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regulargonzalez posted:I just couldn't buy that all that crazy poo poo happened in one day It wasn't supposed to? I just rewatched it, it takes place over the course of like a year or two.
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Sabotage is worth watching. I think a lot of people will find it an utter mess, but, on the whole, I enjoyed it, and I can't say I've ever seen another movie quite like it, which is something.
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syscall girl posted:If I know anything about action movies, their consistency and their realism I know this: Old guys love their old, bad action movies that are indescribably stupid and they didn't get to be so old without learning not to care about this kind of bullshit. Seriously, there are millions of them and none of them give a fart about stupid bullshit in old westerns and WWII movies and they will tell you so if you give them the opportunity. You look at the set of a man's jaw, and the way he belts his pants. Stop worrying about where the bullets go you nerd. As I said, I'm not talking about dumb action movies, I'm talking about action scenes, which may occur in any movie, action or otherwise, good or bad. In a dumb action movie it's expected, but in anything else, why is consistency in action not upheld with the same rigor as say, character consistency, plot consistency, and even other types of visual consistency? If some character is driving a red car, turns a corner and suddenly it's blue, you'd think "well hey, that's not right". It's the same deal, except that when action is involved suddenly directors forget to make sure what is unfolding in front of them makes sense. If the movie makes a huge deal about being surrounded, then your enemies shouldn't still be coming from only a single direction. Anyways, Fury was overall enjoyable, it was just the last 20 minutes or so that it completely fell apart and was really dumb. The rest of the movie was different enough that I would recommend it if you like war movies and especially if you like tanks. Subyng fucked around with this message at 04:46 on Oct 28, 2014 |
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Oct 28, 2014 04:44
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gently caress tanks.
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Oct 28, 2014 04:50
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no man tanks are loving awesome seriously they are cool as hell
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Oct 28, 2014 05:01
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regulargonzalez posted:I just couldn't buy that all that crazy poo poo happened in one day Have you been to the lovely parts of LA?
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I'm not sure if there's an actual recommendaion thread, but I just finished watching Noroi: the curse. Is there any other cursed by a ghost/ghost related movies in that vain, Asian/Japanese or not? The only thing that comes to mind is Blair Witch and the Paranormal Activities, both which I've seen.
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Wedemeyer posted:I'm not sure if there's an actual recommendaion thread, but I just finished watching Noroi: the curse. Is there any other cursed by a ghost/ghost related movies in that vain, Asian/Japanese or not? The only thing that comes to mind is Blair Witch and the Paranormal Activities, both which I've seen. You might get a better response at: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3186285&pagenumber=120#lastpost
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BOAT SHOWBOAT posted:As for a real question, can somebody give me some more examples of uses of pop songs in contemporary film that blur the line between diegetic and non-diegetic? "California Dreamin'" in Chungking Express.
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BOAT SHOWBOAT posted:So yeah, what else would go on this list?
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BOAT SHOWBOAT posted:Sabotage is worth watching. I think a lot of people will find it an utter mess, but, on the whole, I enjoyed it, and I can't say I've ever seen another movie quite like it, which is something. Not bad, Mireille Enos's character Lizzy, looks like a cheap hooker, doe's the part well though.
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Nov 5, 2014 11:07
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If this is an actual problem you have with a movie, I have some lovely engineering textbooks that might be more your speed.
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Nov 5, 2014 22:59
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Yoshifan823 posted:If this is an actual problem you have with a movie, I have some lovely engineering textbooks that might be more your speed. it's an actual problem i have with that movie, but no thank you
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Nov 5, 2014 23:50
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She may as well have ran off the edge of a cliff. If it wasn't the 10th non-sensical thing that happened on a row nobody would care about it (i can't understand why someone would spend the time to create that image but it is pretty funny).
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Nov 6, 2014 11:10
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I would've laughed so hard if she actually moved off to the side, thought she was safe, the rolling ship stops and then collapses on its side crushing her.
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Nov 6, 2014 14:26
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FrostedButts posted:I would've laughed so hard if she actually moved off to the side, thought she was safe, the rolling ship stops and then collapses on its side crushing her. This is what happens to Charlize Theron in the film.
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Nov 6, 2014 15:44
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FrostedButts posted:I would've laughed so hard if she actually moved off to the side, thought she was safe, the rolling ship stops and then collapses on its side crushing her. Yeah this is literally what happens.
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Nov 6, 2014 18:31
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Maarak posted:This is what happens to Charlize Theron in the film. I meant like in a cartoon format where the ship has a mind of its own in how it stops and then smashes down. Please tell me a parody like this exists. Having made an animated parody of Prometheus (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hApMoIBtwI4) I wish I had done that.
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Nov 6, 2014 18:58
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Okay, there is obviously a TON of debris raining down on them from all sides in that scene, making this one of the most bizarre critcisms of a movie I've ever heard repeated over, and over, and over, and over, and over again. It's like asking why Indiana Jones doesn't run to the left when that boulder rolls after him.
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Nov 6, 2014 19:25
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Oh was she trapped in a tunnel?
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Dr. Puppykicker posted:Okay, there is obviously a TON of debris raining down on them from all sides in that scene, making this one of the most bizarre critcisms of a movie I've ever heard repeated over, and over, and over, and over, and over again. Well???
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Dr. Puppykicker posted:Okay, there is obviously a TON of debris raining down on them from all sides in that scene, making this one of the most bizarre critcisms of a movie I've ever heard repeated over, and over, and over, and over, and over again. In fairness, I think it was pointed out that when that boulder starts coming down the ramp, Indy would just have to like lie down to let it pass harmlessly over him. But, of course, that's missing the greater point, which is that running away from a boulder/crashing spaceship is a cool stunt for your movie.
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Nov 6, 2014 20:21
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Crappy Jack posted:In fairness, I think it was pointed out that when that boulder starts coming down the ramp, Indy would just have to like lie down to let it pass harmlessly over him. Also because the boulder stops up the end of the tunnel, which would have trapped him inside if he had managed to dodge it, so there.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:Also because the boulder stops up the end of the tunnel, which would have trapped him inside if he had managed to dodge it, so there. I am gonna shut so many nerds up with this now, thank you.
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I get the impression that the straight-rolling is just the last of multiple elements that people find odd - the ship surviving a crash landing without deformation, the weirdness of being crushed by a rolling spaceship - with the way the characters run from it just the last, and therefore most memorable, of these. The ship is a dreamlike object, and not being able to escape it appropriately nightmarish. For some people clashes with the highly-detailed clarity of the presentation, though I think it's actually a big part of the charm of the movie. I feel like the, "Well, actually, they did run to the side a bit and the spaceship curves its path, and they couldn't technically run any more to the side, and..." arguments miss the point to much the same extent.
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Nov 6, 2014 20:30
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It doesn't straight roll, you see it turn
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Yeah, I'd be fine if they did just run straight given the nature of the sequence, but there's a shot where they both break to the left and the ship's path curves with them which makes the complaints even weirder.
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It's been twelve years and I'm still trying to figure out why One (Colin Salmon) didn't back up a little more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8gfGhVL3qs
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e- Wrong thread!
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Zogo posted:It's been twelve years and I'm still trying to figure out why One (Colin Salmon) didn't back up a little more: Well, the fluorescent strip lighting that the lasers apparently come from continues behind him, I assume it shut off when it did because it had successfully terminated all targets.
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Snak posted:Well, the fluorescent strip lighting that the lasers apparently come from continues behind him, I assume it shut off when it did because it had successfully terminated all targets. It seemed like the way it was edited that they disabled it right when it turned off. You could be right. They might've been using an ENERGY STAR certified laser system.
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Zogo posted:It seemed like the way it was edited that they disabled it right when it turned off. Or that. Either way him stepping backward probably wouldn't have saved him/he had no way of knowing that it might. Plus he was probably busy being "What the gently caress, how is there a grid of lasers that is only projected from two(four?) beams? Where are the middle beams coming from? That's not how lasers work! This is some bullshit" *dead*.
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A Christmas Carol, Can anyone think of any others along similar lines? [edit]Doh, yeah, I meant IAWL. Haven't had my coffee yet. 
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Nov 9, 2014 15:58
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sticklefifer posted:A Christmas Carol, Miracle on 34th Street, and Donnie Darko are all about someone who gets visited by some otherworldly entity in order to show the protagonist an alternate universe where life is different due to certain actions he takes. I think you mean It's a Wonderful Life, not Miracle on 34th Street, right?
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I think you're thinking of It's a Wonderful Life, not Miracle on 34th St.
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sticklefifer posted:A Christmas Carol, Miracle on 34th Street, and Donnie Darko are all about someone who gets visited by some otherworldly entity in order to show the protagonist an alternate universe where life is different due to certain actions he takes. Not an otherworldly being, but Timeline is kind of like that.
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Family Man kinda has magical negro Don Cheadle show Nicolas Cage what life could have been like had he made a different decision years ago.
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sticklefifer posted:A Christmas Carol, Scrooged but that's a Christmas Carol ripoff.
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Thinking further on it, I feel like Pan's Labyrinth and to some extent Fight Club are also in that vein.
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The Adam Sandler movie Click does that with a magical Christopher Walken.
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