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W424 posted:When they use the same stock "machine gun" sound effect for some hyped up super weapon like a minigun. Put some effort into it, in Terminator 2 they layered a loving cannon on Arnold's shotgun with several shotgun blasts. I've definitely heard the noise of a gun being cocked in an action movie scene with bows and arrows being pointed at someone. Though, I was more irrationally impressed than irritated by it...
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That was in Men in Tights and it was a joke. Which is not to say sound effects aren't used dumbly. Swords and knives, in particular, make really loving silly sounds all the time.
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Jan 6, 2015 01:11
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Squalitude posted:I've definitely heard the noise of a gun being cocked in an action movie scene with bows and arrows being pointed at someone. Though, I was more irrationally impressed than irritated by it... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzuooxKRfyg
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Jan 6, 2015 01:16
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thespaceinvader posted:That was in Men in Tights and it was a joke. Ha, they did the same 'that gun sound doesn't belong here...' bit in Hot Fuzz: Nicholas Angel is in a shooting tent with a single-shot pellet rifle. Then follows a quick series of camera shots of targets getting taken out, and then a single, echoing 'plink' of a shell casing bouncing at the end. Then they proceed to take the piss out of the 'every gun on-screen must sound like all of the internals are jumping around' trope during one of the major action scenes. I will always smile when this classic scene of Omar from The Wire shows up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMm1Wih0kug&t=25s Yeah I know why it's done and all, it's just funny seeing a clear view of a double-barreled shotgun getting brought up to the hip, and then 'CLICK CLACK' a second later.
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Inzombiac posted:Walking Dead: I'm late to the party, but I started watching this on Netflix last month, and I was really, really into it until the anime samurai showed up. It went from an engaging story about ordinary people struggling to survive in a horrible world where both zombies and your fellow man can't be trusted to something very silly in an instant. I watched a few episodes past that point but my interest waned pretty quickly and I ended up shutting it off for good.
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:I'm late to the party, but I started watching this on Netflix last month, and I was really, really into it until the anime samurai showed up. It went from an engaging story about ordinary people struggling to survive in a horrible world where both zombies and your fellow man can't be trusted to something very silly in an instant. I watched a few episodes past that point but my interest waned pretty quickly and I ended up shutting it off for good. You quit right before the best season (half-season?) they've had starts.
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The Nic Cage version of Wickerman just started on TV and they used uppercase Papyrus font for the credits, shameful.
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W424 posted:The Nic Cage version of Wickerman just started on TV and they used uppercase Papyrus font for the credits, shameful. Ahem 
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Why do people hate papyrus so much?
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Len posted:Why do people hate papyrus so much? Speaking only for myself, I hate it because it's the go-to font for New Age claptrap and religious "pregnancy counseling" (read: "abortion shaming") centers, and I can't shake that image from my mind any time I see it.
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Jan 7, 2015 01:06
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Len posted:Why do people hate papyrus so much? It shows a distinct lack of effort on the part of the person who made the logo. Instead of making their own unique lettering or logo design that at least looks a little different than the default they just went "yeah this'll do".
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W424 posted:When they use the same stock "machine gun" sound effect for some hyped up super weapon like a minigun. Put some effort into it, in Terminator 2 they layered a loving cannon on Arnold's shotgun with several shotgun blasts. The Sleepy Hollow TV show does this really well. Everyone's guns sound pretty normal...And then the Headless Horseman shows up and all of his guns boom and roar like they were forged in Hellfire.
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Polaron posted:The Sleepy Hollow TV show does this really well. Everyone's guns sound pretty normal...And then the Headless Horseman shows up and all of his guns boom and roar like they were forged in Hellfire. The notion of the Headless Horseman showing up and having guns, to say nothing of ones that sound like hellfire, has piqued my interest in this show. Is it any good?
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Midnight Raider posted:The notion of the Headless Horseman showing up and having guns, to say nothing of ones that sound like hellfire, has piqued my interest in this show. Is it any good? Yes. The basic premise of the show is that during the Revolutionary War Oxford professor Ichabod Crane came to America and ended up joining the war on the America side. During a battle with a Hessian mercenary wearing a mask Crane is mortally wounded, but not before cutting the mercenary's head off. Crane awakens 200 years later to discover that the now headless mercenary has become the Horseman of Death. Now a man out of time, Crane teams up with Sleepy Hollow sheriff's department Lt Abbie Mills as they battle the forces of the demon Moloch who is attempting to bring about the end of the world.
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muscles like this? posted:Yes. The basic premise of the show is that during the Revolutionary War Oxford professor Ichabod Crane came to America and ended up joining the war on the America side. During a battle with a Hessian mercenary wearing a mask Crane is mortally wounded, but not before cutting the mercenary's head off. Crane awakens 200 years later to discover that the now headless mercenary has become the Horseman of Death. I only caught a few episodes in the middle of season 1 but I thought it was fun. The fish out of water, holy poo poo my partner (it immediately becomes a buddy cop show, irrc) is a woman, a black woman! works somehow.
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The first season is very fast paced and unlike a lot of shows of its ilk they do a lot to buck trends. Like Abbie and Ichabod pretty quickly do stuff like involve her commanding officer who gets on board about the whole "end of the world" thing.
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Hulebr00670065006e posted:Gasoline explosions everywhere... 21 Jump Street did a pretty funny bit on this exact thing.
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Midnight Raider posted:The notion of the Headless Horseman showing up and having guns, to say nothing of ones that sound like hellfire, has piqued my interest in this show. Is it any good? It's pretty great. The Horseman's shotgun sounds like a goddamn cannon going off. Also Ichabod's fish out of water thing is actually hilarious. He makes friends with the OnStar lady.
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Polaron posted:It's pretty great. The Horseman's shotgun sounds like a goddamn cannon going off. Also finds skinny jeans a sure sign of the apocalypse
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syscall girl posted:I think I did cry at that. I didn't even know who Sia was but Breathe Me was a good song. poo poo I teared up at the end of that episode of Rick and Morty where they had to bury their own bodies after Rick managed to Cronenburg up the whole planet. That Mazzy Star song is awesome. Getting older means you get emotional easier I think.
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Memento posted:poo poo I teared up at the end of that episode of Rick and Morty where they had to bury their own bodies after Rick managed to Cronenburg up the whole planet. That Mazzy Star song is awesome. Getting older means you get emotional easier I think. And the fact that they called back to it two episodes later for serious emotional closure cemented how ridiculously well the show handles "hopeful nihilism" for me.
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Polaron posted:Also Ichabod's fish out of water thing is actually hilarious. He makes friends with the OnStar lady. I've only seen maybe the first half of season 1, but what I liked about what I saw was that they don't do the typical thing where the traveler from the past is dumbfounded by everything he sees. He's not going around, pointing at lightbulbs and asking why that candle looks funny, or why they are tiny men in that box playing music, or thinking that a car is a demon, or has a horse hidden inside, or something. He was a smart, well-educated man, and basically immediately understands he's in the future and technology has advanced. He'll still ask questions and be confused, but not in a way that makes you think he's retarded. He also doesn't typically respond to a metaphor or pop-culture reference he doesn't understand (which is most of them,) by saying something stupid and groan-worthy because it took it 100% literally.
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"Listen Ichabod, this music is by The Beatles." "How did they teach insects to play instruments?" (stares unblinkingly into camera for 90 seconds before episode ends)
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DrBouvenstein posted:I've only seen maybe the first half of season 1, but what I liked about what I saw was that they don't do the typical thing where the traveler from the past is dumbfounded by everything he sees. He's not going around, pointing at lightbulbs and asking why that candle looks funny, or why they are tiny men in that box playing music, or thinking that a car is a demon, or has a horse hidden inside, or something. One of my favorite examples of that is when Abbie buys him a cell phone (a crappy flip phone) and later he comes back complaining about how she bought him a cheap one.
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muscles like this? posted:One of my favorite examples of that is when Abbie buys him a cell phone (a crappy flip phone) and later he comes back complaining about how she bought him a cheap one. Or when she teaches him to drive, and you expect him to be confused by it but instead he gets it.
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Haven't watched the show (but I'm about to change that), but the time travel stuff I dig. It's handled pretty well in Forever. Technically the lead is immortal and has lived 200 years, but he's still sort of a stick in the mud and doesn't follow technology, and it makes it kinda hilarious when he's telling someone "Ok, now listen carefully. On your cellular phone there is a camera, and I need you to send me a jay pee gee of the picture you take. You do this by... oh ok, got it". I think my favorite was him freaking out about the threat of his breakfast being microwaved because it's unnatural.
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I'm getting really tired of the 'quirky, cute IT girl' thing whenever I see it. Like, this girl is very attractive and sexy, and super into computers (and a master hacker of course) that'd be a catch for any guy, even looks stunning in formal wear, but then she's like, kind of awkward and so apparently she's completely undesirable. I guess this applies to a lot of 'quirky' female characters but I've been watching a lot of Arrow lately as my go-to turn-off-brain show, and that blonde woman sidekick's character is just so...ugh. She's written to be a nerd's wet dream. Edit: Oh, and also Windows 8, Windows 8 devices everywhere. From tablets to phones to PCs, nothing else exists in the Arrow universe. Normally I don't mind product placement, but it's so obvious, whenever a device is handed to someone and you see the dashboard before whatever application is opened up.
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Did you just diss Kinzie and Pam in the same loving post?! Wait you dissed Cheryl. That's even worse!
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Mans posted:Did you just diss Kinzie and Pam in the same loving post?! Cheryl hates her computer. I think the animated example would be Max from Batman Beyond. Personally I just hate hacking as a superpower. I've seen enough people get to the part of the DOD website that's all glowy green text arrayed in circles already, and doing it even faster doesn't impress anymore.
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Morpheus posted:I'm getting really tired of the 'quirky, cute IT girl' thing whenever I see it. Like, this girl is very attractive and sexy, and super into computers (and a master hacker of course) that'd be a catch for any guy, even looks stunning in formal wear, but then she's like, kind of awkward and so apparently she's completely undesirable. Yeah the AV Club had a good column on this subject a few months back.
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Mans posted:Did you just diss Kinzie and Pam in the same loving post?! I...don't know who you're referring to? Only Pam and Cheryl I know are from Archer, and they're awesome because Pam kicks rear end and Cheryl is loving nuts. Google tells me Kinzie is from NCIS. Yes, this is exactly what I'm talking about. That's when I started noticing how annoying it was. Edit: Wrong character, I'm thinking of that hacking girl from NCIS. Lagomorphic posted:Yeah the AV Club had a good column on this subject a few months back. This highlights some of the problems I was talking about, though it's more about the role of the women themselves, where I just am really tired of the character. Morpheus has a new favorite as of 22:48 on Jan 7, 2015 |
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Morpheus posted:I...don't know who you're referring to? Only Pam and Cheryl I know are from Archer, and they're awesome because Pam kicks rear end and Cheryl is loving nuts. I was thinking Kinzie from Saints Row. She gets a free pass.
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Morpheus posted:Google tells me Kinzie is from NCIS. Your Google is broken. That character's name is "Kensi", and she's not the quirky IT girl. That'd be Abby in regular NCIS and Nell in NCIS:LA, neither of whom are seen as undesirable within the show. And Kinzie from Saint's Row is only seen as somewhat undesirable in-universe, and only by certain characters, not because she's "a little awkward" but because she's frighteningly bug-gently caress nuts. EDIT: And that AV Club article is missing one of the biggest problems underpinning the issue altogether: most screenwriters can't write geeks at all. Kugyou no Tenshi has a new favorite as of 22:52 on Jan 7, 2015 |
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I think we can all agree though that Abby the perky goth lab tech on NCIS is the worst character on any show ever.
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theironjef posted:I think we can all agree though that Abby the perky goth lab tech on NCIS is the worst character on any show ever. Also that NCIS is the worst show ever.
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nucleicmaxid posted:Also that NCIS is the worst show ever. The Big Bang Theory exists.
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Coffee And Pie posted:The Big Bang Theory exists. Ugh you're right. Second worst show ever.
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Abby would be a great character on BBT. She's another walking collection of unrelated tropes associated with nerds, she'd integrate immediately.
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Sleepy Hollow follows one trope I wish would loving die. Woman wants the 'simple things' in life, not things like diamonds and wonderful paintings and poo poo like that! Because they are better for it! It plays out in a ton of movies too, especially in terms of Big City Rich Living (never desirable) and Old Town Cute and Quirky place where people are Wholesome and Kind and Supportive, not like those fuckers in the Big City. Jesus Christ can't we ONCE have a woman who isn't playing a bad girl/villain/gold digger go, "You know what, I DO enjoy the fancy and finer things in life and won't marry that oddball scientist but instead the rich guy who treats me well even if he shows me off a little. I don't want to marry the dude who still lives a mile down the road from his parents' trailer and does odd-man jobs!" But ambition always leads to downfall and Nice Girls like the Hometown Guy. Sleepy Hollow somewhat is guilty of 'modern views in old time movies,' but I saw it worse in poo poo like The Patriot, where, so we like the main characters, who are usually white people, who have modern views on poo poo like slavery, like they might HAVE slaves but they teach them to read and pay them and etc. gently caress, didn't Sleepy Hollow show Thomas Jefferson and his slave (who was also his dead wife's half sister) Sally Hemmings as equal lovers, rather than master and property? This was flipped entirely in American Horror Story: Coven, where Kathy Bates plays a horrible sadistic slave owner who tortured her slaves, woke in the modern world. She vaguely got along, but when pressed she said the world was mad, the negros needed to be back in chains, and this entire place was a nuthouse and she would never believe otherwise. She had her worldview and even Barack in the White House made her cry in denial that such a thing could happen. Did anyone else see Into the Woods? Why the hell did they pretty much axe the Baker's Father from the movie, save for one tiny scene?
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nucleicmaxid posted:Also that NCIS is the worst show ever. gently caress you. Gibbs is dreamy. 
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