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Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

roffle posted:

What the gently caress is the deal with the end of American Psycho?

Also, did nobody else notice that The Ringer is basically that one episode of South Park with a stupid love story tacked on? Did they have an excuse for that? The South Park is a lot funnier if only for the fact that it doesn't have loving Johnny Knoxville in it

Matt and Trey in the commentary for the episode said they were just similar ideas that happened to made at about the same time.

# ¿ Jul 20, 2008 23:17

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# ¿ May 2, 2024 20:49

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

DrVenkman posted:

Basically it's like this. Carpenter had some lovely experiences working with studio's and decided that he just didn't give a poo poo anymore. He mad a ton of money and just does that he wants now.

Which, according to his wife, is sitting around eating fried chicken, smoking, and playing video games.

God bless him.

# ¿ May 31, 2010 20:37

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

muscles like this? posted:

So basically The Expendables wouldn't be able to be aired on TV in California during election season.

Oh, it could air. It's just that his opponent would get equal TV time. It happened to George Takai when he was running for office. Since some stations ran reruns of "Star Trek", it was determined that his rival would get equal airtime.

# ¿ Aug 4, 2010 22:03

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

Magic Hate Ball posted:

I think The Town is the only time in my adult life that I've ever considered leaving the theater out of indifference. There were times when I was considering getting up to go to the bathroom just to find a way to pass the time. It was also one of the few times that I've read rave reviews and had absolutely no idea what they saw in it.

I had this same experience with District 9.

# ¿ Oct 20, 2010 23:06

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:

I believe the thief who kills Uncle Ben in the first Spiderman movie is actually driving this car, from what I remember.

Yup. It was also the witch's car in "Drag Me To Hell", Cate Blancett's car in "The Gift", and its chassis was used to make a wagon in "The Quick and The Dead".

# ¿ Mar 11, 2011 00:11

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

The whole "Man With No Name" thing was concocted by the U.S. distributor, I believe.

# ¿ Apr 2, 2011 13:52

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

Has there been any proper DVD releases (similiar to Sony's The Three Stooges) of Laurel & Hardy shorts? And if not, why not?

# ¿ Sep 19, 2011 23:38

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

Snak posted:

I actually really hate the Chronicles of Riddick Director's cut. It somehow makes the entire movie EVEN CHEESIER by taking the general concept and implication of Riddick as the messiah/Mordred figure and bringing it to the fore-front, complete with explicit explaining that Furians are more awesome than regular humans. The director's cut takes a pretty decent story and adds exposition. It's terrible and I have spent the last 7 years searching for the the theatrical cut on DVD.

http://www.amazon.com/Chronicles-Ri...cles+of+riddick

# ¿ Aug 25, 2013 23:54

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

And hasn't he said he's doing Clerks 3?

# ¿ Dec 22, 2013 20:11

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

westborn posted:

That's simply a 'real event' inside the new movie referencing the original movie as fan service for the viewer, but not even close to a character inside the new movie recognizing this as something connected to a fictional movie series about a remarkably similar looking creature.

Whether or not it will be mentioned in the film, but the director has said that, in the universe of the 2014 film, the 1954 Godzilla film was made as a result of an actual encounter with Big G.

# ¿ Apr 3, 2014 23:06

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

Samuel Clemens posted:

Disney also made Old Yeller. All bets are off.

Disney licenses Old Yeller as a brand of dog food.

Why the slogan isn't "More Bang for Your Buck" I'll never know.

# ¿ Apr 22, 2014 22:18

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

Snak posted:

This seems to happen with a lot of remakes and late sequels. I think it's that when a lot people see a remake they are bracing for the worst, but then it turns out to be okay and they get a heavy dose of nostalgia. When the nostalgia wears off and they've gone back and watched the original again, the new one doesn't seem as good any more.

I think it was more of the case that people were already decided that they already liked the film just on the fact of Fincher and the trailer. You see that more and more nowadays, mostly with films that would already have a built in following, like in the case of films involving David Fincher, or Christopher Nolan, or any of the Marvel films. It's perfectly acceptable to be excited about seeing an upcoming film based on elements that one already enjoys, but a lot of people allow that to bias their opinion of the product.

Remember when The Dark Knight Rises was released, and there was all that hoopla around Rotten Tomatoes and the one negative review that a critic had given the film? And some fans lost their goddam minds over it? Keep in mind those fans hadn't seen the film, but they had already decided that that film was amazing, and wouldn't even entertain the notion that the film wasn't perfect.

Some people have an unhealthy fixation with things things they want to enjoy, and will not allow themselves to even be the slightest bit objective when it comes to developing an opinion towards it.

# ¿ Apr 30, 2014 23:31

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

WastedJoker posted:

There's a lot of books with an unreliable narrator but is there such a thing in film?

Last years The Lone Ranger.

# ¿ Jun 5, 2014 22:18

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

I remember seeing "The Hunt for Red October" in theaters, and before the movie started, they showed the Mr. Bean short "The Royal Premiere".

They should bring back shorts.

# ¿ Dec 4, 2018 20:12

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

Killmonger give himself those scars for each person he killed.

# ¿ Dec 19, 2018 15:27

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

Wheat Loaf posted:

When the statues were unveiled, a reporter commented, "It looks just like my Uncle Oscar," and the name stuck.

Thank goodness they didn't look like his Uncle Dick

# ¿ Dec 19, 2018 19:47

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

Wheat Loaf posted:

I think that would have been one of the Episode I Adventure Journals. There was also a Padme one and a Darth Maul one and probably some others.

Here's a fun one: Max Allan Collins wrote the comic book Road To Perdition, which was adapted into a film, which was then novelised by... Max Allan Collins!

David Morrell wrote "First Blood", in which at the conclusion, Rambo dies.

He went on to novelize "Rambo II" and "Rambo III". (To be fair, he did it because he wanted to try something new, which was adapting someone else's work).

# ¿ Jan 15, 2019 03:37

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

Samuel Clemens posted:

He was supposed to voice himself in the German dub as well, but he demanded a ridiculous sum for the job, so Herzog just went out and hired someone else.

Anyone else hoping that the story would end with "hired himself"?

# ¿ Jan 16, 2019 19:43

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

MisterBibs posted:

This was my inspiration for the question, actually. I saw that and thought it was a case of Murphy lying his metal rear end off, but then I recalled the Robot With Murphy's Face thing.

Pretty sure he was lying, so his wife would finally let him go, and start a new life for herself and their son.

# ¿ Jan 17, 2019 01:51

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

Skwirl posted:

La Fin Absolue Du Monde.

Heh

# ¿ Jan 31, 2019 13:53

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

Boinks posted:

I know it's not a movie, but I wish someone would unearth his Dead book from around 2000-2001. Its nearly impossible to find anything about it online.

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/6820 there's a mention of it here.

I downloaded the first part when it came out and printed it, and I still have that printed copy somewhere. Since it was called 'The Death Of Death' it's really hard to search for any info about it. I remember the story had a guy who survived a building collapse and I'm pretty sure it was written before 9/11.

The AICN synopsis just makes it sound like "Diary of the Dead".

And the first issue of his Toe Tags comic was called "The Death of Death."

# ¿ Jan 31, 2019 18:24

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

I have the dvd for Day of the Dead and one of the bonus features was the original script for "Day" in pdf form. Remember when bonus features were cool?

# ¿ Jan 31, 2019 19:16

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

wrong thread

# ¿ Feb 18, 2019 20:30

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

SilvergunSuperman posted:

Can anyone tell what Donald Sutherland is cooking in Invasion of the Body snatchers?

It has ginger and seems like a stir fry or something, I was watching him cook and it drat near made me salivate!

I love that flick.

A while ago I was watching the 70s Robert Redford film "Brubaker", and I swear, in one scene, he opens the fridge, pulls out what I can only guess is a giant cauliflower, and takes a big ol' bite out of it :psyduck:

# ¿ Mar 2, 2019 03:12

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

Mierenneuker posted:

�Let�s save this scene until you are expendable, okay?�

Ken Kirzinger, who played Jason in Freddy vs Jason, tells a similar story. He was dead set on doing the "Jason on Fire through a cornfield" scene, and was flat out told no by the producers. While he was a stuntman, they told him they had hired him to be an actor on the film, so a stuntman ended up doing the burn scene.

Then, on the last day of filming, they said, the other stuntmen are busy, so since you're a stuntman, we're just going to launch you from the back of this van.

# ¿ Apr 3, 2019 18:38

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

regulargonzalez posted:

Just watched Poltergeist for the first time in 20-some years. Directed by Tobe Hooper my rear end, this was at least a co-director situation with Spielberg right?

That's always been the rumor. (The actual rumor was the Spielberg directed the entire thing, and only paid Hooper to put his name on it, so it wouldn't ruin his "image")

# ¿ Apr 8, 2019 14:54

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

Almost Blue posted:

Is there some movie where characters are in a movie theater fighting and their fight replicates what's happening on the movie theater screen? Just watched Bachelor Party which uses that gag but I swear I've seen it somewhere else before.

Wasn't a movie screen, but in Temple of Doom, when Indy's fighting the Giant Thugee, and Short Round's fighting the drugged Maharajah, their movements mimic one another briefly.

# ¿ Apr 24, 2019 13:20

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

Empress Brosephine posted:

Name a better and more clever 90s comedy than Waterboy or Wedding Singer; you cant. Maybe Clerks?

Galaxy Quest.

# ¿ Apr 30, 2019 23:17

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

Both Kim Basinger and Whoopi Goldberg knew they were going to be bad movies (Boxing Helena and Theodore Rex) and tried to get out of them.

# ¿ May 5, 2019 00:38

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# ¿ May 2, 2024 20:49

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

He was the warden in G.I. Joe: Retaliation.

# ¿ May 7, 2019 17:03

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