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HenryEx posted:You and me both. I think you'll find it's spelled "Emmett." As in TTEMME. Pronounced like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zshm7vneHN0
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Out of Emmett.
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Jul 20, 2019 22:28
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Yeah I was kind of dunking on you but I didn't catch that either, good job there
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Jul 20, 2019 22:57
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Phy posted:Yeah I was kind of dunking on you but I didn't catch that either, good job there 
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Jul 21, 2019 00:04
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Basebf555 posted:The old dude look really worked for Sam Elliott in Roadhouse, because he does look like an older guy but then you see his body and you're like goddamn this guy is absolutely ripped. He's supposed to be playing like the best bouncer that ever lived so it was perfect for the role.
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Jul 21, 2019 02:52
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Has anyone mentioned Under the Silver Lake yet? It's the latest from the writer/director of It Follows, and, wow. I'm not sure how much I liked it but its literally massively full of codes and messages for the protagonist as well as the viewer. One example is in a scene where fireworks are going off at a bizarre place/time. People have figured out that the fireworks are going off in morse code and there's a very clear message that absolutely was intentional. It's long and kinda slow but i've been thinking on it a lot since I watched it. It's on Prime Video if anyone is interested.
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Jul 22, 2019 21:08
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Gejimayu posted:Has anyone mentioned Under the Silver Lake yet? It's the latest from the writer/director of It Follows, and, wow. I'm not sure how much I liked it but its literally massively full of codes and messages for the protagonist as well as the viewer. One example is in a scene where fireworks are going off at a bizarre place/time. People have figured out that the fireworks are going off in morse code and there's a very clear message that absolutely was intentional. It's long and kinda slow but i've been thinking on it a lot since I watched it. It's on Prime Video if anyone is interested. Gonna check it out on Prime this weekend. Thanks op
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Jul 22, 2019 21:26
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Kramdar posted:Out of Emmett. You're the doc, Doc. Hey, also, buying into the time travel thing and all, sure... But how the hell do you explain Doc's complete lack of safety that nearly gets him and Marty killed when the DeLorean with Einstein in it comes back? That always bugged me; he's so scientific, so precise, and yet his watch gives him like a 2-second warning about this huge car barreling through at 88mph, exactly where's he's standing. C'mon, Doc.
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Jul 23, 2019 15:08
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Phy posted:Yeah I was kind of dunking on you but I didn't catch that either, good job there Holy cow, I'm dumb.
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Jul 23, 2019 15:48
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:You're the doc, Doc. Give him a break, he just invented time travel (for a second time). And Doc is anything but scientific. The man’s a hot mess.
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Jul 23, 2019 15:50
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Doc is basically a likeable mad scientist. He got the plutonium to power his time machine by stealing it from Libya and all. The context is lost today but choosing a DeLorean as the base for his time machine is meant to show that he's eccentric at best, since they were notoriously unreliable, underpowered and weird for the time. And the car does break down throughout all three movies, not unrealistic for a DeLorean even before you install a ton of barely tested mad science doodads to it. Equivalent today would be like... Tesla doesn't seem quite right given they still have an undeserved positive reputation, maybe a Reliant Robin. Ghost Leviathan has a new favorite as of 13:38 on Jul 24, 2019 |
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Jul 24, 2019 13:36
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Doc is basically a likeable mad scientist. He got the plutonium to power his time machine by stealing it from Libya and all. The Rick & Morty show is pretty much a BTTF parody (it actually started out as a direct parody and the names got changed) that only makes Doc/Rick slightly more amoral than he was.
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Jul 24, 2019 13:40
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Pretty much, yeah. I think Doc might have been the originator for mad scientists as a central character and even protagonist rather than villain or side character. Actual subtle moment is that BTTF doesn't bother explaining why Doc Brown and Marty are friends, though there was originally a few scenes going to, because the actors had such good chemistry there was no need to. A carefree teenage punk and a reclusive elderly mad scientist wouldn't exactly be expected to be friends, even Rick and Morty has to justify why the hell they interact at all with being blood family.
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Jul 24, 2019 13:45
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Another subtle diff is bttf being not bad instead of v bad. Hard to spot but it's there
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Jul 24, 2019 13:47
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Needles being a pretty dope metalhead name, but also the person who'd needle McFly into doing bad things was something I didn't appreciate until the uptenth viewing.
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Jul 24, 2019 14:03
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Doc is basically a likeable mad scientist. He got the plutonium to power his time machine by stealing it from Libya and all. Terrorists with enough resources to obtain plutonium and yet Doc is surprised they're able to track him down when they discover that he gave them a fake bomb.
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Jul 24, 2019 14:16
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Pretty much, yeah. I think Doc might have been the originator for mad scientists as a central character and even protagonist rather than villain or side character. A very subtle moment is the existence of Jerry Lewis and Fred MacMurray
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Jul 24, 2019 16:37
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Krispy Wafer posted:Needles being a pretty dope metalhead name, but also the person who'd needle McFly into doing bad things was something I didn't appreciate until the uptenth viewing. Biff was the person who George biffed in the face
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Jul 24, 2019 17:26
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I thought biffing in the face was when you get really dehydrated and then ejaculate across someone's visage.
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Jul 24, 2019 18:08
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Pope Corky the IX posted:I thought biffing in the face was when you get really dehydrated and then ejaculate across someone's visage. No, that's known as Sun Tannen lotion
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Jul 24, 2019 19:41
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:No, that's known as Sun Tannen lotion  I was wondering what was taking so long for someone to reply to Pope's post.
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Jul 24, 2019 20:55
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:No, that's known as Sun Tannen lotion 
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Gejimayu posted:Has anyone mentioned Under the Silver Lake yet? It's the latest from the writer/director of It Follows, and, wow. I'm not sure how much I liked it but its literally massively full of codes and messages for the protagonist as well as the viewer. One example is in a scene where fireworks are going off at a bizarre place/time. People have figured out that the fireworks are going off in morse code and there's a very clear message that absolutely was intentional. It's long and kinda slow but i've been thinking on it a lot since I watched it. It's on Prime Video if anyone is interested. I've found the movie oddly disturbing even if it's a bit bleak for me. That said, there is a shitton of coded messages (think ARG levels of code cracking) in the movie; this is very meta - since code breaking and hidden messages are such a big part of the plot of the movie - even if afaik it's something destined for the viewers and not part of the plot of the movie in itself. There is a subreddit hunting for these coded messages, and this is a "what we have discovered so far" thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/underthesilverlake/comments/a8ui73/biggest_discovery_of_the_utsl_mystery/ It's...very fitting that I've just finished the movie and I've missed almost every single one of these.
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Jul 24, 2019 22:27
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Sand Monster posted:Terrorists with enough resources to obtain plutonium and yet Doc is surprised they're able to track him down when they discover that he gave them a fake bomb. I was always under the impression he expected to be in another time zone (literally) when they finally got on to him, and to be fair if they'd shown up like 15 minutes later he'd have been right
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Jul 25, 2019 00:44
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ImpAtom posted:I was always under the impression he expected to be in another time zone (literally) when they finally got on to him, and to be fair if they'd shown up like 15 minutes later he'd have been right Not necessarily; I don't think Doc was ready to go anywhere / anywhen that night, but it's possible. Edit: another thing that bugs me about that scene (I really do love the movie and trilogy, really  ) is when he puts in the date when he invented the flux capacitor. He first says it like it was when time travel was invented. Then right after that, it's like it just occurs to him that that's the date he invented the thing. The two sentences seem really weird together, like Doc totally knows what happened on that date, and then immediately acts like he's just remembering it for the first time.
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Jul 25, 2019 11:55
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Not necessarily; I don't think Doc was ready to go anywhere / anywhen that night, but it's possible. It's too obvious a reaction to not be deliberate. Perhaps it was Doc marveling at the moment his invention went from theoretical to practical. 30 years is a long time to wait when you first get your inspiration at **checks notes** 17 years of age. poo poo, Christopher Lloyd looked vaguely young on Taxi and then pretty much was old for the rest of his career.
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Jul 25, 2019 12:25
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It's the Patrick Stewart technique. Go bald young and you'll be sort of old forever. See also; Jude Law.
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Jul 25, 2019 12:28
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Krispy Wafer posted:It's too obvious a reaction to not be deliberate. Perhaps it was Doc marveling at the moment his invention went from theoretical to practical. 30 years is a long time to wait when you first get your inspiration at **checks notes** 17 years of age. poo poo, Christopher Lloyd looked vaguely young on Taxi and then pretty much was old for the rest of his career. Wait, are you saying that you think 1955 Doc Brown is supposed to be 17? I always assumed that 55 Doc Brown was in his mid-late 30s or a bit older and 85 Doc was mid-late 60s or a bit older. edit: according to the novelization of the film, Doc is 35 in 1955 and 65 in 1985.
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Jul 25, 2019 15:14
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Not necessarily; I don't think Doc was ready to go anywhere / anywhen that night, but it's possible. The whole reason the movie happens is because Doc has refueled the DeLorean to go on a trip 30 years into the future (“I, Doctor Emmet Brown, am about to embark on an historic journey”) but forgot to pack extra plutonium to get back. MichiganCubbie posted:I always assumed that 55 Doc Brown was in his mid-late 30s or a bit older and 85 Doc was mid-late 60s or a bit older You are correct
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Jul 25, 2019 15:19
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OldSenileGuy posted:The whole reason the movie happens is because Doc has refueled the DeLorean to go on a trip 30 years into the future (“I, Doctor Emmet Brown, am about to embark on an historic journey”) but forgot to pack extra plutonium to get back. Obviously he thought that in 2015 Plutonium would be available at every corner store. One joke that I absolutely love in 2 is when he proudly shows off his rejuvenation surgery, since he was wearing an old man mask, and he basically looks the same. Like, they did add a few wrinkles, but he's the same.
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Jul 25, 2019 15:23
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Lone Pine Mall is a classic subtle movie moment
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Jul 25, 2019 15:40
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bitterandtwisted posted:Lone Pine Mall is a classic subtle movie moment I remember the first time I noticed that. Such a fun little detail
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Jul 25, 2019 16:02
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MichiganCubbie posted:Obviously he thought that in 2015 Plutonium would be available at every corner store. A also a good excuse to just write out the really horrible and super noticeable prosthetics. It's the one downside of the first movie in HD
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Jul 25, 2019 16:11
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MichiganCubbie posted:Wait, are you saying that you think 1955 Doc Brown is supposed to be 17? I always assumed that 55 Doc Brown was in his mid-late 30s or a bit older and 85 Doc was mid-late 60s or a bit older. I know he's not supposed to his real age, I just couldn't figure out how old he'd be in 1955 to still look the same in 1985. They make the same joke about the Principal who is another actor who never really ages either because he's bald.
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Jul 25, 2019 16:17
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Krispy Wafer posted:It's too obvious a reaction to not be deliberate. Perhaps it was Doc marveling at the moment his invention went from theoretical to practical. 30 years is a long time to wait when you first get your inspiration at **checks notes** 17 years of age. poo poo, Christopher Lloyd looked vaguely young on Taxi and then pretty much was old for the rest of his career. *cracks knuckles, flips down wrap-around mirror shades* When he first puts the 1955 date in, hes just using it as a trivial example of an important date in the town's history; the date of the clocktower being struck by lightning, which he then realizes is coincidentally the same day he came up with the idea of the flux capacitor I mean have you goons even seen the movie hundreds of times or not?!
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MichiganCubbie posted:Wait, are you saying that you think 1955 Doc Brown is supposed to be 17? I always assumed that 55 Doc Brown was in his mid-late 30s or a bit older and 85 Doc was mid-late 60s or a bit older. But he was 65 in 2016! Great Scott!
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Mr. Bad Guy posted:*cracks knuckles, flips down wrap-around mirror shades* Yeah, you're right. That is a weird way to segue into how he invented time travel. I guess it reinforces the clock tower plot point if you didn't catch it the first time from the old lady with the coin can.
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Jul 25, 2019 16:50
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But the date he puts in is not the date of the clock tower lightning strike. It’s a week before. (Nov 5 vs Nov 12) He doesn’t mention the clock tower at all. EDIT: For what it’s worth, I’ve always agreed that that was a weird moment. He inputs the date and calls it a red-letter date in the history of science, but then acts like he only remembers it’s the date he invented time travel afterwards. What else happened on that date to make it so important? OldSenileGuy has a new favorite as of 16:57 on Jul 25, 2019 |
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Jul 25, 2019 16:53
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OldSenileGuy posted:The whole reason the movie happens is because Doc has refueled the DeLorean to go on a trip 30 years into the future (“I, Doctor Emmet Brown, am about to embark on an historic journey”) but forgot to pack extra plutonium to get back. He had extra plutonium actually (case of it as I recall, they pulled out one container of a bunch when they were loading the car) but they didn’t get a chance to put the rest into the car before the terrorists came in shooting. Otherwise he wouldn’t have been able to travel into the future to set up the sequel, after all.
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OldSenileGuy posted:But the date he puts in is not the date of the clock tower lightning strike. It’s a week before. (Nov 5 vs Nov 12) He doesn’t mention the clock tower at all. Damnit, you're right. Now I feel like an rear end in a top hat.
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