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BioEnchanted posted:Since Terabithia was brought up, what did everyone think of I Kill Giants? I thought it was interesting and liked the effects and designs of the giants themselves. I really enjoyed it. I came into it blind but with the expectation that it was an allegory of some sort. I would have been disappointed if the giants were real. It would have just been a fantasy action movie then.
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Strom Cuzewon posted:Why is Chewbacca called Chewbacca when wookies are incapable of saying the word Chewbacca? Did Han just arbitrarily anglicise his name? Is Han a space racist? Maybe 'Chewbacca' is just us saying his name with a really thick accent, and his word for it is something he groans out all the time?
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Feb 11, 2019 17:05
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Chewbacca is a nickname with a really long and convoluted in-joke backstory that Han gave up on explaining because you really had to be there and also have a detailed knowledge of Kashyyk pop culture. His actual name is something like "Aauuygghhhaaaeghargg-ah" but only his parents use that. Source: Wookiepedia
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Feb 11, 2019 17:56
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Perestroika posted:Yeah, it's kind of a I can't believe author of A Song of Ice and Fire George RR Martin would add a dumb plot contrivance for shock value into a story.
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Feb 11, 2019 18:48
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complaint, but goddamn it's just such a dumb contrivance that exists solely to add in some extra shock value.
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Acute Grill posted:I can't believe author of A Song of Ice and Fire George RR Martin would add a dumb plot contrivance for shock value into a story. I'm sorry what. *checks wikipedia* Wow, I had no idea he wrote this. I'm surprised it's not being advertised as BY THE AUTHOR OF GAME OF THRONES plastered over the screen. Mind you, I don't think I've watched any ads for it, so...maybe it is?
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Morpheus posted:I'm sorry what. apparently there were some behind the scenes shenanigans with regards to using the GRRM name or having him on the project due to his contract with HBO.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Maybe that's just his human name.
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Perestroika posted:Yeah, it's kind of a
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FreudianSlippers posted:Chewbacca is a nickname with a really long and convoluted in-joke backstory that Han gave up on explaining because you really had to be there and also have a detailed knowledge of Kashyyk pop culture.
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Feb 11, 2019 20:35
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Morpheus posted:I'm sorry what. I have seen his name mentioned in ads, which made me wonder “didn’t he have a different series to finish?” before I found out when he wrote it.
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Biplane posted:apparently there were some behind the scenes shenanigans with regards to using the GRRM name or having him on the project due to his contract with HBO.
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In Frozen, why aren't the gloves Elsa wears frozen?
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Feb 11, 2019 21:06
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because magic.
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To be more irrational, I was more focused on being irritated by how in frozen (and every disney movie) nobody finds it odd that people just randomly break out into songs to ask a simple question or make a statement like "i'm going to eat my breakfast". Like I'm pretty sure she heard you the first time you asked about the snowman. Not only do they not find it odd, they sing their answers back. If hell exists, it would be a world where that was the normal way of conversing with other people.
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Feb 11, 2019 21:16
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While it was the weakest one by far compared to the Twisted Tales, Ursula's villain tale book had an interesting take on her villain song- it was actually a spell she was weaving to make her clients incredibly suggestible so they'd make a bad deal.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:To be more irrational, I was more focused on being irritated by how in frozen (and every disney movie) nobody finds it odd that people just randomly break out into songs to ask a simple question or make a statement like "i'm going to eat my breakfast". Like I'm pretty sure she heard you the first time you asked about the snowman. Not only do they not find it odd, they sing their answers back. If hell exists, it would be a world where that was the normal way of conversing with other people. My irrational irritation is people not allowing for the central conceit of musicals. No one reacts to the people breaking out in song because, in universe, they aren't. Unless there are some "tra la las" in the lyrics, they aren't actually singing. People complain about musicals being unrealistic constantly, as if they the only one clever enough to note that people in real life don't randomly break into choreographed numbers. It's like complaining that everyone in martial arts films know kung fu, or that zombies aren't actually real.
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Simply Simon posted:I read all the Star Wars EU books a bunch as a kid, so I also read the one where the gang hangs out on Chewie's home planet. In fact, it's only Leia, and she can't speak Wookie. The author came up with a clever solution for this problem: one of the wookies speaks Basic. Why don't any of the others? Simple: because that one wookie has a speech impediment that allows him to speak human words. Even as a kid I thought that was an extremely stupid asspull. It was pretty stupid, but to be fair, the wookie couldn't speak basic. He spoke with a speech impediment that made his wookie speech way easier for humans to understand. I dunno how the gently caress that can happen unless there's some weird accent poo poo involved, but yea, definitely weird.
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Sneaksie Taffer posted:My irrational irritation is people not allowing for the central conceit of musicals. No one reacts to the people breaking out in song because, in universe, they aren't. Unless there are some "tra la las" in the lyrics, they aren't actually singing. People complain about musicals being unrealistic constantly, as if they the only one clever enough to note that people in real life don't randomly break into choreographed numbers. It's like complaining that everyone in martial arts films know kung fu, or that zombies aren't actually real. That's a rational irritation. I know I'm not getting the point. I don't want to. That's why it's irrational. It's dumb to, but I still get irritated by it. I don't like singing.
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Pilchenstein posted:It says he wrote it on Netflix. He wrote the original novella and had a token Executive Producer credit but outside of that he didn't actually have any involvement with the actual making of the show due to his exclusivity contract with HBO.
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Krispy Wafer posted:And even though the skit is funny and has really good production values, it was inexplicably cut for time and was never broadcast on TV. If they had aired something that was well-made and actually funny, the people still watching SNL would have noticed the discrepancy.
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muscles like this! posted:He wrote the original novella and had a token Executive Producer credit but outside of that he didn't actually have any involvement with the actual making of the show due to his exclusivity contract with HBO. 
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:It was pretty stupid, but to be fair, the wookie couldn't speak basic. He spoke with a speech impediment that made his wookie speech way easier for humans to understand. If someone isn't super fluent in another language, affecting their language's accent when speaking to them can actually help make things easier to understand. Like talking to a semifluent French guy with French accented English is easier than standard English.
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Simply Simon posted:I read all the Star Wars EU books a bunch as a kid, so I also read the one where the gang hangs out on Chewie's home planet. In fact, it's only Leia, and she can't speak Wookie. The author came up with a clever solution for this problem: one of the wookies speaks Basic. Why don't any of the others? Simple: because that one wookie has a speech impediment that allows him to speak human words. Even as a kid I thought that was an extremely stupid asspull. I was once reading an EU book where I lost track of who was speaking in dialogue right as someone began to monologue. I thought it was Chewbacca for three paragraphs and my mind was blown in a good way that an author broke the tradition of "Chewie chuffed his agreement. Turns out it was some droid being the pre-film stand in for C-3PO. 
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Tunicate posted:If someone isn't super fluent in another language, affecting their language's accent when speaking to them can actually help make things easier to understand. Like talking to a semifluent French guy with French accented English is easier than standard English. I also enjoy mocking French people 
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My IMM for Aquaman was the stinger- It should have been Lex Luthor pulling up in his yacht to fish Black Manta out of the water. I was disappointed it was the conspiracy theory look.
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Tunicate posted:If someone isn't super fluent in another language, affecting their language's accent when speaking to them can actually help make things easier to understand. Like talking to a semifluent French guy with French accented English is easier than standard English. I never liked that complaint about people speaking English slower to non-native speakers because that does help, a lot.
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Just watched Glass and I've stopped being annoyed by how everyone just disbelieved the Overseer/Beast's powers when I figured out it was kinda the point of the movie. That said, I felt it was way too easy for the psychiatrist to instill doubt in someone as involved in their super-identities as those 2. If someone would come to me and suggest "maybe you're not indestructible/super strong" it would work much better if I hadn't survived a 5 story fall completely unscratched just a few days before. Also I can't stand secret societies with super evident and permanent identifiers. It's funny that the big reveal is "this is actually The Boys but less idgi"; it's less funny that everyone in the secret society has a clover leaf tattooed on their wrist. I mean, freemasons and such weren't super duper clever about giving away their membership...but they also didn't live in the age of smartphones and internet.
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Nth Doctor posted:I was once reading an EU book where I lost track of who was speaking in dialogue right as someone began to monologue. I thought it was Chewbacca for three paragraphs and my mind was blown in a good way that an author broke the tradition of "Chewie chuffed his agreement. Didn't the expanded universe authors hate Chewie because he had no way to express himself or maintain autonomy?
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Krankenstyle posted:In Denmark it's called "ghost driver" when someone is driving in the wrong direction on the freeway (got on the offramp or vice versa). Usually it's some pensioner who shoulda got new glasses and their license withdrawn 10 years ago. That clip looks pretty cool. Where is it from? Is there some Danish mythology around ambulances from hell?
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That's from "Riget" (The Kingdom), a mini-series by Lars von Trier. Got an American adaption called "Kingdom Hospital" that sucked.
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I hate scenes where the protagonist is sitting at a bar or something and then the bartender/a random woman shows up and exchanges a look or few words with the protagonist and the next scene is them having sex.
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Gaunab posted:I hate scenes where the protagonist is sitting at a bar or something and then the bartender/a random woman shows up and exchanges a look or few words with the protagonist and the next scene is them having sex. We all hate not being able to get laid.
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I really dislike when movies use sex as a shorthand for “this person is cool.” Like any sort of badass is alway introduced in bed with a woman in the morning and usually trying to sneak out without being seen.
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Only cool guys have sex and sorry they can't stick around but they have a world to save!
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Gaunab posted:I hate scenes where the protagonist is sitting at a bar or something and then the bartender/a random woman shows up and exchanges a look or few words with the protagonist and the next scene is them having sex. The (in)famous Barrowman ad-lib in “Shark Attack 3”:   https://youtube.be/uzR8cjsQhuQ Rascar Capac has a new favorite as of 18:03 on Feb 12, 2019 |
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Gaunab posted:I hate scenes where the protagonist is sitting at a bar or something and then the bartender/a random woman shows up and exchanges a look or few words with the protagonist and the next scene is them having sex. well you're gonna hate seeing the documentary they made about me
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Gaunab posted:I hate scenes where the protagonist is sitting at a bar or something and then the bartender/a random woman shows up and exchanges a look or few words with the protagonist and the next scene is them having sex. I just saw this in Banshee and it rules.
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Slippery posted:well you're gonna hate seeing the documentary they made about me Your mom doesn’t count.
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The Sexual Shiite posted:Your mom doesn’t count. well, she does but for some reason she can't get past 69
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andrhars posted:That's from "Riget" (The Kingdom), a mini-series by Lars von Trier. Thanks! Gonna look that up, I really liked the vibes of that clip Coffee And Pie posted:I really dislike when movies use sex as a shorthand for “this person is cool.” Like any sort of badass is alway introduced in bed with a woman in the morning and usually trying to sneak out without being seen. Well...
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