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Len posted:the last new Columbo special was in 2003 Yeah, that gap just reached drinking age.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Obscure celebrities like Johnny Cash, Vincent Price, William Shatner, and Dick van Dyke are all murders on Colombo. My favorite is Leslie Nielsen.
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There's even an episode of SVU that not only has Robin Williams as the guest star (they at least tell you ASAP he's the rapist/killer), but they managed to even work in him doing some of his schtick. They are checking his alibi, and he set up burner phones with fake numbers, so they called the "diner" he said he was waiting at, and it was Williams doing his Southern Diner Waitress voice.
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DrBouvenstein posted:There's even an episode of SVU that not only has Robin Williams as the guest star (they at least tell you ASAP he's the rapist/killer), but they managed to even work in him doing some of his schtick. And the “screams” from olivia being tortured at the end were just Robin williams screaming as well.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Obscure celebrities like Johnny Cash, Vincent Price, William Shatner, and Dick van Dyke are all murders on Colombo. It also ran up to the early 2000s. The last ever Columbo antagonist is Matthew Rhys of The Americans fame.
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DrBouvenstein posted:Robin Williams... they managed to even work in him doing some of his schtick. Gotta be better than letting Dennis Leary do his thing in DEMOLITION MAN 
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Henchman of Santa posted:It also ran up to the early 2000s. The last ever Columbo antagonist is Matthew Rhys of The Americans fame. One episode a year on average from 1990 to 2003 lol
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muscles like this! posted:Aquaman 2 has a really bizarre plot where Black Manta is causing global warming to be worse because he's trying to melt some ice in the arctic in order to free an ancient bad guy who is promising him power. Except then also melting the ice won't free him and they need the blood of the royal family in order to break a curse? For once, I would love to see a film play with the "We need someone with the blood of the person who sealed away the ancient evil 10,000 years ago" and they just try their own blood because, hey, SOMEONE in the group is probably related to them, it's been longer than recorded history.
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Mar 6, 2024 15:35
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500excf type r posted:Colombo is good as hell but lol if you can identify anyone other than Peter falk and pay full price for your coffee at the diner I spotted Patrick McGoohan all three or four times he was the murderer.
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Mauser posted:I spotted Patrick McGoohan all three or four times he was the murderer. I thought his number was 6?
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500excf type r posted:One episode a year on average from 1990 to 2003 lol It’s really a series of TV movies more than a show.
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I haven't seen the later Columbo specials, might have to remedy that. I see Billy Connolly is listed as a guest murderer.
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bitterandtwisted posted:I haven't seen the later Columbo specials, might have to remedy that. I see Billy Connolly is listed as a guest murderer. The later ones are generally not as good tbh. 1994's "Undercover" is maybe the nadir of the entire run. I appreciate Falk for continuing doing them into his 70s but he probably shouldn't have.
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Bk. posted:The Night Comes for Us At the same time "White Boy Bobby" is one of the greatest character names of all time, it just has a rhythm to it
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Len posted:the flip side of that is then you have people going online to complain about the villain being some rando that never showed up before and how that's lame and bad
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Pilchenstein posted:I guess it's a screenwriting rule or some poo poo but I am irrationally irritated that the guy who did it always has to be someone the audience saw earlier so they can go "holy poo poo, it's that guy who had twenty seconds of pointless screen time" or whatever. Who gives a gently caress, just have the villain be someone we don't know if you couldn't be arsed to write a whole role for them. I was watching Elementary and in one episode they have a doctor walk into the victim's hospital room, deliver one line about how he hopes they catch the bastard, then walk back out not to be seen again until the end when he's been revealed as the attacker. It was like the writers forgot to introduce the character so they scribbled it on page two of the script as final drafts went out.
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Randalor posted:For once, I would love to see a film play with the "We need someone with the blood of the person who sealed away the ancient evil 10,000 years ago" and they just try their own blood because, hey, SOMEONE in the group is probably related to them, it's been longer than recorded history. Reminds me of that small bit in Pirates where they need some blood, and the girl is freaking out thinking they're going to slash her throat, and they pinprick her finger instead. "Waste not!"
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Cowslips Warren posted:Reminds me of that small bit in Pirates where they need some blood, and the girl is freaking out thinking they're going to slash her throat, and they pinprick her finger instead. "Waste not!"
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mycot posted:Columbo is actually weirdly famous in Japan. Apparently Japan already had a tradition of detective stories where the killer is already known to the audience and the suspense is in how they're caught, so Columbo fit right in. I think Garak would be a fan.
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dr_rat posted:I like the opposite of this. There's a few Scottish independent movies that have been released with subtitles due to very thick accents, colloquialisms, and slang and the subtitles clean up the swearing massively. It's great hearing what the characters say vs what the subtitles are saying they're saying. Subtitles have been getting weird the last few years. If they are using text to speech for cheap transcription (like youtube) they will get lots of homophones wrong, and that's understandable. But lately there seem to be more where they substitute a bunch of synonyms. How does that happen? Not just swears, random words. Why? How? An irrationally irritating one was the Scottish show Case Histories, staring Jason Issacs, where a bunch of perfectly intelligible sentences were subtitled [unintelligible]. I'm Canadian so it isn't like the accent is native to me and there were a few things I didn't catch (hence watching with subtitles) but it was ridiculous how much they said was unintelligible. Did they farm out transcription to a country that doesn't understand Scottish accents?
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Cowslips Warren posted:Reminds me of that small bit in Pirates where they need some blood, and the girl is freaking out thinking they're going to slash her throat, and they pinprick her finger instead. "Waste not!" Which Pirates movie are we talking here
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Apparently Japan already had a tradition of detective stories where the killer is already known to the audience and the suspense is in how they're caught, so Columbo fit right in.
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Randalor posted:For once, I would love to see a film play with the "We need someone with the blood of the person who sealed away the ancient evil 10,000 years ago" and they just try their own blood because, hey, SOMEONE in the group is probably related to them, it's been longer than recorded history. And it doesn’t work. The big bad promises not to kill the antagonist cause of that but they do realize it will be a very large portion of the human population that a big bad looking to scour all the descendants of their jailer is gonna wipe out.
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Morpheus posted:Which Pirates movie are we talking here
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Facebook Aunt posted:Did they farm out transcription to a country that doesn't understand Scottish accents? I remember when I was working in the Philippines, the Filipinos all had a lot of trouble understanding me and my Aussie mates, but none with any of my Peace Core mates. To me, like I could hear the accent but both were completely as easy to understand as each other and I didn't think anyone had that strong an accent but  (a lot of my Aussie mates ended up putting on slight American accents. It worked.)
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dr_rat posted:I remember when I was working in the Philippines, the Filipinos all had a lot of trouble understanding me and my Aussie mates, but none with any of my Peace Core mates. To me, like I could hear the accent but both were completely as easy to understand as each other and I didn't think anyone had that strong an accent but When I was in peace corps, a lot of the anglophone African folks had an impossible time understanding our American accents because they all were more familiar with British English and had their own accent, so the easy correction was to enunciate more clearly and pronounce the "t"s in words like little as a t sound. People have a really hard time when pronunciation is different from what they've heard. My iimm for Shogun, which I am really enjoying, is that the main character has these horrible contacts that make his eyes blue and are very obviously contacts. I don't really remember if this was some sort of critical feature of the character from the book, but it really didn't need to be done.
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In Man of Steel Superman does a ton of collateral damage in the city in the final fight. So much so that in Batman vs Superman it's used as the reason Bruce Wayne hates him at first. I know they become friends at the end but, does Superman ever comment on it or do anything to make up for all the people he got killed in that fight? Does he say anything on the matter at all?
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Mauser posted:When I was in peace corps, a lot of the anglophone African folks had an impossible time understanding our American accents because they all were more familiar with British English and had their own accent, so the easy correction was to enunciate more clearly and pronounce the "t"s in words like little as a t sound. People have a really hard time when pronunciation is different from what they've heard. The book readers in the Shogun thread say it’s to contrast him with the Iberian characters.
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Cowslips Warren posted:Reminds me of that small bit in Pirates where they need some blood, and the girl is freaking out thinking they're going to slash her throat, and they pinprick her finger instead. "Waste not!" (The IIMM in this scene is that the cut is across the inside of the palm, which always drives me crazy. A bit more forgivable here because they're the villains, but don't loving do that!!)
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Shard posted:In Man of Steel Superman does a ton of collateral damage in the city in the final fight. So much so that in Batman vs Superman it's used as the reason Bruce Wayne hates him at first. I know they become friends at the end but, does Superman ever comment on it or do anything to make up for all the people he got killed in that fight? Does he say anything on the matter at all?
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Zero_Grade posted:This is immediately what I thought of as well, it's a great bait and switch because c'mon, obviously they're gonna sacrifice her with all this setup. Elizabeth is almost indignant after the fact once she realizes what's going on. Now that you mention it, in Star Trek: DS9, whenever Klingons meet and want to prove they're not Changelings, that's their go-to: slice open the palm. First, you're not going to be able to hold a d'k tahg much longer in that hand if you keep severing ligaments and tendons. Second, shouldn't they all have permanently bandaged hands on both arms from continually proving they aren't Changelings?
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It's just so make up doesn't have to do much going forward. Same as every moron writing a phone number on the palm.
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Admiralty Flag posted:Now that you mention it, in Star Trek: DS9, whenever Klingons meet and want to prove they're not Changelings, that's their go-to: slice open the palm. First, you're not going to be able to hold a d'k tahg much longer in that hand if you keep severing ligaments and tendons. Second, shouldn't they all have permanently bandaged hands on both arms from continually proving they aren't Changelings? The klingons and Federation have been cordial enough in their relations by the time of DS9 that I could see the Federarion having given them the technology they use for fixing cuts.
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Randalor posted:The klingons and Federation have been cordial enough in their relations by the time of DS9 that I could see the Federarion having given them the technology they use for fixing cuts.
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And what if the scanner that was delivered was a changeling? What then?
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Ommin posted:Why didn't they just make some kind of scanner to detect changelings? No need to cut anything. oldpainless posted:And what if the scanner that was delivered was a changeling? What then? Sisko's dad spotted the flaw in the way they tested for changlings as soon as Sisko told him. The Klingon that figured out this method was a Changeling that just used the general he was replacing as a blood bank. Just suck out some blood and store it in your hand before a meeting.
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oldpainless posted:And what if the scanner that was delivered was a changeling? What then? Randalor posted:The Klingon that figured out this method was a Changeling that just used the general he was replacing as a blood bank. Just suck out some blood and store it in your hand before a meeting.
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Ommin posted:I'm not familiar with them, can changelings be anything; like a mimic? I just assumed they were humanoid. They can turn into literally anything but because it just mimics if you remove a part it turns back into goo, which is why the Federation went with the blood test.
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One would think that some step of the "beam me up" process would detect something off about the subject as it scans then atomically de-/re-constructs them but I'm sure "just run them through the transporter lol" was too easy an out for the writers. Or, true to the transporter, it would gently caress up and make even evil-er clones of the changelings
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Zero_Grade posted:(The IIMM in this scene is that the cut is across the inside of the palm, which always drives me crazy. A bit more forgivable here because they're the villains, but don't loving do that!!) I mean, usually the act is to seal an ancient evil pact, unlock an evil ritual or some sort, so crippling yourself to prove your devotion is the point.
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