Ms Boods posted:

Don't get me started on Gladiator, although it never fails to crack me up that one of Russell Crowensius's choices of head-covering helmets just before his debut at the Coliseum is the Sutton Hoo helmet! (ie a dude from c.AD 180 Rome having a choice of wearing the ceremonial burial helmet of a 7th century AD Anglo-Saxon king).

rydiafan posted:

As a child before cell phones when I was ready for a ride home after school/social events I'd call my parents collect from a phone booth and give the number as my name. They'd refuse the charges and call back.

BrigadierSensible posted:

Evan a film as jingoistic as Independence Day paid lip servioce to the idea that there are other countries apart from America with the shots at the end of the destroyed spaceships at the Sydney Oprera House etc. But Harry Potter doesn't acknowledge a world outside of twee European white people.

Panfilo posted:

I think the main thing going on with Yoda is figuring 'too little too late' by confronting the Emperor that late in the game. But he knew he had to do something.

Jedit posted:

Oliver uses a compound bow. Depending on how they're made, you can get 100lbs of draw weight with as little as a 20lb pull.

Joey Freshwater posted:

Hahaha what the gently caress is this

"Hey guys I'm gonna say something pretty offensive and kinda racist but please don't call me out on it ok?" Who's the one that needs to grow up? If you say something stupid be prepared to be called on your bullshit.

Cowslips Warren posted:

Since R+L = J is all but spelled out, what I really want to know is wtf Rhaegar's thought process was in abandoning his two kids and the wife he seemed to barely like into the hands of his insane dad. Had Rhaegar the brains of even Hodor, he would have smothered or otherwise killed Elia (who was pretty weak after birth if I remember right) and then would have been free to take another wife AND kept two of the three dragons that idiot was so obsessed about.

Inzombiac posted:

I own it after getting it for around $3. Not sure if I've seen it all the way through

Panfilo posted:

Not only that, but in Rogue One rebel ships wreck the poo poo out of AT-ATs just fine but in Empire Strikes Back they have to lasso them because their armor is too strong?

Phanatic posted:

In Under Siege, why did they bring Miss July along with the terrorists posting as a rock band? The rock band ruse was sufficient to get them on board, the stripper added nothing.

WeAreTheRomans posted:

For real, I first heard the word "fag" from the book, and it's always struck me as a deeply bizarre system. The relationship between the prefects and the younger boys seems to have this air of psychosexual sadomasochism going on. Things that make you go hmmmmmmm

Olaf The Stout posted:

Mastadon literally already did show up and no one knew.

MisterBibs posted:

Yeah, there were at least two deleted scenes that made it clear that the T-1000 was really not working well after freezing/shattering/rehealing. One had the T-1000 resting his hand on a striped handrail, only to find that he was accidentally mimicking the coloring and had a little trouble stopping himself from grabbing the thing in the first place. Other scene had John realizing his mom was the T-1000 was looking at her feet to find that everything below the knee was mimicking the metal grate under its feet.

The only part of this "the T-1000 is busted" throughline that survives into the theatrical cut is a bit where the T-1000 ripples upward once. It's still supposed to be a clue that poo poo isn't right with him, but in a void it just comes out looking like it's doing a "is everything where it needs to be" pass over itself.

The Bloop posted:

I didn't assume it was fear of Thanos or shame keeping him from coming out.

It did seem pretty clear that we weren't really supposed to understand why he wouldn't come out, and that Bruce himself didn't understand, and that we'd learn more in A4.

Alhazred posted:

Is it though? Rowling for exaple made a lot of money before Harry Potter was finished and she still managed to complete the series.

Schubalts posted:

This is me, minus the mummy being "strangely" attractive.

Samuringa posted:

There's a pretty nice technology dissonance in the whole thing, like when they show the library's computer

Len posted:

I've seen proof of T2 with actual interviews but nobody has ever been able to provide proof that From Dusk Till Dawn was ever anything except an obvious vampire movie. It's just goons going "I caught it on TV not knowing what I was watching and that twist!"

Mierenneuker posted:

Still Endgame.


She was. You see her looking around a bit, paying more attention to her surroundings than the others.

Simply Simon posted:

muscles like this! posted:

Couple of things from Detective Pikachu Tim is kind of dumb considering he doesn't put together after the bad guy reveals that Mewtwo can fuse humans and Pokemon together and he sees Mewtwo was messing with the Pikachu that his dad is in the Pikachu. The movie also has a big problem in that it is explicitly about finding what happened to Harry but it constantly goes out of the way to never show you his face in videos. Which makes it pretty obvious that he's going to be played by Ryan Reynolds.

Krispy Wafer posted:

Wait...where were they? Outside of Shield HQ? In a random park? It just occurred to me that their headquarters are a smoking pit and the surrounding landscape looks like Verdun. Were they doing time travel in a public park where old Steve Rogers could just wander in and sit on a bench undetected? WTF? Does no one have a backyard with a fence?

Krispy Wafer posted:

They're slacking on the security then. Used to be even AntMan couldn't sneak by their defenses.

Avengers getting lazy.

Pope Corky the IX posted:

Okay, the first Lethal Weapon

Riggs convinces Murtaugh to let him talk down the suicidal dude ready to jump off a building. They go back and forth and then Riggs’s crazy side comes out and he says “Do you wanna jump? Do you really wanna? Then that's just fine with me!” and he grabs his hand and they both leap off the building. The crowd screams and gasps, Murtaugh says “Aw poo poo” and the audience has no idea what to expect.

And then they land on a giant inflatable crash pad directly underneath where the guy was going to jump.

So why was it so perilous if the crash pad was there? Why did the crowd (and Murtaugh) react as though they were about to witness a double suicide? Every single part of the scene, including the actions and reactions of the characters, is set up as though the crash pad wasn’t there until it’s revealed to the audience that it was there the entire time. This has confused the poo poo out of me for decades.

Jedit posted:

Musashi devoted sections of Five Rings to discussing entanglement and controlling the opponent's blade. If he was down for it, it's probably not a bad idea in the context of Japanese sword fighting.

areyoucontagious posted:

I mean, I know it’s the IIMM thread, but the reason those sounds exist is because if they weren’t there the audience would be unnerved by the lack of sound and get pulled out of the movie. Ferrets and guns both get weird sounds because even though everyone knows better, without audio cues the audience will miss things.

Calaveron posted:

The Boys just sounds like a delightful show I will never ever watch

yeah I eat rear end posted:

mostly. My hometown's mall still has one but it's not doing great. I got my current pillow from them earlier this year and they aggressively tried to get me to buy a mattress from them even though I said I already ordered one.

also my only irritation with Ragnarok was that song from shrek 3 (not smash mouth) they played in the intro battle. It felt out of place imho, like it was some fan-made video.

BioEnchanted posted:

Not a lot of people know this, but one of their miniatures is actually a fully-staffed mini-Weta. They do all of the CGI as they tried practical effects but it was too small to see, so they switched to digital.

Joey Freshwater posted:

The only descriptor of Triss from the books was that she was pretty with auburn (or almond) hair. The game took a lot of liberties with her look and the show is based on the books so suck it up nerd

rydiafan posted:

That's obviously one of his mutations.

Krispy Wafer posted:

They made a big deal of flying actual vintage warplanes, which is nice - but they seemed to be flying them like 70 year old planes. Maybe it was super realistic, but it came across as slow and prodding.

I had an issue trying to appreciate the larger strategic picture. The film starts with Germans chasing one of the main characters and then it’s two days on a beach with no Germans. I get they held back to let the Luftwaffe finish them off, but then there weren’t a whole of Germans in the air either. It kind of felt like the beach was a whole world away, which was maybe the intent.