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Jack Does Jihad posted:I hope it's not. I tried watching Samurai I and it just didn't grab me for some reason. Maybe it's not from a movie, but from the manga 'Lone Wolf and Cub', which originally came out in 1970, sold millions of copies, and has influenced artists, film makers, producers and directors across the world. Almost every samurai and ninja cliche you can imagine appears in this epic story -- obviously before they were cliches. Including many fights like the one you mention Then again I guess if there's a movie older than 1970 where this sort of fight occurs, it invalidates this theory
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Web Jew.0 posted:Just watched the Prestige... It's too impractical. Imagine if the one who doesn't like her has to appear as himself somewhere else shortly after being with her. You'd either have two of the same guy at similar times or they'd have to switch roles very quickly. . Or their schedules would revolve around her and she'd have become more important than their insane Machiavellian scheming.
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Feb 7, 2010 17:25
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the Bunt posted:I agree. He's never really "blown me away" in anything. Maybe Castaway. Castaway and Road to Perdition were his two best
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Mar 26, 2010 20:33
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This thread about an art heist in Paris got me thinking about something that's always bugged me - in The Thomas Crown Affair w. Brosnan, the scene where he takes the painting off the wall and puts it in some special folding case.. I never seem to keep up with what that folding case does. IT looks like he's putting the painting into a case that's smaller than the painting and then folding it up like a Trapper Keeper.. I've watched it a couple times and always see the same thing. Is he actually folding the painting? Doesn't it break?
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May 21, 2010 16:22
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Wild T posted:Five Cent Deposit, were you drunk enough that you didn't notice Arnold Swarzenegger was the protagonist? That probably would have helped you find out a lot easier than the electric clown (his name was Dynamo, incidentally, and he's the best overweight opera-singing electricity-themed villain ever). God, I love that movie. OVA HERE CHRISTMAS TREE
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Jul 26, 2010 01:21
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I've watched The Princess Bride dozens of times and always wondered if this was a goof - when Fezzik meets up with drunk Inigo in the Theives Forest, and he sobers him up, how did Fezzik know about Count Rugen being the six-fingered man? At that point in the movie the only person who'd made the six-fingered-connection was Wesley, and he certainly never had a chance to explain it to Fezzik. I read the book years ago but never noted how the Count Rugen reveal was handled there.
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Sep 4, 2011 01:43
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What's the name of that effect where it looks like the background is growing/shrinking, or moving further out while the main focus stays the same? And how does it work? I was thinking two shots superimposed, or something similar.
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Nov 18, 2011 02:42
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When do the dinosaurs show up in Tree of Life. Every time I flip over to it I see 5-10 minutes of a sad family with slow music. There are dinosaurs, right?
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Jan 6, 2013 01:52
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Thanks. I guess I should watch the whole thing for context of that scene. I had thought the movie was sprinkled with dinosaur bits.
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Jan 6, 2013 03:56
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I'm rewatching 'Sherlock Holmes - A Game of Shadows', because I love it. Can someone tell me why Moriarty needed to cover up an assassination by bullet with an additional explosion of the entire room? I'm sure the scoundrel had his reasons but they escape me.
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Jan 21, 2013 23:50
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Thanks, that was my best guess. Basically he wanted that one particular guy 100 percent for sure dead, and didn't think a bomb would guarantee it.
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