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In the mediocre animated Beowulf film the monsters (Grendal and the Sea Hag) speak old English. It's a cool way to age them while still allowing them to communicate with the other characters.
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Saint Freak posted:
Goddess in a half shell. Vestal power!
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I've been watching a bit of Wallace and Gromit lately, and there are some cool callbacks to previous films. In A Matter of Loaf and Death, at the beginning, there is a sign on the front of the Zoo saying that the penguin from The Wrong Trousers has escaped. When Gromit looks up in his Electronics for Dogs book to build his metal detector, the first page he opens to has a picture of the Techno Trousers from The Wrong Trousers., The cardboard box that Fluffy sleeps in is box of the same brand of dog food that Gromit hides in to watch the penguin plan his heist in The Wrong Trousers. Also, the photo of the two together that Gromit looks at when he is about to run away in The Wrong Trousers is the photo they took on the spaceship in A Grand Day Out. Another one is in The Wrong Trousers, in the background of their house there is a framed giant marrow, which is teh vegetable that Gromit is growing in his greenhouse in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit Something else I noticed is taht all the human characters have 5 fingers and 5 toes, but Gromit has 4. Also none of the animal characters ever speak, (the rabbit in Curse of the Were-Rabbit notwithstanding, but that is because it got mind melded with Wallace), instead communicating with their eyebrows/body language. BrigadierSensible has a new favorite as of 07:55 on Jan 26, 2018 |
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Jan 26, 2018 06:18
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The water didn't kill the aliens it was the chemicals in the water. The little girls says constantly that there's chemicals in water. It's just War of the Worlds with tainted tap water instead of the common cold.
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Jan 26, 2018 14:06
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Drunken Baker posted:The water didn't kill the aliens it was the chemicals in the water. The little girls says constantly that there's chemicals in water. It's just War of the Worlds with tainted tap water instead of the common cold. Earth ironically saved by fracking! THAT'S the Shyamalan Twist! But I think both the "It's demons" and "It's contaminated" theories are trying to bend over backwards to rescue an otherwise good movie from a stupid fridge premise. Demons moreso than contamination. I still like it a lot because Greys are what creep me out, going back to when I was a kid watching Close Encounters, and it's fun being spooked by things that scare you when they don't actually exist, and it's more fun watching Joaquin Phoenix haul off and smoke one with a baseball bat. (I also liked The Fourth Kind and Dark Skies.)
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Jan 26, 2018 17:23
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I like Signs because it's a genuinely suspenseful thriller about a small group of well-sketched characters, but that's just me.
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Jan 26, 2018 17:38
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Mel Gibson is a poo poo human but he turns in an amazing performance in that movie. Signs honestly isn't that bad, and I don't mind the """twist""" in itself, but Night ruins it by doing flashback after flashback with dramatic music and making you sit there starting at this lovely cg alien and going "get it? Do you get it? Huh? It's what his wife said. Did you get it? See?" That movie needs a good editor to chop that scene and the one where he gets his little speech after trapping the alien in his kitchen. The other thing in that movie that bugs me that Shyamalan does a few times is slightly slow down part of a performance in post. Like, someone will stand up and I guess he thought they should have stood up slightly slower because the framerate week drip just for a second and it's jarring as poo poo.
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Jan 26, 2018 18:56
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Mel Gibson’s best role is PayBack probably because he got to play a poo poo person. He’s my guilty pleasure. Like I just can’t stay angry at the guy.
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Krispy Wafer posted:Mel Gibson’s best role is PayBack probably because he got to play a poo poo person. Get The Gringo is a really fun watch as well. He’s not really as much of a trash person as his reputation suggests, either. I read an article about how he’s done a lot to make amends for the lovely things he’s said, but has publicized none of it.
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Jan 27, 2018 03:23
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imo Mel Gibson is great in the first Lethal Weapon when he still speaks Australian as gently caress and he is supposed to be Californian. It's good.
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Jan 27, 2018 04:11
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It really slips through the most whenever he says "Rog"
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Jan 27, 2018 04:15
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Baron von Eevl posted:It really slips through the most whenever he says "Rog" Yea his Rs are obvious, but lol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v38MMDYEMw its heavily ADR'd but even still "cigaret" is in Australian
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Jan 27, 2018 04:33
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The vowel sound is a very distinctly Aussie one too. edit: it's like there's a little bit of an au sound to it.
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Jan 27, 2018 05:51
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Diphthong it's called I think, when a vowel curves towards another. Ozzies love thongs tho ay? 
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Jan 27, 2018 05:55
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Krankenstyle posted:
I bought a new pair today because my old ones were so worn they kept slipping like crazy every time it was wet.
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Jan 27, 2018 06:19
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Jan 27, 2018 06:35
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for those who worry that they missed some of the above Australianisms, fear thee not: Just listen to Korean Billy whose small helpers to all dialects English will show you the path https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg7ikFh7fXw PS: The scottish ones are recommended
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Jan 27, 2018 06:41
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iajanus posted:I bought a new pair today because my old ones were so worn they kept slipping like crazy every time it was wet. I've never liked the rubber they use for thongs, I have some that have soft leather instead for that bit, it works really well.
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Jan 27, 2018 07:15
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Someone once told me that the longer Mel Gibson's hair is, the better the movie you're currently watching.
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Jan 27, 2018 07:29
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Memento posted:I've never liked the rubber they use for thongs, I have some that have soft leather instead for that bit, it works really well. Yeah, my old ones were the cheap ones made out of z-grade rubber. The soles were almost worn completely smooth on sections The new ones almost made me fall over within ten minutes, so bizarre was it to actually have grip
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Jan 27, 2018 07:37
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Someone once told me that the longer Mel Gibson's hair is, the better the movie you're currently watching. Road Warrior say's that's bullshit, but I guess Beyond Thunerdome helps balance things out.
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Jan 27, 2018 07:55
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Someone once told me that the longer Mel Gibson's hair is, the better the movie you're currently watching. It's easier to just make a cutoff at say 1995.
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Jan 27, 2018 08:39
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I keep mixing up Mel Gibson and Russel Crowe in my head.
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Jan 27, 2018 08:50
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Inescapable Duck posted:I keep mixing up Mel Gibson and Russel Crowe in my head. pro tip: Crowe is fat as hell, Gibson looks like bin Laden
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Jan 27, 2018 09:01
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Pneub posted:Road Warrior say's that's bullshit, but I guess Beyond Thunerdome helps balance things out. Road Warrior is an odd movie.
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Jan 27, 2018 09:24
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Road Warrior is an odd movie. They made it on a budget of about $7.45 and they weren't able to close off the public roads they did their stunts on. It's  as gently caress.
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Jan 27, 2018 09:34
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I like my thongs to lift and separate... OH, I totally misunderstood the conversation 
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Jan 27, 2018 10:55
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Also, to get back on topic, I bought my Dad a movie called Franklyn a few years ago and we watched it together - it had a lot of aspects ripped off of Alan Moore stories, like the title character being practically Rorscarch in appearence but with a plainer mask, but it also had enough of it's own identity through the main characters delusions (it takes place in the real world but Franklyn sees it as a bizarre distopia with the police all being stovepipe-hat and white mask wearing weirdos, and it keeps flashing between reality and fantasy). The subtle thing is that it all builds to the 4 main characters gathering (although they barely know each other and sometimes just don't interact) at a diner to recreate the famous painting, Nighthawks. That was a nice visual. This is the painting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nighthawks
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wtf was it really Nighthawks? I guess I was more worried about other parts of the plot lol I watched that movie when it first came on DVD, it's got a great aesthetic iirc, very like that game Dishonored.
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BioEnchanted posted:Also, to get back on topic, I bought my Dad a movie called Franklyn a few years ago and we watched it together - it had a lot of aspects ripped off of Alan Moore stories, like the title character being practically Rorscarch in appearence but with a plainer mask, but it also had enough of it's own identity through the main characters delusions (it takes place in the real world but Franklyn sees it as a bizarre distopia with the police all being stovepipe-hat and white mask wearing weirdos, and it keeps flashing between reality and fantasy). The subtle thing is that it all builds to the 4 main characters gathering (although they barely know each other and sometimes just don't interact) at a diner to recreate the famous painting, Nighthawks. That was a nice visual. Franklyn really wound me up, because the absolutely amazing trailer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08Nj6a8U2uk) spliced together two lines into "The girl I was supposed to save...is running out of time" and all the editing flicking back and forth between the different worlds (like the top-hat dude punching cutting to the window shattering) suggested that the movie was going to have loads of time-fuckery, and I spent the whole movie waiting for it to happen.
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Franklyn is mondo disappointing because they advertised it as some kind of steampunk fantasy vigilante action thriller or something, turns out it’s actually a boring drama about PTSD e: beaten with video
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Jan 27, 2018 14:11
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Trailers are always on that balance between lying about the film and giving you all of the plot. This one manages both lol It's a pretty good film all in all imo, and Bernard Hill is one of those "hey, it's that guy!" actors who're never anything less but great.
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Jan 27, 2018 14:43
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Me and my dad both enjoyed it, although he was having fun playing "Spot the Reference" :P
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Jan 27, 2018 15:16
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Krankenstyle posted:Trailers are always on that balance between lying about the film and giving you all of the plot. This one manages both lol I get irritated when the trailer promises a better movie. Why not just make that one instead? 
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Jan 27, 2018 15:55
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Tunicate posted:I get irritated when the trailer promises a better movie. Why not just make that one instead? Terminator:Salvation is always the definition for me of an amazing trailer and an absolutely poo poo movie.
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Jan 27, 2018 16:06
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Memento posted:They made it on a budget of about $7.45 and they weren't able to close off the public roads they did their stunts on. It's Also they dubbed everyone's voices back before America's brief love affair with Australia.
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Jan 27, 2018 16:10
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Krispy Wafer posted:Also they dubbed everyone's voices back before America's brief love affair with Australia. The Road Warrior had a dub? I knew Mad Max did, but I never knew that Road Warrior did.
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As someone who has only ever seen Fury Road and Beyond Thunderdome, is Mad Max worth watching or should I just skip ahead to The Road Warrior?
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I've only seen the second half of the first Mad Max (walked in while my brother was watching it) and when the villain is defeated I didn't even notice what was meant to have happened, it's like the movie just stopped. Apparently he was supposed to have been ran over by a truck but I didn't see that happen at all. Of course this means that my only real exposure to the franchise was the PS4 game 
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