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Accordion Man posted:So, a spiritual successor to Twister then? Cary Elwes was smug, the worst infraction in a disaster movie.
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Krispy Wafer posted:Cary Elwes was smug, the worst infraction in a disaster movie. Smug about nature  Big mistake Westley (also please edit your post to just say "racecars, lasers, aeroplanes" in bold allcaps)
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Jul 8, 2019 23:48
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Krispy Wafer posted:Cary Elwes was smug, the worst infraction in a disaster movie. 
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Jul 8, 2019 23:51
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Oh poo poo. That’s Cary Elwes.
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Yeah, Stranger Things has a lot of actors "From the Eighties" that help to evoke that nostalgia. Matthew Modine in S1, Paul Reiser and Sean Aston in S2, Cary Elwes in S3. Jake Busey in S3 but he's more 90s if he was ever famous enough to evoke nostalgia. Obviously Winona's Big Brown Beaver throughout.
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Yeah, I get it’s a jobs program for old actors, I just totally failed to see Cary Elwes. Jake Busey has now become his father minus the head trauma. So he’s a pretty good stand-in for Gary. It’s also managed a nice 80’s tie-in with Robin’s real life parents.
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Gejimayu posted:Yeah, Stranger Things has a lot of actors "From the Eighties" that help to evoke that nostalgia. Matthew Modine in S1, Paul Reiser and Sean Aston in S2, Cary Elwes in S3. Jake Busey in S3 but he's more 90s if he was ever famous enough to evoke nostalgia. Obviously Winona's Big Brown Beaver throughout. Her 80s horror cred is mostly Beetlejuice. A comedy about someone dead not being able to make themselves known to the living so pretty on the nose. I haven't seen s3 yet so looking forward to RoUSs?
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:Smug about nature 
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His American accent is spot on, too. Way better than it was in Twister.
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:Her 80s horror cred is mostly Beetlejuice. A comedy about someone dead not being able to make themselves known to the living so pretty on the nose. Holy poo poo this season has something pretty similar to RoUSs...
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Gejimayu posted:Holy poo poo this season has something pretty similar to RoUSs... What is RoUSs? Edit: never mind, I was trying to think of "revenge of..." or "return of..." movie titles, not Rodents of Unusual Sizes
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Krispy Wafer posted:Skyscraper disturbed me in the way they handled the ‘villains’ (if you can have a villain in a movie about a natural disaster). Their behavior didn’t justify their fates. I think you mean San Andreas? The bad guys in Skyscraper definitely deserved what they got. Also, Skyscraper is about a skyscraper, Not a natural disaster.
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Jul 9, 2019 14:23
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San Andreas is the one where the Rock fights an earthquake with a helicopter, Skyscraper is where he saves a building with magic legs.
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Oh poo poo that’s right. It was the one where he beats up the earthquake.
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Jul 9, 2019 14:53
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I remember San Andreas because it had Carla Gugino and Alexandra Daddario in it. 
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Android Apocalypse posted:I remember San Andreas because it had Carla Gugino and Alexandra Daddario in it. I have not seen it but a friend described it as a movie that exists to justify making Alexandra Daddario’s breasts shake as much as possible.
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AFewBricksShy posted:What is RoUSs? I don't think they exist.
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Henchman of Santa posted:I have not seen it but a friend described it as a movie that exists to justify making Alexandra Daddario’s breasts shake as much as possible. Then he made Baywatch for pretty much the same reason. That and Efron's abs.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I do wonder if that's part of the lesson, too. (Don't fear death/let your weaknesses paralyse you) I also like the overarching theme that follows on from the first movie and especially the cartoon that Jumanji is alive and has a personality, and it is spiteful, cruel and likes to think it's teaching you a lesson. Especially given being a video game it's obliged to have protagonists with a level of competence and agency, but specifically makes them as unintuitive to the players as possible. The strong jock is made the weakest and has to learn to support and communicate with others, the preppy girl becomes Jack Black and has to use the brains she takes for granted, and the shy nerds have to be confident in their physicality and take initiative. This sounds terrible to me
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EmmyOk posted:This sounds terrible to me It's definitely my go-to example of "this all sounds terrible until you see it and then somehow it works". And you might think it's just a case of The Rock putting the whole movie on his back but it really isn't.
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Basebf555 posted:It's definitely my go-to example of "this all sounds terrible until you see it and then somehow it works". And you might think it's just a case of The Rock putting the whole movie on his back but it really isn't. Honestly I think Jack Black was the standout from the foursome, but they were all great. It's easily one of my top ten comedies now, and I'm legit looking forward to the sequel.
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You can't really fault anyone for thinking "Jack Black plays a teenage girl" is the least appealing idea in comedy history. In the event, it's actually not at all the atrocity you'd expect from that setup but it wasn't anything to write home about either. The sequel just looks baffling though - why would you cast Danny DeVito in your comedy and then actually have him played by someone else for 90% of the film?
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Jul 9, 2019 23:26
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Danny Devito is old and can barely move.
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Aphrodite posted:Danny Devito is old and can barely move. Yeah he's 74. Danny Glover is 72 as well.
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They’re getting too old for this poo poo.
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Danny Devito could barely move in his 20s.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Yeah he's 74. Danny Glover is 72 as well. Danny Glover was originally too old for this poo poo at forty-two years of age.
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Jul 10, 2019 00:43
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Danny Glover was originally too old for this poo poo at forty-two years of age. Wilford Brimley was 4 years younger in Cocoon than Tom Cruise is now. Spray a little gray in there, have makeup add some wrinkles, easy as pie. But yeah, Murdock was retiring with a full pension from the cop job he first got when he was 17 years old.
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Krispy Wafer posted:Wilford Brimley was 4 years younger in Cocoon than Tom Cruise is now. While Tom Cruise is the most popular example to use for this, there's a twitter account that posts when actors/musicians/other celebrities reach the Brimley/Cocoon line, ie. the age Wilford Brimley was when Cocoon premiered (exactly 18530 days, or slighly under 51 years). https://twitter.com/BrimleyLine
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Yes, that Twitter account is how I was introduced to the Wilford paradox, but a few years ago it occurred to me that Brimley should be long dead if he starred as an old person in Cocoon. That’s when I discovered Brimley being old was a lie from my childhood. From then on he got typecast as an old guy until he really was one.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:There's strong implications that Jumanji is basically a Hellraiser puzzle box that's playing nice. I can't believe I'm considering watching the Jumanji cartoon when I'm pushing 40. Krankenstyle posted:anyone over 30 is old af gently caress...
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Drunken Baker posted:I can't believe I'm considering watching the Jumanji cartoon when I'm pushing 40. If it helps, the cartoon Jumanji is incredibly hosed up in the most amazing ways. http://www.bogleech.com/jumanji.html It's like the Tomb of Horrors set in the jungle when the DM got ideas from his nightmares.
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Krispy Wafer posted:Yes, that Twitter account is how I was introduced to the Wilford paradox, but a few years ago it occurred to me that Brimley should be long dead if he starred as an old person in Cocoon. That’s when I discovered Brimley being old was a lie from my childhood. That's how Patrick Stewart pulls off the ageless persona. He went bald at like 19, so he was "old" forever. It also helps that he was already in his forties when he really became famous.
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Krispy Wafer posted:But yeah, Murdock was retiring with a full pension from the cop job he first got when he was 17 years old. Who?
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Murtaugh, Danny Glover's character in Lethal Weapon. Krispy Wafer either typo'd/auto-corrected or has been mishearing that name for years.
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I apparently get Lethal Weapon and the A-Team mixed up.
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I ain't going to no South African embassy, Hannibal!
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Yeah he's 74. Danny Glover is 72 as well. Sam Jackson is 70 years old, and in Captain Marvel, is de-aged to look like he's in his mid-40s. It works really well, until you see him walking around and it's really clear that yeah, that's an old man.
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Spiderman Far From Home post credit: I wonder how frequently Nick Fury has used Talos and his wife as body doubles for him and Maria Hill. When he get dusted, Hill calls him "Nick" instead of Fury and in Captain Marvel he goes a great lenght about how no one, not even his mother calls him by name - in fact, he realizes his boss is a Skrull cause he calls him Nicholas. That Italian Guy has a new favorite as of 14:57 on Jul 11, 2019 |
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