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In Mad Max: Fury Road, there's a lovely SPOILERS IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THIS THING fakeout where Splendid (the pregnant preferred concubine of Immortan Joe) looks like she's about to die as she clings to the side of the war rig. Turns out she's fine. Then, a second later, she slips and falls to her death. It was only watching it again yesterday that I realised that she slipped because of the blood from where Max had shot her earlier. It was lovely. Obviously the fakeout is lovely, but there's that added element that just made me point at the screen for a while like a simple man.
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YET MORE ENDGAME I'm pretty sure that Foggy from Daredevil shows up briefly. In the scene where Cap is having the support group meeting, I'm sure that one of the actors is the guy who played Foggy. Then again, I'm also pretty sure that I briefly saw Juggernaut walking about in the New Asgard bit, before Hulk and Rocket turned up to Thor's hall, so there's a chance that I've just been drinking too much antifreeze.
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My Lovely Horse posted:Endgame I really, really like that
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oldpainless posted:Predator 2: He’s coming to town with a few days to kill More like olddutchless
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Beachcomber posted:I hope you both know that "old painless" is literally an og Predator reference. piss rear end and butts. On all counts.
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A friend once said that he had never seen Muppet Christmas Carol, and didn't plan to, because "it's just A Christmas Carol, but with Muppets. What's the point?" From that day on I knew not to trust him
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mojo1701a posted:
Sucks to hear that Myers is a doofus, but I will defend to my dying breath that "Basil Exposition" is a loving perfect name for that character in that film. Just the sound of it - never mind the joke - is satisfying in a way that approaches "Alan Partridge" levels of excellence.
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Every now and again I get in a weird mood and make up names of Southern American types who are really into BBQ. Collected in a thread here, if anyone wants to know what a British guy thinks Americans call their kids: https://twitter.com/Brainmage/status/1099971719945773057
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Phy posted:That's a pretty pro click you got there pilgrim  Why thank you, Ashford Belwether. Good luck in the lobster-baking competition!
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[Brad Pitt, looking at this thread]: What the gently caress?
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I was at the London premiere of Baby Driver, which meant I was in the same room as the handsome Don Draper man AND Danny DeVito at the same time. Film can do no wrong on that basis alone.
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Tall Tale Teller posted:Beetlejuice TheKennedys posted:Beetlejuice MichiganCubbie posted:Beetlejuice
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"Jenkins. Bring me a knotted rope with a hole in it and some lard from the galley. Poppa's just seen a hot piece of wrasse."
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:A very subtle movie moment, the title of Gattaca uses only the letters a t c and g, also the chemicals that make up DNA 🧬. https://twitter.com/tarasyoung/status/1233387022343118853
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I watched Terminator years after watching T2, so it never really hit me how utterly loving *horrified* Sarah Connor is when she sees the terminator for the first time in T2. That lady had been through some poo poo (I know this isn't a subtle thing and is basically the point but hush okay)
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I re-watched Lego Batman last night. It remains an utterly charming film (and a legit good Batman story), but one thing I really liked was that they cast Billy Dee Williams as Two-Face. Williams was Harvey Dent in the Tim Burton Batman films. This got me thinking about how loving rad a black Two-Face would be. The duality of "we must work with the system to fix the system" and "gently caress the system, look at how it's treated us" would be a legit fascinating take on the character.
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oldpainless posted:He found a way More like oldgeneless
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Speng' fuel can't melt evil peeps
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Am I right in thinking that it's pretty much the same plot as Hard Boiled, as well?
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This took too long for something that looks this bad (in b4 turn on yr monitor)
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The best bit in that movie was the young Bruce Wayne sliding down a pole to leave his treehouse. The rest I could take or leave.
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Tumble posted:Weyland is [...] a [...] somewhat irresponsible corporation Lmao
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I went to a match at the Oval last year because a friend had spare hospitality tickets. I spent the entire day sitting in the sun drinking free booze and couldn't tell you a god drat thing about what happened, beyond the occasional *thwock* noise and a smattering of applause.
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James Woods posted:I was rewatching Die Hard again yesterday and remembered a detail that I missed for years. Throughout the film several characters are seen humming or singing to themselves. Whenever a hero is doing this the tune is Bing Crosby and when it's a villain its Beethoven. This theme carries over into the non diagetic music as well in key climactic scenes. When the terrorists finally break into the vault Ode to Joy i's played and in the finale Let it Snow carries the film out. This is a great half hour video about the use of music in Die Hard. Well worth a watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7SKt6cfH44
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I watched it for the first time the other day because of this thread! Searle's "What do you SEE??" was a nice that all is super not well while also being legit surprising that he stayed behind to help rather than going full bonko
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Least subtle film in all of Christendom, but in Crank 2 there's a flashback where a young Chev Chelios is being interviewed on a Jerry Springer type program called "The Luke Canard Show", which in fairly sure is supposed to sound like a geezer saying "the lookin ard show".
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BiggerBoat posted:Wifes...uh...find a way. "Wife finds a lay" - the tag line of the cuckold porn Jurassic Park spinoff
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BioEnchanted posted:The whole movie is completely unsubtle but there is a small dialog thing in Death Becomes Her that I love. Towards the end, when Bruce Willis is offered the potion of eternal life, the woman offering it uses a faulty metaphor - to Meryl Streep her spiel is all "gently caress the rules of nature you are better than them!" but to Bruce she phrases his career and this potential decision as "You are Don Quixote, tilting at life's windmills." It's fitting because he's the only one who doesn't take it, realising the futility of eternal life. He recognises that trying to avoid death is Quixotic and decides not to, instead fully embracing what is left of his existence, doing as much with his remaining 40 years as he can, while Meryl and goldie Hawn are trapped in a permanent limbo literally having to cover each others asses for eternity. It was only last year that I realised that the title was a play on words. Like. Something looking becoming on someone. I'm a fuckin idiot
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Here is a lovely essay about Muppet Christmas Carol that I think fits the theme of the thread https://www.brightwalldarkroom.com/...hristmas-carol/
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HopperUK posted:Paywalled hard, got past my antipaywall extension even. But just from the title, they are correct, it's the best Christmas Carol adaptation by far. I think Gonzo as Dickens really sells it - they can bring in a lot of the original language and it helps. That's so weird! I had the "please give me money" pop-up and just dismissed it. They absolutely talk about having Dickens as a character though, and how that reflects the original text.
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He may have been well off, but his motivations were sound. I imagine he's not the only modern father who's daughter's boyfriend had a web-presence that he didn't care for.
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Jedit posted:Why accident or luck? A lot of nerds will have spent a lot of time trying to make the cool thing in the Gibson book real. https://twitter.com/AlexBlechman/status/1457842724128833538
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I got to go to the London premiere of Baby Driver. It was grand, and felt kinda like watching a videogame, complete with a "boss battle" in the parking lot in the end. Plus Danny Devito was there, and even just being in the same room as him loving rules on a quite fundamental level.
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Can confirm that Ghostwatch is a good time. Saw Knives Onion: A Glass Out Mystery yesterday, and there's a bit where the main cast are administered a plot-magic anti covid spray to their mouth. This makes everyone gag with the exception of Benoit Blanc, who just kinda shrugs it off. I assumed that was a nod to him being cool as a cucumber, but given that we later see him living with Hugh Grant, who is presumably his lover, it's probably fair to assume that Blanc solved the greatest mystery of all: the gag reflex.
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I think it's neat that in the original run of The Boys, Hewie's look was based on Simon Pegg, a largely unknown British comedy actor from a small show called Spaced. Now he's Mr Big Famous, and they had him play Hewie's dad in the Amazon series of The Boys as a wee nod to that. Also, to continue the Terminator chat, I absolutely love the first time we see Sarah Connor in T2 compared to how we see her in the first one. Going from riding a moped in soft light with her hair waving behind her to being a sweat-drenched maniac doing pullups in a locked cell. Brilliant bit of "oh poo poo" contrast that really sells the passage of time.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:If "Bad to the Bone" and the sunglasses bit didn't happen, I could see the case for it trying to be ambiguous. I'm sure that's what Cameron wanted but if he was in charge of those editing decisions, he hosed it up himself. Watching T2 before Terminator meant it took a few years to realise the impact of Sarah seeing the T-800 round a corner for the first time. As a kid I thought "Well yeah, she's scared", but watching them both as an adult with fresh eyes really drove home the "Oh poo poo, yeah, she is a broken woman, and the very literal source of all her nightmares - the thing that ruined her life in unimaginable ways - has just turned up". I recently saw a Terminator/RoboCop double bill at the cinema on 35mm film, which was rad as hell, but my god did it ever hammer home my want for more Terminator in the style of Terminator. T2 was amazing, and redefined action movies for at least two decades, but Terminator was horror. It was a slasher! An extended chase sequence! That's since been pushed to one side in favour of bombast and spectacle (though the first half hour of Dark Fate nudged towards that). What I really want is a short film anthology with a focus on the horror. An Animatrix, but Terminator. A T800 being sent too far back and being treated by medieval peasants as a demon talked about in hushed tones. Skynet miscalculating and dropping one in the ocean in the 1700s, and accidentally inventing a sea monster, all metal skeleton caked with barnacles and coral, dragging itself up anchor chains to board unsuspecting boats. Hell, flip it, and have a T800 with a head injury sufficient to render it arguably human, trying to blend in and live a life amongst the survivors in the future war, desperately afraid of being found out.
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Every now and again I stare into space washing for a Muppets Bond film. Dominic Cooper as James Bond. Miss Moneypiggy. Kermit M Frog. Beaker and Dr Bunsen HoneyQ. Sam the Eagle as Felix Fleiter. All working to take down the agents of G.O.N.Z.O., who have hatched a plan to steal all the world's chickens. Their volcano base is obviously modelled on Gonzo's face, where the nose straightens out to form an airstrip. Bond has to meet a fellow agent, working under cover as a Swedish chef. Unbeknownst to Bond, however, there is a rat in the organisation... (it's Rizzo). Also Statler and Waldorf are civil servant penny pinchers raking Bond over the coals for how much he's costing MI5. "Your last caper nearly destroyed a whole tube line! You could have ruined a key piece of public infrastructure!" "Yeah, and that's the government's job!" "Ooohhhhohohoho" ...maybe I should just write the screenplay and then ambush Disney execs/whoever owns the Bond copyright.
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HopperUK posted:I like that Gonzo at the end saying "Tiny Tim - who did NOT die - " is also right from the book. One of the least human opinions I've ever heard was a guy I know saying "Why would I watch Muppet Christmas Carol? It's just A Christmas Carol but with muppets" and, like, jesus christ
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