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I think Tom Clancy got investigated by DOD after Hunt for Red October was published, because apparently he made some really good guesses about how classified submarine tech worked.
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SaltyJesus posted:You might be thinking about Kubrick and the apparently astonishingly accurate interiors of B-52 in Dr. Strangelove. Also when the second unit was filming aerial footage for the B-52 scenes they accidentally filmed a secret US military base in Greenland. They were forced to land and their stuff was thoroughly inspected because the military thought they might be Soviet spies.
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Jul 19, 2015 08:27
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FreudianSlippers posted:Also when the second unit was filming aerial footage for the B-52 scenes they accidentally filmed a secret US military base in Greenland. They were forced to land and their stuff was thoroughly inspected because the military thought they might be Soviet spies. If it was Thule they were lucky they didn't start an international incident, jesus. That base is for monitoring bombers/missiles coming over the pole.
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Jul 19, 2015 09:11
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ninjahedgehog posted:I think Tom Clancy got investigated by DOD after Hunt for Red October was published, because apparently he made some really good guesses about how classified submarine tech worked. Bear in mind that any such claims are from Tom Clancy himself and quite likely fictional as a way of bigging up his works.
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Jul 19, 2015 12:04
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I was under the impression that there is no Tom Clancy, it's just an cabal of ghostwriters 
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Jul 19, 2015 12:37
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Mierenneuker posted:I was under the impression that there is no Tom Clancy, it's just an cabal of ghostwriters 'Tom Clancy' is actually a video game development company that also writes adaptations of their own games. While their game development time is usually pretty long, their story-writing process isn't, leading to the appearance of an actual author's release schedule.
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Jul 19, 2015 13:00
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ninjahedgehog posted:I think Tom Clancy got investigated by DOD after Hunt for Red October was published, because apparently he made some really good guesses about how classified submarine tech worked. Specifically it's the "Red Route One" sequence where the Red October uses a maze of underwater rock formations to hide because it uses a top-secret laser gravimeter to navigate, which uses a laser to measure the minute distortions in a sheet of metal (if I remember it correctly). Turned out that was an actual classified device the USN were working on at the time.
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Jul 19, 2015 16:46
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Mierenneuker posted:I was under the impression that there is no Tom Clancy, it's just an cabal of ghostwriters That was true for anything written post The Bear and the Dragon but before that was him.
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Jul 19, 2015 17:00
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Yeah, I was really into Tom Clancy in the second grade even reading his nonfiction poo poo about tanks and so forth but then at some point it became clear he'd been bodysnatched It feels weird, looking back, me as a kid being really into airport fiction
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Jul 19, 2015 20:58
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TheFallenEvincar posted:Yeah, I was really into Tom Clancy in the second grade even reading his nonfiction poo poo about tanks and so forth but then at some point it became clear he'd been bodysnatched You aren't alone, I liked it too. Where in the spectrum do you fall?
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Jul 19, 2015 21:05
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TheFallenEvincar posted:Yeah, I was really into Tom Clancy in the second grade even reading his nonfiction poo poo about tanks and so forth but then at some point it became clear he'd been bodysnatched Jack Ryan's wife's underboob. He was really into it. Little bitty titties. The machine is still on Moira.
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Chichevache posted:You aren't alone, I liked it too. Where in the spectrum do you fall?
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I'm up to season 4 of The Wire and just now found out that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Way_Down_in_the_Hole https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wZZu93VsNA was originally written by Tom Waits. It looks like he recorded the song for season 2 but all the other seasons were by different artists. And Leonard Cohen did the opening title song for True Detective season 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3HbrfV0hJM They're only two of my favorite singer songwriters. syscall girl has a new favorite as of 01:28 on Jul 23, 2015 |
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Jul 23, 2015 01:20
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Next up I plan on not recognizing The National, Lana del Rey, Nick Cave and Amanda Palmer singing my favorite sad songs over a tv show or movie credits with my dumb goony ears. Gonna qualify for a hearing ear dog.
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Jul 23, 2015 01:49
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syscall girl posted:Nick Cave I'm glad I'm not the only Peaky Blinders fan. 
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Jul 23, 2015 02:51
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In The Kingsman at the end there's a very random scene where the main character gets offered up buttsex from a kidnapped princess if he saves the world. He does and returns to her cell, finds it locked and asks for the code. It winds up being 2625. 2625 spells ANAL on a keypad.
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Jul 24, 2015 14:58
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In Ant Man, D FENS finally makes it to work after a 22 year long traffic jam that sun bleached the color out of his glasses to clear.
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Jul 25, 2015 00:13
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What's with fashionable old dudes in translucent glasses nowadays? Is that a thing in places other than superhero movies?
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Coffee And Pie posted:What's with fashionable old dudes in translucent glasses nowadays? Is that a thing in places other than superhero movies? Non-translucent glasses tend to stymie whatever they're trying to accomplish
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Back when Hank Pym was trying to get to work his frames were black along the browline. I think clear frames are for looking like you're the future.
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syscall girl posted:Next up I plan on not recognizing The National, Lana del Rey, Nick Cave and Amanda Palmer singing my favorite sad songs over a tv show or movie credits with my dumb goony ears. Here's Nick Cave and Neko Case doing an awesome duet of "She's Not There": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBX4H06FWd8 It was recorded for True Blood, which I've never seen a single episode of. From what I've heard of the show, even having two of my favorite singers cover one of my favorite songs doesn't make me want to watch it. And, of course, The National covered "Rains of Castamere" for GoT. On the topic of music in TV shows, during a bar scene in season one of The Wire, Gram Parsons' fantastically bleak "Streets of Baltimore" can be heard playing really quietly in the background. Crow Jane has a new favorite as of 18:13 on Jul 26, 2015 |
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Just watching the Fighter and there is the season after Mickey decides to give up on fighting and is in the bathroom listening to the radio. The radio report is talking about Dickey Englund's HBO special and he turns it off right before they talk about the Cracktown special. He could of known what they were filming and warned everyone before the special aired if he had kept the radio on for a few seconds.
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In the new movie Pixels (which really isn't as bad as the reviewers claim), the character of Max Headdroom is voiced by Matt Frewer, which is really 
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Jul 28, 2015 00:40
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MisterBibs posted:In the new movie Pixels (which really isn't as bad as the reviewers claim), the character of Max Headdroom is voiced by Matt Frewer, which is really How is a character being voiced by the person who always voices him a subtle movie moment?
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Brocktoon posted:How is a character being voiced by the person who always voices him a subtle movie moment? Well, that character's clearly a cameo, and one quite out of place for the movie itself. So it seems like it's a neat little nod done right, which is especially nice to see from a movie that's quite content not to give a gently caress in any other way.
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Jul 29, 2015 10:42
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A good subtle joke from early Futurama is when they go to the robot planet Chapek 9, named after the Czech writer who came up with the term robot, Karel Capek.
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Brocktoon posted:How is a character being voiced by the person who always voices him a subtle movie moment? Because it'd be really easy to be  and get some rando to do the (very few) lines?
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Back to the Future: During the opening credits, you see Doc's automated wake-up breakfast machine make a couple of pieces of horribly burned toast. When I was a kid, I just thought either "Oh, that Doc is a weird dude who likes burnt toast" or "Silly Doc, his machine doesn't work right." I'm rewatching it for a fiftieth time right now and I just realized that the machine works fine, it's just that Doc has been away for a few days (as evidenced by the dog food bowl overflowing) and the toaster has been re-toasting the same pieces of bread every day. Duh. EDIT: At dinner, when George pours himself a bowl of peanut brittle, there's a enormous case of it right behind him and a couple of more boxes on the kitchen counter. It's a weird little detail, but there's a deleted scene that explains bow he got it and why Marty looks at it with such disdain at the dinner table. I can see why it was deleted though, its point of "George is the world's most gigantic doormat" was already established in the scene with Biff right before it. ninjahedgehog has a new favorite as of 09:08 on Jul 31, 2015 |
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During the opening credits of the newest Godzilla film they have text around all the names that gets quickly redacted. On the Blu-Ray or DVD if you pause before the text is redacted it has jokes or actual background on the monsters.
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A nice little nod for comic book geeks In the beginning of Ant-man, Michael Douglas' character brushes off inquires to his time as the Ant-Man as "Tales to Astonish" Tales to Astonish is the comic book series that Ant-Man first appeared in.
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CzarChasm posted:A nice little nod for comic book geeks I thought Evil Baldman said that?
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Inzombiac posted:I thought Evil Baldman said that? IIRC he said it as a sort of quote from Michael Douglas. "You always said [Ant Man] was made up, a Tale to Astonish" or something.
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In Guardians of the Galaxy when Quill catches the infinity stone it blows his hair back and it looked real familiar for some reason. This was used as an ad for Maxell cassette tapes back in the 80s. e: I may be reaching but watch it again and see if you can unsee it cassette tapes! 
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If we're doing voices, then the cat in Coraline is pretty good. Keith David. AKA the voice of Goliath in Gargoyles. A protector of humans much like the feline.
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At the beginning of The Prestige when Angier is reading Borden's journal it opens with him talking about how "we were two young men at the beginning of a great career." You're left to assume he's talking about himself and Angier instead of his twin.
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Aug 8, 2015 20:34
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In Alien, they burn Ash to death. Ash. Me irl watching it last night 
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oldpainless posted:In Alien, they burn Ash to death. Except Ash is actually taken down by Parker beheading him with a fire extinguisher, and when he's set on fire he melts.
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Look, don't be a jerk ok
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muscles like this? posted:At the beginning of The Prestige when Angier is reading Borden's journal it opens with him talking about how "we were two young men at the beginning of a great career." You're left to assume he's talking about himself and Angier instead of his twin. My favorite thing about The Prestige how it constantly beats you around the head with stuff like this, and then the ending monologue mocks you for not spotting them all. It's wonderful.
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ninjahedgehog posted:Back to the Future: During the opening credits, you see Doc's automated wake-up breakfast machine make a couple of pieces of horribly burned toast. When I was a kid, I just thought either "Oh, that Doc is a weird dude who likes burnt toast" or "Silly Doc, his machine doesn't work right." I'm rewatching it for a fiftieth time right now and I just realized that the machine works fine, it's just that Doc has been away for a few days (as evidenced by the dog food bowl overflowing) and the toaster has been re-toasting the same pieces of bread every day. Duh. Pathetic characters also toe a fine line between sympathetic and intolerably unlikable. George getting bullied by Biff makes you sympathise with him as you can understand the situation. Seeing him give in to a pushy neighbour over such a meaningless thing just makes you want to slap the man. Good decision to leave that scene out.
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