23:53 |
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DrBouvenstein posted:The movie's not even out yet, and i already hate Lucy. Movie was better when it was called Limitless. And didn't have superpowers. And starred Cooper. He should be in more stuff.
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DrBouvenstein posted:The movie's not even out yet, and i already hate Lucy. I really want this movie to go full on Akira, where she turns into a giant blob monster. I won't get it, but I've been wanting it since I first saw the trailers. Give Morgan Freeman the laser gun.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 00:00 |
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I dunno, I'm kinda looking forward to Lucy. It's not quite Adderall : The Film like Limitless was, but it seems like it's going to go pretty heavy into the sci fi stuff. I'm mainly just interested in how they handle the restructuring of reality that she can seem to do in the trailers.
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Action Tortoise posted:Good news, it's on Netflix! But I'm watching it now and all that's really said about it is that it's a Corvette 01 and has 1000hp and Forest Whitaker sums it up nicely with, "I've got a psychopath in a Batmobile." Oh, and it's faster than any chopper. Most of the first part of the film is showing this car weaving past SWAT. Yeah it features some random cop saying something along the lines of "that's a Chevrolet Corvette ZR1! Not even our choppers can catch up to that!" No car can catch up to it, that is until Arnold gets his hands on the only car that managed to stay in pristine condition in the middle of their huge firefight: a brand new Chevrolet Camaro SS. Guessing GM got special mention in the credits for that one.
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