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mng posted:Me too. Or when you can see people actually getting fatigued. HBO shows in general are really good with their fight scenes. Two shows that I can think of immediately are the Sopranos and Boardwalk Empire. The fights are short, brutal and usually end up with someone dead. And even the survivors usually have wounds that are apparent through the rest of the season, if not the series.
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Kruller posted:Okay now explain the scene in the Dark Knight where Bruce uses a cannon on a rail to shoot bricks. What the gently caress was that supposed to prove? If you had a cannon, you wouldn't shoot things, like bricks, and pretend it was part of your job?
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"Hey Lucius, watch this!" BANG BANG BANG "...and what was that supposed to prove, Mr. Wayne?" "gently caress YOU I'M BATMAN"
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Cowslips Warren posted:...but I saw it worse in poo poo like The Patriot, where, so we like the main characters, who are usually white people, who have modern views on poo poo like slavery, like they might HAVE slaves but they teach them to read and pay them and etc. They made it even worse in that movie by having the slaves insist to the British soldiers, "We're not slaves, we're freedmen! We choose to work this land!" Really? In the southern part of the colonies in the 18th century? gently caress you.
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Byzantine posted:Slavery was legal and practiced in all of the colonies in the 1700s, it wasn't just a Southern thing yet. I'm well aware of that, I was pointing out that the movie being set in South Carolina makes that idea even more ludicrous. If it were Massachusetts, maybe you could buy that there were a few enlightened folks that felt "Sure it's legal, but I'm not comfortable owning a person" even in the 1700s.
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Byzantine posted:Georgia banned slavery until 1749, while New York City hanged ~100 slaves in 1741 for an alleged conspiracy to burn the city down. I understand you're not trying to attack me, but at the same time, I was talking about South Carolina and Massachusetts, not Georgia and New York. Lotish has the idea I was really going for, which was that they made the British cartoonishly evil (locking the entire town inside of a church and then burning it down) while portraying the colonists as these wonderfully progressive people.
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Lotish posted:I think I'd like to see a movie about the American Revolution made by someone who was neither British nor American and in fact disliked both countries equally. France
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But does he know the magic word?
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Jan 22, 2015 18:06
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AFewBricksShy posted:I think the one movie that manages to break the "Narration is lovely" rule is Goodfellas. Ray Liotta's narration is one of my favorite parts of that movie. Most Scorsese narration is not only done well but absolutely necessary considering the sheer amount of information that needs to be conveyed. His usual 2.5 hour films would be even longer if he chose to show all of that, rather than tell.
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Feb 10, 2015 15:22
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Alhazred posted:I really like the narration in Casino. Joe Pesci's narration stops mid sentence as he is suddenly killed That particular narration was wonderful because up until that point you're lead to believe that DeNiro, Pesci and Vincent's characters all survived the events of the movie in order to tell this story
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Feb 10, 2015 16:16
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Is her loving name Moneypenny?
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Canemacar posted:I liked the time Batman used the guy's own tech against him to download the martial arts abilities of Stephen Hawking into his brain. Please tell me you didn't just make that up.
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TheFallenEvincar posted:I googled out of curiousity and uhhhhh That is loving hysterical, I love it.
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Jerusalem posted:Apparently they did a screening at a Wall Street firm and the stockbrokers CHEERED during the scene where Belfort tears open a cushion to get at a stash of cocaine, buries his face in it and snorts it up. That's a scene that follows (from memory) his wife telling him she's leaving him and taking the kids with her, and is clearly meant to show the guy at his lowest point, retreating into the childish, hedonistic activities of his youth because he can't face up to reality sober. And they cheered it And Belfort's response to his wife declaring that she's leaving is to put his daughter in the car with him, lock the doors while the wife and housekeeper are screaming and crying, then drive backwards at top speed through the garage door and into a brick wall. And people still cheered.
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Regarding the season four episode "Box Cutter" of Breaking Bad: Once they put Victor's body in a drum of, I'm assuming, hydrofluoric acid, they load it onto a truck. While the truck itself is labeled correctly, (UN1760, 8, which is Corrosive Liquid, n.o.s.) the drum itself has a weird yellow triangle label that reads "Corrosive 2" which is incorrect in a ridiculous number of ways. I'm curious as to how they got one part so right and the other so absurdly wrong. Maybe this is just the ranting of someone that's spent the last ten years in hazmat.
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Mar 12, 2015 01:45
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Anosmoman posted:Why would it matter to them if the labelling was correct? When I dispose of bodies in drums of acid I just slap a random "danger" sticker on it to discourage people from opening it. If they do open it to test the contents they'll notice the sticker is wrong no matter what the sticker is because the government don't issue any hydrofluoric acid + corpse stickers. Proper labelling would deter any DOT inspectors that may stop the truck along it's route to the disposal site. My irrationally irritating moment is the fact that the labeling on the truck was 100% accurate while the labeling on the drum was 100% inaccurate.
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aerion111 posted:Aren't there proper 'bio-hazard' labels where you come from? That's half of what I was getting at. In-universe, it's weird that they'd call attention to the drum in the event of the truck being pulled over (and trucks displaying DOT hazard placards get pulled over constantly) by using a pathetically incorrect label. In terms of the show, again, it's weird that they went out of their way to have the truck placard be 100% correct and the drum label be 100% incorrect.
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Arrath posted:Maybe they didn't go out of their way to get a correct truck and just called up an actual hazmat transport company and asked to use one of their trucks in a scene. Then loaded up their props dept supplied barrel and there you go. I mean, maybe some intern dug through DOT regs to come up with all the right placards and signs for the truck and then decided to look at some porn when it came to the barrel, but it could be more mundane than that. Trust me, I know my complaint is the epitome of the title of this thread.
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Mar 12, 2015 23:02
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Jerusalem posted:He's the office clown, he always makes those noises when he puts on those outfits, even though nobody laughed the first time he did it. Police Academy suddenly makes so much more sense.
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Okay, at the beginning of Jurassic Park Sam Neill is explaining to a skeptical group of people his reasoning for postulating that dinosaurs have more in common with modern birds than with reptiles. He goes through two or three examples, one of them being the pubic bone turned backward, and then he ends with "Even the word 'raptor' means 'bird of prey'" which makes NO loving sense. Human beings decided to name that species of dinosaur "raptor" how the hell would that prove that they're related to birds?
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Mar 19, 2015 21:20
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I thought the whole point was that the theory of dinosaurs and birds being related, rather than reptiles, was fairly new at the time. Weren't raptors discovered and named back in the 20s? EDIT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velociraptor "This name is derived from the Latin words velox ('swift') and raptor ('robber' or 'plunderer') and refers to the animal's cursorial nature and carnivorous diet."
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Kugyou no Tenshi posted:So in other words, not only was his explanation shaky, its premise was wrong because "raptor" doesn't mean "bird of prey" unless you're using it to refer to birds of prey. Exactly. So even dumber than I originally thought.
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Inzombiac posted:But... who made the robots? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ptlkw49o-54
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:I remember being kinda disappointed when I cleared puberty and the only mutant power I got was IBS. I can pick my nose with my thumb
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Does Sasha Baron Cohen always play handicapped villainous authority figures in kids movies?
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Jun 8, 2016 10:41
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Lotish posted:I thought the Cell book was okay, though it kind of ends on a wet fart. You could say that about most of King's output over the last twenty years. Oh, and they usually include a writer that's been hit by a van. Sometimes even King himself!
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Jun 11, 2016 15:46
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Gaunab posted:I had no idea Zooey Deschanel was in that movie. Really? Half the movie is her reaction shots as her eyes get bigger and bigger.
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Jun 15, 2016 11:52
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"...on a stack of pancakes" is really that common of a phrase?
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Jun 16, 2016 18:18
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Try waffles next time
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I haven't seen the second one yet, but I've heard a lot of people complaining that it's APRIL & CASEY with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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I want to watch movies with your dad
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Does your dad have a Facebook?
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Jun 30, 2016 17:47
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Ask Drunken Baker's dad
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You know Postlewaith's character would have had a lot more screen time if Lost World were made prior to Schindler's List.
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Tiggum posted:That's definitely a thing in Law & Order; defence lawyers are all evil/amoral scum trying to help criminals get away with their crimes, because the cops are never wrong and the trial is just some bullshit hoops you have to jump through to see justice done. Prosecutors are fine though, as long as they agree with the police 100% of the time. If they start talking about how they can't win this case because there's not enough evidence or the police did something wrong then they're almost as bad as the defence lawyers. Earlier seasons of L&O were much better at portraying this sort of thing. There's a fourth season episode with James Earl Jones as a defense lawyer for a white supremacist and the cops are taken to task several times for moving forward on circumstantial evidence and conducting a witch hunt, to the point that the dude is released on lower bail.
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Patattack posted:With the huge success of Deadpool, I could totally see DC trying to get a Lobo movie off the ground to capitalize on the "R-rated tongue-in-cheek anti-hero violent action comedy" market. The question is, who could play him? Didn't DC recently overhaul Lobo to be a skinny attractive goth dude?
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OldTennisCourt posted:The most insane was in Sweet Home Alabama where the male lead is a tremendous shithead who refused to sign divorce papers AFTER BEING ESTRANGED FOR 7 loving YEARS. (This is another pet peeve, same thing in Twister, it never comes across as romantic, it's a massively lovely thing to do) and her fiance is a rich dude who legit loves her, but gently caress that this guy's some hick douche who ~might make something of himself~ As someone that went through this exact same thing (two years, but still) I will never understand how this could possibly be seen as romantic.
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Why not a guy that throws guns really good?
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muscles like this? posted:I think a lot of problems with Prison Break's post-season 1 plotting is just because they never really expected to get more than one season. I think the same exact thing happened with Heroes and a bunch of other "Really good for that first season, but then what the gently caress?" shows.
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