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Cowslips Warren posted:House of the Dragon: why does corlys say gently caress all about his grandsons clearly not being his grandsons? This is loving westeros, lords need heirs, he can't have been so "ah well" when it came to the idea of his son ruling the kingdom only for his name, legacy, and blood to vanish within a generation. For a second, I thought you were talking about the How To Train Your Dragon TV show, and I'm mildly disappointed to realize the truth
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Leave posted:For a second, I thought you were talking about the How To Train Your Dragon TV show, and I'm mildly disappointed to realize the truth Looking at my son's toys, apparently the main characters of How to Train... marry. I imagine that involved some drama, or was followed by some drama. On a long enough timeline, everything turns to drama. House of the Drama.
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The Black Stones posted:Because officially the history books would claim that all those descendants are his. He and anyone else with half a brain realize what’s going on, but the whole point is that his “legacy” would be secured as he’d be known to be the father of a king and his grandsons are officially recognized as being from his son. Allegedly the current british family is descended from a illegitimate bastard, which is why they don't allow any sort of DNA or medical testing on royal or noble corpses that are stored in royal crypts. It's reveal they have no claim to the throne, though I doubt it matters at this point. Everyone who cares considers them legit. I wish I remembered more of this, but I only heard it in passing about one of the many civil wars and usurpers. Pennyworth season / series finale spoilers. There's no loving reason Sandra should marry Alfred. She has drat good reasons not to, which she outlined very clearly and Alfred accepted. Just because some dumbass got you preggos and made a ambiguous speech about how he's changed [no he hasn't] and he'll care more about her than his job doesn't mean you should marry him!! Also public speeches / marriage proposals are stupid. Especially when she said she's not marrying in the first place. Also I wonder if the writers knew the show was being cancelled, hence the ending of London getting the poo poo bombed out of it. Filling in the post series blanks of 'oh well london is trashed, I guess Pennyworth should move to america disguised as a butler for the Wayne family. What a tidy bow!'
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The Black Stones posted:Because officially the history books would claim that all those descendants are his. He and anyone else with half a brain realize what’s going on, but the whole point is that his “legacy” would be secured as he’d be known to be the father of a king and his grandsons are officially recognized as being from his son. That's all very true. And if the same similar storyline follows from the books, he produces two sons that he claims are his sons bastard children, but only after his wife is dead so she wouldn't be suspicious that these boys look a lot like him and not their super gay son who died about the time these boys would have been born. It's just hilarious because so many people online have only watched the show and haven't read the book and are nsisting that team black is the righteous team, and they deserve everything great and the other team is pure evil. And I want to ask them if we're actually watching the same stuff because the whole point of game of thrones and the spin-off and probably all future spin-offs is that pretty much everything is morally gray. Aegon stole the throne! Well technically it was stolen from rhanys first and then again but yolo
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Roblo posted:Re: the new Mission Impossible. It was fun nonsense, on the whole, great stunts etc as expected. My favourite thing like this that's everywhere is when you can see that the script is written so that actors cut each other off in their lines, but they do it like they are taking turns. There's a little pause before someone "cuts in".
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value-brand cereal posted:Allegedly the current british family is descended from a illegitimate bastard, which is why they don't allow any sort of DNA or medical testing on royal or noble corpses that are stored in royal crypts. It's reveal they have no claim to the throne, though I doubt it matters at this point. Everyone who cares considers them legit. I wish I remembered more of this, but I only heard it in passing about one of the many civil wars and usurpers. We've not had that many civil wars. They identified Richard III's remains using DNA testing. Surely the more sensible thing would be to not allow DNA testing on the current royals.
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The current royals are Hanoverian ususpers against the True Kings of House Stuart. Britain is under ongoing Dutch occupation since the so- called Glorious Revolution of 1688. All hail the king in Bavaria.
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RoboCop 2 Cain's digital face render thing that appears on his little screen sometimes occasionally distorts all weird and looks like those skibidi toilet gmod things. I'm also torn on whether the new paint job they gave Murphy looks cool or terrible. Might be both, I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Gromit posted:My favourite thing like this that's everywhere is when you can see that the script is written so that actors cut each other off in their lines, but they do it like they are taking turns. There's a little pause before someone "cuts in". It's such an easy mistake to avoid but somehow keeps getting left in stuff instead of being edited out or re-shot. Baffling, every time.
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Phanatic posted:Snipers standing right up next to open windows and sticking their gun barrel out the window to aim at their targets. With a laser-dot.
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In “Shadow in the Cloud”, a mostly historically accurate retelling of a plane ambushed by three Japanese Planes during WW2, which we won, Chloe Grace Moretz’s accent is distractingly bad
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Roblo posted:But there was a conversation at the start between a bunch of heads of US spy agencies and the Sec of Defence or whatever. And the conversation is painfully ..fake. Like, they each say a line of a sentence then someone else says the next one immediately. That's now how people talk! It was just so...artificial.  The film overall was good but couldn't hold a candle to the 6th one.
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oldpainless posted:In “Shadow in the Cloud”, a mostly historically accurate retelling of a plane ambushed by three Japanese Planes during WW2, which we won, Chloe Grace Moretz’s accent is distractingly bad Is this mostly accurate film the one that has Chloe fall out of an aircraft into an explosion which propells her back up into the plane she just fell out of? Because that's some loving looney tunes bullshit right there.
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Phanatic posted:Snipers standing right up next to open windows and sticking their gun barrel out the window to aim at their targets. I feel like that’s gotten better in recent movies. In The Killer, Fassbender’s rifle was on a platform well into the building he was in. The movie was wholly disappointing but at least that part was done well.
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Torquemada posted:Is this mostly accurate film the one that has Chloe fall out of an aircraft into an explosion which propells her back up into the plane she just fell out of? Because that's some loving looney tunes bullshit right there.
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One thing I liked in the live action Cowboy Beebop was that holograms were so real, you couldn't tell they were holograms, except for the first and last moment of the transmission when they were a little wonky. Or, if you really need to have slightly lovely holograms, make it a stylistic choice. In one of the Clone Wars episodes, they come across some weird alien tech and start using it to communicate. It's almost the same as a hologram, but everything is made of tiny cubes that spring up out of a table. 
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Torquemada posted:Is this mostly accurate film the one that has Chloe fall out of an aircraft into an explosion which propells her back up into the plane she just fell out of? Because that's some loving looney tunes bullshit right there. This has historical basis, it's extremely similar to something that happened to one Pfc. Wilefred Eubanks Coyote.
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Torquemada posted:Is this mostly accurate film the one that has Chloe fall out of an aircraft into an explosion which propells her back up into the plane she just fell out of? Because that's some loving looney tunes bullshit right there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtfjyC4sahE&t=67s LOL
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Cowslips Warren posted:House of the Dragon: why does corlys say gently caress all about his grandsons clearly not being his grandsons? This is loving westeros, lords need heirs, he can't have been so "ah well" when it came to the idea of his son ruling the kingdom only for his name, legacy, and blood to vanish within a generation.
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 I read that description and thought "it can't be that bad, right? it must be something like she got sucked out a door and something exploded right outside to knock her back in."
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All I get from that is that there was a guy who could have just helped her up, and it would probably have saved his life if he did.
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It's a miracle that movie came out at all; it was originally written by Max Landis and almost got torpedoed by his career exploding due, to you know, the crimes. Though my god, the shade from the writer assigned to salvage it: quote:While Roseanne Liang was reworking the script, she noticed that it was written in an incorrect font size. After she corrected it, the script was 60 pages long, which equal 60 minutes of running time. While she didn't want to change anything about the plot structure, she decided to added extra dialogues and longer action sequences to give the film a more adequate length. In the end, the script was 86 pages long.
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Squidster posted:This lazy mfer tried to doublespace fonthack an unfinished screenplay as if it were a college essay. While he's an awful person, that's legit hilarious.
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Squidster posted:This lazy mfer tried to doublespace fonthack an unfinished screenplay as if it were a college essay. Hell, I was that guy once. Only my dad never dropped a helicopter on any kids, and women in bars don't cover their drinks when they see me.
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Torquemada posted:Is this mostly accurate film the one that has Chloe fall out of an aircraft into an explosion which propells her back up into the plane she just fell out of? Because that's some loving looney tunes bullshit right there. Yeah here's a clip from the documentary it's based on 
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Squidster posted:... the crimes.
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It isn't really goon lore, he just sexually assaulted many women for years and got away with it because he and his dad both had a bunch of clout.
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How his dad had any clout at all after child murder is beyond me.
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Spikey Willow posted:It annoys me in sci-fi where they have all this advanced future technology but holograms are really glitchy and break up, to show that they're not really in the room (and distortion due to being sent through space). If they wanted it to be realistic, they could have the hologram just stop periodically while a little wheel spins and a message pops up saying "Trouble with your connection? Click here to find out why" Speaking of, I just watched Total Recall again for the billionth time (still owns) and one thing that bothered me a tiny bit was Cohagen on Mars messaging with Michael Ironside on Earth in real time. Um excuse me, there's at least a 3 minute light speed lag, Verhoeven. You dumb rear end. Fil5000 posted:How his dad had any clout at all after child murder is beyond me. Hollywood is gross and run by complete sociopaths.
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Further proof that it's all in Quaid's head. Check and mate, nerd.
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Shadow in the Cloud is a great movie and it's wonderfully dumb the whole time.
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Roblo posted:But there was a conversation at the start between a bunch of heads of US spy agencies and the Sec of Defence or whatever. And the conversation is painfully ..fake. Like, they each say a line of a sentence then someone else says the next one immediately. That's now how people talk! It was just so...artificial. Apparently they filmed most of the movie before they even decided what the mcguffin actually was, so this talky exposition scene was added late in production. And yeah it does feel awkward. I enjoyed the movie but it was definitely a step down from Fallout.
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I dunno about that, the name "the entity" combined with what they talk about it being capable of implies a lot about what the mcguffin actually is. Seems more likely they knew from the start they were just copying Person of Interest
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AcidCat posted:Apparently they filmed most of the movie before they even decided what the mcguffin actually was I've seen this mentioned a couple of times, where is this coming from? A quick google didn't give me anything
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I believe I first heard it in this video. I think there's a snippet of the director saying as much in there somewhere. https://youtu.be/6veqld_vxII?si=84JH5gtqHgpqTkkf
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I'll have to check that out. It was a frustrating movie in a lot of ways. I mean they killed off Ilsa, played by one of the best actresses working today, to replace her with some rear end in a top hat I've never seen before? Why? It wasn't even a good death. She better peel off a mask in part two and be all like surprise motherfuckers or I'm gonna have to speak with the manager about this outrage
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