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Humphreys posted:Isn't Avatar already solidly known as Space-Pocahontas? It's Space-Dances-with-Wolves imo, but I haven't seen either movie in about 20 years.
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I'm sure it's been posted before but: how the heck did Leeloo get past "genocide" and "holocaust" and "nuclear" only for "war" to kill her spirit? Hell if it's a comprehensive future dictionary then "Auschwitz" is right there at the beginning
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# ? May 2, 2023 00:27 |
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Maybe it was a thing for educating children? War was still super brutal tho.
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# ? May 2, 2023 00:39 |
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Grendels Dad posted:This story needs a love interest. How about Margot Robbie and her gang of clones? For some reason I'm picturing this in a Gwen Stefani music video. FFT posted:"Wave" Pft, that's a good one. Actually surprising how many sci-fi works will reference Dune while taking place on an ocean planet, like Subnautica having a Stillsuit. Of course, makes sense given the whole point is that Arrakis has the desert work like an ocean with the worms being primarily filter feeders on the sandborne microorganisms. Alhazred posted:Keira Knightley playing Natalie Portman and Natalie Portman playing Keira Knightley. Apparently their own mothers couldn't tell them apart, albeit that's after they're under very heavy makeup and outfits designed to make them blend in with the other handmaidens.
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# ? May 2, 2023 01:35 |
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Ghost Leviathan posted:For some reason I'm picturing this in a Gwen Stefani music video. Hmm I feel the simpler explanation is that they both have terrible mothers
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BioEnchanted posted: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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# ? May 2, 2023 05:06 |
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Ah, I'm an imbecile.
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# ? May 2, 2023 07:53 |
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eating only apples posted:I'm sure it's been posted before but: how the heck did Leeloo get past "genocide" and "holocaust" and "nuclear" only for "war" to kill her spirit? Hell if it's a comprehensive future dictionary then "Auschwitz" is right there at the beginning In my faulty memory she reads about Hate first, then Love later and I don't care to correct it.
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# ? May 2, 2023 09:22 |
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i slept through armageddon, did they ever explain how drilling works in zero grav?
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# ? May 3, 2023 01:14 |
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freemandela posted:i slept through armageddon, did they ever explain how drilling works in zero grav? It's left vague, but it's heavily implied to depend on "grit" and "Aerosmith".
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# ? May 3, 2023 01:22 |
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The asteroid was big enough to have slight gravity.
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# ? May 3, 2023 01:25 |
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Sobatchja Morda posted:It's left vague, but it's heavily implied to depend on "grit" and "Aerosmith". Actual I remember when this came out on DVD Criterion made a 2 disc edition of this and I picked it up because I had a bunch of their DVDs. Like “It must actually be a good movie” I thought No it was actually not a good movie and the only redeeming thing about the DVD was Ben Affleck’s commentary telling about when Michael Bay yelled at him to shut up and his impression of Karl from Sling Blade when Billy Bob Thornton had a scene
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# ? May 3, 2023 02:33 |
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Sobatchja Morda posted:It's left vague, but it's heavily implied to depend on "grit" and "Aerosmith". Oh, so cocaine.
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# ? May 3, 2023 02:53 |
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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. This movie was so loving bad that i watched the entire thing and I cannot remember a single moment of it. Shame because it seemed like it was gonna be right up my alley, but I should’ve known not to overestimate actual pedophile Luc Besson. There are no “irrationally irritating” moments to this movie, because hating it is extremely rational.
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# ? May 3, 2023 04:31 |
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Luc Besson is irrationally irritating me because he seems hell-bent on remaking his good early movies into lovely messes. I am still waiting for his new version of Leon that adheres to his vision of Leon being a cool dude who gets the girl. He is the ickiest shithead, it's depressing.
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# ? May 3, 2023 05:00 |
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I watched Valerian and the City of A Thousand Planeta on a plane with no audio, so I had to read subtitles to figure out what was happening. I was also drinking a lot of Jack & Cokes at the same time. The movie sucked, but I believe that was the best way to watch that film.
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# ? May 3, 2023 05:48 |
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Android Apocalypse posted:I watched Valerian and the City of A Thousand Planeta on a plane with no audio, so I had to read subtitles to figure out what was happening. I was also drinking a lot of Jack & Cokes at the same time. I did this with some Hunger Games / Logan's Run ripoff movie once, only there were no subtitles; I just inserted my own YA dialog. Then I found some headphones and plugged them in, but the actual movie dialog was so bad I went back to watching it without sound.
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# ? May 3, 2023 05:56 |
Sounds like Maze Runner or Divergent
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# ? May 3, 2023 06:07 |
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Naruto Shippuden the Movie: The guards have the audacity to act shocked when their regular arrows don't impede the march of an army of stone statues. The other members of team Guy are in the movie, but Tenten is not. No one is bothered by how hot it would be inside a volcano next to actual magma.
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# ? May 3, 2023 06:20 |
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eating only apples posted:I'm sure it's been posted before but: how the heck did Leeloo get past "genocide" and "holocaust" and "nuclear" only for "war" to kill her spirit? Hell if it's a comprehensive future dictionary then "Auschwitz" is right there at the beginning The director's original vision was for "age of consent" to kill her spirit but he was talked down
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# ? May 3, 2023 06:27 |
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Mamkute posted:No one is bothered by how hot it would be inside a volcano next to actual magma. This happens all the goddamn time in movies (and TV and video games and), so much so that the list of counterexamples is probably shorter Like Metroid games using it as a pacing thing forcing you to get the Varia suit
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# ? May 3, 2023 06:33 |
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In the movie Volcano there are reporters putting their hands directly over molten lava in the middle of Rodeo Drive yelling “You have no idea how hot this is!”
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# ? May 3, 2023 06:35 |
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Pope Corky the IX posted:In the movie Volcano there are reporters putting their hands directly over molten lava in the middle of Rodeo Drive yelling “You have no idea how hot this is!” It's ridiculous, but I love it.
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# ? May 3, 2023 06:40 |
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Or when the transit official is carrying out the unconscious train driver. The metal supports are melting but the guy can still breathe.
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# ? May 3, 2023 06:42 |
You mean when Drew Carey's brother heroically sacrifices himself?
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# ? May 3, 2023 06:48 |
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Arrath posted:You mean when Drew Carey's brother heroically sacrifices himself? Oh yeah, that is him! Iirc, he was the guy who said there was no reason to shut down the subway earlier in the movie.
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# ? May 3, 2023 06:53 |
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Yeah, and his gimmick was that he was covered in nicotine patches and chewing the gum as well. Oh, and Tommy Lee Jones as the head of OEM in Los Angeles has to ask Anne Heche what magma is.
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# ? May 3, 2023 06:58 |
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Yeah, and his gimmick was that he was covered in nicotine patches and chewing the gum as well. Those two characters have so much chemistry
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# ? May 3, 2023 07:05 |
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Dante’s Peak came out the same year to compete with it if I recall VOLCANOES!!!!!
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# ? May 3, 2023 07:07 |
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That happened a lot in the nineties. Armageddon and Deep Impact, Bug’s Life and Antz, Mission to Mars and Red Planet, etc. They even made competing movies about loving Steve Prefontaine.
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# ? May 3, 2023 07:21 |
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Cat Hassler posted:Dante’s Peak came out the same year to compete with it if I recall It was. I thought it was the better of the two, but either I don't think there's been such a good year for volcanoes in film before or since. Alas.
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# ? May 3, 2023 07:30 |
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I thought maybe Lake Placid and Anaconda came out the same year as another example but no 1999 and 1997 respectively HUGE MAN EATING REPTILES!!!
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# ? May 3, 2023 07:38 |
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Rob Roy and Braveheart were both in 1995
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# ? May 3, 2023 07:46 |
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dr_rat posted:It was. I thought it was the better of the two, but either I don't think there's been such a good year for volcanoes in film before or since. Alas. If you haven't yet, Herzog's The Fire Within: Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft (2022) is an awesome watch.
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# ? May 3, 2023 11:01 |
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ynohtna posted:If you haven't yet, Herzog's The Fire Within: Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft (2022) is an awesome watch. Yeah, it's just great, but where was the a bit cheaper, and slightly off, 2022 volcano related doco rip off I ask you? These things need to come in twos!!!
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# ? May 3, 2023 11:20 |
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Cat Hassler posted:Actual Michael Bay told/ordered Ben Affleck to get some dental work done. When Steve Buscemi mentioned he was going to do something similar, Bay said he already had a million dollar smile and shouldn't change a thing. I thought about that anecdote several times while watching the show Boardwalk Empire.
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dr_rat posted:It was. I thought it was the better of the two, but either I don't think there's been such a good year for volcanoes in film before or since. Alas.
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# ? May 3, 2023 11:23 |
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dr_rat posted:Yeah, it's just great, but where was the a bit cheaper, and slightly off, 2022 volcano related doco rip off I ask you? These things need to come in twos!!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_of_Love_(2022_film)
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# ? May 3, 2023 11:56 |
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You know what, I really was not expecting there to actually be a bit cheaper, and slightly off, 2022 volcano related doco, particularly about the exact same two volcanologists, but... um sweet!
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# ? May 3, 2023 12:00 |
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FFT posted:No volcanoes, but the best movie theater weekend was Independence Day weekend, 1996. I don’t think you understood their post at all.
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