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Danger Mahoney posted:Just got nostalgic and watched Ernest Goes to Jail and I am very surprised at the surreal sets and very dark tone of this movie. Like there are a total of four sets in the movie and every one is a dadaist fever dream. The bank where Earnest works is a high-ceiling doctor's office, the jail is a neon-lit dungeon full of guards wearing hot pink nazi uniforms, and every scene is shot at a crazy dutch angle. The whole thing seems like it is meant to convey a sense of disorientation and dread. The best bizarro sets are in the Schumacher Batman movies. Gotham looks like an expansive laser tag arena.
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Henchman of Santa posted:The best bizarro sets are in the Schumacher Batman movies. Gotham looks like an expansive laser tag arena. I'm still not entirely sure I didn't just dream the entirety of Batman Forever up. I do remember having a pog though that was like two-face's coin from the movie.
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Batman Forever managed to hit the really weird tone it was shooting for and still be entertaining. It's a shame Batman and Robin missed it entirely.
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I tried really hard to make an animated gif of bane strangling bat clooney with his giant rubber prosthetic arms and batman just makes this frog like yalp mouth and it's just the most hosed up beautiful thing I ever saw but I couldn't gif compress for poo poo and get it under 5megs to go up on any of the hosting sites of the time.
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Krinkle posted:I tried really hard to make an animated gif of bane strangling bat clooney with his giant rubber prosthetic arms and batman just makes this frog like yalp mouth and it's just the most hosed up beautiful thing I ever saw but I couldn't gif compress for poo poo and get it under 5megs to go up on any of the hosting sites of the time. This bit? http://i.imgur.com/eJbAqeh.gifv
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muscles like this? posted:Everything about the opening is ridiculous, Conner at some wrestling thing going there all dressed up in his fancy European sports car and the guy who fights by constantly flipping around for no reason, like seriously watch the beginning of the movie again and try to figure out why the guy is flipping his way around the garage. Fasil does the backflips so he can look under the cars to see if Conner is there without crouching down. quote:Then there's the scene where Conner is arrested and the cop is cocking his gun and holding it up to Conner's head when all they know is that there was some kind of disturbance and Conner was driving away. You do realise the movie is set in America, right?
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Jedit posted:Fasil does the backflips so he can look under the cars to see if Conner is there without crouching down. In 80s New York
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Jedit posted:You do realise the movie is set in America, right? But Connor's white?
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I'm two episodes in to Jessica Jones and though it's a good show so far it's far too reliant on coincidences. Luke's sister dying on the same bus that hit Kilgrave and also the fact that Luke now also appears to be super strong
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EmmyOk posted:I'm two episodes in to Jessica Jones and though it's a good show so far it's far too reliant on coincidences. Luke's sister dying on the same bus that hit Kilgrave and also the fact that Luke now also appears to be super strong Keep watching
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Even if it's Luke Cage it still seems pretty coincidental. Anyways I'll watch more and see if there's more than meets to eye to all these seeming coincidences
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bobkatt013 posted:Keep watching I don't know anything about the comic book stuff but JJ was a real fun show to watch.
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It is also hard to watch Alec Hardy be a nasty character but Tennant is killing it.
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EmmyOk posted:Even if it's Luke Cage it still seems pretty coincidental. Anyways I'll watch more and see if there's more than meets to eye to all these seeming coincidences He's a huge, tough black dude in Hell's Kitchen in a Marvel show. How could he not be Luke Cage?
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Very carefully.
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Inzombiac posted:He's a huge, tough black dude in Hell's Kitchen in a Marvel show. How could he not be Luke Cage? I've never read comics I just watched some cartoons as a kid and the modern stuff so my knowledge is mainly piecemeal.
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EmmyOk posted:I've never read comics I just watched some cartoons as a kid and the modern stuff so my knowledge is mainly piecemeal. Go check out Daredevil.
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EmmyOk posted:I've never read comics I just watched some cartoons as a kid and the modern stuff so my knowledge is mainly piecemeal. Okay. It's not like he walks around in a yellow shirt with a giant chain as a belt.
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This one is super irrational because it's from a pre-movie commercial at the theater, so it doesn't mean anything. A cute lady (played by Hayley Magnus, whom I only know because she was in Syfys Childhood's End miniseries) is walking around a scary house. As she walks around, ghosts do ghosty things behind/around her. She goes to a door, where voices in the theater tell her to not open the door and leave, because there's a monster is behind it. Cute Lady realizes they are right, thanks them, and leaves. The irritation is that half the time I've seen this commercial (in multiple theaters!), the sound mix is all hosed up. The voices from the theater telling her to leave are super quiet (either barely audible or quiet), so the joke doesn't work. It's not the real-world ambient noise in the theater, either. It's a clichéd joke when you can hear what you're expected to. When you can't, it becomes a dadaist story of a scared woman thanking a door and running away.
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Been watching Person of Interest since it's been brought up a bunch and ~netflix~ somewhere late Season 2 Why didn't they just ask the machine who was in charge of HR while they had 24 hours of admin access? Or, i don't know, maybe ask for an email with a spiffy flowchart for the entire operation, and flowcharts for every other organized crime syndicate in New York--nay--the world? /e on a few minutes more of thought, ask it to email conclusive evidence to every DA and ADA in the country but then that's ~exposure~ i guess plus you'd have to clarify to exclude John and the Bird Crew. so much wasted potential counterpoint S3E11 ha! he used the old school captain crunch phreak! credit also, the soundtrack got loads better going into season 3 which has been great, especially with one track i'm particularly fond of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5yFx6Kn0iU stringless has a new favorite as of 12:11 on Jun 24, 2016 |
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I retract my previous complaint with Jessica Jones but Kilgrave AKA Kill Grave is laughable as a baddy name.
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EmmyOk posted:I retract my previous complaint with Jessica Jones but Kilgrave AKA Kill Grave is laughable as a baddy name. Thankfully they address how dumb it is
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I feel like this show keeps setting me up 
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EmmyOk posted:I feel like this show keeps setting me up Just don't expect Jessica to ever succeed at detective work.
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Inzombiac posted:Okay. It's not like he walks around in a yellow shirt with a giant chain as a belt. He should. You say this like it would constitute a problem.
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EmmyOk posted:I retract my previous complaint with Jessica Jones but Kilgrave AKA Kill Grave is laughable as a baddy name. C'mon, man! This dude is created by the same company that gave us Otto Octavius (Dr. Octopus) and Victor Von Doom (Dr. Doom.) Silly names are what define the baddies!
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Mr. Sinister is still my favorite dumb villain name. Not only does it mean "I'm a naughty person" with zero clever twist, but he didn't even think to claim a cool title or rank like doctor, baron, or captain. He may be evil, but he's honest.
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Mr. Sinister's backstory is that he was created by an 11 year old to be spooky. It's a child's idea of evil scary guy on purpose.
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10 Beers posted:C'mon, man! This dude is created by the same company that gave us Otto Octavius (Dr. Octopus) and Victor Von Doom (Dr. Doom.) Silly names are what define the baddies! Dr. Doom is not an alias. It's his name. He's a Doctor.
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Aphrodite posted:Dr. Doom is not an alias. It's his name. He's a Doctor. You do realize that comic books are works of fiction written by an individual, yes?
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I really liked Independence Day Resurgence, but there was a bunch of "we have to pander to China to get into their theaters" stuff that annoyed me. It was kind of funny when there was a press conference where a reporter asked a Chinese pilot to make a statement because "China has such a great and important role in earth's defense", and she says something in Chinese and they don't even bother subtitling it. It was like the people making it were like "yep, this has no bearing on the rest of the movie, don't even bother". E: mind you, all the gratuitous unsubtitled chinese stops when the aliens show up and flatten the Chinese space base.
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1redflag posted:You do realize that comic books are works of fiction written by an individual, yes? https://youtu.be/BvTNyKIGXiI
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1redflag posted:You do realize that comic books are works of fiction written by an individual, yes? Doctors have to pass a standardized test, they're all equal.
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My new opinion is that along with Guardians of the Galaxy it's so far above anything else Marvel studios has done. And I like marvel stuff. On episode 9 so no spoilers!
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1redflag posted:You do realize that comic books are works of fiction written by an individual, yes? What's all this now? You're crazy. *puts on mask and cape* *gets gas* *goes to the grocery store*
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Henchman of Santa posted:The best bizarro sets are in the Schumacher Batman movies. Gotham looks like an expansive laser tag arena. I really like the dark neon poo poo in those movies. If only it got used for something more appropriate like cyberpunk or really just about anything else.
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Aphrodite posted:Dr. Doom is not an alias. It's his name. He's a Doctor. Dammit, that's right. 
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Dr Strange as well, but DC has this issue 10x worse than Marvel. It's like punny names are an unavoidable sentence of (mostly) villainy.
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