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Professor Shark posted:I cannot get over how Lucas had his entire career fall into his lap despite his best efforts Lucas had a lot of really good ideas. He also had a lot of really bad ideas. When this is combined with a sane person having veto power, the result is a good movie.
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ducttape posted:Lucas had a lot of really good ideas. He also had a lot of really bad ideas. When this is combined with a sane person having veto power, the result is a good movie. It seemed like he didn't have a filter. I always leap to drug abuse or maybe mental illness but other than being daft and having a cheeseburger addiction he seems pretty well put together. 
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Sep 21, 2015 04:26
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Is it just an old legend, or did he really make American Graffiti on a dare from Francis Ford Coppola to just make a straight up reality-based film about young kids hanging out? Because if so Coppola should give him more dares.
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Sep 21, 2015 05:10
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I believe that he made American Graffiti almost out of spite, to prove that he could make a stupid high school movie if he wanted. One of the only people that he'd listen to was his wife, and it's not a coincidence that his post-divorce movies got worse.
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Sep 21, 2015 05:37
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Cruel and Unusual posted:I believe that he made American Graffiti almost out of spite, to prove that he could make a stupid high school movie if he wanted. No, it was when Linda Ronstadt put him in a permanent funk.
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Sep 21, 2015 06:19
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The movie Locke pretty much starts with Tom Hardy sitting at a traffic lights. He indicates left but turns right. At the end of the movie, as he drives out of focus and the camera slowly pans away, he indicates right but turns left.
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Sep 21, 2015 15:16
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Predestination (2014) is chock full of little foreshadowing hints from the get-go, which makes it wonderful to re-watch in order to see what you missed before. It's also a spectacular film to watch with your friends to see their reactions to the events that unfold. I recommended it to a buddy of mine who ended up renting it the other night and I just kept getting texts that read "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWHAT"
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Sep 21, 2015 17:20
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Jerusalem posted:Is it just an old legend, or did he really make American Graffiti on a dare from Francis Ford Coppola to just make a straight up reality-based film about young kids hanging out? I've heard Andrew W.K. basically made his entire career on a dare from Wolf Eyes, but that's probably a wild exaggeration.
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Sep 21, 2015 17:28
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:Predestination (2014) is chock full of little foreshadowing hints from the get-go, which makes it wonderful to re-watch in order to see what you missed before. I watched this movie randomly not knowing what it was. I remember at the end of it thinking "well that was loving STUPID" but over the next few days, the more I thought about it, I liked it more. I wound up watching it again a couple weeks later and really enjoyed it.
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Sep 21, 2015 21:16
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MindlessHavok posted:I watched this movie randomly not knowing what it was. I remember at the end of it thinking "well that was loving STUPID" but over the next few days, the more I thought about it, I liked it more. I wound up watching it again a couple weeks later and really enjoyed it. I loved it the first time but about halfway through I started thinking about the plot twist people were implying and how very very few characters there were and then it hit me and I was all "nooooo loving way". Still really enjoyable and I look forward to watching it again, possibly with someone who doesn't have a clue about it.
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Sep 21, 2015 21:18
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Everyone knows this scene from Jurassic Park: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnRxQ3dcaQk The kids get away because one of the raptors slips in the freezer after Tim runs in there, right? Then they lock him in and run away while the other raptor is still dazed from running headlong into a cabinet. But, why is the freezer sitting there open in the first place, with ice on the ground? Earlier in the film, we see Hammond sitting in the dining room eating lots of ice cream . He says it's because it's all melting. The power was knocked out by Nedry, and everything, including the freezers, are off. Hammond went into the freezer, got ice cream, and left it open because it doesn't matter since the power's out. Everything is melting in the freezer, including all the ice. After the power is turned on, the freezer restarts. All that melted ice is now water on the floor, which re-freezes. The door is still open from Hammond leaving it open, allowing Tim to run into it. The raptor slips on the ice that was allowed to melt and refreeze because of Hammond's action letting the freezer warm up faster than it would have if it was sealed. Hammond leaving the door open allowed Tim and Lex to survive the kitchen, by giving Tim somewhere to run, and giving the raptor somewhere to slip. His thinking about ice cream saved his grandchildren. One further than that, actually. Lex surviving the kitchen allows her to be able to be in the control center when the raptors attack again. This allows her to use the computer to lock all the doors. By locking the doors, Grant and Ellie survive. Hammond's desire for ice cream saves everybody. MichiganCubbie has a new favorite as of 03:53 on Sep 23, 2015 |
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Sep 23, 2015 03:50
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MichiganCubbie posted:Everyone knows this scene from Jurassic Park: And to think book Hammond got his face ate up by compys.
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Sep 23, 2015 03:57
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MichiganCubbie posted:Everyone knows this scene from Jurassic Park: Considering Spielberg didn't care whether there was a cliff on the other side of the T-Rex fence or a goat, I can't imagine he thought this much about it. The freezer door was open because he wanted it to be open. The raptor slipped because uh oh the freezer's slippery. I love Jurassic Park as much as the next guy, but Spielberg wasn't setting an elaborate puzzle in which pieces were being set an hour of screentime before they came into play. The seat-belt "life finds a way" bit I kind of buy though.
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Sep 23, 2015 04:04
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I'm phoneposting so I can't find the map, but evidently the T-Rex paddock makes perfect sense the way it's designed. Like, we assume that the leftmost bit of it is ground that becomes a cliff, but it's really not.
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Sep 23, 2015 04:22
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MisterBibs posted:I'm phoneposting so I can't find the map, but evidently the T-Rex paddock makes perfect sense the way it's designed. Like, we assume that the leftmost bit of it is ground that becomes a cliff, but it's really not. What, this map?  Yeah it doesn't work. I just rewatched the scene and the goat was right next to the car then the T-rex tosses the car through the fence at the same point. Even if it did move a few feet forwards when the rex was spinning it there should be a wall immediately to their left when they were climbing down here:  Apparently the original script had the T-rex dragging the car along the road for some ways before tossing it through the fence but that scene was dropped for some reason.
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Sep 23, 2015 05:25
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When the power goes out at my house I leave the freezer open too because really, what is the point?
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Sep 23, 2015 05:28
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Your power temporarily going out at home and what Hammond was going through probably inspires different levels of "gently caress this."
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Sep 23, 2015 05:45
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you can make it sound as fancy as you like but if thats true spielberg just said "how do they escape? what if Hammond left the freezer open and it's all slippy"
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Sep 23, 2015 06:13
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Professor Wayne posted:Your power temporarily going out at home and what Hammond was going through probably inspires different levels of "gently caress this." Also Decrepus probably doesn't have a walk-in freezer.
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Sep 23, 2015 11:54
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All the dead bodies should have been in the freezer and the movie just takes a turn into Texas chainsaw massacre levels
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Sep 23, 2015 12:37
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:What, this map? I think the intent was that the cliff was on the other side of the road but the way the set was made and the movie edited makes it all nonsensical.
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Sep 23, 2015 19:06
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I remember hearing the script supervisor talking about this and telling Spielberg it didn't make sense and his response was basically "too bad." I respect that. He looked at the scene of the trex pushing the car down the road and decided they either couldn't do it with the technology they had or that it just didn't work and made a decision to put the pace and tension of the scene over concerns about whether it made sense spatially. It's a movie about making dinosaurs, issues like geography are less important than making a movie that crates feelings both of awe and terror.
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Sep 23, 2015 19:14
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:
Sounds like it'd be a terror to shoot. You'd have to rig the jeep to be dragged through the mud, and you'd have to make the CGI convincing enough, because you know that animatronic Rex isn't going to convincingly move that jeep.
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Sep 23, 2015 19:23
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Die Laughing posted:because you know that animatronic Rex isn't going to convincingly move that jeep. You...you've watched Jurassic Park, right?
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Sep 23, 2015 20:17
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The animatronic T-Rex was stationary. They'd need to do something like have it on a moving platform and CGI away the platform and put in legs for it to drag the jeep, seems a bit out of reach at the time.
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Sep 23, 2015 22:45
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That magic cliff has bothered me since I was 9 years old, irrespective of how great the rest of the movie is. Spielberg you lazy rear end, if a 9-year-old kid who loves dinosaurs can get jolted out of the movie because you couldn't solve a fundamental screenwriting problem, you have hosed up! I hope he feels bad about it, while he counts his millions of dollars.
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Snapchat A Titty posted:The animatronic T-Rex was stationary. They'd need to do something like have it on a moving platform and CGI away the platform and put in legs for it to drag the jeep, seems a bit out of reach at the time. They could have done a lot of it in editing. There's a shot where the T-rex flips the car and stomps on it and starts chewing the tyre and then they cut to Tim's frightened face when he realises the car is being crushed and flooded with mud. The T-rex wasn't even in the shot at that point but they could have yanked the car sideways and it would have been perfectly clear what was happening. Cut to Grant's horrified face, maybe a line of dialogue (Ian: "Now where's he taking them?"), fill a little time while Grant scrambles for a road flare ... plenty of time for a T-rex to drag a car 15 feet down the road. I'm guessing they were aware of the issue but just didn't have time/budget to address it.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:(Ian: "Now where's she taking them?") 
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Van Dis posted:That magic cliff has bothered me since I was 9 years old, irrespective of how great the rest of the movie is. Spielberg you lazy rear end, if a 9-year-old kid who loves dinosaurs can get jolted out of the movie because you couldn't solve a fundamental screenwriting problem, you have hosed up! I hope he feels bad about it, while he counts his millions of dollars. Yeah, no one who wasn't an autistic retard noticed or cared about this
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Sep 24, 2015 09:10
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Bug Bill Murray posted:Yeah, no one who wasn't an autistic retard noticed or cared about this Woah you want to ease up on the a-word there buddy??
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Sep 24, 2015 09:37
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What's your problem with the word "about"?
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Sep 24, 2015 10:34
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Just watch yourself buddy because you're going aboot the right way for another 1812, OK pal?
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Sep 24, 2015 10:40
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Sulla-Marius 88 posted:Just watch yourself buddy because you're going aboot the right way for another 1812, OK pal? I'm not your pal, friend.
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Sep 24, 2015 11:05
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Two things from Neighbors I noticed: During a frat party, you can hear them playing the "game changer" song from Get Him To The Greek. Zac Efron wears the same weed belt buckle that Danny McBride wears in Pineapple Express.
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Sep 24, 2015 12:14
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As long as we are clearing the air, if no one was supposed to get out of the jeeps, why did they have those decorated rest areas?
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Sep 24, 2015 14:19
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Literally Kermit posted:As long as we are clearing the air, if no one was supposed to get out of the jeeps, why did they have those decorated rest areas?
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Sep 24, 2015 14:39
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Literally Kermit posted:As long as we are clearing the air, if no one was supposed to get out of the jeeps, why did they have those decorated rest areas? Weren't those stations for the employees?
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Sep 24, 2015 14:48
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Literally Kermit posted:As long as we are clearing the air, if no one was supposed to get out of the jeeps, why did they have those decorated rest areas? When kids need to use the bathroom, they're not going to wait for the tour to be over.
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Sep 24, 2015 14:50
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When you gotta go, you gotta go.
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Literally Kermit posted:As long as we are clearing the air, if no one was supposed to get out of the jeeps, why did they have those decorated rest areas? They didn't want them getting out of the car on their beta version tour with a storm coming. I assume during normal tours, a bathroom/rest area to get out and sit and watch the t-rex come do stuff would make perfect sense. This was just a test run to try and get the park signed off on and they didn't want them to waste a bunch of time with the threat of something bad happening.
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