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kizudarake posted:Tom Swift So pretty much an unfunny Venture Brothers.
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nucleicmaxid posted:So pretty much an unfunny Venture Brothers. More like a complex and deeper Dr. Who.
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Sep 29, 2014 16:29
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My irritating movie moment is more of a thing with viewers, but I hate how really hate how there are movies with twists people will not shut up about. My favorite movie ever is Fight Club, but I keep it a secret from my friends until we get a chance to have a movie night or something because even if they don't google it, there's still a huge chance of them just randomly coming across the big spoiler.
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Sep 29, 2014 17:37
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One of the best moments of my life was getting to show Dusk til Dawn to a friend who knew nothing about it. The vampire reveal basically resulted in him losing his god drat mind screaming wtf. It was hard getting him in blind. I made him close his eyes when I played it because even the Netflix description gives it away.
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Sep 29, 2014 17:46
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I was thinking of Dusk till Dawn too, it's one of the best example of that. poo poo, it's ridiculous. Good work though on getting them to it unspoiled. In the loving summery! It's like people don't understand that maybe a good twist shouldn't be a well known and ruin it for other people.
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Sep 29, 2014 18:00
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:I'm told that the books don't make much more sense. Thanks for this, I loved that book when I was younger, but had totally forgotten the title and author. Time to hit amazon.
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Sep 29, 2014 18:02
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What's so hard about making a decent Godzilla, Hulk, Transformers film or even a decent Alien or Terminator sequel or a new RoboCop movie? These things practically write themselves they're so god damned simple, especially Godzilla and Hulk. Why is this tricky? Showing Hulk smashing and Godzilla wrecking poo poo should be remarkably easy. One is "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde with a dash of Frankenstein" and the other is "Giant Monster Fucks Up Cities; gently caress! Run! Someone Kill It!"
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Sep 29, 2014 19:05
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Xinlum posted:One of the best moments of my life was getting to show Dusk til Dawn to a friend who knew nothing about it. The vampire reveal basically resulted in him losing his god drat mind screaming wtf. I was cruising Netflix the other night and noticed it was spoiled right in the synopsis text. Why ruin one of the best reveals in film history like that? Silly Newbie posted:Thanks for this, I loved that book when I was younger, but had totally forgotten the title and author. Time to hit amazon. If you go looking for the rest of his catalog, be aware that among his pretty consistent string of terrific books, he published a few real stinkers (seriously, don't go near Others See Us, and for God's sake, don't touch his 2002 sequel to Interstellar Pig). Most of his earlier works are great--House of Stairs is a short read that is still darn good forty years after he wrote it.
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Sep 29, 2014 19:22
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I was like seven when From Dusk Till Dawn came out so I don't remember seeing any trailers for it. But https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RF0hYk7tc8 it looks like that wasn't exactly intended to be a twist?
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Sep 29, 2014 19:26
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Len posted:I was like seven when From Dusk Till Dawn came out so I don't remember seeing any trailers for it. But https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RF0hYk7tc8 it looks like that wasn't exactly intended to be a twist? It's definitely a twist, as in a turn in the story, trailers are made by the worst people and are completely shamless in how they spoil great twists or completely mis-represent movies. Don't watch trailers, nothing good can come of it. e: in theatres, the best move is to cover your head in a popcorn bag and scream show tunes until they're done playing Aggressive pricing has a new favorite as of 19:33 on Sep 29, 2014 |
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Sep 29, 2014 19:31
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Len posted:I was like seven when From Dusk Till Dawn came out so I don't remember seeing any trailers for it. But https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RF0hYk7tc8 it looks like that wasn't exactly intended to be a twist? Trailers aren't done by the director. Same with Terminator 2 and the Arnie reveal.
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Aggressive pricing posted:completely mis-represent movies. Don't watch trailers, nothing good can come of it. THIS FILM IS ALL ABOUT KEN WANTANABE, BRYAN CRANSTON, AND A GIANT FUCKOFF MONSTER, AND IT IS TOTALLY NOT ABOUT SOME RANDOM GOOBER'S FAMILY
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Aggressive pricing posted:It's definitely a twist, as in a turn in the story, trailers are made by the worst people and are completely shamless in how they spoil great twists or completely mis-represent movies. Don't watch trailers, nothing good can come of it. I get that it's a major turn in the story. But I've never known if it was supposed to be a secret of it the internet just goes ahead and assumes it was supposed to be. Since the trailers, the movie poster, the box art, the back of the back, directv and netflix all told me it's about vampires I just assumed it was never intended to be a secret.
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Len posted:Since the trailers, the movie poster, the box art, the back of the back, directv and netflix all told me it's about vampires I just assumed it was never intended to be a secret. All of these things are made by awful people who don't give a poo poo about the audience's enjoyment, they just want money and if they think 'VAMPIRES! CLOONEY! CLOONEY FIGHTS VAMPIRES!' will make more money, then that's what they're gonna advertise.
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Aggressive pricing posted:All of these things are made by awful people who don't give a poo poo about the audience's enjoyment, they just want money and if they think 'VAMPIRES! CLOONEY! CLOONEY FIGHTS VAMPIRES!' will make more money, then that's what they're gonna advertise. So it is just the internet thinking it should be otherwise. Gotcha.
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Yeah I watched it with a bunch of people when it first came out on VHS. We all knew the twist going in because it was in every single trailer for the movie, except for one person who hadn't seen the trailers and yelled out "what the gently caress?!" when the vampires finally showed up. That was fun.
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It should be secret. I saw it blind as a kid and my friend agrees also. Not knowing ahead of time makes the movie an amazing mindfuck. Probably one of Tarintinos best.
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I saw From Dusk Till Dawn when it first came out in theatres and the vampire stuff definitely came out of nowhere. I wasn't expecting it in the least. edit: just checked IMDb...1996? Really? 
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Len posted:So it is just the internet thinking it should be otherwise. Gotcha. I'm pretty sure Rodriguez thought so to, but that drat tv series makes it impossible to find anything about it.
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More recently, my roommate and I had a good "What the gently caress?" watching The World's End. We had a friend over later just to watch her reaction to that scene. If you've seen the film, you know exactly what I'm talking about. The ending also has a "What the gently caress?" twist to it. Although I wouldn't call it a twist, as that was pretty logical how it had to end, but they did it so straight-faced, it was amazing.
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Ignite Memories posted:Is there a rationally irritating movie moments thread? Because I just saw the maze runner, and while it's pretty intriguing for most of the movie, the plot dump at the end is a load of horse poo poo. Book spoilers: I haven't seen the movie and it sounds a bit different from the book but in the book, the scientists knew which kids were immune to the virus and which weren't. The maze was part of a system of trials to test the kids' brains and how they reacted to different stimuli. The virus attacks the brain so obviously immune people had a special brain! Immune systems? Nah, definitely the brain. So basically the maze and subsequent trials tracked their brain patterns and poo poo with the non-immune kids being a control group. The book never adequately explains why the grievers have poison beyond the whole stupid premise of producing another stimulus to see how the brains react.
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Trailers can never be misleading https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SvqEIKP4t8
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IUG posted:More recently, my roommate and I had a good "What the gently caress?" watching The World's End. We had a friend over later just to watch her reaction to that scene. If you've seen the film, you know exactly what I'm talking about. The ending also has a "What the gently caress?" twist to it. Although I wouldn't call it a twist, as that was pretty logical how it had to end, but they did it so straight-faced, it was amazing. I like to think that the entire film was a long setup for the joke right before credits rolled. loving brilliant 
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bobkatt013 posted:Trailers can never be misleading I've always liked this misleading bit from the trailer for The Relic: http://youtu.be/mI4adLmGj1c?t=1m31s Basically, a completely throwaway joke line in the movie is made out to be a big plot point in the trailer. The movie is in no way about the gradual extinction of the human race. Also, yeah, saying that there's a twist in the movie spoils the twist. Now that i know there's a twist I'm going to be unable to stop trying to figure out what that twist is and basically spoil it for myself. You put your guard up, basically. Me and many other people watch a movie differently when we go in expecting something like that.
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:THIS FILM IS ALL ABOUT KEN WANTANABE, BRYAN CRANSTON, AND A GIANT FUCKOFF MONSTER, AND IT IS TOTALLY NOT ABOUT SOME RANDOM GOOBER'S FAMILY I didn't watch these movies
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AlliedBiscuit posted:I've always liked this misleading bit from the trailer for The Relic: http://youtu.be/mI4adLmGj1c?t=1m31s The trailer for The Bourne Legacy did something kind of similar. There's a lot of praise for a guy and they make you think they're talking about Jeremy Renner's character when instead they're talking about a bad guy who gets introduced late in the movie.
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Remember how everyone thought Kangaroo Jack was a movie about a talking kangaroo?
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Seventh Arrow posted:"A special kind of movie magic"
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Seventh Arrow posted:
Ah, so it's like Homeward Bound,
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Pilchenstein posted:To be fair, it says "from the creators of 'Watership Down'" right after that, so fair loving warning. 
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Len posted:I was like seven when From Dusk Till Dawn came out so I don't remember seeing any trailers for it. But it looks like that wasn't exactly intended to be a twist? Note: I'm not spoiling it because it's Terminator 2 ffs. In Terminator 2: Judgement Day, James Cameron intended that at the start of the movie, all you know about the T-800 is that in the first movie, one that looked exactly like it nearly killed Sarah Conner, did kill Kyle Reese and nearly doomed mankind. You were supposed to think he was a badguy, up until the scene in the mall where he shoots the T-1000. I'm not even sure they had shown the T-1000 explicitly killing anyone up until this point. Then the marketing department got their filthy little mitts on the movie and made a trailer that showed how awesome he was, set to Guns'n'Roses. In short: trailers suck don't watch them.
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Watership Down, yes. Cute protagonist rabbits being mauled by cats, strangling themselves to death in snares and oh yes, asphyxiation featuring facial close-ups where their eyes bulge out of their heads as they die. Rated Universal in the UK. Not even a PG. Its really good though. Edit: Having just checked youtube, its appears I forgot the ludicrous amount of blood. Wow. Cheshire Puss has a new favorite as of 23:28 on Sep 29, 2014 |
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BiggerBoat posted:What's so hard about making a decent Godzilla, Hulk, Transformers film or even a decent Alien or Terminator sequel or a new RoboCop movie? These things practically write themselves they're so god damned simple, especially Godzilla and Hulk. Why is this tricky? Showing Hulk smashing and Godzilla wrecking poo poo should be remarkably easy. One is "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde with a dash of Frankenstein" and the other is "Giant Monster Fucks Up Cities; gently caress! Run! Someone Kill It!" Same loving question about Greek mythology movies.
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The Bridge to Terebithia was a decent book I remember from such times as grade school. It was also about a kid dying and I don't remember any fantasy elements. I was maybe ten though. Someone needs to film this. But make it more Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close. I probably shouldn't pitch things that would make serious money here.
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Same answer. CGI budget vs every other part of making a good movie.
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Byzantine posted:Same loving question about Greek mythology movies. The "Aries fucks up everyone in a blink" scene in "the immortals" was loving awesome. AFewBricksShy has a new favorite as of 00:29 on Sep 30, 2014 |
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Do CGI budgets make people decide "hrm, i think what people want in this giant monster movie is more kids"? Seems like they'd just make the movie shorter.
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Cheshire Puss posted:Watership Down, yes. Cute protagonist rabbits being mauled by cats, strangling themselves to death in snares and oh yes, asphyxiation featuring facial close-ups where their eyes bulge out of their heads as they die. It's also the only U-rated film to contain a swear word.
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WickedHate posted:I was thinking of Dusk till Dawn too, it's one of the best example of that. poo poo, it's ridiculous. Good work though on getting them to it unspoiled. In the loving summery! It's like people don't understand that maybe a good twist shouldn't be a well known and ruin it for other people. Netflix is really bad about spoiling poo poo. Especially TV shows. Character that maybe could actually die had a cliffhanger where they may be dead? Let's show them fine and walking around in the still image preview as the episode loads! Every time.
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