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Ape Agitator posted:The story that The Thing comes from was originally a pre-war short story, "Who goes there". That was adapted to a somewhat traditional 50s monster movie in 1951 as "The Thing from Another World". Its funny, I knew that The Thing and The Thing from Another World were almost nothing alike but I never realized just how close The Thing was to the original novella Who Goes There.
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Oddly enough the first time I've heard that they're making a Time Traveler's Wife movie was in a gaming magazine that said it was supposed to come out in early June. Obviously that didn't happen and when I looked up the release date its marked for Christmas. Is there any reason for this delay or did the studios just think it will fare better as a holiday movie?
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Jun 22, 2008 02:39
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In The Matrix, what the hell is Neo supposed to be selling those people who show up at his apartment in the beginning of the movie? They treat it like its something illegal but it looks like he just gave them some minidiscs.
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Jun 24, 2008 21:17
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Crows Turn Off posted:The most dangerous thing a person can sell, man - information. Huh, that actually makes sense. I just don't know why they didn't bother SAYING that in the movie.
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Jun 25, 2008 18:30
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Diligent Deadite posted:When did movies first start to have huge cast and crew lists at the end? I imagine it's probably due to union requirements and it probably happened around the mid-1970s, but when I watch a film made before that on DVD, it's always really jarring when it goes THE END -BOOM- TITLE MENU! Most movies before a certain point had the all credits at the beginning of the movie. Which is extremely irritating to today's audiences trying to watch something and having to sit through a couple minutes of people's names. SubG posted:I think this is the first time I've ever heard anyone complain that the Matrix films didn't have more blank exposition. Except it would just have had to been one line and the scene doesn't really make sense as it stands.
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Jun 25, 2008 23:01
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SubG posted:I bet you think it doesn't matter what's in the box in Belle de Jour (1967), what's in case in Pulp Fiction (1994), or what's in the trunk in Repo Man (1984), either. I mean...it would have only taken them one line to explain 'em, man. gently caress you, that's not what I'm talking about retard. Ape Agitator posted:I think the specifics of what he's selling in that scene is completely irrelevant. It's just to paint him as some kind of illegal fringe dweller and deliver the white rabbit lead in and allow the Agent Smith interrogation to have substance regarding Anderson's second life. Saying what he's selling is hardly necessary for the scene to make sense. Its one of those little details that sticks out in a second viewing that just takes you out of the film. Sure in terms of moving the story forward it makes sense that he's just selling something that doesn't really matter.
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Jun 26, 2008 01:58
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Vicissitude posted:I wrote it off as the guy was 'built' to be sheer intimidation. But actually having him do something overloaded the enhancements he had. Loveless knew it was the endgame and was just sending in his henchmen to kill West. Nobody saw the short-out coming. Its still the biggest  part in a movie already filled with stupid poo poo happening. Its like they couldn't think of how to end that scene so they just write the badguy as just dropping dead.
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Jun 26, 2008 02:06
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Dr. Coffee posted:In A Scanner Darkly, did Agent Hank know Agent Fred was Bob the whole time or was it something they narrowed down from Bares ratting him out and Frek being put into a mental institution. And if the latter is correct, how could they rule out Ernie? Yes, they knew that Fred was Bob the entire time. They purposefully set him up to get hooked on Substance D because they knew that the only way to get someone into New Path without them being suspicious was for the person to be an actual complete wreck. They couldn't have someone who knew they were supposed to be infiltrating it because they might eventually give themselves away. Their hope was that he would eventually see something that would prove that New Path was behind the Substance D epidemic (which they suspected because it was the only place police "Scanners" weren't allowed to look) and his cop instincts would kick in and he could tell someone on the outside eventually. I never got the random girl changing into Donna thing though.
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Jul 8, 2008 02:05
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HalPhilipWalker posted:I haven't seen this movie in a few months, but I believe the blonde woman was his ex-wife. You also see this same blonde woman in flashbacks of what his life was like before Substance D. What? I've seen the movie multiple times and have read the book and nowhere do they say that the blonde chick is supposed to be Bob's ex-wife. In fact the end of the movie pretty much states that he never was married in the first place. It was all just a fabrication as part of his "Fred" persona.
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Jul 13, 2008 11:17
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Uh, I'm pretty sure the woman being credited as "Arctor's wife" would actually be Arctor's wife and not this other character.
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Jul 13, 2008 20:10
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Hello Pity posted:At the end of 3:10 to Yuma why does Crowe's character shoot his own men? At first I thought it was obvious. But the more I think about it any reason I can come up with doesn't seem to make complete sense. I just wondered if there was an obvious reason I missed or it was supposed to be a little ambiguous I think the simplest answer is because they pissed him off. He was actually enjoying the whole chase and they had to ruin it by killing Bale after he had won.
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Jul 20, 2008 13:54
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Og Oggilby posted:Yeah, I had a Freudian slip. While good for collections and really there is no reason why every box set shouldn't use them instead of full sized boxes I just don't think they'll catch on as a regular sales box. Thinpacks are a lot more fragile than regular boxes and if you shipped a bunch out I can easily see them getting damaged just from normal shipping.
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Aug 11, 2008 00:42
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Satch posted:Sometimes I like trailers for movies that are already out. I remember seeing a trailer for Monsters Inc that played before Harry Potter, mentioning the film was 'playing in a theater near you...like really near you...like right next door'. I cant find it on youtube, but Wikipedia proves Im not insane: That's pretty rare though, in fact that's the first time I've ever heard of them attaching a new trailer for a movie that's already out in theaters. Most of the time when you're at the movies and see a trailer for something that's already out its just because the movie you're watching has been playing for a while. A rare treat is when a movie has been delayed, they reuse an old trailer and miss a reference to when it was actually supposed to come out. I can't remember what movie it was but I saw a trailer once that had the wrong year at the end of it, they said it was supposed to be coming out the previous year but it still hadn't hit theaters yet.
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Aug 13, 2008 02:30
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Also Quentin Tarantino's "4th" film. Whoops, actually 4th and 5th.
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Aug 13, 2008 02:52
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AlternateAccount posted:And as far as 3:10 to Yuma: Uh, did you completely miss the part of the movie where they say he's going to jail to be executed? Nobody wants to go to jail for that. He doesn't mind going to jail because he knows he's just going to break out as soon as he gets there not because he wants to turn over a new leaf. God you're just completely WRONG about all of his motivations aren't you? Ben Wade does NOT want to "change his life" he's a BAD MAN. He loves murdering and robbing people. You're falling in the exact same trap that Evans' son did in idolizing the man. Hell, the only reason he helped Evans out was because he felt sorry for the guy and it cost him NOTHING to do so. Either he would get sent to prison and break out or his gang would show up and free him. Either way he'd be free. The reason he killed his gang was because he was pissed off that Evans had actually won and they didn't recognize it. They weren't playing the same game he was and so in a fit of anger he murders them. That just goes to show how petty he was.
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Aug 14, 2008 19:22
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Nimec posted:Maybe this was already answered somewhere, but I just saw a commercial for a movie called Quarantine that had scene-by-scene recreations of [rec]. Is it going to be the same movie reshot with different actors in English or is it just a spin-off or what? Its a scene by scene remake. I'm a little wary because from what I've heard the director of [rec] pulled some fuckery with the cast by messing with their heads. As in he would tell them the wrong cues for when people would jump out to get better reactions. Which doesn't transfer at all when they're doing it shot for shot.
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Sep 29, 2008 06:07
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Ape Agitator posted:What I think has to happen first is the "Arab For No Reason" characters to pop up from time to time. A good example of this would be Alexander Siddig in the movie Doomsday. He plays the Prime Minister of England but nobody even brings up that he's Arabic.
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Oct 11, 2008 04:13
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Nutsngum posted:I never clicked onto this at all as he was always so pale on Star Trek. He must have gotten a lot more sun since then. Even when he was listed in the credits as Siddig el Fadil? He changed his screen name because he learned that people in Hollywood had problems pronouncing it.
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Oct 11, 2008 14:33
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BooDoug187 posted:I thought for awhile Spider-man was a high school teacher, before the whole Civil War thing, and really his other day job of being a freelance photographer was also low profile. Yeah he was, he was a high school science teacher. Just in case anyone was wondering, yes, they do address the fact that he didn't have a teaching degree or anything like that. The school he got hired on to was a poor inner city one that couldn't keep a teacher at all so they deferred the degree due to experience in the field.
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Oct 16, 2008 00:36
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I just watched Day Watch and I was wondering, what is the deal with that short scene right before the credits with Semyon driving around?
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Jan 12, 2009 05:09
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What happened to Charlie Sheen anyway? He went from movies to television sitcoms which is a step down no matter what the show is. Was it simply the hooker stuff or what?
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Jan 17, 2009 00:13
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fenix down posted:In the Russian movie Nightwatch, why does the curse disappear after she curses herself out loud? Because since she was just cursing herself she could take it off without any effort, she just didn't know it existed. So she didn't have to do anything fancy to make it go away, just wanting to does it.
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Apr 23, 2009 21:14
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What happened to Michael Keaton's career? He used to be a big draw, I mean he was Batman for god's sake, but he's barely done anything in the past 10 years.
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Jun 14, 2009 23:14
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Ken Levine Fan Club posted:What city was at the end of the first Transformers? I was thinking Phoenix or something but there wasn't enough sprawl As far as I know it wasn't supposed to be any specific city, it was just a city.
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Jun 23, 2009 22:33
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Speed Racer has been playing on cable recently and after watching it again I was left wondering, have they ever explained what was up with the setting? As in, what year it was supposed to be taking place?
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Jun 28, 2009 05:05
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itrorev posted:Wiki says Speed Racer is set in 2108, but thats the only place I've seen a year referenced. I guess we can just assume it's set in some weird alternate world. That really doesn't make sense because a big part of the story is how Speed was told that the 43 Grand Prix was fixed and whenever they show footage of it its all sepia toned and they're driving old fashioned cars. And the guys who were in that race are the announcers for the big end of movie Grand Prix.
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Jun 28, 2009 19:31
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This is a stupid question but it was kind of bothering me, I was watching that retarded Vin Diesel movie Babylon A.D. and at the end is there supposed to be some kind of explanation as to why Aurora dies? As it was shown in the movie she just kind of dies without any kind of reason.
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Aug 7, 2009 03:27
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Satch posted:Around 1:50 in that video you posted you can see that glove IS attached to her arm. I know the above reasoning is probably right but I just like to think that under the big space armor those turtle aliens were all hot space Jovaviches Or at least just she was like that under the suit.
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Aug 8, 2009 18:19
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Can someone explain the ending to Videodrome? It was on last night and after watching it again I have no clue what's going on with it. Especially the very ending with Max Renn shooting himself in the head. Was it just a trick from Videodrome? Or is he actually supposed to transform from doing it?
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Aug 23, 2009 19:12
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Serious Michael posted:Also what about "Welcome To I know they do it in High Plains Drifter, so maybe that.
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Aug 23, 2009 23:12
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Yes.
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Aug 23, 2009 23:19
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I watched Barton Fink the other day but I really don't get what the ending was supposed to be about, basically from the return of John Goodman on. So could someone please enlighten me?
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Jan 28, 2010 21:49
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twistedmentat posted:What's with Cleopatra? I read a book all about big disaster films that ruined or almost ruined studios, and besides Heaven's Gate, it's considered the worst studio blunder. For the longest time it was the most expensive movie ever made and it was solely due to Elizabeth Taylor. It was originally only supposed to cost $2 million and ended up nearly breaking the bank at Fox for $44 million (in 1963 dollars.) They had to shut down production, scrap a ton of sets and then move the entire thing to Italy because she got sick early in filming. Then there was the whole Richard Burton scandal where they met on set and had a very public affair. So basically initial perceptions were pretty tainted toward the movie but it seems that people have mellowed toward it over time as some of the things became less important.
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Feb 3, 2010 07:06
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LDJohnson posted:Doesn't look Japanese to me. Wasn't the point of the character that he was Bond's nephew? Despite the name.
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Mar 23, 2010 03:53
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The Remote Viewer posted:I'm reading an introductory textbook on film and it happened to mention directors only get 2-3 minutes of usable footage per day. How can that be true, considering everyone works 12-18 hour days? It sounds like just a poor choice of words as they probably mean 2-3 minutes of footage that they WILL use.
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Apr 4, 2010 02:38
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2xSlick posted:Here's a question that's been bothering me for over a decade. What was the point of the Live Fire Exercise from Men in Black? Was Will Smith supposed to shoot the alien targets? On the surface, it seems like such a basic test. Since everyone there was either Military or Police trained, I don't see anyone washing out if that was all it scored. It would make more sense if it was set up to be some sort of judgment call considering their job as peacekeepers and not alien exterminators. Rip Torn seemed so flabbergasted that someone didn't shoot the aliens on sight, considering that the job isn't to shoot aliens on sight. Were they that ticked off he shot the kid? And what's the deal with circus peanuts? They don't come from the circus and they're not nuts. The various tests to join were all designed to check outside the box thinking. Like the written test wasn't supposed to actually check how smart you were but if you were willing to move the table to complete the test. While the shooting gallery was to test observational skills to see if they'd just shoot any alien on sight.
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Apr 21, 2010 01:14
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twistedmentat posted:Okay I was watching Gamer last night and I had two questions. Yeah you did, it was mentioned at least once that anybody who was an Avatar was getting paid to do it.
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Apr 22, 2010 05:39
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Dr_Amazing posted:I read the book a long time ago, but why was the mission a secret? If Dave didn't know about the monoliths, what did he think the mission was? They just thought they were going out there to go out there. The monoliths were kept secret from absolutely anybody not on the need to know. The book does a pretty good job of explaining the weird stuff from the end of the movie. Just be sure to be wary of the book sequels as each one is slightly different than the last. muscles like this! fucked around with this message at 01:23 on Apr 23, 2010 |
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Apr 23, 2010 01:20
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Seeing the trailer for Super 8 makes me wonder, why exactly was the movie called Cloverfield anyway?
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School Bully posted:From near the end of the book: His name was also Juan Rico so it can be assumed that he wasn't only Filipino. Heinlein was big on multiculturalism.
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