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BioEnchanted posted:Am I the only one who actually enjoyed the Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus? I heard a lot of poo poo about it due to the timing of Heath Ledger's death but I enjoyed it despite the baggage, and thought the choice to recast Heath for every entrance into the Imaginarium was a clever way of getting around that Heath had only filmed the real-world scenes, as the character was an amnesiac conman, so of course in the world of the Imaginarium he becomes a different person. Also Tom Waites had a lot of fun playing the devil and really geeked out about it in the extras I liked it? The ending was really cool. And c'mon if it's a Gilliam joint I'm trying to grab a bunch of people to go see it
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The Zero Theorem is also pretty fun as a thought piece by Gilliam. I like how the film associates Waltz with the hammer. When he smashes his console, David Thewlis arrives and tells him that was the wrong tool for the job, as an innocent joking comment. But the hammer pretty much stands for Waltz's character as a whole. He's the wrong person for the job, trying to brute force the mathematics because his life is so empty otherwise. He then smashes the system with the same hammer.
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Yes! The Zero Theorem is great! I like that Waltz is expecting a call from essentially God, which might never show up, and he lives in a church. I also like that Gilliam created another viable and not that dated image of the future, thirty years after he made Brazil.
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Glad to see it was well recieved. Something about Mr Magorium I liked was that the three principle characters formed a triad of the three main traits of that kind of story, each dominated by one and missing one other, but without the help of the title character to develop - once he's gone they have to figure it out for themselves. The Three Traits are Inspiration, Wonder and Courage/Confidence: 1) The Accountant, Mutant. A strong skeptic, like the Sour Kangaroo. He bursts with confidence in his views, but lacks wonder severely. 2) The boy. He has inspiration in bucketloads as seen by the linkin' logs sequence, but lacks any confidence, finding himself apologising for the very things that make him cool (Cowtowing to the other kids with "Sorry, I got carried away") 3) The shop assistant. She is full of wonder, loving the shop completely for what it is and defending it from the skeptic, but lacks inspiration - she has been trying to finish Mahoney's First Symphony for years but has become stuck as a metaphor for her position at the store making her feel trapped. She is starting to resent the store slightly for it. Over the course of the movie: The Mutant finds his wonder when defending the shop from Mahoney's lost sense of wonder, and noticing the Congrave Cube moving when she believes in it. The boy finds his courage when he confronts the accountant with his proposal to buy the store, and when he tries to convince Mahoney to return to it. Mahoney find her inspiration when the Mutant finally sees the sparkle in her eye, and is able to burst through her mental wall, finish her symphony by infusing her own magic into the store and literally "playing" it back to life.
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BioEnchanted posted:Glad to see it was well recieved. Something about Mr Magorium I liked was that the three principle characters formed a triad of the three main traits of that kind of story, each dominated by one and missing one other, but without the help of the title character to develop - once he's gone they have to figure it out for themselves. The Three Traits are Inspiration, Wonder and Courage/Confidence: It was the Anti-Toys.
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Aleph Null posted:It was the Anti-Toys. People are Anti-Toys? It had Joan Cusack damnit that's heartless.
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I don't know if this really counts as a SMM, but the women in the new Baywatch movie are consistently (and without comment or fanfare) depicted at being actually good at their jobs as lifeguards. There's a gag or two about their attractiveness, but it's way less than I would've cynically guessed.
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Watching Hot Fuzz for the third time and picked up a new one: The Andes are introduced as Constable Cartwright and Constable Wainwright. This isn't just a gag about very similar names - a wainwright is a cartwright. Also all the villagers have occupational surnames: Tim Messenger - Journalist Dr Hatcher Ray Porter - Pub landlord Joyce Cooper - runs the hotel Rev Shooter - shoots two guns while jumping through the air Mr Blower - dreadful actor, full of hot air It's like a game of Happy Families. 
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Strom Cuzewon posted:Joyce Cooper - runs the hotel A cooper is a barrelmaker though...
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Strom Cuzewon posted:Watching Hot Fuzz for the third time and picked up a new one: One is also always reading Iain M Banks, and the other is always reading Iain Banks. Same author, the one with the M in the middle is just his sci fi stuff.
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Olive Garden tonight! posted:A cooper is a barrelmaker though... Yeah but a hotel could be described as a coop. I'm not gonna demand perfect accuracy in my puns.
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Olive Garden tonight! posted:A cooper is a barrelmaker though... Cooping is also slang for enclosing something in a pen and/or police slang for a secluded location to hide from the boss. Every NYPD precinct has a list of "cooping prone locations" supervisors are supposed to constantly check, a leftover regulation from the days before radio equipped patrol cars (no, really).
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Smiling Jack posted:Cooping is also slang for enclosing something in a pen and/or police slang for a secluded location to hide from the boss. Wow. My dad used to call two cop cars pulled together driver to driver cooping because it looks like a bird with its wing over the head. I wonder if I misunderstood or if it was some variation of that term.
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Well it's police slang in the NYPD. It's not universal by any means.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:One is also always reading Iain M Banks, and the other is always reading Iain Banks. Same author, the one with the M in the middle is just his sci fi stuff. Ooooh. He had a good wain story.
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BioEnchanted posted:Am I the only one who actually enjoyed the Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus? I heard a lot of poo poo about it due to the timing of Heath Ledger's death but I enjoyed it despite the baggage, and thought the choice to recast Heath for every entrance into the Imaginarium was a clever way of getting around that Heath had only filmed the real-world scenes, as the character was an amnesiac conman, so of course in the world of the Imaginarium he becomes a different person. Also Tom Waites had a lot of fun playing the devil and really geeked out about it in the extras In the movie Hero Dustin Hoffman's character plot is driven by him losing a shoe. 
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MisterBibs posted:I don't know if this really counts as a SMM, but the women in the new Baywatch movie are consistently (and without comment or fanfare) depicted at being actually good at their jobs as lifeguards. That's basically how it is with these movies. The women have to be the sensible ones while the men gets to have fun.
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MariusLecter posted:In the movie Hero Dustin Hoffman's character plot is driven by him losing a shoe. Like some sort of Cinderella Man? I thought he was trying to steal a purse.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:One is also always reading Iain M Banks, and the other is always reading Iain Banks. Same author, the one with the M in the middle is just his sci fi stuff. Those aren't the Andys, that's the identical twin brothers who work the front. It's never said they are two different people and I don't think Angel gets it at first.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Have you seen the documentary? This is amazing.
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This isn't a subtle movie moment as such, but since this is the post little things you like about tv/film I'm just gonna put it here. I've been binge watching Stargate lately because I never saw it growing up, and though not without it's minor annoyances it's very enjoyable. One things I started noticing and absolutely love about the show is that it doesn't waste time at the start or end of an episode. It always jumps right into the (setup for) the conflict, and when it ends there's no sappy epilogue or smirks or whatever. Just boom, credits, done. It makes me feel, I don't know, respected as a viewer, I guess, because they know I'm smart enough that I don't need to actually see them arrive home for the happy ending. O'Neill patting Teal'C on the shoulder as they turn towards the Stargate (if that) is enough to conclude an episode.
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Taeke posted:This isn't a subtle movie moment as such, but since this is the post little things you like about tv/film I'm just gonna put it here. I've been binge watching Stargate lately because I never saw it growing up, and though not without it's minor annoyances it's very enjoyable. This reminds of an irritating moment (wrong thread I know) but True Detective season 1 ends with both detectives surviving, fine. Didn't really solve the over-arching problem, fine. You got that one guy, fine fine fine. But as they're leaving the hospital it suddenly becomes the ending of a Lethal Weapon movie with that loving carton of cigarettes. Really a terrible ending for a good show. And this is why SG-1 is better than True Detective. Golden age of television my rear end.
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Taeke posted:One things I started noticing and absolutely love about the show is that it doesn't waste time at the start or end of an episode. It always jumps right into the (setup for) the conflict, and when it ends there's no sappy epilogue or smirks or whatever. Just boom, credits, done. It makes me feel, I don't know, respected as a viewer, I guess, because they know I'm smart enough that I don't need to actually see them arrive home for the happy ending. O'Neill patting Teal'C on the shoulder as they turn towards the Stargate (if that) is enough to conclude an episode. My favorite example of this is one where O'Neill had been captured and imprisoned on an alien ship. The episode hinges on him trying to convince an all-powerful being sworn to non-interference to just unlock the door for him. He doesn't need a full rescue, just an unlocked door. He can take care of everything else himself. In the end he is successful, and the episode ends with him pushing the door open and heading out into the hallway. And that's it. We don't need to see him disarm a guard, hijack an escape pod, or get back to Earth. O'Neill has gotten out of his cell, he said he could handle himself once that happened, and the show knows that we believe him.
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That's the one with Bhaal right? I loved how it was basically O'Neil who forced the Tokra to go on the crazy rescue mission. Was much more interesting than essentially kidnapping
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Not a movie, but I just noticed in Arrested Development S1 when George Michael knocks out part of the railing, he silently "fixes" it in the background, and that involves two screws barely stuck in the floor. He uses a pair of pliers for this.
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 During the flashback sequence to the previous Batman movies in The Lego Batman Movie, they gave 89 Batman Michael Keaton's mouth.
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Perry Normal posted:
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[quote="syscall girl" post="""] e: Vicki Vale's pearl necklace there is actually not in '89 Batman but actually an in-joke about Alec Baldwin [/quote] Seems kinda racy for a lego game
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In The Americans Phillip Jennings' alter ego Clark wears glasses.
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syscall girl posted:In The Americans Phillip Jennings' alter ego Clark wears glasses. duh but despite that, lol i- just realized that too. thanks
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KoRMaK posted:duh Also his contact/wife's name is Martha? That's uh, huh
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The Marketing thread is closed so I'll post this here: I just saw a pretty cool advert for the Samsung Infinity Display where it starts with a normal smartphone playing a video, but as the action hits an edge of the screen it knocks part of the casing away to reveal more screen. I thought that that was a kind of cool idea.
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More The Americans fun: The mail robot that John Boy kicks the poo poo out of is the same model as the one NASA has in Flight of the Navigator https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4v-dMfzp3E This thing has been doing some serious espionage 
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This isn't that subtle but I didn't get it as a kid: in Blazing Saddles, the running joke isn't just that Bart is black, it's that he's a black hipster from the 70s transplanted into a Western. He's smarter and more sophisticated than all the racist white people around him, but it doesn't even register on them. They don't know who Cole Porter is, they don't get wordplay, they just know he's black and therefore less-than. That's low key a pretty good critique of racism.
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Except that everyone in Blazing Saddles is playing actors in an 1970's studio backlot.
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Krispy Kareem posted:Except that everyone in Blazing Saddles is playing actors in an 1970's studio backlot. I'm workin' for Mel Brooks!
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Krispy Kareem posted:Except that everyone in Blazing Saddles is playing actors in an 1970's studio backlot. lol
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Arcsquad12 posted:I'm workin' for Mel Brooks! Yesssssssssssss Krispy Kareem posted:Except that everyone in Blazing Saddles is playing actors in an 1970's studio backlot. I'm always a fan of when a movie breaks the 4th wall but Blazing Saddles literally breaking the studio was amazing.
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Yesssssssssssss Ditto. Blazing Saddles was amazing.
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Bertrand Hustle posted:Ditto. 
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