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Torquemada
Oct 21, 2010

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DrBouvenstein posted:

and a nerdy, bookish FBI agent who probably drives a Ford Taurus)

He drives a Volvo. A beige one.

Also car phones have been a thing since the 40’s. Additionally, Mason’s supposed to be literally James Bond, so is competent in whatever the script demands.

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Torquemada
Oct 21, 2010

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James Woods posted:

Where else are you going to see Bond team up with Osama Bin Laden?

Just here. Oh, and in actual real life.

Torquemada
Oct 21, 2010

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It might be obscure now, but I can assure you it was one of the most popular cocktails of the 80’s (not to take away from the attention to detail).

Torquemada
Oct 21, 2010

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James Woods posted:

I'm aware of that and that's why I said somewhat. It's former popularity is why every old bar has a decade's old bottle collecting dust in an awkward place. That said I've made maybe one in the last 20 years.

Ha, I have a bottle on my booze rack, and the cap has been hacked up, because the sugar basically seals the lid on after a while. It’s great dropped into a gin rickey.

Torquemada
Oct 21, 2010

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Android Apocalypse posted:

:lol: dreaming about getting fellatio from a beautiful ghost lady instead of Slimer, who could easily swallow your dick & balls simultaneously & tongue you to an intense ectoplasmic orgasm.

Probably a bad plan, that’s not a mouthful of hotdogs at the end of the movie.

Torquemada
Oct 21, 2010

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Pope Corky the IX posted:

So that nice man had a hot dog cart full of severed penises?

New York in ‘84 was a land of contrasts.

Torquemada
Oct 21, 2010

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James Woods posted:

One interesting thing about Heat is that Mann directed Al Pacino to play Hanna as a raving coke head bit didn't explicitly show out on screen. "Cuz she's got a GREAT rear end!! And you got your head all up in it!" This is unsurprising if you know that the Hanna character was first played by Tom Sizemore in the TV miniseries L.A. Takedown which came out a few years before the feature film. It was also written and directed by Mann and essentially fleshes out the events of the film over one season of television. Definitely worth a watch if you can track it down. Strangely enough Sizemore's performance as Hanna is way more subdued than Pacino which is odd if you know anything about his personal life.

There must be two LA Takedowns by Mann, because Sizemore isn’t Hanna in the one I saw. The only actor in both is Xander Berkley, who’s Waingro in LA Takedown, and Ralph in Heat.

Torquemada
Oct 21, 2010

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It’s really not good. I like it because I really dig the background scenery and light in 80’s LA film and tv, and love Heat. It also has value as an aid to illustrate how a great cast can elevate a pedestrian film to greatness. Watch the two coffee shop scenes side by side, the dialogue is almost identical: the ‘89 is risible by comparison.

Torquemada
Oct 21, 2010

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Krispy Wafer posted:

So instead of "yippee ki yay motherfucker" it'd have been old fat Sinatra saying, "we're doing it....my way."

“Regrets, I’ve had a few: what’s one more?”

Torquemada
Oct 21, 2010

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Rupert Buttermilk posted:

Weird, I thought Takagi was visibly annoyed at Ellis obviously snorting. I'll have to rewatch it. As for knowing beforehand, in general, no idea. Ellis might've actually been some crazy good employee, which would justify his ego during the negotiation literally every scene. Maybe Takagi looks the other way, but was annoyed this was happening in front of an outsider.

This is correct, I don’t need a rewatch to remember his moué of disgust.

Torquemada
Oct 21, 2010

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World War Mammories posted:

if science hasn't yet performed a comprehensive comparative survey of twin genitalia then what's the loving point

Probably Nazis did, making that a very apt username post combo.

Torquemada
Oct 21, 2010

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What are you doing step twinnnnnn

Torquemada
Oct 21, 2010

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It isn’t a standing wave?

Torquemada
Oct 21, 2010

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Lol he was in a Marylin Manson video, so it’s that.

Torquemada
Oct 21, 2010

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RCarr posted:

It goes from an amazing sci-fi drama to a B-movie slasher flick.

:hmmyes: Not quite as movie-ruining as The Fifth Element’s transition from ‘magical space opera’ to ‘Chris Tucker screaming ‘OH MY GODDDDD’ for twenty minutes’, but in the same ball-park.

Torquemada
Oct 21, 2010

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Flint_Paper posted:

"Wife finds a lay" - the tag line of the cuckold porn Jurassic Park spinoff

Wife finds a UH UH UH UHHHUHUH UH YEAH way.

Torquemada
Oct 21, 2010

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oldpainless posted:

Bullshit you loving liar

Maybe $40 million is more than $1 billion in his country?

Torquemada
Oct 21, 2010

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BrigadierSensible posted:

And also did the score for a weird little gangster film called Bugsy Malone starring Scott Baio and Jodie Foster where all the characters are 13 year olds, and instead of guns they have custard pies.

Paramount essentially buried it for the US market, it’s exceptionally well known in my age group in the UK. It’s great fun.

Torquemada
Oct 21, 2010

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Mescal posted:

I feel like bull testicles are one of those things where if the butcher sells them for ten cents they rot, but if they sell them at ten dollars they couldn't keep them in stock.

“Sometimes señor, the bull, he does not win”.

Torquemada
Oct 21, 2010

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Milo and POTUS posted:

I forgot exactly where it was in the movie but in Apocalypse Now Col Kurtz wrote a paper on the Howling Wilderness campaign in the Philippines which is one of those things that in hindsight might have been a red flag

It’s probably on screen during the voiceover about his earlier service history? I’ve seen this film a lot and it’s not in the dialogue that I recall. Also it’s so subtle that not only have I never noticed it in the film, I’d never even heard of the action. It made interesting reading, thanks.

Torquemada
Oct 21, 2010

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“They tell me it can turn on a dime. Whatever that is.”

Torquemada
Oct 21, 2010

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Hmm, Starsky has a thing about ice rinks? There’s one in The Running Man too.

Torquemada
Oct 21, 2010

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Mescal posted:

I... that's the only way to read the title straight.

It’s a time honoured tradition in this thread, occasionally people think a thing was subtle but in fact it was just a thing they didn’t understand until later.

Torquemada
Oct 21, 2010

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Literally Rumble In The Bronx?

Torquemada
Oct 21, 2010

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Android Apocalypse posted:

Reminiscence feels like a Nolan flick because it was made by the same people that did the TV show Westworld (Lisa Joy and Christopher Nolan's brother Jonathan).

Westworld S1 is a flawless masterpiece, S2 is incredibly bland with one standout episode, and S3 is beneath contempt. Where on this scale is Reminiscence?

Torquemada
Oct 21, 2010

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christmas boots posted:

You're probably referring to the Ghost Nation episode, but I like the one with the Delos copies too.

I also liked that one, but if you removed the Ghost Nation episode it wouldn’t save the series for me.

Torquemada
Oct 21, 2010

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Season 1 is one of the best things made for television, but you’ll have unanswered questions that the following seasons aren’t interested in answering.

Torquemada
Oct 21, 2010

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That Italian Guy posted:

In the Sam Raimi movies, Spiderman is from a working class family and his enemies are heads of giant corporations; they are also using cutting edge tech while Spidey is "all natural". All his adventures are set in or around his neighbourhood.

In the MCU movies, Spiderman is pupil to the head of a giant tech corp, uses Stark's cutting edge tech and his first enemy is a blue collar small businessman bullied out of business by Stark. His introduction to the MCU (the airport fight in Civil War) happens not only outside of NY, but outside of the US; and most of his adventures are also far away from NY, from Europe to another planet.

Reminding me that I watched Ghostbusters (1984) the other day and the EPA is the secondary villain interfering with the chutzpah and go-get-‘em attitude of a bunch of plucky small businessmen who need to store unregulated waste and nuclear technology in the centre of Manhattan.

Torquemada
Oct 21, 2010

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Ghost Leviathan posted:

The IDW comics do some fun stuff with the Ghostbusters exploring the ramifications of their business a bit. In the aftermath of the movies (and possibly the game) the Ghostbusters basically get nationalised as a public service... and Walter Peck is their boss.

Once again my policy of ignoring the extended universe of every property I find fun pays dividends.

Torquemada
Oct 21, 2010

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You’re more forgiving than I am, I’d say there’s way more bad adaptations of his work than good.

Torquemada
Oct 21, 2010

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scary ghost dog posted:

sure, but they all have great stories, so only Be Cool is truly awful, because it is bad in every way including the story

I found it worked pretty well as a book, the movie is utterly graceless though, in addition to being possibly the worst-cast film in history. Everyone in it is awful.

Torquemada
Oct 21, 2010

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Silly Newbie posted:

It's always been amazing how many concepts Gibson accurately predicted entirely by accident or luck.

He still regularly smites his forehead in interviews for not predicting mobile phones though.

Torquemada
Oct 21, 2010

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Isn’t McMurphy a statutory rapist, or am I imagining it.

Torquemada
Oct 21, 2010

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bucketybuck posted:

The problem with "The Worlds End" is that Simon Peggs character is such an absolute oval office from start to finish that it drags the entire film down.

At every single stage of that film his character is a complete arsehole, there is no growth or story there, every single thing he does is self serving and he never once cares how it hurts the people around him. Gary King at the end is the exact same oval office he was at the start.

There could have been a good movie in there, its a pity that Peggs character destroys the entire thing.

My thoughts exactly, with the qualifier that I’m the same age as the characters in the film, and have met far too many people exactly like the entire cast and they’re just as annoying or boring in real life. What kind of pathetic arsehole thinks the best night of his life was a pub crawl at age 19? How vacuous are the lives of his friends that they fall in with his bullshit? No amount of cute references or clever in-jokes made spending time with the characters fun for me.

Torquemada
Oct 21, 2010

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It’s a line from the movie.

Torquemada
Oct 21, 2010

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quote:

Detective Hal Vukovich: [in a room inside the police station] That guy Silberman cracks me up. Last week, he had this guy in here that burned his Afghan. He screwed it first and then he set it on fire...
Lieutenant Ed Traxler: [leaning forward] Hey, shut up.

Torquemada
Oct 21, 2010

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bitterandtwisted posted:

You just triggered an ancient memory of that number being recited as a musical jingle on some show, possibly "Live and Kicking"
I even remember they altered it when the number start changed to 0181

Thanks brain, good use of resources

The Multicoloured Swap Shop used to have the phrase ‘That’s 01 if you’re outside London’, and my Midlands number had only 6 digits.

Torquemada
Oct 21, 2010

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Eh pretty good, but he’s no Matthew Broderick.

Torquemada
Oct 21, 2010

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N. Senada posted:

The ending always felt like a saccharine cop out

Agreed, it really did come out of nowhere.

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Torquemada
Oct 21, 2010

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Gaius Marius posted:

Speckled Band was fine, Red Headed League was some bullshit.

Made even more egregious by him reusing the exact same premise for The Three Garridebs (unusual feature of a person who rarely leaves their home/place of work used to lure them away from said place for nefarious purposes).

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