Captain Monkey posted:

My favorite story about this is a bunch of scientists put up bird nets to catch and count small birds, like you do, but they'd come back and the nets would be empty. So they set up cameras, and sure enough they were catching little birds, but then deer would walk by and just start chomping down on the helpless birds when they figured out that they couldn't get away.

Cacafuego posted:

Hey, that sounds like:
- Gilmore Girls
- any dialogue for the “witty” child actor
- Big Bang theory (note: this doesn’t apply to the “hiring good actors that come dangerously close to making the lines work”)
- etc

MariusLecter posted:

Would have thought a successful slave revolt spurred by the plantation massacre would do that.

e;
but really, in either case Jimmy is still a loving rear end in a top hat.

Olaf The Stout posted:

He won a Pulitzer for specifically writing about movies.

ElBrak posted:

Nah. Go watch the movie.

jojoinnit posted:

I've never seen the film but it sounds like there should have also been a "walk this way" gag.

Memento posted:

When Marty goes back to 1885, he chooses to go by the name Clint Eastwood. He then steals a train and drives it into the ravine, which the townsfolk named Eastwood Ravine, assuming he had died there. It was named Clayton ravine, after the school mistress whose horse spooked and ran into it, but she was saved by Doc Brown at the start of BttF 3.

The Sexual Shiite posted:

“Texas # 1!â€

DandyLion posted:

Artsy answer: Southland Tales 2

Krankenstyle posted:

Kingdom of Heaven

im gonna use the actors names cause otherwise: newly anointed knight orlando bloom arrives in jerusalem and meets the local king edwad norton. they talk about god and jerusalem and justice and the king impresses on the knight that he (the king) is a leper and he shouldnt touch him. so when the knight bloom leaves, he steps on a toy, and he picks it up and he fixes the spear on the toy.

the spear penetrated his foot, and his foot had leprosy in it from the leper king. he killed the prince of jerusalem before he even met him.

Ghost Leviathan posted:

There's something fun about them being based on tommy guns.

Sci-fi weapons can have a surprising amount of personality when done right. Star Wars definitely comes to mind, all that World War surplus with random bits stuck onto it.

Imagined posted:

I would posit that pizza is an exception to Sturgeon's Law. Even the most garbage American public school lunch-tier frozen pizza is at least edible, which is better than "crud".

But still, it's a well known phenomenon that humans remember the hits and forget the misses. "Bands today aren't as good as Led Zeppelin", well yeah, but they're better than loving... Starland Vocal Band. Or Bread.

Imagined posted:

And I'm sure that's an argument I was sincerely making about something I totally believe.

flavor.flv posted:

That's the point

Android Apocalypse posted:

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

To be fair "Death becomes him/her" is a super oldfashioned phrase. John Ford used it in his 1633 play "'Tis Pity She's a Whore"

Pope Corky the IX posted:

My favorite part of Series 7 is how often the narrator describes the events unfolding incorrectly to create more drama and we're all so used to reality television that we don't even notice it. Like when the guy is holding his kid in one hand and a gun in the other, and you hear "...contestant has exited the car holding a gun to his own child's head..." when that's not what's happening.

freeedr posted:

Kevin was right all along for sure and I’m glad he pulled some king poo poo just to enjoy his own pizza to himself in the quiet for once

Memento posted:

Krispy Wafer posted:

Well he had that stage where he looked like he was riding the dragon every day, but maybe he was just playing a lot of WoW.

In other Home Alone news, the actor that played Buzz is just as bad in real life:

https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/12/23/actor-who-played-home-alone-brother-arrested-in-oklahoma/

Imagined posted:

I now know that if there actually were a zombie outbreak, about 30% of the population would slather themselves in BBQ sauce and run straight at the horde while yelling about how they refuse to live in fear.

spookykid posted:

In 3:10 to Yuma, Russel Crowe's character Ben Wade talks about green eyes and how much he loves them several times in the first half of the movie, and both his nemesis Dan Evans (Christian Bale) and the second-in-command of his gang Charlie Prince (Ben Foster) have green eyes.

Aphrodite posted:

I’m Quebec it’s fine because the DMV also sells alcohol.


(you won’t get that if you,don’t live here, sorry.)

Alhazred posted:

Also, apparently Isabeau of Bavaria having her nipples pierced is historically accurate.

Kuiperdolin posted:

The funniest is the one when Carrouges confronts the Duke about not getting his father's position. In his version, it cuts right to him in bed telling his wife how eloquent he'd been. In Le Gris's, it's a gibbering screed, literally inarticulate in places, and the closest thing to a point he makes is how long he waited for his father to die lol.

Man Ridley Scott can really make movies when he bothers to put in the once a decade or so.