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Slim Killington posted: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. And he's saying the scene shows perfectly fine. His complaint is it also unnecessarily tells.
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As long as we're talking about Nolan... I can't stand the way his films are edited, scenes change at breakneck speeds but the story progresses so slowly as to make all that urgency unnecessary. I mean watch the first ten minutes of TDR after the joker's debut, it's just a barrage of 5 second scenes that cut out while characters are mid sentence. Memento and Insomnia don't have that problem, but every thing post Batman Begins has the same annoying habit. Also Guy Pearce as batman would have been sooooo awkward.
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Aug 18, 2014 11:47
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Looks like he's worked with the same editor since Batman Begins. It was a different guy before that.
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Aug 18, 2014 13:32
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Razorwired posted: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. Parker is more than an AP chem student, he's one of the smartest people on the planet, the only reason he isn't geniusing it up all the time is he spends a lot of time/energy being Spider-man.
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Aggressive pricing posted:Parker is more than an AP chem student, he's one of the smartest people on the planet, the only reason he isn't geniusing it up all the time is he spends a lot of time/energy being Spider-man. He's talking about a character in the recent Ms Marvel comic book who is a high school student, not Peter Parker.
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Aggressive pricing posted:Parker is more than an AP chem student, he's one of the smartest people on the planet, the only reason he isn't geniusing it up all the time is he spends a lot of time/energy being Spider-man. I know games have the "things dragging this game down" thread, but this is something more irrationally irritating than dragging it down, and it is topical! In Lego Marvel Superheroes, there are so many awesome little touches. Most characters have special things they can do, one of which is interacting with computer panels. This requires "genius" characters, like Tony Stark, Reed Richards, or Bruce Banner. Spider-Man/Peter Parker can't use them.
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EdibleBodyParts posted:In Lego Marvel Superheroes, there are so many awesome little touches. Most characters have special things they can do, one of which is interacting with computer panels. This requires "genius" characters, like Tony Stark, Reed Richards, or Bruce Banner. Spider-Man/Peter Parker can't use them.
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Aug 18, 2014 16:15
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Tiggum posted:Makes sense to me. Peter may be a genius, able to invent incredible stuff like web fluid, but when it comes to practical stuff he is really dumb. Just the fact that he thinks the best use of his time is swinging around the city hoping to come across a crime happening tells you that. 
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Aug 18, 2014 19:21
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So much for spider-hyphen-sense I guess.
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Morpheus posted:So much for spider-hyphen-sense I guess. Does not apply to bricks.
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Aug 18, 2014 19:44
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Spider Hyphen Sense only works when it needs to.
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Aug 18, 2014 20:00
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I like Nolan's movies. Am I not cool now?
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BiggerBoat posted:I like Nolan's movies. Am I not cool now? You never were, sorry. 
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Tiggum posted:Makes sense to me. Peter may be a genius, able to invent incredible stuff like web fluid, but when it comes to practical stuff he is really dumb. Just the fact that he thinks the best use of his time is swinging around the city hoping to come across a crime happening tells you that. Yeah this is a guy who bitches about not having money when he could just go work for Tony Stark down the street and solve ALL OF HIS PROBLEMS. Dude's a total moron and we love him for it.
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MrJacobs posted:Yeah this is a guy who bitches about not having money when he could just go work for Tony Stark down the street and solve ALL OF HIS PROBLEMS. Dude's a total moron and we love him for it. He actually works at Stark Enterprises for a minute. Then Tony becomes Power Suit Hitler and pisses everyone off(comic books are hella dumb.)
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Aug 18, 2014 20:18
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Heather Graham in "From Hell" pretty much wrecked the movie for me. Overall it was pretty decent but her "I'm ENGLISH I AM WHAT WHAT JOLLY ROGER TO THE QUEEN EATING CHIPS ON THE LIFT" accent is atrocious.
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Your Gay Uncle posted:Heather Graham in "From Hell" pretty much wrecked the movie for me. Overall it was pretty decent but her "I'm ENGLISH I AM WHAT WHAT JOLLY ROGER TO THE QUEEN EATING CHIPS ON THE LIFT" accent is atrocious. Jeez, it's not her fault the British talk that way
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Mister Nobody posted:As long as we're talking about Nolan... After watching Transcendence, I'm pretty sure we can squarely blame Wally Pfister for that. The first act of that movie is almost nausea-inducing with the rate at which it switches scenes and time-frames. It must have worked in TDK though, as I didn't even notice it until rewatching.
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MrJacobs posted:Yeah this is a guy who bitches about not having money when he could just go work for Tony Stark down the street and solve ALL OF HIS PROBLEMS. Dude's a total moron and we love him for it. That's why I love Spider-Man. He's the epitome of a genius missing the forest for the trees. He could buy Aunt May a mansion in Florida and himself a penthouse next to Central Park but he's too wrapped up in the irrelevant minutia of his teenage life. I remember something where Dr. Reed offers him a research fellowship and Peter just never shows up because The Rhino was eating pizza or something.
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I really think Peter not tapping into his full potential is partly due to a lot of writers insisting on keeping him a perpetual teenager who can't prioritize or keep his personal life in check You see he's too busy fighting supercrime to get his life in order, even though there are people out there who work at jobs with incredible amount of pressure and responsibility yet manage to keep their poo poo together. Personally I really liked it when he was a teacher, I could relate to him better as a young adult, rather than some kid who takes blurry photographs for poo poo money to buys his aunt arthritis meds and web fluid ingredients.
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Mister Nobody posted:I really think Peter not tapping into his full potential is partly due to a lot of writers insisting on keeping him a perpetual teenager who can't prioritize or keep his personal life in check See also the beloved arc, "One More Day".
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Razorwired posted:He actually works at Stark Enterprises for a minute. Then Tony becomes Power Suit Hitler and pisses everyone off(comic books are hella dumb.) It's really stupid that all these comic book guys are in the same universe, and it's disappointing that the movies are headed in the same direction
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People can't relate to a Peter Parker who's married therefore we will make it so that he sells his marriage to not-Satan in order to help his aunt who got shot and cannot be healed by anyone in the entire world - not even Doctor Steven Strange or Reed Richards.
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Synonamess Botch posted:It's really stupid that all these comic book guys are in the same universe, and it's disappointing that the movies are headed in the same direction That's just like, your opinion man.
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I hope the next spider-man movie skips ahead to Doc Ock bodysnatching Peter
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Your Gay Uncle posted:Heather Graham in "From Hell" pretty much wrecked the movie for me. Overall it was pretty decent but her "I'm ENGLISH I AM WHAT WHAT JOLLY ROGER TO THE QUEEN EATING CHIPS ON THE LIFT" accent is atrocious. Urgh, thanks for reminding me about that horrible horrible accent. It's up there with Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins. Are you British by the way? As a Brit that accent stands out a thousand miles to me and I wondered if Americans picked up on how phoney it sounds too. Same deal with Keanu Reeves in Dracula and one of the worst offenders is Russell Crowe's attempt at a Northern accent in Robin Hood. He sounds like a mishmash of faux Irish/Cockney/Aussi and nothing at all like a Northerner. For some reason though I can totally accept Kevin Costner as an English Lord in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves. I say to myself 'he got tortured on the crusades, they must have tortured his voice box' and then I enjoy how absurd the film is. Russell Crowe, on the other hand, just pisses me off with his try hard accent. He needs to stop talking and fire some loving arrows in slow mo or get shot over a wall from a catapult or something fun 
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Lumberjack Bonanza posted:I hope the next spider-man movie skips ahead to Doc Ock bodysnatching Peter Well, I did spot (a prototype of) the arms in the research lab basement or whatever when that dude went to gently caress himself up with the serum.
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Something that bugged me about From Hell is that they took Alan Moore's meticulously researched book and just added gibberish to it. Like making the main character an opium addicted psychic. It's like someone read a summary of the comic and saw that a character in it was psychic but missed the part where in the end he admits he made it all up.
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Well master auteur Uwe Boll did say that you can't have a good character if he doesn't have super powers. Good advice.
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Synonamess Botch posted:It's really stupid that all these comic book guys are in the same universe, and it's disappointing that the movies are headed in the same direction I dislike fun things too.
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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. I just watched this today, only knowing that there was going to be a clever twist. But Jesus Christ that dialogue was annoying. I'm not very quick when it comes to finding the twist, but Fallon being a mute and always with his face hidden with quick cuts wasn't very subtle. If they had tried to play it more straight, it probably would have fooled me for longer. The general audience wouldn't be missing out anyway it seems. I think the funniest thing was how bad they both were at seeing past each other's disguises. Especially when Angier presumably had Fallon (or Borden?) in his possession for a good deal of time. "In fact, he doesn't seem to say much at all!" - Good catch there, Angier  Still a really good movie that I finally got around to watch.
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I personally find it hilarious that newspaper spiderman is the only one who has his poo poo together. He's married, has a stable financial situation, and is generally well-liked by everyone. He also spends most of his time watching TV, and his recent arc (after fighting Iron Jonah) consists entirely of Peter going around taking pictures of Doc Ock solving crimes instead of Spiderman.
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Tunicate posted:I personally find it hilarious that newspaper spiderman is the only one who has his poo poo together. He's married, has a stable financial situation, and is generally well-liked by everyone. They joys of no editorial demands.
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Aug 19, 2014 23:23
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Does Spider-man ever just get a lawyer and start taking donations? Because him poor mouthing and delivering pizza to make ends meet was really annoying in that one movie.
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PostNouveau posted:Does Spider-man ever just get a lawyer and start taking donations? Because him poor mouthing and delivering pizza to make ends meet was really annoying in that one movie. You think the villains care about attorney client privilege?
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They would if the lawyer was She-Hulk.
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Dr Scoofles posted:Urgh, thanks for reminding me about that horrible horrible accent. It's up there with Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins. Are you British by the way? As a Brit that accent stands out a thousand miles to me and I wondered if Americans picked up on how phoney it sounds too. Same deal with Keanu Reeves in Dracula and one of the worst offenders is Russell Crowe's attempt at a Northern accent in Robin Hood. He sounds like a mishmash of faux Irish/Cockney/Aussi and nothing at all like a Northerner. Not English, bad accents just bug the poo poo out of me. Notable Offenders: Enemy At The Gates, where no one other than Bob Hoskins even attempts either a russian or german accent Richard Gere in The Jackal Brad Pitt in The Devil's Own " I need the mooooonie Toom!" Tommy Lee Jones in Blown Away The Peter Sellers movie wher he plays an Indian Guy
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Some more bad accents: That red haired guy's Australian accent in Pacific Rim. Sean Connery being cast as an Irishman in The Untouchables. Kate Beckinsale's Romanian(?) accent in Van Helsing. Kevin Kline's South African (it sounded more posh English) accent in Cry Freedom. Every time Keanu Reeves tries to do an accent. Nic Cage's Italian accent in Captain Corelli's Mandolin. Morgan Freeman's Xhosa accent in Invictus. Sounded nothing like Nelson Mandela. Tim Curry is pretty bad at accents, especially his Romanian one in Congo, that was hilarious. But the movies he's in are usually pretty stupid anyway so he's forgiven. The Boston accents in Thirteen Days are usually pretty terrible but good god, Kevin Costner's was horrible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tho5ZYLiuoc Celery Face has a new favorite as of 01:21 on Aug 20, 2014 |
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theironjef posted:They would if the lawyer was She-Hulk. This idea is so newspaper spiderman it hurts.
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I watched the French horror movie Inside recently. It started off really creepy, and then just became a lovely slasher. It bothered me that after having a woman try to break a window to enter her house, she goes into a dark room to develop her pictures, instead of just getting the gently caress out of the house. The whole idea that she didn't know that someone survived the crash was also loving stupid.
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