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Esroc posted:On re-watching Firefly I noticed it had some of the worst gunfights in recent memory. Film and TV show gunfights are always hilarious. No one uses cover properly, no one ever has to reload, and the bad guys are always conveniently terrible shots. Hell, there was a scene with Zoe going into some kind of roll down a hallway crowded with guys shooting at her. Not only do they miss the person doing a hedgehog impersonation right in front of them, they wait patiently as she stands up and unloads a clip into all of them. This reminded me of the biggest reason I can't bring myself to enjoy Person of Interest despite it having a pretty cool premise (well, this and the unlikable main characters): Every episode has like three instances of the bad guys holding a good guy at gunpoint...and then standing there menacingly for like a full 5 seconds until another good guy shoots them. It happens in all kinds of movies and TV shows and it always drives me nuts but it's so prevalent in PoI specifically that it's the first thing I think about whenever I think of that show. If you have to build suspense like that, at least throw in a line about the bad guys needing to take the good guys alive for whatever reason, or make it so the audience sees the bad guy before the main character, or just anything at all on earth other than the bad guy pulling a gun and then zoning out until backup arrives.
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The guys in RIPD know for a fact that there is an afterlife and seem perfectly okay erasing the bad guys from existence anyway, is the point he's making. I don't know how this is evading y'all. In the reality RIPD is set in, there is explicitly an afterlife, and the main characters are aware of this, and are destroying the enemies' souls anyway, which is a different situation than other movies/real life, where the existence of an afterlife is not explicitly confirmed and known to the heroes.
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Jun 11, 2014 16:54
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Gaunab posted:Some show(Archer I think) made fun of that. There was an episode of the Simpsons where the Army was running a wargame in which the objective was to capture Homer. Homer hides out at Moe's Bar, where Moe assures him that nothing the Army does will convince him to betray Homer. So then they do the thing CJacobs was complaining about : "Hey, some things mean more to me than money..." [cut to Moe receiving a huge stack of cash from the general hunting Homer] "Like a whole lot of money!" To which the general asks, "Why did you just say that sentence fragment?"
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Jun 20, 2014 05:35
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I just remembered, apropos of nothing at all, that the Mark Wahlberg movie Four Brothers had a scene where the good guys were defending their house from a bunch of bad guys shooting at them from the outside. This scene had a bad guy leave cover to reload. Look at this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCYBYZDrmWk&t=72s He stays behind the cover of the car as he's firing, and then as soon as his magazine is empty and he's completely defenseless, he gets out from behind the car and starts calmly strolling towards the house out in the open while reloading. I was watching this movie on cable and I just changed the channel when I saw that. I mean, I love all those cheesy over-the-top action movies with like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jason Statham and poo poo so I don't need everything to be completely tactically sound and realistic or whatever to enjoy it, but this is just plain stupid.
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Jul 2, 2014 16:17
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WoodrowSkillson posted:Seems like he should know that freezing a human body means that when it thaws it literally falls apart since the cells burst I haven't read the book since middle school almost 10 years ago so I may be remembering wrong but I recall him addressing this. And by "address it" I mean he just kinda says "Normally being thawed destroys the body's cells, but for some mysterious reason we don't understand it doesn't happen to zombies v  v" and moves on.
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Jul 8, 2014 18:29
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Yeah, there's some kind of magic ward that as long as the Night's Watch mans the Wall, white walkers can't pass through it. This is confirmed when (I haven't seen season 4 yet so I don't know if this has happened in the show or not) Coldhands can only escort Bran and company to the Wall, not through it. As for the wildlings, I think it would just be hard, verging on impossible, to bring tens or hundreds of thousands of people and enough food to feed them all across a sea, when there's a hostile force with fortified positions not far away, and then if they do make it they're suddenly sandwiched between the lords of the North at their front and the Night's Watch at their back.
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Jul 13, 2014 00:00
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CJacobs posted:By Max Payne 2 he's back on the force as a detective so obviously it didn't stick v Well, he did have the Illuminati promising him that the charges wouldn't stick right before he attacks Aesir. That's a pretty good ace up your sleeve 
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Jul 28, 2014 03:40
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I always thought that the fact that the terminators' skin allowed them to travel back through time was basically a happy accident. Didn't they say that the whole reason they have all the living tissue and such is to fool the humans so the terminators can infiltrate resistance groups? Presumably they've been doing that throughout the war, before any time travel became necessary. And I know they said the whole reason the machines were sent back in time was because the humans were storming Skynet's base and were moments away from victory. So I think it just panicked, realized that the terminator's living tissue might get them through the time portal, and quickly shoved a few of them through before the humans won entirely, without the time to whip up some skin-sheathes for the gun.
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Sep 16, 2014 17:20
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Kalos posted:In one of the many thousands of terrible Star Wars books, they attempt to explain this by saying the Rebels specifically outfit themselves with heavy blasters designed to punch through the standard-issue Stormtrooper armor. Why the Stormtroopers don't just wear wood or doors is still unknown. An explanation I liked well enough (though I haven't read any EU stuff since I was like 12 so I don't remember if it was an "official" source or just a fan theory) was that the stormtroopers are supposed to be more of a fascist police force/peacekeepers than a regular army--since the Empire controls the whole galaxy so there aren't any external threats--and as such their armor is more akin to police riot gear than military combat armor. So it's more designed to protect from smaller, civilian-grade weapons and things like rioters throwing bricks and Molotovs than to keep the wearer alive in heavy combat. Since the rebels were the first organized military resistance to the Empire, they were caught completely off-guard and ill-equipped to deal with it. It makes a certain amount of sense, I mean even in the real world anything bigger than a handgun will punch right through a police officer's "bulletproof" vest. Punished Chuck has a new favorite as of 15:41 on Oct 9, 2014 |
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Oct 9, 2014 15:36
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Van Dis posted:I wonder what language that happens in. It's not the Arabic, which is Egyptian Arabic and kinda funny for it because the closest Arabic speakers would be in Iran and Iraq, which have significantly different dialects than Egyptian. But the movie goes out of its way to say that the militia group member are from all over and speak many languages, so the distinction is accounted for. I'm not 100% sure but I read somewhere that it's Urdu.
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Dec 15, 2014 18:21
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Elfface posted:Which one had the cyber-cops chase a criminal down in a digital world, tackle him and this somehow makes him give up and start talking, instead of just logging out? First one was definitely CSI: New York. I think the second was NCIS again but I'm not 100%
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Dec 25, 2014 02:54
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CJacobs posted:It's really god drat hard to find the CSI New York Second Life cyberchase (the episode is called Down the Rabbit Hole); at some point they must have realized that it's mother loving ridiculous, so they've tried really really hard to scrub it from the internet. Ah, dammit, you're right, I went to the Cracked article that had all this stuff and the video they linked was removed for  copyright purposesAs a consolation prize, have this even stupider scene from the same show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU
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Dec 25, 2014 03:16
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Arrath posted:Capitalism! The military-industrial complex! I thought the bombings weren't so much set up as much as people with Extremis were already exploding and the bombing story was just to cover up Extremis's flaws, so that he could get the government contracts without them saying "woah, we don't want something that makes our soldiers blow up"? I was a little bummed that the Mandarin turned out how he did, just because it means they never followed up on the hints from the first movie, with the terrorists who kidnapped Stark belonging to the "Ten Rings" organization.
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Feb 23, 2015 23:41
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I thought I read somewhere Quidditch being completely nonsensical was intentional, and it's intended as a parody of cricket or some other English sport with bizarre complex rules that goes on forever. Same with the wizards' dumbass money system with its Knuts and Sickles and poo poo, that was meant to parody the British monetary system before they divided the pound neatly into 100 pence. I don't know, I'm not familiar enough with English culture to say for sure, that's just what I've heard.
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Feb 26, 2015 22:00
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Krinkle posted:Later on in the trailer there's a icecream man and everybody's gotta shoot him too because look at that mouth! 
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Jun 24, 2015 07:00
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The thing that always gets me about that scene is, why is Aragorn having them draw their bows and then waiting for the Uruk-hai to get into range? Why have your soldiers tire their drawing arms like that and then get surprised when someone in your army composed in large part of any random person you can desperately get your hands on can't hold it?
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Jun 25, 2015 16:44
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Inspector Gesicht posted:They never did do anything with Muggle relations. Wizard Hitler's on the loose but everyone without magic is kept in the dark. I'm pretty sure I remember a line in one of the later books where the Ministry of Magic and the Prime Minister of Britain are actually in contact and aware of each other, and the MoM sent the PM a warning about Voldemort in case he becomes powerful enough to threaten all of Britain but wanted to try and take care of him themselves so they could keep up the facade that the wizarding world doesn't exist.
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Dec 2, 2015 01:34
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I'm almost certain the FYAD title was made up just to piss off the people that poo poo their pants over spoilers, and then just coincidentally happened to be true. Triticum Guzzler posted a spoiler that was similar but expanded on Twitter at about the same time for the same reason, but got one detail wrong enough that it's clear he wasn't going off a leaked script or anything. Then after the movie release he replied to it in shock at how close he got it.
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Dec 30, 2015 23:18
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I knew the Magnificent 7 remake was going to be garbage as soon as I saw this article where everyone involved in the movie desperately claimed it wasn't actually a remake of The Magnificent 7: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-magnificent-seven-denzel-washington-remake-toronto-premiere-20160908-snap-story.htmlquote:Noting that the number of film titles out there was as circumscribed as the number of baby names, he said, “If I have a son named Chad, is he a remake? I mean, I'm not going to name him Schnarp." The whole thing gave me an overwhelming vibe of "holy crap this movie sucks, let's try and distance it from the extremely good original so people won't notice so much."
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