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Thanks for posting that link to the watchmen motion comics. I think I finally get the pirate interludes. Or maybe not. I forget how the pirate story ends, but if I am remembering it correctly, the shipwrecked guy is veidt?
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Krinkle posted:Thanks for posting that link to the watchmen motion comics. I think I finally get the pirate interludes. Or maybe not. I forget how the pirate story ends, but if I am remembering it correctly, the shipwrecked guy is veidt? Yes, it is the story of a guy trying to warn of a great danger but doesn't realize until too late that he is the danger.
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Jul 21, 2015 23:17
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So I watched Splice recently, that stupid Watch With No Science Brain On kinda movie, and while huge parts were annoying, the biggest was the first three minutes. ALL loving CREDITS AND STUPID loving BIOLOGY SCANS OF poo poo with creepy music. Three loving minutes of directors and producers and all kinds of annoying poo poo! Show me the goddamn freaking human monster thing, I don't give a poo poo who the fourth assistant producer was! Also, after Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum the scientists decide to keep the goddamn monster alive, how did they keep it secret for so long? Wouldn't someone have noticed on drat security tags or cameras these two morons are always in the artificial uterus lab and spending a lot of time there? poo poo, my job just involves moving paper and files and we have little keycards to let us in and out of certain areas, and bet your rear end someone will check up if you visit the bathroom once every hour or stay there for four hours on end.
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Jul 21, 2015 23:19
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muscles like this? posted:Yes, it is the story of a guy trying to warn of a great danger but doesn't realize until too late that he is the danger.  Haha look at this foreshadowing. What a dummy I was ten years ago.
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Jul 21, 2015 23:52
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Fun fact. In The Watchmen extended cut with the Black Freighter stuff, the survivor wraps a body in a sail, the blood stain on the sail is the same blood pattern left in the snow by Rorschach after Dr Manhatten does his thing at the end.
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Jul 22, 2015 00:19
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Pwnstar posted:Crystal Skull worked as a tribute to 50s pulp sci-fi by having a cool premise that was let down by poor, idiotic and bizarre creative choices. It would've been much more fitting of a tribute if almost all the movie was people talking in a cheesy laboratory set and nothing really happens until the end.
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Jul 22, 2015 00:22
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Krinkle posted:
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Jul 22, 2015 01:44
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I never liked how Indy helped he bad guys the whole way through. At the beginning they're in the secret warehouse and he's using the magnetic field to lead them exactly where they want to go. I was sure he was going to trick them into opening the ark again or use some other awesome thing they had in there. He does it again later in the Nazi camp. Every time they ask him for information he happily gives them directions or draws them a map.
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Jul 22, 2015 02:31
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Dr_Amazing posted:I never liked how Indy helped he bad guys the whole way through. At the beginning they're in the secret warehouse and he's using the magnetic field to lead them exactly where they want to go. I was sure he was going to trick them into opening the ark again or use some other awesome thing they had in there. Isn't this consistent with his character? He's a good guy, and a genius, but he can't stop himself from archaeologing the poo poo out of riddles.
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Jul 22, 2015 06:08
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I just really hate the "ancient aliens gave us all the basics of civilization!" trope (or cliche, or whatever).
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Jul 22, 2015 06:28
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Byzantine posted:I just really hate the "ancient aliens gave us all the basics of civilization!" trope (or cliche, or whatever). I think you mean real, true fact. 
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Jul 22, 2015 06:43
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Grendels Dad posted:If I see a man climb out of a car that just fell down the Grand Canyon I might frown a little. This reminds me of one scene in Terminator Salvation. The guy falls out of a helecopter going at its max speed and smashes into a river, cartwheeling and basically getting blendered by physics. He gets up and walks away from this. Then he has the audacity to be completely surprised that he turns out to be a Terminator.
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Jul 22, 2015 06:56
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It's me. I'm the guy who thought Crystal Skull was a pretty decent movie. AMA.
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Jul 22, 2015 06:58
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GIANT OUIJA BOARD posted:It's me. I'm the guy who thought Crystal Skull was a pretty decent movie. AMA. Are you a computer AI designed to say random words in random order and just happened to have said something that has all the grammatically correct appearance of a sentence said by a thinking breathing sentient being but is actually just so much monkey poo poo flung at typewriters nonsense?
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Jul 22, 2015 07:07
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GIANT OUIJA BOARD posted:It's me. I'm the guy who thought Crystal Skull was a pretty decent movie. AMA. The only decent thing about Indy 4 was having Karen Allen reprise her role as Marion, even though Lucas and Spielberg had her getting hosed as a child off screen in Raiders. Romantic.
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Jul 22, 2015 07:32
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Krinkle posted:Are you a computer AI designed to say random words in random order and just happened to have said something that has all the grammatically correct appearance of a sentence said by a thinking breathing sentient being but is actually just so much monkey poo poo flung at typewriters nonsense? Nah, I just was able to overlook the ridiculous poo poo in it the way that I could overlook the ridiculous poo poo in the earlier films.
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Jul 22, 2015 07:34
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Your Gay Uncle posted:The thing that bugged me about the fridge is that once it's closed and the seal is formed not only can you not open it from the inside but you'd also suffocate to death in about 2 minutes. Being unable to open a fridge from the inside relates to very old style fridges with mechanical locks - any modern fridge requires the exact amount of force to open from the inside as from outside.
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Jul 22, 2015 12:01
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Byzantine posted:I just really hate the "ancient aliens gave us all the basics of civilization!" trope (or cliche, or whatever). I'm not saying it is aliens... but it's aliens.
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Jul 22, 2015 13:14
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RichardA posted:Being unable to open a fridge from the inside relates to very old style fridges with mechanical locks - any modern fridge requires the exact amount of force to open from the inside as from outside. Too bad the movie takes place 60 years ago.
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Jul 22, 2015 13:52
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syscall girl posted:even though Lucas and Spielberg had her getting hosed as a child off screen in Raiders.
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Jul 22, 2015 15:52
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Dr_Amazing posted:Too bad the movie takes place 60 years ago. It's still nothing to do with a seal being formed though, it's just a latch.
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Jul 22, 2015 16:23
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TheFallenEvincar posted:Wait, what?! Nazis and pedophilia?! In her tavern she says, "I was only a child!" "You knew what you were doing." Groooooossss but there is no way she meant a literal child. She was just young and naive but Indy is not a pedophile.
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Jul 22, 2015 17:19
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15 I think. Lucas wanted to make her like 12 though. Igh.
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Jul 22, 2015 17:39
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And Indy is 10 years older than her, though I would guess a concrete birthdate for him came from later material and that wasn't what they were thinking during Raiders' production because I can't imagine they intended that. 15 was below the age of consent even in the 20s in most states. Aphrodite has a new favorite as of 17:52 on Jul 22, 2015 |
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Jul 22, 2015 17:45
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:15 I think. Lucas wanted to make her like 12 though. Igh. I've heard this a few times, with the added thing being that Spielberg basically said "What the gently caress?" and shot it down, is it just an urban legend or there some account of the whole making of the movie that lists that?
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Jul 22, 2015 17:51
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According to the wikipedia article on Marion the relationship "at 15 or 16" was even Karen Allen's idea, and the novelization set her age at the time at 15. No mention of Lucas' alleged idea, but I've heard that before as well.
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Jul 22, 2015 17:59
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http://thehathorlegacy.com/open-thread-george-lucas-on-marion-ravenwood/ That's where I first read it at.
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OK stop me if this has been said in the thread before, but it bugs me whenever a movie portrays zombies as hungry specifically for brains, rather than just normal flesh. (Do movies do that anymore? Or has it been relegated to the godawful, stale LOLZOMBIES pop culture moment?) Unless the zombies are also portrayed as supernaturally strong, or smart enough to use tools they're NEVER getting brains- human teeth can't bite through a cranium! Never gonna happen.
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Jul 22, 2015 22:40
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VoteTedJameson posted:OK stop me if this has been said in the thread before, but it bugs me whenever a movie portrays zombies as hungry specifically for brains, rather than just normal flesh. (Do movies do that anymore? Or has it been relegated to the godawful, stale LOLZOMBIES pop culture moment?) Unless the zombies are also portrayed as supernaturally strong, or smart enough to use tools they're NEVER getting brains- human teeth can't bite through a cranium! Never gonna happen. They'd know that if they had brains, silly.
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Jul 22, 2015 22:42
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VoteTedJameson posted:OK stop me if this has been said in the thread before, but it bugs me whenever a movie portrays zombies as hungry specifically for brains, rather than just normal flesh. (Do movies do that anymore? Or has it been relegated to the godawful, stale LOLZOMBIES pop culture moment?) Unless the zombies are also portrayed as supernaturally strong, or smart enough to use tools they're NEVER getting brains- human teeth can't bite through a cranium! Never gonna happen. That began with the 1980s movie Return of the Living Dead. I don't care for it, either.
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VoteTedJameson posted:OK stop me if this has been said in the thread before, but it bugs me whenever a movie portrays zombies as hungry specifically for brains, rather than just normal flesh. (Do movies do that anymore? Or has it been relegated to the godawful, stale LOLZOMBIES pop culture moment?) Unless the zombies are also portrayed as supernaturally strong, or smart enough to use tools they're NEVER getting brains- human teeth can't bite through a cranium! Never gonna happen. There's a lot of different takes on zombies and most of them are kinda dumb, yeah. I prefer the virus that makes people mindlessly violent and they just happen to consume flesh sometimes. But hey whatever rocks your zombie boat. You don't see it much anymore but back in the old exploitation days zombies came from voodoo magic, there's a lot of possible origins. I'm gonna say as an exception though, not exactly the same thing but Emperor Zombie from Screw-on-head would smoke people in order to gain their knowledge, and that's cool as gently caress even if it doesn't make any drat sense. https://youtu.be/XbsDvGtTRWU?t=8m8s Also its not strictly a 'zombie' but the gravemind from Halo had the collective knowledge of all the flood-zombies, so its kinda like he was eating their brains to gain their knowledge. I think that's a kinda cool idea. But for general shambling stupid zombies, yeah. There's no reason they'd prefer brain matter.
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Jul 22, 2015 23:02
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Aleph Null posted:That began with the 1980s movie Return of the Living Dead. I don't care for it, either. And even there it was very specific: being a zombie hurts, eating brains somehow makes it hurt less. If I recall correctly anyway.
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Jul 22, 2015 23:31
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Warm Bodies actually had an explanation for zombies liking brains. Eating brains, to a zombie, is delicious. It also gives the zombie, for a short time, some of the memories and associated emotions inside the brain (not that they can really act on it much, since they're still a stiff, incoherent lurching zombie). So it's sort of like a drug to them to make them briefly remember what being human is like.
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Jul 23, 2015 00:03
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Aleph Null posted:That began with the 1980s movie Return of the Living Dead. I don't care for it, either. ROTLD is overtly a comedy, it's pretty strange that later films have taken the idea seriously.
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Jul 23, 2015 00:06
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Trent posted:That is just really not true. I mean establishing your personal view of the art is the point of movies
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Jul 23, 2015 00:18
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I don't actually remember the last movie that had zombies specifically desire brains, rather than just bite and tear their victims apart.
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Jul 23, 2015 00:43
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bewilderment posted:Warm Bodies actually had an explanation for zombies liking brains. Eating brains, to a zombie, is delicious. It also gives the zombie, for a short time, some of the memories and associated emotions inside the brain (not that they can really act on it much, since they're still a stiff, incoherent lurching zombie). So it's sort of like a drug to them to make them briefly remember what being human is like. So it gives them the capacity to realise how awful what they just did was? Alarming
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Jul 23, 2015 01:32
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Aleph Null posted:That began with the 1980s movie Return of the Living Dead. I don't care for it, either. Return of the Living Dead is also a legitimately awesome movie, the sequels not so much.
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Jul 23, 2015 02:01
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QUACKTASTIC posted:Return of the Living Dead is also a legitimately awesome movie, the sequels not so much. "Please, if you really loved me, you'd let me eat your brains." "O-okay..."
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Are there really that many zombie movies where they actively seek out brains? I know it's a common cultural thing, but I don't think that I've ever actually seen a movie where they do that.
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