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kinmik posted:In Desolation of Smaug, why was Thorin totally willing to leave Bofur behind in Laketown? "He overslept, leave him. We can afford it." No you loving can't! You'd think he'd want every able-bodied dwarf with him in the mountain, looking for the keyhole and whatnot. I thought it was more they were on a time table and had no idea how long it would take to get to the entrance?
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KoB posted:The "falling out" was Magneto being arrested for assassinating the Kennedy. If Magneto didnt come back trying to kill her they probably would have made up. I saw it that when she was captuired and tortured she fully realized Magneto was right and after she escaped rescued him.
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May 27, 2014 17:37
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JediTalentAgent posted:I still think they should have used Magik in there, maybe. Her character already has time travel powers and teleportation powers, too. A major subplot in Last Stand was Kitty and Bobby having a sort of relationship, and Rogue being jealous. We also know that she got her powers back since the cure does not work permanently.
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May 30, 2014 17:01
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Pneub posted:They only sent her brain back because she was the only one that Prof. X hadn't trained to fight off psychic attacks in the past yet, it didn't have anything to do with her powers. They probably would've sent someone else if they could get away with it. They also had a choice of wolverine, storm, colossus, Franklin Richards, or kitty
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May 31, 2014 03:30
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DrBouvenstein posted:It's not the shark, it's Roy Scheider's wife. Its all explained in the novelization of the movie - The shark may be acting under the influence of a vengeful voodoo witch doctor.
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You also forgot how the fist kill in Revenge it seems like the shark set it up so he could lure Dead Meat Brody out to the dock. What an awful movie.
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Jun 30, 2014 21:58
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Jay 2K Winger posted:IIRC, Neville himself wasn't actually in the house at the time. Neville's parents were Aurors-- basically the Ministry of Magic's Dark Wizard Hunters-- and fairly well-known ones at that. The Longbottoms' torture didn't happen the same time as Voldemort going to kill Harry, it happened afterward, before all the Death Eaters went to ground. The Death Eaters tortured Neville's folks because they could, as one last "gently caress you" to the Ministry of Magic. They were torturing them to find out where Voldemort was. They did not know about the prophecy.
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Aug 1, 2014 16:56
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Slim Killington posted:Guardians of the Galaxy was excellent but there's a scene in which two characters get stuck floating out in space and it's terrible. I can't even imagine how an entire team of people thought an audience would just suspend that much disbelief, and even then, it's so poorly done and awkward that we cringed for its entire duration. I can't believe it made it off the development table. Aliens
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Aug 1, 2014 19:54
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WeAreTheRomans posted:I mean, people like Tarantino and Sorkin do this too, but they don't write retarded nerd poo poo like Kevin Smith so people actually like it. What do you call the Superman speech in Kill Bill?
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Aug 13, 2014 22:48
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Morpheus posted:So much for spider-hyphen-sense I guess. Does not apply to bricks.
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Aug 18, 2014 19:44
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The reason that Marvel become back was due to the shared universe concept. That there would be panels in Spider-man that had Thor flying by. At Marvel there were crossovers almost from the beginning. You also had the little boxes saying this happened in issue _ of ___. It was completely different than DC.
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Aug 20, 2014 16:55
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Dissapointed Owl posted:I can't stand they have her save the teacher. What bullshit. You mean like in the book in which she survives?
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Sep 4, 2014 15:06
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Section 9 posted:You're not really wrong, but 1 and 3 were very different from 2 (and the later ones were all very different from 1-3.) I won't nerd out about details because this isn't the thread for it. But yeah, they did get a lot of the mythology of Silent Hill wrong in the movie, but when is the last time you saw a movie based on a franchise with a small nerd fan base that was absolutely faithful to the source material and was successful? Sin city
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Sep 13, 2014 08:31
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My Lovely Horse posted:12 Monkeys didn't mess around with changing timelines or anything at least. They come out right at the start and say "the virus happened and there's no way to undo it, all we can do is gather info so we can maybe fix things going forward." Then it turned out that what happened always happened.
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Sep 15, 2014 15:18
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My Lovely Horse posted:What's more is that sending Cole back didn't turn out to be the epidemic's triggering factor after all. Things would have happened just the same without him. It's a rare time travel story that not only is upfront with "you can't change the past" but actually goes through with it as well. And, of course, when Cole does start getting the idea that he could make a change, it's his death warrant. There is also the simple fact that Cole always saw himself die. He also was the cause for the phone call that made everyone think that the group did it.
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Sep 15, 2014 15:37
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Dr_Amazing posted:In Winter Soldier, Captain America has a small drive with vital information on it. He decides the best place to hide it is in full view in a vending machine in a room he knows enemy agents are sure to go into. And that's assuming some random person doesn't see it and try to buy it for a dollar. I saw it as he had no choice but to do that. He knew he could not carry it with him so he placed it in the nearest place that had some security.
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Sep 17, 2014 05:12
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Dr_Amazing posted:He could have at least put it on top or under the machine. At least it's a little less likely a random nurse will buy it. A janitor could have gotten it. He also shoved it behind a bunch of gum, and he went back for it like an hour later. I thought it was first the ships being launched, then the algorithm to load, and finally they could kill everyone. bobkatt013 has a new favorite as of 17:01 on Sep 17, 2014 |
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I also saw it as Burke is at his wits end and trying anything to get an alien. She is really not that smart. Its also obvious that Waland-Yutani is not that smart.
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Sep 24, 2014 02:39
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Al this Alien talk is making me want to rewatch the complete series. Thank you thread.
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Sep 24, 2014 16:14
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50 Foot Ant posted:Godzilla 98 got us a revenge eye-loving with Ang Lee's The Hulk. He would have been a bigger threat to Godzilla if he was just driving a car. You do know the original movie had very little Godzilla and it was mostly about the scientists?
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Sep 26, 2014 04:42
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sulphix posted:Oh you can gently caress yourself right now good sir. Sabertooth was not looking for Wolverine he was looking for Rogue. He helped build Cerebro I just assumed he a small one.
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Sep 26, 2014 18:03
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sulphix posted:And it was about a billion times more interesting than the Alien sequels about aliens. You seriously think Prometheus is more interesting and a better movie than Aliens?
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Sep 26, 2014 20:03
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Byzantine posted:G-98 isn't better than 2014, but they average out to be pretty close. '98 doesn't have the pure awesome scenes 2014's Godzilla does, but it also doesn't flounder about with kids\families\Deep Human Drama\OHNOADOGISINPERIL Instead it flounders with Matthew Brodrick's stupid romance and other "human" drama but done in a lovely lovely way.
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Sep 27, 2014 00:13
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Then the family drama with Godzilla's kids
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Trailers can never be misleading https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SvqEIKP4t8
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Sep 29, 2014 20:15
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Tiggum posted:This reminds me of the TV series Rome. I couldn't watch more than one episode of that just because of how wrong it was (and I'm hardly an expert, so the stuff I noticed was pretty egregious). And that period of Roman history has so much going on that would make for great TV, you don't need to make these massive and arbitrary changes. What where the things as they did have historical advisers on the show? They might have changed some things but that was just the nature of a tv show.
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Sep 30, 2014 06:19
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Tiggum posted:Like I said, I only watched the first episode and I'm not an expert, but the biggest stuff that jumped out at me was Octavian being in it at all at that stage and his mother being just completely wrong in every way. The incident in the first episode was based off a historical event it just took place in a later campaign. He could also have visited Caesar when he was in gaul. Historically we know nothing about his mother, and they decided to combine her with a couple of other characters. bobkatt013 has a new favorite as of 06:41 on Sep 30, 2014 |
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theironjef posted:Just the Sisko, whose dedication to a 500 year old sport is incredible. I love that the rules of baseball survived an apocalypse,a cultural dead period, and a eugenics war unchanged. Or maybe they didn't and he's just a weird 20th century purist (who am I kidding, every major character is a weird 20th century afficionado, even the aliens and the robots). Kim did not what wheels are.
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Oct 1, 2014 21:08
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Trent posted:Stupid as it may be, it was an explained plot point that Soong intentionally made Data "roboty" and autistic. He cannot say contractions because he was made that way. Not understanding idioms is like the unrealistic skin and eyes - Soong could do all those things, and did, just not with Data. The robot that can do all those things was evil. That gets me to one of many problems I had with Nemesis. Why did they put B4 together? The last time they did that the result was Lore and he wanted to kill everyone.
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Dr_Amazing posted:More complaining about star trek. No one ever wear any sort of protective equipment. Just those spandex suits. Beaming into an unknown ship: no space suit. A ship they know is on fire: no protection or air source. No armor or even a helmet when they're going into a fight. Not true 
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Oct 6, 2014 16:11
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Cage posted:I cant think of any movies specifically, and its not done all that much anymore but I hate, hate sped up footage to make something look faster than it is. Like a car chase. Like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ooy4VtKCVNo
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Oct 8, 2014 15:29
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Dr Scoofles posted:I watched one of the 300 films the other, day. The one with Eva Green in it. I became irrationally irritated by Greeks who would constantly and dramatically remove their helmets in the midst of battle. Never mind historial realism (because that would be dumb as gently caress to even try) but several times during that film we're treated to drawn out slow mo scenes of swords and arrows glancing off of helmets. The film is telling us how super important helmets are in the 300 universe and yet every five minutes the protagonist tears his off so he can glower at some distant enemy. I'm pretty sure in one scene he puts his helmet on, jumps into battle and pulls it off again all within the space of a few minutes. Why even bother putting it on? The movie also had the secret weapon be a horse in a navel battle. Its stupidly ridiculous like everything else in that film.
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muscles like this? posted:Something that bugs me about the 300 sequel is that in the first movie there was the whole thing about Leonidas and crew proving that Xerxes wasn't actually a god and was just a normal guy. Then in the sequel there's a whole scene where you learn that no, Xerxes isn't just some normal guy considering he bathed in a magic pool of water that made him gigantic. I thought that was all propaganda by the greeks side making him larger than life. It was shown that Ava Green was the real power behind the crown, and he was just her puppet.
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Shai-Hulud posted:DC just can't handle how loving dumb comic books are and desperately tries to be gritty and realistic. I'm really curious how far they are taking this. Will someone finally get his arm ripped off like in every DC comic in the last year? The made all the amazons in to rapists and baby killers.
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Aleph Null posted:
Funny enough other than that its the best Wonder Women run they have had in years.
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Inzombiac posted:Later on Detective Lance knows that Canary is his daughter, is dating Oliver and talks to Arrow and Canary several times in full light with the hood up and the small mask AND STILL CAN'T PIECE IT TOGETHER. Hell, even Laurel gets within six inches of Canary's face and can't tell it's her sister. The Lance family is inhabited of exclusively retarded people. No wonder the mom left when she got the chance. They hint he knows but just does not admit it. It the same as Jim Gordon.
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Lagomorphic posted:Yeah Donal Logue is the only reason I'm still watching Gotham. Also I am irrationally irritated that they made the murder of the Waynes into a big conspiracy that they have to solve rather than a random street crime. It just fucks up the mythology. They sort of hinted the League of Assassins was behind it in Batman Begins, as Ra says something along the lines that the Waynes were ruining their plans.
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Oct 31, 2014 04:27
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Lamprey Cannon posted:In Batman Returns, the Penguin implants a device on the underside of the Batmobile that allows him to control it remotely. So, Batman is trapped inside while Penguin's on his joyride, figures out that there's something on the car that shouldn't be there, then punches through the floor of the car in order to get to it. This is the Batmobile. It is bulletproof, crash-proof, explosion-proof, but you can just bash your way through the floor like it's an ancient rusty pickup truck? Its the goddamn Batman!
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My Lovely Horse posted:By the lack of Batman saying "okay, you're right, we'll have to think of something else, it's gonna be much harder but we'll find something." When it comes down to it, going too far saves the day. It was more we have no other choice then to use this now, and then I will blow it up since it can be easily abused.
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mind the walrus posted:The show on the other hand literally would not survive if it weren't the only big-budget "no frills" zombie apocalypse show on TV. Yes that's the only reason why its the highest rated show on cable.
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