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Organza Quiz posted:The first two seasons are terrible but give the third one a chance, it's back up to the same quality as the original. It was good, but not as good. Some things were pretty dumb, like Kora not being able to lava bend, even though the original showed Roku and Ang lava bending*I do like it, but a lot of it's appeal, for me at least, comes from how great the original is. *e: if anything, this is my irritating moment, all those scenes felt like fake tension, because I knew lava wasn't a threat to Kora. It's like the writers forgot they had the last two Avatars literally fight volcanoes. Aggressive pricing has a new favorite as of 04:28 on Oct 4, 2014 |
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My main beef is the entire time leap. Because nothing great happened in, say, the USA in between 1930 and 1990, to compare the skip in avatar. Easy to gloss it over! Also Korra herself didn't have any of the growth aang did. She started out knowing three of the four elements before the drat show really started. Aang we watched learn and struggle. But aang being such a bigot to his kids, seriously. The gently caress was that about? And don't get me started on the 'omg new airbenders from nothing' poo poo.
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Oct 4, 2014 04:47
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Cowslips Warren posted:
Yeah, that was really out of character, the guy who bonds with a lemur in two minutes not spending time with his kids makes no sense at all. Non-benders must have had a role in the air-nomad society, but you'd never know it from the show.
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Oct 4, 2014 05:00
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Half the drama of both Avatar series is built on daddy and mommy issues, I don't know what to tell you. Now, my complaint is with Bolin learning lava bending. I totally saw it coming, but when it happened it was totally underwhelming and they just went, "welp, that's a thing now."
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Oct 4, 2014 05:48
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Trent posted:the cube wasn't completely explained. It could have still been running off the enterprise computer, but it may have been self-contained. Perhaps once he was created, it took less power to keep him going? That only happened because doc was trying to fill his programing with poo poo like singing and what not.
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Oct 4, 2014 05:59
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Trent posted:Don't get me started with B4. Dr. Soong: I'm gonna call him B4, because I'm making him before I eventually make those other robots that people in my future will be familiar with. Pretty clever, huh?
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Oct 4, 2014 06:22
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Jerusalem posted:Dr. Soong: I'm gonna call him B4, because I'm making him before I eventually make those other robots that people in my future will be familiar with. Pretty clever, huh? Maybe his thing from our present was the movie Battleship?
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Oct 4, 2014 08:36
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Here's a more generally irritating movie moment that happens a lot in action and crime flicks: The detectives bust into the suspect's house. He's standing there holding a gun/knife to the victim. "I'll kill her!" he says. "Put the guns down!" Of course, there's no actual risk of the victim getting killed if he already has a bullet or two in the brain. These shots aren't taken, because that's not how it works in movies. But what other choice do you have at that point, you can put your guns down and risk even more people dying, or take the shot and risk at most one innocent casualty. The scenes work out with zero losses most of the time anyway, but it's just irritating how they play out. Irrationally irritating.
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Oct 4, 2014 22:07
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Thoughtless posted:Here's a more generally irritating movie moment that happens a lot in action and crime flicks: The hostage taker is always showing their head away from the hostage, and the police officer or whoever is at spitting distance and already aiming at them. Just loving shoot their melon. Or do a 'dirty shot' where you shoot through the hostage, as opposed to a clean one. But yeah, depending on the movie or show, it won't happen that way. e: I can't think of any specific examples right now, but there has been some subverted tropes of this one where the good guy just shoots the bad guy without any delay and stupid dialogue. It's not as bad a cliché as hearing out the villain's master plan, but it's pretty close. old bean factory has a new favorite as of 23:05 on Oct 4, 2014 |
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Oct 4, 2014 23:01
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See, that's one area Taken is not irrationally irritating. Buck that trend!
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Oct 4, 2014 23:05
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mng posted:
I did like that in Dredd's opening scene when the perp takes the woman hostage and he's all "I'll kill her!" And Dredd is just "whatever" and shoots him right in the mouth with a bullet that melts his face There was a bit of stupid dialogue but I liked the reveal that Dredd was actually telling his gun to use a certain type of bullet instead of actually conversing with the guy.
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Oct 4, 2014 23:15
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He was telling his gun to use a whatever bullet?
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Oct 4, 2014 23:20
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yeah. Voice commanded poo poo, who needs levers in the future?
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Oct 4, 2014 23:25
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Ignite Memories posted:He was telling his gun to use a whatever bullet? Yeah I just got around to watching it the other day and he does it several times. Also, regarding the "dirty shot" no honorable mention for Speed?
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Oct 4, 2014 23:32
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mng posted:The hostage taker is always showing their head away from the hostage, and the police officer or whoever is at spitting distance and already aiming at them. Just loving shoot their melon. Or do a 'dirty shot' where you shoot through the hostage, as opposed to a clean one. But yeah, depending on the movie or show, it won't happen that way. Not to be the internet guy that thinks Firefly is the be-all-end-all of entertainment, but this scene is pretty much the first time I saw that particular trope subverted and it blew my mind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP9eiXMPLcQ
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mng posted:e: I can't think of any specific examples right now, but there has been some subverted tropes of this one where the good guy just shoots the bad guy without any delay and stupid dialogue. It's not as bad a cliché as hearing out the villain's master plan, but it's pretty close. Not a movie, but it happens in the PS3 game The Last of Us. (spoilers for this years-old game) Main character Joel has just yanked surrogate daughter Ellie from the hands of the Fireflies, a group seeking to cure the They're Not Actually Zombies plague or at least find out what makes it all tick, but have been thoroughly unsuccessful. He has the antagonist, former friend of his pointing a gun at him and trying to prevent his escape. She starts a speech about how he can change things at the last minute and give up and walk away but then he just shoots her in the gut because gently caress that. She's on the ground begging him to not kill her but he finishes her off after saying "you'll just come after her."
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Oct 5, 2014 01:27
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The best example of this is Robocop where he x-ray visions through the hostage's skirt and shoots her assailant in the dick. Dick shots erryday.
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Stargate posted:The best example of this is Robocop where he x-ray visions through the hostage's skirt and shoots her assailant in the dick. Dick shots erryday.  and if you're squeamish like me  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx2GuZMfNp8
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Pro-click right there. That's hilarious
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Oct 5, 2014 01:45
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In the original RoboCop he also shoots a hostage taker through the victim's skirt. Edit. I should have refreshed this tab. 😢
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Oct 5, 2014 03:29
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mng posted:
This really deserves to be mentioned whenever the relevant Robocop scene is, it's loving beautiful.
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First place I saw it was Cowboy Bebop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42LnPFs61WM
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You should probably just go and watch Captain Philips because not only does that occur but it's all 100% true. Edit: And for content, Gone Girl has so many holes in the perfect plan to fake my own death it's ridiculous. The whole thing at the end hinges on the police being too lazy to do even the most cursory inspection of the lake house and everyone just going "well gently caress it I guess bitches be crazy!". I haven't laughed that much at a film in a while, not 100% sure I was supposed to though. Powerful Two-Hander has a new favorite as of 12:06 on Oct 5, 2014 |
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Speaking of Robocop why does every OCP conference room have a loaded .50 Desert Eagle in it?
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Your Gay Uncle posted:Speaking of Robocop why does every OCP conference room have a loaded .50 Desert Eagle in it? Because Detroit.
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Your Gay Uncle posted:Speaking of Robocop why does every OCP conference room have a loaded .50 Desert Eagle in it? Because if you aren't applauding your boss' ideas, you'll get loving got. 
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Is hard to believe that a movie whose premise hinges on Detroit being a hellish shithole has only become more accurate with time.
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Your Gay Uncle posted:Speaking of Robocop why does every OCP conference room have a loaded .50 Desert Eagle in it? I think it was left over from the ED-209 demo. Someone just put it back in the case and if got left there.
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Armyman25 posted:I think it was left over from the ED-209 demo. Someone just put it back in the case and if got left there. Ayup, that's it. Fun fact: Robocop was originally supposed to use the Desert Eagle, but it looked too small in his hand 
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Watching Robocop again makes me really miss squibs and blood packets. Digital gore is so fake looking.
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Totally agree. I still get shocked when I watch the brutal shooting of Murphy and the movie is loving ancient. Then look at Rambo (2008) for example; all of the CGI blood is just distracting and could easily have been practical effects. As much as CGI has improved over the years there are still some things that it just can't do right, especially fluids it seems. The Thing, Terminator 1+2, Robocop, Alien(s) still hold up to this day. It can look cheesy and you can point at something and say 'ha, that's a dummy!', but it still looks, well, real. Our brains are weird. e: I watched Exam the other night and at one single camera shot, a guy's pistol changes from a Glock to a Sig Sauer, then back to a Glock again. There is only the one gun in the entire movie, but somehow that slides through. I guess my irritation is mostly when it continues to happen in movies or TV series where they are many guns present and the prop/armory guys miss something, but that one instant just puzzled me. old bean factory has a new favorite as of 22:16 on Oct 5, 2014 |
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More complaining about star trek. No one ever wear any sort of protective equipment. Just those spandex suits. Beaming into an unknown ship: no space suit. A ship they know is on fire: no protection or air source. No armor or even a helmet when they're going into a fight.
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mng posted:e: I watched Exam the other night and at one single camera shot, a guy's pistol changes from a Glock to a Sig Sauer, then back to a Glock again. There is only the one gun in the entire movie, but somehow that slides through. I guess my irritation is mostly when it continues to happen in movies or TV series where they are many guns present and the prop/armory guys miss something, but that one instant just puzzled me. "Okay, we gotta re-shoot this scene. gently caress, where is his gun? Yo, Johnny Intern, go get a gun from the prop room, okay?" This sort of thing kills me, too. A gun is like any other prop, but you don't see toasters, laptops, coffee mugs, or whatever just up and change nearly as much as guns get messed up.
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Oct 6, 2014 12:57
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Why did the Predator kill Poncho? Dude was seriously wounded and completely helpless.
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Gargamel Gibson posted:Why did the Predator kill Poncho? Dude was seriously wounded and completely helpless. But he had a gun!
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Gargamel Gibson posted:Why did the Predator kill Poncho? Dude was seriously wounded and completely helpless. I keep forgetting that the dude dies. Should've lived 
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Gargamel Gibson posted:Why did the Predator kill Poncho? Dude was seriously wounded and completely helpless. I figured it was because Poncho was dangerous before and just because he's hurt doesn't change anything. Predator still hunted him and needed his trophy. Once a threat, always a threat.
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Dr_Amazing posted:More complaining about star trek. No one ever wear any sort of protective equipment. Just those spandex suits. Beaming into an unknown ship: no space suit. A ship they know is on fire: no protection or air source. No armor or even a helmet when they're going into a fight.  I'm irrationally irritated when they do occasionally have those things, because they've already established that we're not supposed to loving worry about it and just enjoy the heroes doing things, but then occasionally it matters because mediocre writing.
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Dr_Amazing posted:More complaining about star trek. No one ever wear any sort of protective equipment. Just those spandex suits. Beaming into an unknown ship: no space suit. A ship they know is on fire: no protection or air source. No armor or even a helmet when they're going into a fight. Not true 
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Gargamel Gibson posted:Why did the Predator kill Poncho? Dude was seriously wounded and completely helpless. It's been awhile since I saw it, was he injured by the Predator? That'd be finishing a kill. You wouldn't leave a deer limping away if your shot didn't kill them.
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