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muscles like this? posted:They also would have been R rated since everyone on Barsoom just runs around naked. Yep. I wonder how many old guys without internet access wandered in to the theater thinking, "This movie has Dejah Thoris in it, she's gotta be topless, it's the confusing and perverted 2010s after all..."
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I'm watching the long extended director's cut version and it's a lot better than the theater version. Has the pirate comics as an animated segment breaking up the main story. E. A good moment is when Rorschach is captured the cops are all wailing on him in the street. They don't really approach him one by one, they gang up on him.
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My Lovely Horse posted:That's entirely the point of it though. Something that comes out of nowhere and shocks everyone into reassessing the global situation as fast as possible. Using Dr. Manhattan makes little sense because he's already a known quantity to the entire world and governments on both sides have to have contingencies for everything he's possibly capable of doing. Governments on both sides have contingencies for everything Dr Manhattan is capable of doing? Really? The 'limits' of his powers are always presented as a pretty unknown variable, apart from it being said he can't 'be everywhere at once' and strongly implied by him that he's essentially invulnerable. His apathy towards humanity was always his biggest limiting factor. What contingencies do you think would have been in place for America's mysterious weapon suddenly flipping out on TV and destroying a dozen cities simultaneously? In fact that reminds me, the movie ending certainly ties in better with Ozzy's plan to manipulate Jon. In the comic I guess everyone assumes he left for good after his freakout and everything else was a big coincidence, but the idea that he turned against humanity after his last public appearance does work quite well.
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Okay, people, could we perhaps focus a bit more on general subtle movie moments and a little less on Watchmen specifically? This is fast turning into PYF Opinion About Watchmen. Back on-topic: someone mentioned Scary Movie 3 earlier, and I wanted to point out that it has what may be the single greatest callback joke in the history of film: http://youtu.be/pIWh28WPyxQ?t=2m Which, for those who don't know, is a reference to this classic running gag from Airplane: http://youtu.be/KSQyW_l8OgE
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Baba Yaga Fanboy posted:
is that the only moment nielsen is in the movie?
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lenoon posted:is that the only moment nielsen is in the movie? Nah. Unsurprisingly he's the best part of the whole thing though, since he'd been doing spoofs for like 20 straight years at that point. Probably would have been worth it if it was his only moment though.
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I loved the cocking of the shovel.
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mind the walrus posted:Nah. Unsurprisingly he's the best part of the whole thing though, since he'd been doing spoofs for like 20 straight years at that point. Probably would have been worth it if it was his only moment though. He still couldn't save Dracula: Dead and Loving It, the only movie so bad I never finished watching it.
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Aleph Null posted:He still couldn't save Dracula: Dead and Loving It, the only movie so bad I never finished watching it. The blood firehose when they stake Lucy was funny, but the rest of it was pretty poo poo.
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lenoon posted:is that the only moment nielsen is in the movie? What was great about Leslie was that he could deliver a line and it would not be out of place in a comedy or a drama.
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Baba Yaga Fanboy posted:Okay, people, could we perhaps focus a bit more on general subtle movie moments and a little less on Watchmen specifically? This is fast turning into PYF Opinion About Watchmen.
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I saw The Giver earlier, one little thing I liked was that all the men had their hair parted to the same side, to make them all look the same.
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Cat Hatter posted:Didn't Kubrick usually just use source material as a jumping off point and then make his own barely-related movie? Often, but a scene-by-scene adaption of a book to a movie isn't necessarily as faithful an adaption as one which plays with the material to make it fit the screen and end up with a work that has the same feeling and themes as the book.
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Mister Kingdom posted:What was great about Leslie was that he could deliver a line and it would not be out of place in a comedy or a drama. As someone who was born in the eighties, my first time seeing Forbidden Planet was an odd experience though.
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Ratoslov posted:Often, but a scene-by-scene adaption of a book to a movie isn't necessarily as faithful an adaption as one which plays with the material to make it fit the screen and end up with a work that has the same feeling and themes as the book. Yeah, but try telling that to all the butthurt nerds after Kubrick's Watchmen is released. It would be worth it though just to watch Alan Moore's head explode.
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I'm not sure if its just in the directors cut, but in Miami Vice Mann uses background lightning strikes to punctuate a lot of scenes, usually when stuff is getting worse. Kinda neat.
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Ratoslov posted:Often, but a scene-by-scene adaption of a book to a movie isn't necessarily as faithful an adaption as one which plays with the material to make it fit the screen and end up with a work that has the same feeling and themes as the book. As far as I know he didn't do that either.
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Ratoslov posted:Often, but a scene-by-scene adaption of a book to a movie isn't necessarily as faithful an adaption as one which plays with the material to make it fit the screen and end up with a work that has the same feeling and themes as the book. How often does that happen? It seems like what you usually get is some stupid poo poo about "changing the story so that a whole new group of fans can enjoy it!"
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Taking the Watchmen license and using it to reskin an unrelated production about the current state of superhero movies would have been a goddamn stroke of genius, but I can't think of a single writer or director that could have pulled it off.
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Elendil004 posted:I'm not sure if its just in the directors cut, but in Miami Vice Mann uses background lightning strikes to punctuate a lot of scenes, usually when stuff is getting worse. Kinda neat. In the commentary track, Mann mentioned that none of that was SFX; apparently, Florida was having a banner year for hurricanes and storms and all of the lightning was just mother nature going wackadoodle. He even riffs on this, briefly, when Rico's girlfriend is captured, they play a weather report where they're announcing the latest storm beginning with the letter "O" or something ridiculous. Mann says that they didn't get quite that far into the alphabet, that year, but they got close.
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null_pointer posted:In the commentary track, Mann mentioned that none of that was SFX; apparently, Florida was having a banner year for hurricanes and storms and all of the lightning was just mother nature going wackadoodle. He even riffs on this, briefly, when Rico's girlfriend is captured, they play a weather report where they're announcing the latest storm beginning with the letter "O" or something ridiculous. Mann says that they didn't get quite that far into the alphabet, that year, but they got close. Every year is a banner year for storms in South Florida. I remember hitting the Ks and Ls plenty of times when I was a kid, and in the early 2000s, they get up to the Ps a couple of times.
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My Lovely Horse posted:Taking the Watchmen license and using it to reskin an unrelated production about the current state of superhero movies would have been a goddamn stroke of genius, but I can't think of a single writer or director that could have pulled it off. Kubrick.
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In Top Secret! when Kilmer is singing "Spend This Night With Me" he fakes committing suicide by sticking his head in an oven. When his head is in the oven, his voice has an echo.
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Mister Kingdom posted:In Top Secret! when Kilmer is singing "Spend This Night With Me" he fakes committing suicide by sticking his head in an oven. When his head is in the oven, his voice has an echo. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/subtle
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"It's true, Sir. This man has no dick."
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I'm so Bill Murray in that .gif
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I'm the encore watermark.
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KoRMaK posted:I'm the encore watermark. Good, there's something for everyone.
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I'm the bag under that dude's left eye
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Still making my way through the thread, so sorry if it's already been mentioned. In Mallrats, a special security guard is brought in during the filming of the dating game. His name is LaFours, he wears a white straw hat and is said to be "the most feared security guard in the business". His character is a shoutout to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in which Butch and Sundance are pursued by LaFours, the white straw hat wearing "most feared lawman in the west". Always thought that was cool.
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martinlutherbling posted:Still making my way through the thread, so sorry if it's already been mentioned. In Mallrats, a special security guard is brought in during the filming of the dating game. His name is LaFours, he wears a white straw hat and is said to be "the most feared security guard in the business". His character is a shoutout to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in which Butch and Sundance are pursued by LaFours, the white straw hat wearing "most feared lawman in the west". Always thought that was cool. This would be perfect as an empty quote.
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If you're older than sixteen and still consider Mallrats to be a good movie, you've got some loving problems.
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Hey I know it's garbage but it was garbage I could relate to and once I got a blowjob while watching it so 
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1. I didn't say Mallrats is a great movie, although I do like putting it on once in a while for nostalgia's sake. 2. I'd still argue that it's pretty subtle. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid came out like 30 years before Mallrats, and I'd argue that most of the 14-20 year old target audience of Mallrats hadn't/still haven't seen Butch and Sundance 
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mind the walrus posted:Hey I know it's garbage but it was garbage I could relate to and once I got a blowjob while watching it so Yes, but did you ever do fingercuffs watching Chasing Amy?
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syscall girl posted:Yes, but did you ever do fingercuffs watching Chasing Amy? No, but I left Clerks 2 with a bad taste in my mouth.
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