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On the other hand if I was building an actual codpiece gun I'd probably put fake balls on it so it looked more like a dick even if it was magazine fed or whatever.
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On the other other hand, I had a coworker who looked just like that character and he was the coolest tio you wish you were related to so thinking about him having a crotch gun like that was/is hilarious.
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Jan 30, 2022 21:22
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I think I'm one of the few people that saw Dusk Til Dawn and didn't know the vampire twist going in. I'm also one of the few who checked out when it was revealed because I thought it was loving stupid. I was just expecting something else I guess.
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Jan 30, 2022 21:36
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Marcade posted:On the other other hand, I had a coworker who looked just like that character and he was the coolest tio you wish you were related to so thinking about him having a crotch gun like that was/is hilarious. And on the artificial cock and balls hand it's Tom Savini, the GOAT gore effects man, and if he wants to wear a ridiculous crotch gun prop then I'm not going to be the one to tell him no. I'm not even sure that FDTD is meant to make sense. It starts out as a straight hostage drama but takes a right turn into batshit insanity 40 minutes in and just keeps getting weirder from there.
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Jan 30, 2022 22:39
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Isn’t it the exact same prop that appears in the mariachi’s case in Desperado?
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Jan 30, 2022 23:12
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The revolving chambers are clearly there for show, the only functional part is the barrel, which is a single shot, unrifled tube with an improvised firing pin It's a pipe gun
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Jan 30, 2022 23:20
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BiggerBoat posted:I think I'm one of the few people that saw Dusk Til Dawn and didn't know the vampire twist going in. It's not a twist.
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Jan 30, 2022 23:30
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:It's not a twist. Well, it was for me 
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:It's not a twist.  That's like going "I didn't know Friday the 13th was a slasher film" because you missed all the marketing
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Jan 30, 2022 23:38
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BiggerBoat posted:Well, it was for me Same. And kid me was pretty happy with it as I think I was getting bored (though I perked up a bit at Salma Hayek). I might be the only kid who had this and Terminator 2 unspoiled.
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Jan 30, 2022 23:54
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It might be a surprise to you, but it's not a twist. This would be like somebody watching Forrest Gump and going "Holy poo poo did you know about the huge twist in the middle where Forrest goes to Vietnam??"
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Jan 30, 2022 23:58
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I feel like the kitsch and novelty of a "codpiece gun" is entirely captured by the kitsch and novelty of the codpiece gun prop. And I feel like you can say that about all of RR's films. Lots of absurd ideas with absurd execution. If you're gonna have a codpiece gun it better look like a dick and balls. If you've got a badass rocket launcher in a guitar case you gotta shoot it like a badass: 
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Jan 31, 2022 00:18
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Tarantino described it asquote:No boredom whatsoever, it's just a balls-out action movie. And when you're reading the script, in one page it turns into the most intense vampire movie you've ever seen. And the characters are just as surprised as the audience that they're in a vampire movie at that point. So I think we can say it was supposed to be a surprise.
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Jan 31, 2022 00:19
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There's no twist in Empire Strikes Back, idiots, "Luke, I am your father" has been a meme for decades
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Jan 31, 2022 00:46
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Tunicate posted:Tarantino described it as Where is that quote from?
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OK, OK...not a twist. Sorry. I just saw a new Tarantino movie, remembered liking him, saw Harvey Keitel was in it and hadn't heard anything about it. Maybe I was napping on the promotion for it. Nothing on the box cover said "vampire" or maybe it did and I didn't notice it. The vampire poo poo came out of left field for me is all. Honestly not trying to stat any poo poo about it.
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Jan 31, 2022 00:59
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Another petty little annoyance about From Dusk Till Dawn. Why did Tom Savini's character, (the bloke with the dick-gun), turn into a rat-monster after he became a vampire and was then beheaded with a whip? I know there's lore of vampires being able to turn into bats/wolves etc. but I had never heard giant rat. And I know it is kinda consistent with the way the film itself even makes a point that none of the "canon" about vampires is real, only from movies etc. so these creatures have their own rules. But this thread is about irrationally irritating movie moments. Although to be honest, the rat monster was a cool moment in a very silly very absurd action/gangster/vampire movie which, at it's heart, is about George Clooney strutting around being cool and handsome in equal degrees.
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The twist for my friends and I was that we thought it was a vampire movie and got a hostage film to the point we thought we walked into the wrong theatre. Then it went mental and we had a great old time.
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Santanico pandemonium
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Where is that quote from? some con panel about it, here's the excerpt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0-zinrJPR0
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To go with my Forrest Gump example it's like someone saying "Well it was just a normal drama about a young man in Alabama, then all of a sudden it switches genres into a war movie!"
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I understand how that fits with your example of Forest Gump, but it's still a very stupid comparison.
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BrigadierSensible posted:Why did Tom Savini's character, (the bloke with the dick-gun) You seriously forgot the name Sex Machine?
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Jan 31, 2022 02:36
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BrigadierSensible posted:Another petty little annoyance about From Dusk Till Dawn.
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Forest Gump - a movie about the extraordinary life of one young man. Goes all sorts of different places, but it remains that singular story. Dusk Till Dawn - young family in an RV get taken hostage by gangsters, which is a theme with Quentin Tarantino movies. Then it turns into a vampire movie. You can argue all you like that Dusk Till Dawn doesn't have a twist (it does), but trying to compare it to Forest Gump is stupid.
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what if the shrimps were vampires
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Train to Busan is referenced by the kids in All Of Us Are Dead. So they clearly know about zombies. So why the hell are they so DUMB about the invasion?
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BiggerBoat posted:OK, OK...not a twist. Sorry. That makes sense. Here's one version of the blu-ray box:   There are some bats in one picture. Not a word about vampires. No fangs. It just says they are forced to team up with their hostages to deal with "notorious clientele" which is both vague and inaccurate. Irrationally irritating movie box covers.
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Remember that scene in 1992 Dracula when they corner him at the institution and he backs into the shadows for a sec so they shine their lantern on him and he's just a Gary Oldman-shaped pile of rats and they all scatter? That fuckin ruled.
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On its own, the movie has a twist. During its initial release they decided to sell it as a vampire flick because they did not want people who drove to the theater and specifically paid to see a hostage movie get up and demand their money back. Audiences will put up with a lot of things but they don't usually take too kindly to being the butt of a practical joke at their own expense.
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SidneyIsTheKiller posted:On its own, the movie has a twist. During its initial release they decided to sell it as a vampire flick because they did not want people who drove to the theater and specifically paid to see a hostage movie get up and demand their money back. Which left vampire movie enthusiasts impatiently waiting for the the "good part" to start, lol. It was a strange movie.
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SidneyIsTheKiller posted:On its own, the movie has a twist. During its initial release they decided to sell it as a vampire flick because they did not want people who drove to the theater and specifically paid to see a hostage movie get up and demand their money back. So you mean they tell you it's a vampire movie up front? Almost like it isn't supposed to be a twist at all! Edit: https://youtu.be/jNuIn4T-CLk Yep the vampires are definitely a surprise Len has a new favorite as of 03:16 on Jan 31, 2022 |
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I'd you can't appreciate the genius of Fron Dusk Till Dawn you don't deserve movies
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If you have that 50 First Dates disease, every movie is full of twists!
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People who were not involved in writing or shooting the movie decided, after the movie was completed, that they should sell it as a vampire movie. If Signs was marketed as "that movie where there's aliens but you can gently caress them up with water and baseball bats and Mel Gibson's wife knew all along" it would still be a twist in the movie. The marketing spoiling a twist does not mean it wasn't a twist. edit lol I just noticed someone added emoji to my custom title
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Why is it so important to you that you have to jump through these mental hoops? The writer called it a twist. The director called it a twist. The poster and synopsis on the box hides it. It's a twist.
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Len posted:So you mean they tell you it's a vampire movie up front? God what a weird way to look at it. So does the movie suddenly gain a twist now that the marketing hides the vampires? Edit: My initial reaction to the movie, having seen all the ads with vampires, was in fact "the vampires were a twist?" SidneyIsTheKiller has a new favorite as of 03:28 on Jan 31, 2022 |
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flavor.flv posted:Why is it so important to you that you have to jump through these mental hoops? The writer called it a twist. The director called it a twist. The poster and synopsis on the box hides it. It's a twist. Do you have a quote from Tarantino and Rodriguez? Because I've asked that in this thread multiple times over the years and never had a source given There was one for Terminator 2 where Cameron said "yeah the advertising went against my wishes" but I haven't seen that about FDTD
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Len posted:So you mean they tell you it's a vampire movie up front? I know this is hard to comprehend, but sometimes (all times) marketing is done by completely different people from the ones who actually make the movie, who approach the process with different goals and methods.
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Yes, but you see, if The Sixth Sense marketing mentioned that Bruce Willis' character was dead, then it wouldn't be a twist. I can't tell the difference between themes in a movie and a marketing campaign. This is up there with ambulances leaving the hospital for people not understanding something incredibly simple.
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