Who Threadglightninged 2023: The Delay of Destiny

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The MSJ: May 17, 2010

Pope Corky the IX posted:

The end of Boogie Nights when Dirk Diggler unzips his pants.

�I�m the Thing, I�m the Thing, I�m the Thing�

Nacho Vigalondo's V/H/S short Parallel Monsters is pretty much this.

# ? Jun 2, 2023 00:59

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# ? May 26, 2024 12:54

muscles like this!: Jan 17, 2005

Looks like Vin Diesel won as the Rock has announced he's doing another FF spin off movie that will be set around the same time as Fast X and set up Fast X-2. Presumably the movie where the Family become idols.

# ? Jun 2, 2023 01:23

Cool Kids Club Soda: Aug 20, 2010; 😎❄️🌃🥤🧋🍹👌💯

muscles like this! posted:

Looks like Vin Diesel won as the Rock has announced he's doing another FF spin off movie that will be set around the same time as Fast X and set up Fast X-2. Presumably the movie where the Family become idols.

Sailor Stars but with drift racing

# ? Jun 2, 2023 02:13

ALFbrot: Apr 17, 2002

Cool Kids Club Soda posted:

Sailor Stars but with drift racing

..... Go on

# ? Jun 2, 2023 04:14

Tars Tarkas: Apr 13, 2003; Rock the Mok

A nasty woman, I think you should try is, Jess.

muscles like this! posted:

Looks like Vin Diesel won as the Rock has announced he's doing another FF spin off movie that will be set around the same time as Fast X and set up Fast X-2. Presumably the movie where the Family become idols.

Spoiler for Fast X The Rock showed up in a post-credits scene. Also Gisele (Gal Gadot) appeared in a different post-credits scene, still alive and on a submarine

# ? Jun 2, 2023 04:46

MonsieurChoc: Oct 12, 2013; Every species can smell its own extinction.

ruddiger posted:

I'm surprised he hasn't done a soundtrack to a video game yet, he probably looked into it, saw the amount of work required, and was like "lol nah"

In a recent interview he said he'd love to do it but no one asked.

# ? Jun 2, 2023 04:56

Neo Rasa: Mar 8, 2007; Everyone should play DUKE games.

Robot Style posted:

Advertised as a Starman sequel, actually a The Thing sequel.

Xtro 4: Watch the Things

# ? Jun 2, 2023 12:36

Gatts: Jan 2, 2001; Goodnight Moon; Nap Ghost

muscles like this! posted:

Looks like Vin Diesel won as the Rock has announced he's doing another FF spin off movie that will be set around the same time as Fast X and set up Fast X-2. Presumably the movie where the Family become idols.

Black Adam such a flop that Dwayne gotta do this

# ? Jun 2, 2023 14:10

Shageletic: Jul 25, 2007

"I'm back...to be a cop or bounty hunter or whatever the hell I was. But this time I got my own family."

*The Thing pops up while Cisco sings Thing-Thing-Thing*

# ? Jun 2, 2023 15:21

Schwarzwald: Jul 27, 2004; Don't Blink

MonsieurChoc posted:

In a recent interview he said he'd love to do it but no one asked.

my lovely rpgmaker game is about to level the gently caress up

# ? Jun 2, 2023 16:50

SunshineDanceParty: Feb 7, 2006; One Road. Two Friends. One Ass.

dr_rat posted:

Always love it when you can very viably see an actor go between wearing a wig and not in a scene because of obvious re-shoots.

My favorite version of this is Kate Mara in Fantastic Four because they didn't even try to get it to match and they aren't small shots.

# ? Jun 3, 2023 02:52

Codependent Poster: Oct 20, 2003

SunshineDanceParty posted:

My favorite version of this is Kate Mara in Fantastic Four because they didn't even try to get it to match and they aren't small shots.

Ben Affleck in Justice League is good too. His hair completely changes from shot to shot.

# ? Jun 3, 2023 07:36

feedmyleg: Dec 25, 2004

Shockingly also in Samurai Cop

# ? Jun 3, 2023 14:04

davidspackage: May 16, 2007; Nap Ghost

feedmyleg posted:

Shockingly also in Samurai Cop

Hell, in Samurai Cop the wig visibly comes off in the final fight scene.

# ? Jun 3, 2023 18:09

Baron von Eevl: Jan 24, 2005; WHITE NOISE
GENERATOR
🔊😴

Samurai Cop isn't because they were doing reshoots, the lead just got a haircut halfway through production and it never occurred to him that he probably shouldn't do that.

# ? Jun 3, 2023 18:16

dr_rat: Jun 4, 2001

Baron von Eevl posted:

Samurai Cop isn't because they were doing reshoots, the lead just got a haircut halfway through production and it never occurred to him that he probably shouldn't do that.

The lead didn't know they hadn't finished filming because they'd stop shooting for months and he hadn't heard anything from the producer director about any more shooting being intended. It was perfectly reasonable to just assumed they'd finished.

# ? Jun 3, 2023 19:12

Snowman_McK: Jan 31, 2010

dr_rat posted:

The lead didn't know they hadn't finished filming because they'd stop shooting for months and he hadn't heard anything from the producer director about any more shooting being intended. It was perfectly reasonable to just assumed they'd finished.

This is way funnier.

Codependent Poster posted:

Ben Affleck in Justice League is good too. His hair completely changes from shot to shot.

He also gains weight between shots. Weirdly, you can see the same thing happen to Sam Shepard in Black Hawk Down.

# ? Jun 4, 2023 00:50

IShallRiseAgain: Sep 12, 2008; Well ain't that precious?

This is a TV show, but its worth posting.

https://twitter.com/yugiohtas/status/1665021334311653379

I think using a body double would've worked better even if he didn't really look like the actor lol.

# ? Jun 4, 2023 01:10

Alan Smithee: Jan 4, 2005; A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

Sounds like they have a score to settle

Through children�s card games

# ? Jun 4, 2023 04:24

Zechariah: Mar 20, 2020; There is a road, no simple highway
Between the dawn and the dark of night

Chairman Capone posted:

Peter Watts did a story called "The Things" which was a retelling of the movie from the Thing's POV, which is it being confused that the weird aliens hunting it are rejecting its blessing of joining the collective consciousness of absorption and trying its best to save them from their isolation.

It's fine but he should have leaned into the fact that The Thing is specifically NOT a hivemind but a libertarian collective with fragile instinctually aligned values. Every little part of it is in it for itself, the greater good be damned. Two separate Things would rather the other burn than be caught themselves, their fingers don't trust each other, and the left leg voting block keeps complaining about roads.

Entire rest of the body: "Don't you do it! Don't you rat us out you little shits! The rest of the blood cells kicked you out because they knew how much you suck!"

Blood: "gently caress you, gently caress you all."

Watts loses a letter grade for not reading the assignment properly.

# ? Jun 4, 2023 04:47

kalel: Jun 19, 2012

does anyone in the movie use the word "rape" to describe what the thing does to people? because I thought that use of that specific term in the short story (which the humans use and the thing then adopts) was pretty sus

# ? Jun 4, 2023 05:10

IShallRiseAgain: Sep 12, 2008; Well ain't that precious?

Zechariah posted:

It's fine but he should have leaned into the fact that The Thing is specifically NOT a hivemind but a libertarian collective with fragile instinctually aligned values. Every little part of it is in it for itself, the greater good be damned. Two separate Things would rather the other burn than be caught themselves, their fingers don't trust each other, and the left leg voting block keeps complaining about roads.

Entire rest of the body: "Don't you do it! Don't you rat us out you little shits! The rest of the blood cells kicked you out because they knew how much you suck!"

Blood: "gently caress you, gently caress you all."

Watts loses a letter grade for not reading the assignment properly.

I think that The Thing is possibly a non-sapient mindless creature unless its a imitating a sapient creature and even then it isn't really self-aware, but just a P-Zombie with a directive to survive and infect others. Although it could also be self-aware though because it knows how to build a UFO. Heck the people its imitating might not even be aware that they are The Thing except when its instincts take over. When its just blood, its not able to respond intelligently.

I think its far more interesting and scary if the audience isn't made aware how it operates. It could be an animal acting on instinct or a malicious being that knows exactly what it is doing.

# ? Jun 4, 2023 05:23

Young Freud: Nov 26, 2006

IShallRiseAgain posted:

I think that The Thing is possibly a non-sapient mindless creature unless its a imitating a sapient creature and even then it isn't really self-aware, but just a P-Zombie with a directive to survive and infect others. Although it could also be self-aware though because it knows how to build a UFO. Heck the people its imitating might not even be aware that they are The Thing except when its instincts take over. When its just blood, its not able to respond intelligently.

I think its far more interesting and scary if the audience isn't made aware how it operates. It could be an animal acting on instinct or a malicious being that knows exactly what it is doing.

We are shown, multiple times, that the Thing possess an intelligence. It knows when to ambush targets of opportunity like Bennings or the dogs; it recognizes MacReady's growing influence over the group and schemes to convince others that MacReady is a Thing and eliminate him, which it almost pulls off; it makes arrangements to separate and ambush the others by loving with the power, cutting the guide ropes, etc. ; and the Blair Thing is clearly building an escape craft so it can leave Antarctica before things get bad.

# ? Jun 4, 2023 06:22