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Facebook Aunt posted:Okay but if this guy is too focused on the mission to chat, why the heck is he wasting all that time running around breaking every pot in town? Have you seen the enemies in the new one? 
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In 22 Jump Street, they make about a jillion meta jokes about sequels never being original and just doing the same movie again, but then they made the same movie again anyway. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and assume the writers were making fun of studio demands, but it's still a weird end result.
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Since I brought up Spiderman 2 last page: I don't understand why they lost the trail on the character/villain setups they did there for SM3. We had Doc Conners right there for The Lizard over two films and even if Venom was a studio mandate, why not use Jameson's astronaut son character and introduce the symbiote that way? He already barely served a purpose in SM2 so at least make that pay off and shoehorn him in that way. You have a somewhat reasonable explanation for the alien goo showing up from space instead of just randomly landing near Peter in Central Park for no reason and, if you can work a way where Jameson Junior figures out that Peter is Spiderman, you have it attach to JJ, JR and a far more solid motivation for why Venom hates his guts beyond some stupid office photography rivalry. JJ, Jr is already pissed at Peter now. Then he turns into Venom and now wants him dead for stealing his girl and her leaving him at the altar. You also have a better physical match for the character instead of Topher Grace who is for some reason motivated to pray in church so god will kill Peter for... Inadvertently getting him fired? Conveniently timed so it coincides with Peter ridding himself of the black suit? Throw Harry in there in there somewhere with a better costume if you have to or just put him in a coma or some poo poo then you can do whatever you want with SM4. Come to think of it, none of that is irrational so I apologize. Were the re-writes and studio interference really that bad when the whole plot for SM3 is already is right there and the characters already built?
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Oct 28, 2021 00:16
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BiggerBoat posted:Topher Grace who is for some reason motivated to pray in church so god will kill Peter for... That scene in the church (specifically the please kill him line) got a roar of laughter in the theatre I saw it in, and everyone in the audience simultaneously checked out of caring about that dumbass movie. The overall mood just palpably changed in an instant, it was incredible.
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Oct 28, 2021 00:27
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It doesn't even make sense that Spider-man would go up that church tower if he wasn't chasing Shocker.
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Oct 28, 2021 00:29
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CordlessPen posted:In 22 Jump Street, they make about a jillion meta jokes about sequels never being original and just doing the same movie again, but then they made the same movie again anyway. That was the joke though. If they had made the joke that sequels are always the same and then done something completely different, it'd just be a sequel and not a parody. Both of them are very good movies though and are the best comedy movies made in a long time.
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Saw Dune on Sunday and loved it. A couple minor nitpicks, because that's what this thread is for: Lady Jessica is a notably strong-willed character in the book and that was not present in most of her scenes. She came off as constantly anxious and meek, with a couple exceptions (Sardaukar ornithopter ride and punking Stilgar). I guess maybe this was intentional to have her hiding her true nature/all the stuff she's juggling, but it didn't quite land for me. This got mentioned upthread, but I was a bit confused they didn't mention or even allude to the lasgun-on-shield effect. Come to think of it, they didn't mention the House Atomics either, although I'd have to re-skim the book to see where that's first talked about. Personal opinion here, but I think they should have included Paul crying over Jamis at the end, right after the duel. I know in the book it takes place once they reach the sietch, but IMO it would have been much more emotionally impactful to include it at the close of the first movie (I described the scene to my family and they agreed it would have been a good emotional moment). Plus I suspect some of the Sietch Tabr stuff is going to be cut in part II anyway.
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In the short film Zombie in a Penguin Suit (On YouTube), they show zombies climbing out of graves, but they also show a church full of people who killed themselves to prevent becoming zombies, using poison. Either all the dead rise, or they don't. That said it's completely fantastic and has more zombie movie in 7 minutes than a lot of full length features.
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Oct 29, 2021 23:13
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what if you only become a zombie if youre buried? check mate
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All the dead bodies at one exact moment were turned into zombies, but then after that you have to be specifically infected.
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Beachcomber posted:In the short film Zombie in a Penguin Suit (On YouTube), they show zombies climbing out of graves, but they also show a church full of people who killed themselves to prevent becoming zombies, using poison.
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Oct 30, 2021 03:04
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In the Balkans killing yourself was basically a surefire way of becoming a vampire. Other ways included: -Not being baptized -Being born in the caul -Practicing witchcraft -Converting to Islam -A vampire looking at your mother while she was pregnant with you -A cat jumping over your body after you die -Eating meat from a sheep preyed on by a vampire -Being the son or daughter of a vampire -Even a single blood of vampire blood getting on you at all Also being killed by a vampire I guess
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Oct 30, 2021 03:23
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FreudianSlippers posted:In the Balkans killing yourself was basically a surefire way of becoming a vampire. Pretty sure we all know which of these was most important. I say that having enjoyed Bram Stoker's Dracula. It was just laden with Christian imagery. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb3O46ZEJmI
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Oct 30, 2021 03:27
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FreudianSlippers posted:-A vampire looking at your mother while she was pregnant with you Lazy vampire just hanging out at the Starbucks opposite the antenatal clinic.
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In Knives Out, I understand why Christopher Plummer didn't leave anything in his will for his family. Plus they're all awful people so you don't feel bad for them. It is pretty hosed up that he didn't leave anything for his senile mother. She seemed alright.
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Ego-bot posted:In Knives Out, I understand why Christopher Plummer didn't leave anything in his will for his family. Plus they're all awful people so you don't feel bad for them. It is pretty hosed up that he didn't leave anything for his senile mother. She seemed alright. I'm pretty sure that he could trust that Marta will look after her.
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Oct 30, 2021 17:22
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Gaunab posted:Who are some introverted black male characters? Chidi from the Good Place. Josh from Fear Street 1994. Sean from The Alchemist Cookbook.
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Oct 30, 2021 17:36
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Ego-bot posted:In Knives Out, I understand why Christopher Plummer didn't leave anything in his will for his family. Plus they're all awful people so you don't feel bad for them. It is pretty hosed up that he didn't leave anything for his senile mother. She seemed alright.
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Squidster posted:Christopher Plummer's character was also an awful person who lorded his power over his awful family. He was just less of an rear end in a top hat.
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Oct 30, 2021 18:17
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Ego-bot posted:In Knives Out, I understand why Christopher Plummer didn't leave anything in his will for his family. Plus they're all awful people so you don't feel bad for them. It is pretty hosed up that he didn't leave anything for his senile mother. She seemed alright. He probably should have left them token amounts. I've seen that suggested as a strategy when you want to cut your heirs out of your will and don't want them to have a good case to challenge the will in court.
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Demons never seem grateful to the person who summons them. It's always just some snide comment and then they murder them. Why don't they put that part in the summoning books? "by the way, the demon is kind of a jerk and will probably kill you"
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Oct 31, 2021 13:43
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Demons never seem grateful to the person who summons them. It's always just some snide comment and then they murder them. Why don't they put that part in the summoning books? "by the way, the demon is kind of a jerk and will probably kill you" The Bartimaeus books get this right, iirc. The demons are listed with a level of difficulty, and danger level if you gently caress up your rune circle.
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I was thinking about the ones in supernatural where you don't even have to mess anything up, they just arrive and are like "haha idiot have fun in hell" and snap your neck. They could at least be polite about it. e: the exception is the crossroad demons I guess. They at least give you something cool before murdering you. yeah I eat ass has a new favorite as of 14:13 on Oct 31, 2021 |
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It's especially annoying because it doesn't feel like it makes sense - they just had a nice window where they don't have to hang out in hell and get to chill on Earth for a bit, why not take their time with the job as given? Especially since if people keep getting murdered every time that demon is summoned people might notice and then he just wouldn't get summoned again, which seems like it would suck for them. I'd love to see a story where the Demon actually behaves himself once summoned purely because he doesn't want to get some rowdy priest trying to exorcise him and there's a lot of cool poo poo he wants to check out. If he can get the humans in the community to like him, maybe they'll stick up for him. I know the logic is normally "chaotic evil being murdering for a laugh" but chaotic evil doesn't necessarily mean stupid. Hell, I think I just described Andy Serkis' Venom movies :P. Venom behaves because he's grown attached to the humans around Eddie and they help him where they can, even having his own rapport with the supporting cast sometimes. BioEnchanted has a new favorite as of 15:21 on Oct 31, 2021 |
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Oct 31, 2021 15:19
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BioEnchanted posted:It's especially annoying because it doesn't feel like it makes sense - they just had a nice window where they don't have to hang out in hell and get to chill on Earth for a bit, why not take their time with the job as given? Especially since if people keep getting murdered every time that demon is summoned people might notice and then he just wouldn't get summoned again, which seems like it would suck for them. I'd love to see a story where the Demon actually behaves himself once summoned purely because he doesn't want to get some rowdy priest trying to exorcise him and there's a lot of cool poo poo he wants to check out. If he can get the humans in the community to like him, maybe they'll stick up for him. You're assuming that they would prefer earth to hell. They just want to get this whole errand over to get back to their cozy 9 to 5, before the work piles up. If the quest giver is especially pesky, it's easier just to kill him.
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Oct 31, 2021 16:22
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cant cook creole bream posted:You're assuming that they would prefer earth to hell. They just want to get this whole errand over to get back to their cozy 9 to 5, before the work piles up. If the quest giver is especially pesky, it's easier just to kill him. if we’re talking christian demons then per the canon they pretty explicitly don’t want to be in hell, that’s the whole story of legion and the pigs
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Oct 31, 2021 16:27
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My IIMM with Knives Out is wtf Daniel Craig was doing with that accent.
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BioEnchanted posted:It's especially annoying because it doesn't feel like it makes sense - they just had a nice window where they don't have to hang out in hell and get to chill on Earth for a bit, why not take their time with the job as given? In Unknown Armies, a cool rear end RPG, demons who get summoned try to possess you so they can just take your body and use it to live out their obsession for as long as they can until you manage to kick them out. So like if there's a demon who really loves tacos, and he possesses you, he's going to run to the nearest cantina and just start gorging himself silly on carnitas. They have no interest in going back at all, they just want to stick here as long as they can and enjoy whatever it is that gets them off.
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BiggerBoat posted:My IIMM with Knives Out is wtf Daniel Craig was doing with that accent.
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BiggerBoat posted:My IIMM with Knives Out is wtf Daniel Craig was doing with that accent. Same thing every American theater kid does with British ones.
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BiggerBoat posted:My IIMM with Knives Out is wtf Daniel Craig was doing with that accent. The best part is they're going to be paying him millions of dollars to do it again. And again.
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:The best part is they're going to be paying him millions of dollars to do it again. And again. I kind of want him to have a different ridiculous accent each time
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BiggerBoat posted:My IIMM with Knives Out is wtf Daniel Craig was doing with that accent. 
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christmas boots posted:I kind of want him to have a different ridiculous accent each time Quick wiki take, this was set in Massachusetts. That should give him plenty to work with.
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Oct 31, 2021 18:14
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Demons never seem grateful to the person who summons them. It's always just some snide comment and then they murder them. Why don't they put that part in the summoning books? "by the way, the demon is kind of a jerk and will probably kill you" And while we're at it, who the gently caress would sell their soul to the devil? Like, cool, enjoy your billion dollars or sick fiddle skills for a couple of decades. Hope it was worth the eternity of neverending torture.
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FreudianSlippers posted:In the Balkans killing yourself was basically a surefire way of becoming a vampire. I seem to remember reading a Bulgarian legend stating untrustworthy barmaids being fated to be vampires. That gave me a good chuckle. Which was seconded when I read that one of the things vampires were reported that they could transform into was haystacks.
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BiggerBoat posted:My IIMM with Knives Out is wtf Daniel Craig was doing with that accent. He sounds even more insane in his Steven Soderbergh movie
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Samovar posted:I seem to remember reading a Bulgarian legend stating untrustworthy barmaids being fated to be vampires. That gave me a good chuckle. Chill evening at your favorite Bulgarian village tavern abruptly interrupted by the terror of the barmaid shortchanging you followed by spotting a haystack on your way home.
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800peepee51doodoo posted:And while we're at it, who the gently caress would sell their soul to the devil? Like, cool, enjoy your billion dollars or sick fiddle skills for a couple of decades. Hope it was worth the eternity of neverending torture. There are a few reasons, and yeah humans are capricious. But the better to rule in hell than serve in heaven is one. This all assumes that the narrative of the Abrahamic religions are true. And that the unspeakable one is almighty. And that he doesn't just want to gently caress with you. And that he is the one and only. Because biblical texts imply other gods. You shall have no other gods before me. A lighter touch recognizes the supreme god and pays obeisance but yeah, Baal exists based on your dusty old books. e: sorry I meant to say that the Catholic Church and it's unholy abomination the charismatic christians make demons out of normal human behavior and witches are just women who know what abortifacients are BaldDwarfOnPCP has a new favorite as of 18:49 on Oct 31, 2021 |
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