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Jerusalem posted:I hate whenever characters refer to somebody by their relationship. I always called my sister "sis." Unless she'd pissed me off or something; then the real name came out. Like with parents only using your middle name if you done hosed up. It is a thing people do in real life, so it doesn't bother me unless it's unusually exaggerated or awkward: "Bubba" or "Bro" sound easy and common place enough, but going full out with the "big brother" sounds awkward unless the character is using the full term because they want to emphasize the relationship to get something they want. "Hey, big brother, you know what? I could really use your help; do you think you could give your little sister a hand?" might not sound strange because she's clearly using her familiar relationship to try and get something.
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Buzkashi posted:I'm a dumb nerd so I made a thing to express my issue with the time travel in Days of Future Past: This reminds me of the end of Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated, where at the end they've reset the timeline so everything that was touched by the big-bad never happened. Universally everything is better, to the point that Shaggy, for example, is an award winning amateur chef, and his parents are proud of him, and Daphne is the most successful of her sisters (in some vague way). But this really just bums them out because these are not their lives.
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muscles like this? posted:Their song is also at odds to the rest of the movie. Like they make a thing about how there aren't really any bad people, except of course Hans. Also the weird part where Kristoff tells them Anna is engaged and they say "eh, just go after her anyway." And yet, their advice is the ticket to saving the day; it's just misdirected. "People make bad choices when they're mad or scared or stressed" is literally describing Elsa, and "throw a little love their way and [things will turn out their best or something I don't actually remember the whole lyric]" is a silly but literal way of describing how Anna saves the day. marshmallow creep has a new favorite as of 02:03 on Jul 14, 2014 |
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I knew how baby making worked about three years before I learned Santa Claus wasn't real. Like telling a kid they're adopted, demystifying the process early doesn't hurt.
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Inzombiac posted:Hawkeye is the comedic relief, right? 
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Jul 27, 2014 22:14
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I think part of it is the average schmo can think "Man, if I just got lucky enough, or worked hard enough, or was smart enough, I could be one of those guys" when they think of Iron Man or Captain America. Since they started as baseline humans, they're relatable; they're achievable in some remote way. With mutants, you are or you aren't. You can't hope to have what they have, ever, which makes them intolerable. It reminds me of the quote by Steinbeck: “Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” Normal people in the Marvel universe see themselves as Tony Stark without a suit and Johnny Storm waiting on his cosmic radiation exposure, just waiting for their moment to come. The reality that they will almost certainly never be super powered makes no more difference to them than the fact that they will never be rich; the fact that it's possible at all makes it okay. marshmallow creep has a new favorite as of 03:32 on Aug 5, 2014 |
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HopperUK posted:I bet there was a test audience screening without the voiceover, and people complained they didn't understand. I heard the same thing about the ending to Silent Hill and it's awful voice over.
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Aug 18, 2014 00:31
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BiggerBoat posted:I like Nolan's movies. Am I not cool now? You never were, sorry. 
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Aug 18, 2014 20:08
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Well master auteur Uwe Boll did say that you can't have a good character if he doesn't have super powers. Good advice.
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Aug 19, 2014 15:47
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I love that movie and Karl Urban is the man.
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Aug 26, 2014 17:39
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Henchman of Santa posted:Were all of the one-liners supposed to be delivered horribly? Was I supposed to be laughing with the writers when the camera zooms up to him after he throws Mama to her death (in one of the most anti-climactic action movie endings ever) and he just says "Yeah."? Throwing her off the balcony is a gambit. He says "yeah" because his suspicions that the bomb wouldn't go off when she hit the pavement were confirmed. Her slo-mo death is a cool call-back to the intro with her brutal murder that brought Dredd to the scene in the first place. They also emphasize that even when she's going to die, Mama doesn't really care. It was thematically appropriate and, sorry, also cool. How do you expect one liners to be delivered? Because they seemed spot on for me given his personality and the tone of the film. marshmallow creep has a new favorite as of 03:50 on Aug 27, 2014 |
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Aug 27, 2014 03:48
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Knew exactly what song you meant before I even started the video.
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ducttape posted:Robocop remake. When the company was testing Robocop vs. literal robot cop in the hostage scenario, the tester kept saying that Robocop would only be allowed in the states if he beat the machines. Wouldn't they have accomplished their goal of 'repeal anti-robot police laws' easier if they could have pointed out that robot cop was better than Robocop? I understand the dilemma, but people were less worried about effective policing than they were paranoid about machines having the power of life and death. They weren't trying to sell a cop with really expensive prosthetics; they wanted to sell the idea of a person who was as good as robots thanks to their technology as a way of showing how effective the robot part is while still being a human--they need both; he has to be a person to open the door to America's hearts, and he has to be as good as the robots to show how effective the product is at its job. If he wasn't as good as what was already in use all around the world, he reflects poorly on the regular robots, making them less appealing and damaging their case to repeal the law. Then they overbuild him and make him better because, again, we want to believe the human part makes the difference, so if Robocop can beat the regular robots, maybe the robots aren't so bad because humans are still fundamentally better!? That the human element is a lie at that point doesn't matter; it's marketing. They're initially appealing to an irrational belief that a human has to be at the helm, and when they overcome that and everyone has a taste of what the tech can do, the marketing department can blitz how everything Robocop does can be done without needing to put a real cop in harm's way, appealing the warm fuzzy desire of cops home safe with their families and avoiding unnecessary tragedies, thus leading to the repeal.
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Apparently he used to be one of the 4 horsemen. So it's a sequel to Meet Joe Black.
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Sep 27, 2014 20:01
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And in the book at least, they mention that assassins had been dogging them Dany's entire life, though it's possible that was entirely Viserys's paranoia. There wasn't a politically good time for Dorne to back her up, and they were constantly moving trying avoid being murdered anyway so finding them was a fool's errand.
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Gargamel Gibson posted:Why did the Predator kill Poncho? Dude was seriously wounded and completely helpless. But he had a gun!
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WickedHate posted:It's been awhile since I saw it, was he injured by the Predator? That'd be finishing a kill. You wouldn't leave a deer limping away if your shot didn't kill them. As I recall, he was injured by one of their own traps during a big fight with the predator--his ribs were busted by a log or something.
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I have not seen TDKR, but I'm starting to think I should just so I can understand what people mean by things like "the Bane voice." I get the feeling it's going to be a joke/complaint for a while.
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Yeah, Arrow is pure campy drama and you watch it for the same reason you watch something like Walking Dead--minus the gore.
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Oct 24, 2014 04:40
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Also in the manga the love interest becomes an "antenna" that will continue to reset time for the bad guys but doesn't know exactly if she's the culprit or the hero is, so they have to fight each other to the death. Which is (partly?) why the title was "All You Need is Kill." Personally I think the physical connection with the blood makes things a lot clearer to the viewer.
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Not to mention that only one of them is using a gun that's good for anything more than a few dozen feet, and there's a drat snowstorm at all times.
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Len posted:Didn't the second Jurassic Park book have a chameleon dinosaur? It isn't like ridiculous hybrids are too far fetched. I read the original Jurassic Park novel something like eight times in the fifth grade alone, and I could not get more than a handful of chapters into the second book; it would not surprise me.
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bobkatt013 posted:Professor X's reaction to the box office and critical acclaim this year. Professor X why you do that to Star Lord? 
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Trent posted:CSIs breaking down doors with a pistol while uniformed and sometimes SWAT geared guys wait to see if the coast is clear. "It's okay, guys; I know how CQB works: I play a lot of SWAT 4 while I wait for tissue cultures in the lab."
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I turn on the subtitles for everything I watch, so I would prefer if the subtitles merely became the Russian equivalent instead of just <speaks Russian>.
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We you said it yourself: they want living flesh.  After you're dead they stop eating you.
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When I was a kid watching TV, the bits of that movie that they showed in highlight reels and TV Guide channel commercials made it seem indistinguishable from movies like Commando (Hell yeah, they're blowing stuff up! And it smells like victory! That's cool; I want to be cool like him!), so if your only exposure to it was stuff like that, which cut out all the meditative and unpleasant bits, then yeah, I can see where you'd get the idea.
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Tora! Tora! Tora! posted:Yeah, that bugged the crap outta me too. It was just too forced. How long as Einstein been a household name? I mean he'd been famous for decades in scientific communities, sure, but I do not personally know when he became a name that everyone instantly recognizes and holds up as the definition of smart guy. Coulson (and the writers) may have just wanted to avoid guessing that altogether. edit: according to the "Jewish Virtual Library," the answer to my question is 1919. marshmallow creep has a new favorite as of 20:24 on Dec 24, 2014 |
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Phanatic posted:Or where Innocent Guy is framed for a crime, and in the course of clearing his name he commits a whole shitload of actual crimes, and then at the end of the movie he proves he was framed for the one crime he didn't commit and he gets to go home. See _Shooter_, for example, where Marky Mark assaults a bunch of cops, wrecks a bunch of poo poo, and kills soldiers but then he gets to go home because he proves he didn't assassinate the guy he was wanted for assassinating in the first place. Isn't that how it works? If you prove you're innocent of one crime, you're innocent of all crimes. That's just logic!
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Well, free negroes did exist in the south, and have since the 17th century, but how fortuitous that the designated villains happen upon just such a group of people! As I recall, it's really just trying to play up the British as villains by having them do bad things to "free" people, essentially ignoring how many thousands and thousands of slaves the British freed during and immediately after the war. Honestly I find that more distasteful. It's basically saying "you can safely ignore all the brutality we inflicted on hundreds of thousands of people because you can feel comforted by the fact that some blacks were legally free (though they often were legally limited by the precursors to Jim Crow laws that we're not going to talk about); those guys over there are the real bad guys!"
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Aaah, yeah. My mother absolutely loves that show, and so does every woman in the office in her age group, and he's the big reason.
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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.
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Pook Good Mook posted:I'd like to see the Canadian film about the US invasion of Canada. Ha! I'd heard about the lunatic Irish Americans that tried to hold Ontario hostage so Britain would free Ireland, but I hadn't heard of that!
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mng posted:Sooo, you like potatoes, huh? The classic Irish dilemma: To eat the potato or wait for it to ferment.
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Non Serviam posted:My girlfriend insisted that Sherlock was great (she's, thankfully, not into the fandom or any of the actors) so I gave it a shot. Have you gotten to the Hound of the Baskervilles episode? Like you, I liked the first episode, and the dynamic between Benedict and Martin kept me watching for a while, but that was the point where I couldn't handle it anymore.
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How do you know he's breaking the movie's rule when he's getting an infusion of new super brain time blood, which means room for a new rule!?
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Even when people don't have guns pointed at them they stumble over days. My wife is really bad about this; it'll be Thursday and she'll either think it's Friday already or still Wednesday. Now he's got a gun pointed at him, he's flustered, and bits of what he thinks the guy wants are coming at him. Does the guy want the day of the month? Does he mean the day of the week?
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Midnight Raider posted:I agree it's not exactly a perfect allegory, but a lot of bigoted people do find such minorities threatening in some way. I still know of people in the modern day, in non-southern states even, who'll avoid black people in broad daylight out of fear that they're criminals, unironically think Jewish people control everything, and of course feel threatened by homosexuals, either that they'll get them, or generally sow some kind of discord in family values forever. I remember seeing a study (though I wasn't able to actually read it because it was behind a pay-wall) that talked about how a certain percentage of white Americans attribute "superhuman" abilities to blacks that lead to overreactions because of fear they'll be overpowered. A white person will respond with greater fear or greater violence against a black person for a perceived threat than a person of another race because he may literally believe that if he doesn't the black person will be too tough or too strong or too violent to beat, and so overwhelming force is necessary. edit: "Superhumanization bias" of blacks was what I was thinking of. Here.
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Midnight Raider posted:I think I recall this being basically how the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen ended. The villain gets plugged right in the back while fleeing to his escape sub, of all things, by a heroic character, which definitely felt like an uncommon end for a movie. If all you want out of a League of Extraordinary Gentleman movie is "cross-over fanfiction of older literary figures" then the movie is dumb but serviceable. But if you're expecting what you got in the comic, then it doesn't deliver. I can't think of a single character between the two that was recognizable.
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mind the walrus posted:To be fair there is such a thing as taking analysis too far and just being masturbatory-- hey CineD!-- but this sure as hell ain't at that level. Honestly forgot what subforum I was looking at until you posted this.
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