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Zaphod42 posted:Ah, I have heard of that scheme before but its kinda a special hack since you're calling them first, which lets them know you're right there. So there's no hanging around the phone for hours waiting for the call shenanigans. Hanging around the phone would be weird. A kind of IMM, but with a book, in Gibson's seminal cyberpunk novel Neuromancer, near the end there's a big showdown that takes place by a bank of payphones. He got so much right, but not that. (I love that each new trilogy he writes comes closer to the present (The Sprawl is pretty far out, The Bridge is some decades out, Blue Ant is "tomorrow"), except for The Peripheral which is an entirely new thing)
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Nov 7, 2015 06:19
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Watching Inside Out made me like Frozen a lot less in hind-sight. To be fair, I think part of the whole purpose of Hans was to go against the typical Disney/fairy tale story trope of having the princess find a perfect guy and fall magically in love with him instantly; having him turn out to be the villain highlights what bullshit "love at first sight" is in movies, and that the bond between the sisters trumps whatever they have going on with guys. Basically, Uteruses before Duderuses.
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Nov 7, 2015 06:55
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I'm finally finishing Breaking Bad and it really annoys me how loving slow people in a lot of media are to respond to things. A lot of times it's because a character is mulling it over in their head and that's fine but there are times where people take like five goddamn minutes to get off their rear end and open up the door like c'mon that's super rude!
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Nov 7, 2015 08:06
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Watching Inside Out made me like Frozen a lot less in hind-sight. Hans exists to misdirect and subvert the usual Disney princess storyline. The whole twist at the end of the movie is that the 'true love' Anna needs to cure her doesn't come from some random handsome dude she met a few days ago, but from her sister. He's a pretty pivotal part of the film. For my part, Spectre: - At the start a building explodes, Bond runs for thirty seconds and ends up in a crowd of happy parade-goers. No way do people keep dancing and having a good time when a massive explosion just levelled a building a few streets away. - When Bond is fighting the guy in the helicopter, he nudges the pilot and it goes out of control. But then there's like two minutes of him fighting without going near the pilot, and the copter just keeps on making wild swooping movements. Is the pilot trying to mess with them, or is he just terrible? - At the end Bond shoots down a helicopter from a massive distance with his Walther PPK. A small calibre handgun that would be a) totally inaccurate at that distance and b) about as effective as a peashooter.
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Nov 7, 2015 08:47
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Spectre opens with a line about the dead walking the earth, and the idea it created of James bond opposing the undead was more interesting than the movie's actual plot.
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Nov 7, 2015 09:00
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jabby posted:Hans exists to misdirect and subvert the usual Disney princess storyline. The whole twist at the end of the movie is that the 'true love' Anna needs to cure her doesn't come from some random handsome dude she met a few days ago, but from her sister. He's a pretty pivotal part of the film. -Dude got KOed by a hard Bond nudge -He's James Bond
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Nov 7, 2015 09:09
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I haven't watched Spectre, but I'll assume Bond gives an innocent crowd of people the John Landis treatment with a helicopter.
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Nov 7, 2015 09:53
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Inspector Gesicht posted:I haven't watched Spectre, but I'll assume Bond gives an innocent crowd of people the John Landis treatment with a helicopter. It's a metaphor for western interventionalism
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Nov 7, 2015 10:13
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Inspector Gesicht posted:I haven't watched Spectre, but I'll assume Bond gives an innocent crowd of people the John Landis treatment with a helicopter. So this movie is definitely not kid friendly?
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Nov 7, 2015 10:17
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I don't get the trailers for Spectre. "It was me, james, I was messing with you the whole movie. Hahahaha bet you didn't see that coming? I'm that character actor you vaguely recognize with the werner herzog accent. I'm the secret badguy twist ending of the movie" okay well thanks for telling me, the potential viewer that. Now I don't need to see the movie. I feel like the trailer should have been james asking "is someone messing with me this whole time? What is the deal?" and a shadowy figure laughs so I say " I bet someone IS messing with him and I'm going to watch to find out who" I'm 100% sure I'm looking at this wrong but this is my interpretation and I'm just really confused they're stating they have a twist and telling me what that twist is during all of the trailers.
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Nov 7, 2015 18:50
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Snapchat A Titty posted:It's a metaphor for western interventionalism It's a metaphor for alcoholism.
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Nov 7, 2015 18:57
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To be fair the most annoying bit of Spectre is that towards the end Bond goes to visit Blofeld without any sort of plan besides get captured, get tortured and wing it from there. I mean he literally surrenders to him, somehow survives the torture without permanent injury due to sheer luck, and then escapes due to sheer luck. And the shoots down his helicopter in total defiance of the laws of physics. Basically I would be pretty pissed if I was the villain, because Bond is a hapless idiot who is totally outclassed at every turn but succeeds due to blind luck and blatantly impossible feats.
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Nov 7, 2015 19:05
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sooooo what James Bond does
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Nov 7, 2015 19:06
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Zaphod42 posted:Seven blades, Paul! I haven't seen the miniseries of Dune Messiah, but that scene was in the book. Alia meets Duncan Idaho's reanimated corpse, gets all horny and decides to do her fighting training in the nude. Paul walks in on her and for a not-quite-the-universe's-superbeing exhibits a surprisingly high amount of "What the gently caress?"
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Nov 7, 2015 19:21
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Have you seen Duncan Idaho?? There's a reason so much of the future universe is inhabited by his descendants.
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jabby posted:
I think it's a combination of a bunch of unsecured weight bouncing around in the back, coupled with the jostling of the seat that makes it hard to regain full control of the copter. The pilot might also be working to get Sciarra the upper hand, because I think he realises that Sciarra has his arms wrapped in those straps and Bond probably doesn't, and is trying to pitch Bond out the side with the roll.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:
That was because of script rewrites. Elsa was originally the villain, and Hans was just trying to save the villagers, but then they rewrote it to have Elsa and Anna be sisters and Elsa not really a villain so they needed to shoehorn Hans into that role.
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Nov 7, 2015 20:30
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Ignite Memories posted:Have you seen Duncan Idaho?? There's a reason so much of the future universe is inhabited by his descendants. Yeah, but his name is Duncan and his last name is basically synonymous with potatoes. That's gotta knock down the sexiness factor a few ticks.
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Nov 8, 2015 01:56
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Inspector Gesicht posted:What other films suffer from having a completely redundant villain? It's not really a redundant villain, but I don't think the bad guy in 5th element and Bruce Willis ever actually interact at all. It's been a long time since I saw it.
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Dr_Amazing posted:It's not really a redundant villain, but I don't think the bad guy in 5th element and Bruce Willis ever actually interact at all. It's been a long time since I saw it. Nah, they even missed each other on the pleasure planet cruise ship thing. Zor did fire Bruce unknowingly but they never interacted except by proxy of the alien warrior guys. Even then it was never personal.
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Nov 8, 2015 06:58
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Spoilers for Jurassic World I guess? In the climactic fight, if the T-rex's brain can parse the fact that she was saved by Blue, wouldn't she also have this huge instinctual hatred of raptors, seeing as how she's the OG Rex from the first movie and she got the scars after being attacked by others raptors? I do love that it's the some one, though. Also, I like to imagine that soon after Blue parted ways from Owen, sparing him, Claire, and the kids, she immediately attacked some other poor straggling survivor.
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I just assumed it decided it had enough, and killing something that isn't currently posing a threat wasn't worth the effort.
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syscall girl posted:Nah, they even missed each other on the pleasure planet cruise ship thing. Zor did fire Bruce unknowingly but they never interacted except by proxy of the alien warrior guys. Even then it was never personal. I think he was talking about the evil death sun instead of Zorg? Corbin sorta interacts with it at the end but its really Leeloo. Although I guess you could say Zorg is the villain and the death sun is a macguffin.
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The only thing the deathsun did is drip bbq sauce on Zorgs head.
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Murphy Brownback posted:I just assumed it decided it had enough, and killing something that isn't currently posing a threat wasn't worth the effort.
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The Missing Link posted:The only thing the deathsun did is drip bbq sauce on Zorgs head. That still baffles me
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Novum posted:That still baffles me It's liquid evil oozing out of Gary Oldman.
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Novum posted:That still baffles me I originally interpreted it as his black rear end boot polish hair stuff running with sweat but apparently the general guy has it happen to him as well and the script basically calls it evil goo. Really odd thing to include with basically no context.
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Is he not just bleeding? I thought the raw destructive nature of the deathsun was killing him as a passive effect of simply holding a conversation. Like, if they talked for 5-10 minutes his head would eventually have exploded.Nutsngum posted:Really odd thing to include with basically no context. fifthelement.txt
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rydiafan posted:Is he not just bleeding? I thought the raw destructive nature of the deathsun was killing him as a passive effect of simply holding a conversation. Like, if they talked for 5-10 minutes his head would eventually have exploded. I thought it was a deliberate warning. Like Darth Vader choking a guy.
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Who What Now posted:Yeah, but his name is Duncan and his last name is basically synonymous with potatoes. That's gotta knock down the sexiness factor a few ticks. What on Earth is unsexy about the name Duncan? It's a perfectly sexy name, attached to a perfectly sexy character. Can you guess what my name is?
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rydiafan posted:Is he not just bleeding? I thought the raw destructive nature of the deathsun was killing him as a passive effect of simply holding a conversation. Like, if they talked for 5-10 minutes his head would eventually have exploded. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw973qKqBLc I always throught it was a reference to old-school WWF, papa-shango. (Evil goo at about 50 seconds in) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzJ6wr_MBqQ&t=2s (Also here @ 2:14) Cornuto has a new favorite as of 20:56 on Nov 8, 2015 |
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Nov 8, 2015 20:49
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In Spectre the Blofeld reveal was kind of stupid just for how little it actually mattered to anything. Especially how the producers insisted that it wasn't before the movie came out.
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Nov 8, 2015 20:59
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Lamprey Cannon posted:What on Earth is unsexy about the name Duncan? It's a perfectly sexy name, attached to a perfectly sexy character. Duncan McLeod of the Clan McLeod?
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rydiafan posted:Is he not just bleeding? I thought the raw destructive nature of the deathsun was killing him as a passive effect of simply holding a conversation. Like, if they talked for 5-10 minutes his head would eventually have exploded.
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I really like the Fifth Element but I always wondered why Gary Oldman had a mini elephant just chilling in his drawer
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Strudel Man posted:Bleeding vile ichor, at least. I always kind of liked that part, conceptually - an elemental force of evil causing weird physiological effects just seems to fit. So the elemental force of evil causes people to bleed black goo, what does the elemental force of love cause? boners?
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Nov 8, 2015 22:50
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Light Gun Man posted:So the elemental force of evil causes people to bleed black goo, what does the elemental force of love cause? boners? It makes you bleed white goo, duh. Out of your boner.
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Slime posted:It makes you bleed white goo, duh. Out of your boner. Welp, someone better make a fan edit now.
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