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Razorwired posted:Pixar loves doing this stuff. Off the top of my head in Finding Nemo: The really crazy thing is when they put in stuff from movies that haven't been made yet. It started in Monsters Inc when they hid Nemo everywhere. Then in Finding Nemo there's a kid reading a Mr. Incredible comic book. Then in The Incredibles Doc Hudson from Cars is parked on the street. Then in Cars WALL-E is on a pit crew during the big race. It has gone on like that to this day. Here's the most recent:  The characters from Brave, as cars, given a place of honour in a scottish pub.
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The opening credits for Dexter are the best ever made. The music, I think, is even more expressive than the visuals. It's basically a metaphor for his entire life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lHcn0YvBp0 Listen when he slaps the fly, there's a whining sound. It intrudes a little and then fades away as the melody starts. Later it comes back, but with the brass section as well, and is suppressed once again. Then it rises again, louder, straining against the structure of the music until finally it breaks, and the melody spirals downward until it hits the bottom and loops back up to start it all over.
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Jun 11, 2012 18:38
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King of the Cows posted:There are a bunch of subtle moments in the original Conan the Barbarian. They don't necessarily blow your mind, but you tend not to notice them on first viewing. It's been a while since I've seen the movie, but three stand out in my memory: I don't know if that's intentional subtlety or just bad directing. The sword is clearly supposed to be important, it's emphasised a lot at the beginning, and Conan recovering it should be an important moment. Thulsa Doom's speeches in the middle and the end of the film seem to be in the script just to emphasise how important the sword is to Conan. The first he says is that steel is not as strong as the flesh that wields it, the second is that Doom made Conan the man he is today. He's basically saying Conan's father isn't important and neither is his sword, which is supposed to be the thing motivating him in the first place. I think the director just forgot about it.
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Jul 20, 2012 15:29
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The Conan commentary is amazing. Schwarzenegger is drunk the entire time and Milius may or may not be on coke. He gets really excited about things and fixates on the word 'Valkyrie,' while Arnold describes every woman on screen in terms of whether they slept with him or not. You can make a drinking game out of how many times Milius talks about something for a couple of minutes and Schwarzenegger just responds "Yeah, exactly."
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Jul 28, 2012 20:30
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So is the original Poseidon Adventure, actually. The main character is a lapsed reverend, and it's only after he finds God again in the climax that they manage to escape the ship. It's not as overt as in O Brother, but the pieces come together at the end. They completely missed the point in the remake by dropping that part of the character, but keeping the big symbolic scenes like climbing the christmas tree to safety.
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Aug 13, 2012 21:56
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Now that I think about it, maybe it's not so much thinking outside the box, but thinking outside society. It ties into K's monologue about one person being smart but people as a whole being dumb herd animals. It's not that J is the only one who thought to move the table, it's that he's the only one who dared to. When he gets up and drags the table over, everybody stops and stares at him, but he ignores them because he wants to finish the test. I think that moment, much more than his shooting gallery performance, is what got him into the MiB.
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Nov 26, 2012 20:35
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Maybe it was supposed to be a humourous anticlimax. We think they're gearing up for a big showdown and instead they sit down for an existentialist diplomatic debate with a giant mass-murdering space roach. Once you get all the sci-fi stuff out of the way, 90% of the job is paperwork.
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Nov 27, 2012 18:55
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When Lucille announces to the triad ladies that she found a loophole to the smoking ban in the prison, they all repeat it to each other, each one mispronouncing it a different way. Mrs. Oh, played by Bobby Lee in drag, clearly pronounces it 'RuPaul.'
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Apr 29, 2014 03:21
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Dude, it's cool that you're doing a tribute movie marathon, but I think Robin would be totally fine with you skipping a few here and there.
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Aug 19, 2014 01:11
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I'm pretty sure that's supposed to be Brian Peppers.
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Sep 16, 2014 22:01
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One cabbie working an 8-hour day can bring in 6 figures. Most of them work much longer.
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Sep 19, 2014 00:53
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If you are insulting this outfit you and me are going to have words outside.
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Oct 17, 2014 20:03
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Michael Bay is a brilliant satirist who has figured out that the best way to make money from satire is to market it almost exclusively to people who won't get it. See also: Paul Verhoeven.
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Oct 20, 2014 16:02
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That depends on context and body language. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFgEGmAbJew
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Dec 8, 2014 21:27
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It's not a slur in America, which is where the show is written, produced and aired, but by all means continue to spaz out about it.
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Feb 17, 2015 22:58
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There's something about the entire motion picture industry that you're not going to want to hear.
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Jan 9, 2016 01:20
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You're not alone, I could talk about John McTiernan movies for longer than those star wars reviews with all the rape jokes. Same goes for Paul Verhoeven.
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Feb 3, 2016 17:22
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"Really good except for the Denis Leary parts" describes a lot of Denis Leary's work. Without him No Cure for Cancer is a tight half hour of Bill Hicks jokes followed by a lovely little guitar instrumental.
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Apr 2, 2016 02:15
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Baron von Eevl posted:Same with Jon Benjamin. He always has the same voice, but his performance as Archer is totally different from McGuirk or his Bob Belcher. I was going to say "except for that one time" and then post this video but listening to it he doesn't actually sound like Bob, he sounds like Archer acting like Bob. So poo poo, point proven I guess. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFobb7n7AzE
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Jan 14, 2017 17:30
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There was supposed to be a scene in gladiator with billboards popping up all over rome of maximus endorsing a certain brand of olive oil. It was taken out because it was too unrealistic. It was actually one of the few things in that movie based on solid historical evidence.
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Jul 6, 2017 21:05
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My favourite was the grafitti in the Maeshowe tomb. It was an ancient Celtic cairn that was first officially excavated in the 19th century, but when they got in there they found a ton of viking runes. It was all stuff like "Ofram the son of Sigurd carved these runes," "This howe Vermundr carved" and "Arnfithr Matr carved these runes with this axe owned by Gauk Trandilsson in the South land" but there was one inscription on the very edge of the ceiling, and they had to get a ladder in before they could get close enough to translate it. It said "Tholfir Kolbeinsson carved these runes very high up"
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Jul 8, 2017 03:27
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Yeah, it was amazing. Even if they could get the rights to make another one today, there's no way Disney would let Donald use racial slurs. It was shocking, but it really made the scene impactful and I don't think the underlying metaphor of segregation in the entertainment industry would have worked nearly as well without it
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Aug 30, 2017 21:38
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What I thought was interesting is that Bilbo really wasn't affected all that much by the ring. He held onto it for decades and used it on the regular enough to have his life significantly prolonged, it just didn't affect his mind all that much. He had some withdrawal effects after he let it go, but while he had it the only real negative effect it had on his personality was that he told Gandalf a minor fib once, and he eventually came clean about that. He didn't even have that hard a time giving it away. Maybe that's because Sauron's powers were weak or whatever, but I think it's just because Bilbo didn't know it was anything special. It was just one part of this crazy adventure he went on, and there were so many more important things happening with kings and dragons and wizards that the ring was just a funny little souvenir. Frodo had it for another 17 years after that (sitting in an envelope on the shelf, admittedly), but as soon as he finds out it's actually the most important magical artifact in the world he's rubbing it and calling it his precious.
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Apr 9, 2018 17:24
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He's spent decades building up his public reputation and putting it on the line for the sake of the people, it's not surprising he doesn't take kindly to some vigilante who hides his face. And his son is a goddamn astronaut. That's a real hero! Do you know how you get to be an astronaut? It takes years of hard work and dedication! You sure as hell can't do it by showing up at a couple of robberies wearing a Halloween costume! Every man, woman and child in this city knows the name of J. Jonah Jameson, is there even a single person who knows who this punk is? Is he even American?! Miss Brant, read that back to me. flavor.flv has a new favorite as of 23:11 on May 25, 2018 |
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May 25, 2018 23:06
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Jedit posted:Which one of you fuckers bought him an SA account, is what I want to know. Nobody, that's why he was so angry. He couldn't read the ending of the Dangan Ronpa let's play.
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Jun 2, 2018 19:04
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The best indiana jones movie is Tomb Raider and its spinoff tv series, The Relic Hunter.
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Jun 26, 2018 19:29
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The Punisher is such a perfect example of the kind of lovely edgelord characters that plagued comics in the 80s and 90s, I was very surprised to learn he was created in 1974.
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Jul 12, 2018 02:52
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Aphrodite posted:That's a retcon. When the original Captain America comic came out, America had no interest in the war. The government considered it a European problem that they should be left to sort out themselves, and most people thought this Hitler fella had some pretty good ideas, although they'd prefer if he wasn't invading so many other countries. Members of the American Nazi party, which was a legitimately registered political organization that did not even pretend to hide itself, showed up at the Marvel offices and said they were there to beat up some communists. When word got up to Jack Kirby he went down intending to fistfight all of them personally, but they had left by the time he got there. Captain America was always supposed to be about what America should stand for, e: and somebody else already said the same thing several hours ago so there you go flavor.flv has a new favorite as of 18:00 on Jul 13, 2018 |
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Jul 13, 2018 17:58
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I read that entire series and I JUST got that joke
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Aug 26, 2018 22:22
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Burn After Reading, where the guy in charge of everything not only never meets the protagonists, he never knows they exist or that he's supposed to be in some sort of conflict with them.
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Sep 12, 2018 03:54
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Some taco bells in Canada have liquor licenses, but they only have a single beer tap and it dispenses bud light. It's the worst of all possible worlds.
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Sep 29, 2018 17:25
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Arcsquad12 posted:As far as TV edits go, have they ever been to a film's benefit. John Goodman smashing a sports car with a golf club while screaming "This is what happens when you find a stranger in the alps!" Is funnier than anything the Coen brothers have ever written
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Oct 18, 2018 23:02
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Until this thread I had no idea the movie wasn't supposed to be in chronological order
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Dec 30, 2018 23:29
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A dory is also a type of fish
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Jan 3, 2019 19:44
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Krispy Wafer posted:Das Boot was a good movie with a sad ending. The Great Escape and Bridge on the River Kwai are the same movie made from American and British perspectives, respectively. In the American movie only two people survive the prison camp and it's treated like a happy ending. In the British one all but two get out alive and well and it's a tragedy.
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Jan 4, 2019 04:23
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There was, unfortunately, editing involved. They cut around Ron Perlman saying "oh gently caress" when she made the shot
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Jan 10, 2019 21:14
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dirksteadfast posted:And Billy Murray accepted the role because he thought it was written by Joel Coen. The Garfield Movie. By the Coen Brothers. That would’ve been quite a sight. That is what he said, but I don't believe it for a second
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Jan 18, 2019 21:18
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The thread has heard this before, but the entire thing is a direct parody of a movie from the fifties, and it's so close that the producers had to buy the rights to the original. It cost them $2500. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-v2BHNBVCs It's very unsubtle, except for the fact that nobody saw the original
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Jan 19, 2019 15:54
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n-rGnI9XNo
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Comedy is funnier now than it's ever been, Mel Brooks' brain has just calcified from age and he can't come up with new material. When somebody tells you the poo poo you're saying isn't funny anymore, you don't go whining to the news media, you SAY SOME DIFFERENT poo poo
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