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I want to fight each and every one of you. But let's take our shirts off first, it's manlier that way.
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I'm not sure that's how proper swordfighting goes, better re-read the last five pages.
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Jul 10, 2015 09:13
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Pilchenstein posted:But she's the fastest ship in the fleet! I have my doubts that a pornographic shirt would be a better pilot than Porkins.
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Jul 14, 2015 08:46
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ElGroucho posted:I like the part where they kill off spend full episodes on side characters whose storyline goes nowhere This, without the subtle irony. They should have had more episodes focusing on side characters as they do mundane stuff while main characters run around yelling KATE and JACK and WALT. edit: In hindsight, it's kind of disappointing that LOST never went into space. Imagine if Jack found a ladder on the island. A ladder that went straight to the Other's space station. A magic space station. Grendels Dad has a new favorite as of 09:26 on Jul 17, 2015 |
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Jul 17, 2015 09:24
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Gaunab posted:I find that using superman as a stand in for jesus is pretty stupid and way obvious, especially in the BvS trailer. It's only obvious because Superman Returns hit you over the head JesusJesusJesus.
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Jul 18, 2015 09:50
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sharktamer posted:There are no films more overrated than the Nolan batman series, especially the dark knight. They're just dumb comic book films (taking themselves way too seriously), not high art. OK.
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Jul 18, 2015 15:43
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I like most things about most Zack Snyder movies, but the final fight between Ozy and Night Owl and Rorschach fell kinda flat for me. In the comic it was very simple and very brutal for it, there was just no way these two guys were a match for Adrian "Manners" Veidt. In the movie they all just turned into Spartans. I guess it was also meant to tip off the slower people in the audience that Veidt was the one who killed the Comedian because the way he fought.
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Jul 19, 2015 10:07
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Jedit posted:It was basically the same ending: humanity persuaded to work together by the appearance of an antipathetic outside force. Which you prefer probably depends on whether you think the Russians were more likely to cooperate with America in the face of a rogue god or a ten ton vagina dropped on Times Square. The way I remember most complaints it's that the rogue god was working for the Americans, so the Russians would carry a grudge about that. Which I don't agree with. Manhatten's rampage would have served as a big fat piece of humble pie for Nixon, and nobody needed to eat humble pie more than him.
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Jul 19, 2015 10:14
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Jedit posted:Yes, but the Russians were being held in check by fear of Manhattan. The question is, would they back down because America suddenly lost its deterrent? To my understanding, the fundamental problem of the Cold War was that these two superpowers were caught in a game of empty posturing. Basically, Ozy's scheme caused America to blink first, the idea being that once the tension was relieved both sides would realize what a stupid conflict it was to begin with. Of course this doesn't hold up if Russia really was interested in conquering the world.
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Jul 19, 2015 10:36
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Henchman of Santa posted:That's part of what made the scene so bad. Leonard Cohen's voice is the anti-aphrodisiac. At least Tom Waits never did a version he could use. The point of the scene was that these two people can't have sex without their latex-costumes, a boner-killing song fits right in with that. Unless you're into that kind of kink, I guess.
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Jul 20, 2015 15:34
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TheFallenEvincar posted:I'd rather not have any Nazi fetishism in my movies whether it's blonde Aryan seductresses or just getting off on fighting Nazis. If you close your eyes hard enough and stick your fingers in your ears it's like Nazi will have never existed, man.
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Jul 20, 2015 20:36
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TheFallenEvincar posted:I have a really irrational dislike of Nazis. It's the thread. Disliking Nazis isn't irrational. Refusing to watch any movie that contains Nazis in any way, shape or form, is.
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Jul 20, 2015 20:42
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FreudianSlippers posted:I can understand people being a bit sceptical about the Predator pussy connection but saying that just because it's a dumb monster movie it can't also be smart is pretty dumb. A lot of seemingly dumb movies are pretty drat smart. I can give these people the vagina connection, because that'd be a pretty hosed-up vagina. But to handwave the hyper-masculinity as "it's just a dumb action movie yo" is just incredibly dumb.
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Jul 21, 2015 08:49
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Pidmon posted:You mean like every car crash in every movie ever? Good guys survive, bad guys explode. If you can suspend the cartoon logic of 'lead lined = no rads'... If I see a man climb out of a car that just fell down the Grand Canyon I might frown a little.
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Jul 21, 2015 12:26
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Jedit posted:Thelma and Louise had a happy ending in this man's world. They would have lived if they had jumped off that cliff in a fridge.
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Jul 21, 2015 18:34
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Zaphod42 posted:When you compare it to the Mariachi trilogy its night and day; its hard to imagine its the same director. I guess Tarantino and Rodriguez need to be separated like in Grindhouse, together they just add up to too much or something. I keep forgetting Once Upon a Time in Mexico exists. I only vaguely remember the movie, but I think I was irrationally irritated that the movie kind of tried to be a sequel to Desperado, which I loved as a kid. I think I need to watch it again, see if it's as bad as I remember.
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Jul 23, 2015 16:16
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I am hesitant about re-watching any of Rodriguez' movies that I loved as a kid, because after two decades of exposure to his less than stellar work I am afraid I will only see all the same flaws in Desperado et al. that I just glossed over because HOLY poo poo, DUAL MACHINE GUN GUITAR CASE!
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Jul 24, 2015 08:48
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sticklefifer posted:Being irritated at the sheer lack of emergency security/evacuation failsafes and procedures in that movie is in no way irrational, but I'm gonna You would think that "We don't want to have our pants sued off of our asses and/or don't need the bad press" would be a strong enough motivation for companies to enforce regulations and safety precautions and whatnot. But then you have stuff like Sea World and its love for homicidal whales because they draw money.
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Jul 26, 2015 14:48
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about it here anyway. Even if only to protect itself from liability, corporate would enforce that poo poo to the nines.
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KoB posted:I saw Antman over the weekend and when Rudd and Lily were working out/training montage there was a quick frame where Lily was pretty ripped and I was surprised they would have a female lead be that muscular but quickly realized that it was just that quick scene and must have been a stunt double. Haven't seen Ant Man so I cannot comment on her rippedness there, but wasn't Lily a fitness model before she became an actress? She's pretty buff in most of Lost, anyway.
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Jul 28, 2015 10:14
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Inco posted:Evangeline Lilly was a model showing off nerd poo poo on The Electric Playground before being an actress. I imagine having to fend off nerds after these presentation demands a lot of fitness, I stand by my assumption.
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Jul 29, 2015 08:54
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I like Taskmaster but often think his powers are the most tragically useless powers one could have, because they are useless against anybody stronger than Daredevil. Imagine him trying to use his powers on the Hulk.
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Jul 29, 2015 10:45
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Anosmoman posted:I still don't get why the machines didn't just use goats or cows or whatever. Even if a goat figures out something fishy is going on it'll still have a hard time orchestrating a rebellion. Humans once created the machines and the machines wanted to maintain some kind of relationship with their creators, even if it's a creepy one. Maybe there even are machines that think they are doing the humans a favor? Basically, machines are goons.
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Jul 30, 2015 09:04
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Desk Lamp posted:All I know is I'd much rather live in The Matrix posting on the Internet and not in the apocalyptic poo poo hole that is the real world being hunted by humongous murderbots. Made it kind of hard to support Morpheus' mission. If you're in the Matrix, you basically post on the Internet all the time. And everything you see, hear and feel is Internet posts. Makes you think.
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Jul 30, 2015 10:34
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BigPaddy posted:Problem is that in the Animatrix you see the machines specifically experimenting on humans to create the matrix. While the idea of them thinking they are helping in an iRobot kind of way is interesting the interactions between machines and Neo would lead me to believe that. Why would the Architect antagonist Neo when explaining the whole scheme if it was about sustaining their creators rather than a gently caress you need power scenario? Bigger picture, man. The machines could be interested in the preservation of the human race but still be annoyed with having to deal with individual humans' poo poo. I read the Architect of being mostly tired of explaining this thing to Neos over and over again. Similarly, the people we see experimented on in the Animatrix short to create the Matrix are just the eggs that needed breaking to make the omelet. It's all for the Greater Good.
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Jul 31, 2015 09:04
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WeAreTheRomans posted:Skynet always loses, Judgement Day is inevitable Fixed.
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Aug 4, 2015 12:58
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Gaunab posted:It's started to bug me whenever someone says a bible verse and then another person quotes the entire passage. Jesus Christ, this. I've read the Bible, I teach religious education. But if you come at me with a random Bible verse I might recognize that it is indeed a Bible verse, and little else. Being able to tell which exact verse it is, and then being able to quote the entire drat passage to boot, makes these people look like hardcore fundamentalists.
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Aug 9, 2015 13:07
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Half the usernames on this page would make bitching cool Jaeger names. And the other half has potential if you just randomly mix and match the names.
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EmmyOk posted:I was hoping one of them would have a normal name, "This is Cherno Alpha a brutal war machine, this is the great Crimson Typhoon, and this is Jeremy" Jeremy... Omega Killfox. This Jaeger's so badass it got three names.
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Aug 11, 2015 23:25
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My IIMM with Desperado is when Antonio's band mates show up and wreck poo poo and then die. Those two guys were really cool but then kind of died like chumps and Antonio did not care at all.
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Aug 12, 2015 11:47
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1redflag posted:This also annoyed me. particularly since they seem like such badasses, and then are killed by the first group of bad guys they encounter It was a little disappointing because Banderas' character made such a big deal about how he can't call his friends, they would destroy the city. They did gently caress up that armored car pretty good. That movie has so many badass characters who you feel die too quickly simply because you want to see more of them. Danny Trejo's character is another such example, I wanted to see him throw-knifing fools for hours.
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Aug 13, 2015 00:02
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Jedit posted:Which is why the real irritating bit is when he says "We are Groot". Groot's race speak a highly complex language which as I recall is semi-telepathic, but human ears can only interpret anything said in it as "I am Groot". By adding "We are Groot" to the dialogue, they changed Groot from an intelligent creature beyond human understanding to a dumb plant with a three word vocabulary. Or he perfectly understands the primitive many-words-language the barbarians around him speak and chose that moment to lower himself to their level as a sign of affection.
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Aug 28, 2015 09:55
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Biplane posted:In the first Thor movie, it opens with a shot of Tønsberg, Norway ca 900 AD where we were apparently invaded by frost giants until Odin and his crew showed up. Immediately after this we are shown Thor and Loki as children, so they were not a part of Odins gang at the start. But Thor and Loki have by that point been established as norse gods for well over a thousand years Odin heard about those myths and thought "Hey those are neat names, I'll name my son and foster son that! What harm could it possibly do?"
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Sep 14, 2015 14:10
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Len posted:It's a world where humanity designed giant bipedal robots to fight sea monsters. Making super choppers is probably baby town frolics. They should have just used those choppers to lift the monsters out of the sea and drop them into a volcano.
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Sep 15, 2015 11:36
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Dr_Amazing posted:The real actor is the guy who stands at the front counter of MacDonalds everyday and tries to convince hundreds of people he's happy to see them. Totally fearless. While I do have enormous respect for the actors and other people working in the film industry, yeah this. Whenever I hear actors talk about some gruelling challenge I just think "Millions of dollars, millions of dollars, millions of dollars."
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Sep 16, 2015 09:48
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Kurtofan posted:Actors couldn't even get Christian funerals, because they were considered bad apples. Even high profile actors like Moliere couldn't get a decent burial, they only managed to discretely bury him in the lot reserved for unbaptized infants. edit: wtf wrong thread sorry
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Sep 18, 2015 10:48
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Funky See Funky Do posted:The end of The Cube is the dumbest laziest piece of bullshit and it completely ruins an otherwise entertaining movie. Somehow he just finds his way to the right room despite sucking at math and not being able to do the permutations in his head. Somehow nobody heard the hatch opening and isn't it lucky for psycho cop that dickface had his stupid existential moment right when they were home free. "Durr hurr, Im a movie writer I write for movies durrrrr we can't not do the you think the bad guy is dead but he comes back at the last moment thing durrrrr lets just put it in there despite it being completely balls to the wall absurd durr give me money to write movie words durrrrrr". In his meltdown earlier in the movie the cop said that he would be able to survive in the Cube on his own, I just took the ending to mean that he was right. He was pretty messed up though, both physically and mentally so I always imagined that he just rampaged his way through any traps.
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Sep 18, 2015 13:00
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Zaphod42 posted:Eh, not sure that's really a "big reveal", don't some of the characters guess that's what is going on pretty drat early in the film? I think they did, and that's what irrationally irritated me about it. Because of course the characters in the sequel have to figure out the truth quicker and more thoroughly than the characters in the first movie because the audience already knows. Then the third movie starts with the Cube's janitors and everything turns even shittier.
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Sep 18, 2015 16:41
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Gromit posted:On the subject of phone conversations, is it normal for people in the US to just hang up on their friends and family without saying goodbye? This seems really rude to me, but it's incredibly rare for anyone to say goodbye when they are on the phone on TV and in movies so for all I know that's standard practice. It also seems to be an universal rule that if you make an appointment or set up a date over the phone in a movie, you can only specify the time or the place, but never both. It's either "I'll meet you in an hour" or "I'll meet you at the library." Often it's neither.
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Sep 29, 2015 09:05
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toxicsunset posted:Go ahead, look at your phone, look at the average length of a phone call, even supposedly short ones. I bet they're at least 5 minutes long. I guess I'm just being efficient in a very German way, but most of my phone calls last about a minute and a half. And I even say stuff like "bye".
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Grimlook posted:Hahahha first appearance in Starwars IV: a new hope I vaguely remember something about Lucas telling Fisher that "there are no bras in space" when explaining her costume to her.
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