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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMR5JVo21wQ The way they shot the scenes with the Studebaker in the original Muppet movie was that they had a custom car that was controlled and steered in the trunk with the help of video monitors so that the puppeteers could hide down in the front seat to control the puppets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSFLZ-MzIhM Also, the way that they shot the opening scene was by having Jim Henson crawl into a metal tube underneath the lake with a hole for his arm to go up through the log to control the Kermit puppet. Watching the old Muppet movies you don't really realize how much effort and creativity they went into making the puppets believable characters in and of themselves.
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SecretOfSteel posted:In Fight Club at the beginning of the film Edward Norton's character is asked if he has anything to say before he's shot and he says 'i can't think of anything...'. The movie then flashes back to tell the story of how things came to be. When it all comes full circle and we're back at where we began and again Norton is asked if he has anything to say this time he says 'i still can't think of anything...' I see your flashback humor and raise you FBI warning humor:  Also, one thing I love about Fight Club is that Durden's entire speech about working as a projectionist is untrue: subliminal messages don't work and those little dots in the upper-right corner had never been called "cigarette burns" until Fight Club popularized the term. Even if it wasn't intentional, right up front you know Tyler Durden is full of poo poo.
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May 26, 2012 11:37
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Stormtroopman posted:The Shawshank Redemption has some subtle lines in it, as well. When the fat guy is blubbering in his cell and Hadley comes to shut him up, the prisoners shout replies to this protests: In the movie they have a scene where Andy asks how Red got his nickname and Morgan Freeman says "It's because I'm Irish" as a joke. The exchange is lifted from the book, only in the book Red actually was Irish.
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May 29, 2012 01:11
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Cubone posted:Ha. I get it. That reminds me, in the original Iron Man when he's at the casino shooting craps instead of accepting his award the band is playing an orchestral version of the theme song from the 60s Iron Man cartoon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wn4iYoMcAA
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Lord Lambeth posted:I watched 12 Angry Men recently and one of the jurors voiced piglet. John Fiedler has been acting for 60 years, the dude's been in a ton of stuff and he always sounds like Piglet. As much as people bitch about modern animated movies using recognizable voices of celebrities, it's been going on for as long as people were making cartoons. Just like how Piglet was just Fielder doing his usual schtick, Ed Wynn can't not sound like the Mad Hatter which makes watching old Twilight Zone reruns even weirder.
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Aug 25, 2012 06:33
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I don't have a screencap handy, but when Scott is walking through the snow leading up to his first encounter with Roxy there's one part where there are literally 7 "x"s on screen thanks to a railroad crossing sign. Also when he and Ramona are talking on the bus all the little blips of light in the background are shaped like hearts when Scott is talking while they're shaped like "X"s when it's Ramona.
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I loved all the tiny details they did to make things look videogame-y while at the same time being cutting-edge CGI. There's a part where Ralph is in his game and he gets splashed with something, and while the actual liquid effects are great the splashes are all made of right angles and pixel-shaped. Also, Sgt. Calhoun's comically grimdark backstory is actually pretty creepy when you think about how when King Candy got eaten by a cybug it formed a horrifying cross between the two of them, which means that when her wedding got crashed and her fiance got eaten she then had to kill a horribly mutated cybug version of the man she had been just about to marry. It's just such a great movie, it's like Disney and Pixar switched places when nobody was looking.
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