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Your Gay Uncle posted:I really like the Fifth Element but I always wondered why Gary Oldman had a mini elephant just chilling in his drawer When we saw it as teenagers we asked the same question - concluding it was like a futuristic cat (for the villain to stroke like Blofeld) except for one guy who kept insisting that it was for Zorg's 'Executive Relief' because of the 'come hither' eyelashes and lipsticked mouth. 
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kinmik posted:Spoilers for Jurassic World I guess? 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. It's theoretically the difference between the manmade killing machine and the "natural" dinosaurs The I-rex is bugfuck crazy assumingly from being a combo of both solitary and pack dinosaurs
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Light Gun Man posted:Welp, someone better make a fan edit now. There's probably already a The Sexth Element. Edit: Yep.
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Another thing that always bugged me about the Fifth Element is how smug Bilbo Baggins was when Gary Oldman was choking on a cherry pit. Did other people have heimlic robots in their offices in case they start choking? Some sort of cherry pit transporter? Should he have been eating pit less cherries?
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Your Gay Uncle posted:Another thing that always bugged me about the Fifth Element is how smug Bilbo Baggins was when Gary Oldman was choking on a cherry pit. Did other people have heimlic robots in their offices in case they start choking? Some sort of cherry pit transporter? Should he have been eating pit less cherries? God drat. He was being smug because Zorg had robots and employees, not family and friends who cared for him and would be around to try to save him if he were choking. He was implying that his employees might loathe Zorg enough to let him die.
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Doubtful Guest posted:When we saw it as teenagers we asked the same question - concluding it was like a futuristic cat (for the villain to stroke like Blofeld) except for one guy who kept insisting that it was for Zorg's 'Executive Relief' because of the 'come hither' eyelashes and lipsticked mouth. If that guy thinks that thing is sexy it says an awful lot about him. Regarding Spectre: We get treated to the slam-crash fight scene on the train in Tunisia against the Big Henchman (who may have a name but I saw it at a noisy outdoor theater) that destroys several cars and most of a kitchen. The next shot is the same train merrily rolling along and Bond and co getting off at their stop. I can see when Bond causes massive devastation in a country and quietly slips back out into the crowd, but you're on a goddamn train. Did the staff just decide "obviously the fight is over, no need to stop and alert the authorities. We'll roll merrily along and let them know when we get back!" Also, what was the point of Blofield entering a rigged-to-explode building and installing a panel of bulletproof glass just to get a good taunt in on Bond? Leave a laptop open with Skype and do that poo poo from a mile away. Was he just hanging out in that little cubicle all night playing Bejeweled on his phone and wondering when Bond would get there? Then again a villain being undone by their own hubris and urge to gloat over Bond when they could just kill him is pretty much a staple of the series so I can't hate on this too much.
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Didn't Luc Besson write the Fifth Element when he was like 15 years old? That explains basically anything in that movie.
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Especially the soldiers and POTUS peeping in on naked Milla at the end.
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Wild T posted:Especially the soldiers and POTUS peeping in on naked Milla at the end. You know in the context of the movie, she's supposed to be perfect, right?
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Doubtful Guest posted:When we saw it as teenagers we asked the same question - concluding it was like a futuristic cat (for the villain to stroke like Blofeld) except for one guy who kept insisting that it was for Zorg's 'Executive Relief' because of the 'come hither' eyelashes and lipsticked mouth. Don't you literally see him petting it like a villain cat in a later scene?
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kizudarake posted:You know in the context of the movie, she's supposed to be perfect, right? Milla Jovovich is also perfect in the context of RL.
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Doubtful Guest posted:When we saw it as teenagers we asked the same question - concluding it was like a futuristic cat (for the villain to stroke like Blofeld) except for one guy who kept insisting that it was for Zorg's 'Executive Relief' because of the 'come hither' eyelashes and lipsticked mouth. I also thought this, which apparently makes me some kind of xeno-zoophiliac now. feelsgoodman
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exquisite tea posted:Didn't Luc Besson write the Fifth Element when he was like 15 years old? That explains basically anything in that movie. Yeah, probably right after reading The Incal 
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exquisite tea posted:Milla Jovovich is also perfect in the context of RL. Fun fact: She was 1/2 Bruce Willis's age at the time the movie came out!
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exquisite tea posted:Milla Jovovich is also perfect in the context of RL. Well, that goes without saying.
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The North Tower posted:Fun fact: She was 1/2 Bruce Willis's age at the time the movie came out! It's kind of funny but the new Vin Diesel movie The Last Witch Hunter takes this to the extreme. Not only is he a lot older than his love interest in real life, his character is hundreds of years older than her in the movie.
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Wild T posted:If that guy thinks that thing is sexy it says an awful lot about him. That bugged me too. Also why bother to have Batista attack Bond on the train when Blofeld had his little plan at the hidden crater base anyway?
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Poldarn posted:That bugged me too. Also why bother to have Batista attack Bond on the train when Blofeld had his little plan at the hidden crater base anyway? Batista is a lowtech megabrawler. He got his order to kill and never bothered or cared about checking in again without a corpse.
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StealthArcher posted:Batista is a lowtech megabrawler. He got his order to kill and never bothered or cared about checking in again without a corpse. He was given the job of killing Bond and Madeleine Swann and Blofeld does not like failure.
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Any time a scene ends with the entire location blowing up for very dubious reasons, as if the scriptwriter couldn't think of a climactic ended so just finished with 'and then everything exploded'. Bond films are particularly bad offenders. Quantum of Solace, the hotel is obliterated because somebody crashes a car in the garage. And now Spectre, Blofeld's entire base goes up like a munitions dump because Bond shoots some kind of gas valve thing a couple of times. It's a loving information gathering facility, why the hell would it be so explosive?
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jabby posted:Any time a scene ends with the entire location blowing up for very dubious reasons, as if the scriptwriter couldn't think of a climactic ended so just finished with 'and then everything exploded'. At least in QoS we had a cool climax inside the exploding location, complete with axe fight. Spectre they just shrug and leave. The whole damned movie was just so bland.
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But it broke the record for biggest film explosion ever, and isn't that what's truly important?
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While the rose-tinted nostalgia glasses and weird obsession of the super fans has soured Firefly a bit I still enjoy the series...but there's no way in hell that Jayne's existence on the ship makes any sense. Mal likes to be in 100% control while he's on board, to the point where he refers to space itself as "my sky", and yet he pays an openly hostile, insubordinate trigger-happy lunatic to play with all his guns? The pilot literally ends with Jayne saying that once the money is good enough he'll sell Mal out...to Mal's face. And then, later, when it actually happens, Mal ends up letting him back on the ship again. In a show with so many good characters Whedon didn't make a hell of a lot of effort making sure they made sense together.
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Ryoshi posted:While the rose-tinted nostalgia glasses and weird obsession of the super fans has soured Firefly a bit I still enjoy the series...but there's no way in hell that Jayne's existence on the ship makes any sense. Mal likes to be in 100% control while he's on board, to the point where he refers to space itself as "my sky", and yet he pays an openly hostile, insubordinate trigger-happy lunatic to play with all his guns? The pilot literally ends with Jayne saying that once the money is good enough he'll sell Mal out...to Mal's face. And then, later, when it actually happens, Mal ends up letting him back on the ship again. In a show with so many good characters Whedon didn't make a hell of a lot of effort making sure they made sense together. Mal sees the good in Jayne, which is slowly revealed to actually exist throughout the series. We see in a flashback how Mal ends up taking him in; he's in a rough spot and offering a job to one of the enemy's goons is the only way out, so he takes it. Mal might have never hired Jayne under normal conditions. Then said armed goon seems useful at being an armed goon so he keeps him around, while always knowing he has to keep him in place. Mal's just confident in his own ability to control Jayne. And we see throughout the series times when Mal totally puts Jayne in his place. He's the captain and Jayne knows it. Even when Jayne actually goes against the crew, when Mal finds out Jayne acts like a boy who got his hand caught in the cookie jar. He begs Mal's forgiveness, and part of what makes Mal actually forgive him an let him back in is explicitly that Jayne says "don't tell the others what I did...". Even though Jayne has some bad thoughts, he still has a conscience and he feels guilt, and Mal understands that and gives him a second chance. Then having given him that second chance, they become closer and he can trust Jayne more. I dunno man makes sense to me and seems pretty well written. They're dynamic characters that change slightly over the series as real people do. Book is probably the character who makes the least sense, which is why he spends probably the last time on board. That or River, honestly Mal should probably drop River and Simon off at the nearest outpost and wish them the best. But its believable that he gives a poo poo about them. I think the characters are generally well thought-out. The relationship between Mal and Zoe, who seem made for each other, is really well handled, as is the relationship with Zoe and Wash. They're opposites and yet they play really well off each other. Zaphod42 has a new favorite as of 17:23 on Nov 11, 2015 |
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Naw jayne sucks
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If you really want an irrational irritating moment. Just watching Kingsman and there's a line when Eggsy meets the posh-boy recruits and one of them make's a joke about him serving him at the McDonalds in Winchester service station. Well gently caress you Hollywood, Winch service station has a Burger King not a McDonalds.
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oldpainless posted:Naw jayne sucks Adam Baldwin sucks more
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syscall girl posted:Adam Baldwin sucks more I don't know who that is
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oldpainless posted:I don't know who that is He played a real sick gently caress in Full Metal Jacket, also played Jayne
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syscall girl posted:Jayne I know that guy! Man he sucks
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oldpainless posted:I don't know who that is He was great in "My Bodyguard".
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Pretty sure Adam Baldwin is severely developmentally disabled so a lot of this is starting to seem cruel
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TheFallenEvincar posted:Pretty sure Adam Baldwin is severely developmentally disabled so a lot of this is starting to seem cruel He is a republican so this checks out Everyone lay off on him
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He has brothers to take care of him.
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I feel like there's some in-joke about Adam Baldwin that i'm missing right now.
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It's about ethics in Adam Baldwin criticism, for me at least.
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TheFallenEvincar posted:It's about ethics in Adam Baldwin criticism, for me at least. Wil Wheaton talked about a twitter exchange he had where Baldwin was basically saying "yeah man this is hilarious I can get all of these gamergate idiots whipped into a frenzy just by posting vague support, it's funny you and I should have a fake twitter war over it! Publicity bro!" Adam Baldwin is a dumb oval office, is what I'm going for here.
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Krypt-OOO-Nite!! posted:If you really want an irrational irritating moment. Like those ponces ever had fast food
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Krypt-OOO-Nite!! posted:If you really want an irrational irritating moment. It irrationally irritated me towards the end of the film when Eggsy and his main posh-rival meet up again after Posh-boy has joined up with the bad guys after washing out of Kingsman training, and Eggsy easily takes him out with like one move before moving on. Posh-boy might have been a prick, but up till the moment he put his own life above the Kingsmen he was shown to be just as accomplished and skillful as Eggsy which is kinda why they were going through the whole testing procedure in the first place - they couldn't separate the candidates otherwise. Eggsy taking him out so completely basically suggested Posh-boy was always completely inferior and coasting by purely on his family name as opposed to being a viable candidate who just so happened to be a huge rear end in a top hat to the main protagonist.
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