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NorgLyle posted:Whenever I watch Jurassic Park 3 my brain will briefly complain during the reveal that William H Macy and Tea Leoni are frauds about 'then how did they hire the mercenaries?' Yeah, it's kind of a totally unnecessary reveal that just raises more questions than answers.
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NorgLyle posted:Whenever I watch Jurassic Park 3 my brain will briefly complain during the reveal that William H Macy and Tea Leoni are frauds about 'then how did they hire the mercenaries?' They had enough savings to hire a couple of mercenaries for a few days, but not enough for the funding they promised Grant? According to Google, a mercenary costs around $1000 / day. That's not out of the question for a middle class couple with some savings and maybe home equity or whatever.
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SimonChris posted:They had enough savings to hire a couple of mercenaries for a few days, but not enough for the funding they promised Grant? According to Google, a mercenary costs around $1000 / day. That's not out of the question for a middle class couple with some savings and maybe home equity or whatever. On today's episode of "things I'd never think to google":
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on the subject of the parent trap. why did the rich British twin go to some american summer camp
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Also they weren't real mercenaries.
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Feb 14, 2024 18:38
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All my mercenary costing information comes from the Jagged Alliance games, so I can say with confidence you can get cheap mercenaries if you don't mind them not being able to do any of the things you'd want a mercenary to do
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Fil5000 posted:All my mercenary costing information comes from the Jagged Alliance games, so I can say with confidence you can get cheap mercenaries if you don't mind them not being able to do any of the things you'd want a mercenary to do The JP mercs failed to accomplish anything and got eaten by dinosaurs, so... that sounds about right.
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Fil5000 posted:All my mercenary costing information comes from the Jagged Alliance games, so I can say with confidence you can get cheap mercenaries if you don't mind them not being able to do any of the things you'd want a mercenary to do You talking poo poo about my gal Flo??
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Oh good, I think I was the only kid in my class that hated the movie the parent trap. Like, at no point did the girls, in any version of the movie, show any kind of anger that their parents had lied to them for so long, nope. They were all caught up with the idea of making their parents, who had been divorced for 10 years or so, get back together! And of course the parents do see each other and fall in love because the past 10 years haven't happened, and whichever one of them already has a partner has to totally hate kids or something to that effect. I remember some behind the scenes thing about Mrs. Doubtfire, and the original ending bad the parents getting back together, but pretty sure Robin Williams and sally Field insisted that not happen because of the false hope it would give kids that divorce was just temporary, and your parents will get back together and realize they love each other if you just do some wacky stupid kid stuff.
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Alexander Hamilton posted:Killing people is cool, and good Aaron Burr endorses this statement
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Fil5000 posted:All my mercenary costing information comes from the Jagged Alliance games, so I can say with confidence you can get cheap mercenaries if you don't mind them not being able to do any of the things you'd want a mercenary to do Barry... Unger. <BOOM>
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Ocean’s Eleven also makes no sense geographically as the Bellagio, the Mirage, and the MGM Grand are blocks away from one another. Also the idea that casinos would share a vault when they’re bought and sold all the time.
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Fil5000 posted:All my mercenary costing information comes from the Jagged Alliance games, so I can say with confidence you can get cheap mercenaries if you don't mind them not being able to do any of the things you'd want a mercenary to do Oh hey, I'm a mercenary
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Fil5000 posted:All my mercenary costing information comes from the Jagged Alliance games, so I can say with confidence you can get cheap mercenaries if you don't mind them not being able to do any of the things you'd want a mercenary to do They basically hired Dale Gribble from his Soldier of Fortune magazine ad.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Ocean’s Eleven also makes no sense geographically as the Bellagio, the Mirage, and the MGM Grand are blocks away from one another. Also the idea that casinos would share a vault when they’re bought and sold all the time. No one particularly cares, but comes to mind why using fictional counterparts is usually smarter and also a lot more fun. Also, heh, reminded of the finale of Wonka. Heists are an almost cliched finale sequence to lots of movies, especially kids' movies, but they're fun for a reason. Rogue One is basically a heist come to think of it too. Log082 posted:The JP mercs failed to accomplish anything and got eaten by dinosaurs, so... that sounds about right. Seems pretty on brand too. They're about as competent in Jurassic World as well. Ghost Leviathan has a new favorite as of 12:09 on Feb 15, 2024 |
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Boogaloo Shrimp posted:They basically hired Dale Gribble from his Soldier of Fortune magazine ad. hey now, we have seen Dale be amazingly astute and able to plan ahead. not that he wouldn't have run screaming from the dinosaurs, and likely dropped some lit cigarettes but hey, no more crazy dino island! Just a trailer so far, but Despicable Me 4: oh boy, we needed another one of these. And HAVE TO have the trope of incompetent dad/baby loves mom cause she's super competent. Incredibles 2 at least did it realistically. And why the hell are the girls looking the same as from the first movie? Down to the very same outfits. Venture Brothers had a good explanation for it, but I am doubting the dudes at Illumination are going for quite that route.
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Cowslips Warren posted:Oh good, I think I was the only kid in my class that hated the movie the parent trap. This is why I appreciated Sister Sister when it was on in the 90s, which did the trope of separated twins much better because Ray and Lisa AREN'T a couple and in fact have other relationships outside the household. They only live together because their daughters never knew each other existed and really want to bond which they are both fine with. The arrangement is purely so that Tia and Tamera can fully reunite and develop a relationship
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My IIMM: Legendary Pokemon talking, it made sense for Mewtwo to have telepathy in the first movie because it was genetically engineered psychic pokemon but then every movie after has a legendary that also just happens to have telepathy and Arceus just straight up speaks english
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Non Compos Mentis posted:My IIMM: Legendary Pokemon talking, it made sense for Mewtwo to have telepathy in the first movie because it was genetically engineered psychic pokemon but then every movie after has a legendary that also just happens to have telepathy I'll give a pass ro Arceus speaking English, the thing made the universe, it's probably speaking some Ur-language that every
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Randalor posted:I'll give a pass ro Arceus speaking English, the thing made the universe, it's probably speaking some Ur-language that every I like to think Alakazam were smart compared to other Gen 1 Pokemon but compared to later gen psychics they're just hillbillies.
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Feb 16, 2024 18:08
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Alakazam is smart enough not to talk to humans.
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Alakazam has an IQ of 5 000 they cant be dumbfucks
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PhazonLink posted:Alakazam has an IQ of 5 000 they cant be dumbfucks That's just a five and three zeros!
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Alakazam claim to have an IQ of 5000 because they don't understand how IQ works :P
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There is a superhero in DC comics whose superpower is that he is very intelligent. He claims to be the third-smartest man on earth, which actually makes him the smartest because that way he gets the dumbasses to fight over spot 1 and 2.
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Alakazam can talk. They just don’t have anything to say to you.
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A bodybuilder who has an Alakazam as his partner, and when they win a match Alakazam puts both his spoons in one hand so he can hi-5 his trainer 
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Telepathy is actually a pretty common Hidden Ability among a lot of Legendary Pokemon. Even the ones who aren't also Psychic types. Not even getting into how speaking human isn't even that big an accomplishment for a Pokemon given Meowth can manage it and everyone just treats him as a weirdo loser. (Which, to be fair, he is) Actually, how many Pokemon movies even have legendaries suddenly talk? I've seen a few of the early ones and communication barriers across species are a major theme, with Meowth often acting as a convenient translator. Funny thing is Mewtwo seems implied to have part human DNA, given its original is basically Jurassic Park and it looks way more humanoid than what it was supposedly cloned from, and I think that's straight up stated in one of the manga adaptations. (Which take a lot of liberties from the games, but still)
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I think if people had the ability to talk and to understand animals, they'd realize most animals do not want to talk to us. Wild Thornberries was pretty drat cool even if the human designs were creepy as hell sometimes.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Funny thing is Mewtwo seems implied to have part human DNA, given its original is basically Jurassic Park and it looks way more humanoid than what it was supposedly cloned from, and I think that's straight up stated in one of the manga adaptations. (Which take a lot of liberties from the games, but still) Pokemon Adventures, when they didn't have enough of Mew's cells to finish Mewtwo, Blaine used his own to finish the project (and inadvertently got Mewtwo cells in him to boot), but even the "unfinished" Mewtwo looked like Mewtwo, just minus an arm and a leg. Pokemon Adventures is batshit insane and I highly recommend it to everyone (There's a shadow war between the gym leaders, all the PCs are introduced in their respective games, and time actually moves forward as the series goes on! And that's just talking about Red/Blue/Yellow!)
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The third best Australian film ever made, Crocodile Dundee, is actually called “Crocodile” Dundee in the opening credits. I’ve been calling it Crocodile Dundee all this time.
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oldpainless posted:The third best Australian film ever made, Crocodile Dundee, is actually called “Crocodile” Dundee in the opening credits. I’ve been calling it Crocodile Dundee all this time. I feel like a freaken idiot!
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oldpainless posted:The third best Australian film ever made, Crocodile Dundee, is actually called “Crocodile” Dundee in the opening credits. I’ve been calling it Crocodile Dundee all this time. All the "crocodiles" in the film are platypus as Dundee is just a very confused individual. It's actually the central joke of the film that was utterly lost on foreign audience.
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how the gently caress can it be third best Aussie film when Mad Maxes 1 through 4 exist??
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And of course the classic documentary Wake In Fright.
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Sally posted:how the gently caress can it be third best Aussie film when Mad Maxes 1 through 4 exist?? It’s number 3 behind Crocodile Dundee 3 and Crocodile Dundee 2
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oldpainless posted:The third best Australian film ever made, Crocodile Dundee, is actually called “Crocodile” Dundee in the opening credits. I’ve been calling it Crocodile Dundee all this time. as a 12 year old i thought it was very sweet that they got married in between the movies or during
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oldpainless posted:It’s number 3 behind Crocodile Dundee 3 and Crocodile Dundee 2 I can't blame you for not being aware of Houseboat Horror, but shame on you for forgetting Young Einstein.
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Carthag Tuek posted:as a 12 year old i thought it was very sweet that they got married in between the movies or during Tell that to the wife he cheated on and divorced.
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Sally posted:how the gently caress can it be third best Aussie film when Mad Maxes 1 through 4 exist?? And Walkabout, Picnic At Hanging Rock, and that mid 80's giant killer pig horror movie.
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