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Oxyclean posted:Speaking about that - I just saw that DS9 episode a few days ago. It irrationally irritates me that seemingly nothing is done about the fact that an innocent person was subjected to that. To summarize: A major character is punished for a crime he didn't do with 20 years of mind prison by some other race, which was carried out before Starfleet could know or intervene, and the effect can't be reversed. It was O'Brien and in an enlisted man so they did not care. They also knew god hated O'Brien so something bad was going to happen to him no matter what.
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I literally laughed so hard I cried when they introduced THE LOOM in Wanted. What a fantastic train wreck of a film.
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Wanted is great what are you talking about. The only irritating thing is that the mad Russian rat bomber died. Edit: and the main character isnt called Bobbin Threadbare 
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Elderbean posted:I literally laughed so hard I cried when they introduced THE LOOM in Wanted. What a fantastic train wreck of a film. All I could think about was  and laughed
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:Wanted is great what are you talking about. The only irritating thing is that the mad Russian rat bomber died. So you stopped watching five minutes before the end, then? The final scene of that movie requires literally every character other than Wesley to be a complete moron.
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Oxyclean posted:Speaking about that - I just saw that DS9 episode a few days ago. It irrationally irritates me that seemingly nothing is done about the fact that an innocent person was subjected to that. To summarize: A major character is punished for a crime he didn't do with 20 years of mind prison by some other race, which was carried out before Starfleet could know or intervene, and the effect can't be reversed. It was a political statement about the US justice system. never seen it but
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Elderbean posted:I literally laughed so hard I cried when they introduced THE LOOM in Wanted. What a fantastic train wreck of a film. That movie was legitimately good until they introduce the conflict. Some schlub finds his secret strength, how cathartic for the viewer until the stupidest story ever unfolds
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That movie made me bust out laughing in First Class when Magneto CURVED THE BULLET and nailed Xavier in the spine. God Wanted was just a shitfest film.
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Danger Mahoney posted:That movie was legitimately good until they introduce the conflict. Some schlub finds his secret strength, how cathartic for the viewer until the stupidest story ever unfolds You should read the comic. The movie is 100 times better than that poo poo feast.
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Realizing that Chris Pratt plays douchey best friend in Wanted was kind of mind-blowing.
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Coffee And Pie posted:Realizing that Chris Pratt plays douchey best friend in Wanted was kind of mind-blowing. Professor X's reaction to the box office and critical acclaim this year. 
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Coffee And Pie posted:Realizing that Chris Pratt plays douchey best friend in Wanted was kind of mind-blowing. Its always kind of nuts seeing some "before they were famous" parts. Like Tom Hardy plays the scrawny young Picard clone in Star Trek: Nemesis.
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muscles like this? posted:Its always kind of nuts seeing some "before they were famous" parts. Like Tom Hardy plays 7th Ranger SPC Lance Twombly in Black Hawk Down.
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bobkatt013 posted:Professor X's reaction to the box office and critical acclaim this year. Professor X why you do that to Star Lord? 
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Non Serviam posted:There was some discussion about The Walking Dead before, so let's bring that back. What I took away from all that was Beth didn't want the cop to get away with all the poo poo she'd done and stabbed her as a roundabout suicide attempt knowing the cop would shoot her then Rick & Co. would shoot back. She didn't want to let them off scott free, even if it meant her friends being in a firefight in the middle of a crowded hallway. But gently caress if I know. I only put that show on as background noise, so I literally pay about as much attention to it as the writers do.
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First is a more general thing that's been around for a while but seems to be showing up more nowadays. Big epic army battle scenes in fantasy movies that are between the hero that suddenly realizes they are royalty/become inspired to lead the people against the evil wizard or whatever the hell. There is no drat point in them other than to look at some CGI for about 15-20 minutes as the hero fights their way up to the bad guy where defeating them means they win the war, no matter how terribly their own army was losing beforehand of course. The specific thing that bothers me is whenever people don't wear helmets in situations where you'd want them, this also kind of ties into the big battle scene moments where everybody get's to wear a protective helmet instead of the protagonists because you need to be able to see their faces. OR if they try to turn it around and pretend that some random dude in a helmet get's taken out and SURPRISE BAD GUY IT WASEN"T ACTUALLY WHO YOU THOUGHT IT WAS!
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Lotish posted:Professor X why you do that to Star Lord? Professor X is a jerk!
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HOOLY BOOLY posted:First is a more general thing that's been around for a while but seems to be showing up more nowadays. Big epic army battle scenes in fantasy movies that are between the hero that suddenly realizes they are royalty/become inspired to lead the people against the evil wizard or whatever the hell. There is no drat point in them other than to look at some CGI for about 15-20 minutes as the hero fights their way up to the bad guy where defeating them means they win the war, no matter how terribly their own army was losing beforehand of course. That and detectives suddenly acting as SWAT operatives. But they still only use their service pistol, always lead the charge into a suspect's house and they never any kind of armor other than a simple vest.
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Mans posted:That and detectives suddenly acting as SWAT operatives. CSIs breaking down doors with a pistol while uniformed and sometimes SWAT geared guys wait to see if the coast is clear.
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Trent posted:CSIs breaking down doors with a pistol while uniformed and sometimes SWAT geared guys wait to see if the coast is clear. "It's okay, guys; I know how CQB works: I play a lot of SWAT 4 while I wait for tissue cultures in the lab."
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Lotish posted:"It's okay, guys; I know how CQB works: I play a lot of SWAT 4 while I wait for tissue cultures in the lab." If only cop shows/movies used SWAT 4 as a resource. Blowing open an unlocked door with explosives, storming into a house and indiscriminately blasting everyone in sight with a beanbag shotgun would be quite a scene.
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Kalos posted:If only cop shows/movies used SWAT 4 as a resource. Blowing open an unlocked door with explosives, storming into a house and indiscriminately blasting everyone in sight with a
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I have problems watching NCIS whenever they talk about anything remotely technical. It always annoys me that even after working together for several years, McGee still has to explain everything to Tony. Learn something through osmosis, drat it! Be more than just a PE teacher!Kalos posted:If only cop shows/movies used SWAT 4 as a resource. Blowing open an unlocked door with explosives, storming into a house and indiscriminately blasting everyone in sight with But really, you could say that for all the guns in SWAT 4.
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I was watching an episode of Law & Order from 95 and they were supposed to be using a BBS but it was obviously just a word program.
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bbcisdabomb posted:I have problems watching Sometimes, it's because you can't really get the point across to layman audiences without simplifying it to a ridiculous degree. Other times, they're creating a GUI in visual basic to track a killer's IP address: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU
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muscles like this? posted:Its always kind of nuts seeing some "before they were famous" parts. Like Tom Hardy plays the scrawny young Picard clone in Star Trek: Nemesis. Considering his career trajectory, it always surprises me that Seth Rogen debuted in Donnie Darko.
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Jedit posted:Considering his career trajectory, it always surprises me that Seth Rogen debuted in Donnie Darko. Freaks and Geeks?
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Morpheus posted:Sometimes, it's because you can't really get the point across to layman audiences without simplifying it to a ridiculous degree. Other times, they're creating a GUI in visual basic to track a killer's IP address: There's the real problem I have with it. In the same show, they'll have a character spout off "geek speak" for something plausible and simple and have to "translate to English" for laymen...then they pretend that doing something as complex and dangerous as breaching the multiple firewalls of the Pentagon via a botnet (to get at records that should be air gapped) is a simple task that just requires more monitors than Swordfish, and that tracking that exact process can be done with a ready-made GUI that's exactly the same as the one the hacker is using that shows a graphical representation with pretty explosions every time one is breached. The impossible is easy (and is usually explained in simple terms), but the simple can't be explained properly the first time around? "Yeah, I converted my car to cold fusion the other night." "Oh, cool!" "Had to buy some of the parts on eBay. My credit card is maxed." "What is this...'e-boy' of which you speak? For that matter, what is a 'cray-det curd'?"
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Trent posted:CSIs breaking down doors with a pistol while uniformed and sometimes SWAT geared guys wait to see if the coast is clear. I was just watching some Fringe on recommendation and it's really bad with this. At least Olivia is an actual agent and not a science nerd, but still she always charges in while geared SWAT guys follow her lead. Also her not-FBI sidekick is also always present and has free reign on the crime scenes.
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mobby_6kl posted:I was just watching some Fringe on recommendation and it's really bad with this. At least Olivia is an actual agent and not a science nerd, but still she always charges in while geared SWAT guys follow her lead. Also her not-FBI sidekick is also always present and has free reign on the crime scenes. The best advice I can give you is to watch Fringe for John Noble's amazing performance as Walter Bishop and ignore everything else.
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mobby_6kl posted:I was just watching some Fringe on recommendation and it's really bad with this. At least Olivia is an actual agent and not a science nerd, but still she always charges in while geared SWAT guys follow her lead. Also her not-FBI sidekick is also always present and has free reign on the crime scenes.
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KozmoNaut posted:The best advice I can give you is to watch Fringe for John Noble's amazing performance as Walter Bishop and ignore everything else. I gave up on Fringe in season 1 when it turned out that every single case ended up involving a derivative of some form of technology/research that Walter had invented decades earlier before he got committed. "Hey Walter somebody robbed a bank today by literally teleporting the money out of the vault." "Oh hey I just remembered I made that teleporter!" "Oh okay, well we gotta get over to a murder scene first, they used some kind of miniature drone technology to go up the guy's nasal cavity and take control of his brain and force him to commit the murders." "Oh hey, I invented that stuff too! Man I was busy that summer."
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Jedit posted:Considering his career trajectory, it always surprises me that Seth Rogen debuted in Donnie Darko. On film maybe, but Freaks and Geeks is far more in line with what he would go on to do, and involved many people he would frequently work with.
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Jerusalem posted:I gave up on Fringe in season 1 when it turned out that every single case ended up involving a derivative of some form of technology/research that Walter had invented decades earlier before he got committed. You did not even get to the twist? There is a reason that he is involved with all of those.
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Jerusalem posted:I gave up on Fringe in season 1 when it turned out that every single case ended up involving a derivative of some form of technology/research that Walter had invented decades earlier before he got committed. That is actually the overarching story. The bad guys for the first season are using a book Walter wrote back in the 70s called "Zerstörung durch Fortschritte der Technologie" or "Destruction Through Technological Progress."
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Jerusalem posted:I gave up on Fringe in season 1 when it turned out that every single case ended up involving a derivative of some form of technology/research that Walter had invented decades earlier before he got committed. I also gave up on Fringe at that point. Then I ungave up on it at a friend's recommendation, and if you want the first three seasons on Blu you can have them cheap because I just bought the complete box set.
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Yeah, Fringe starts as a 'monster of the week' show and eventually stumbles into something more focused. It's weird.
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muscles like this? posted:Its always kind of nuts seeing some "before they were famous" parts. Like Tom Hardy nailing some Dutch chick in Band of Brothers
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muscles like this? posted:That is actually the overarching story. The bad guys for the first season are using a book Walter wrote back in the 70s called "Zerstörung durch Fortschritte der Technologie" or "Destruction Through Technological Progress." Yeah that kind of explains it but doesn't make most of the first season retroactively less boring. Anyway, I do have more complaints about too but I'll keep those for TV IV.
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