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Rolo posted:Don't know if it's been posted but I'm currently watching Promethius and there's a part where they walk into a room on an unknown planet, decide that the room has a breathable atmosphere, and all continue to take their helmets off. No scientist would do this and ignore the infinite combination of deaths the helmet is preventing that could be outside of the one square foot of alien planet you're standing in. It's not an irrational irritation, and it's been posted before. It's real dumb and nothing anyone would do irl
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Yeah the more I watch this the more I'm saying "That is a very very stupid thing to do." Makes sense that it's been discussed already here so I'll move on. Edit: "what do you mean, the computer is picking up a life form??" What the gently caress else could it mean you're a god damned scientist. Rolo has a new favorite as of 00:23 on Jan 24, 2016 |
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Rolo posted:Don't know if it's been posted but I'm currently watching Promethius and there's a part where they walk into a room on an unknown planet, decide that the room has a breathable atmosphere, and all continue to take their helmets off. No scientist would do this and ignore the infinite combination of deaths the helmet is preventing that could be outside of the one square foot of alien planet you're standing in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bbzuu14bGgs
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Jan 24, 2016 00:13
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BiggerBoat posted:There's a lot to get irrationally irritated about Avengers: AOU. For instance, why add he cape if you're not going to do his phasing power? Meaning his ONLY power in the comics at least. Vision actually does phase in exactly one scene. In the big fight scene in the air with the Ultrons he's got his hands through one and there's a glowing green outline around them.
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Jan 24, 2016 02:58
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I think the entire point of Prometheus was that everyone was a incompetent moron and then they meet God and God hates them because they are morons and decides to kill all mankind.
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Jan 24, 2016 04:02
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FreudianSlippers posted:I think the entire point of Prometheus was that everyone was a incompetent moron and then they meet God and God hates them because they are morons and decides to kill all mankind. It's a bizarre prequel to a franchise about rear end in a top hat aliens murdering space truckers and space marines. Well see ACTUALLY god aliens created humans with mutagoo but it kinda sucked so the aliens decided to put more goo on Earth because there wasn't enough the first time. Then a robot used the goo to make a girl pregnant with an alien Cacodemon which then had sex with a god alien and thegwrerawhyahdradhrs It's so convoluted and weird.
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Jan 24, 2016 04:32
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Rolo posted:Don't know if it's been posted but I'm currently watching Promethius and there's a part where they walk into a room on an unknown planet, decide that the room has a breathable atmosphere, and all continue to take their helmets off. No scientist would do this and ignore the infinite combination of deaths the helmet is preventing that could be outside of the one square foot of alien planet you're standing in. The movie has a lot of stupid moments but we are talking about a space faring race of humans. They rely 100% on technology. That same technology said the environment is safe to take their helmets off. So they took the poo poo off. That decision didn't even effect the plot. In the grand scheme of things, the character who said don't do it was wrong and generally a dumbass. Granted they all died but they died because aliens came to life and started killing everyone. The helmets wouldnt have changed anything and having them on didn't saved anyone. Hell, a snake ripped open a guy's suit by using the guy's own broken arm. They were dead the moment they went in. So, the space faring race of humans who use sensor tech to live uses that same tech to see of the air is safe to breath. That tech said it was. So, eithor they don't trust the tech enough to live and haven't left earth yet or they trust it with your lives and are on an uncharted alien world relying on it every second to live. So they did.
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Jan 24, 2016 04:42
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A lot of the goofy poo poo about Ultron can be explained by remembering that he's basically half Tony Stark, so he's a cocky idiot who does things because they seem cool.
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Jan 24, 2016 04:58
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Prometheus is a really good bad movie.
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Jan 24, 2016 05:26
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IIMM: screenwriters so bad at their jobs that, unable to figure out how to move the plot forward, give a single but pivotal line to an extra, who promptly disappears. In the first Nolan Batman, at Bruce Wayne's fancy party, a late-middle-aged woman comes up to a distracted Bruce Wayne and says, "Now Bruce, there's someone you just have to meet! [mystery man's back is turned] Now am I pronouncing this right? Mr. Ra's al Ghul?" And then she wanders out of frame. That's it. That's her contribution. Are we supposed to believe she's in on Ra's's plan?? gently caress you, Christopher Nolan! I know you okayed that!
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Jan 24, 2016 05:54
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Van Dis posted:IIMM: screenwriters so bad at their jobs that, unable to figure out how to move the plot forward, give a single but pivotal line to an extra, who promptly disappears.
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Jan 24, 2016 06:21
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Van Dis posted:IIMM: screenwriters so bad at their jobs that, unable to figure out how to move the plot forward, give a single but pivotal line to an extra, who promptly disappears. 'Oh my god, this guy is soooooo boring, I gotta dump him off on someone else, so I can get away. Who's here that slighted me that I can get even with him by dumping him on? Ah, Bruce Wayne said my wine was cheap at the fundraiser gala!' "Now Bruce, there's someone you just have to meet! [mystery man's back is turned] Now am I pronouncing this right? Mr. Ra's al Ghul?"
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Jan 24, 2016 06:31
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"My name is David. Have you been listening to anything?"
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Jan 24, 2016 07:18
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Away all Goats posted:There was one scene where Ultron punchs through an Ultron Bot's chest and it basically looked like a callback to his phasing powers. It is weird he didn't do any actual phasing though. I guess they figured it would be hard for audiences to follow when he's already pulling powers out of his rear end like cape making. Ultron's plan was originally to uplift humanity through disaster. then the avengers piss him off and he goes gently caress humanity i'll let robots run the world
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Jan 24, 2016 07:34
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FreudianSlippers posted:I think the entire point of Prometheus was that Damon Lindelof is a hack and incapable of writing a coherent bedtime story, much less a script.
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Jan 24, 2016 07:51
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Van Dis posted:IIMM: screenwriters so bad at their jobs that, unable to figure out how to move the plot forward, give a single but pivotal line to an extra, who promptly disappears. To be fair, that doesn't annoy me half a much as the sequel, where Bruce Wayne leaves a murderous psychopath and his henchmen in a room full of rich folks because "gently caress it, rescued my girlfriend. I'm sure he'll see himself out now."
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Jan 24, 2016 11:41
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BiggerBoat posted:There's a lot to get irrationally irritated about Avengers: AOU. For instance, why add he cape if you're not going to do his phasing power? Meaning his ONLY power in the comics at least. Only power? Vision's got a crazy amount for a marvel hero. He has, "Density Control" to become hard as a diamond or phase through stuff. Eye beams, or blasting stuff with his solar gem (Which I guess was the Infinity gem or whatever.) which is supposed to be microwave or infrared.. whatever makes sense. Plus all the added benefits of being an android. Depending on who's writing him he's one of the more powerful avengers. It was also like his first day alive, maybe he hasn't figured out everything he can do for the movie version. Edit: All he needs are three more stupid powers, and he'd be a 2nd tier DC hero, Martian Manhunter.
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Jan 24, 2016 11:59
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Wild T posted:To be fair, that doesn't annoy me half a much as the sequel, where Bruce Wayne leaves a murderous psychopath and his henchmen in a room full of rich folks because "gently caress it, rescued my girlfriend. I'm sure he'll see himself out now." Keep in mind that Bruce Wayne hates rich people.
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Jan 24, 2016 12:19
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Big Grunty Secret posted:Keep in mind that Bruce Wayne hates rich people. Is this why so many people in GBS think they're Batman? IIMM: in SW: The Force Awakens, C3PO makes a really big deal about his red arm. He didn't make a big deal about his half-silver leg in the other movies. Seemed like an odd couple of lines that drew your attention away from an important interaction.
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Jan 24, 2016 15:15
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Lincoln posted:Is this why so many people in GBS think they're Batman? I felt like I was hearing a reference to a novel I had not read.
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Jan 24, 2016 16:12
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I can't believe I never noticed the silver leg.
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Jan 24, 2016 17:28
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Lincoln posted:IIMM: in SW: The Force Awakens, C3PO makes a really big deal about his red arm. He didn't make a big deal about his half-silver leg in the other movies. Seemed like an odd couple of lines that drew your attention away from an important interaction. It's a joke. Having a red arm doesn't really change his appearance, but he thinks his friends might have trouble recognizing him. He is a goofy robot.
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Jan 24, 2016 18:07
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Kojima and JJ know each other and have hung out so I hope it was a nod to MGSV.
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Lincoln posted:IIMM: in SW: The Force Awakens, C3PO makes a really big deal about his red arm. He didn't make a big deal about his half-silver leg in the other movies. Seemed like an odd couple of lines that drew your attention away from an important interaction. Yes but now they can sell another line of C-3PO toys that are Totally New and Collectible!!! because some eight year old in China painted one of the arms red.
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Jan 24, 2016 19:04
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muscles like this? posted:Vision actually does phase in exactly one scene. In the big fight scene in the air with the Ultrons he's got his hands through one and there's a glowing green outline around them. Pretty sure there's another shot shortly before this where he has just one arm phased through an Ultron. Real blink and you'll miss it moment though. Source:Got bored last night and watched it again - still can't remember most of it..
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OutsideAngel posted:Yes but now they can sell another line of C-3PO toys that are Totally New and Collectible!!! because some eight year old in China painted one of the arms red. They can also sell you the comic book about how C3P0 got his dumb red arm. It's a whole new extended universe!
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My favourite part of Prometheus was when they got a perfectly preserved severed alien head, and they jam an electrode into it's skull and zap it with electricity to make it start jiggilin', gradually turning up the power until it blows the gently caress up  
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Jan 25, 2016 02:07
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wayne curr posted:My favourite part of Prometheus was when they got a perfectly preserved severed alien head, I read a really long analysis about prometheus that said the grimacing severed head is mad not because it hurts to get zapped with electricity, but because humans have gone against nature by bringing him back to life. It is a rictus of existential horror at being alive again. It cited the ridley scott out of universe explanation that jesus was an engineer and they were super mad at us for nailing him to a tree.
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Jan 25, 2016 06:11
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wayne curr posted:My favourite part of Prometheus was when they got a perfectly preserved severed alien head, Not sure if ironicposting because this was one of the best parts of a great movie
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Jan 25, 2016 10:31
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What if the Prometheus scientists were the worst in their fields, and they were all on board due to some complicated scam the other, actually smart scientists, cooked up to get them off the planet because they were making the field of science look so buffoonish that it was impacting their grant funding?
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Jan 25, 2016 11:34
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I love the film RAVENOUS. Love it to bits. It's recently had a resurgence on my radar since I've been listening to the soundtrack and the other night I was browsing Youtube and it came up "Full film" so I clicked it, but it was one of the those pay-for services, you know the ones, right? But it still played the trailer and Jesus... No wonder it loving bombed. In work otherwise I'd link it, but the trailer plays the film like a teen romance comedy. Right down to THAT voice guy, the teen comedy voice guy. The one that South Park took the piss out of perfectly in the Rob Schneider episode. "Guy Pierce is Captain Boyd, derp de derp derp life got turned upside down when he met a man named Colqhoun derp de derp now he'll find out just how hungry the heart can be dum de dum dum rated PG-13." I guess this is more of a "Rational Movie Advertising Moment" but come on!
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Rolo posted:Don't know if it's been posted but I'm currently watching Promethius and there's a part where they walk into a room on an unknown planet, decide that the room has a breathable atmosphere, and all continue to take their helmets off. No scientist would do this and ignore the infinite combination of deaths the helmet is preventing that could be outside of the one square foot of alien planet you're standing in. It's almost like the movie is portraying people who are really bad at their jobs...
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Armyman25 posted:It's almost like the movie is portraying people who are really bad at their jobs... ...who were all hired by the same person who thinks the mission is moronic and also hates the man funding it...
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cheerfullydrab posted:What if the Prometheus scientists were the worst in their fields, and they were all on board due to some complicated scam the other, actually smart scientists, cooked up to get them off the planet because they were making the field of science look so buffoonish that it was impacting their grant funding? Genius. So instead of being scientists and engineers they are actually the Marx brothers?
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Rolo posted:Don't know if it's been posted but I'm currently watching Promethius and there's a part where they walk into a room on an unknown planet, decide that the room has a breathable atmosphere, and all continue to take their helmets off. No scientist would do this and ignore the infinite combination of deaths the helmet is preventing that could be outside of the one square foot of alien planet you're standing in. They do this constantly in sci-fi movies and TV shows, it drives me nuts. See also: helmets with lights shining directly in the characters' eyes so we can see their faces. Gotta get that face time with the camera!
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WeAreTheRomans posted:Not sure if ironicposting because this was one of the best parts of a great movie WE HAVE VERIFIED EXISTENCE OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE! NOW LET'S JUICE IT THE gently caress UP AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS!
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:WE HAVE VERIFIED EXISTENCE OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE! NOW LET'S JUICE IT THE gently caress UP AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS! So you agree
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cheerfullydrab posted:What if the Prometheus scientists were the worst in their fields, and they were all on board due to some complicated scam the other, actually smart scientists, cooked up to get them off the planet because they were making the field of science look so buffoonish that it was impacting their grant funding? This is pretty close to Douglas Adams' imagined origins for Earth; that we were all the telemarketers and lawyers and other annoying professions of a long-ago faraway civilization, which faked an extinction event in order to get everybody to leave the supposedly dying planet in colony ships, but it ended up after the telemarketers all got on the first colony ship that everybody else just stayed there  Also the real reasoning is pretty similar; they were all intentionally bad scientists hired because they were cheap, wouldn't ask questions, and wouldn't get in the way of Weyland's scheming. He didn't really need any actual scientists for his goals, so he didn't bring any. We've discussed Prometheus to death and beyond already in this thread though.
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I had no interest in seeing Prometheus until this thread actually; it sounds delightfully farcical.
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A stupid thing about that Divergent movie is that they have their warrior faction and they're all covered in tattoos to make them look all bad rear end. Then there's a scene where the main character gets a tattoo and you see they use a weird sci-fi patch instead of needles.
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