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The main problem I have with her is I never heard about her till after I watched Bojack Horseman, and there's a send up of her, Sextina Aquafina, a bottlenose dolphin. I didn't get the reference, and now I just think she's copying the character instead of the reverse.
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I don't think Sextina Aquafina is an Awkwafina parody. She's just a deranged take on modern pop stars.
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Henchman of Santa posted:I don't think Sextina Aquafina is an Awkwafina parody. She's just a deranged take on modern pop stars. Lol you are right, she's absolutely nothing to do with Awkafina. She's based on a person the creators knew in high school combined with what you said.
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Dec 29, 2021 21:39
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Baron von Eevl posted:Kidz Bop did a version of Hey Ya for the preschool crowd. The funniest Kidz Bop is when they covered "Born This Way" and cut all the LGBTQ lines.
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https://youtu.be/kkMz62yhEy4 was pretty good too.
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Blood Nightmaster posted:Also heard the 3rd Cinderella is absolutely nuts and involves time travel in some way https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82hjJGDYtS0
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It also has great animation flairs, like when Lady Tremaine first casts the spell that reverses time - she holds the wand aloft, nothing happens, then she briefly pulls it down, looks at the tip quizzically (like "What? Didn't it work?"), then suddenly the blast of magic is released with such force it practically pulls her arm off, startling her.
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Of the cheap cash-ins, I remember A Snow White Christmas being surprisingly good.
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Cinderella 3 rules, the stepmother basically becomes Baby Maleficent and Cinderella has to disguise herself and sneak into the castle to perform a wand heist. The red headed stepsister gets some character development and the prince gets to actually do something besides ask people if they lost their shoe. And it doesn't erase the altered timeline at the end, which is the usual result of these kinds of stories, they just make things work in the altered timeline. https://youtu.be/whMnZejD9mE
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The King's Man (the Kingsman prequel movie) has a really bizarre message/theme. Part way through the movie Ralph Fiennes' character tells his son that he used to be a soldier but he realized that the wars he fought in were pointless and every time he killed a man he killed a piece of his soul. Some stuff happens and the climax of the movie is him deciding that actually, killing is awesome.
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muscles like this! posted:The King's Man (the Kingsman prequel movie) has a really bizarre message/theme. Part way through the movie Ralph Fiennes' character tells his son that he used to be a soldier but he realized that the wars he fought in were pointless and every time he killed a man he killed a piece of his soul. Some stuff happens and the climax of the movie is him deciding that actually, killing is awesome. After the direction the second movie went, that sounds about right.
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The whole time I watched the first one i was annoyed it was such a fun movie with such absolutely loving garbage social undertones. It was rationally irritating.
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Zonko_T.M. posted:the prince gets to actually do something besides ask people if they lost their shoe He didn't even do that in the original, he did a dance, ran after a girl, picked up a shoe, and then got married.
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muscles like this! posted:The King's Man (the Kingsman prequel movie) has a really bizarre message/theme. Part way through the movie Ralph Fiennes' character tells his son that he used to be a soldier but he realized that the wars he fought in were pointless and every time he killed a man he killed a piece of his soul. Some stuff happens and the climax of the movie is him deciding that actually, killing is awesome. this is the plot of the first one
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Where the gently caress did Dr. Peter Venkman get 300cc of Thorazine from in a classy Central Park West apartment? Was he carrying it with him? Do you even measure Thorazine in cc?
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Memento posted:Where the gently caress did Dr. Peter Venkman get 300cc of Thorazine from in a classy Central Park West apartment? Was he carrying it with him? According to Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorpromazine it can be injected so you could measure it in ccs, but that's 10 loving fluid ounces. It's also not an anestheic but an Antipsychotic. I remember reading somewhere that Aykroyd mixed up Pete being a psychologist with a psychiatrist (ie can't vs can write scripts)
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Popular question on the internet. Yes, it should be by weight not volume: 300 cc is nearing a pint of liquid. 300 mg is a extremely heavy dose, so maybe they meant that instead. Also apparently the novelisation indicates Venkman searches her apartment for Valium or something similar (to answer the ‘where did it come from’ question). He doesn’t have the qualifications to prescribe medication. The general conclusion is that it’s a throwaway line to explain a) she’s very possessed and needs a lot of drugs to make her calm and b) to ‘de threat’ her for a while while the rest of the plot clicks into place.
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I didn't think he could, he's got degrees in "psychology and para-psychology". Valium would have made far more sense, considering the time and the affluence level. poo poo, quaaludes might have made more sense.
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In the same movie the cops just give a severely delusional man into the care of a secretary because there’s no room in the closest mental hospital, I’m not sure we need to read the film too deeply.
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Torquemada posted:In the same movie the cops just give a severely delusional man into the care of a secretary because there’s no room in the closest mental hospital that's Reaganomics baby
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The ectoplasm will trickle down.
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Memento posted:that's Reaganomics baby Thank you Ronald Reagan, your legacy is secured.
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Torquemada posted:The general conclusion is that it’s a throwaway line to explain a) she’s very possessed and needs a lot of drugs to make her calm and b) to ‘de threat’ her for a while while the rest of the plot clicks into place.
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Memento posted:that's Reaganomics baby Ronald Reagan? The actor? Pah! It’s only unrealistic because if it had been true to life they would have just shot him.
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Pilchenstein posted:Actually it's to show that Venkman is a date rapist as well as a stalker. Yeah, Venkman absolutely has all kinds of dubious af drugs on hand I mean it might make sense considering that the Ghostbusters can expect to deal with possessed people at some point but still, if it weren't for Bill Murray's charisma he'd be a well regarded monster
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He started the movie hitting on one of his young students and deliberately electroshocking another. He's 100% a sleazy jerk. It's just Bill Murray is charming enough that his character doesn't come across as a massive creep.
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Also he isn't testing her in that test, he's actually testing the guy - the name of the study is "The Effects of stress/Negative Stimuli on paranormal abilities" or something like that. He's deliberately loving with the guy to see how it effects his (actually impressive, he's right every time) ability to read the cards. The girl is mostly there for Venkman to creep on but also another source of stress as he gaslights the guy into thinking he's doing badly and that SHE's beating him when in fact her score doesn't matter at all. The purpose of the girl in the experiment is to enourage thoughts like "Well SHE'S not getting shocked, this is total bullshit..."
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Venkman is a pretty interesting character in that he has the whole vibe and skillset of a con artist- and in the sequel, he's best off of the lot as a TV show host (and bored to tears by it)- but he's also perfectly able to apply his skills to their genuine ghostbusting business, albeit his 'face of the party' credentials are a bit harmed by him thoroughly loving up dealing with authorities because he can't stop loving with them. (though he does sweet-talk the mayor well, mostly by telling the truth; that he has nothing to lose by giving the Ghostbusters a chance) The cartoon spinoff has a fun take on this where he invents a plot device of the week that the episode revolves around, which gets destroyed and Egon is "Well, we can just rebuild it from your notes!" And Venkman says "Uh... what notes?"
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BioEnchanted posted:Also he isn't testing her in that test, he's actually testing the guy - the name of the study is "The Effects of stress/Negative Stimuli on paranormal abilities" or something like that. He's deliberately loving with the guy to see how it effects his (actually impressive, he's right every time) ability to read the cards. The girl is mostly there for Venkman to creep on but also another source of stress as he gaslights the guy into thinking he's doing badly and that SHE's beating him when in fact her score doesn't matter at all. The purpose of the girl in the experiment is to enourage thoughts like "Well SHE'S not getting shocked, this is total bullshit..." You're wrong about almost every substantive point in this post. Although the guy's results do improve with each shock he only gets the last card exactly right. And the girl is not a control or an actor; when Venkman is sleazing on her after the experiment she clearly believes her results were real. (One of her answers also proves that she isn't involved - she says the last card is a figure 8, but Zener cards don't even have that symbol and Venkman saying she's right would have blown the whole thing.) The joke is that Venkman is actually correct in what he's claiming to be studying - not only does the guy get closer as he receives negative reinforcement, the girl gets further away as she receives false positive reinforcement - but it's entirely by accident as he has no real interest in the results. As the Dean puts it later: it's not science, it's just a hustle. Jedit has a new favorite as of 19:10 on Dec 31, 2021 |
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Jedit posted:You're wrong about almost every substantive point in this post. Although the guy's results do improve with each shock he only gets the last card exactly right. And the girl is not a control or an actor; when Venkman is sleazing on her after the experiment she clearly believes her results were real. (One of her answers also proves that she isn't involved - she says the last card is a figure 8, but Zener cards don't even have that symbol and Venkman saying she's right would have blown the whole thing.) Yeah, to be fair I haven't seen it for a long time so I misremembered stuff. I never said though that the girl was in on it - she was unaware, but she was also irrelevant.
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Bussamove posted:Ronald Reagan? The actor? Pah! John Hinckley tried his best
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Jedit posted:You're wrong about almost every substantive point in this post. Although the guy's results do improve with each shock he only gets the last card exactly right. And the girl is not a control or an actor; when Venkman is sleazing on her after the experiment she clearly believes her results were real. (One of her answers also proves that she isn't involved - she says the last card is a figure 8, but Zener cards don't even have that symbol and Venkman saying she's right would have blown the whole thing.) Isnt part of being the control not being aware you are the control though? Like she wasnt being put under any additional stress as a baseline to compare with the dude who was?
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In pirates of the caribbean, why did johnny depp's "true form" become a rotted skeleton instantly? I mean, I get it, it's because that's how the other ones looked and they wanted to make the point that he was undead clear, but I don't think it would actually work like that.
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... it's literally a magical curse. why shouldn't it work like that? what real-world ancient pirate gold curses is this coming off as unrealistic compared to?
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Chloe Jessica posted:... it's literally a magical curse. why shouldn't it work like that? well I mean if I was designing the curse, I'd want them to gradually see themselves decay into scary skeletons to make them feel worse for stealing my stuff. The instant transformation is just like "ok, that's me now" instead of "oh no why did i steal this gold i am uglier every day"
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if I was a pirate transformed into a skeleton I would be like "arlas"
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What the gently caress was up with that rastafarian giraffe troll in Trolls? All the other Trolls are humanoid then there's this goofy quadruped mutant in there among them.
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I was gonna say "if you have a chance to write rastas into your movie, you take it" but I don't know if that's so much the case any more But that prompted me to go find out what the hell movie I saw on cable when I was in my early teens that had a pair of rastafarian walking eyeballs in it, turns out that was Freaked by Alex "Bill S Preston, Esq." Winter and I probably gotta watch it again sometime
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yeah I eat rear end posted:well I mean if I was designing the curse, I'd want them to gradually see themselves decay into scary skeletons to make them feel worse for stealing my stuff. The instant transformation is just like "ok, that's me now" instead of "oh no why did i steal this gold i am uglier every day" Wasn't it that he made some deal to not get affected by the curse but that changed and it all caught up to him at once? I haven't seen it since it came out but I vaguely remember he did some Captain Jack Sparrow Shenanigans™ and got out of the curse, and that's why the other pirates were chasing him, to crab-bucket him back into it.
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