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Randalor posted:We need a movie with Lucifer, Satan and Baphomet. Call it "The Three Devils". Netflix, where's my cheque? Going by the Goetia there's about 4-12 devils so that has a lot of franchise potential..
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Morpheus posted:I liked the show but absolutely hated Sabrina. Half the problems were caused by some variation of her loving things up because she believes she's above it all. That's why I ended up quitting too. I really liked the actress, but I didn't like 1) how small-scale and powerless the Satan figure was, and 2) how Sabrina just kept thinking she was above the rules. I wouldn't have minded if it had happened once or twice. She's a teenager, she's arrogant, fine. But she *never loving learned*.
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The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) has Max von Sydow (voice of the Devil in The Soldier's Tale (1984)), Victor Buono (the Devil in The Evil (1978)), Roddy McDowall (Mephistopheles in two episodes of Fantasy Island), and Donald Pleasence as Satan. I'm not sure if four can be beaten, especially considering the quad is a movie about the life and ministry of Jesus Christ lmao stringless has a new favorite as of 03:13 on Nov 21, 2023 |
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Sabrina was the Legendary Super Satanist, right?Taeke posted:I liked that Supernatural used the plot device of multiple layers of reality and it being a story/tv show to break the fourth wall completely with the sole purpose of making GBS threads on everyone involved. The actors, the creators and especially the fans. And then they met Scooby-Doo!
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Biplane posted:Sabrina was pretty good. Michelle Gomez was crazy good in it. Morpheus posted:... and yet we were still supposed to root for her.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Sabrina was the Legendary Super Satanist, right? She's literally the antichrist* at one point *but in a good way
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Baron von Eevl posted:She's literally the antichrist* at one point Sigh. Yes, we've all read Nietzsche.
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Elissimpark posted:Sigh. Yes, we've all read Nietzsche. Speak for yourself I read his Wikipedia page 
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The Devil's Advocate movie was so awesome and perfect in pretty much every way but Satan clearly falls apart and overextends his hand really late in the game. News flash dude, I know you're evil and pretty much everyone working for your immoral lawyer pyramid is evil, but you need to slow seduce your son into becoming evil as well. It literally seems to take just a few days to have his wife go crazy, get her committed, and then get her killed. And in the same afternoon try to convince the shocked grieving son that he needs to get it on with his unknown sister. And oh, by the way your dad is Satan. Like, the emperor didn't turn Anakin Skywalker evil over the course of a day or two. He had to build that poo poo up! And there was already a pretty big playing ground and foundation already there. I mean we know he is just going to keep trying again if you watch the end of the movie, but it seems silly that he couldn't space this out over the course of a few weeks, or at the very least have the crazy wife be sent home. Evil cannot comprehend good or love, but that doesn't mean evil needs to be stupid and lazy!
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I remember Al Pacino ranting so much during the final act that his daughter at one point just tells him to shut up.
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The Devil isn't exactly known for his good decision-making skills. That's kinda why he's in hell, after all.
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Ok but counterpoint, Charlize's hair.
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Watching The Killer again and my IIMM is how The Killer was able to procure a gun when he went to New York to take care of The Expert. I'm assuming he had a storage unit like he had in New Orleans. I guess my issue is that he flew to La Guardia which meant he had very strict TSA checkpoints instead of taking the train which would've been easier to smuggle one in. Another IIMM is that the suppressors he uses have ported holes like a brake, which IMO is a poor trade off of muzzle flip for sound suppression.
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I don't want to know how you know all this.
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Suppressors work by basically catching the bang and holding on to it until it dissipates slowly. Like trying to sneak a fart out gently vs blasting rear end. If you drill holes in it it doesn't do that very well.
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Any time a movie shows me guns being shot with a silencer, they better sound like plnk plnk fsst tnk We've come too far to abandon this way of cinema.
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Cowslips Warren posted:
Who knows how many times he has tried it though. The movie could be attempt number one billion and then and he's slowly finding the right approach. Maybe in the first few tries he just introduced himself as Satan to Lomax the first time they met.
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So why focus on this attempt? That would be a fun concept to play with though, like if they ever did a remake. Have a Groundhog's Day like montage and everything.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:I don't want to know how you know all this. Their username is a warning from the future.
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Something I read on another site but: In the Jackie Chan/Jaden Smith Karate Kid reboot, the film is set in China and the kid learns kung fu so it should be called the Kung Fu Kid.
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HopperUK posted:how Sabrina just kept thinking she was above the rules. I wouldn't have minded if it had happened once or twice. She's a teenager, she's arrogant, fine. But she *never loving learned*.
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BiggerBoat posted:Something I read on another site but: I think that was a working title.
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You know what, rolls off the tongue much better than The Karate Kid. Just a better title in my opinion .
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Splicer posted:Has this ever been done on purpose and well? A main character loving things up due to their own hubris but in a way that's enjoyable to watch and now that I type it out I realise I'm describing the first two seasons of You and also 90% of Greek mythology. The difference between something like Greek tragedy and Sabrina is that in Greek tragedy the story centers around the main character being undone by their flaw, while Sabrina centers around the main character succeeding despite her flaw, so she ends up coming across as a giant rear end in a top hat instead of a tragic hero and never seems to learn or get a deserved comeuppance.
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BiggerBoat posted:Something I read on another site but: I'm surprised Jackie Chan is still alive. Not because of his age, I just kinda assumed he would have died doing his own stunts by now.
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Randalor posted:I'm surprised Jackie Chan is still alive. Not because of his age, I just kinda assumed he would have died doing his own stunts by now. I mean he survived the 80's when he was doing his really crazy stuff, by the mid 90's when he started doing Hollywood stuff his stunts become far, far safer. I still remember hearing him talk about how in one of his first Hollywood films the director comes up to him and asked him, 'oh hey how would you get up that wall' jackie says he looked at the wall a couple of seconds than did a typical Jackie Chan quick leap/climb thing up it. Director said, 'yep, perfect'. Then they spent the next six hours or so setting everything up so they could film him doing that and have it be up to Hollywood safety standards. Not saying he didn't do some amazing and incredibly skillful work after that, but yeah from than on, but what he did do was orders of magnitude less risky. Jesus when you hear about how little safety prep was done on his crazy Honk Kong era stunts 
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Zonko_T.M. posted:The difference between something like Greek tragedy and Sabrina is that in Greek tragedy the story centers around the main character being undone by their flaw, while Sabrina centers around the main character succeeding despite her flaw, so she ends up coming across as a giant rear end in a top hat instead of a tragic hero and never seems to learn or get a deserved comeuppance. What annoyed me about Sabrina is that it kept being called a 'spiritual successor to Buffy' when it's clearly completely different. Buffy is a supernatural teen drama, Sabrina is a wish-fullfilment young adult fantasy. Buffy fails her classes because she slept through trigonometry after staying up all night fighting vampires, causing a strained relationship with her mum and exile from the cool girls clique. Sabrina shows up to school on the first day and announces she's going to be prom queen despite no one having ever seen her before, and everyone goes 'uh OK I guess, you clearly are the most special'. Then she only turns up at the school if she has nothing more interesting going on. Nothing necessarily wrong with a goofy fun show about a super special protagonist who effortlessly succeeds at everything and moves on to the next thing without consequences, but it's a million miles away from a teen drama about how much it sucks to be a teenager
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Randalor posted:I'm surprised Jackie Chan is still alive. Not because of his age, I just kinda assumed he would have died doing his own stunts by now. One story that sticks out in my head, and I made no effort to corroborate this then or now, was that at one point a doctor told Jackie "if you get one more concussion you will die." When I read that, now, it sounds like baloney, but I wonder if there wasn't some underlying health condition, or the worry about CTE that caused Jackie to back off and be way safer.
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Splicer posted:Has this ever been done on purpose and well? A main character loving things up due to their own hubris but in a way that's enjoyable to watch and now that I type it out I realise I'm describing the first two seasons of You and also 90% of Greek mythology. Deadstream does a great job straddling the line between having an annoying protagonist that you still enjoy watching while he gets his poo poo pushed in by ghosts. Come to think of it, there must be more haunted house movies where the protagonists are assholes you wanna see haunted. Slashers often fail when those people are too cartoonish and you are just going through the motions waiting for heads to roll.
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Grendels Dad posted:Deadstream does a great job straddling the line between having an annoying protagonist that you still enjoy watching while he gets his poo poo pushed in by ghosts.
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Splicer posted:Has this ever been done on purpose and well? A main character loving things up due to their own hubris but in a way that's enjoyable to watch and now that I type it out I realise I'm describing the first two seasons of You and also 90% of Greek mythology. There’s this show called Breaking Bad that was pretty well liked
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Splicer posted:Has this ever been done on purpose and well? A main character loving things up due to their own hubris but in a way that's enjoyable to watch and now that I type it out I realise I'm describing the first two seasons of You and also 90% of Greek mythology. 
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Please don't make me read my own posts in Frasier's voice.
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null_pointer posted:One story that sticks out in my head, and I made no effort to corroborate this then or now, was that at one point a doctor told Jackie "if you get one more concussion you will die." You're thinking of Reggie Ray from Not Another Teen Movie.
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I couldn't get on board with the new Sabrina because the cat wasn't a wisecracking talking puppet
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She makes perfect sense as a character that walks into a birthday party, says "this whole institution is lame I should also get a present whenever the birthday girl gets a present and my presents should be better" and then she does and we get a rousing goth girl rendition of I Love Rock and Roll as she walks triumphantly away from the party. Basically she was Eric Cartman but you weren't supposed to kinda hate her.
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Splicer posted:Has this ever been done on purpose and well? A main character loving things up due to their own hubris but in a way that's enjoyable to watch and now that I type it out I realise I'm describing the first two seasons of You and also 90% of Greek mythology. I think it's also the concept of House?
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null_pointer posted:One story that sticks out in my head, and I made no effort to corroborate this then or now, was that at one point a doctor told Jackie "if you get one more concussion you will die." I think doctors just talk like that sometimes to put the fear into you. I knew a guy who was literally told by his doctor if he had one more drink he'd die. Would he have actually literally died if he consumed one more alcoholic beverage? Probably not, but he got sober and he's still alive where he probably wouldn't be if he hadn't stopped drinking. It's true in the sense that "if you don't stop now you'll never stop until it kills you."
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Baron von Eevl posted:I think doctors just talk like that sometimes to put the fear into you. I knew a guy who was literally told by his doctor if he had one more drink he'd die. Would he have actually literally died if he consumed one more alcoholic beverage? Probably not, but he got sober and he's still alive where he probably wouldn't be if he hadn't stopped drinking. It's true in the sense that "if you don't stop now you'll never stop until it kills you." Yeah, my uncle went hard into bad habits when he retired from the military and then he went to the doctor. "Sir, how old are you again?" "I'm 44." "Do you want be 45?" marshmallow creep has a new favorite as of 17:43 on Nov 22, 2023 |
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Baron von Eevl posted:I think doctors just talk like that sometimes to put the fear into you. I knew a guy who was literally told by his doctor if he had one more drink he'd die. Would he have actually literally died if he consumed one more alcoholic beverage? Probably not, but he got sober and he's still alive where he probably wouldn't be if he hadn't stopped drinking. It's true in the sense that "if you don't stop now you'll never stop until it kills you." https://youtu.be/IYzIrLz6RA0?si=1MJiWU1gkapjCWsV
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