Jack Does Jihad posted:What was the first samurai movie that popularized or featured the stereotypical duel in which two samurai run past each other and seemingly miss each other as they strike, then they stand still and one falls over? Probably The Seven Samurai
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# ¿ Jun 10, 2008 02:10 |
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# ¿ May 2, 2024 23:01 |
Jack Does Jihad posted:There's no scene like that in Seven Samurai. When the sword master samurai, Kyuzo, is introduced, the duel he has is almost exactly like that. Also, the slow motion of the death of the thief that Kambei kills when he's introduced is also similiar.
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# ¿ Jun 10, 2008 05:05 |
At the end of Alien 3 was Lance Henrikson a droid or not? He said he wasn't, but his ear was hanging off after 85 clubbed him and it didn't seem to faze him all that much.
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# ¿ Jul 7, 2008 06:11 |
In Animal House, what was up with the headline "Dean's wife to vacation in Florida" after she sleeps with the student. Did she go for an abortion or something?
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# ¿ Jul 30, 2009 02:29 |
itrorev posted:I was watching yet another Rocky marathon on Spike, and something came to my mind... Rocky, Adrian, and Adrian's brother Paulie return to their lavish Philadelphia home to find out that Paulie had signed 'power of attorney' over to Balboa's accountant, who had, in turn, squandered most of his money on real estate flipping.
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# ¿ Aug 18, 2009 19:39 |
Rake Arms posted:As seen in "In Bruges," where Colin Farrel blinds a man in one eye by firing a blank at close range. Wasn't that Tigerland?
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# ¿ Sep 11, 2009 07:17 |
Yannick_B posted:He's a Time Lord. He's either a Time Lord or a Dread Pirate Roberts.
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# ¿ Mar 17, 2010 05:23 |
LtKenFrankenstein posted:Yeah, well, Did anyone think that the "bitches leave" chicks weren't that good looking, or have disposable women just gotten that much better looking since the 80's?
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# ¿ Aug 18, 2010 19:54 |
Wild T posted:Any time a discussion starts with the Star Wars stuff it turns from gayer to gayest. They make a lot of prop guns that have a sealed or partially blocked barrel that retain a realistic look while allowing the weapon to cycle with a blank.
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# ¿ Aug 22, 2010 14:37 |
Zogo posted:I didn't know about that earlier movie I'm going to have to go back and watch Airplane! in black and white now.
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# ¿ Dec 30, 2010 19:15 |
BobKnob posted:Where did all the American Football pads come from in the Mad Max movies come from? This is important. Sporting goods stores! The production company is Australian, I can't imagine them ordering pads from America just for costumes.
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# ¿ Feb 25, 2011 19:16 |
He described himself without naming himself. It's misdirection without actually lying, which is something a lawyer would be good at. I think his description was along the lines of "a desperate man at the end of his rope, tall, lanky, dark hair, in his 30's." Which does describe the man who beat him, himself.
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# ¿ Jul 10, 2011 02:37 |
I just imagined that he heard about it by being on the brute squard.
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# ¿ Sep 4, 2011 02:00 |
Does anyone here skip through to their favorite parts of a movie? I found that Crocodile Dundee II had been uploaded to youtube, and while the second half in Australia is pretty entertaining, there are about 5 minutes of movie that's worth the time to watch in the first half.
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# ¿ Sep 22, 2011 02:38 |
Wow, Sellers is amazing in that short bit. Completely steals the scene from Hope and Crosby.
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# ¿ Sep 28, 2011 06:57 |
Kane was the Science Officer, (mysteriously replacing the previous one at the last minute) and Ripley was the 1st officer, or second in command of the Nostromo.
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# ¿ Nov 10, 2011 18:50 |
Yeah, you're right. Ash was the science officer, Kane was the one who got face huggered, right?
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# ¿ Nov 10, 2011 19:41 |
Spermando posted:Subtitles don't say exactly what the original text says. A guy who's famous in the AV translation field in my country wrote an article on this. He estimated that up to 40% of the words had to be cut to keep the subtitles short and readable: swear words, nicknames, adjectives... Basically all the words that give character to the plot. If I'm watching a movie about a man from Tokyo, why would I want to hear him speak with a Texas accent?
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# ¿ Nov 13, 2011 17:46 |
cheerfullydrab posted:What's up with so many American movies set in foreign countries or the past having everyone speak in a British accent? It's an easy way to say "foreign" without actually being in another language. Also, British a accents are more class associated than American accents, so it's easier to denote aristocrats from the poor.
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# ¿ Nov 15, 2011 15:37 |
A stuntman died making Gone Fishin'IMDB posted:An accident during filming killed stuntwoman Janet Wilder and injured her husband, stuntman Scott Wilder, and his father, stuntman Glenn R. Wilder. A boat was supposed to go over a ramp, fly over a mangrove hedge, land between two other boats, and stop in the water. Instead the boat slid off the side of the ramp, flipped over, and landed in a crowd of crew and extras. What a lovely movie do die making. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119214/trivia
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# ¿ Nov 26, 2011 05:30 |
Does anyone else think that Carlito's Way is a better movie if you skip the first 5 minutes? The movie starts at the end, then flashsback and the rest of the movie leads up to the scene that starts the movie. I personally think it works better if you don't know how it's going to turn out.
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# ¿ Dec 5, 2011 06:58 |
SeenUnnoticed posted:Does the old black guy in No Country for Old Men that gives Llewelyn a ride to Del Rio get killed by Anton? It seems like it was implied, I'm just not one hundred percent on it. Where was it implied? He was just a random guy giving Llewelyn a lift.
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# ¿ Feb 28, 2012 01:06 |
wyoming posted:It's the scene right before they meet Laurence Fishburne, they try setting a trap with Topher as bait, only that thing shows up instead. Wasn't it supposed to be a version of the original, rejected, Jean-Claude Van Damne Predator?
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# ¿ Apr 14, 2012 01:22 |
marktheando posted:Wait... Cobra was set in the future? I think Cobra took place in the Last Action Hero universe, only unironically.
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# ¿ May 24, 2012 18:53 |
This seems apropos to the Pacino discussion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q9TpdUPYLU
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# ¿ Sep 14, 2012 08:43 |
Cymbal Monkey posted:A while back I saw Casa Blanka. and in addition to not seeing why anyone still cares about this film, I was intrigued by that famous line "Here's lookin' at you, kid." Casa Blanka?
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# ¿ Jan 3, 2013 01:20 |
I've had this saved on my hard drive for 7 years.
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# ¿ Apr 2, 2013 18:02 |
What is the best Army of Darkness DVD release?
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# ¿ Apr 19, 2013 06:21 |
Mechafunkzilla posted:A fuzzy bootleg, viewed at midnight during a sleepover in 7th grade. Well, I was already past the 7th grade when it was released, so that's out.
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# ¿ Apr 19, 2013 06:35 |
effectual posted:I remember seeing a movie around 2000 or so where a guy was shot in the kneecap and it blew apart and he fell to the ground, what movie was it? Also, is that the most painful thing you can do to someone? In Django he mentioned at the end that the house "negro" hadn't mentioned it as punishment. Once Upon a time In Mexico http://youtu.be/I1kdEUa4DXg?t=1m38s Armyman25 fucked around with this message at 06:51 on Apr 29, 2013 |
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# ¿ Apr 29, 2013 06:47 |
SubG posted:`Revisionism' in general refers to any work that nominally participates in a genre or movement which is popular enough to have an institutionalised aesthetic (in terms of presentation or in content), but which rejects or re-interprets that aesthetic enough to have its own recognisable sensibilities. This is pretty funny because Deadwood has almost all of those archetypes.
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# ¿ Aug 8, 2013 22:44 |
effectual posted:I was referring to the scene right before that, when Wayne is runnin after the girl and you think he might shoot her like he swore to earlier, and the boy will have to shoot Wayne to save the girl, but then Wayne doesn't shoot her because (?) forced hollywood happy ending. A woman gets to try to re-integrate into a culture she hasn't known since she was 6, while the culture she has now and the people she was raised by have been annihilated. Meanwhile Wayne realizes he has no part in the community he has delivered her to, since the rest of his family is dead and he's spent the better part of the last decade wandering around trying to find her. Pretty happy ending.
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# ¿ Aug 9, 2013 06:13 |
Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:What are some earlier instances of the plot in which the protagonist stages fights with someone who is ostensibly a villain for financial gain and shares the spoils with his or her accomplice? I know there are more of these but for some reason, the only ones that are coming to mind are Dragonheart and Shark Tale. I guess The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly could count but it's a little different. I feel like there are some really obvious ones I'm missing. Kingpin?
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# ¿ Aug 10, 2013 09:08 |
regulargonzalez posted:What happened to Francis Ford Coppola? That is, in the 70s he made four movies that would be in any top 100 list, and was the screenwriter for another (Patton) that might not be quite of that caliber but is generally very well regarded. I'd put his body of work in that decade up with any director's best ten year span, and he looked well on his way to be considered one of the top 2 or 3 directors of all time. Since then, he's had maybe 2-3 decent, entertaining but ultimately slight movies and a whole bunch of duds. I mean, if not for the '70s, he'd be considered a mediocre ham-n-egger along the lines of Paul W. S. Anderson or, I don't know, Jon Turteltaub -- decently competent, forgettable, and largely anonymous. I think he went insane in the Philippines.
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# ¿ Aug 19, 2013 07:26 |
Is the dream sequence with a dwarf being filmed in In Bruges a reference to this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4je71Tz_9IE
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# ¿ Feb 25, 2014 01:54 |
HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Well, that is a reference to Twin Peaks. I see, haven't watched Twin Peaks, probably should.
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# ¿ Feb 25, 2014 02:01 |
I want to see the clip with Gary Busey talking about The Buddy Holly Story
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# ¿ Feb 28, 2014 20:33 |
xcore posted:Why is it that, no matter how I watch a movie at home, whether it be downloaded from the internet, ripped from a DVD or played straight off the disc, that my sound levels are completely hosed. The Dredd DVD actually has an "apartment" audio track that fixes this very problem. The dialog is turned up and everything else is turned down.
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# ¿ Aug 11, 2014 06:52 |
The first time I saw Carlito's Way I missed the opening, so the ending came as a genuine surprise. The second time I saw it i saw that it starts at the ending and was a lesser movie for it.
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# ¿ Oct 9, 2014 06:53 |
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# ¿ May 2, 2024 23:01 |
And then the drat thing fell over sideways and nearly crushed her anyway.
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# ¿ Oct 27, 2014 17:44 |