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Nuebot posted:Okay this is for the book and not the movie but I've got a Silence of the Lambs one that still to this day makes me mad Whenever there's a scene with the killer at his home, the author always goes into detail about the moths squeaking and making noise. Moths do not make noise! They do not squeak or squeal. You know it's irrational when your irritation is based on complete ignorance. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/08/150811-insects-moths-science-animals-death-noises/
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Scientastic posted:You know it's irrational when your irritation is based on complete ignorance.  there's even a video. That's amazing, why do no other moths do this? That sounds is the best.
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Jun 8, 2016 22:43
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Well, Clarice - have the moths stopped squeaking?
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I'm no laundry basket historian, but I just saw The Conjuring 2 and those laundry baskets were TOTALLY not period-acurate.
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I paid money to see Cell. That movie sucked, albeit less than the book, which I also paid money for. I should just send the cash directly to King and save myself the irritation.
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:I paid money to see Cell. That movie sucked, albeit less than the book, which I also paid money for. I should just send the cash directly to King and save myself the irritation. Trailer reminded me of the Happening which is never a good thing.
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Jerusalem posted:I'll follow suit since, like you say, it's a goddamn classic and should be enjoyed fresh if possible. They actually explain this in the books. Bill has hunted a lot of his victims through his basement like that, and he really enjoys coming up behind them, cocking his gun, seeing their reaction to the noise and then killing them. When it comes to the final confrontation with Clarice he finds it extra exciting because she's armed, but he doesn't really see her as a serious threat. So he sticks to his routine without realising it would give her a chance to shoot him.
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Jun 11, 2016 13:47
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PYF Irrationally Irritating Movie Moments: They actually explain this in the books.
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:I paid money to see Cell. That movie sucked, albeit less than the book, which I also paid money for. I should just send the cash directly to King and save myself the irritation. EDIT - nevermind, I was thinking of The Cell with Jennifer Lopez.
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I thought the Cell book was okay, though it kind of ends on a wet fart.
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Lotish posted:I thought the Cell book was okay, though it kind of ends on a wet fart. You could say that about most of King's output over the last twenty years. Oh, and they usually include a writer that's been hit by a van. Sometimes even King himself!
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Lotish posted:I thought the Cell book was okay, though it kind of ends on a wet fart. Doesn't near every King story end the same way?
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Doesn't near every King story end the same way? Tommyknockers and Pet Semetary (the books) ended okay.
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Gorilla Salad posted:EDIT - nevermind, I was thinking of The Cell with Jennifer Lopez. Yeah me too. I thought the book was ok but I didn't even know they made a movie of it.
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The Cell is a great movie if you just focus on the experience of it. Don't know how well the effects hold up, haven't seen it in quite a while.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Doesn't near every King story end the same way? More of his pre-sobriety and accident books had actual endings. Then the endings just got limper and lamer. Like they got hit by a van or something.
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cheerfullydrab posted:The Cell is a great movie if you just focus on the experience of it. Don't know how well the effects hold up, haven't seen it in quite a while. Yeah, I caught it again on HBO & I loved how visually striking it was. The story itself is kinda meh but it's definitely better than its sequel.
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Doesn't that director use mostly practical effects, costumes and sets rather than CGI? I don't think The Fall used any, not sure about The Cell.
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Crow Jane posted:Doesn't that director use mostly practical effects, costumes and sets rather than CGI? I don't think The Fall used any, not sure about The Cell. Yeah, The Fall supposedly used none. I think he moved into CGI usage when he did Immortals though. I dunno about Self/Less
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Crow Jane posted:Doesn't that director use mostly practical effects, costumes and sets rather than CGI? I don't think The Fall used any, not sure about The Cell. True story, the director used a real live horse that was sliced into 20 etherial hovering slices that breathed and screamed as they separated and the actress walked between them, watching the guts and vessels pump away. It was sewn back up hastily afterwards so they could say no animals were harmed very much during the filming of this movie. Just amazing practical effects work.
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Krinkle posted:True story, the director used a real live horse that was sliced into 20 etherial hovering slices that breathed and screamed as they separated and the actress walked between them, watching the guts and vessels pump away. It was sewn back up hastily afterwards so they could say no animals were harmed very much during the filming of this movie. Just amazing practical effects work.    You're probably right, though. Been ages since I've seen that movie.
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In the classic kung fu movie The Flying Guillotine it's kind of weird how the main character spends months training to be part of the emperor's secret assassin squad but he objects to being used as a secret assassin for the emperor.
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Cowslips Warren posted:Tommyknockers and Pet Semetary (the books) ended okay. Dead Zone had an awesome ending. Great book and a great movie
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Dead Zone is the only one I held on to from my Stephen King phase.
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I recently watched Gods of Egypt. What irritates me about Gods of Egypt is the fact it exists. Literally everything about the entire film is hot garbage. I started watching it around 2:30am and only stayed awake to finish the movie because I just refused to believe that many big name actors would partake in such an awful pile of poo poo.
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dpack_1 posted:I recently watched Gods of Egypt. http://www.theonion.com/article/leaked-documents-reveal-studio-executives-knew-abo-52989
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muscles like this? posted:In the classic kung fu movie The Flying Guillotine it's kind of weird how the main character spends months training to be part of the emperor's secret assassin squad but he objects to being used as a secret assassin for the emperor. It's sort of a thing with people who train with ancient orders of assassins - they're always so surprised when the ancient order of assassins asks them to kill someone. They're like, "Whaaaat? You're the 'killing people' type of assassins?"
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dpack_1 posted:I recently watched Gods of Egypt. It's pretty popular in CineD
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The only reason to watch Gods of Egypt is to enjoy Leonidus chewing scenery for 90 mins. That's... just it. There's literally nothing good about the movie other than the fact apparently only he figured out he was in a poo poo movie and decided "gently caress acting, I'ma have some fun".
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:The only reason to watch Gods of Egypt is to enjoy Leonidus chewing scenery for 90 mins. This confused me until I remembered Gerard Butler was in Gods of Egypt. Glad to know someone connected with the movie had fun!
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Gorilla Salad posted:It's sort of a thing with people who train with ancient orders of assassins - they're always so surprised when the ancient order of assassins asks them to kill someone. See Arya in Game of Thrones. "Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat I have to kill someone I personally don't hate and isn't on my personal kill list? But she was nice and polite to me! Oh well, better throw it all away and not kill her and be super obvious about it! As much as the Faceless Men are cool, they are also a lovely writer's best tool. Because if Arya can be No One and anyone can be someone else, why, maybe last episode someone else had Arya's face! And she's really the Waif! And so on and so on with wild theories despite the loving fact changing your face doesn't change your height or weight. I would like the concept a LOT more if Arya was just that loving stupid and really was stabbed and left for dead, but she has plot armor stronger than Dany's or Jon Snow's or loving Ramsay Bolton. She won't ever die or be majorly hurt/disfigured like Jamie was. Last Game of Thrones thing, but no one ever, ever speaks ill of a certain dead man. Rhaegar. Dany's oldest brother, the one who, depending on the source, eloped with Lyanna or abducted and raped her. Regardless of those arguments, the dude might have been a great musician and a great warrior but he was a poo poo person. He abandoned his wife and two children for a loving teenager, but no one in the book or show comments on this. At all. It's always how great he was and handsome and beautiful and wonderful Yes the Mad King is more famous for his acts of insanity but Rhaegar was the one who started the entire mess. So do we take from this if Robert had died in the Rebellion instead, people would be talking how great and awesome and brave he was? Does no one speak ill of Rhaegar because Robert turned out to be a poo poo king? Because hardly anyone outside the council and his immediate family knew what a poo poo king he was.
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Cowslips Warren posted:Last Game of Thrones thing, but no one ever, ever speaks ill of a certain dead man. Rhaegar. Dany's oldest brother, the one who, depending on the source, eloped with Lyanna or abducted and raped her. Regardless of those arguments, the dude might have been a great musician and a great warrior but he was a poo poo person. He abandoned his wife and two children for a loving teenager, but no one in the book or show comments on this. At all. It's always how great he was and handsome and beautiful and wonderful Yes the Mad King is more famous for his acts of insanity but Rhaegar was the one who started the entire mess. So do we take from this if Robert had died in the Rebellion instead, people would be talking how great and awesome and brave he was? Does no one speak ill of Rhaegar because Robert turned out to be a poo poo king? Because hardly anyone outside the council and his immediate family knew what a poo poo king he was.
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Pretty sure Barristan Selmy talked some poo poo about him to Daenerys. A nice guy, a good prince, a total dickhead who started poo poo he couldn't possibly understand the conequences of at the time.
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Cheshire Puss posted:Pretty sure Barristan Selmy talked some poo poo about him to Daenerys. A nice guy, a good prince, a total dickhead who started poo poo he couldn't possibly understand the conequences of at the time. Was this in the books? In the show he called him the finest man he'd ever met and went on about how he was a great musician and warrior. gently caress, even in the books Ned seemed to keep him on a pedestal by thinking Robert had scores of bastards but Rhaegar "didn't seem the type."
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Cowslips Warren posted:Was this in the books? In the show he called him the finest man he'd ever met and went on about how he was a great musician and warrior. gently caress, even in the books Ned seemed to keep him on a pedestal by thinking Robert had scores of bastards but Rhaegar "didn't seem the type." I don't remember the specifics of the books vs. show but Barry and Jorah and basically everyone blow smoke up her rear end about her ancestry because they want to
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Cowslips Warren posted:
It is hinted at that the reason he hooked up with Lyanna is because he knew about the oncoming apocalypse via climate change/Frost Elves and knew that he had to father the chosen one(s) and that the mother had to be a northern girl of House Stark. Of course no one knows this, well at least no one that isn't dead or Howland Reed. They just like him because he was really smart, kind and pretty and was probably going to be the greatest king since his greatgrandad Egg who was probably the best Targaryen king. There is even some indication that he was plotting to overthrow his father. Things that never reach fruition are always better than things that do because they never get a chance to fail. See: Romeo and Juliette, Socialism with a human face, anyone famous who died young. Mostly it's just that fairy tale trope where a beautiful maiden is in love with a wonderful prince but is betrothed to a horrible and cruel adulterer so he whisks her away and they live happily ever after except in this case it causes a massive civil war and the beautiful prince dies, the maiden dies and the bad guy wins and becomes a lovely king. FreudianSlippers has a new favorite as of 23:46 on Jun 12, 2016 |
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FreudianSlippers posted:It is hinted at that the reason he hooked up with Lyanna is because he knew about the oncoming apocalypse via climate change/Frost Elves and knew that he had to father the chosen one(s) and that the mother had to be a northern girl of House Stark. Of course no one knows this, well at least no one that isn't dead or Howland Reed. They just like him because he was really smart, kind and pretty and was probably going to be the greatest king since his greatgrandad Egg who was probably the best Targaryen king. There is even some indication that he was plotting to overthrow his father. Things that never reach fruition are always better than things that do because they never get a chance to fail. See: Romeo and Juliette, Socialism with a human face, anyone famous who died young. I like this post/summation.
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syscall girl posted:I like this post/summation. It's a good summation. One thing everyone has overlooked because it's not big in the show is that the Targaryens were often in the practice of polygamy. Rhaegar might have had no intention in the long term of abandoning Elia Martell for Lyanna Stark, and he would also have had three children to be the three heads of the dragon.
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At the end of Soylent Green, it seems like Detective Thorn is just making wild assumptions. He makes the jump from "Soylent Green is made out people!" to "Soon they'll be farming us like cattle!" pretty quickly. Soylent Green is made from people who have already died, and considering New York City alone contains 20 million people, there really should be no shortage of fresh corpses for that bland meal.
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The Endbringer posted:At the end of Soylent Green, it seems like Detective Thorn is just making wild assumptions. Also, Soylent Green is made from people who have voluntarily committed suicide with the assistance of the government to help alleviate overcrowding. So apart from "cannibalism is wrong under ALL circumstances" Charlton Heston is clearly over-reacting.
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