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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:I dunno, I'm kinda looking forward to Lucy. I'm really looking forward to Lucy, because even though it looks like utterly ridiculous nonsense it is directed by Luc Besson so I imagine it is going to look incredible and be a blast to watch even if none of it makes a lick of sense.
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I am also among the people who immediately hate the movie just based on its stupid, stupid premise. Then again they say you can't judge a book by its cover, so maybe it'll be great. edit: Just watched the trailer and nope I'm wrong this looks terrible. CJacobs has a new favorite as of 09:17 on Jul 2, 2014 |
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CJacobs posted:I am also among the people who immediately hate the movie just based on its stupid, stupid premise. Then again they say you can't judge a book by its cover, so maybe it'll be great. It looks real bad. But then Luc Besson. But then, what has he done lately? I'm conflicted. The trailer is bad and I feel bad for Morgan Freeman but I can't fault him for taking the money.
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Jerusalem posted:I'm really looking forward to Lucy, because even though it looks like utterly ridiculous nonsense it is directed by Luc Besson so I imagine it is going to look incredible and be a blast to watch even if none of it makes a lick of sense. Counterpoint: everything Luc Besson has been involved with in this century.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:Counterpoint: everything Luc Besson has been involved with in this century. I liked Taken 
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Luigi's Discount Porn Bin posted:Also, vanilla CSI and the Chevy Tahoe. It was usually incidental in conversation ("I saw your Tahoe parked outside, what are you doing here?"), but sometimes it'd be something like "well, local cops found the victim's car by the side of the road. Could have tracked it down earlier, but she didn't have OnStar." Sleepy Hollow did the OnStar thing as well, but at least they played it off sort of plot-related, as the main character is a revolutionary war-era transplant into the modern age, so he's suitably surprised by modern technology and that helpful lady hiding in the motor-carriage.
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KozmoNaut posted:Sleepy Hollow did the OnStar thing as well, but at least they played it off sort of plot-related, as the main character is a revolutionary war-era transplant into the modern age, so he's suitably surprised by modern technology and that helpful lady hiding in the motor-carriage. It also wasn't actually product placement because they called it something other than OnStar.
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Desk Lamp posted: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. Not to Mention the bad guy literally rams into two SUVs in a head on collision at 100+ miles per hour, the 2 SUVs flip over and explode and the (Greatest Car In The World) Chevrolet Corvette (go buy one now) has a couple of scratches on the hood.
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Jul 2, 2014 14:18
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I've been watching Arrow and they never say it explicitly but man do they love the Surface tablet by Microsoft! See how easy it is to go from buying clothes to hacking the FBI!
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Jul 2, 2014 14:23
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:It's not quite Adderall : The Film like Limitless was I love the film to death, but it really does look like a program on amphetamine salt abuse. "I take these pills, and I get way smarter. I even cleaned my whole apartment in an evening and everything is very organized. I always know what to say in social situations and can party fuckin' hard. Oh, and when I stop taking them, my eyes get all bloodshot, I feel like poo poo, I stop shaving and doing my hair, I feel about as smart as a bonobo, and all I can think about is getting more pills."
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Inzombiac posted:I've been watching Arrow and they never say it explicitly but man do they love the Surface tablet by Microsoft! That, and Lenovo computers. Seems like almost every scene set in the hideout starts with a shot of a huge Lenovo logo.
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Jul 2, 2014 14:48
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This happens in very many movies, but: a character is asking for something and the person asked gives a estimate in which he/she will act/arrive/complete the task, like "I'll be there in [x] hours" which is met with "Be there in [less amount of time]" Especially when the person giving an estimate is a trained professional. The last time I've seen that was in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, in which Nick Fury asks his second in command to come to him, she says that she'll be there in three hours (I think), but he demands that she be there in two. I'm pretty sure she knows what she's talking about and doesn't need help in doing her job. Also the people discussing the movie on a talkpage I've read about it were shortening Captain America to Cap constantly, but the shortening is Capt. or Cpt.
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Szurumbur posted:This happens in very many movies, but: a character is asking for something and the person asked gives a estimate in which he/she will act/arrive/complete the task, like "I'll be there in [x] hours" which is met with "Be there in [less amount of time]" Especially when the person giving an estimate is a trained professional. The last time I've seen that was in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, in which Nick Fury asks his second in command to come to him, she says that she'll be there in three hours (I think), but he demands that she be there in two. I'm pretty sure she knows what she's talking about and doesn't need help in doing her job. Szurumbur posted:Also the people discussing the movie on a talkpage I've read about it were shortening Captain America to Cap constantly, but the shortening is Capt. or Cpt.
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Tiggum posted:Capt. or Cpt. are abbreviations for captain. "Cap" is a nickname for Captain America. I didn't think of Captain America as his his full name, I thought he was a soldier with a rank of captain that's named America 
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Szurumbur posted:This happens in very many movies, but: a character is asking for something and the person asked gives a estimate in which he/she will act/arrive/complete the task, like "I'll be there in [x] hours" which is met with "Be there in [less amount of time]" Especially when the person giving an estimate is a trained professional. The last time I've seen that was in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, in which Nick Fury asks his second in command to come to him, she says that she'll be there in three hours (I think), but he demands that she be there in two. I'm pretty sure she knows what she's talking about and doesn't need help in doing her job. I kinda get it; when I give an estimate for how long it will take me to do something, there's always a 'behave like a reasonable person' factor. If I estimate it will take me 20 minutes to drive somewhere, I could probably do it in 10, if I ignored all traffic laws, for example.
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ducttape posted:I kinda get it; when I give an estimate for how long it will take me to do something, there's always a 'behave like a reasonable person' factor. If I estimate it will take me 20 minutes to drive somewhere, I could probably do it in 10, if I ignored all traffic laws, for example. Oh, I understand the rationale, but I've never seen stated like "Actually, if you do [x] it'd take you half as long" or "It's a super emergency and you must get here faster than your ASAP!", it's just: Person A: I'll do it in an hour. Person B: Cool, you have thirty minutes. In essence, when it's a shorthand for character B being a no-nonsense and cool person who's right is when it's an irritation, and that's really most often the case. A minor thing, to be sure, but that's what this thread is for 
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Jul 2, 2014 16:08
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Tiggum posted:I hate this unless the person doing it is someone like J Jonah Jameson. Most of the time I want the first person to just reply "Uh, no. That's not possible. I told you when I can get it finished by."
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I just remembered, apropos of nothing at all, that the Mark Wahlberg movie Four Brothers had a scene where the good guys were defending their house from a bunch of bad guys shooting at them from the outside. This scene had a bad guy leave cover to reload. Look at this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCYBYZDrmWk&t=72s He stays behind the cover of the car as he's firing, and then as soon as his magazine is empty and he's completely defenseless, he gets out from behind the car and starts calmly strolling towards the house out in the open while reloading. I was watching this movie on cable and I just changed the channel when I saw that. I mean, I love all those cheesy over-the-top action movies with like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jason Statham and poo poo so I don't need everything to be completely tactically sound and realistic or whatever to enjoy it, but this is just plain stupid.
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WeaponGradeSadness posted:I just remembered, apropos of nothing at all, that the Mark Wahlberg movie Four Brothers had a scene where the good guys were defending their house from a bunch of bad guys shooting at them from the outside. This scene had a bad guy leave cover to reload. Look at this: The thing that made me laugh about that movie is that at the end, you have a very dramatic fight with Marky Mark and Bad Fur Coat guy. Marky Mark walks out of the snow to challenge Bad Guy with perfect timing, but this is in the middle of Lake Michigan. They are at least a good mile and a half from shore, he was walking on ice, so it, even at a good speed, would have taken him at least 20 minutes to walk out on the ice, not to mention travel time to the lake shore. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cChPmUcq0q0
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Szurumbur posted:This happens in very many movies, but: a character is asking for something and the person asked gives a estimate in which he/she will act/arrive/complete the task, like "I'll be there in [x] hours" which is met with "Be there in [less amount of time]" Especially when the person giving an estimate is a trained professional. The last time I've seen that was in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, in which Nick Fury asks his second in command to come to him, she says that she'll be there in three hours (I think), but he demands that she be there in two. I'm pretty sure she knows what she's talking about and doesn't need help in doing her job. That annoys me slightly, but I liked how it was handled by Fury in The Avengers. In the opening of the movie, while they're evacuating the SHIELD facility where they were studying the Tesseract, he asks Coulson how long until they can get everything moved out. Coulson tells him something like, "About 30 minutes." Fury says, "Do better."
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muscles like this? posted:It also wasn't actually product placement because they called it something other than OnStar. It was northstar which was also probably coincidentally used in a seinfeld episode I think though I like to think they are both concurrent in their own universe.
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Pilchenstein posted:I used to work for a guy who'd constantly do this and we'd just tell him "This isn't Star Trek, it'll be done when it's done". Ironically, when Scotty showed up on The Next Generation, he admitted that he would intentionally highball his estimates so he could beat them when Kirk was being a dick about it.
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Szurumbur posted:This happens in very many movies, but: a character is asking for something and the person asked gives a estimate in which he/she will act/arrive/complete the task, like "I'll be there in [x] hours" which is met with "Be there in [less amount of time]" Especially when the person giving an estimate is a trained professional. There was an episode of Voyager where B'Elanna says some repair will take two hours (or something) and Janeway says "You have one." B'Elanna goes "I don't exaggerate; if I say something will take two hours, it'll take two." And Janeway's just like "Alright."
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Pneub posted:Ironically, when Scotty showed up on The Next Generation, he admitted that he would intentionally highball his estimates so he could beat them when Kirk was being a dick about it. He did it way before that in Star Trek III. quote:Kirk: How much refit time before we can take her out again?
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jabby posted:He did it way before that in Star Trek III. In my defense, is stranded pretty deep in "not bad but forgettable" territory.
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Whenever somebody is laying out a crazy, impossible plan that they have to pull off and this exchange happens: 1: "So you're saying we have to disable the alarms, sneak past hundreds of highly trained ninja henchmen, crack the most secure safe in the world and extract 2 tonnes of gold bullion by hand, ALL IN UNDER 15 MINUTES?" 2: "That's exactly what I'm saying." 1: "Piece of cake. Let's do it."
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Pneub posted:Ironically, when Scotty showed up on The Next Generation, he admitted that he would intentionally highball his estimates so he could beat them when Kirk was being a dick about it.
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A similar thing is when someone screws up and boss is chewing them out. They always say "What happened?"or "Why did you do/not do X?" then when the guy tries to explain it's all "I don't want to hear your excuses!" Don't loving ask a question if you're going to get mad as soon as someone tries to answer it.
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Dr_Amazing posted:Don't loving ask a question if you're going to get mad as soon as someone tries to answer it. Don't blame him, the Mayor's been chewing his rear end out!
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WickedHate posted:Grease 2 had a novelization. I saw a kid do a comparative study for english class using Back To The Future. Part II.  "Based on the popular motion picture". In grade 12. 
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Mister Kingdom posted:Grease 2 also had Adrian Zmed and bowling. So, Grease 2 is awesome. ftfy.
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Arkannoyed posted:There was an episode of Voyager where B'Elanna says some repair will take two hours (or something) and Janeway says "You have one." B'Elanna goes "I don't exaggerate; if I say something will take two hours, it'll take two." And Janeway's just like "Alright." They also did this in Stargate SG-1: Hammond: Just tell me the minute we can send a probe through. Siler: That'll be 24 hours General, minimum. Hammond: I'll give you half that. Siler: No sir, it doesn't work that way. 24 hours is the best I can do. Hammond: Then you'd better get back to it.
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Dammit, wrong thread
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The Three Musketeers from a couple of years ago seems like a truly terrble movie, but what's stood out for me was that the Cardinal is playing chess with the King; the Cardinal puts the King in check and then suggests the King castles out of the position. I can't work out if this is because the people involved in the movie know next to nothing about chess, or whether they're making a subtle comment that the Cardinal is willing to allow his King to cheat so long as they get to still play together.
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Squalitude posted:The Three Musketeers from a couple of years ago seems like a truly terrble movie, but what's stood out for me was that the Cardinal is playing chess with the King; the Cardinal puts the King in check and then suggests the King castles out of the position. I can't work out if this is because the people involved in the movie know next to nothing about chess, or whether they're making a subtle comment that the Cardinal is willing to allow his King to cheat so long as they get to still play together. The 90's 3 Musketeers was pretty bad. No one noticed Cardinal Tim Curry and his assasin having sniper practice with a portrait of the King in the middle of a giant public square?
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Squalitude posted:The Three Musketeers from a couple of years ago seems like a truly terrble movie, but what's stood out for me was that the Cardinal is playing chess with the King; the Cardinal puts the King in check and then suggests the King castles out of the position. I can't work out if this is because the people involved in the movie know next to nothing about chess, or whether they're making a subtle comment that the Cardinal is willing to allow his King to cheat so long as they get to still play together. Maybe it was a legal move 100 years ago before castling got nerfed.
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This isn't a movie thing but more of an actor thing. I've been rewatching The Wire, and while it's even better than I remember (mostly because I'm older and more educated now, so I catch a lot of things I missed when I watched it the first time) I noticed one thing that bugs me: Lance Reddick's walk. It's not just The Wire, I noticed this in Fringe as well, but he's got a weird walk somewhere between a robot and a I don't know, a bodybuilder or something? The guy is tall and muscled as hell, but there's just something off about the way he moves. It's unnatural or something. Does he have issues with his back or shoulders, or is it just the way he walks?
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Taeke posted:This isn't a movie thing but more of an actor thing. I've been rewatching The Wire, and while it's even better than I remember (mostly because I'm older and more educated now, so I catch a lot of things I missed when I watched it the first time) I noticed one thing that bugs me: Lance Reddick's walk. It's not just The Wire, I noticed this in Fringe as well, but he's got a weird walk somewhere between a robot and a I don't know, a bodybuilder or something? He injured his back some years ago, which actually started him on the acting path. quote:I was working three jobs and I always worked on adrenaline and I also was working out every day. One night I came off a double shift of waiting tables and I had to go straight to a double shift of delivering newspapers. I used to deliver big huge bundles of the Wall Street Journal to the financial district in downtown Boston. I had just turned 27 and I was used to feeling like I could do anything. I went to lift a bundle of papers toward the end of the night and I'd been up for about 24 hours. I felt something in my back and I kind of ignored it. Each day I felt it a little more but ignored it. About a month later I went to get out of bed and couldn't. That was the beginning of me thinking, "I need to reevaluate my approach," and that was the beginning of how I started acting.
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Thanks, I figured as much. drat good actor, and knowing this adds something to his character.
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Your Gay Uncle posted:The 90's 3 Musketeers was pretty bad. No one noticed Cardinal Tim Curry and his assasin having sniper practice with a portrait of the King in the middle of a giant public square? Haven't seen that one but Tim Curry playing a potentially moustache-twirling cardinal sounds like it could be a good waste of a couple of hours. For the second half of the later movie, I was amazed at the depth of stupidity of the plot. It sounded like the Musketeers were going to London to recapture the diamonds and prevent a war with England. Yet to do so they literally attacked a major stronghold in the capital, and stole a major piece of military hardware. If stolen diamonds were going to incite a war, then how is that going to save the peace? The movie did acknowledge at the end though, with the powerful English fleet about to arrive in France while the French heroes party with the king. Stupid film, but I think it realises it at least.
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