|
Watching The Mother on Netflix and ten minutes in there's a scene where Lady and Dude are yelling at each other in a car, but she sounds like she's in a small room while he has a weird metal echo like he's yelling at her in a garage.
|
#
?
May 20, 2023 07:44
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 12, 2024 17:19 |
|
|
Eclipse12 posted:I can't take Rutger Hauer's character in Blade Runner seriously because his name is Roy Batty. its the best name for him imo its a dumb loving world presented as real, so of course he has a dumb name. much like our world has people with dumb names making impacts #wow #whoa great movie because of that
|
|
#
?
May 20, 2023 07:54
|
|
|
Fast X is pretty much a perfect entry in the series but for one thing: There are at least three perfect moments where someone could have said "fasTen your seatbelt(s)" and yet they never did. By the third time I believed they were doing it deliberately. How's it go? Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, thrice is enemy action?
|
|
#
?
May 20, 2023 08:00
|
|
cowboy
|
Phanatic posted:So, I watched Sisu. For me the scene that went too far was the hanging where he just survives being hanged for way too long before actually doing something about the whole not being able to breathe thing.
|
|
#
?
May 20, 2023 13:31
|
|
|
Phanatic posted:So, I watched Sisu. Ah, so you've watched the sequels then?
|
|
#
?
May 20, 2023 14:00
|
|
|
HopperUK posted:I like the idea that to deal with the undead you just need to be firm. The lawsuit is the funniest option though. Ravenfood has a new favorite as of 14:13 on May 20, 2023 |
|
#
?
May 20, 2023 14:10
|
|
|
Jedit posted:Ah, so you've watched the sequels then? Plus the bad guys also get similar upgrades. With a perfect Keanu Reeves "Ah. Upgrades." moment to sell it. stringless has a new favorite as of 14:15 on May 20, 2023 |
|
#
?
May 20, 2023 14:12
|
|
|
Ravenfood posted:It's an old game, but King of Dragon Pass is basically a game where you manage a bronze age ish tribe in a magical setting. In one event, ghosts show up and start haunting one of your villagers houses. One of the actions you can take is to sue them to get them to leave, but you can lose if your Lawspeaker sucks at their job. (You can also tell the villager to move, burn down the house, ask the ghost why it's there, or if you have an appropriate devotee of the right God, bribe or banish them). While the lawsuit is the funniest, that just going "So... why are you here anyways?" in response to a ghost haunting is refreshingly obvious and also hilariously underused.
|
|
#
?
May 20, 2023 14:19
|
|
|
Randalor posted:While the lawsuit is the funniest, that just going "So... why are you here anyways?" in response to a ghost haunting is refreshingly obvious and also hilariously underused. Also sometimes other ghosts show up to yell at you about how they did things better back in their day and you're loving it all up. Or, if one of your council is too fond of making dumb proverbs up, they show up to bitch that he is an idiot and it's really annoying them to have to listen to their proverbial poo poo. In both cases, you can scold the ancestor spirits for showing up and scaring the clanspeople for frivolous reasons. Basically, yeah, just swatting the undead on the nose and telling them to gently caress off works surprisingly well.
|
|
#
?
May 20, 2023 16:54
|
|
|
I have always said that if I am haunted I will try to molest the ghost. I didn't consent to the haunting, they didn't consent for me going for the crotch-bits of their ectoplasm, even steven.
|
|
#
?
May 20, 2023 17:00
|
|
|
Jedit posted:Ah, so you've watched the sequels then? I watched 2. It was pretty. I haven't been able to get through 3. I've tried twice, and by the time they get to the scene with the dogs I'm just done with the tedium of it. The thing that bugs me the most about the sequels is that the original has one of the best character moments in film and they don't call any attention to it, they just do it. The Russian mob boss knows that his son hosed up and is a dead man walking, and there's nothing he can do about it. But goddammit, it's his *son*, and even if he doesn't like the kid and thinks he's a stupid prick it's his responsibility to try to protect his son. So he spends his organization's blood and treasure in this almost certainly futile effort to kill his son alive. But then the instant Wick has a gun to *his* head, he gives up his son. Instantly, reflexively, the rapidity with which he betrays the son he was trying so hard to save seems to surprise even him. He's not the man he thought he was. And then he spends the rest of the move drinking himself into insensibility to cope with this realization. It's brilliant, it's subtle, and the sequels didn't bring anything even approaching it to the table.
|
|
#
?
May 20, 2023 17:06
|
|
|
In Icelandic folklore the surefire way to deal with the undead is to insult them. That or wrestling.
|
|
#
?
May 20, 2023 17:32
|
|
|
Poldarn posted:I have always said that if I am haunted I will try to molest the ghost. I didn't consent to the haunting, they didn't consent for me going for the crotch-bits of their ectoplasm, even steven. Oh, no, don't molest Steven, he had a hard enough lift as it is!
|
|
#
?
May 20, 2023 19:15
|
|
|
Captain Monkey posted:ok but he was a Count. D wasn't a count, he was a boyar. https://twitter.com/meakoopa/status/1653830750184038401
|
|
#
?
May 20, 2023 19:41
|
|
|
While there are a lot of IIMM in Fast X but one that really bugged me was there's a scene near the end where a character talks about something being 7 kilometers away and then later updates it to 3. Then after an action scene the same character switches to using miles. It just feels extremely sloppy.
|
|
#
?
May 20, 2023 20:58
|
|
|
Facebook Aunt posted:D wasn't a count, he was a boyar. that's not what I heard
|
|
#
?
May 20, 2023 21:13
|
|
|
muscles like this! posted:While there are a lot of IIMM in Fast X but one that really bugged me was there's a scene near the end where a character talks about something being 7 kilometers away and then later updates it to 3. Then after an action scene the same character switches to using miles. It just feels extremely sloppy. One of the most aggravating IIMMs I have about otherwise perfect movie Deep Blue Sea is when someone says that the fences around the facility are eight feet tall, give or take a centimeter.
|
|
#
?
May 20, 2023 21:25
|
|
|
800peepee51doodoo posted:One of the most aggravating IIMMs I have about otherwise perfect movie Deep Blue Sea is when someone says that the fences around the facility are eight feet tall, give or take a centimeter. Eh, they could be saying it's only a centimeter margin of error as opposed to a full inch. That works still.
|
|
#
?
May 20, 2023 21:31
|
|
|
BioEnchanted posted:Eh, they could be saying it's only a centimeter margin of error as opposed to a full inch. That works still. An inch would save 3 syllables or half inch would save 2. That's poor economical use of speech. I can actually see how it's irritating though. Like saying something is 20ml short of a quart. Also though, I worked with a guy that would have been so pissed off at me if I'd have said a couple cm when he wanted to know how much more was needed and I'd have likely been fired laughing.
|
|
#
?
May 20, 2023 23:22
|
|
|
I can't loving believe there's been TEN loving movies starring Vin Diesel that seem to basically amount to "cars go fast". I've only seen one of them. It's a series that I can't grasp the popularity of but that may say more about me since I feel the same way about the John Wick series. I tried with both - I really did - since I had heard good things but Christ almighty the latter just seems like a wall to wall movie about inventing creative ways to shoot motherfuckers. Two entire incredibly popular film franchises centered around driving fast and (correctly) using firearms. I find the two I've tried to watch utterly exhausting to sit through but I guess people REALLY love guns and fast cars.
|
|
#
?
May 20, 2023 23:56
|
|
|
BioEnchanted posted:Eh, they could be saying it's only a centimeter margin of error as opposed to a full inch. That works still. Mixing units is abomination, so sayeth the lord
|
|
#
?
May 21, 2023 00:01
|
|
|
BiggerBoat posted:I can't loving believe there's been TEN loving movies starring Vin Diesel that seem to basically amount to "cars go fast". I've been ride or die on them since the first one; they're great fun. There's a great callback to the end of 2F2F around the middle of X when they get all their money hacked away that I saw coming immediately and immediately paid off. stringless has a new favorite as of 00:08 on May 21, 2023 |
|
#
?
May 21, 2023 00:04
|
|
|
BiggerBoat posted:I can't loving believe there's been TEN loving movies starring Vin Diesel that seem to basically amount to "cars go fast". I've only seen one of them. It's a series that I can't grasp the popularity of but that may say more about me since I feel the same way about the John Wick series. I tried with both - I really did - since I had heard good things but Christ almighty the latter just seems like a wall to wall movie about inventing creative ways to shoot motherfuckers. Two entire incredibly popular film franchises centered around driving fast and (correctly) using firearms. Sometimes the cars go to space, Vin Diesel causes earthquakes and the Rock pulls helicopters out of the sky, from my understanding. Your take on John Wick implies that that's a bad thing and I don't understand. They are stunt showcases with bonus outrageous lore and world-building. What more do you want out of an action franchise? And it's not all shooting! John Wick has killed people with books, horses, swords, and (a loving) pencil. Henchman of Santa has a new favorite as of 00:14 on May 21, 2023 |
|
#
?
May 21, 2023 00:06
|
|
|
BiggerBoat posted:
i call them the male version of the romcom: you know exactly what is going to happen. You know the formula. but it makes billions so they keep making stupid movies about guns and fast cars, and movies with a Nice Guy who can be fixed by a Super Special Main Character Lady.
|
|
#
?
May 21, 2023 00:31
|
|
|
FFT posted:Nine. He wasn't in the second one lol Or the 3rd. Franky the F&F movies are great as long as you go in knowing that you're going to get some of the dumbest cinema ever to grace the screen, but some of which the actors are totally going all-in for. They also want to make a movie where car go fast and it shows in how simply goofily endearing all the nonsense is
|
|
#
?
May 21, 2023 00:48
|
|
|
Morpheus posted:Or the 3rd.
|
|
#
?
May 21, 2023 00:50
|
|
|
The Mother: Interrogating a prisoner, she punches the guy in the face like thirteen times with barb wire wrapped around her fist. When that doesn't work, she pulls his shirt over his head and dumps a single bottle of booze over it and he immediately breaks. I know waterboarding sucks, but come on. Also in The Mother: Bad guy finds MANY of his pals dead. Instead of raising any alarm, calling for backup, doing anything, he just slowly walks out into the open, walks outside, walks more into the open, and is killed, and it's definitely not supposed to be a suicide but what the gently caress else is this NPC loving doing credburn has a new favorite as of 07:59 on May 21, 2023 |
|
#
?
May 21, 2023 07:43
|
|
|
Henchman of Santa posted:Sometimes the cars go to space, Vin Diesel causes earthquakes and the Rock pulls helicopters out of the sky, from my understanding. Also, every movie until the seventh one chronological happens before the third movie.
|
|
#
?
May 21, 2023 09:02
|
|
|
Alhazred posted:Also, every movie until the seventh one chronological happens before the third movie. What????
|
|
#
?
May 21, 2023 09:08
|
|
|
There's a character that dies in the third one but it's a popular character so they bring him back in the next few movies. The explanation is that those movies take place before the third one where he died.
|
|
#
?
May 21, 2023 09:17
|
|
|
Biplane posted:What???? About the only thing that people liked about Tokyo Drift was Han. But he dies in that movie. So in order to keep him in the franchise as long as possible, Fast&Furious 4-6 happens before Tokyo Drift.
|
|
#
?
May 21, 2023 09:18
|
|
|
BiggerBoat posted:
Guns and cars are inherently Cinematic.
|
|
#
?
May 21, 2023 09:22
|
|
|
The Fast and Furious movies are completely insane. Dom has like three evil sibling we've never heard of before they're introduced in the movies, Paul Walker's character is still alive, he just out of frame, characters has come back from dead, lost their memories, some goes from being good guys to being bad guys and vice versa and in, I think the ninth movie, it is stated that they are immortal.
|
|
#
?
May 21, 2023 09:25
|
|
|
Alhazred posted:About the only thing that people liked about Tokyo Drift was Han. But he dies in that movie. So in order to keep him in the franchise as long as possible, Fast&Furious 4-6 happens before Tokyo Drift. Okay well first of all, Tokyo Drift is amazing. And second of all, holy poo poo.
|
|
#
?
May 21, 2023 09:28
|
|
|
Alhazred posted:The Fast and Furious movies are completely insane. Dom has like three evil sibling we've never heard of before they're introduced in the movies, Paul Walker's character is still alive, he just out of frame, characters has come back from dead, lost their memories, some goes from being good guys to being bad guys and vice versa and in, I think the ninth movie, it is stated that they are immortal. And Roman's the one that says they must be immortal, but that's also shortly after he's gotten a significant amount of positive evidence in favor of the idea. And anyway, no one ever believes Roman. Even after he pulls their asses out of the fire by not being hungry he stlil gets no respect. stringless has a new favorite as of 10:05 on May 21, 2023 |
|
#
?
May 21, 2023 09:55
|
|
|
You are forgetting the best part of the FastFurious movies. In one of them, the Rock flexes his muscles so hard he breaks out of a cast, then shoots a helicopter gun at Vin Diesel and Jason Statham having a fight on a car park. Also the worst, yet funniest to me part of all of them. Vin Diesel has it written into the contract of every movie he does that he can NEVER lose a fistfight. Ever. Nor can he be seen to have been beaten, or have his opponent standing over him. This he gets written into his loving contract.
|
|
#
?
May 21, 2023 10:00
|
|
|
BrigadierSensible posted:This he gets written into his loving contract. The Rock has a similar, perhaps identical clause.
|
|
#
?
May 21, 2023 10:12
|
|
|
They used a simplified version of See You Again (Brian's send-off song at the end of Furious 7) as a leitmotif when they talked about Brian in FasTen. I still choked up a bit.
stringless has a new favorite as of 10:21 on May 21, 2023 |
|
#
?
May 21, 2023 10:17
|
|
|
Fred Williamson (star of Black Cæsar, Hell Up in Harlem, and Hammer) apparently had a similar clause in his contract in the 70s.
|
|
#
?
May 21, 2023 11:09
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 12, 2024 17:19 |
|
|
I made sure to include an identical clause in my waffle house employment contract, now I'm guaranteed a big payout.
|
|
#
?
May 21, 2023 11:16
|
|