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Pook Good Mook: Aug 6, 2013; ENFORCE THE UNITED STATES DRESS CODE AT ALL COSTS!

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bobkatt013 posted:

Its all explained in the novelization of the movie - The shark may be acting under the influence of a vengeful voodoo witch doctor.

That the studio paid for that piece of garbage to be novelized is my irrationally irritating moment.

# ? Jun 30, 2014 21:58

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# ? May 23, 2024 08:09

bobkatt013: Oct 8, 2006; Youâre telling me Peter Parker is ...... Spider-man!?

You also forgot how the fist kill in Revenge it seems like the shark set it up so he could lure Dead Meat Brody out to the dock. What an awful movie.

# ? Jun 30, 2014 21:58

WickedHate: Aug 1, 2013; by Lowtax

Pook Good Mook posted:

That the studio paid for that piece of garbage to be novelized is my irrationally irritating moment.

Grease 2 had a novelization.

# ? Jun 30, 2014 22:00

Inzombiac: Mar 19, 2007; PARTY ALL NIGHT

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WAR CRIME SYNDICAT posted:

Similar thing: I was bored and watching some crime procedural called The Glades, and an episode had the main character talking to some kid saying he saw him playing X-Plane, then in the same breath saying he can't get to level 10. A few episodes later, and they've gone from referring to it as an xbox 360 to calling it an "Xstation". I assume it had something to do with Microsoft, but it was still strange. Oh, and the same show is ridiculous for advertising the Kia Optima. Girl gets held hostage in one, hostage taker comments on all the amenities. They even took to doing car commercial style shots anytime a Kia Optima was on screen. I mean, there's in-show advertisement, and then there's IN-SHOW ADVERTISEMENT.

Bones wouldn't shut up about the loving car ~~Angel~~ FBI guy drove. A lovely show then leaped over into unwatchable.

# ? Jun 30, 2014 22:05

Darth Freddy: Feb 6, 2007; An Emperor's slightest dislike is transmitted to those who serve him, and there it is amplified into rage.

Aleph Null posted:

NCIS had them working with someone who had the high score in all the MMOs.

Star Gate Atlantis had one of the "nerd" characters trying to impress the boss by saying he had a lv 75 charcter. This was level cap was 70. I don't know if this was deliberate or not.

Jackie Chans, Rumble in the Bronx. The kid plays a Sega game gear with no game in it.

Surf Ninjas! Another game gear is played with out a cartridge or the wrong one.

Edit. No show will ever beats Heros for car advertisements. The Nissan Versa! I still shout out "Nissan Versa!" when ever I see one drive by.

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# ? Jun 30, 2014 22:06

Your Gay Uncle: Feb 16, 2012; by Fluffdaddy

DrBouvenstein posted:

It's not the shark, it's Roy Scheider's wife.

But to be fair, she wasn't there, either.

Jaws: The Revenge is just one giant shithole of a movie, though. Worse than Jaws 3D.

First off, we have to somehow accept that the shark in this movie is perhaps a descendant of the one from the first and/or second Jaws, otherwise why else would it have a "shark-grudge" against the Brody family? But then that leaves us asking how a shark can even hold a grudge in the first place, and how it knows who the Brody's are, etc...

And then how dose the shark travel nearly as fast as a plane to get to Florida from New England after the Brody's fly there How does it even know to go there in the first place?! It's "Brody-Sense" can span thousands of miles?

And if a killer shark is stalking them, why don't they just never go back into the loving ocean?

Why does the shark roar like a lion crossed with Godzilla?

Why does it loving explode after being rammed by a piece of wood?

Edit: Cleaned up some stuff.

V V V Second edit: Hey ,you got that in there before my first edit...I'm trying to decide if that makes it better or worse...like, till then, the Jaws franchise was relatively grounded in reality...and why dose this Voodoo Witch Doctor care about killing the Brodys? Was HIS mother the shark from the first one? Half-shark Voodoo Witch Doctor? V V V

I could have sworn at one point the shark had a flashback too, although I refuse to do any research on this topic.

Fake videogames are pretty bad but for my money nothing beats Law and Order websites.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG-2zZfLm-U&feature=youtube_gdata_player

# ? Jun 30, 2014 22:34

Mister Kingdom: Dec 14, 2005; And the tears that fall
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WickedHate posted:

Grease 2 had a novelization.

Grease 2 also had Adrian Zmed and bowling. So, gently caress Grease 2.

# ? Jun 30, 2014 23:17

Powerful Two-Hander: Mar 10, 2004; Mods please change my name to "Tooter Skeleton" TIA.

DrBouvenstein posted:

It's not the shark, it's Roy Scheider's wife.

But to be fair, she wasn't there, either.

Jaws: The Revenge is just one giant shithole of a movie, though. Worse than Jaws 3D.

First off, we have to somehow accept that the shark in this movie is perhaps a descendant of the one from the first and/or second Jaws, otherwise why else would it have a "shark-grudge" against the Brody family? But then that leaves us asking how a shark can even hold a grudge in the first place, and how it knows who the Brody's are, etc...

And then how dose the shark travel nearly as fast as a plane to get to Florida from New England after the Brody's fly there How does it even know to go there in the first place?! It's "Brody-Sense" can span thousands of miles?

And if a killer shark is stalking them, why don't they just never go back into the loving ocean?

Why does the shark roar like a lion crossed with Godzilla?

Why does it loving explode after being rammed by a piece of wood?

Edit: Cleaned up some stuff.

V V V Second edit: Hey ,you got that in there before my first edit...I'm trying to decide if that makes it better or worse...like, till then, the Jaws franchise was relatively grounded in reality...and why dose this Voodoo Witch Doctor care about killing the Brodys? Was HIS mother the shark from the first one? Half-shark Voodoo Witch Doctor? V V V

I would watch this film if it was about an entire family of Adrian Brodys getting chased by a shark with a Brody grudge.

# ? Jul 1, 2014 00:32

Jerusalem: May 20, 2004; Would you be my new best friends?

DrBouvenstein posted:

Jaws: The Revenge

There's a dude in that film who gets grabbed by the shark towards the end of the film. You see him underwater literally being eaten alive by the shark.

Test screenings found that audiences loved that character and were sad he died, so... after being visibly eaten alive on-screen and also being underwater for at least 10 minutes he suddenly resurfaces at the end of the film a little bruised and battered but otherwise okay.

# ? Jul 1, 2014 01:55

Azran: Sep 3, 2012; And what should one do to be remembered?

I think it was in CSI NY where they get into some kind of faux Second Life to look for a suspect and when the ingame avatar starts running away the main character switches to a gamepad and tackles him down, which makes the suspect confess.

There is also an episode where there is a death at some kind of Xbox 360 event. They end it with the entire crew playing Gears of War for like three minutes.

# ? Jul 1, 2014 04:40

Action Tortoise: Feb 18, 2012; A wolf howls.
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WAR CRIME SYNDICAT posted:

Similar thing: I was bored and watching some crime procedural called The Glades, and an episode had the main character talking to some kid saying he saw him playing X-Plane, then in the same breath saying he can't get to level 10. A few episodes later, and they've gone from referring to it as an xbox 360 to calling it an "Xstation". I assume it had something to do with Microsoft, but it was still strange. Oh, and the same show is ridiculous for advertising the Kia Optima. Girl gets held hostage in one, hostage taker comments on all the amenities. They even took to doing car commercial style shots anytime a Kia Optima was on screen. I mean, there's in-show advertisement, and then there's IN-SHOW ADVERTISEMENT.

Watch The Last Stand. There's a terrorist outdriving all the cops in this sweet sportscar that only one dude in the FBI knows about and he goes to great lengths to explain all the car's features and why it's so good at schooling cops.

There was a weird tales show in Disney Channel years back called So Weird. Good show early on, Henry Winkler had a funny episode. One of the episodes was about a guy designing a game that could program kids into becoming obedient Stepford children. There's shots of the kids holding handhelds like Gameboy Colors while a voice is heard hypnotizing the kids. But when the main character gets a copy of the game, it's in a CD jewel case that's obviously way too big to fit on a handheld.

# ? Jul 1, 2014 05:28

Esroc: May 31, 2010; Goku would be ashamed of you.

Action Tortoise posted:

Watch The Last Stand. There's a terrorist outdriving all the cops in this sweet sportscar that only one dude in the FBI knows about and he goes to great lengths to explain all the car's features and why it's so good at schooling cops.

There was a weird tales show in Disney Channel years back called So Weird. Good show early on, Henry Winkler had a funny episode. One of the episodes was about a guy designing a game that could program kids into becoming obedient Stepford children. There's shots of the kids holding handhelds like Gameboy Colors while a voice is heard hypnotizing the kids. But when the main character gets a copy of the game, it's in a CD jewel case that's obviously way too big to fit on a handheld.

Eh, that can be explained fairly easily. Games are programmed on computers before being put onto a cart. The CD could have been a copy of the original source.

# ? Jul 1, 2014 05:41

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Azran posted:

I think it was in CSI NY where they get into some kind of faux Second Life to look for a suspect and when the ingame avatar starts running away the main character switches to a gamepad and tackles him down, which makes the suspect confess.

It was Real Second Life. The actual one. Well, they claimed it was. Does SL even have a 3D client?

# ? Jul 1, 2014 06:08

Frostwerks: Sep 24, 2007; by Lowtax

Action Tortoise posted:

Watch The Last Stand. There's a terrorist outdriving all the cops in this sweet sportscar that only one dude in the FBI knows about and he goes to great lengths to explain all the car's features and why it's so good at schooling cops.

What are the features? I do not want to watch what looks like a really bad movie.

# ? Jul 1, 2014 06:41

Inzombiac: Mar 19, 2007; PARTY ALL NIGHT

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Avenging_Mikon posted:

It was Real Second Life. The actual one. Well, they claimed it was. Does SL even have a 3D client?

It's all 3D, I think.

# ? Jul 1, 2014 07:09

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Razorwired posted:

This bit gets extra funny when you remember that Sulu is the only member of the bridge crew that had close combat training. And it was loving fencing.

I'm a terrible person for answering a Star Trek question pages late, but this makes sense in the original cannon. The universe is incredibly peaceful (at that point in the series) thanks to all the tech. The idea that fancy phaser wouldn't be enough and crewmen would be called on to fight man-to-man is pretty hard to believe.

So it would have made sense, had the New Series not injected a ton of violence.

# ? Jul 1, 2014 07:14

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Inzombiac posted:

It's all 3D, I think.

The over-shoulder camera kind? I thought it was all isometric.

# ? Jul 1, 2014 07:26

Polaron: Oct 13, 2010; The Oncoming Storm

Frostwerks posted:

What are the features? I do not want to watch what looks like a really bad movie.

If I recall correctly, it's fast, painted black and the driver is wearing night vision goggles. It's literally an old urban legend.

# ? Jul 1, 2014 07:39

Caedus: Sep 11, 2007; It's good to have a sense of scale.

Darth Freddy posted:

Edit. No show will ever beats Heros for car advertisements. The Nissan Versa! I still shout out "Nissan Versa!" when ever I see one drive by.

Good lord, VERSA! NISSAN VERSA! was the single most effective car advertisement to ever be targeted at me. (A nerd who watches Heroes)
It was so out of the blue.. and Hiro really, wanted that drat car. It killed me when I saw it, and I still think that line for every Versa I see.

Then they tried it again with the Rogue and that's when I went 'hey wait I think nissan is trying to strike gold twice here' and it wasn't funny anymore. Then Heroes died and nobody remembers the third season.

It's getting a reboot though.

# ? Jul 1, 2014 09:09

ol qwerty bastard: Dec 13, 2005; If you want something done, do it yourself!

While we're on the subject of improbably-stealthed vehicles, it always annoyed me in Batman Begins that all he had to do was switch the Tumbler's lights off and decelerate slightly, and somehow all the pursuing cops including a helicopter with a searchlight trained on the vehicle immediately lost sight of him.

# ? Jul 1, 2014 09:09

KozmoNaut: Apr 23, 2008; Happiness is a warm
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Darth Freddy posted:

Edit. No show will ever beats Heros for car advertisements. The Nissan Versa! I still shout out "Nissan Versa!" when ever I see one drive by.

Burn Notice (Hyundai Genesis Coupe), White Collar (FORD FORD FORD!), Warehouse 13 (Smart, all kinds of Toyotas) and Fringe (Nissan Leaf, IIRC) were pretty blatant about it too, just off the top of my head.

To the point of having entire scenes just to point out nifty gadgets or amazing fuel mileage. They were so goddamn grating.

# ? Jul 1, 2014 09:51

Metos: Nov 25, 2005; Sup Ladies

muscles like this? posted:

Something that bugs me about Les Miserables is how Jean Valjean keeps telling Javert that he'll come back and turn himself in and that he's a man of his word but never actually does.

This is from a page ago, but this is another 'Makes sense in the book but not in the stageshow/movie'.

Jean Valjean does turn himself in, escapes again, then gets caught again where he's sentenced to death, then has it changed to life imprisonment in the form of slave labour. While on a boat transporting him, he saves a crewman's life and they all cheer and demand he gets set free, to which the overseer says gently caress off, so Valjean fakes his death by falling into the ocean and is reported dead. The badass gets himself back to land, and head off to Thenadier's Inn to find Cosette.

Obviously cut from the broadway production due to being too loving cool, also boats are expensive.

# ? Jul 1, 2014 11:38

Pilchenstein: May 17, 2012; So your plan is for half of us to die?; Hot Rope Guy

Azran posted:

I think it was in CSI NY where they get into some kind of faux Second Life to look for a suspect and when the ingame avatar starts running away the main character switches to a gamepad and tackles him down, which makes the suspect confess.

There is also an episode where there is a death at some kind of Xbox 360 event. They end it with the entire crew playing Gears of War for like three minutes.

CSI NY is basically Irrational Irritation: The Show. I saw one where a time traveller turns up, makes a bunch of predictions then dies and at the end it turns out he could predict the future with 100% accuracy because of game theory. It'd have been more plausible if they'd just had the guy be a wizard or some poo poo.

# ? Jul 1, 2014 12:18

Pidmon: Mar 18, 2009; NO ONE risks painful injury on your GREEN SLIME GHOST POGO RIDE.

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You mean Stargate: Atlantis, right? Because even in a sci-fi show when that plot showed up it was pretty weak... And that wasn't meant to be theoretically realistic.

# ? Jul 1, 2014 12:38

Desk Lamp: Jun 30, 2014

Pretty much the entire Nissan lineup features prominently in Heroes.

# ? Jul 1, 2014 13:48

Action Tortoise: Feb 18, 2012; A wolf howls.
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Frostwerks posted:

What are the features? I do not want to watch what looks like a really bad movie.

Despite what I posted, there's a cool fight scene at the end. Give it a shot.

# ? Jul 1, 2014 13:50

screaden: Apr 8, 2009

Azran posted:

I think it was in CSI NY where they get into some kind of faux Second Life to look for a suspect and when the ingame avatar starts running away the main character switches to a gamepad and tackles him down, which makes the suspect confess.

If this is the scene I'm thinking of he doesn't even use a gamepad, it's just a plain old calculator.

There is also a scene in Life where they have to play Prince of Persia: Sands of Time up to a certain level to unlock a list of victims or something stupid, and they're all trying and failing and there is a 20 something girl in the background mime playing a controller, it's really dumb and if I wasn't phone posting I'd find the video on YouTube

# ? Jul 1, 2014 13:54

Frostwerks: Sep 24, 2007; by Lowtax

Action Tortoise posted:

Despite what I posted, there's a cool fight scene at the end. Give it a shot.

Let me put it this way: I'm not going to spend money to watch this movie period. Spoil away.

# ? Jul 1, 2014 15:48

Inzombiac: Mar 19, 2007; PARTY ALL NIGHT

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Avenging_Mikon posted:

The over-shoulder camera kind? I thought it was all isometric.

Over-shoulder.

# ? Jul 1, 2014 18:35

DrBouvenstein: Feb 28, 2007; I think I'm a doctor, but that doesn't make me a doctor. This fancy avatar does.

The movie's not even out yet, and i already hate Lucy.

I'm pretty sure the very first line in the trailer is Morgan Freeman saying that Lucy is the first person to use more than 10% of her brain.

# ? Jul 1, 2014 20:40

theironjef: Aug 11, 2009; The archmage of unexpected stinks.

May Contain Nuts posted:

Ok, but does Saturn's blue sky come with fluffy white clouds?

Saturn, Texas does! Maybe that tiny shithole that literally used to be called Possum Trot gets way bigger and more important in the future.

# ? Jul 1, 2014 20:55

Bulging Nipples: Jan 16, 2006

DrBouvenstein posted:

The movie's not even out yet, and i already hate Lucy.

I'm pretty sure the very first line in the trailer is Morgan Freeman saying that Lucy is the first person to use more than 10% of her brain.

Hey man 10% that's pretty impressive, I've yet to get the hang of this whole involuntary breathing thing myself

# ? Jul 1, 2014 21:05

Crowetron: Apr 29, 2009

DrBouvenstein posted:

The movie's not even out yet, and i already hate Lucy.

I'm pretty sure the very first line in the trailer is Morgan Freeman saying that Lucy is the first person to use more than 10% of her brain.

A good way to endear the audience to a protagonist is to have her shoot a man for the crime of Not Speaking English in the trailer.

# ? Jul 1, 2014 21:17

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KozmoNaut posted:

Burn Notice (Hyundai Genesis Coupe), White Collar (FORD FORD FORD!), Warehouse 13 (Smart, all kinds of Toyotas) and Fringe (Nissan Leaf, IIRC) were pretty blatant about it too, just off the top of my head.

To the point of having entire scenes just to point out nifty gadgets or amazing fuel mileage. They were so goddamn grating.

Also, vanilla CSI and the Chevy Tahoe. It was usually incidental in conversation ("I saw your Tahoe parked outside, what are you doing here?"), but sometimes it'd be something like "well, local cops found the victim's car by the side of the road. Could have tracked it down earlier, but she didn't have OnStar."

# ? Jul 1, 2014 23:29

Ignite Memories: Feb 27, 2005

seems apropos

# ? Jul 1, 2014 23:37

Action Tortoise: Feb 18, 2012; A wolf howls.
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Frostwerks posted:

Let me put it this way: I'm not going to spend money to watch this movie period. Spoil away.

Good news, it's on Netflix! But I'm watching it now and all that's really said about it is that it's a Corvette 01 and has 1000hp and Forest Whitaker sums it up nicely with, "I've got a psychopath in a Batmobile." Oh, and it's faster than any chopper. Most of the first part of the film is showing this car weaving past SWAT.

# ? Jul 1, 2014 23:53

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DrBouvenstein posted:

The movie's not even out yet, and i already hate Lucy.

I'm pretty sure the very first line in the trailer is Morgan Freeman saying that Lucy is the first person to use more than 10% of her brain.

Movie was better when it was called Limitless. And didn't have superpowers. And starred Cooper. He should be in more stuff.

# ? Jul 1, 2014 23:54

PicklePants: May 8, 2007; Woo!

DrBouvenstein posted:

The movie's not even out yet, and i already hate Lucy.

I'm pretty sure the very first line in the trailer is Morgan Freeman saying that Lucy is the first person to use more than 10% of her brain.

I really want this movie to go full on Akira, where she turns into a giant blob monster. I won't get it, but I've been wanting it since I first saw the trailers.

Give Morgan Freeman the laser gun.

# ? Jul 2, 2014 00:00

Stupid_Sexy_Flander: Mar 14, 2007; Is a man not entitled to the haw of his maw?; Grimey Drawer

I dunno, I'm kinda looking forward to Lucy.

It's not quite Adderall : The Film like Limitless was, but it seems like it's going to go pretty heavy into the sci fi stuff. I'm mainly just interested in how they handle the restructuring of reality that she can seem to do in the trailers.

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Desk Lamp: Jun 30, 2014

Action Tortoise posted:

Good news, it's on Netflix! But I'm watching it now and all that's really said about it is that it's a Corvette 01 and has 1000hp and Forest Whitaker sums it up nicely with, "I've got a psychopath in a Batmobile." Oh, and it's faster than any chopper. Most of the first part of the film is showing this car weaving past SWAT.

Yeah it features some random cop saying something along the lines of "that's a Chevrolet Corvette ZR1! Not even our choppers can catch up to that!" No car can catch up to it, that is until Arnold gets his hands on the only car that managed to stay in pristine condition in the middle of their huge firefight: a brand new Chevrolet Camaro SS. Guessing GM got special mention in the credits for that one.

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