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Ape Has Killed Ape posted:Yah the moral was more like "acting out of fear and anger is maybe not a great thing to do". Seems like the moral was poison the other mother fucker you dummy why would you drink poison and expect it to work thats not how poison works. I may have misunderstood the Buddha, however.
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Don Karnage posted:This is from several pages ago, but I'm glad to know that I'm not the only one that enjoyed TaleSpin. Depending on the type of combat/action being portrayed, it gets really hard to get authentic vehicles/weapons/clothing for it. Theres only 1 running Tiger tank in the work, so most films just used other vehicles and attached plywood or other material to make it look like a Tiger or <insert thing here>. Hell, PATTON has a fight in the desert between the Americans and Germans and, iirc, both sides are using post-war American tanks. And even if you have some of a vehicle or plane or whatnot, they may all be variants, which are sometimes quite distinct. Like Hawker Hurricane and Supermarine Spitfire canopies/armament, or T-34 tank turrets. I cant remember what the movie's name was. I'm fairly certain it was an Italian film based around the Battle of France and the worst, most irritating part is that they had the "proper" equipment but for the wrong sides! So Stukas would be bombing but they would have another nation's insignia. Same with the tanks, last I recall. Man I wish I remembered it...
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Sep 4, 2017 08:35
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Is that any better nowadays they can just use CG?
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I think my IIMM may be rational, but I moan about it so much that maybe I'm being irrational, which might make it fit more here... Going back to the Hobbit, one of my favourite scenes in the book is where they're hoofing it up the mountain and there's two giants lobbing boulders at each other. That just blew my little mind back then. The gang is just witnessing this weird ritual between these fantastical beings on the mountain opposite where they are and I thin Gandalf says something akin to, "Nobody know why they do that. They might be having a genuine fight, or they could be just having some fun." It had no bearing on the plot, didn't effect the characters at all and was nothing more than some "world building" and it was loving great. In the film, the mountain itself comes alive with the band of dwarves and Bilbo on it. It's no longer a weird, giant on the distance, it's a mountain elemental and these CGI dwarves are running around ON it, diving under its armpits as it's smashing up the dang place. What could have been a great little set piece was turned into a dumb action scene that looked like utter rear end and SOMEHOW made giants MORE magical yet MORE boring. I didn't even bother watching 2 or 3. I ONLY wanted to see some cool giants throwing rocks at each other and they ballsed it up so badly.
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Sep 4, 2017 11:47
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The hobbit should have been one film with a more humorous tone. They opened with Ian Holm as old Bilbo narrating the story, so already they have their reason for the inconsistency. More dwarves singing "chip the cups and crack the plates, that's what Bilbo Baggins hates!", fewer long, boring and unbelievable fights and videogame bosses
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I was watching Wonder Woman with some friends and it reminded me of something that always annoys the crap out of me. At some point they're in Flanders on their way to the trenches and she has a brief exchange with a local woman. I was pleasantly surprised that Wonder Woman's Dutch wasn't too bad, and it goes with the character, but the Belgian woman's Dutch was barely recognizable, it was that bad. Then to make matters more bewildering, they're in a village square a little later and the extras there do speak proper Flemish. What the hell? You can get (near) native speaking extras but you use an American actress who's obviously speaking Dutch lines without bothering to even approximate the proper pronunciation (as if she read them for the first time) for a speaking role?
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Sep 4, 2017 12:48
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I liked that scene with the Dwarf song in the Shire, because on the one hand they were making fun of Bilbo being overly sensitive, but IIRC they did clean up their mess during the song, so they at least admitted that they were being poor houseguests  Actions truly speak louder than words.
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Sep 4, 2017 12:49
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Inescapable Duck posted:Is that any better nowadays they can just use CG? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8vFGQ0uJQc If this is inaccurate I don't want to know. I loved this scene.
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Sep 4, 2017 12:55
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bitterandtwisted posted:More dwarves singing "chip the cups and crack the plates, that's what Bilbo Baggins hates!", fewer long, boring and unbelievable fights and videogame bosses Hahaha, I never thought of this but it's true. For instance, those trolls with axes or flails for hands and two peg legs who are controlled with hooks in their eyes by orcs riding their heads might as well be Resident Evil bosses (heck, they could be enemies from the Resident Evil movies). Legolas's ninja fight with Bolg in the last one is pretty Assassin's Creed as well.
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Sep 4, 2017 12:56
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Alternative pants posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8vFGQ0uJQc My favourite little side-effect was all the wehraboos on the internet getting so mad that one of their favourite invincible Kruppstahl Tigers was taken down by inferior Untermenschen Shermans. 
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Sep 4, 2017 13:00
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Beorn in the book was Brian Blessed, not this boring gloomy-guts 
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Perestroika posted:My favourite little side-effect was all the wehraboos on the internet getting so mad that one of their favourite invincible Kruppstahl Tigers was taken down by inferior Untermenschen Shermans. Mein poor babies. After doing some quick googling, it looks like the filmmakers did use the one working Tiger and a couple of working Shermans for filming.
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Sep 4, 2017 13:14
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Well, that's certainly informative. They're all too long with not enough story to sustain 3 movies and focus being put onto parts of the books that weren't necessary too. I can see why people weren't thrilled by them now.Wheat Loaf posted:Hahaha, I never thought of this but it's true. For instance, those trolls with axes or flails for hands and two peg legs who are controlled with hooks in their eyes by orcs riding their heads might as well be Resident Evil bosses (heck, they could be enemies from the Resident Evil movies). Legolas's ninja fight with Bolg in the last one is pretty Assassin's Creed as well. Holy lol, this sounds like something out of Mortal Kombat or Dante's Inferno.
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Sep 4, 2017 13:19
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Perestroika posted:My favourite little side-effect was all the wehraboos on the internet getting so mad that one of their favourite invincible Kruppstahl Tigers was taken down by inferior Untermenschen Shermans. If you really want to get under the skin of one of those idiots, say "the thing is that one Tiger tank was worth four Shermans. The Americans just always had five".
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Sep 4, 2017 13:27
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RareAcumen posted:Holy lol, this sounds like something out of Mortal Kombat or Dante's Inferno.  And you can see them in action: James Nesbitt rides one about halfway through this clip.
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Memento posted:If you really want to get under the skin of one of those idiots, say "the thing is that one Tiger tank was worth four Shermans. The Americans just always had five". This is glorious.
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Sep 4, 2017 13:33
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Wheat Loaf posted:
This is gloriously stupid. It'd be one thing to have an Orc with flail hands but then they've given them mace peg legs too and blades sticking out the sides of their legs as well.Middle-Earth was a total mess back in the day.
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Sep 4, 2017 13:37
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RareAcumen posted:
Here's Legolas having his Assassin's Creed fight with Bolg I mentioned.
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Sep 4, 2017 13:44
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That giant mace-legged orc looked terrible and the fight wasn't too great in general but the sword just suddenly being in that dude's chest and being caught before it went off the cliff still got me, I have to admit. New annoyance: I hate when they telegraph that someone's going to get killed by having them take 15 minutes to kill someone. The wind-up on that orc's swing, pulling a trigger taking 15 seconds, etc.
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Sep 4, 2017 14:43
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So it turns out Shadows of Mordor was actually pretty restrained.
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Wheat Loaf posted:
I don't remember this part of the Hobbit.
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Alternative pants posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8vFGQ0uJQc Yeah its pretty in... Alternative pants posted:I don't want to know. I loved this scene. Nvm
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Alternative pants posted:Mein poor babies. Yeah, and again that goes back to few surviving examples + cost to maintain, so for the most part you don't see originals when it comes to German tanks. There's only like... 1 or 2 running Panther tanks IIRC too. If you really want to piss off wehraboo's tell them that Hitler was born on 420 but hated smoking.
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A general complaint my wife has is when the woman is much younger than her husband/boyfriend. The latest one that annoys her is Mother where Jennifer Lawrence is 27 and her husband is 49.
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oldpainless posted:A general complaint my wife has is when the woman is much younger than her husband/boyfriend. The latest one that annoys her is Mother where Jennifer Lawrence is 27 and her husband is 49. Oldnotgettinghintsabouthismarriage
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Sep 4, 2017 17:24
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Alternative pants posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8vFGQ0uJQc Those Shermans would have had no trouble penetrating the frontal armor of a Tiger at that range, and the rear armor of the Tiger was the same thickness as the side armor; the whole need to flank it and shoot in in the rear was bullshit. Even the 75mm gun on earlier Shermans would have easily penetrated the Tiger in the front at the range they were at (500 yards, they call out). Also firing on the move in either tank was pretty much a guarantee of a miss.
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oldpainless posted:A general complaint my wife has is when the woman is much younger than her husband/boyfriend. The latest one that annoys her is Mother where Jennifer Lawrence is 27 and her husband is 49. Soon to be oldwifeless. E: Dammit I didn't want to know about the inaccuracies. At least they had accurate replicas of the correct era tanks. Alternative pants has a new favorite as of 18:21 on Sep 4, 2017 |
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Holy poo poo, Alien Covenant. I don't even know where to begin, it's one IIMM after another and I'm only at the point where Jedi Fassbender shows up.
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oldpainless posted:A general complaint my wife has is when the woman is much younger than her husband/boyfriend. The latest one that annoys her is Mother where Jennifer Lawrence is 27 and her husband is 49. If you want to get smart with your wife, that is. Cage has a new favorite as of 20:23 on Sep 4, 2017 |
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Phanatic posted:Holy poo poo, Alien Covenant. I don't even know where to begin, it's one IIMM after another and I'm only at the point where Jedi Fassbender shows up. The kind thing to do would be to have Ridley Scott taken to the vet's and euthanized.
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John Big Booty posted:Idon't think any of them are actually irrational because Alien: Covenant is hot garbage. I don't get why it had to be such poo poo. We never needed to see David again. gently caress, have the ship land where the Aliens are motherfucking native!
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Here's an IIMM, every time I read the word covenant I read it as Coe-ven-ant. Because covenant sounds like oven-ant and that just doesn't work
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donquixotic posted:Here's an IIMM, every time I read the word covenant I read it as Coe-ven-ant. Because covenant sounds like oven-ant and that just doesn't work 
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donquixotic posted:Here's an IIMM, every time I read the word covenant I read it as Coe-ven-ant. Because covenant sounds like oven-ant and that just doesn't work 
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Drunken Baker posted:I think my IIMM may be rational, but I moan about it so much that maybe I'm being irrational, which might make it fit more here... Going back to the Hobbit, one of my favourite scenes in the book is where they're hoofing it up the mountain and there's two giants lobbing boulders at each other. That just blew my little mind back then. The gang is just witnessing this weird ritual between these fantastical beings on the mountain opposite where they are and I thin Gandalf says something akin to, "Nobody know why they do that. They might be having a genuine fight, or they could be just having some fun." The Hobbit movies are best thought of as Bilbo just grossly exagerating everything as he retells the story for the umpteenth time. Going more over the top after each retelling.
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oldpainless posted:A general complaint my wife has is when the woman is much younger than her husband/boyfriend. The latest one that annoys her is Mother where Jennifer Lawrence is 27 and her husband is 49. I know that's a really general complaint but it was super dumb seeing a Jim Carrey/Zooey Deschanel movie couple. Also in The Wedding Singer Drew Barrymore is made up to look way younger than Adam Sandler even if the real age difference isn't so big.
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Amoeba102 posted:The Hobbit movies are best thought of as Bilbo just grossly exagerating everything as he retells the story for the umpteenth time. Going more over the top after each retelling. Until eventually it's just a 10 second Hobbit/Wanted mashup where Bilbo stares straight at the camera, yells THIS IS MY FACE AS PETE JACKSON RUINS YOUR CHILDHOOD and then makes his LotR jump scare face.
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Maybe I wasn't paying attention to the first Hobbit movie but I remember like six big nose funny dwarves and then the heroic leader dwarf who basically looks like a handsome human which is pretty dumb.
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TF2 HAT MINING RIG posted:Maybe I wasn't paying attention to the first Hobbit movie but I remember like six big nose funny dwarves and then the heroic leader dwarf who basically looks like a handsome human which is pretty dumb. No that's accurate. Later an elf lady falls in love with him and they (probably?) bang.
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Captain Monkey posted:No that's accurate. Later an elf lady falls in love with him and they (probably?) bang. There are three handsome dwarfs: the leader and the two younger ones and she bangs one of the young ones. The dwarves in the book had very little characterization aside from Thorin. There's the fat one who fell asleep alot and is a complete liability, but the film has none of that. There's Balin (later lord of Moria) who is Bilbo's bff but the film had none of that. There's two two young ones who die offscreen. So the film bigs up their roles, gives one a stupid love subplot and has more epic battles.
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