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oldpainless posted:Monk loving sucked and if you liked it you can go to hell! Man why you gotta be like that John Turturro just called me bawling his eyes out because he read your post "I was Monk's brother Ambrose in that show and I thought I did a good job" why did you make john turturro cry
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:Man why you gotta be like that Tell him to go gently caress himself after Transformers
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Jan 25, 2015 20:29
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Wow the manga ending to EoT/AYNIK sounds pretty loving terrible.
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People who like minimalist intros should definitely check out Broad City. Short, sweet, and it's different every episode.
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oldpainless posted:Monk loving sucked and if you liked it you can go to hell! Calaveron posted:Tell him to go gently caress himself after Transformers Just FYI, these are literally the most correct opinions in this thread and both of those posters are cool, smart, and handsome as is anyone who shares their opinions on these topics.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:One day Tom Waits will clear his throat and it'll turn out he had a normal speaking voice all these years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fz8jcm-bV8
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Big Grunty Secret posted:People who like minimalist intros should definitely check out Broad City. Short, sweet, and it's different every episode. Like what Girls does?
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Henchman of Santa posted:Like what Girls does? Broad City doesn't pretend to speak for a generation.
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Yeah, girls is firmly planted up its own rear end. Broad city is about girls I want to hang with. Girls is about girls I want to hang.
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Okay, but I am talking about their theme songs (or relative lack thereof). I do not give a single poo poo about your opinions on Girls as a show.
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They do similar things with the intro, except for the part where broad city's intro then segues into a quality television program.
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Big Grunty Secret posted:People who like minimalist intros should definitely check out Broad City. Short, sweet, and it's different every episode. My roommates watch New Girl all the time, and they have different versions of the opening--some episodes only use an 8 second version of the longer intro.
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Kalos posted:The GoT opening is one of those things that wasn't designed with the idea that people would be watching it multiple times (possibly frequently). It's gorgeous, creative, the music rules, and I was sick of it halfway through the first season. I crank the gently caress out of it every time I watch an episode. It's just so good on a properly beefy system. I'm pretty sure my neighbors hate me by now.
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Jan 26, 2015 09:41
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American Horror Story is a huge offender of the opening taking way too loving long. The first few episodes it's cool to watch all the new poo poo, and then it gets boring. Okay, get it, lots of creepy loving dolls looking at you and weird shots to make a balloon look like a dick. Got it. After three or four episodes they should cut the poo poo down or just do a brief one like Breaking Bad did. But gently caress alive no matter how many times I see GoT's opener, I want to watch it all.
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Jan 26, 2015 11:00
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Why do people bash baddies in the head once and then flee like idiots. The baddie got knocked out, beat the snot out of him!
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Mans posted:Why do people bash baddies in the head once and then flee like idiots. The baddie got knocked out, beat the snot out of him! Because they are the goodies
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Jan 26, 2015 13:07
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Its not easy for just anyone to knock someone out in one shot every time and even when you do, it doesn't take more than a minute or two for them to wake back up. In every movie one karate chop will put someone down for the full duration of an hour long heist job or whatever.
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Mans posted:Why do people bash baddies in the head once and then flee like idiots. The baddie got knocked out, beat the snot out of him! A good inversion of a cliche similar to this (the "shoot them once, you think they're dead, but they're still alive) is in the second season of 24. That season, on a whole, is pretty good. The exception to this is the Kim plotline. The writers literally just had the stupidest loving poo poo happen to her. A psycho employer who she escapes from, a cop she has to escape from, a crazy mountain-man survivalist she has to escape from, and no lie, a God-damned cougar almost kills her while she is trapped in...a cougar trap. A cougar trap that any idiot with opposable thumbs can escape from because it just requires loosening up a wire. Then a the end of the season, she is back at the FIRST psycho's place, and he shows up to kill her. She calls her dad asking what to do, and somehow she has a gun, so he yells for her to shoot him. Then he yells for her to shoot him again.
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John Wick did a good job of avoiding that, too. I think there's maybe three people in the movie he doesn't shoot in the head to be sure they're dead.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:John Wick did a good job of avoiding that, too. I think there's maybe three people in the movie he doesn't shoot in the head to be sure they're dead. Seriously, check this scene out not just for the great choreography, but the fact that trained hitman John Wick actually acts like a hitman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ULL_4P0fbs Also, the one guy he shoots in the stomach doesn't just fly offscreen and disappear, he comes back because he's not dead. They paid good attention to stuff like that.
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CJacobs posted:Seriously, check this scene out not just for the great choreography, but the fact that trained hitman John Wick actually acts like a hitman. I really should get round to seeing John Wick. Keanu Reeves is one of my favorite actors
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It's a really drat good movie and they do a pretty good job of avoiding stuff that this thread would normally complain about. There are some things that bugged me about it (the premise was a bit silly but the movie doesn't pretend for a minute that it doesn't already know that) but overall it was a very good action flick about Keanu Reeves killing a whole bunch of bad dudes.
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Normally the way they talk up Wick as some kind of unstoppable badass for a good five minutes would piss me off, but they did it really well. It ended up making it even more satisfying when he went all "Welp, time to headshot dudes!". It also had a great twist on one of those annoying-as-hell cliche action movie scenes right after that house shootout that was linked. I don't want to spoil it, even in tags, because it's that wonderful.
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In the same way that Guardians of the Galaxy can be imagined to be a film adaptation of some group's pen-and-paper roleplaying campaign, it occurred to me that Edge of Tomorrow is basically what would happen if a video game speedrun were turned into a movie. Do the same "levels" over and over and over and over and over again until you can do it perfectly in the fastest, most efficient way possible by sheer muscle memory.
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Imagined posted:In the same way that Guardians of the Galaxy can be imagined to be a film adaptation of some group's pen-and-paper roleplaying campaign, it occurred to me that Edge of Tomorrow is basically what would happen if a video game speedrun were turned into a movie. Do the same "levels" over and over and over and over and over again until you can do it perfectly in the fastest, most efficient way possible by sheer muscle memory. I really like that, and I think I read somewhere that the guy who first wrote the (book? anime book?) got his inspiration from that.
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Gridlocked posted:Gonna keep spoiler tags up for my irrationally irritating movie momements because I feel I will most likely ruin both Edge of Tomorrow and All You Need Is Kill for some people but in a nutshell: It's a great film, Tom Cruise manages to be an engaging protagonist for the first time in ages, the romantic subplot isn't overbearing and they even make sure the supporting characters get enough screen time that you feel the movie was worth their time. See it already. One little nit-pick about that movie that drove me craaaazy: The aliens are called "mimics". They're called that from the very start, with no explanation given of why humans started calling these squid-monsters "mimics". In fact, I was thinking the whole film they should be called "Squiddies" or something instead, until at the very end of the film, it all makes sense. The aliens kill off other species by fighting them day after day, repeating things until they've learned how their opponent fights. This means they can "mimic" their enemy's method of fighting. (Except that's really more of a counter than a mimic, its more like they're just fast learners?) The problem with this is that none of the humans knew this at the time of the start of the film, its a major plot point that nobody understands how they are so good at fighting and the military doesn't know they're using time-travel. So why are they called mimics? Did the show up on Earth and go "Hey Humans, we're called mimics and we're invading you now!" It just doesn't make sense. They shouldn't have a name which gives away their whole method of working. Some human would name them based on their appearance and that'd be it; so it'd be something like 'squiddies' or 'shadows', not 'mimics'. nucleicmaxid posted:I really like that, and I think I read somewhere that the guy who first wrote the (book? anime book?) got his inspiration from that. Yup, the whole film/book came from the idea of taking an FPS setting (respawning characters fighting endlessly) literally. Red vs Blue kinda did the same thing a long time ago, taking an FPS literally and looking at the absurdity of it all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cDYaeNW7_U Kill the reds! Kill the reds! Kill the reds! Kill the blues! Kill the blues! Kill the blues! Zaphod42 has a new favorite as of 17:40 on Jan 26, 2015 |
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I get irritated when someone gets stabbed in the chest, but with the blade up and down and it goes in perfect and the person dies. That's not how anatomy works. Ribs are made of bone, and are pretty hard. You won't be punching through a sternum with a knife. Sword, maybe. Knife? Probably not. Yet every time I see someone get stabbed, it's with the blade vertical instead of horizontal.
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Zaphod42 posted:One little nit-pick about that movie that drove me craaaazy: I thought they were based of Fijian Mimic Octopi? They certainly wiggle around like they are.
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Novum posted:Its not easy for just anyone to knock someone out in one shot every time and even when you do, it doesn't take more than a minute or two for them to wake back up. In every movie one karate chop will put someone down for the full duration of an hour long heist job or whatever. Archer has a pretty nice scene in which Archer knocks out another operative by punching him in the face. He references that being knocked out for that long is "super bad for you". The agent he punched later mentions that the rest of his week is doctor appointments to see if he suffered any permanent damage.
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Razorwired posted:Archer has a pretty nice scene in which Archer knocks out another operative by punching him in the face. He references that being knocked out for that long is "super bad for you". The agent he punched later mentions that the rest of his week is doctor appointments to see if he suffered any permanent damage. Archer is also one of the few movies or TV shows to show the crippling tinnitus that would result from being around gunfire without ear pro all the time. "Swear to god, I can do that all day. I mean to me it sounds like bubble-wrap."
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DrBouvenstein posted:A good inversion of a cliche similar to this (the "shoot them once, you think they're dead, but they're still alive) is in the second season of 24. For a really lovely slasher film, Jeepers Creepers does this really well. The unstoppable supernatural monster is stalking the two teenage protagonists and they run him over in their Impala. Then they reverse over him. Then they drive over him again, then reverse over him again, and then drive over him forward one more time.
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Razorwired posted:Archer has a pretty nice scene in which Archer knocks out another operative by punching him in the face. He references that being knocked out for that long is "super bad for you". The agent he punched later mentions that the rest of his week is doctor appointments to see if he suffered any permanent damage. "And at that altitude!" "Super bad for you"
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Razorwired posted:Archer has a pretty nice scene in which Archer knocks out another operative by punching him in the face. He references that being knocked out for that long is "super bad for you". The agent he punched later mentions that the rest of his week is doctor appointments to see if he suffered any permanent damage. Archer is really dedicated to showing how its action sequences would go down in real life, which is part of what makes it funny. Sterling is the only one that ever counts bullets and uses that to his advantage. The scene where he has a showdown on top of a moving train wearing night vision goggles and everything goes horribly awry is another great example.
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Henchman of Santa posted:Archer is really dedicated to showing how its action sequences would go down in real life, which is part of what makes it funny. Sterling is the only one that ever counts bullets and uses that to his advantage. Everything Archer does is the greatest. They also repeatedly refer to the fact that they have a really weird timeline with a mix of new and very dated technology. As well as stuff like the KGB and Soviet Union existing.
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Memento posted:For a really lovely slasher film, Jeepers Creepers does this really well. The unstoppable supernatural monster is stalking the two teenage protagonists and they run him over in their Impala. Then they reverse over him. Then they drive over him again, then reverse over him again, and then drive over him forward one more time. Jeepers Creepers 2 as well. Ray Wise is  personified.
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Archer is extremely irritating because their first priority is to get every voice actor onto every episode even when it doesn't make sense or help the story in any way. By the second season they had run through all their original ideas and have leant hard on catchphrases and call-backs ever since. If a new joke ever hits they run that poo poo into the ground out of necessity.
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nucleicmaxid posted:I really like that, and I think I read somewhere that the guy who first wrote the (book? anime book?) got his inspiration from that. Yes he did. Your Gay Uncle posted:I thought they were based of Fijian Mimic Octopi? They certainly wiggle around like they are. I don't think so considering this is what they look like in the manga:  I have no clue why they are called Mimics beyond the aforementioned meta knowledge. Gridlocked has a new favorite as of 16:10 on Jan 27, 2015 |
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CJacobs posted:It's a really drat good movie and they do a pretty good job of avoiding stuff that this thread would normally complain about. There are some things that bugged me about it (the premise was a bit silly but the movie doesn't pretend for a minute that it doesn't already know that) but overall it was a very good action flick about Keanu Reeves killing a whole bunch of bad dudes. You say it's silly but I felt it was very reasonable especially when you take into account Wick is the one begotten son of the Grim Reaper sent to earth to lay motherfuckers down. That said, I'm really glad they didn't go with a Irrationally Irritating "They killed my wife" motivation. MariusLecter has a new favorite as of 16:19 on Jan 27, 2015 |
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:I get irritated when someone gets stabbed in the chest, but with the blade up and down and it goes in perfect and the person dies. All of this, but with vampires and wooden stakes. I can accept people like Buffy, other vampires, etc... being able to do it. They're supernatural and have super-strength. But the odds that a regular human could have any hope of pushing a wooden stake though a ribcage? Especially when the stakes are perfectly round and thus rely entirely on someone's grip strength? Can you say holy mother of God, splinters everywhere? Like...wouldn't it make a lot more sense to have stakes that looked more like a dagger? With a cross-guard that can be pushed against? You would still need to push really loving hard, and I'm guessing the success rate would be pretty low before the vampire killed you, but you'd at least have a shot compared to a traditional stake with no cross-guard. The only time I've seen this addressed is in the first Dusk till Dawn. When describing the vampires, one of the characters actually mentioned that they have really soft bodies, and how weird that is.
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MariusLecter posted:You say it's silly but I felt it was very reasonable especially when you take into account Wick is the one begotten son of the Grim Reaper sent to earth to lay motherfuckers down. I really like how they did the whole "Dead Wife" thing BEFORE he went on his killing spree. So we didn't have to worry about it being a thing; we just knew it's an angry, depressed man who wants revenge for his best friend being cruelly murdered. The best friend a man could ever have.
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