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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Better or worse dracula than the one in Van Helsing? I don't even have to see the film to know that the Van Helsing Dracula was better. He was the best Dracula there will ever be.
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LeJackal posted:I loving hate rear end in a top hat protagonists that literally get away with murder because they are ostensibly the good guys. Reminds me of one of the lethal weapons movies where Mel Gibson and crew breaks into a house without a warrant and when the occupants ask "The gently caress are you doing here?" they proceed to beat the everliving poo poo out of them and then steal their car. I think it's when Gibson goes into dog mode and converts the guard dog to their cause. Anyway I just watched Lucy. Don't. This thing with humans only using 10% of their brains really needs to stop. No, evolution didn't give us a giant brain we hardly use. edit: Trent posted:That plot device was stupid but I knew that going into it. The movie was bad for entirely different reasons. The things that looked cool in the trailer were in the movie for about the same amount of time and the rest of it was horseshit. It is a bad movie. Absolutely. Limitless had the same plot but at least it was watchable albeit not exactly an epic. Bates has a new favorite as of 17:14 on Oct 13, 2014 |
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In Gone Girl, when Amy is using a computer to Google the situation, she's using Windows 95 and Internet Explorer. Somehow all the sites load just fine. Redrum and Coke has a new favorite as of 13:42 on Oct 14, 2014 |
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Anosmoman posted:] That plot device was stupid but I knew that going into it. The movie was bad for entirely different reasons. The things that looked cool in the trailer were in the movie for about the same amount of time and the rest of it was horseshit. It is a bad movie.
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I just watched Automata which was pretty good. But every time someone points a gun at someone it makes that "night vision activated" sound. You know the one. They were just regular guns that shoot regular bullets. Not even fancy sights or something. Where does that sound come from?
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Oct 13, 2014 15:45
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Shai-Hulud posted:I just watched Automata which was pretty good. But every time someone points a gun at someone it makes that "night vision activated" sound. You know the one. The foley department.
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Dr Scoofles posted:What even happened to the horse anyway? The carriage wheel hit a small pothole and the horse threw itself onto the floor and had to have it's neck broken but what was wrong with it? Why did it just throw itself on the floor? Did it suddenly break it's own legs when the wheel went into the pothole even though nothing happened to the horse next to it? Was it too 'far gone' to live because the wheel going into the pothole startled it? quote:I guarantee you that a dog will never in his life hear a bee and then have a heart attack out of fear, dying
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LeJackal posted:I hate that movie for so many reasons. One of the big gripes is how by the end of the film they have performed illegal searches, seizures, committed numerous felonies, invaded sovereign Cuban territory and murdered Cuban military and civilians all as part of their murder quest, then end by more or less assaulting an active US military base! Naturally just before the credits roll they are hanging out in the backyard laughing because there are literally zero consequences to their crimes. Yeah, well whatchu gonna do?
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M.Ciaster posted:Yeah, well Call the cops?
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Jedit posted:The foley department. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dKiaRUKgmA
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A really stupid thing about Enemy of the State is the lingerie store where they just have models walk around in underwear.
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muscles like this? posted:A really stupid thing about Enemy of the State is the lingerie store where they just have models walk around in underwear. Apart from the fact that according to a guy in a bar I met this happens, who do you think the store is trying to sell to? I saw The Wolverine yesterday and it was better than expected but I wish they'd make their minds up how strong adamantium is. Sometimes it cuts through a train, sometimes through steel, then not through a sword.
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:Apart from the fact that according to a guy in a bar I met this happens, who do you think the store is trying to sell to? His claws get stuck in a helicopter's thin metal skin but can cut through an old timey sink made of fukutanium like it was butter.
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Shai-Hulud posted:I just watched Automata which was pretty good. But every time someone points a gun at someone it makes that "night vision activated" sound. You know the one. That's just the sound of a capacitor charging. Happened all the time when I was a kid and hosed around with my family's old camera flash. And yea, the Van Helsing Dracula was kinda horriblawesome. HE HAS NO EMOTIONS, AND HE CAN'T DECIDE WHAT ACCENT HE WANTS TO USE, BUT HE IS SO SAAAAAAADDDD 
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There's also a great part on the Van Helsing (holy poo poo, this movie came out ten years ago) blooper reel where Dracula turns to his vampire minions and says something like "Ladies and gentleman, I give to you....VAN HALEN!"
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Celery Face posted:There's also a great part on the Van Helsing (holy poo poo, this movie came out ten years ago) blooper reel where Dracula turns to his vampire minions and says something like "Ladies and gentleman, I give to you....VAN HALEN!" The entire blooper reel is great, regardless what anyone thinks of the actual movie itself.  It's got to be my second favorite blooper reel behind the one for Pirates of the Caribbean 2.
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Watched the hell out of this when I was 10 years old and obsessed with the second Pirates movie. "Davy Jone's Crocodile Machine" is still hilarious. 
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:That's just the sound of a capacitor charging. Happened all the time when I was a kid and hosed around with my family's old camera flash. Oh yeah. Thats where i know it from. I remember now! Those guns sure had a lot of capacitors for just being shotguns...
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You can pretend it's an EMP shotgun and that's why they had to use em against robots cause that's  !!!!
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Anosmoman posted:Anyway I just watched Lucy. Don't. This thing with humans only using 10% of their brains really needs to stop. No, evolution didn't give us a giant brain we hardly use. Didn't Inception explain the thing with time slowing down ten times when you dream with this, because when you dream you use hundred percent instead of ten? I didn't catch their explanation for why time slows down 100 times when you have a dream within a dream.
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Inception they just talked about how time moves differently in a dream. They didn't really go into the mechanics of how exactly they got the ratio.
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Friday Night Lights season 3 spoilers. after Matt Saracen's dad dies Lyla Garretty shows from out across the country to attend the funeral. She acts really loving towards Matt, hugging him and kissing him at the burial. The problem is Matt and Lyla were never shown to be friends. They never even spoke to each other in previous seasons. I don't know if they even had scenes together.
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Your Gay Uncle posted:Friday Night Lights season 3 spoilers. Their affair was mostly cut from season 2 because of the writer's strike, but if you watch carefully you can still see it referenced in the background of many episodes.
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Friday Night Lights has to have set a record for the most silently dropped story lines in television history. Most of them were for the better--the Writer's Strike was a mercy kill on season 2. But my god. Whatever happened to the kid that Buddy adopted? Remember Waverly? Why was Tim Riggins in high school for like seven years? There are many more that I can't think of. It's still probably in my top five shows of all time. "The Son" is the only work of fiction (besides Toy Story 3) that has almost made me cry. Texas forever.
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Henchman of Santa posted:Friday Night Lights has to have set a record for the most silently dropped story lines in television history. Most of them were for the better--the Writer's Strike was a mercy kill on season 2. But my god. Seriosuly, Zach Gilford deserved an emmy for The Son. Diego probably just moved with his uncle, and Waverly most likely had another episode and went back to the loony farm. The plotlines that bugged me were all the gay ones. They had Coach Traub, the Lady Mayor and Devon, but they never really did anything with them. Those storylines could have been way more interesting than " Tim Riggins sadly smolders again". Your Gay Uncle has a new favorite as of 19:31 on Oct 14, 2014 |
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According to some website Hastings was supposed to be gay too. They never did anything remotely interesting with his character.
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Horror movies that defacto prove the existence of God to the characters and they still don't act any differently. I just saw Annabell and it's a Christian couple, that go to Church, have a local pastor and when the demon shows up instead of having faith in God they just go ahead and give up a soul. Not a moment of thought about it. Not once did someone say "hey if it wants souls and hell is real maybe we should just get killed by it and go to heaven?" No. Two characters literally choose an eternity in hell for no reason. I know it's a thing that if you're a character in a horror movie you can't do anything that makes sense on any level but come on!
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The main character of the novel Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk mentions at one point that he'd be fine with being killed by a zombie, vampire or whatever because then he would know that the supernatural exists.
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Just watched Mystic River and aside from being terminally depressing it reminded me how much I hate characters displaying too much knowledge at crime scenes. "Yeah, looks like she took a beating but that wasn't what killed her. She was shot a second time." Meanwhile the body is sitting fully clothed and unexamined partly concealed under a bush. How do you know the beating didn't kill her? Or something else entirely? At least make a token effort to show that some examination of the scene has taken place before giving us those conclusions, otherwise it's just lazy writing.
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Funky See Funky Do posted:Horror movies that defacto prove the existence of God to the characters and they still don't act any differently. I always thought it'd be interesting if horror movies did something more with that. Like if they had different religious leaders come and visit the house - if a Jewish rabbi could exorcise the ghost but a Hindu brahmin couldn't, or even if a Catholic priest could but a Pentecostalist couldn't, would that be a reflection on their religions and denominations? Or show the wider effects on society of the story getting out - a statement from the Pope or something. Or explore why preachers can do that but God doesn't intercede directly on behalf of the laymen praying for the demon to go away.
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muscles like this? posted:The main character of the novel Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk mentions at one point that he'd be fine with being killed by a zombie, vampire or whatever because then he would know that the supernatural exists. I always thought the same thing about being offered a deal from the devil.
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Funky See Funky Do posted:Horror movies that defacto prove the existence of God to the characters and they still don't act any differently. Supernatural bugs me about this. The Winchesters have met all manner of Gods across multiple pantheons, have straight up visited Heaven and Hell, and by all accounts should realize death has no consequence in their universe. Because so long as you're a decent person you'll go to heaven and even if that's not your cup of tea there's a million and one ways to be brought back to life. They probably even have their own penthouse suites waiting for them for all the times they've saved the world. Yet they still act like death is a huge deal. At this point they should be acting more like the characters of Dragonball. "Oh, gently caress he's dead again. Someone go summon the dragon..." EDIT: Related, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, which got it kind of right. Buffy gets pulled back to the mortal realm from Heaven and straight up hates her friends for yanking her out of paradise. Esroc has a new favorite as of 09:00 on Oct 21, 2014 |
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Esroc posted:Supernatural bugs me about this. The Winchesters have met all manner of Gods across multiple pantheons, have straight up visited Heaven and Hell, and by all accounts should realize death has no consequence in their universe. Because so long as you're a decent person you'll go to heaven and even if that's not your cup of tea there's a million and one ways to be brought back to life. They probably even have their own penthouse suites waiting for them for all the times they've saved the world. Yet they still act like death is a huge deal. There's all sorts of really stupid angsty story behind it, but there are parts when they do just want to die and get it over with (mostly Sam, who even tried to make a deal with Death so he could never be brought back), but the other brother/god/whoever keeps bringing them back. Also I don't think either of them are ever going to heaven legitimately considering all the angels they've killed and deals with demons that they've both made. Also there's the end of season 9 that might complicate things for one of them.
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Esroc posted:Supernatural bugs me about this. The Winchesters have met all manner of Gods across multiple pantheons, have straight up visited Heaven and Hell, and by all accounts should realize death has no consequence in their universe. Because so long as you're a decent person you'll go to heaven and even if that's not your cup of tea there's a million and one ways to be brought back to life. They probably even have their own penthouse suites waiting for them for all the times they've saved the world. Yet they still act like death is a huge deal.
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Murphy Brownback posted:There's all sorts of really stupid angsty story behind it, but there are parts when they do just want to die and get it over with (mostly Sam, who even tried to make a deal with Death so he could never be brought back), but the other brother/god/whoever keeps bringing them back. Also I don't think either of them are ever going to heaven legitimately considering all the angels they've killed and deals with demons that they've both made. Also there's the end of season 9 that might complicate things for one of them. They make it pretty clear with the revelation that the "Prophet" Chuck was actually God itself (The writers have confirmed this) that God is guiding the brothers or otherwise manipulating events. God's absence throughout the show is false, it merely wants to work from behind the scenes and not be bothered by everyone asking it to fix everything for them, thus upholding a modicum of free will. Thus the Winchesters are literally doing God's work. Which one would assume means a free ticket through the pearly gates once all is said and done.
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Eh, to be fair, the gates of heaven are apparently still on lockdown, and the only thing that can bring someone back from the dead is either a demon deal (meaning you get an express train ticket to hell) or POSSIBLY an angel intervening, but as mentioned before, that might be a bit hard to do since the only one they are friends with is currently a flickering 10 watt bulb worth of angel. I dug the idea that when they crossed over into "our" universe magic didn't work. Even the angel guy who popped over was like "gently caress! Can't smite poo poo!" and had to cowboy up with a shitton of guns. I'm kinda pissed that they don't do that much classic rock anymore on the show. Used to be a great old song in the background or just when the show ended and they had bro time on the car, but now it's just FADE TO BLACK AND SPOOKY MUSIC SOMETIMES.
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Esroc posted:EDIT: Related, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, which got it kind of right. Buffy gets pulled back to the mortal realm from Heaven and straight up hates her friends for yanking her out of paradise. And going beyond that, it's clear that it's VERY HARD to get brought back "normal." I mean...even Buffy was sort of catatonic for a while, but at least was a regular human. Getting brought back as "something else," isn't so hard. Vampirism, a ghost, becoming part-demon then ascending to another plane of existence then being brought back, all manner of zombie, etc...but to come back as a regular human takes not only special circumstances (dying in a "supernatural" manner) but also a very powerful spell, hard to find/expensive relics for the spell, etc...
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Aphrodite posted:Also heaven kind of blows. There's always that one heaven for that autistic dude who is flying a kite and having a blast, and probably not noticing the plethora of deal angels all over his yard.
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