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Celery Face posted:Well, this thread is called irrationally irritating movie moments for a reason. Also her character was just Katherine Heigl so she should probably work on that.
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Aphrodite posted:Also her character was just Katherine Heigl so she should probably work on that. Yeah I got the feeling the character was humorless and uptight because Katherine Heigl is a shithead in reality and it comes across in her roles.
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Aug 14, 2014 06:56
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Crap, wrong thread. Ignore.
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Aug 14, 2014 08:12
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Snapchat A Titty posted:Is it irrational to be annoyed that he gets away with some rapey poo poo? Even as a child who had not even heard about social justice warriors I never liked that first "date" she's forced to endure, Rocky just getting way up in her space just keeps pressing on until she gives in. It's pretty lovely. Late, but I've seen Rocky probably 50 times and never read that scene that way, although I get why some people do and have heard it proffered before. To me, it was a scene about two awkward misfits who were uncomfortable in their own skin and didn't know much about love. Seemed to me, Adrien was overcoming her fear of feeling ugly, never being loved, being abused and shamed by her alcoholic brother and scared about her virginity. Rocky was just a big, soft-hearted palooka who didn't know any other way. He broke thumbs and punched people in the face for a living but still felt bad about it. Adrien was a mousy, abused, shamed, fearful, battered and repressed caretaker who never had a chance to blossom or live any sort of life because of Paulie (note how she blows up at him later in the film when he tries to shame her for having sex). I always found that scene tender in its own way given the context and the nature of the characters. It was awkward bit not "rapey" to me, since the characters are established as awkward misfits.
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Celery Face posted:There's this dumb horror movie I watched a long time ago where there's this evil spirit called Jumby. How is anyone supposed to take something with a goofy-rear end name like that seriously? The demon in Paranormal Activity 3 is named loving Tobey. The one in Sinister is called Mr Boogie.
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Aug 14, 2014 22:16
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Coffee And Pie posted:The demon in Paranormal Activity 3 is named loving Tobey. The one in Sinister is called Mr Boogie. Everyone shout out all their favorite demon monster villain's secret names. I've got "Pazuzu" from Exorcist and "Linoge" from Storm of the Century. e: it was "Linoge" because his name was "Legion" solved by scrabble blocks in perfect Stephen King logic.
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Aug 14, 2014 22:22
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Coffee And Pie posted:The demon in Paranormal Activity 3 is named loving Tobey. The one in Sinister is called Mr Boogie. Technically, he's the Baghoul, but that name is just as dumb
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Aug 14, 2014 22:59
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Celery Face posted:There's this dumb horror movie I watched a long time ago where there's this evil spirit called Jumby. How is anyone supposed to take something with a goofy-rear end name like that seriously? My parents use the word "jumby" as a slang for ghost, I think it's a common slang for the West Indies but I have no idea if it's used anywhere else.
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Aug 14, 2014 23:15
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homewrecker posted:My parents use the word "jumby" as a slang for ghost, I think it's a common slang for the West Indies but I have no idea if it's used anywhere else. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumbee
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Aug 15, 2014 00:01
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syscall girl posted:I've got "Pazuzu" from Exorcist. Captain Howdy 
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Finally someone else recognizes my complaint from the OP! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdE2VdasvEU 
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KozmoNaut posted:Captain Howdy Look, you have to have the true name to defeat the monster. That is how these things work.
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Aug 17, 2014 01:05
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CJacobs posted:Finally someone else recognizes my complaint from the OP! You could make a video like this for literally everything on Spike TV.
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Aug 17, 2014 03:43
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syscall girl posted:Everyone shout out all their favorite demon monster villain's secret names. At least Pazuzu was a real Mesopotamian mythological demon. So it's got that over Mr. Boogie and Tobey.
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I think The Prestige is my favourite movie, but there's a bunch of dialogue at the end that bugs me. Angier has just been shot and takes the time to commentate his realisation - and the audience's realisation - that Borden was actually using a double. "Brothers... twins... you were Fallon all along..." There's the standard flashbacks to previous moments in the film, most of which have extra revealing moments added, which is all great and interesting and does a good job of answering the questions that need answering - but over it all is Angier and Borden explaining everything awkwardly as though the audience wouldn't have understood if it wasn't explicitly explained. It's a clever film that assumes the audience can understand what it's saying, and most of that dialogue is completely unnecessary.
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Aug 18, 2014 00:19
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I bet there was a test audience screening without the voiceover, and people complained they didn't understand.
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Aug 18, 2014 00:30
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HopperUK posted:I bet there was a test audience screening without the voiceover, and people complained they didn't understand. I heard the same thing about the ending to Silent Hill and it's awful voice over.
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Aug 18, 2014 00:31
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From what I've seen, that voiceover isn't enough. People still don't get it.
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Aug 18, 2014 00:44
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Yeah, people still seem to think that Borden actually bought a cloning machine from Tesla.
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Aug 18, 2014 00:50
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So is there an official nerd explanation as to why Peter Parker can climb walls even when he's wearing gloves and shoes?
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Aug 18, 2014 00:56
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Because Peter Parker is actually Spider-Man.
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Aug 18, 2014 00:58
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He normally can't climb walls when wearing actual shoes. The exception of course is the costume which is supposed to have thinner material on the palms and soles.
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Aug 18, 2014 00:58
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Seventh Arrow posted:So is there an official nerd explanation as to why Peter Parker can climb walls even when he's wearing gloves and shoes? There was a Marvel encyclopedia that stated that his suit uses a very thin material specifically so it doesn't hinder his wall-crawling.
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Aug 18, 2014 01:01
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Esroc posted:There was a Marvel encyclopedia that stated that his suit uses a very thin material specifically so it doesn't hinder his wall-crawling. Yeah I thought about that, but sometimes you see him clinging to surfaces even with sneakers on. Then again, I think he's always had his hands on the surface also.
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Aug 18, 2014 01:03
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Spider-Man's real power is reality warping, it just manifests as spider powers.
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Aug 18, 2014 01:05
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Seventh Arrow posted:Yeah I thought about that, but sometimes you see him clinging to surfaces even with sneakers on. Then again, I think he's always had his hands on the surface also. Apparently his "real" wall-crawling ability is comic book physics involving atomic friction or some other pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo. Only the Raimi films tried making it filament based. So theoretically he might be able to stick with shoes, at least in his comic incarnation.
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If Spider-Hyphen-Man doesn't work or answer for any big crowd like SHIELD, how is he able to maintain his costume? He'd have had to spent loads of time experimenting suitable materials as well learning how to sew a skin-tight suit with an overly elaborate cosmetic-design.[/nolife]
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eating only apples posted:I think The Prestige is my favourite movie, but there's a bunch of dialogue at the end that bugs me. So, every Nolan movie then. Chris Nolan couldn't make a film that wasn't dependent on a character painstakingly explaining everything that's happening during the plot to the audience. He's the worst "show, don't tell" abuser in filmmaking. I'll never get why people think his movies are great.
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Slim Killington posted:So, every Nolan movie then. Chris Nolan couldn't make a film that wasn't dependent on a character painstakingly explaining everything that's happening during the plot to the audience. He's the worst "show, don't tell" abuser in filmmaking. I'll never get why people think his movies are great. No, he's saying literally the opposite.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:If Spider-Hyphen-Man doesn't work or answer for any big crowd like SHIELD, how is he able to maintain his costume? He'd have had to spent loads of time experimenting suitable materials as well learning how to sew a skin-tight suit with an overly elaborate cosmetic-design.[/nolife] I'm not sure what the movies' explanation is, but I'm almost certain that the comics claimed his spider powers included an instinctive knack for sewing.
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Aug 18, 2014 02:22
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He should make his suit out of spidersilk and it'd explain how he can stick to poo poo plus would be durable.
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I think Godzilla would have been better suited if they had just followed a bunch of different people instead of the one uninteresting guy that just happens to always be in the right place.
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Tyrannosaurus posted:I think Godzilla would have been better suited if they had just followed a bunch of different people instead of the one uninteresting guy that just happens to always be in the right place. Or follow the interesting guy they loving killed off in the first act.
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Tyrannosaurus posted:I think Godzilla would have been better suited if they had just followed a bunch of different people instead of the one uninteresting guy that just happens to always be in the right place. Or have Godzilla on screen for more than 10 minutes.
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It felt like a weird half-measure to focus on the boring son. I think switching the protagonist was actually a cool move, but it should have been to Ken Watanabe's character. Who was far more interesting.
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Tyrannosaurus posted:I think Godzilla would have been better suited if they had just followed a bunch of different people instead of the one uninteresting guy that just happens to always be in the right place. This would have also improved World War Z, where Brad Pitt's character is somehow there for like every major event around the globe and even discovers that zombies avoid sick people. Something every doctor, nurse, or anyone else working in the medical field failed to notice first
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Tyrannosaurus posted:I think Godzilla would have been better suited if they had just followed a bunch of different people instead of the one uninteresting guy that just happens to always be in the right place. Yeah, spend half the time on the human characters that no one cares about anyway and get to the monster fighting. You get to see a portion of the fight in Hawaii, but then the movie spends foooooorreeeevveeerrr putting all the humans in place for the big finish. Just get to it. Who do they think watches a Godzilla movie for the plot?
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Away all Goats posted:This would have also improved World War Z, where Brad Pitt's character is somehow there for like every major event around the globe and even discovers that zombies avoid sick people. Something every doctor, nurse, or anyone else working in the medical field failed to notice first World War Z also gets my goat for how no one at Israel saw the zombies piling up on the walls because some people decided to sing. You idiots have watch towers, helicopters, and presumably people coming in through the outside tunnels and they didn't see it? Also how they almost gave Pitt a sidekick but then decided to headshot that idea.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:If Spider-Hyphen-Man doesn't work or answer for any big crowd like SHIELD, how is he able to maintain his costume? He'd have had to spent loads of time experimenting suitable materials as well learning how to sew a skin-tight suit with an overly elaborate cosmetic-design.[/nolife] In the comics science is way forward. In Ms. Marvel people like Reed Richards and Tony Stark have pushed things far enough that an AP chemistry student can figure out how to make poo poo like super-stretchy polymers.
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Aphrodite posted:No, he's saying literally the opposite. Not as I read it. Unless you misunderstand me and think I'm saying Nolan is good at "show, don't tell." I'm saying he's incapable of it.
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