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Cowslips Warren posted:So my coworker and I have a movie exchange going. I loaned him Get Out. Lucky Number Slevin is also a film which spoils its non-existent but it sure thinks its existent twist in like the first 5 minutes if you understand Hebrew so that film went over poorly with the Jewish Student Union I watched it with. Conversely, Borat was extra funny if you speak Hebrew.
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I think Smokin' Aces and Lucky Number Slevin are the same movie, based on the trailers.
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Sep 11, 2017 06:47
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Mu Zeta posted:I think Smokin' Aces and Lucky Number Slevin are the same movie, based on the trailers. No no, Smokin Aces is a the film where you fast forward the first like 15 minutes and skip to, and gently caress spoiler tagging this, Ben Affleck getting murdered and I want to say Chris Pine moves Ben's characters dead mouth as a ventriloquist dummy for forgiveness for killing him.
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Sep 11, 2017 07:10
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I threw Smokin' Aces on while drinking a beer and rebuilding a carburetor a few years ago and it wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it was going to be. It certainly wasn't good, mind you, but I was expecting it to be woeful.
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Sep 11, 2017 07:14
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The word 'ewok' is never spoken in any of the Star Wars films. It's pretty hard to separate the movie's text from the marketing and fancruft at this point. Probably doesn't help that the Jedi and Sith are presented with vaguely Eastern mysticism implying the need for balance and the acceptance of all aspects of existence for harmony, but it turns out it's just God and the Devil.
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Sep 11, 2017 07:57
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Barudak posted:No no, Smokin Aces is a the film where you fast forward the first like 15 minutes and skip to, and gently caress spoiler tagging this, Ben Affleck getting murdered and I want to say Chris Pine moves Ben's characters dead mouth as a ventriloquist dummy for forgiveness for killing him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbamLjdUt7Q
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Sep 11, 2017 08:01
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Harton posted:Yeah I thought this too but then stupid "always two there are, master and apprentice" bullshit. I've seen this discussed on more occasions and because I'm not all that familiar with Star Wars, aside from casually enjoying the franchise, it's always left me wondering. Is it ever explicitly made clear he means there's always exactly 2 baddies, no more? Or is it more of a if you find the one there's the other too somewhere.
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Sep 11, 2017 08:17
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Taeke posted:I've seen this discussed on more occasions and because I'm not all that familiar with Star Wars, aside from casually enjoying the franchise, it's always left me wondering. The idea is basically that the Sith is a tradition, and thus there's always gotta be a teacher and someone to teach. And it seems implied to be something of a prophecy on Yoda's part, given it's a literal rule of the Sith. (The backstory goes that the Sith as an empire collapse hilariously fast because they murder each other for power; having only two means that it's just the student killing the teacher when they've learned everything, like cannibalistic leapfrog) The Dark Side doesn't let people share power. Obviously the supplementary material immediately adds ten zillion more students to it.
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Sep 11, 2017 08:58
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Barudak posted:Lucky Number Slevin is also a film which spoils its non-existent but it sure thinks its existent twist in like the first 5 minutes if you understand Hebrew so that film went over poorly with the Jewish Student Union I watched it with. I think this happened in Iron Man too if you could speak Pashtu or something.
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Sep 11, 2017 10:13
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Rough Lobster posted:I think this happened in Iron Man too if you could speak Pashtu or something.
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Sep 11, 2017 10:19
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Inescapable Duck posted:The idea is basically that the Sith is a tradition, and thus there's always gotta be a teacher and someone to teach. And it seems implied to be something of a prophecy on Yoda's part, given it's a literal rule of the Sith. (The backstory goes that the Sith as an empire collapse hilariously fast because they murder each other for power; having only two means that it's just the student killing the teacher when they've learned everything, like cannibalistic leapfrog) The Dark Side doesn't let people share power. Eh...to the contrary i think you could easily flip that. Yoda was saying that if they found one Sith there had to be another, either his Master or Apprentice (Hell obi wan even helpfully blurts out "which one?!") EU authors took this statement literally as there could only possibly ever be 2 ever.
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Sep 11, 2017 10:23
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Since I managed to spawn multiple pages of discussion on why the Hobbit trilogy was a mess, lemme try again. Were the X-men movies alright? Because I don't know those characters too well and aside from them sewing up Deadpool's mouth and having him laser Wolverine and Saber tooth, I don't know if they hosed up or not. Also, Did Ip Man 3 seriously do the Jin Shanzhao motivation again at the end but with two people using the same martial arts style? edit:spelling. loving phone autocorrect RareAcumen has a new favorite as of 15:32 on Sep 11, 2017 |
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Sep 11, 2017 10:25
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RareAcumen posted:Since I managed to spawn multiple pages of discussion on why the Hobbit trilogy was a mess, lemme try again. Were the X-men movies alright? Because I don't know those characters too well and aside from them seeing up Deadpool's mouth and having him laser Wolverine and Saber tooth, I don't know if they hosed up or not. The first two X-Men movies are pretty good (though the first is a bit slow). The third is an awful mess. Origins: Wolverine is real bad, First Class is good. Days of Future Past is good fun, I liked how it didn't bother with a ton of exposition about the characters and just dove into the story. Can't speak for any of the others as I've not seen them.
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Sep 11, 2017 10:31
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Fil5000 posted:The first two X-Men movies are pretty good (though the first is a bit slow). The third is an awful mess. Origins: Wolverine is real bad, First Class is good. Days of Future Past is good fun, I liked how it didn't bother with a ton of exposition about the characters and just dove into the story. Can't speak for any of the others as I've not seen them. Pretty much this, and also Deadpool is decent though pretty periphery to things (and notes it) and doesn't really hold up as well on rewatch, and Logan is great.
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Sep 11, 2017 11:47
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Try to find the workprint version of Wolverine Origins. It's one of the most hysterical things I've seen.
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Sep 11, 2017 11:58
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RagnarokAngel posted:Eh...to the contrary i think you could easily flip that. Yoda was saying that if they found one Sith there had to be another, either his Master or Apprentice (Hell obi wan even helpfully blurts out "which one?!") It's also a recurring plotpoint through every movie he's in that Yoda is an idiot. His "wisdom" is just nonsense that makes things worse for everyone. He doesn't know anything substantial about Sith or how to combat them, and only by disobeying Yoda is Luke able to save the galaxy with his father. Under his guidance both Jedi and Republic fall.
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Sep 11, 2017 16:47
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Fil5000 posted:The first two X-Men movies are pretty good (though the first is a bit slow). The third is an awful mess. Origins: Wolverine is real bad, First Class is good. Days of Future Past is good fun, I liked how it didn't bother with a ton of exposition about the characters and just dove into the story. Can't speak for any of the others as I've not seen them. The Wolverine is also OK. Especially watching Logan tank a nuclear bomb, which was also a pretty horrifying part of the movie because it was one of the bombs dropped on Japan in WW2.
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Sep 11, 2017 17:23
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RagnarokAngel posted:Eh...to the contrary i think you could easily flip that. Yoda was saying that if they found one Sith there had to be another, either his Master or Apprentice (Hell obi wan even helpfully blurts out "which one?!") This was my thinking as well, hence the confusion. SW is dumb, but I like wizards in space, so eh.
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The only x-men movies worth watching are days of future past and first class. The others vary from mediocore and dated (1 and 2) to just loving bad (everything else). Logan/Deadpool aren't really x-men movies as much as movies that have mutants in them, but they are also quite good.
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Rough Lobster posted:I think this happened in Iron Man too if you could speak Pashtu or something. See Im ok with this if the plot of the film is that characters are surprised by it/unable to understand it, but in Slevin a) you as an audience member are supposed to be surprised so including it undermines the films point and b) one of the films villains antagonists could speak Hebrew so him not noticihg it immediately is really confusing.
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Sep 11, 2017 18:01
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Bussamove posted:Yeah that was one of the major focal points in the original movie, and maybe the book but it's been like two decades since I read that. Pennywise is only seen by people he wants to be seen by. It's not even so much that he selectively appears to people. One of the themes of the novel is that the stuff going on with the kids is just beneath the notice of adults. It's not that the adults don't see, it's that they don't *care* or appreciate the significance. Like, that's not a violent and psychopathic bully using a penknife to carve his name into some kid's abdomen, it's just kids horsing around, boys will be boys and all that. Phanatic has a new favorite as of 18:04 on Sep 11, 2017 |
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Sep 11, 2017 18:02
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Wonder Woman has quite the easter egg for Blackfoot speakers. (which is apparently a couple thousand people?)
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Sep 11, 2017 18:16
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TF2 HAT MINING RIG posted:That is some flimsy evidence but also making her Obi-Wan's daughter is the kind of dumb poo poo I fully expect. She is definitely the child of somebody important in the tiny Star Wars universe. As someone who has yet to see the movie at all is they're going to make her a Palpatine grandchild or something. But here's been my logic for that: The first film series dealt mostly with Luke coming to terms with 'daddy was a bad man' and Leia never really had any of that sort of story in the OT. Making Rey something like Palpatine's granddaughter gives her that same storyline of Luke, except she won't get the redemption bit for him at the end. Fil5000 posted:The first two X-Men movies are pretty good (though the first is a bit slow). The third is an awful mess. Origins: Wolverine is real bad, First Class is good. Days of Future Past is good fun, I liked how it didn't bother with a ton of exposition about the characters and just dove into the story. Can't speak for any of the others as I've not seen them. I also still contend that X3 was screwed up because everyone sort of assumed in 2005 all of the cast was getting too old, too popular and too expensive to bring back for another film and it was going to be the last full-on X-Men movie before a reboot with an all-new cast. As such, they had to put everything in there to make sure they threw in as many things from the franchise so they could be in the movie in some way: Juggernaut, Danger Room, Fastball Special, Sentinels, Phoenix, Original Five members, etc.
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Sep 11, 2017 20:17
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JediTalentAgent posted:As someone who has yet to see the movie at all is they're going to make her a Palpatine grandchild or something. Impossible, she doesn't have three eyes.
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Sep 11, 2017 20:53
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TenCentFang posted:Impossible, she doesn't have three eyes. If it means we get to see the Moffs bidding each other dark greetings at their Mofference on the Moffship, it is a worthwhile sacrifice.
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Sep 11, 2017 20:59
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Inescapable Duck posted:Wonder Woman has quite the easter egg for Blackfoot speakers. (which is apparently a couple thousand people?) Hahaha YES as a Blackfoot speaker I really enjoyed this! Go ahead and tell everyone else about it though.
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Sep 11, 2017 21:21
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The inscription on her sword says "lmao I don't do poo poo 420 erryda"
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Sep 11, 2017 22:28
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TenCentFang posted:Impossible, she doesn't have three eyes. That was her father. Her mother was a cyclops. It balances out in the end.
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Sep 12, 2017 01:48
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In Westworld (TV, not movie), they make a pretty big deal of a character choosing to close the piano lid that has always been playing. Then it cuts to another scene in the same brothel, focusing on the same character, but you can see in the background that the piano lid is open! It may be a subtle commentary that even when making seemingly conscious decisions to go against their programming, they are still actually bound to it. Or more likely it was just filmed out of order and ignored. I think the latter.
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Sep 12, 2017 13:24
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Westworld is just R-Rated Hey Dude.
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Sep 12, 2017 16:57
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Rough Lobster posted:Hahaha YES as a Blackfoot speaker I really enjoyed this! Go ahead and tell everyone else about it though. Wonder Woman "spoilers" : The character "Chief" is actually a Native American demi-god, Napi.. It has no real bearing on the plot at all, but it definitely affects how you interpret everything that character says.
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Sep 12, 2017 17:10
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Is that the Super Friend who grows big? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTvh_gsm0DI
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Sep 12, 2017 17:43
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Gorilla Salad posted:Is that the Super Friend who grows big? Not since that coffee was spilled on his lap.
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Sep 12, 2017 18:11
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rydiafan posted:Not since that coffee was spilled on his lap. And wow it was hot. On his lap. Hotness. Crotch. Ooouuch.
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Stayne Falls posted:Wonder Woman "spoilers" : The character "Chief" is actually a Native American demi-god, Napi.. It has no real bearing on the plot at all, but it definitely affects how you interpret everything that character says. Is this one of those "well in the comics" things? Or is it in the movie?
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Sep 12, 2017 19:17
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Strom Cuzewon posted:Is this one of those "well in the comics" things? Or is it in the movie? He introduces himself in the film as Napi while speaking Blackfoot. There's basically no character traits of the Blackfoot idea of Napi, though, outside of tricking a guy once.
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Strom Cuzewon posted:Is this one of those "well in the comics" things? Or is it in the movie? Inescapable Duck posted:Wonder Woman has quite the easter egg for Blackfoot speakers. (which is apparently a couple thousand people?) I know reading threads is hard, but it's on this page still.
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Probably a repeat, but I hate slime and assorted goos. It's not a in-universe "ooh, I am disturbed by this thing with slime or goo on it", it is a full-on meta "I will look away from this image and wait for it to be over because I am going to hurl otherwise" kind of thing. The example I most often use for this is the scene where Neo wakes up outside of The Matrix. Him flopping around in a pile of slime is worse than any of the other body horror aspects of that scene. But what inspired me to post this was the iconic moment in the It Miniseries where one of the kids sprays Pennywise with the inhaler. The side of his face melts with slime, and you can see a trail of that stuff actually go into Pennywise's mouth and just thinking about it at the moment is making me full-on nauseous.
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MisterBibs posted:Probably a repeat, but I hate slime and assorted goos. It's not a in-universe "ooh, I am disturbed by this thing with slime or goo on it", it is a full-on meta "I will look away from this image and wait for it to be over because I am going to hurl otherwise" kind of thing. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Phanatic posted:It's not even so much that he selectively appears to people. One of the themes of the novel is that the stuff going on with the kids is just beneath the notice of adults. It's not that the adults don't see, it's that they don't *care* or appreciate the significance. Like, that's not a violent and psychopathic bully using a penknife to carve his name into some kid's abdomen, it's just kids horsing around, boys will be boys and all that. There's that but the novel also mentions how Pennywise controls the town as in manipulating adults to ignore things. In one part of the book, one of the kids (forgot which but I think it was Bev), she mentions how she was being attacked on the street and an adult that was seeing the scene just got up from his porch, folded his newspaper and went inside. There's other stuff like that, too.
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