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Non Serviam posted:As for batman, I feel that even though they were good, only Heath Ledger's performance will outlive the trilogy. Everything else was pretty forgettable. This. "I'm a man of my wooorD." gives me chills. Although I feel "good" is too kind, especially to the last one which was very, very bad.
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I'm sorry if someone's already mentioned this soundbite, I know stock sounds are a common thing; When I was a kid I had this cheap animation program called Spider Man Cartoon Maker, based off the 90's cartoon. The basic way it worked was that it had clip art of characters or props, and when you dragged the art across the screen it would have a short animation (like walking) accompanied with a soundbite. It would repeat over and over if you wanted to make a character walk slowly or all the way across the screen. Some of them, like Aunt May, had a little music that repeated okay, there was one Spider-Man that just said "My Spider Sense is tingling!" which was obnoxious. Anyway, there was a soundbite for either a police officer or car that I have never been able to get out of my head. It's supposed to be dispatch coming over the radio/walkie talkies; "Seventy-three-five... code six? One-oh-five North Avenue, Fifty-two *hang up click*. I hear this thing more often than the Wilhem Scream now, every scene where police are, it's in the background.
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Feb 20, 2015 01:08
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I went looking and found it. Holy cow I hear this everywhere too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FxgVS7bylA
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Feb 20, 2015 01:15
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Why have you cursed the thread with this knowledge!?
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Feb 20, 2015 01:16
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Clockroach posted:I'm sorry if someone's already mentioned this soundbite, I know stock sounds are a common thing; It's even worse when it's used again and again in the background
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Feb 20, 2015 01:33
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Zaphod42 posted:I personally LOVED Tom Hardy's Bane. My first exposure to the character of Bane was either the Batman Animated Series or Batman Forever, but either way Bane was a dumb, muscle-bound luchadore moron who was just the big thug muscle for Poison Ivy. I never cared for the character at ALL. But I knew in the comics he was pretty awesome, I just haven't really read a ton of Batman comics. I actually quite liked Hardy's Bane, right up until the reveal that he's NOT the mastermind behind everything, Talia is. I felt like that moment stripped away all of his "crazy smart" and "crazy driven" characterization, and turned him into a glorified puppet. In my mind, those post-reveal scenes really made it seem like he was just a musclebound mouthpiece for Talia's plan and rhetoric, he wasn't even like a partner or second-in-command. Maybe that was just my own interpretation, though.
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Feb 20, 2015 02:02
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There's another stock police sound i hear all the time that was initially ingrained in my brain from some version of Sim City... It played every time you built a police station.
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Feb 20, 2015 02:05
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I have something similar. I just watched The Babadook and it was pretty good except at one point they used a stock dinosaur scream for a sound effect and it totally killed the mood for me. I'm pretty sure it was a sound effect from Primal Rage.
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Feb 20, 2015 02:48
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Clockroach posted:I'm sorry if someone's already mentioned this soundbite, I know stock sounds are a common thing; Ha, I had that program too and that sound effect is burned deep into my memory. I can't not hear it in shows and movies too.
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Feb 20, 2015 02:50
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Your Gay Uncle posted:I have something similar. I just watched The Babadook and it was pretty good except at one point they used a stock dinosaur scream for a sound effect and it totally killed the mood for me. I'm pretty sure it was a sound effect from Primal Rage. Yeah, that sound bite has been used for countless dragons/dinosaurs/monsters in games and movies for decades. It's a pity, cause the movie was giving me some serious goosebumps until that happened.
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Feb 20, 2015 02:59
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That sound annoys the poo poo out of me and Spider Man Cartoon Maker is the reason, also. I'm surprised so many people have had the same specific experience. Hell of a fun time that game was, though.
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Feb 20, 2015 02:59
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Zaphod42 posted:The end result though is that 99% of swordfights are a bunch of people actually trying to hit the other person's sword, not trying to kill each other. I posted a video a few pages back about criticism of modern action movies, and it talked about how most swordfights, especially lightsaber fights, feel a lot more like dancing than fighting, and that's absolutely true. There's no impact, no followthrough at all. Its just kids banging sticks against each other on purpose, clang clang clang. Philomena Cunk knows what's up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxnusGcAqNY&t=74s
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Feb 20, 2015 03:07
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EmmyOk posted:Why have you cursed the thread with this knowledge!? The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Post Your Favorite (or Request) > PYF Irrationally Irritating Movie Moments: I Never Noticed It Before And Now I Can't Stop Noticing It This thread has lifted the curtain on some of the most egregious poo poo that is done in the name of "background" and "realism" in entertainment. It makes the good ones better, though.
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Feb 20, 2015 03:26
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Patattack posted:I actually quite liked Hardy's Bane, right up until the reveal that he's NOT the mastermind behind everything, Talia is. I felt like that moment stripped away all of his "crazy smart" and "crazy driven" characterization, and turned him into a glorified puppet. In my mind, those post-reveal scenes really made it seem like he was just a musclebound mouthpiece for Talia's plan and rhetoric, he wasn't even like a partner or second-in-command. Maybe that was just my own interpretation, though. I felt the same, especially after they killed him off in such a lovely way
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Feb 20, 2015 03:53
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Memento posted:The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Post Your Favorite (or Request) > PYF Irrationally Irritating Movie Moments: I Never Noticed It Before And Now I Can't Stop Noticing It Pig squeal from Warcraft 2 and kids laughing from Diddy Kong Racing 
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Feb 20, 2015 03:55
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Beef Jerky Robot posted:I felt the same, especially after they killed him off in such a lovely way (Dark Knight Rises) Yeah! And if my memory isn't playing tricks on me, he hardly has any lines (certainly nothing badass, clever, or otherwise memorable) after the big reveal, which just adds to my final impression of him as little more than a mindless servant.
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Feb 20, 2015 04:06
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Bane was weird for me since his super steroid juice is like his big thing and it's just completely absent from the movie. One stock sound effect that always get me. The potion sound from Ultima Online is used basically anytime an animated person pours a drink. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bflnS4dWY8
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Feb 20, 2015 04:30
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There's an old, metal gate closing noise that I swear I first heard in the Castlevania game for the N64 that I've heard in many TV shows and movies. Also, numerous animal sounds from WoW I've heard many different places. It always irritates me and takes me right out of whatever I'm watching while I curse the lazy sound department.
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Feb 20, 2015 04:36
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I notice the Doom door sound in tons of things as well.
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Feb 20, 2015 05:15
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HairyManling posted:There's an old, metal gate closing noise that I swear I first heard in the Castlevania game for the N64 that I've heard in many TV shows and movies. Also, numerous animal sounds from WoW I've heard many different places. It always irritates me and takes me right out of whatever I'm watching while I curse the lazy sound department. That gate noise drives me up the loving wall, so very overused. Oh look they are moving a prison door? Brace for stock sound!
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Feb 20, 2015 05:29
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Mr E posted:I notice the Doom door sound in tons of things as well. And the Imp sound is a camel. Which you'll hear in Indiana Jones, The Mummy and The English Patient since it's a free to use, or at least stock, camel sample and apparently (according to what I've read itt or cinema discusso) doing foley/adr work or sending someone out with a mic to find an actual camel is too hard so it will always be that loving camel. Which, if you care about camels, and who doesn't? you'll know that it's as dead as Marge Simpson's Hang in There Kitty.
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Memento posted:The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Post Your Favorite (or Request) > PYF Irrationally Irritating Movie Moments: I Never Noticed It Before And Now I Can't Stop Noticing It For me it's empty coffee cups. Whenever a character is supposedly drinking coffee from one of those take-away coffee cups with the lid, it's empty. And once you know that, it's really, really obvious.
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Trent posted:Pig squeal from Warcraft 2 and kids laughing from Diddy Kong Racing I think you mean the kids laughing from Roller Coaster Tycoon  HairyManling posted:There's an old, metal gate closing noise that I swear I first heard in the Castlevania game for the N64 that I've heard in many TV shows and movies. Also, numerous animal sounds from WoW I've heard many different places. It always irritates me and takes me right out of whatever I'm watching while I curse the lazy sound department. The show Shark Tank uses this sound effect approximately once every fifteen seconds.
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Zaphod42 posted:I think you mean the kids laughing from Roller Coaster Tycoon The laugh is known as the 'Diddy laugh' soooo... I remember last summer there were 3 adverts running on TV that all used the Diddy laugh when kids appeared, and sometimes it would happen that all 3 adverts would play in the same break. It drove me insane. edit - Some nutter collects them it seems http://diddylaugh.blogspot.co.uk/
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I'd say leaving the venom aspect out of Bane's character was the right thing to do. He's always been Batman's dark mirror and he's so scary because he's just a better Batman. Smarter, stronger, quicker. I really don't know why they had him Venom up in the first place other than it made him more EXTREEEEME. Then because I presume people didn't know how to write a good story about an evil batman he became another Hulk. Kinda like Venom himself from Spider-man. Never written well as the dark mirror so comes off as a complete goof-ball. Also agreeing that the stock dinosaur effect almost ruined the Babadook. We nearly pissed ourselves laughing when that happened. Loved the film otherwise.
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Dr_Amazing posted:Bane was weird for me since his super steroid juice is like his big thing and it's just completely absent from the movie. It isn't absent, it was changed from a steroid that grants strength into a painkiller that he's in too much pain to use his strength without.
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ChogsEnhour posted:I'd say leaving the venom aspect out of Bane's character was the right thing to do. He's always been Batman's dark mirror and he's so scary because he's just a better Batman. Smarter, stronger, quicker. I really don't know why they had him Venom up in the first place other than it made him more EXTREEEEME. Then because I presume people didn't know how to write a good story about an evil batman he became another Hulk. Kinda like Venom himself from Spider-man. Never written well as the dark mirror so comes off as a complete goof-ball. He had venom because he wasn't as good as Batman. He only broke Batman's back after breaking out everyone from Arkham on the same night and waited until Batman was too exhausted to properly fight back when he broke his back in his original appearance. He did this specifically because he knew he probably couldn't beat Batman in a straight fight. Even in DKR he isn't fighting smart or well trained Batman, just stupid and old Batman who just runs into danger and gets his rear end whooped like an average chump because that fight scene sucked. Ra's Al Ghul is more of a dark mirror of what a man of Bruce's skills and wealth could become if he truly believed murdering criminals and saving the earth by any means necessary was the best course of action.
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^ This. Ra's actually resembles batman in terms of training and poo poo. Bane is just a drugged up luchador. It's cool that they tried to make him some kind of wacked out revolutionary for the movies, but the effect is kind of ruined when it turns out he's just another second fiddle. It gave me some serious batman and robin vibes.
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Most of Batman's villains are slightly darker mirrors of him, though, so it's kind of a moot point.
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There's one dude who's actually the reverse of Batman. His criminal parents were killed in front of him by police officers, so he dedicated his life to destroying law and order. http://batman.wikia.com/wiki/Prometheus
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The Zombie Guy posted:There's one dude who's actually the reverse of Batman. His criminal parents were killed in front of him by police officers, so he dedicated his life to destroying law and order. I liked the time Batman used the guy's own tech against him to download the martial arts abilities of Stephen Hawking into his brain.
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Canemacar posted:I liked the time Batman used the guy's own tech against him to download the martial arts abilities of Stephen Hawking into his brain. Please tell me you didn't just make that up.
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Feb 20, 2015 20:07
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*GASPS* I know quantum mechanics.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Please tell me you didn't just make that up.   
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TheFallenEvincar posted:I googled out of curiousity and uhhhhh show this to anyone who says that comic books aren't art
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TheFallenEvincar posted:I googled out of curiousity and uhhhhh That is loving hysterical, I love it.
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TheFallenEvincar posted:I googled out of curiousity and uhhhhh Someone tweet this to Stephen Hawking.
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If anything it shows that Batman doesn't understand how diseases work, Stephen Hawking wasn't born disabled.
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I doubt he'd have been able to beat Batman in a fist fight even before he became wheelchair bound, though.
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Arrath posted:I doubt he'd have been able to beat Batman in a fist fight even before he became wheelchair bound, though. Oh of course but that wasn't the reference they were going for. If that was the case Batman could have just given Prometheus the skills of his gardner.
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