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TheFallenEvincar posted:I googled out of curiousity and uhhhhh
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# ? Feb 20, 2015 22:51 |
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Pook Good Mook posted: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. And I share in the general irritation at Bane getting chumped at the end there, having his purpose kind of completely diminished and then getting taken out with a snarky line. I'm glad none of the silly comic book venom luchador genius poo poo got ported over though, Nolan's grim "superhero realism" style or whatever can be tiring but I generally prefer it to straight up porting over some of this comic book stuff because it's just straight up goofball. Comic book Bane is too...well...cartoony. Hardy's Bane was muscular and physically intimidating enough without having to go over the top and into bodybuilder range or whatever. I also just don't really like (although admittedly I'm not really into comics or superhero stuff or ever read any) those villains who all like "NOT ONLY AM I THE TOP GENIUS BUT I ALSO HAVE A SCHWARZENEGGER BODY"...it's just kind of meh to me. That's why I prefer a Luthor who isn't like, a super muscular kung-fu master or whatever (which is why I look forward to the upcoming Zuckerberg Luthor). Punkin Spunkin has a new favorite as of 23:21 on Feb 20, 2015 |
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Dolph Lundgren must just blow your loving mind
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# ? Feb 21, 2015 00:25 |
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Light Gun Man posted: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 21, 2015 01:18 |
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There's a police sound that plays over the radio whenever they're at a crime scene, sounds like "Plain and southbound 128" that drives me insane. A guy I knew once put it in the background of an episode of "Bad Girls Club" because I hate it so much
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# ? Feb 21, 2015 01:38 |
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In the opening credits of american horror stories the sound they use for a creepy bug buzzing sou,ds like a bodacious fart
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# ? Feb 21, 2015 02:17 |
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I heard the Diddy Kong laugh pre-Diddy Kong Racing in around 1992 on a weird 'fun' word processor for kids - it used to randomly play in the background when you selected a particular skin for the program. It has haunted me ever since.
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# ? Feb 21, 2015 12:22 |
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They could have made the venom thing work with Bane since all it is is basically a super steroid. I mean a super steroid is more plausible than his bathovercraft thing.
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# ? Feb 21, 2015 15:37 |
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Here's the other cop chatter sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dklA4-ACN4k&t=25s and the dreaded gate squeak: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcLrmmLcKDA&t=2s Has anyone also heard the car turning off sound? It usually used for beat up cars, and I first heard it in the Driver games. I can't seem to find it but almost any movie with a car will play it. It sort of sound like : clunk..ka clunk.
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# ? Feb 21, 2015 21:54 |
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mustard_tiger posted:
Yeah, I know exactly the one you're talking about. They play that sound whenever a car runs out of petrol or dies on the side of the road. Some lazy motherfuckers in Hollywood.
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# ? Feb 21, 2015 23:42 |
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Pook Good Mook posted: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. Nah, that's probably Alfred, and the guy knows a thing or two about fighting. As for Bane... I thought he was the scientist who invented Venom, but he was also addicted to it and it gave him one hell of a case of 'roid rage. So, like many of Batman's villains, it's his own flaw that means he defeats himself. Or, to put it another way, Batman is assaulting the mentally ill and putting them into an institution with something near a 0% success rate for cures.
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 00:07 |
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 00:46 |
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re. Batmans I've not watched all of the Gotham series episodes yet, but I like that Alfred is a hands-on kind of guy that can do more than just serve eggs and tea.
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 00:47 |
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Well in the comics he's killed a Predator and faced off against a Terminator, so
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 00:48 |
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poptart_fairy posted:Well in the comics he's killed a Predator and faced off against a Terminator, so What. Why are comics allowed to publish this poo poo, but movies are held to some sort of realism standard? gently caress that, I want a real comic book movie now.
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 00:50 |
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He also kicked the poo poo out of Superman. Dude's hardcore.
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 00:52 |
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mng posted:What. As long as he's played by Michael Caine again.
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 00:53 |
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mng posted:What. The absurdity of comics made much more sense to me when my comic nerd best friend explained to me that all long-running comics are essentially fanfiction. All of the original writers are long gone and we're left with people doing crazy poo poo with other peoples' characters. And that's why Doc Ock inhabited Spider-man's body and dated a genius dwarf while Spidey's mind hung out in another dimension.
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 01:01 |
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Henchman of Santa posted:The absurdity of comics made much more sense to me when my comic nerd best friend explained to me that all long-running comics are essentially fanfiction. All of the original writers are long gone and we're left with people doing crazy poo poo with other peoples' characters. Huh! That kinda makes sense. I'm not going to try to verify your second paragraph, but I bet it's a 80/20 split for it to be true.
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 01:17 |
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It's entirely true. The films might not be perfect but compared to the source material, good grief.
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 01:21 |
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Comic books are a lot like dreams, the absurdity of them gives it a sense in a way, it's probably why the strange and fantastic wouldn't fit into a movie without becoming say Batman forever redux or an Adam west Batman.
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 01:26 |
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Rysithusiku posted:Someone tweet this to Stephen Hawking. I've always wondered if, when you are famous, you are somehow always made aware of people referencing you. Like does your publicist call you up and say, "Stephen, you'll never believe how bat man just defeated his archnemesis this week..."
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 01:32 |
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mng posted:Why are comics allowed to publish this poo poo, but movies are held to some sort of realism standard? gently caress that, I want a real comic book movie now. Uhh...have you seen the Marvel Cinematic Universe? They have god-like beings with essentially magic technology, a talking, genetically engineered and cybernetic raccoon, a tree-man, and pretty soon, a man who will be able to do literal magic (not the "looks like magic but can just be called advanced technology" of the Asgardians, Dark Elves, etc...)
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 01:58 |
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Avengers & Guardians of the Galaxy : if Thanos is the most powerful being in the universe why does he send scrubs like Ronan and Loki after the Infinity Gems? Why not just waltz in and take them?
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 02:06 |
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Because he isn't omnipotent. An actual Irritating Moment now: you know how movies often do that thing where they pretend the song playing on the soundtrack is on the radio of the car someone is driving, and when the car stops it gets louder for a bit as the door opens then muffled when the door is closed? Species did it with an open-topped car.
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 02:10 |
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Zaphod42 posted:
I think using competitive fencing as an example of what "real swordfighting" should look like is probably not a good idea. The objective of a guy fencing for the gold medal is to win the point. The objective of a person with a sword fighting another person with a sword is to not die. If you lose a point in fencing, you swear a bit and accept a silver metal. If you get stabbed with an actual sword in pre-antibiotic society you're seriously hurting or dead. That's not to say that really trying to kill each other with swords is going to look like it did in Rob Roy (although who cares if it doesn't, that scene is loving badass) or The Duellists, but it's not going to look like fencing, either. Interesting videos here: http://www.thearma.org/Videos/TPVideos.htm
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 02:10 |
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Phanatic posted:I think using competitive fencing as an example of what "real swordfighting" should look like is probably not a good idea. Comparing fencing to actual swordfighting is like comparing fancy form-based tae kwon do or whatever to krav maga. One is an art form, the other is just beating the everloving poo poo out of each other. I once saw a site that had stories of historical sword duels, and half the winners died three days after the fight from a sucking chest wound. The old joke about the winner of a knife fight being the one that dies at the hospital while the loser dies on the scene applies to swords too. Basically this is the only way to get out of a knife/sword fight unharmed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YyBtMxZgQs
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 03:52 |
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Isn't Alfred more of a valet than a butler?
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 04:40 |
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cheerfullydrab posted:Isn't Alfred more of a valet than a butler? He's always been referred to as the Wayne's butler.
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 05:43 |
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cheerfullydrab posted:Isn't Alfred more of a valet than a butler? Surely he's more of a bat man.
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 06:07 |
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Your Gay Uncle posted:Avengers & Guardians of the Galaxy : he's got space chairs that need sittin in
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 06:09 |
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Also if Batman isn't an officer of the law, isn't it illegal to seek out people and punch them or tie them up or things like that? Or destroy their property? Even if they're criminals, isn't it also criminal to do what he's doing? If I downloaded some MP3s from Kazaa in 2004, does that mean Batman can come into my apartment tonight and hit me in the face? If not, what's stopping him? He doesn't have a judge to decide how much wrongdoing is an appropriate amount to warrant a home invasion/assault. When it comes to right or wrong, legal or illegal, all Batman has are the thoughts rolling around inside his head. If he focuses on you as an "evildoer" you might be facing some serious time filing insurance claims or learning how to walk again. Isn't that a bit terrifying?
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 06:44 |
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cheerfullydrab posted:Also if Batman isn't an officer of the law, isn't it illegal to seek out people and punch them or tie them up or things like that? Or destroy their property? Even if they're criminals, isn't it also criminal to do what he's doing? If I downloaded some MP3s from Kazaa in 2004, does that mean Batman can come into my apartment tonight and hit me in the face? If not, what's stopping him? He doesn't have a judge to decide how much wrongdoing is an appropriate amount to warrant a home invasion/assault. When it comes to right or wrong, legal or illegal, all Batman has are the thoughts rolling around inside his head. If he focuses on you as an "evildoer" you might be facing some serious time filing insurance claims or learning how to walk again. Isn't that a bit terrifying? This is literally the plot of almost every Batman comic book ever. There's a reason Batman only trusts a few cops like Commissioner Gordon.
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 06:59 |
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Applies to many films, but most recent is Jupiter Ascending: We've got hyper-advanced technology, these guys have been travelling around space for a billion years or so, yet some parts of the technology is so dated. They manually aim and fire at things, rather than having a computer doing it more or less instantly and flawlessly. They use paper, or worse, big clunky chunks of metal for signing poo poo. An ipad is thinner, slicker, and more robust than the hunks of metal they use in that movie, and has better visuals. I get that the aiming thing is for tension reasons, but still annoys me somewhat when I see movies which are set around 50 years in the future (like Minority Report) where the technology is in many ways better than a movie with technology that's supposedly thousands/millions of years ahead. Or worse, when the advanced technology isn't even as good as things we have already developed today. One other complaint about that movie. They said they killed off the dinosaurs to make way for the humans, but they also said they seeded the humans on Earth 150,000 years ago. that's a heck of a lot of forward thinking, good they had the patience to wait 64 million years. And did that dude say his boots allow him to surf on a "differential equation"?
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 07:06 |
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Maybe they have like, way way too much of that metal and it's not good for anything else so they said gently caress it and use it for paper? I dunno.
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 07:48 |
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DrBouvenstein posted:Uhh...have you seen the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Not silly and insane enough
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 09:56 |
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cheerfullydrab posted:Isn't Alfred more of a valet than a butler? He is, but they insist on calling him a butler anyway, presumably because whoever first came up with the character didn't know the difference and they feel it's too late to change it now.
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 09:57 |
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Your Gay Uncle posted:Avengers & Guardians of the Galaxy :
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 12:31 |
cheerfullydrab posted:Also if Batman isn't an officer of the law, isn't it illegal to seek out people and punch them or tie them up or things like that? Or destroy their property? Even if they're criminals, isn't it also criminal to do what he's doing? If I downloaded some MP3s from Kazaa in 2004, does that mean Batman can come into my apartment tonight and hit me in the face? If not, what's stopping him? He doesn't have a judge to decide how much wrongdoing is an appropriate amount to warrant a home invasion/assault. When it comes to right or wrong, legal or illegal, all Batman has are the thoughts rolling around inside his head. If he focuses on you as an "evildoer" you might be facing some serious time filing insurance claims or learning how to walk again. Isn't that a bit terrifying? In the old Adam West series, Batman and Robin were duly deputised by Commissioner Gordon.
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 15:05 |
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mng posted:Not silly and insane enough It's only because this stuff looks less insane when you're watching it in the moment and are invested in it. It's pretty fuckin weird dude.
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