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Spider-Man predicted the gig economy hellscape we live in today.
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Davros1 posted:He really sells that Clark and Supes are two different people
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Aug 25, 2018 17:28
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It's an amazing bit of acting. Both subtle and completely in your face with how it moves along the plot.
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Aug 25, 2018 17:34
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It's a real goddamn shame he had that accident. He could have delivered so many more amazing performances, if he had had the chance.
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Aug 25, 2018 20:05
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I thought he was pretty good in the role he had in Smallville.
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Aug 25, 2018 22:19
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He rocked as the psycho guy in Deathtrap as well.
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Aug 25, 2018 23:04
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I always appreciated the story of how Robin Williams was the first person to come over and make him laugh after the accident (they went to Juilliard together), and after that he realized that life was still going to be worth living. 
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Aug 26, 2018 00:10
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KozmoNaut posted:It's a real goddamn shame he had that accident. He could have delivered so many more amazing performances, if he had had the chance. There's still Noises Off. He was awesome in that. I remember watching that as a kid and being blown away that he could do comedy.
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Aug 26, 2018 03:11
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Favorite little thing/unpopular movie opinion: I liked Crystal Skull a lot (except for Shia). They just updated it from 60s pulp to 70s/80s pulp, and people are mad that it wasn't exactly like the ones they watched when they were kids.
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Aug 26, 2018 07:51
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minato posted:The bit where he contemplates telling her is fantastic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIaF0QKtY0c this is a great bit of physical acting
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Aug 26, 2018 08:19
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KozmoNaut posted:It's a real goddamn shame he had that accident. He could have delivered so many more amazing performances, if he had had the chance. Reeve's remake of Rear Window would be considered superb if only the original didn't exist.
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Aug 26, 2018 09:39
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packetmantis posted:Favorite little thing/unpopular movie opinion: I liked Crystal Skull a lot (except for Shia). They just updated it from 60s pulp to 70s/80s pulp, and people are mad that it wasn't exactly like the ones they watched when they were kids. Crystal Skull has some good stuff in it. It just compares unfavorably to the first three, and nerds are awful about updates to beloved franchises.
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Aug 26, 2018 12:28
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Imagined posted:Yeah it's the only film version that makes sense of why no one wonders why the "mild mannered reporter" is built like a brick shithouse. I think if Spider-Man was updated to 2018 he'd have a GoPro and upload his daily travels around the city to YouTube or Twitch for tips
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Aug 26, 2018 15:46
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In the Ultimate Spider-Man series, they updated it a bit and had him working for the Bugle doing some web development 
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Aug 26, 2018 16:06
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I read that entire series and I JUST got that joke
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Aug 26, 2018 22:22
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Regarding Lucy, the Scarlett Johanssen action movie - I saw a video that complained about her having nothing to connect to due to becoming untouchable, but there is something - she is losing her humanity, and is aware of it, so is bothered by that. One of the first things she does when in super-god-mode when given time to breathe is call her mom, then later talks to Morgan Freeman's character asking for advice on what to do with the infinite knowledge and power she is developing. She has lost her empathy, but not her understanding. She is a semi-heroic psychopath (she still doesn't even think about the civillians toward the middle of the movie, but tries to retain some humanity as she approaches practical godhood). That turning point is also close to when she completely stops killing people, even the bad guys. Also you get the feeling that by the end she's so focused on her final goal that she's suffering from simultaneous tunnelvision and overly wide thinking - she's focused on helping everyone at once by getting to one location, but doesn't see the civillians colliding with each other all around her. Empathy is something she needs to work at, and it is slipping due to that focus.
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Aug 27, 2018 10:44
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packetmantis posted:Favorite little thing/unpopular movie opinion: I liked Crystal Skull a lot (except for Shia). They just updated it from 60s pulp to 70s/80s pulp, and people are mad that it wasn't exactly like the ones they watched when they were kids. The scene with the monkeys is unforgivable.
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Aug 27, 2018 13:42
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I agree. Eating brains is just cruel and barbaric.
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Aug 27, 2018 13:56
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I can't even remember the monkey scene. Was it so bad that my brain rejected it? I really liked the nuke blast. The first 15 or so minutes of the Crystal Skull was pretty good. The rest at least had Karen Allen in it so I guess it was alright.
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Aug 27, 2018 14:16
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Shia swings on vines like Tarzan with some monkeys.
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Aug 27, 2018 14:32
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And a monkey with his exact haircut swings next to him
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Aug 27, 2018 15:23
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The nuke fridge was amazing and pure Indy The monkey vines scene was one of the worst things that ever made it into a theatrical release, partially because they were in a loving Indy movie and not Sharknado IX or whatever
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Aug 27, 2018 15:34
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My one hang up is the film should have been "Indy discovers aliens*" and not "Indy already discovered aliens* by the start of the film" *interdimensional beings
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Aug 27, 2018 16:26
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The Bloop posted:The nuke fridge was amazing and pure Indy Ya people always poo poo on the fridge scene but it's no dumber than anything in the first 3 movies. I don't even mind the aliens because they're really no less believable than a cup that grants everlasting life but only in this one cave or a box that melts faces. The whole jungle chase scene though is so unbelievably bad. Hell everything in the jungle is terrible until they get to the ancient city.
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Aug 27, 2018 16:37
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The funny thing about the fridge scene is that when people criticized the movie, Spielberg specifically pointed out that while he was never crazy about the alien mcguffin and all that, the fridge thing was his idea, not Lucas'.
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Aug 27, 2018 18:26
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I thought the CGI gophers and monkeys had Lucas written all over them.
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Aug 27, 2018 18:34
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minato posted:The bit where he contemplates telling her is fantastic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIaF0QKtY0c Okay but can we talk about the staging of this scene for a second? Everything in it is inversions and watching it now I realize how awesome that is. I haven't seen this film in like 15 years and while I remember the scene I remember nothing about its context. We have the scene opening with Lois dominating the shot and Clark timidly taking a back seat, both looking off in similar directions. Lois' attention is out of the frame and not in the moment, Clark's is entirely on Lois.  Lois walks off camera and the shot pivots to focus on Clark in the foreground looking off camera, too, but also on the huge mirror showing where Lois goes and the rear shot of Clark as well:  We have Clark now dominating the left half of the shot while at the moment he's just standing there staring off out of the frame. He has the presence but isn't doing anything, another nod to Clark's presentation of himself. Meanwhile, all of the movement is on the right side of the shot, in the mirror with Lois walking out. As soon as the door is shut, we see him switch over to Superman and then while dominating the frame, his movement brings the focus all to him. He's still not looking at anything directly in frame, but his conflict draws the viewer to him rather than the door that has his attention.  By staging so much of the action of the scene being seen through a mirror, the director has given extra punch to the Clark-Superman transition, and back. It also reinforces how Clark and Superman both are transfixed by Lois. He never stops gazing in her direction, even when given the primacy of position. By having him physically turned away from the visible action of the scene, too, you let his internal conflict be physically separated Lois herself by the black line of his reflection, imparting another layer of separation between Lois and the knowledge of who Clark really is. There's a cinematographer who deserves a bonus.
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Aug 27, 2018 20:05
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I forgot if it was a podcast I was listening to or an article that was going into Superman '78,but it stated that one of the things the movie did well was capture the romantic comedy love triangle between Clark, Lois, and Superman. Singer's Superman Returns eschews that for a Clark/Lois/Richard White angle while Snyder's Man of Steel completely eliminates the love triangle by having Lois figure out that Clark is Superman.
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Aug 27, 2018 20:25
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New Wave Jose posted:I find it weird that the raptor don't immediately jump on him, it show it's face for 2-3 second and then jump Not letting him get the quip out wouldn't have been clever. Milo and POTUS posted:Muldoon, aka, Mr They should all be destoryed aka Dinosaur Hitler? Yeah, sure, ok bud. no, he only wanted certain kinds of dinosaurs to all be destr....hrm. The Bloop posted:The nuke fridge was amazing and pure Indy Not gonna lie, as dumb as that was, I was enjoying myself up until that scene and thinking "maybe they'll pull it off despite his weird doddering old man knocking poo poo over persona". Then everything after the fridge happened.
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Aug 28, 2018 01:04
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Pook Good Mook posted:Ya people always poo poo on the fridge scene but it's no dumber than anything in the first 3 movies. I don't even mind the aliens because they're really no less believable than a cup that grants everlasting life but only in this one cave or a box that melts faces.
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Aug 28, 2018 01:51
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The refrigerator scene is pretty much the most Indiana Jonesesque scene in the entire movie and people need to step off
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Aug 28, 2018 02:13
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Indiana Jones survives a trip on a submerged u boat. He jumps out of a plane on an inflatable raft and rides it down a mountain. Who fuckin cares about the refrigerator.
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Aug 28, 2018 02:23
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Also the refrigerator+nuclear test site was the DeLorean+lightning strike of the first draft of Back To The Future.
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Aug 28, 2018 03:49
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The Merkinman posted:Also the refrigerator+nuclear test site was the DeLorean+lightning strike of the first draft of Back To The Future. What, "everything after this is a dying dream"?
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Aug 28, 2018 08:40
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Smiling Jack posted:Indiana Jones survives a trip on a submerged u boat. He jumps out of a plane on an inflatable raft and rides it down a mountain. Who fuckin cares about the refrigerator. Mythbusters proved the raft thing was doable, and U Boats would ride on top of the water if there were no threats. Nothing Indy ever did violated the laws of physics like the fridge scene. As someone above posted, had the fridge not flown through the air and just been knocked over by the blast, I would have been perfectly okay with it, because that scene of him getting out of the fridge with the mushroom cloud behind him is loving gorgeous.
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Aug 28, 2018 11:41
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So, face melting Arks, Holy Grails, a man having his heart pulled from his chest and it's still beating are all perfectly fine, but a flying fridge (that should have killed him, yes) is where you draw the line?
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Aug 28, 2018 11:53
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Leavemywife posted:So, face melting Arks, Holy Grails, a man having his heart pulled from his chest and it's still beating are all perfectly fine, but a flying fridge (that should have killed him, yes) is where you draw the line? If it was explicitly a magic fridge, forged from the shards of Excalibur, then yeah, I'd be okay with it being as unrealistic as those. Also the gunpowder scene was awful. Magnetic stuff doesn't work that way, and gunpowder isn't even magnetic.
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Aug 28, 2018 11:58
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Strom Cuzewon posted:If it was explicitly a magic fridge, forged from the shards of Excalibur, then yeah, I'd be okay with it being as unrealistic as those. I've never gotten why the fridge scene bugged people. It's the kind of pulpy poo poo that Indiana Jones is made of; it's so patently ridiculous, it's not worth getting upset about. Besides, that fridge was high grade lead, made in America in the 50s (Crystal Skull was 50s, right?), so it's a very solid, high quality piece of work.
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Aug 28, 2018 12:06
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Leavemywife posted:So, face melting Arks, Holy Grails, a man having his heart pulled from his chest and it's still beating are all perfectly fine, but a flying fridge (that should have killed him, yes) is where you draw the line? Kind of. Yeah. Because the face melting Arks, Holy Grail and a sacrificial ceremony are all finales. The films have respectively built up to those moments, they're a culmination of all the action and adventure that has come before it and there, at the peak of the film the story pushes the magic of discovery even further and reveals that hey! Magic is real! You didn't think things could get any more exciting, but everything is cranked up to 11. If the fridge thing had come later in the film I think people might have bought it easier... maybe.
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Aug 28, 2018 12:54
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He actually gets in the U-Boat.
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Aug 28, 2018 12:59
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