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The Walking Dead are taking a breather in this new series: The Lounging Dead.

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# ? Aug 31, 2022 20:26

Stupid_Sexy_Flander: Mar 14, 2007; Is a man not entitled to the haw of his maw?; Grimey Drawer

To me, the single most IIMM in nope was (kinda big spoiler?) literally no one commenting on the house that had to smell god awful by the mid morning after. Give it a day or two later for the climax and there should have been buzzards and flies everywhere.

Still, neat movie. Enjoyed it more than I thought I would, and was really surprised at some of the stuff they decided to show.

Only question in my mind at the end was was the bug controlled by the big spooky thing, or was it just a case of poo poo timing? DUHNDUHNDUNNNN

# ? Aug 31, 2022 22:36

Phanatic: Mar 13, 2007; Please don't forget that I am an extremely racist idiot who also has terrible opinions about the Culture series.

Alec's faked death in Goldeneye always bugged me.

I mean, okay, he fakes being caught by the Russians, but then the Russian commander shoots him at muzzle distance. Okay, sure, blank round, but blanks at that range are going to seriously injure if not outright kill you, and the very next round the commander fires is a real bullet. So, what, he loaded a single blank round at that point in the mag, on top of live rounds under it? And then Alec needs to get up and start running away as fast as he can so that he doesn't go up with the entire facility a few minutes later.

It's just too contrived. Do something where we never see the body, I'm okay with it, but that fake headshot is just too much.

# ? Sep 1, 2022 00:37

BrigadierSensible: Feb 16, 2012; I've got a pocket full of cheese🧀, and a garden full of trees🌴.

Cool Kids Club Soda posted:

Opposite of an irritating moment, but I really love when foreign dubs do a good job matching the tone of the original. In the Spanish dub of Finding Nemo, the surfer turtles have really heavy Mexican accents. Real 'ey, ese!' vibes. Or Adventure Time in Mandarin, Jake sounds like he's from Hong Kong, with more hard r's and sharper tones. It's really fun to see what different accents different languages and cultures associate with certain types of people.

On a similar thing:
For Fawlty Towers, the bumbling waiter Manuel is from Barcelona. It is a huge thing, and is referenced many many times.

In Spain, he is renamed Paolo, and is from Napoli. Except in Catalonia where he is Mexican.

# ? Sep 1, 2022 01:25

Baron von Eevl: Jan 24, 2005; WHITE NOISE
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:

in nope

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Only question in my mind at the end was was the bug controlled by the big spooky thing, or was it just a case of poo poo timing? DUHNDUHNDUNNNN

I think it's just a coincidence and honestly just because Peele was probably looking at a mantis going "this thing looks like a fuckin alien"

edit it's not exactly a bad miracle but maybe a lousy and also unlikely thing

# ? Sep 1, 2022 01:25

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BrigadierSensible posted:

On a similar thing:
For Fawlty Towers, the bumbling waiter Manuel is from Barcelona. It is a huge thing, and is referenced many many times.

In Spain, he is renamed Paolo, and is from Napoli. Except in Catalonia where he is Mexican.

Catalonians rule

# ? Sep 1, 2022 01:26

Stupid_Sexy_Flander: Mar 14, 2007; Is a man not entitled to the haw of his maw?; Grimey Drawer

Baron von Eevl posted:

I think it's just a coincidence and honestly just because Peele was probably looking at a mantis going "this thing looks like a fuckin alien"

edit it's not exactly a bad miracle but maybe a lousy and also unlikely thing

Not gonna lie, my very first thought when I saw that in the film was "drat those are some big bat nuts". I can only blame having recently listened to Kyle kinane and his more tired than a big dick bat routine for it.

# ? Sep 1, 2022 02:11

nesamdoom: Apr 15, 2018; nesaM kiled Masen

Phanatic posted:

Alec's faked death in Goldeneye always bugged me.

I mean, okay, he fakes being caught by the Russians, but then the Russian commander shoots him at muzzle distance. Okay, sure, blank round, but blanks at that range are going to seriously injure if not outright kill you, and the very next round the commander fires is a real bullet. So, what, he loaded a single blank round at that point in the mag, on top of live rounds under it? And then Alec needs to get up and start running away as fast as he can so that he doesn't go up with the entire facility a few minutes later.

It's just too contrived. Do something where we never see the body, I'm okay with it, but that fake headshot is just too much.

Did that happen in the movie too? I only remember the game. was the game like the movie? can we stop having games that aren't like the movie? if i'm droppin so much then the game better give me the movie.

# ? Sep 1, 2022 02:29

Cowslips Warren: Oct 29, 2005; What use had they for tricks and cunning, living in the enemy's warren and paying his price?; Grimey Drawer

I still want to see a walking dead or zombie spin-off show involving the Amish, and possibly some religious cult David koresh style compound in the middle of nowhere, and something like a Renaissance faire.

Ye God, Jacob, the English are rotting!

# ? Sep 1, 2022 03:54

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Cowslips Warren posted:

I still want to see a walking dead or zombie spin-off show involving the Amish, and possibly some religious cult David koresh style compound in the middle of nowhere, and something like a Renaissance faire.

Ye God, Jacob, the English are rotting!

Not exactly what you are asking for but Dead Set is in the same ballpark.

# ? Sep 1, 2022 08:20

stringless: Dec 28, 2005; keyboard ⌨️ cowboy

Prey:

Apparently ears don't work for animals when they're not on-camera. Or I guess they're just totally chill hanging around a human that's practicing throwing an axe around? Making a quite noticeable noise each time it connects?

Also, drat, I didn't need to be reminded of Artax

A bit further, when she restrings the bow: lmao that's strung looser than the bullshit plastic bows you use for the arrows with suction cups for heads. Not that it matters, but dunno what she was expecting to happen

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# ? Sep 1, 2022 12:13

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nesamdoom posted:

Did that happen in the movie too? I only remember the game. was the game like the movie? can we stop having games that aren't like the movie? if i'm droppin so much then the game better give me the movie.

I'd have to take a look, but I remember Bond being far enough away that they could have fired a live round next to Alec's head rather than at it (still dangerous and deafening) and he wouldn't have been able to tell the difference.

# ? Sep 1, 2022 13:14

Chemtrailologist: Jul 8, 2007

FFT posted:

Prey:

Apparently ears don't work for animals when they're not on-camera. Or I guess they're just totally chill hanging around a human that's practicing throwing an axe around? Making a quite noticeable noise each time it connects?

Also, drat, I didn't need to be reminded of Artax

A bit further, when she restrings the bow: lmao that's strung looser than the bullshit plastic bows you use for the arrows with suction cups for heads. Not that it matters, but dunno what she was expecting to happen

I mostly enjoyed the movie but it did turn into the same bullshit fight at the end like Terminator Salvation. The monster who vastly overpowers the hero just ends up tossing her around rather than killing her with a single hand.

# ? Sep 1, 2022 15:35

Phanatic: Mar 13, 2007; Please don't forget that I am an extremely racist idiot who also has terrible opinions about the Culture series.

FFT posted:

Prey:

God that axe annoyed me. She throws it as hard as she can, it thunks deeply into the wood, and then she gives a little yank on the lanyard and it immediately flies right back to her hand.

Also if you're going to do closeups on the CGI axe try to make it look like a real axe instead of CGI.

# ? Sep 1, 2022 15:41

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Chemtrailologist posted:

I mostly enjoyed the movie but it did turn into the same bullshit fight at the end like Terminator Salvation. The monster who vastly overpowers the hero just ends up tossing her around rather than killing her with a single hand.

Yeah, thats an irritating clich� in tons of monster movies. Unstoppable murder monster and hero face off in the final battle and the giant beast whose only reason for existence is merciless killing just starts judo flipping the protagonist into stacks of fluffy soft cardboard boxes.

Another monster IIMM: whenever some big stupid cgi monster is revealed to the audience for the first time it has to stop, do a pose, and then roar for like 45 seconds while the other characters all stand there and stare at it. Why the gently caress you roaring you dumb monster, just attack.

# ? Sep 1, 2022 16:53

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800peepee51doodoo posted:

Yeah, thats an irritating clich� in tons of monster movies. Unstoppable murder monster and hero face off in the final battle and the giant beast whose only reason for existence is merciless killing just starts judo flipping the protagonist into stacks of fluffy soft cardboard boxes.

Another monster IIMM: whenever some big stupid cgi monster is revealed to the audience for the first time it has to stop, do a pose, and then roar for like 45 seconds while the other characters all stand there and stare at it. Why the gently caress you roaring you dumb monster, just attack.

Well how else will it recharge it's MP so it can cast laser-breath again?

# ? Sep 1, 2022 16:58

BaldDwarfOnPCP: Jun 26, 2019; by Pragmatica

BioEnchanted posted:

Well how else will it recharge it's MP so it can cast laser-breath again?

# ? Sep 1, 2022 19:43

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Chemtrailologist posted:

I mostly enjoyed the movie but it did turn into the same bullshit fight at the end like Terminator Salvation. The monster who vastly overpowers the hero just ends up tossing her around rather than killing her with a single hand.

I can rationalize it here (in Prey, the movie) because Predators are dumb fucks who get goaded into doing dumb things all the time, and fall for it because they fully buy into their own hype as badass space hunters. In Terminator Salvation the shoving was stupid because it's an emotionless killing machine being grossly inefficient at the one thing it was built for, Predators going "Yeah bro, you and me, mano a mano!" is built into the franchise.

# ? Sep 1, 2022 19:49

EmptyVessel: Oct 30, 2012

Phanatic posted:

God that axe annoyed me. She throws it as hard as she can, it thunks deeply into the wood, and then she gives a little yank on the lanyard and it immediately flies right back to her hand.

Also if you're going to do closeups on the CGI axe try to make it look like a real axe instead of CGI.

I rationalised that by assuming that the entire movie was her (or someone else) telling the story as proto-legend after the fact so of course everything is over the top badass. The brief voice over at the start and the art of what happened next over the closing titles makes this an easy read too.

# ? Sep 1, 2022 21:37

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no. all movies must be 100% naturalist

# ? Sep 1, 2022 21:44

Tunicate: May 15, 2012

moonmazed posted:

no. all movies must be 100% naturalist

That would be a very different genre.

# ? Sep 2, 2022 00:48

BiggerBoat: Sep 26, 2007; Don't you tell me my business again.

BioEnchanted posted:

Well how else will it recharge it's MP so it can cast laser-breath again?

And why just stand around and let is poise and roar? Empty some arrows into that fucker or lob some spears at it. It's like a cut scene in a video game

# ? Sep 2, 2022 01:05

yeah I eat ass: Mar 14, 2005; only people who enjoy my posting can replace this avatar

Jumping around in time is almost never not annoying. It's such a cheap plot device where you show the ending first and then do a bunch of flashback scenes. Just show it in order.

# ? Sep 2, 2022 01:44

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nesamdoom posted:

Did that happen in the movie too? I only remember the game. was the game like the movie? can we stop having games that aren't like the movie? if i'm droppin so much then the game better give me the movie.

Yep, the Russian commander appears to shoot Alec in the head in the movie. The movie starts with the very end of Dam, they proceed though a sneakier, less lethal version of Facility, and then Runway where he chases down the escape plane instead of hijacking a tank. The bombs they place blow up the whole facility instead of just filling the room with gas.

In the Facility level of the game, one of the mission objectives was "Minimize civilian casualties," which means don't shoot scientists. So when Alec casually domes a scientist, me and my friend watching it at a sleepover back in the day were like, "Dang, not supposed to do that."

# ? Sep 2, 2022 02:32

Grendels Dad: Mar 5, 2011; Popular culture has passed you by.

EmptyVessel posted:

I rationalised that by assuming that the entire movie was her (or someone else) telling the story as proto-legend after the fact so of course everything is over the top badass. The brief voice over at the start and the art of what happened next over the closing titles makes this an easy read too.

Or she's the grandmother of Scorpion frm MK.

# ? Sep 2, 2022 06:10

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yeah I eat rear end posted:

Jumping around in time is almost never not annoying. It's such a cheap plot device where you show the ending first and then do a bunch of flashback scenes. Just show it in order.

Memento is the only movie I will give a pass on showing the end first.

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# ? Sep 2, 2022 08:40

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It's one of those things that works in particular cases. Like that Phineas and Ferb episode where the ending shows the ridiculous consequences of a sequence of events that the rest of the episode shows how they came to be, and half the fun is wondering how the hell that happened and seeing where all the dominoes fell into place. (some are kinda outta nowhere still, mind)

Like, the whole point being to pique the audience interest and then string them along showing how it happened, but a lot of writers don't understand what makes that work and just jumble things around because that's what 'artsy' movies do.

The thing is that while you can move things around chronologically, there should still be a coherent structure to it, with setup and payoff. Like a punchline.

# ? Sep 2, 2022 08:44

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fDZD46IZ5Q

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA38qwVMcik

# ? Sep 2, 2022 08:45

BrigadierSensible: Feb 16, 2012; I've got a pocket full of cheese🧀, and a garden full of trees🌴.

yeah I eat rear end posted:

Jumping around in time is almost never not annoying. It's such a cheap plot device where you show the ending first and then do a bunch of flashback scenes. Just show it in order.

When Once Upon A Time In America, (Sergio Leone's gangster film set in prohibition New York), was initially released in America, the American producer/distributor, (I dunno which), decided to re-edit the entire film putting it in chronological order. Essentially removing all the flashbacks, and almost completely loving up the entire film.

Whilst I agree with you that messing with a film/story's chronology too much can be stupid, but insisting that it be in a complete line chronologically speaking can be equally stupid.

# ? Sep 2, 2022 09:07

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Ghost Leviathan posted:

It's one of those things that works in particular cases. Like that Phineas and Ferb episode where the ending shows the ridiculous consequences of a sequence of events that the rest of the episode shows how they came to be, and half the fun is wondering how the hell that happened and seeing where all the dominoes fell into place. (some are kinda outta nowhere still, mind)

Like, the whole point being to pique the audience interest and then string them along showing how it happened, but a lot of writers don't understand what makes that work and just jumble things around because that's what 'artsy' movies do.

The thing is that while you can move things around chronologically, there should still be a coherent structure to it, with setup and payoff. Like a punchline.

It works really well in comedies for that reason

# ? Sep 2, 2022 09:38

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https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/serpent-review-made-love-gangs-london-medias-res-chronological-1146240/

Alan Sepinwall wrote a good article about the modern trend of using non-linear storytelling for everything. Yes, it works in specific instances, but it has almost became the default for TV show storytelling.

# ? Sep 2, 2022 10:14

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christmas boots posted:

It works really well in comedies for that reason

The running joke of the one armed hotel clerk in Hot Tub Time Machine might be the best example of this.

# ? Sep 2, 2022 13:12

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AFewBricksShy posted:

The running joke of the one armed hotel clerk in Hot Tub Time Machine might be the best example of this.

It's so weird that docevil was in that movie

# ? Sep 2, 2022 15:37

Cowslips Warren: Oct 29, 2005; What use had they for tricks and cunning, living in the enemy's warren and paying his price?; Grimey Drawer

I mean I know it's a comedy and it's probably because of all the Trump poo poo in recent years but I hated the Hitler parts of Jojo Rabbit. Hitler was loving dangerous, like Trump, and while they aren't quite on the same level, I just hated the movie because of that. Maybe I need to watch it again, but can you imagine if someone did a similar movie about the 9/11 hijackers or Osama Bin Laden as a bumbling diva, playing their poo poo for laughs? Comedy is great to knock down bad people, and comedy needs to punch up, not down, but I just never liked it.

# ? Sep 2, 2022 15:50

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Cowslips Warren posted:

but can you imagine if someone did a similar movie about the 9/11 hijackers or Osama Bin Laden as a bumbling diva, playing their poo poo for laughs?

In a way, that was done. (doesn't invalidate your point at all)
https://i.imgur.com/Ulx2vcL.mp4

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HopperUK: Apr 29, 2007; Why would an ambulance be leaving the hospital?

Cowslips Warren posted:

I mean I know it's a comedy and it's probably because of all the Trump poo poo in recent years but I hated the Hitler parts of Jojo Rabbit. Hitler was loving dangerous, like Trump, and while they aren't quite on the same level, I just hated the movie because of that. Maybe I need to watch it again, but can you imagine if someone did a similar movie about the 9/11 hijackers or Osama Bin Laden as a bumbling diva, playing their poo poo for laughs? Comedy is great to knock down bad people, and comedy needs to punch up, not down, but I just never liked it.

I didn't really take it as minimalizing Hitler. After all, it's not Hitler - it's about Jojo and what Jojo thinks. But I totally get what you mean.

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