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In phantom of the opera. He supposedly never leaves the opera house, but somehow has ten million candles. Even if madam giry got them for him is it not suspicious she is regularly buying thousands of candles? If hes stealing them that'd be a full time job.
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Breakfast/lunch/quick dinner: 1 hour Washing/dressing: 1/2 hour Sleeping: 6 hours Working at the opera house: 6 hours Getting candles for the voice in Box Five: 10 hours Shopping: 1/2 hour someone who is good at time management please help me budget this. my relationships with friends and family are dying.
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Apr 29, 2023 20:54
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BeetleSorceress posted:In phantom of the opera. He supposedly never leaves the opera house, but somehow has ten million candles. Even if madam giry got them for him is it not suspicious she is regularly buying thousands of candles? prior to the 1881 electrification of the Palais Garnier they would have been throwing out tens of thousands of half burned candles a day, and the Phantom is a keen recycler.
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Apr 30, 2023 11:41
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BiggerBoat posted:- I know the apes have to speak English for the sake of the movie but doesn't it kind of get in the way of The Big Reveal at the end? It's startling enough that the apes can talk at all but doesn't a bell go off for Taylor when they speak English, accent and all? He thinks he's on some far away planet in another solar system 2000 years from now or some poo poo, right? The great thing about the twist in Planet of the Apes is how it takes advantage of how accustomed we are to genre conventions. Really, the fact that there are humans at all should tip Taylor off, but the audience knows it's all some sci-fi allegory so they just take it for granted. On that note, I recently read the original Planet of the Apes novel, and when the main character is initially captured he tries talking to the apes for a bit, who act a little surprised and laugh, but mostly just continue to treat him like an animal and he gives up for a while. I was confused and thought, 'why the hell doesn't he just keep talking?' It took me a few before it hit me that the apes speak their own language. They don't understand English (well, French, but the book is translated in English). It's also kind of stunning that the Planet of the Apes series has had 9 movies and has been rebooted twice and they've never just made a straightforward adaptation of the novel.
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Apr 30, 2023 14:57
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Beachcomber posted:In Alien, their usual science officer was replaced with Ash at the last second. Also, the orders were programmed into the computer, not received later. Fair points. Now that I’m thinking about it, it has been a bit since I’ve watched either.
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Apr 30, 2023 17:05
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the fact we didn't see the minute clip of Burke begging Ripley to save him when he'd been cocooned is the only real sin in Aliens. everything with the Queen is so loving perfect. the interaction with her and Ripley is some of the most tense I've ever been in a movie. Like poo poo, these things can loving THINK.
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Apr 30, 2023 17:25
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I'm imagining a gif of Ripley's "bitch PLEASE" expression to the sneaky egg opening.SidneyIsTheKiller posted:On that note, I recently read the original Planet of the Apes novel, and when the main character is initially captured he tries talking to the apes for a bit, who act a little surprised and laugh, but mostly just continue to treat him like an animal and he gives up for a while. I was confused and thought, 'why the hell doesn't he just keep talking?'
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Apr 30, 2023 17:58
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FreudianSlippers posted:Thor is The God of Thunder. I thought he was the god of hammers
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Apr 30, 2023 18:17
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Stonehouse Beach posted:I'm imagining a gif of Ripley's "bitch PLEASE" expression to the sneaky egg opening. in fairness to the Queen, i don't think she controls the eggs, they just open when motion is near them. The Queen was probably thinking gently caress gently caress gently caress NO NOT YET....well gently caress.
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Apr 30, 2023 22:18
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SidneyIsTheKiller posted:
They even managed to make a sequel to the second movie which ends with all life on earth being extinguished by an atomic bomb. There's even a voice over saying that earth is now dead and yet there was a third movie.
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Apr 30, 2023 22:38
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Alhazred posted:They even managed to make a sequel to the second movie which ends with all life on earth being extinguished by an atomic bomb. There's even a voice over saying that earth is now dead and yet there was a third movie. Maybe I'm way off, but part of the horror of the Planet of the Apes premise was that we manage to make it all go to poo poo but it still somehow goes on, and remains lovely.
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Apr 30, 2023 22:46
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I think you're thinking of Star Wars?
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Cowslips Warren posted:I take it back. If Disney does a live action Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Pocahontas, I will go to the theater and watch them both. If Disney does a live action Pocahontas, I'll stay home and watch Prey with subtitles again, because this post made me remember how much I loved that film.
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I want to see the lead girl in prey in a film with Aubrey plaza where they play clones of each other and wacky hijinks ensue while they are attempting to assassinate the pope or something.
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May 1, 2023 07:13
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They have to team up with Tobey Maguire and Elijah Wood to defeat an infinite army of Zooey Deschanels
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Don't forget they need to cast Daniel Radcliffe as Elijah wood as well.
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Alhazred posted:They even managed to make a sequel to the second movie which ends with all life on earth being extinguished by an atomic bomb. There's even a voice over saying that earth is now dead and yet there was a third movie. quote:Escaping Earth prior to its destruction, the chimpanzees Cornelius, Zira and Dr. Milo salvage and repair Taylor's spaceship. The shock wave of Earth's destruction sends the ship through a time warp that brings the apes to 1973 Earth. Well that's convenient.
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Cage posted:Never saw it but I had to look it up. Heh, well, it's no less contrived than what got Taylor there in the first place. Also reminded that the reboot starts with a mention of a missing astronaut on the news.
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May 1, 2023 09:42
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Cage posted:Never saw it but I had to look it up. It also forms a stable time loop that causes the human apocalypse.
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May 1, 2023 10:51
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IshmaelZarkov posted:If Disney does a live action Pocahontas, I'll stay home and watch Prey with subtitles again, because this post made me remember how much I loved that film. I'm pretty sure that Disney would sooner release a restored version of Song of the South in full 4k than remake Pocahontas.
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May 1, 2023 12:25
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Alhazred posted:I'm pretty sure that Disney would sooner release a restored version of Song of the South in full 4k than remake Pocahontas. Then I guess I'll have to re-watch Prey just cause it's great.
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Alhazred posted:I'm pretty sure that Disney would sooner release a restored version of Song of the South in full 4k than remake Pocahontas. also wtf Mel Gibson voiced John Smith lmao stringless has a new favorite as of 13:11 on May 1, 2023 |
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Alhazred posted:I'm pretty sure that Disney would sooner release a restored version of Song of the South in full 4k than remake Pocahontas. Isn't Avatar already solidly known as Space-Pocahontas?
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Humphreys posted:Isn't Avatar already solidly known as Space-Pocahontas?
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Don't forget they need to cast Daniel Radcliffe as Elijah wood as well. Daniel Radcliffe playing Elijah Wood and Elijah Wood playing Daniel Radcliffe. Reveal partway through that it'd actually Daniel Radcliffe playing Elijah Wood playing Daniel Radcliffe and Elijah Wood playing Daniel Radcliffe playing Elijah Wood. Also, every so often have a scene or two where people call them by the wrong names just to really gently caress with people.
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Randalor posted:Daniel Radcliffe playing Elijah Wood and Elijah Wood playing Daniel Radcliffe. Reveal partway through that it'd actually Daniel Radcliffe playing Elijah Wood playing Daniel Radcliffe and Elijah Wood playing Daniel Radcliffe playing Elijah Wood. Also, every so often have a scene or two where people call them by the wrong names just to really gently caress with people. They'd both really enjoy that too, I bet, they seem to enjoy a certain level of fuckery
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May 1, 2023 14:24
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:I want to see the lead girl in prey in a film with Aubrey plaza where they play clones of each other and wacky hijinks ensue while they are attempting to assassinate the pope or something. They’re both in the show Legion which gets much wackier than that! I guess they do look kind of similar despite being completely different ethnicities.
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Jesus Christ Yellowjackets. Okay, so they're too dumb to build a big signal fire and keep it fed, but if you're going to choose the 'hunker down and wait for rescuers to come to you' strategy then you really should do something to point out your location. Again, big lake right nearby, they don't mark a big X on the wide open shoreline in pieces of crashed airplane or anything. Then they find a Cessna parked in the woods and it has a *flare gun* in it and they don't even think about firing flares or anything like that. And then holy gently caress, one of them decides to try to fly the plane out of there, on the strength of the piloting skills she's obtained by reading the operator's manual and having watched her uncle fly a plane once. This is loving ridiculous, the plane's been sitting there for long enough for trees to grow up around it, it's been there for, conservatively, 20 years. In the forest in the Canadian Rockies. The fuel has turned to varnish, there's water in the tanks, the engine's going to be completely seized up, the wiring will be rotting, the airframe will be corroding, squirrels will be living in the engine compartment. But this thing starts up the first time they try. And then it doesn't crash because of mechanical failure, it crashes because the stuffed toy she brings along with her spontaneously combusts in the passenger seat and this somehow causes the plane to *explode* in midair like a 500-lb bomb going off. If this doesn't have a cult-related explanation in S2 it's bullshit. The really-bad-cgi-wolf attack is also bullshit. While there are wolf attacks on people, they're extremely rare, and wolves aren't going to attack a *group of people waving flaming brands in their faces*. And then the massive, disfiguring facial injuries that one of them suffers are stitched up into neat little lines by amateurs with needle and thread. And the loving bear? Come the gently caress on. And then at the end of S1, character's about to kill herself. She's gun the gun propped up on the floor, barrel underneath her chin, finger on the triggers. But...there's a knock at the door! So she gets up to answer it, and cultists break the door down and abduct her. Why did they knock first? Do kidnappers usually knock?
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While full of rationally irritating moments and squandered potential, I put Valyrian on the other night cause I was couch surfing while feeling like poo poo. At one point the characters request a status update of the central city-state space station and they get an automated wiki-readout that mentions the station is now '700 million miles' beyond Earth orbit, having been launched away from the planet some 400 years prior. First its the future who still uses imperial. Second, the station is treated as if its in deep space but that's, like, not even to Saturn?
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Sci-fi authors can never do maths.
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Cage posted:Never saw it but I had to look it up. Supposedly nuking the whole planet was Charlton Heston's idea, in a bid to stave off a neverending series of movies. ...Well, good try anyways, lol!
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Randalor posted:Daniel Radcliffe playing Elijah Wood and Elijah Wood playing Daniel Radcliffe. Reveal partway through that it'd actually Daniel Radcliffe playing Elijah Wood playing Daniel Radcliffe and Elijah Wood playing Daniel Radcliffe playing Elijah Wood. Also, every so often have a scene or two where people call them by the wrong names just to really gently caress with people. This story needs a love interest. How about Margot Robbie and her gang of clones?
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FFT posted:Pocahontas Dances with Aliens in Fern Gully I haven't seen the sequel yet, but from the way it was described to me it sounds like it's shaping up more like Furry Smurf Dune
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Grendels Dad posted:This story needs a love interest. How about Margot Robbie and her gang of clones? Keira Knightley playing Natalie Portman and Natalie Portman playing Keira Knightley.
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Didn't that literally happen in Star Wars where Portman was playing Amidala and Knightley was playing her in-universe body double?
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Arrath posted:While full of rationally irritating moments and squandered potential, I put Valyrian on the other night cause I was couch surfing while feeling like poo poo. To be considered deep it should at least reach Uranus
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:I want to see the lead girl in prey in a film with Aubrey plaza where they play clones of each other and wacky hijinks ensue while they are attempting to assassinate the pope or something. FFT posted:They have to team up with Tobey Maguire and Elijah Wood to defeat an infinite army of Zooey Deschanels Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Don't forget they need to cast Daniel Radcliffe as Elijah wood as well. Randalor posted:Daniel Radcliffe playing Elijah Wood and Elijah Wood playing Daniel Radcliffe. Reveal partway through that it'd actually Daniel Radcliffe playing Elijah Wood playing Daniel Radcliffe and Elijah Wood playing Daniel Radcliffe playing Elijah Wood. Also, every so often have a scene or two where people call them by the wrong names just to really gently caress with people. This sounds like a Mel Brooks remake of The Prestige 
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christmas boots posted:I haven't seen the sequel yet, but from the way it was described to me it sounds like it's shaping up more like Furry Smurf Dune
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