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Why didn't The Hulk just beat Loki to death? Why stop beating on him?
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Jul 27, 2014 22:00
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razorrozar posted:Return of the Jedi had a lot of problems, tbh. Ewoks are like the most criticized part of the original trilogy.
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Jul 27, 2014 22:10
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Inzombiac posted:Hawkeye is the comedic relief, right? 
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Jul 27, 2014 22:14
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oldpainless posted:Why didn't The Hulk just beat Loki to death? Why stop beating on him? Because then it wouldn't have been funny. Leaving him wheezing was hilarious.
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Jul 27, 2014 22:28
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Mister Kingdom posted:Because then it wouldn't have been funny. Leaving him wheezing was hilarious. "Puny god" is one of the best moments of that movie.
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Jul 27, 2014 22:29
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Mister Kingdom posted:And that reminds me of the scene in Jedi where Han gets Lando to promise to bring the Falcon back without a scratch. You half expected the Falcon to be destroyed, but it comes back without its radar dish and Han says nothing. The Falcon was actually supposed to be destroyed (caught in the Death Star's explosion), hence the foreshadowing lines like "Got this funny feeling, like I'm not gonna see her again".
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Jul 27, 2014 22:59
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Plus I imagine Thor would have been a little pissed, adopted brother or not. I think they also might have wanted that drat illegal alien  shipped back to his own kinmik has a new favorite as of 23:07 on Jul 27, 2014 |
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Jul 27, 2014 22:59
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oldpainless posted:Why didn't The Hulk just beat Loki to death? Why stop beating on him? Because it would be really out of tone with the rest of the movie if Hulk just wailed on Loki until he was red paste. Also superheroes aren't supposed to kill people.
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Jul 27, 2014 23:11
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Away all Goats posted:Because it would be really out of tone with the rest of the movie if Hulk just wailed on Loki until he was red paste. Also superheroes aren't supposed to kill people.  All right, it was mostly the aliens, but the principle holds. Superheroes cause vast amounts of collateral damage that you're not supposed to think about.
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Jul 27, 2014 23:14
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Something that always bugs me about thrillers where the main character is framed and on the run are how violent they are to cops who are just doing their jobs.
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Jul 27, 2014 23:15
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razorrozar posted:
You'll notice not a single civilian dies on screen either. That's what I meant by tone
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Jul 27, 2014 23:16
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razorrozar posted:
(Man of steel finale) Yea, heroes tend to blow up a lot of poo poo, but hey, no one would give a gently caress if someone invaded Ohio and the vast battle of "Yonder Creek". I'd loving buy a ticket in a heartbeat if they had the Hulk wailing on some dude with a cow though.
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Jul 27, 2014 23:18
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:(Man of steel finale) Which is why Marvel's United States is pretty much just New York City. DC even has three New Yorks so they never have to leave.
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Jul 27, 2014 23:21
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I like that they basically never show the dog and/or other animals dying because it'd be ~too sad~. Whenever there is carnage everywhere, if there is an animal on screen, the safest place for any human to be is within a three foot radius of the drat thing. edit: In fact, in Man of Steel, not showing the dog dying is a critical(ly stupid) plot point. 
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Jul 27, 2014 23:22
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Yeah, even those annoying little yipping dogs don't get killed. Punted maybe, but never killed. I was amazed when, in Mars Attacks, they not only vaporized a dog, but it was the President's dog!
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Jul 28, 2014 00:25
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muscles like this? posted:Something that always bugs me about thrillers where the main character is framed and on the run are how violent they are to cops who are just doing their jobs. A lot of movies skirt this by having the cop act like an rear end in a top hat first.
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Jul 28, 2014 00:32
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Seventh Arrow posted:Yeah, even those annoying little yipping dogs don't get killed. Punted maybe, but never killed. 
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Jul 28, 2014 00:46
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Ok, maybe I shouldn't have said "never." Rarely.
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Jul 28, 2014 01:03
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Dr_Amazing posted:A lot of movies skirt this by having the cop act like an rear end in a top hat first. Are there any movies were the hero proves their innocence, but gets promptly arrested anyway for assaulting officers and resisting arrest?
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Jul 28, 2014 01:31
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The Fugitive had that, I think. Kimball gets arrested at the end before they do the whole "gonna drop charges" thing. Pretty sure anyway, it's been a long time since I saw that movie.
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Jul 28, 2014 01:39
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Canemacar posted:Are there any movies were the hero proves their innocence, but gets promptly arrested anyway for assaulting officers and resisting arrest? Technically happens in Max Payne (the video game, not the movie). Max has secured JUST enough evidence of the baddies' wrongdoings to preserve his innocence along with the help of the corrupt dude on the inside, but he gets arrested at the end of the game anyway because, despite being a cop, he did kinda go on a big gunslinging mobster-killing rampage through new york that ended with the murder of the CEO of one of the nation's biggest pharmaceutical companies. By Max Payne 2 he's back on the force as a detective so obviously it didn't stick v  v
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Jul 28, 2014 01:44
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:The Fugitive had that, I think. Kimball gets arrested at the end before they do the whole "gonna drop charges" thing. Yeah, the arrest was for show and Tommy Lee Jones (who was a dick for most of the film) uncuffs Ford in the back of the police car.
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Jul 28, 2014 01:50
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Canemacar posted:Are there any movies were the hero proves their innocence, but gets promptly arrested anyway for assaulting officers and resisting arrest? The A-Team movie did that. Pretty sure Liam Neeson gets a line like "Even if you were wrongly imprisoned, it's still a crime to break out of jail".
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Jul 28, 2014 03:28
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CJacobs posted:By Max Payne 2 he's back on the force as a detective so obviously it didn't stick v Well, he did have the Illuminati promising him that the charges wouldn't stick right before he attacks Aesir. That's a pretty good ace up your sleeve
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Jul 28, 2014 03:40
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CJacobs posted:I like that they basically never show the dog and/or other animals dying because it'd be ~too sad~. Whenever there is carnage everywhere, if there is an animal on screen, the safest place for any human to be is within a three foot radius of the drat thing. This was the most bitched about scene in The Toxic Avenger by the way. Not the kid's head getting popped under a car wheel. When they shoot the seeing eye dog.
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Jul 28, 2014 04:19
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My favorite one is the infamous scene where DC gets blown the gently caress up in Independence Day and they show a dog leaping away from the massive fireball to safety after literally hundreds of humans are vaporized on-camera in the preceding 3 minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lydpulKkJ-Q&t=200s
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Jul 28, 2014 04:24
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Ewok were awesome when I was a kid and they are awesome now. How can you not love fuzzy little people eating bears?
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Jul 28, 2014 04:25
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Jedi has best space battle, best land battle, best lightsaber fight. It is the best of the ot. Also lolling at nerds bitching about ewoks. Oh god, this entire galaxy full of weird poo poo wait what the gently caress is that teddy bear my immersssssioon nooooo.
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Jul 28, 2014 04:54
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I thought Ewoks were alright in theory. The whole "Soulful nature vs. Heartless Technology" angle is very star wars-y. It might have gone over better if they kept the original idea for ewoks to be wookies.
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Jul 28, 2014 07:17
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re: Audiences reacting to violence against animals/humans: I saw Roger and Me in a high school class, and I remember the whole class busting out laughing when the police gun down that mentally-ill guy, but when that crazy lady kills a rabbit they were horrified and complained to the teacher about it. Really bothered me even as a clueless teen.
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Jul 28, 2014 07:33
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WeaponGradeSadness posted:Well, he did have the Illuminati promising him that the charges wouldn't stick right before he attacks Aesir. That's a pretty good ace up your sleeve The same Illuminati that, minutes after meeting them, are wiped out by Aesir's goons, with only Woden surviving.
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Jul 28, 2014 07:42
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Mister Kingdom posted:And that reminds me of the scene in Jedi where Han gets Lando to promise to bring the Falcon back without a scratch. You half expected the Falcon to be destroyed, but it comes back without its radar dish and Han says nothing. This gets a great reference in one of the EU books (wait poo poo, it's "Legends" now isn't it?), The Last Command. The characters go to a planet and Han has some trouble setting the ship down, and comes really close to crash-landing. Lando says something to the effect of "Nice landing there, real smooth," and Han replies "At least I haven't lost the radar dish  "
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Jul 28, 2014 07:49
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Mr. Belpit posted:re: Audiences reacting to violence against animals/humans:
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Jul 28, 2014 07:52
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Celery Face posted:I watched Blackfish in grade 12 and the thing that horrified my classmates (they had their hands to their mouths and looked like they were about to cry) the most was when a group of orcas ate a seal. They also cooed over how cute Tillikum is, which was kind of weird, considering that he's killed 3 people so far and the film really goes into detail about it. It was tough watching nature documentaries with my mother because she has a real soft spot for animals and doesn't bare watching them getting killed on screen. Especially since orcas and crocodiles were and are my favorite animals, so i just had to tell her verbally how fascinating i found it the way orca pods hunt down seals and stuff while she avoided the nasty parts. Although one thing that even i have trouble watching in nature flicks is when orcas hunt and kill grey whale calfs. Anyone seen War Horse? I haven't, but from the looks of it i think i'll would have trouble rooting much for a horse in the middle of WWI where actual people are fed into a metaphorical grinder in droves. Really puts me off from seeing the movie, but i could be wrong, as i haven't seen it.
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Jul 28, 2014 08:05
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For all your dog dieing needs. http://doesthedogdie.com/
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Jul 28, 2014 08:08
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In every Star Trek TNG movie/show, why does Data not have the capability not to shake around when the ship gets shot. He has a million servos and can do a trillion calculations per nanosecond or whatever. Why does he wobble like the rest of em? Quit trying so hard, robot.
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Jul 28, 2014 08:52
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Darth Freddy posted:For all your dog dieing needs.
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Jul 28, 2014 08:55
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So in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trillian takes Arthur to the kitchen and shows him a neat little gizmo that makes whatever you're craving. Why didn't Arthur just get a cup of tea out of the damned thing?
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Jul 28, 2014 09:33
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Razorwired posted:So in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trillian takes Arthur to the kitchen and shows him a neat little gizmo that makes whatever you're craving. Why didn't Arthur just get a cup of tea out of the damned thing? It straight up didn't understand tea. "He had found a Nutri-Matic machine which had provided him with a plastic cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea."
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Jul 28, 2014 09:44
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Mind you, it was perfectly capable of making a truly exquisite cup of tea, it's just that it needed the calculating power of the entire ship's computer to do it and left it incapacitated during a nuclear missile attack.
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