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Imagine being an actor on a show, and you have all these loving losers quoting scenes to you like scripture at the Arby's You're just trying to get a roast beef melt, and some pudge-turd is asking you about some show you did to pay off your mortgage
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Xinlum posted:I like the episode where they go to a Supernatural fan convention and a fat cosplayer follows them around the whole episode doing terrible renditions of scenes from the show. That show has a truly strange relationship with its fanbase.
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Jun 18, 2015 17:28
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ElGroucho posted:Imagine being an actor on a show, and you have all these loving losers quoting scenes to you like scripture at the Arby's Or you are at a convention and the fans try to get your girlfriend kicked out by telling security she is a whore. This actually happened.
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Jun 18, 2015 17:31
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Xinlum posted:I like the episode where they go to a Supernatural fan convention and a fat cosplayer follows them around the whole episode doing terrible renditions of scenes from the show. They devoted the entire 200th episode to rendering the show into a high school musical at an all-girls school. It was every bit as cringeworthy as it sounds and total genius at the same time.
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Jun 18, 2015 17:35
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Captain Monkey posted:Supernatural isn't that bad if you take it for what it is, a kinda schlocky X-files meets Dukes of Hazard blended up with Revelations for no reason. If you can embrace the fact that it's a ridiculous ham factory, then it's pretty darn fun.
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Jun 18, 2015 18:22
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Zaphod42 posted:I'm just upset they cast Jason Clarke as John Connor period. I got the impression that Mel Gibson chose Jim Cavizel to portray Jesus Christ in la passion and have no reason to believe nuTerminator isn't following the same twisted "logic"
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Jun 18, 2015 20:25
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syscall girl posted:I got the impression that Mel Gibson chose Jim Cavizel to portray Jesus Christ in la passion and have no reason to believe nuTerminator isn't following the same twisted "logic" Jim Cavizel is SUPER religious so it probably wasn't just some random thing he was picked.
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Jun 18, 2015 20:35
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In the Jurassic Park series: -Why do the eggs look like dinosaur eggs? I thought the lab grown eggs had dino embyos injected in unfertilized ostrich eggs? How would they have gotten the dino egg in the first place in the lab? In Jurassic world, why did the I-Rex's tracker beep if the thing would have been buried twelve inches into its hide normally?
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Jun 18, 2015 20:48
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Panfilo posted:In Jurassic world, why did the I-Rex's tracker beep if the thing would have been buried twelve inches into its hide normally? For that I'm going to go with stupid test audience bullshit. It's the "trackers beep, and that is a tracker. Because it beeps."
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Jun 18, 2015 20:58
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muscles like this? posted:Jim Cavizel is SUPER religious so it probably wasn't just some random thing he was picked. Wow. His interest in being on Person of Interest is interesting in this context.
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Jun 18, 2015 21:20
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Well, unlike say Kirk Cameron he is able to separate acting from real life. The only concession he makes for his beliefs is that he doesn't believe in doing random nudity.
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Jun 18, 2015 21:28
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Krinkle posted:I like how in burn notice in the pilot episode they have that lady do the worst loving irish accent ever and when they got picked up they immediately wrote her first line of dialog as "how do you like my american accent? I am a spy too so I can do this. I will use it from now on, forever, even during the episodes we go to ireland or whatever." The actress herself is English. Her American accent throughout the show was fake.
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Jun 18, 2015 21:38
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Her Irish accent is twice as dog poo poo as her American accent She also looks like an orange corpse and is beating the poo poo out of people 3 times her weight
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Jun 18, 2015 21:43
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ElGroucho posted:She also looks like an orange corpse and is beating the poo poo out of people 3 times her weight That ALWAYS bugged me. I can see a very well trained person beating an untrained opponent even if they are larger, but you can't tell me that 78 pound woman can just throw a regular punch that knocks down a 200 pount man in any reality
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Jun 18, 2015 21:46
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Duke Igthorn posted:That ALWAYS bugged me. I can see a very well trained person beating an untrained opponent even if they are larger, but you can't tell me that 78 pound woman can just throw a regular punch that knocks down a 200 pount man in any reality Galvanism is serious business. E: Burn Notice not the aforementioned Penny D.
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Jun 18, 2015 21:58
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  They have got to be doing this on purpose.
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Jun 19, 2015 06:08
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I just googled and found this amazing line from Housequote:Dr. Gregory House: People don't get personal with you, except for me. And you dismiss me for a jerk who's jerking you around. But this guy can only tell the truth. And he prefers your body to that of a smoking young hottie. Also House MD Season 3 Episode 23: "The Jerk" 
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Jun 19, 2015 06:52
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Minority Report. Weird how in 2015 you rarely see hard copies of pictures and in Minority Report's future all audio visual equipment is advanced enough that you can touch it and play around with it and John Anderton has HOLOGRAPHIC FORMAT HOME MOVIES of his son before he went missing. When he busts into Leo's hotel room there's a huge pile of photographs, like, hard copies of photographs of children on the bed. They figure out it's a set up but it bugged me the second I saw it.
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Jun 19, 2015 09:11
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Shockyourmonkey posted:When he busts into Leo's hotel room there's a huge pile of photographs, like, hard copies of photographs of children on the bed. Could be how pedos in the future have to have their porn...maybe the all-seeing Google AI will detect any and all child porn that's digital, so pedophiles all have old film cameras and their own darkroom. Or I guess even just a current-age digital camera and one of those Kodak kiosks from CVS.
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Jun 19, 2015 15:37
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DrBouvenstein posted:Could be how pedos in the future have to have their porn...maybe the all-seeing Google AI will detect any and all child porn that's digital, so pedophiles all have old film cameras and their own darkroom. Yeah, I'll believe that any pictures you have digitally could probably be tracked / hacked so criminals would use hard-copy to avoid detection. But yeah, the whole point was that it was a set-up anyways. Although I get your meaning that in the future scenario they would set it up to be something that somebody would actually have. What stood out to me about that scene (other than the seeming stupidity of John Anderton walking towards the murder he's about to commit rather than away from it) was the "this is what we call an orgy of evidence" line. It works but it just seemed a little weird, and I think I remember some other shows or movies using the same line around the same time. Is that a real detective term?
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Jun 19, 2015 16:02
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Supreme Allah posted:Correction: Chozen wasn't buying the vegetables, he was selling them, it was his land (his uncles land) so the villagers would pick then go to him to pay for what they have taken. That's why he had light weights, to have the villagers think they were buying more than they actually were. I always thought he was buying them from the villagers. That's why I was so confused. I saw the villagers going to him with the produce, but didn't realise that's what the arrangement was. Thanks for clearing that up.
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Jun 19, 2015 16:05
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Zaphod42 posted:What stood out to me about that scene (other than the seeming stupidity of John Anderton walking towards the murder he's about to commit rather than away from it) was the "this is what we call an orgy of evidence" line. It works but it just seemed a little weird, and I think I remember some other shows or movies using the same line around the same time. Is that a real detective term? I believe that was the point the guy (forget his name, detective dude) was making; he was being sarcastic when he said that it was a term because it's literally a thing that doesn't exist. It seemed weird to me too until I realized why it seemed weird: I was so used to seeing that kind of thing in crime scenes from other media before that it never bothered me, and this guy was calling it out as though it was obviously wrong.
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Jun 20, 2015 10:38
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turnways posted:I believe that was the point the guy (forget his name, detective dude) was making; he was being sarcastic when he said that it was a term because it's literally a thing that doesn't exist. It seemed weird to me too until I realized why it seemed weird: I was so used to seeing that kind of thing in crime scenes from other media before that it never bothered me, and this guy was calling it out as though it was obviously wrong. I thought that scene was really neat because it reveals that Colin Farrell's character isn't just "I'ma get that Tom Cruise if it's the last thing I do!" He's actually a competent detective who's willing to look at things from different angles, rather than the standard "I always get my man" sort of detective you see in movies and TV all the time. My irrationally irritating moment in Minority Report is the loving sandwich  Kudos to the prop team for making that thing but goddrat that's nasty
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Jun 20, 2015 12:49
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Mad Max: Fury Road was a kickass movie but I couldn't help but notice that it does that thing car-related movies do where the insides of vehicles are insulated foam sound proof booths even if the windows are open. I get that it's so that the characters don't have to constantly be yelling over the extremely loud dual engine of a huge truck rattling through the desert every time they talk, but it's kind of jarring when the scene cuts go from panning shot of extremely loud vehicle -> normal-volume conversation inside the vehicle -> panning shot of extremely loud vehicle. It's not exclusive to this movie, though, of course.
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Jun 22, 2015 00:47
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DrBouvenstein posted:Could be how pedos in the future have to have their porn...maybe the all-seeing Google AI will detect any and all child porn that's digital, so pedophiles all have old film cameras and their own darkroom. I see you've given this quite a bit of thought.
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Jun 22, 2015 02:50
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Just saw The Butler. Protagonist's son goes to Vietnam. Of course he dies. No secondary character survives Vietnam. Plot points demand it.
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Jun 22, 2015 23:59
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 I hate fake video games in TV and movies so much  Where's that video of Jesse Pinkman playing RAGE with a light gun when I need it dammit edit:  They spent so much money on the CG for the video game parts of this episode and it is just killing me. Also the video game guy that is the patient of the week is of the "tighten up the graphics on level 3" fake nerd talk guy-who-can-hack-anything-instantly variety.
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Jun 23, 2015 04:47
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My problem with Minority Report is that it breaks it's own rules, and for the dumbest reasons. Early on it's established that the only reason they can psychically predict murders is due to three genetically grown siblings working in concert, and murders being highly emotional events. Later on Tom Cruise rescues one of the siblings and she's able to predict that he'll need a loving umbrella to go outside and to dodge random people in a crowd. What the gently caress
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Jun 23, 2015 07:36
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MysticalMachineGun posted:My problem with Minority Report is that it breaks it's own rules, and for the dumbest reasons. I haven't seen it, but maybe the psychics could focus on a specific person and see what would happen to them, but to predict something like when and where a murder will take place without any information to go on would be impossible without the three of them together.
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Jun 23, 2015 07:53
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If I remember right, they later say the one he takes is by far the most powerful and the other two are only capable of really low-level psychic stuff without her there or something. Basically the whole project was doomed to failure because the whole thing fell apart with that one "component" removed, even though they were planning on going nation-wide.
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Jun 23, 2015 09:56
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CJacobs posted:I hate fake video games in TV and movies so much The worst for me is anytime someone is playing a video game and it's making Atari blip boop bleep noises, as if anyone won't get it if a character is just holding a controller. I was disappointed that the otherwise really on-point Netflix Daredevil series did this in one brief scene where a security guard is playing a handheld before he inevitably gets his rear end kicked. Did a focus group flip the gently caress out and think he was using some crazy unheard of technology or setting a remote bomb or what?
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Jun 23, 2015 11:02
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CJacobs posted:Mad Max: Fury Road was a kickass movie but I couldn't help but notice that it does that thing car-related movies do where the insides of vehicles are insulated foam sound proof booths even if the windows are open. I get that it's so that the characters don't have to constantly be yelling over the extremely loud dual engine of a huge truck rattling through the desert every time they talk, but it's kind of jarring when the scene cuts go from panning shot of extremely loud vehicle -> normal-volume conversation inside the vehicle -> panning shot of extremely loud vehicle. It's not exclusive to this movie, though, of course. yes, i hate hearing dialogue too, because i am also a loving moron
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Jun 23, 2015 11:31
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Alouicious posted:yes, i hate hearing dialogue too, because i am also a loving moron At least you're finally owning up to it. And I did say I understand why it's done. Did you know that something can still bother you even though you acknowledge that it's necessary?
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Jun 23, 2015 11:36
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Alouicious posted:yes, i hate hearing dialogue too, because i am also a loving moron It's almost is if this is the thread for things that irritate people.....irrationally.
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Jun 23, 2015 11:54
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sticklefifer posted:The worst for me is anytime someone is playing a video game and it's making Atari blip boop bleep noises, as if anyone won't get it if a character is just holding a controller. Maybe it was an ironically retro atari game?
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Jun 23, 2015 11:57
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They do that because modern realistic videogame noises would be a distraction in a movie.
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Jun 23, 2015 12:03
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You generally don't want to make your competitors look very good when you represent them, if you had to do it at all
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Jun 23, 2015 12:07
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muscles like this? posted:They do that because modern realistic videogame noises would be a distraction in a movie. I don't know why they don't just slap in some generic machine gun noises. It would blend in better than Galaga.
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Jun 23, 2015 12:14
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tnimark posted:It's almost is if this is the thread for things that irritate people.....irrationally. the complaint should never be "the people making the movie know what the gently caress they're doing"
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Jerusalem posted:If I remember right, they later say the one he takes is by far the most powerful and the other two are only capable of really low-level psychic stuff without her there or something. It's not just that. The way it works is that one of them predicts and the others corroborate. The minority report of the title is when one of them predicts something and the other two do not.
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