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Beachcomber posted:Thanks to HBO I can watch basically any movie in medias res. My wife acts like it's a superpower, but maybe that says more about her. Same and it bugs my wife that I can do it. That said, I stopped paying for tv forever ago and it’s so much better. The 4 extra button presses is worth it.
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Amazing how many movies sound like porn just from audio. Overhearing a movie in the other room, it's a mix of screams, coughing, and some woman crying out loudly every few seconds. Imagine my surprise to find it's some dumbass "white rich family on vacation has a natural disaster" movie. Like, I get it, but after minute five the screams get a bit desensitized.
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Cowslips Warren posted:Amazing how many movies sound like porn just from audio. 
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Nov 15, 2020 04:08
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Has she considered turning on her monitor?
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Nov 15, 2020 04:13
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Maybe it's because I never liked that garbage; horror movies should have screams, yes, but the steady crying and screaming just hits that panic button in me first, and then after a few minutes it is just annoying. I'd be poo poo in a real life apocalypse. Did anyone else watch the new Witches movie and just find the witches so blah compared to the original? Uncanny valley yes, but the actual terror wasn't there.
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Nov 15, 2020 05:04
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oldpainless posted:Has she considered turning on her monitor? 
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Nov 15, 2020 05:25
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Horror has many categories, but lately there's a lot of terror rather than slow burn horror, imho. Things like jump scares and chase sequences are scary, but don't give you a lot of time to get that feeling in your gut how utterly wrong things are. Fast zombies might as well be anything, because the fact that they're a decaying human being never gets time to breathe.
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Nov 15, 2020 08:31
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Last really good creepy horror movie I saw was The Void. The Hunted was kinda cool, but it never really got to the "scary" part. Mostly, even at the climax, was just kinda creepy/weird. Last Shift was pretty great though.
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Nov 15, 2020 08:46
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Cowslips Warren posted:Amazing how many movies sound like porn just from audio. Overhearing a movie in the other room, it's a mix of screams, coughing, and some woman crying out loudly every few seconds. See the old joke about watching Dragon Ball Z with your eyes closed.
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Nov 15, 2020 09:30
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In the "Marge Vs. The Monorail" episode of the Simpsons, how did the townsfolk of North Haverbrook know that Lyle Lanley was going to be on the plane that landed at their airport? Passenger manifests aren't public knowledge. Boy, I sure hope someone got fired for that blunder.
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Nov 15, 2020 23:39
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The mob was just at that airport waiting for the one guy with really good eyesight to point out him, or in fact any other villain of which the town had run afoul
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Nov 15, 2020 23:46
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I was remember some dumb cave horror movie I watched, where people got trapped (obviously, otherwise it's not much of a cave horror movie) and I was peeved cause they had these cool sonar mapping guns that they used to see if a route was blocked or not, and it turns out, that poo poo doesn't exist. I don't spelunk, but dammit I would still love one of those to just randomly poke around in the woods and see if I can find bigfoot or something.
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Nov 16, 2020 06:09
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Your Gay Uncle posted:In the "Marge Vs. The Monorail" episode of the Simpsons, how did the townsfolk of North Haverbrook know that Lyle Lanley was going to be on the plane that landed at their airport? Passenger manifests aren't public knowledge. There was a wizard in North Haverbrook.
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Nov 16, 2020 14:18
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Beachcomber posted:Horror has many categories, but lately there's a lot of terror rather than slow burn horror, imho. Things like jump scares and chase sequences are scary, but don't give you a lot of time to get that feeling in your gut how utterly wrong things are. Fast zombies might as well be anything, because the fact that they're a decaying human being never gets time to breathe. Current trend is the exact opposite. Cerebral horror is at the moment far more popular than it has been in over two decades.
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Nov 16, 2020 14:26
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Your Gay Uncle posted:In the "Marge Vs. The Monorail" episode of the Simpsons, how did the townsfolk of North Haverbrook know that Lyle Lanley was going to be on the plane that landed at their airport? Passenger manifests aren't public knowledge. Wasn't the stop in North Haverbrook unplanned, hence Lyle's surprise? Maybe the pilot/co-pilot was in on it.
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:Current trend is the exact opposite. Cerebral horror is at the moment far more popular than it has been in over two decades. I feel like the genre got completely overrun with shlock and self-referential cliche for decades now, and did the video game thing where the big franchises all end up turning into full on action movies, so whatever room that's left got taken over by cerebral horror simply because it's one niche that isn't completely oversaturated.
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Speaking of Netflix horror shows, my GF started watching the "Haunting of Bly Manor" series, which is sort of a sequel to "Haunting of Hill House"? Not that I've seen that one, either, but I guess it's sort of Netflix's version of American Horror Story? Anthology style? At any rate, my GOD this show is boring and slow paced. Like...legit, I missed episodes 2 and 3, she watched without me...and she caught me up in like two minutes. That's how little anything happens, at least until like episode 6 when we finally get some cool stuff. I think it's 6, maybe 7 or even 5(?) where we find out Ms.Grose is dead and traveling through her memories, as ghosts in this manor are want to do. At first I didn't think she was dead, just that being in the house so long affected her consciousness and it was traveling to different times, but nope, dead in a well. She was just too stubborn of a ghost to realize she was dead and was still a slightly physical person? Like...I did notice she never ate, but she drank tea and wine and was cozying up to Owen, and could change clothes, unlike Peter and Becca. I still have one episode left, so it's entirely possible Owen (and Jaime? The gardener) are also dead. That's my girlfriend's theory, everyone except Dani and the kids are ghosts. I don't think Jaime and Owen are dead, since they've left the manor (we see Owen pick up Dani in the car, and we see Dani and Jaime at Jaime's place above the pub, right?) And we finished episode 8 last night, and good LORD that was a slog. I get that they needed to give us the backstory of the manor and why it was haunted, but an entire episode, in unnecessary black and white, with a LOT of filler (so she slept...and she woke...and she walked x20) was not the way. I have a feeling the original plan might have been to intersperse the entire story of the sisters periodically in the other episodes, but maybe the producers/editors decided they needed 9 episodes, not 8? So they jammed it all into a single episode? And then every so often you're reminded that this ENTIRE show is actually being told by someone else to a group of people at a wedding? Not sure how the gently caress she was describing the weird memory-hopping poo poo, especially in the Hannah-focused episode. At this point we're just finishing out of a need for closure.
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Yeah, that was pretty much my thought process as my wife and I watched the show. It was absurd.
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Nov 16, 2020 20:45
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The first season was so good and this one was so incredibly bad
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Nov 16, 2020 21:22
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I get vaguely annoyed when people recall an event from earlier in the film and they witness it from third person, exactly the footage we saw earlier as the viewer. Who the hell remembers stuff from a different perspective? That horrific car accident I was in, but I'm viewing it from a drone?
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Cowslips Warren posted:Amazing how many movies sound like porn just from audio. Overhearing a movie in the other room, it's a mix of screams, coughing, and some woman crying out loudly every few seconds. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was frequently on Showtime a few months ago, and was a frequent thing on in the background during and after dinner. That of course includes this scene from the end! Beware of spoilers.
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Nov 17, 2020 02:34
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In Beerfest when the crew goes to recruit Jay Chandrasekhar's character (Barry), they learn that he has become a male prostitute. When they meet, Barry explains his rate for various services with the line, "Its $10 for BJ, $12 for an HJ, and $15 for a ZJ". When one of the characters, Landfill, asks what a ZJ is, Barry responds "If you have to ask big man, you can't afford it". That response doesn't really work for that question for two reasons. First, Landfill isn't asking how much the ZJ is, which would be the question that response is typically for. And second, Barry already explained that a ZJ costs only $15, which would be pretty affordable for most adults. A more appropriate line would have been "If you have to ask big man, you don't want to know".
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Just started playing Assassin's Creed: Valhalla. "We're an ancient order of assassins who kill evil political leaders. There's this group of evil leaders in positions of power all of England, we'd like you to help us kill them." "Well, they don't sound evil. I mean, my brother are I are trying to start out own kingdom and be leaders ourselves." "No, these people aren't like you at all. They have no honor or principles whatsoever, it's just naked will to power." "Oh, okay. I'll help you as soon as I get back from murdering all these monks and looting their monastery." "Cool. See you then."
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Beachcomber posted:Fast zombies might as well be anything, because the fact that they're a decaying human being never gets time to breathe. Honestly the best zombie thing I've seen in a long time is the 7th episode of Primal. I usually don't find zombies scary or disturbing but something about that visceral animation really got to me.
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Gromit posted:I get vaguely annoyed when people recall an event from earlier in the film and they witness it from third person, exactly the footage we saw earlier as the viewer. Who the hell remembers stuff from a different perspective? That horrific car accident I was in, but I'm viewing it from a drone? https://dictionary.apa.org/observer-memory https://www.thatthinkingfeeling.co.uk/blog/memory-perspective-see-from-outside That's actually pretty normal. SimonChris has a new favorite as of 11:48 on Nov 17, 2020 |
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Gromit posted:I get vaguely annoyed when people recall an event from earlier in the film and they witness it from third person, exactly the footage we saw earlier as the viewer. Who the hell remembers stuff from a different perspective? That horrific car accident I was in, but I'm viewing it from a drone? Your memories aren't recordings and are unreliable constructs amalgamated from sensory input being collated into vague recollections of what happened. I have plenty of third person memories, as do many other people.
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Nov 17, 2020 11:59
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Gromit posted:I get vaguely annoyed when people recall an event from earlier in the film and they witness it from third person, exactly the footage we saw earlier as the viewer. Who the hell remembers stuff from a different perspective? That horrific car accident I was in, but I'm viewing it from a drone? Or when there's security cam footage that's just a reused shot from earlier in the movie. Possibly shot at an impossible angle with dramatic cuts.
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LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:Or when there's security cam footage that's just a reused shot from earlier in the movie. The new Netflix show Evil does that in the second episode. They're watching security camera footage of an autopsy from angles that are impossible unless the security camera is literally a guy with a video camera and crane. The show wasn't great, but that guaranteed I wasn't hanging around for a 3rd episode. It's just lazy film making where they won't or can't make a static shot suspenseful.
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LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:Or when there's security cam footage that's just a reused shot from earlier in the movie. The funniest example of this I can think of is the '98 Godzilla when the US military somehow got surveillance footage from the French secret service and it's literally the scene from earlier in the movie complete with cuts and close-ups.
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Krispy Wafer posted:The new Netflix show Evil does that in the second episode. They're watching security camera footage of an autopsy from angles that are impossible unless the security camera is literally a guy with a video camera and crane. The show wasn't great, but that guaranteed I wasn't hanging around for a 3rd episode. Is that the show where in the first episode the main character lady spends like two 10 minute diatribes talking about how she wants to gently caress her new boss and that she has a cesarean scar because she had a night terror about a guy that looks like the goblin from Nekrogoblikon?
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Captain Monkey posted:Is that the show where in the first episode the main character lady spends like two 10 minute diatribes talking about how she wants to gently caress her new boss and that she has a cesarean scar because she had a night terror about a guy that looks like the goblin from Nekrogoblikon? And her new boss is an aspiring priest. Yep. I liked the night terror guy. I think they did a good job on the design. The show had a mildly intriguing concept, but the love interest plotline is as subtle as a brick and about as interesting.
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I think that's a CBS show, Netflix just has the streaming rights. So it's just a broadcast procedural. Gotta have a love interest plot running. It's a rule.
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Most of my experience with that Star Wars EU was mostly Lucasarts games and The Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels from the 90s, so I get  Irrationally Irritated when new Imperial fighters get added to the timeframe of the original trilogy.The Empire is developing a fancy new fighter that could spell the doom for the Rebellion, and it isn’t the TIE Avenger or Defender? An Imperial attack force is using something other than an Assault Gunboat to disable targets? If the TIE Reaper was in service during the Galactic Civil War, why couldn’t I fly it in Star Wars: TIE Fighter?! Get that poo poo out of here! Rogue One makes up for a lot by showing Y-Wings actually bombing something.
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I'm still angry that after 11 films we've never gotten to see a Matter and Commander style broadside in a Star Wars film.
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Krispy Wafer posted:The new Netflix show Evil does that in the second episode. They're watching security camera footage of an autopsy from angles that are impossible unless the security camera is literally a guy with a video camera and crane. The show wasn't great, but that guaranteed I wasn't hanging around for a 3rd episode. The video from 1991 in Captain America: Civil War was pretty good, showed Stark's parents being killed from a fixed angle with lovely resolution... until you start thinking to yourself "why the gently caress was there a security camera on a small country road in upstate New York in 1991?!?" rydiafan posted:I'm still angry that after 11 films we've never gotten to see a Matter and Commander style broadside in a Star Wars film. Now that you mention it, hell of 
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Holy poo poo, New Mutants was terrible. First, literally nothing happens until 60% of the way through the movie and when it does it's nothing you care about. Second, the movie actually ends with that line about the two wolves and the one that wins being the one you feed, except cross out "wolf" and write in "bear." And then there's this bit where this big loving alarm goes off, and a character is sleeping when it goes off, and instead of jerking awake like people would do when the HOLY poo poo HOLY poo poo HOLY poo poo noise goes off, she wakes up really slowly like it was Alexa playing Engelbert Humperdinck at her and the look on her face is like she's idly wondering what the noise is.
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My favorite “Why/how would they have this footage” thing was in an episode of My Super Sweet 16, where a kid tries to get Kanye West to perform at his party. There’s a second act downturn where it appears Kanye won’t be coming, but surprise, he does! They give the reality to game away just a little by by filming and showing Kanye’s end of the phone conversations they have.
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Memento posted:The video from 1991 in Captain America: Civil War was pretty good, showed Stark's parents being killed from a fixed angle with lovely resolution... until you start thinking to yourself "why the gently caress was there a security camera on a small country road in upstate New York in 1991?!?" wasn't it a gate for some secure facility
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In Skyscraper, it seems like the entire plot could have been avoided if the fire control system was properly coded. There's literally no reason why the software should be able to bypass the fire control systems and open the vents like that. Just put an if(fire) modifyVentsByHacker= False. That's not a privilege even the highest level admin should have, because it never makes sense to do that.
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Tunicate posted:wasn't it a gate for some secure facility Oh yeah, look at that. Not sure I've ever paid that much attention to it. Disregard!
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