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Law & Order was a great melting pot for seeing new actors as it grabbed all the talent on the East Coast.
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Stephen Colbert was an anthrax mailbomber in an episode of ummm... Criminal Intent, I think.
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Mar 6, 2023 04:54
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Doesn't really count because he was doing the same schtick he does today, but jack black's appearances on Mr. Show were always great. He was just some weirdo, nobody expected him to become a Hollywood a-lister
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Mar 6, 2023 06:13
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Giancarlo Esposito gets killed by an arcade game in Maximum Overdrive.
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Mar 6, 2023 06:34
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Giancarlo Esposito gets killed by an arcade game in Maximum Overdrive. Now you can kill him in a video game (presumably, I haven't finished it) in Far Cry 6.
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Mar 6, 2023 07:18
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Giancarlo Esposito gets killed by an arcade game in Maximum Overdrive. He played three different characters on Miami Vice.
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Mar 6, 2023 09:03
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The 80s, specifically Miami Vice, is where a shitton of celebrities got their start. The soundtrack didn't hurt either. It's ssssooooo weird seeing baby versions of people who are celebs now. Like seeing Pedro Pascal that time he was on Buffy.
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Mar 6, 2023 11:30
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flavor.flv posted:Doesn't really count because he was doing the same schtick he does today, but jack black's appearances on Mr. Show were always great. He was just some weirdo, nobody expected him to become a Hollywood a-lister It was weird seeing him in Northern Exposure.
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Mar 6, 2023 11:48
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... and the X files, and Mars Attacks, and The Jackal... Dude got around a lot.
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Mar 6, 2023 13:37
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credburn posted:Stephen Colbert was an anthrax mailbomber in an episode of ummm... Criminal Intent, I think. Criminal Intent was the one where he was a forger.
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Mar 6, 2023 13:40
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I think it's neat that in the original run of The Boys, Hewie's look was based on Simon Pegg, a largely unknown British comedy actor from a small show called Spaced. Now he's Mr Big Famous, and they had him play Hewie's dad in the Amazon series of The Boys as a wee nod to that. Also, to continue the Terminator chat, I absolutely love the first time we see Sarah Connor in T2 compared to how we see her in the first one. Going from riding a moped in soft light with her hair waving behind her to being a sweat-drenched maniac doing pullups in a locked cell. Brilliant bit of "oh poo poo" contrast that really sells the passage of time.
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Mar 6, 2023 13:47
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I can't believe we talked about T2 for so long and never got into the subtle movie moment that launched a hundred pages of arguments Right up until he shoots the t-1000, there is no indication that Arnie terminator is there to help the Connors. If you went into it blind, that moment would be a huge twist.
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Mar 6, 2023 14:16
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I think it’s because every time it comes up there’s an argument over whether or not the company making the trailers hosed up by showing Arnie as the good guy. And then From Dusk Till Dawn gets mentioned and people get mad.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:I think it’s because every time it comes up there’s an argument over whether or not the company making the trailers hosed up by showing Arnie as the good guy. And then From Dusk Till Dawn gets mentioned and people get mad. I thought some behind the scenes footage discussed this, saying that the initial intention was for it to be ambiguous, and the trailers that were cut (not all, but some) ruined it?
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Mar 6, 2023 14:32
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flavor.flv posted:I can't believe we talked about T2 for so long and never got into the subtle movie moment that launched a hundred pages of arguments I don't know if you're being serious, but that probably gets brought up every 20 pages or so.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:I thought some behind the scenes footage discussed this, saying that the initial intention was for it to be ambiguous, and the trailers that were cut (not all, but some) ruined it? Don’t make me get the hose.
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It's been at least a year since the last time it was brought up. I was feeling nostalgic
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I was one of the lucky fuckers who didn't have it spoiled. That AND dusk til dawn which really messed me up because I was probably too young to be watching it, and was kinda bored up to that point and then hoooooly gently caress. It was great. But I'm loving the T2 chat because goddamn that film is excellent. What I don't understand is how the CGI still looks drat good, even though it's modelling fluids. They did a fantastic job.
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Mar 6, 2023 15:01
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fartknocker posted:Law & Order, particularly the original, is great for stuff like this. The aforementioned Lewis Black is in an episode during one early season as a former porn star turned director. Pre-It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Charlie Day is in one episode, a teenage Rob McElhenney is in another. Jim Gaffigan is in an episode of the original L&O as a plumber or something in one episode, and then shows up a handful of times in SVU in slightly larger roles before he was well known. If you expand it to people more known for dramatic or serious roles, there’s a fuckton of others who showed up before they were famous. Charlie from iasip was also in the show third watch as one of the cops younger brother. He got dismembered by gene simmons which kicked off the big end to the show. That programme was loving great.
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Mar 6, 2023 15:02
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Don’t make me get the hose. Sorry, sorry, didn't realize the discussion was that frequent.
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Roblo posted:I was one of the lucky fuckers who didn't have it spoiled. That AND dusk til dawn which really messed me up because I was probably too young to be watching it, and was kinda bored up to that point and then hoooooly gently caress. It was great. There's way less cg than you'd think, which is why it holds up. The damage the T1000 takes that would have been all CG if made 5 years later were props, prosthetics and puppets with cg to help the transitions   I don't hate cg but I do miss when making-of documentaries were interesting
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Mar 6, 2023 15:43
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The glowing metal effect from the time travel field slicing through fence and truck was created by applying photo-reflective tape to the surfaces. I loving love movie magic.
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I just rewatched T2 on Friday and kept the Arnie bit in mind. There's definitely a sort of malevolence in Robert Patrick's performance, even when he's being nice and trying to get information. On top of that, there's the Bad To The Bone drop when Arnie steps out of the biker bar. From a script perspective it makes you wonder if they had wanted that to be a surprise, but the performances and a few of the editing decisions really only make sense if you know about who's playing the good guy and who's the bad guy.
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Mar 6, 2023 15:51
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And of course, the scene where the frozen t-1000 melts and all the little globules slowly merge back together and it looks so viscous and the fire reflections are so shiny, why that's just our old friend liquid mercury
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flavor.flv posted:And of course, the scene where the frozen t-1000 melts and all the little globules slowly merge back together and it looks so viscous and the fire reflections are so shiny, why that's just our old friend liquid mercury I thought it was gallium since mercury is toxic as gently caress.
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Mar 6, 2023 16:04
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Mercury's freezing point is also about -38(either C or F, it's cold enough that it doesn't really matter), so the shot where the solid chunks of metal are melting into liquid would have been tough with mercury. Gallium melts at something like 86F.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Sorry, sorry, didn't realize the discussion was that frequent. No need to apologize, I have no power here.
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XeeD posted:I thought it was gallium since mercury is toxic as gently caress. In highschool we were given mercury to play with in chemistry class. It felt so weird. It was a liquid but it just rolled around in your hands and when you poured it back in the flask your hands were completely dry. Now if you'll excuse me I have to serve tea to a mouse and a hare
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drat my posts itt have been real stinkers lately huh
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ynohtna posted:The glowing metal effect from the time travel field slicing through fence and truck was created by applying photo-reflective tape to the surfaces. Cameron's first big special effects scene was in Escape From New York, where he did the wireframe New York on the computer display in Snake's glider. He did exactly the same thing there - they had a model of the New York skyline for external model shots of the plane, and Cameron applied reflective tape to the corners then filmed it with the lights off.
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Baron von Eevl posted:... and the X files Another one of those great retroactive recognition series, although now I'm wondering if I think that only on the strength of like five episodes: Giovanni Ribisi and Jack Black Ryan Reynolds Luke Wilson and Patrick Renna (Ham from The Sandlot) Charles Nelson Reilly (this one also guest stars Jesse Ventura and Alex Trebek) Peter Boyle
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I saw From Dusk Til Dawn when I was really young and only remembered it for being the movie about vampires and that guy with the dick pistol. Years later when I watched it again I was insisting this wasn't the right movie, because there were no vampires, and this is some movie about a kidnapping or something.
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BiggerBoat posted:I think the deleted scene also explains why the t-1000 needs SArah to "call for John" even though we're shown earlier that he can mimic someone's voice when he imitates John's foster mom. That one still works too. T-1000 knew he'd hosed up somehow from that phonecall (seeing the dog's collar was in a cut scene) so he thought he'd try getting Sarah to do it for real. I like the cuts because it turns a technical problem with the T-1000 into a character moment. John knows his real mother wouldn't endanger him by calling out, which is confirmed to the audience when she's being tortured and still doesn't give in. XeeD posted:I thought it was gallium since mercury is toxic as gently caress. Yeah, but it's still probably still safer to be around than the two part smoke they used to use*. I'm sure they used gallium for the scene where it's melting, but the surface tension seems to bead up like mercury when it's all coming together. Not that I've ever seen that much gallium though. *That's how they got the tires to smoke when Ripley was doing a burnout in the APC in Aliens. They put one part on the tires of their model, the other part on the ground, and had a dude hold it in place.
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Phy posted:Another one of those great retroactive recognition series, although now I'm wondering if I think that only on the strength of like five episodes: Terry O'Quinn's in like 4 episodes and the movie.
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I really wish Terry O'Quinn would have done more over the years. I hope he's living comfortably.
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Baron von Eevl posted:Terry O'Quinn's in like 4 episodes and the movie. Oh yeah and the entire Millennium spinoff! I guess Mulder wasn't thinking about all those alien clone guys that look exactly the same whenever he met a Terry I also forgot Brian Thompson, the Alien Bounty Hunter, who was one of the first guys Arnie killed in The Terminator Pope Corky the IX posted:I really wish Terry O'Quinn would have done more over the years. I hope he's living comfortably. I bet he's doing ok 
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flavor.flv posted:I can't believe we talked about T2 for so long and never got into the subtle movie moment that launched a hundred pages of arguments I did and it was. I was also on acid and got in for free so the whole thing experience was pretty great
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As I say every time this comes up, Cameron absolutely meant it to be a surprise because the T1000 only copies the uniform of the cop at the start and not his face. I do love this grand tradition of ours though, I like to imagine in a hundred years our descendants will be celebrating by sticking bits of tinfoil to themselves to represent bullet holes but not really understanding why 
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