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Just watched Arlington Road. I really enjoyed the movie but 1. Terrorists group don't commit acts of terror and let them be. They claim responsibility because otherwise it's pointless. Here the terrorist group just gets others to blow poo poo up, but never shares a reason or a manifesto. 2. I feel like they ran out of time and just wrote the ending in a hurry. The mentions of "godless" societies is pretty ridiculous... I don't know, at least throw in abortion or something.
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Elendil004 posted:Olympus Has Fallen ... you could hire an advisor and do a better job That's valuable cocaine money you're wasting there.
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Nov 8, 2014 04:45
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There's also the WAY TOO loving HEAD STABBY lead. Seriously, I thought it was going way way way farther than Macgruber with the "Rip your dick off" joke, and THAT was a spoof movie anyway. Every... single... person this guy talks to he stabs in the head. EVERYONE. HAS KNIFE, NEEDS TO SHEATHE IT IN SKULL is the only thing on this dude's resume.
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Nov 8, 2014 05:17
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I really disliked the evil ex-Secret Service agent who betrays his country for vague reasons. Like I'm pretty sure Secret Service agents go through fairly rigorous psychological screening to keep something like that from happening.
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Nov 8, 2014 05:21
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The best/worst part of that is the antagonist who, for no goddamn reason at all, whips out two knives to have a knife fight with Gerard Butler.
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Nov 8, 2014 05:29
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This isn't a specific movie, but it seems to apply whenever there's a main or secondary character who has some kind of art-based hobby on the side, or is just said to be 'artistic'. We'll inevitably catch them in the middle of idly sketching a lovely piece of art to show us how very artistic they are! But when we see their paper, the drawing was obviously already done by someone else and the actor is just lightly tracing/'filling out' the same line over and over. They're never actually doing anything to change the piece. I was just reminded of it by Captain America, but I remember something similar in 3:10 to Yuma (the recent one), and others I can't think of. It's irrational because I know they want to keep the drawing/painting the same for continuity's sake, and I don't expect every actor to actually be a super-good sketch artist or anything. But still. If you're telling me this character is an ~artist~, I want to see them at literally any other point in the process of creating something than just 'tracing the perfectly-finished product'.
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Nov 8, 2014 05:37
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I liked Olympus Has Fallen because it took the stupidity of the plot seriously. Sometimes when things are too self aware it's more annoying; it's like having the movie elbow you in the ribs going "hey, hey, see that joke? we know how to have fun." Something that isn't really annoying but sort of funny is when there's a translator for a deaf person who's talking for them. When the deaf person becomes emotional the translator does too.
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Nov 8, 2014 11:09
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Just got done rewatching Snatch on a long train journey. There are two underground boxing scenes that the movie is somewhat focused around. In the first fight Brad Pitt's character is meant to take a dive in the 4th but one punch KO's his opponent. Lots of people bet on the dive, lose money and as a consequence get angry with the antagonist who assures everyone he will fix it. He does this by organising a second match where Brad Pitt WILL take a dive in the 4th. He tells everyone to make the bet, and points them at the bookies to make said bet. Literally EVERYONE at this match knows its rigged including the bookies. Surely the odds would have been so astronomically low that putting £10,000 on Brad Pitt to go down in the 4th would have netted you maybe £1 if you were lucky. What use is rigging a match if you tell EVERYONE that it is rigged including the people taking the bets?! How was this meant to be profitable for anyone?
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Nov 8, 2014 18:15
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Pilchenstein posted:Seconding this, White House Down treats the concept properly, which is to say they just have fun with it instead of pulling some Tom Clancy poo poo. Which one of the two movies was the one that was clearly the Die Hard script with the names crossed out and new ones written in in pencil?
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Nov 8, 2014 18:15
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dpack_1 posted:Just got done rewatching Snatch on a long train journey. Its never said literally every person knows nor said that the bookies are in on it. Youde never make money if everyone was in on it, he was just setting up a dodgy fighter for his "friends" benefits.
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Nov 8, 2014 18:48
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Phanatic posted:Which one of the two movies was the one that was clearly the Die Hard script with the names crossed out and new ones written in in pencil?
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Nov 8, 2014 19:11
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Re: Olympus has fallen. So you have some NK terrorists in the impenetrable safe room in the white house. They are in the process of making all the nuclear warheads in the US detonate where they are, killing hundreds of millions of people. You know that they are minutes away from cracking the code, and only 1 paper pushing Rambo wannabe is actually in the white house trying to stop it. Acting president should have said, 'I'm sorry Mr. President, but we are going to send a salvo of bunker buster missiles down the elevator shaft.' I mean, if that scenario played out in real life, can you imagine Boehner deciding to risk the millions of American lives on possibly saving the president?
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Nov 8, 2014 19:59
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It's like it's a movie or something. Cattiness aside, I can understand not liking something because of how stupid the plot is; how you probably feel about Olympus Has Fallen, I feel about Lucy.
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Nov 8, 2014 20:10
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Gaunab posted:Lucy. Look, some movies are made to make you think, alright? Lucy was made to make you consider some important questions, like "Why did I spend money to see this piece of poo poo?" and "Why didn't I save nine bucks by staying home and doing something more enjoyable, like stepping on a LEGO with bare feet?"
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Nov 8, 2014 20:29
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:"Why didn't I save nine bucks by staying home and doing something more enjoyable, like stepping on a LEGO with bare feet?" That bad, huh?
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Nov 8, 2014 20:57
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Taeke posted:That bad, huh? Morgan Freeman reads the plot aloud while Scarlett Johanson attempts to act it out. Includes a French guy and a Korean guy and Morgan Freeman. 4/5
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Nov 8, 2014 22:37
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Parasol Prophet posted:This isn't a specific movie, but it seems to apply whenever there's a main or secondary character who has some kind of art-based hobby on the side, or is just said to be 'artistic'. We'll inevitably catch them in the middle of idly sketching a lovely piece of art to show us how very artistic they are! But when we see their paper, the drawing was obviously already done by someone else and the actor is just lightly tracing/'filling out' the same line over and over. They're never actually doing anything to change the piece. I was just reminded of it by Captain America, but I remember something similar in 3:10 to Yuma (the recent one), and others I can't think of. I think only Titanic does it right, to my recollection, and it's actually Cameron doing the sketching in that scene
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Nov 8, 2014 22:41
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ducttape posted:Re: Olympus has fallen. So you have some NK terrorists in the impenetrable safe room in the white house. They are in the process of making all the nuclear warheads in the US detonate where they are, killing hundreds of millions of people. You know that they are minutes away from cracking the code, and only 1 paper pushing Rambo wannabe is actually in the white house trying to stop it. Acting president should have said, 'I'm sorry Mr. President, but we are going to send a salvo of bunker buster missiles down the elevator shaft.' In the amazingly terrible Air Force One, the entire plot of the terrorists revolves around their belief that the Russian President will just do whatever the American President asks of him... and they're right! He calls up the Russian President and says,"Hey release this terrorist leader who is apparently in a prison far harder to break into than Air Force One", and the Russian President says,"Well this will cost me my office and lead to the deaths of hundreds or thousands of my countrymen... but okay!"
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Nov 8, 2014 23:29
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Parasol Prophet posted:This isn't a specific movie, but it seems to apply whenever there's a main or secondary character who has some kind of art-based hobby on the side, or is just said to be 'artistic'. We'll inevitably catch them in the middle of idly sketching a lovely piece of art to show us how very artistic they are! But when we see their paper, the drawing was obviously already done by someone else and the actor is just lightly tracing/'filling out' the same line over and over. They're never actually doing anything to change the piece. I was just reminded of it by Captain America, but I remember something similar in 3:10 to Yuma (the recent one), and others I can't think of. For the new Mike Leigh movie Mr Turner, Timothy Spall spent 2 years learning how to paint so he could imitate JMW Turner at work on a canvas. Movie's pretty meh though
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Saw the new Dracula film, and while this isnt specific to that it is in there and reminded me of how it happens in many movies: About to have a fight: clench a fist so hard your knuckles crack! Im sure this started with people wearing leather gloves and the creaking that would occur if you clenched a fist while wearing them, but it has escalated to cracking knuckles and its loving ridiculous. Unless you are suffering accute arthritis then that simply wont happen.
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Nov 9, 2014 13:48
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dpack_1 posted:Saw the new Dracula film, and while this isnt specific to that it is in there and reminded me of how it happens in many movies: I crack my knuckles and can do this. It's just a couple of pops though, not LOUD-rear end MANLY BONE GRINDING ACTION. Still kind of a dumb trope though.
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Nov 9, 2014 15:10
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Sundayturks posted:I crack my knuckles and can do this. It's just a couple of pops though, not LOUD-rear end MANLY BONE GRINDING ACTION.
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Nov 9, 2014 15:27
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Pilchenstein posted:I end up looking like Danny Glover in Lethal Weapon. Unable to move from sitting on a toilet for 12 hours?
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Nov 9, 2014 16:03
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Pilchenstein posted:I quite like the one where tough guys crack their neck from side to side before a fight. I get headaches that go away if I do that and it's way harder to do than just moving your head left and right - I end up looking like Danny Glover in Lethal Weapon. Actually it's really easy to crack your neck that way? I literally just did it. I do it frequently.
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Nov 9, 2014 17:44
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I've always wanted to see a scene where the big tough guy cracks his neck from side to side, but then it immediately cuts to him in a chiropracter's office 
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Ignite Memories posted:Actually it's really easy to crack your neck that way? I literally just did it. I do it frequently.
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Nov 9, 2014 19:46
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In movies where a character goes off to college and their freshman professor is tough and strict to introduce them to the real world. I don't know about most people but most of my freshman professor didn't really give a gently caress.
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Nov 9, 2014 21:17
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Waterworld bothers me. In order to cover the surface of the earth in that much water, you would need to triple the combined volume of water in the ground, on the surface already, or in the atmosphere of the entire planet.
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Nov 9, 2014 21:34
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Jaramin posted:Waterworld bothers me. In order to cover the surface of the earth in that much water, you would need to triple the combined volume of water in the ground, on the surface already, or in the atmosphere of the entire planet. Also that the mariner was essentially a psycho who casually killed hundreds of slaves to free a couple of people.
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Nov 9, 2014 23:07
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Jaramin posted:Waterworld bothers me. In order to cover the surface of the earth in that much water, you would need to triple the combined volume of water in the ground, on the surface already, or in the atmosphere of the entire planet. What if it just rained a lot?
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poonchasta posted:What if it just rained a lot? Ice meteors man
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This isn't a movie, but something I notice in a lot of TV shows(and probably a bunch of movies I can't think of.) Anyway, I love the TV show Chuck, as well as the show Castle. Both have females in strong, rear end-kicking, co-leading roles. In Chuck, she's a spy, in Castle a homicide detective. They frequently get into gunfights, have to chase people, get into full contact melee, etc. And they always wear the most goddamn impractical shoes! Gonna sneak into an enemy base? 4 inch thigh high stiletto heel boots are the ticket! Taking a SWAT team to investigate a warehouse thought to hold murdering terrorists? Accessorize your bust with clunky, high heeled shoes! It's gotten to the point that I just laugh about it now. I introduced my girlfriend to Chuck, and by halfway through the first season, she kept saying "Why does she keep wearing those shoes?" Just put on some drat combat boots!
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I get the exact same way about superhero comics/movies 10 Beers.
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Gaunab posted:In movies where a character goes off to college and their freshman professor is tough and strict to introduce them to the real world. I don't know about most people but most of my freshman professor didn't really give a gently caress. It's always the "look to your left, look to your right. By the end of my course 2 of you will have failed/dropped out/whatever" speech too. There are some professors who really do that, but it's pretty cliche and hardly ever actually true if it's a first year course. On a similar movie note, it always irritates me when there is a highschool/college party. It's always some huge event with hundreds of people and live music and alcohol that never runs out. Maybe I missed out on these parties when I went to school, but I'm pretty sure the vast majority of them are nothing like that. Also the "everyone is a professional dancer doing perfectly choreographed moves" thing that not another teen movie made fun of.
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dpack_1 posted:About to have a fight: clench a fist so hard your knuckles crack! Pilchenstein posted:I quite like the one where tough guys crack their neck from side to side before a fight. I get headaches that go away if I do that and it's way harder to do than just moving your head left and right - I end up looking like Danny Glover in Lethal Weapon. Seventh Arrow posted:I've always wanted to see a scene where the big tough guy cracks his neck from side to side, but then it immediately cuts to him in a chiropracter's office Murphy Brownback posted:On a similar movie note, it always irritates me when there is a highschool/college party. It's always some huge event with hundreds of people and live music and alcohol that never runs out. Maybe I missed out on these parties when I went to school, but I'm pretty sure the vast majority of them are nothing like that. Also the "everyone is a professional dancer doing perfectly choreographed moves" thing that not another teen movie made fun of. 
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Nov 10, 2014 13:52
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Tiggum posted:Cracking your joints doesn't do you any harm. That's part of the joke, yes.
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Nov 10, 2014 14:53
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I've definitely been to a university party or two that were like that. The one had 5 kegs going at any one time! Sorry, just had to interject after reading that.
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Murphy Brownback posted:It's always the "look to your left, look to your right. By the end of my course 2 of you will have failed/dropped out/whatever" speech too. There are some professors who really do that, but it's pretty cliche and hardly ever actually true if it's a first year course.
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True story: I showed up to my first college party with nothing to drink, expecting everything to just be provided.
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Tiggum posted:Cracking your joints doesn't do you any harm. No, but you can mess yourself up by doing stupid things with your neck. A friend of mine was on hold to Telstra for something like seven hours, and spent some of it with the phone pinned against his head by his shoulder, and afterwards he couldn't straighten his neck for a week
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