Alhazred posted:I have an irrationall irritating movie moment about the Northman:In the movie the main character have to get a magical sword from a burial mound when he gets to Iceland. This mound is from the vendel period. But during that period no one lived on Iceland, it got populated during the viking period. The movie even correctly states that this happened because people fled from king Harald Fairhair to Iceland. Edit: sniped like Buliwyf.
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Zero_Grade posted:Beginning of Spider-Man 2 (Raimi version): Those pizzas would have been a loving mess even if they weren't late. In the video game pizza missions the pizza gets more hosed up the more flips and poo poo you do so you have to find a balance between your speed and recklessness toward the pizza.
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Jan 16, 2023 17:42
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Alhazred posted:I have an irrationall irritating movie moment about the Northman:In the movie the main character have to get a magical sword from a burial mound when he gets to Iceland. This mound is from the vendel period. But during that period no one lived on Iceland, it got populated during the viking period. The movie even correctly states that this happened because people fled from king Harald Fairhair to Iceland. Actually according to recent archeological studies it's possible that Iceland was settled up to 200 years earlier than the official date of 874 given by The Book of Settlement.
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Jan 16, 2023 17:48
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Avatar The Way of Water: I thought this movie was actually pretty good and I actually appreciated the somewhat ham handed way it handles loving colonizers. BUT I still had trouble with a few parts: The Final Battle: The biggest obvious one for me is where the hell did the sea people go at the final battle? They had the stuff going down and there was definitely some chaos, but the sea people and Sully's fam fuckin won that. Why aren't they all there looting and rescuing folks? Only the chieftains daughter is there, and he doesn't come looking for her? That entire scene should have been over, once the ship itself started sinking since the sea people would absolutely have swarmed it but they had to make room for Bad Stuff to happen and more Tension which really just kinda lost it for me a little bit. Just making them all leave at the drop of a hat kinda seemed silly when the movie had done such a good job accounting for stuff like that, especially when showing the initial guerilla attack on the maglev. The Marines: Someone I think mentioned it above, but yeah, how they just automatically riding these fliers like that? It was very difficult for Jake and he had a ton of help. These guys just kinda go and do it nbd. Silly. But more so is just how downright evil they are. Quaritch and some of the original crew I kind of get, they have a stupid, but personal vendetta against Sully. But literally every marine they have in an avatar body is willing to torture and murder children to get after one guy? You don't think they had any "are we the baddies" moments when they were put up to stuff like that? Theres hardly any resistance to it either, no one questions Quaritch, they just do what he says like they are some kind of automatons which really breaks the story telling around humanities struggles with colonization. Also lol that everyone in the command center is just A-OK with the General of the World torturing a 14 year old or whatever. Also they seem to have an endless supply of these avatars too, Sully and Neytiri kill like 30 of them and they are still somehow around. Norm and co: So they I guess can just fly out to the Sea clan and then back at the drop of a hat, no problem, no foul? Like its routine? Seemed really weird and jarring. This is also hard when juxtaposed against the original script of Avatar 1 which had the main conflict of the story be around humans actually wanting to stay on pandora and consistently sympathizing with the Na'vi rather than all being unilaterally evil colonizers that are Just Following Orders. I'm still processing this excellent movie but those just really jumped out at me.
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Jan 16, 2023 18:42
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Marines committing warcrimes for basically fun is the most realistic part of the film.
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Jan 16, 2023 18:48
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Honestly if it were anymore realistic it'd just be two hours of Marines deciding if they want to eat the crayons or shove them up their noses first
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Jan 16, 2023 19:01
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Biplane posted:Marines committing warcrimes for basically fun is the most realistic part of the film.
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Jan 16, 2023 19:19
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When Cameron was writing aliens he read a lot of stuff about Vietnam so yeah, it's not a huge surprise that "occupying military force commits horrific crimes on the local population for spurious or no reason" is a feature of any of his movies.
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Jan 16, 2023 19:23
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FreudianSlippers posted:Actually according to recent archeological studies it's possible that Iceland was settled up to 200 years earlier than the official date of 874 given by The Book of Settlement. Googling it seems like those settlements still happened after the vendel period ended.
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Jan 16, 2023 20:34
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Fil5000 posted:When Cameron was writing aliens he read a lot of stuff about Vietnam so yeah, it's not a huge surprise that "occupying military force commits horrific crimes on the local population for spurious or no reason" is a feature of any of his movies. Oh well then ok then. It just felt out of place for me outside of that initial crew. I stand corrected.
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Jan 16, 2023 20:40
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Alhazred posted:Googling it seems like those settlements still happened after the vendel period ended. Yeah I'm actually camped in what I think was a settlement with buildings there, but there's a box with more info on it I just can't get to and I have a deadline approaching. I mean, I've got this structured settlement but I need that cache now. Just not sure who to call about this.
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Jan 16, 2023 20:54
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Henchman of Santa posted:In the video game pizza missions the pizza gets more hosed up the more flips and poo poo you do so you have to find a balance between your speed and recklessness toward the pizza. clearly spidey should deliver fresh pizza dough thats kneaded from his webslinging. I'm sure theres a few other foods that can use a good mixing, but i dont know them.
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Jan 16, 2023 20:59
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Henchman of Santa posted:In the video game pizza missions the pizza gets more hosed up the more flips and poo poo you do so you have to find a balance between your speed and recklessness toward the pizza. PhazonLink posted:clearly spidey should deliver fresh pizza dough thats kneaded from his webslinging. Doughs whatever a spider can Spins a pie, any size Fucks them up as he flies
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Jan 16, 2023 21:29
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Can he whip up a cream yes he can web-slinging
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Jan 16, 2023 21:36
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Push El Burrito posted:Yeah I'm actually camped in what I think was a settlement with buildings there, but there's a box with more info on it I just can't get to and I have a deadline approaching. I mean, I've got this structured settlement but I need that cache now. It's important for me to know that you know that I hate you.
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Jan 16, 2023 21:47
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In Emily the Criminal, Emily is implied to be 25-27 based on various details in the story. Aubrey Plaza is very much in her late 30s. I'm sure this is because she volunteered to star in the movie she was producing to make it more marketable but, c'mon, it's a 30-second rewrite that honestly would have made her plight even more compelling. Aside from that, good movie if you're interested in how a felony conviction can effectively shut someone out of a middle class lifestyle. Also, in the final scene: she is a total sucker for offering US wages when trying to carry on the scam south of the border. On the one hand, there's a scene that shows a bunch of food getting messed up because she has to carry an entire catering order up multiple flights of stairs. Realism!
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Jan 16, 2023 22:02
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rydiafan posted:It's important for me to know that you know that I hate you. I know that you hate them, and now you know that I know that you hate them. Does that help?
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Jan 16, 2023 22:05
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A little bit, yeah.
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Jan 16, 2023 22:32
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Alhazred posted:Googling it seems like those settlements still happened after the vendel period ended. If they happened 200 years before the official settlement date of 874 they happened smack down in the middle of the Vendel period. Though as far I'm aware these early settlements were probably very sparse compared to the larger influx following Haralds conquest in the 9th century and may or may not have been primarily Celtic. Also we're talking about a scene where our hero guided by Odin himself fights a barrow wight to earn a magical sword that can only be wielded at night in a film co-written by a surrealist poet and based as much on Conan the Barbarian as it is in Sagas. I suspect the filmmakers might have been stretching history a bit for dramatic effect.
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Jan 16, 2023 22:38
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FreudianSlippers posted:Also we're talking about a scene where our hero guided by Odin himself fights a barrow wight to earn a magical sword that can only be wielded at night in a film co-written by a surrealist poet and based as much on Conan the Barbarian as it is in Sagas. That sounds loving rad
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Jan 17, 2023 00:24
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My wife was watching a show called “The Rookie” and it’s a good show but it’s in the fifth season so this guy isn’t rookie anymore.I mean what’s the deal
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Jan 17, 2023 01:25
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Fil5000 posted:When Cameron was writing aliens he read a lot of stuff about Vietnam so yeah, it's not a huge surprise that "occupying military force commits horrific crimes on the local population for spurious or no reason" is a feature of any of his movies. I am actually reading some guy's Vietnam memoir right now and saw Avatar 2 yesterday and drat I was seeing parallels. The dude was just a 19 year old Billy Everyteen there in the worst part of the war, draftee Army private, just cannon fodder in every way. He describes being upset at some of the atrocities and things done to the Vietnamese but he and his fellow soldiers are always gung-ho to each other at all times except when it comes to officers making them do stupid poo poo.
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Jan 17, 2023 01:37
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oldpainless posted:My wife was watching a show called “The Rookie” and it’s a good show but it’s in the fifth season so this guy isn’t rookie anymore.I mean what’s the deal
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Jan 17, 2023 04:01
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Arrath posted:That sounds loving rad Yeah, Northman is good but not great. It's Eggers' weakest movie but I guess that's praising with faint damnation. I think that stuff all works better on paper than it does as a finished film.
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Jan 17, 2023 05:24
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Baron von Eevl posted:Yeah, Northman is good but not great. It's Eggers' weakest movie but I guess that's praising with faint damnation. I think that stuff all works better on paper than it does as a finished film. At the very least, the village raid and the volcano duel are fantastic action scenes.
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Jan 17, 2023 09:34
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I liked the weird supernatural-ish stuff in it, but I wish there was either waaay more of it, or none at all and it leaned into just a period drama. I kept wishing it would get weird and stay that way.
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Jan 17, 2023 10:00
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FreudianSlippers posted:If they happened 200 years before the official settlement date of 874 they happened smack down in the middle of the Vendel period.
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Jan 17, 2023 13:36
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oldpainless posted:My wife was watching a show called “The Rookie” and it’s a good show but it’s in the fifth season so this guy isn’t rookie anymore.I mean what’s the deal Guy seems a little old to be a rookie!
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Jan 18, 2023 00:50
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My IIMM for the Northman is that he gets a nerd-rear end haircut halfway into the movie and I gotta take this bowl cut motherfucker seriously on his quest for vengeance.
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Jan 18, 2023 01:23
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In Plane when the Plane is going down our main character starts a timer for when the Plane is going to run out of power and tells his co-pilot to count down each minute remaining on the minute and then the co-pilot, who is generally cool and collected all things considered, doesn't do it ONCE! Gerard Butler just keeps asking about the countdown and the guy is like "6 minutes 40 seconds" "3 minutes 20 seconds" And then they have the audacity to make "one minute at a time" the movie's catchphrase that the characters say multiple times This is an irrational movie moment because there's a good chance this was intentional given how the movie goes full B-Movie at times But my truly irrational complaint is that the movie's title actually makes sense (they get back on the Plane and fly it away for the climax)
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Jan 18, 2023 01:33
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Watching Fleishman Is in Trouble. The very first line of the series says that Toby has spent his entire life in New York City. In an episode 3 flashback he takes Rachel to meet his family...in Los Angeles.
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Jan 18, 2023 04:11
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Pulp Fiction is on TV right now, completely uncensored, h*ck yeah. So really though, who leaves drugs in their jacket pocket? A true addict puts it in a sock or something. Amateur.
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Jan 19, 2023 04:03
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I suppose jackets can also have watch pockets. Plenty of pockets will perform in a pinch
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Jan 19, 2023 08:52
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Tarantino doesn't like socks.
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Jan 19, 2023 09:26
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The Mighty Moltres posted:Pulp Fiction is on TV right now, completely uncensored, h*ck yeah. Ah, but you forget that Vincent Vega is an idiot who leaves things everywhere, see him not taking his gun with him when he goes to the bathroom.
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Jan 19, 2023 12:20
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Also pretty sure he just started doing heroin after trying it during his recent trip to Europe. Also pretty sure everything Tarantino knows about drugs, and most things in life, is from movies he's seen.
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Jan 19, 2023 12:32
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dr_rat posted:Also pretty sure everything Tarantino knows about drugs, and most things in life, is from movies he's seen. I'm pretty sure he would gladly admit this.
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Jan 19, 2023 12:44
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I'm pretty sure he would gladly admit this. Oh yeah, and it some how it works pretty drat well for for him, so certainly not a bad thing. Still I wouldn't trust him not to get very basic things wrong about how people actually live. Like if it turned out he didn't know how to tie his shoe laces because he'd never seen it done in a movie, I'd just be, "yep, that sounds about right".
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Jan 19, 2023 12:51
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I'm pretty sure he would gladly admit this. Tarantino has never pretended to make movies about real life. He makes movies about movies.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I'm pretty sure he would gladly admit this. Hell, so would I. It's definitely not because I did tons of drugs. No sireeee. Clean as a sock here.
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