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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Also, post 9/11, the general public has a lot of misconceptions about how large buildings collapse. Yeah, I said "expectations", not that they actually learned anything or were informed.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Also, post 9/11, the general public has a lot of misconceptions about how large buildings collapse. Jet fuel can't melt steel beams, debra
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Dr Monkeysee posted:Jet fuel can't melt steel beams, debra That's one of those, " I wish I had a dollar for every time I heard that" phrases.
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So I just watched House of the Devil, and man it ia fantastic, I just need to verify with other peoole that the reason she passes out is because the pizza was drugged?
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Celluloid Sam posted:So I just watched House of the Devil, and man it ia fantastic, I just need to verify with other peoole that the reason she passes out is because the pizza was drugged? Yes. It's the Ulman's son that delivers it to her. I don't recall if we see anything that shows that he kills the real delivery person and takes the pizza, but that's what I assume happens if we aren't shown that.
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Detective Thompson posted:Yes. It's the Ulman's son that delivers it to her. I don't recall if we see anything that shows that he kills the real delivery person and takes the pizza, but that's what I assume happens if we aren't shown that. I honestly think it was setup from the start, it aounded like him on the phone and the pizza guy was really weird and sketchy even when she first calls for it, I knew it was their son I just wanted verification, so thank you! I'm watching The Innkeepers now, since ai really dug House of the Devil
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Yeah, you're probably right about that, especially since they gave her the money/number. It's been a while since I've seen it. Innkeepers is pretty good, too.
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My favorite thing about the pizza in House of the Devil is at the beginning when she goes to her normal place and says "it tastes funny today," establishing doubt for her at the end of the movie that it's drugged.
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The Innkeepers isn't quite as good but it still does a wonderful job of ramping up tension. I found out I am a giant scardey cat and had to pause it several times.
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david_a posted:The Innkeepers isn't quite as good but it still does a wonderful job of ramping up tension. I found out I am a giant scardey cat and had to pause it several times. Innkeepers is definitely a weaker movie, but I think it also has a couple scares that work better than any of the horror in HotD. Unfortunately it's also just a really inconsistent movie.
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In the film Paprika, how is it possible that Konakawa physically kills Osanai in a dream? Is it possible that the shock from experiencing a seemingly very real and vivid death itself killed him? Furthermore, did any of the events at the end of the film, when the Chairman is tearing apart the city and the general populace are jumping off roofs and generally losing their marbles, actually physically happen? Or am I missing the point altogether? Ambiguity between reality/dreams is obviously a major part of the film and I can understand leaving questions like mine for the viewer to decide. America Inc. fucked around with this message at 10:59 on Oct 18, 2015 |
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What's the name of that old movie with the famous "jump scare" caused by nothing so much as a car suddenly passing a woman on a quiet street? I think it even has a trope named after it, but I can't remember either.
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Wachter posted:What's the name of that old movie with the famous "jump scare" caused by nothing so much as a car suddenly passing a woman on a quiet street? I think it even has a trope named after it, but I can't remember either.
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Brilliant. Thank you so much!
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Why do dvds come inside cardboard slipcovers identical to the cover on the case?
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Jack Gladney posted:Why do dvds come inside cardboard slipcovers identical to the cover on the case? I'd assume because it looks nice and covers up the cheap-looking security plastic
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Jack Gladney posted:Why do dvds come inside cardboard slipcovers identical to the cover on the case? I always liked the slipcovers because removing those stupid security stickers on the case creases always left me with torn dvd cover art.
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MacheteZombie posted:I always liked the slipcovers because removing those stupid security stickers on the case creases always left me with torn dvd cover art. Actually I take that back I've opened DVD and CD cases' tape with my teeth in a pinch. Never in my life tore up the cover.
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coyo7e posted:Good lord how do you open them, with your teeth? The sticker part would, without fail, somehow get between the plastic cover, onto the art sheet, and tear a chunk (it wasn't always a huge chunk or the whole picture, but just enough to bother me) of the cover art with it. And I had used my teeth before, also my nails, keys, a knife, etc. It was such a relief when my first order of Criterion Blu-Rays came in and didn't have those drat stickers.
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Sorry if this is the wrong thread, but I haven't seen either Straw Dogs. If I was going to watch only one, should I watch the original or the remake?
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The original, easily
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Edit: It's the Unrated cut if anyone is interested. Which you should be, because it's an amazing film. Air Skwirl fucked around with this message at 04:58 on Nov 1, 2015 |
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Skwirl posted:I just noticed Y Tu Mama Tambien is on Netflix, it says it's R rated. I saw the Unrated cut in theaters when it first came out and the R rated dvd later that they released to Hollywood Video and Blockbuster. Does anyone know which cut they have on Netflix, because if it's the later that's loving . Or, more precisely, not loving. Edit: To actually answer your question, it's the unrated cut. The R-rated cut removes the "pre-orgasmic thrusting" from the very first scene, according to an article in a reputable film journal, so this looks like the full version. CharlieFoxtrot fucked around with this message at 04:57 on Nov 1, 2015 |
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:Or, more precisely, not loving. I was using it as a modifier, not a verb, but yeah, basically. Actually, I decided to check myself and managed to skip exactly to where I knew they cut it for the censored version, and it's not cut. Air Skwirl fucked around with this message at 04:57 on Nov 1, 2015 |
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:Or, more precisely, not loving. We're just editing on top of each other, the way I knew it was the better version: End film spoilers the cut version edits out the two male protaganists kissing during the climactic (no pun intended) sex scene, when I decided to check I managed to land on them with locked lips instantly, which was a cut that seriously changes the vibe of the film, much more than showing a couple extra thrusts between a heterosexual high school couple having sex
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I mean, you're not wrong, but I just mentioned the first scene because it doesn't involve spoilers and it was the quickest way to determine the answer to your question.
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:I mean, you're not wrong, but I just mentioned the first scene because it doesn't involve spoilers and it was the quickest way to determine the answer to your question. I get it, that was just the major cut I could remember since it's been almost 15 years since I've seen any version of it. I love that the director's next movie after this one was Harry Potter 3.
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What happened to that guy Dileep Rao? He had three decent-sized roles in movies that were all major hits in the space of a year (Drag Me to Hell, Inception and Avatar) and then disappeared and appears to not have really been in anything since. Is it just a case of there not being enough roles for brown dudes in Hollywood, and that he happened to have a fluke streak in a year which there was?
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There are so few roles for Indians and other asians Aziz Ansari had to cast his own parents to play his parents. They aren't even actors, they were just the only brown people over 30 he could find.
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I loathe Aziz Ansari but he's on point in regard to Indian casting
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Everblight posted:There are so few roles for Indians and other asians Aziz Ansari had to cast his own parents to play his parents. They aren't even actors, they were just the only brown people over 30 he could find. Not really what he's said on the matter... "There's not a ton of older Indian people that are out there in the acting game, so I wrote these characters kind of based on my parents, and I couldn't find anyone who really felt like my parents, so I just got my parents to do it," Ansari tells PEOPLE. "They did a fantastic job." http://www.people.com/article/aziz-ansari-master-none-netflix-parents-first-look
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I just saw Total Recall for the first time, and it's a movie I totally should have watched earlier. My question is is there a legitimate case to make about it all being real? Because from what I saw, Quaid suffering a schizoid delusion based on having the memories implanted into him seems like the most probable theory.
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The Vosgian Beast posted:I just saw Total Recall for the first time, and it's a movie I totally should have watched earlier. My question is is there a legitimate case to make about it all being real? Because from what I saw, Quaid suffering a schizoid delusion based on having the memories implanted into him seems like the most probable theory. I mean it's intentionally open-ended? There's literally no evidence to prove that it's either way. You could even argue that Melina being in the computer at Rekall is because she was a prostitute on mars and they had the rights to her likeness. That's the biggest piece of evidence that it is a dream, but the fact that he dreams about her before he goes to Rekall for the first time is the biggest evidence that it isn't.
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Like to think of it as he intentionally builds a woman at Rekall like the one he knew and mentally sees her face as he loses consciousness.
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The Vosgian Beast posted:I just saw Total Recall for the first time, and it's a movie I totally should have watched earlier. My question is is there a legitimate case to make about it all being real? Because from what I saw, Quaid suffering a schizoid delusion based on having the memories implanted into him seems like the most probable theory. All 3 possibilities real / holiday implant working as intended / schizoid embolism are equally valid. Takes half the fun out of the movie if you try to argue that one is more correct. But if you're looking for other pointers towards it being genuine - Quaid dreams about Melina before anything kicks off is the biggie. And if it's not real then Rekall do a good job to keep their plots up to date to tie in with the news that morning.
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But couldn't you argue that they use a client's own thoughts to help detail the niceties of the world?
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Cerv posted:All 3 possibilities real / holiday implant working as intended / schizoid embolism are equally valid. Takes half the fun out of the movie if you try to argue that one is more correct. In the (almost entirely different) short story, it's all a fantasy but the fantasy is inspired by the fact that the lead character has blocked memories that are almost identical to the fantasy. He is left with both sets of similar but contradictory memories, which leads him to try again, this time with a more absurd, deeper fantasy which also turns out to be based on real, blocked memories. The movie reads best the same way, but less explicitly. It's all a dream, Based on a True Story. But Quaid is the savior of all Mars (as Quail is for Earth in the story) because without him, they'll all literally cease to exist.
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DeimosRising posted:In the (almost entirely different) short story, it's all a fantasy but the fantasy is inspired by the fact that the lead character has blocked memories that are almost identical to the fantasy. He is left with both sets of similar but contradictory memories, which leads him to try again, this time with a more absurd, deeper fantasy which also turns out to be based on real, blocked memories. The movie reads best the same way, but less explicitly. It's all a dream, Based on a True Story. But Quaid is the savior of all Mars (as Quail is for Earth in the story) because without him, they'll all literally cease to exist. I absolutely adore the short story. It is one of those rare instances of an absolutely perfect ending -- a story that could not have ended any other way, and yet (despite all the clues being there in the text) takes you entirely by surprise the first time you read it.
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regulargonzalez posted:I absolutely adore the short story. It is one of those rare instances of an absolutely perfect ending -- a story that could not have ended any other way, and yet (despite all the clues being there in the text) takes you entirely by surprise the first time you read it. I would wager at least 90% of people finish that story and then, aloud, go, "Wait, what?"
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