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The trolls in Frozen seem really at odds with the rest of the movie. They're only in two scenes necessary to drive the plot forward, but they feel pointless, as if their role could have taken by a single character like a wizard/enchantress/magical hermit or anyone else who could exposit the same lines. It doesn't help that their Fixer-Upper song is completely off-tone by having this irrelevant, silly musical number in the middle of a dire situation. It's like splicing a scene from The Producers into the middle of Downfall.
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I often wonder if Deckard really was the best man for the job, as he just barely retired Zhora and Pris, and Leon and Roy's deaths were outside his influence. Roy came off more humane as he wasn't a rapist, and his Tears in the Rain speech was so good it made you forget that he crushed a dude's head like a rotten orange with his bare hands scarcely twenty minutes prior.
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Aug 12, 2014 19:38
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If Spider-Hyphen-Man doesn't work or answer for any big crowd like SHIELD, how is he able to maintain his costume? He'd have had to spent loads of time experimenting suitable materials as well learning how to sew a skin-tight suit with an overly elaborate cosmetic-design.[/nolife]
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Aug 18, 2014 01:42
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Ways The Dark Knight Rises could have been better in hindsight:
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Oct 22, 2014 18:30
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That one moment in The Wire where Wallace and Poot break a CCTV camera by throwing a rock at it, was somehow so pivotal it features in the opening of every single episode.
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Jan 21, 2015 02:09
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One day Tom Waits will clear his throat and it'll turn out he had a normal speaking voice all these years.
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Jan 24, 2015 16:16
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There's a good 45 minutes in The Raid 2 where Rama the protagonist goes without fighting anyone. Since fighting is all he does, he can't help but disappear in the middle act of the movie.
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Jan 25, 2015 00:50
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Casino did not need to be to as long as it was. If Casino was going to have that much narration it should have been a straight documentary. I loving hated the movie because it took every aspect of Goodfellas and ramped it up to excessive levels. The only good part of the movie was the Eagleheart parody which replaces the casinos with middle-age swinger clubs.
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Feb 11, 2015 02:07
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Harry Potter got exceedingly dull after Azkaban. The last four books are too long and the POV is restricted to the least interesting character. The final book went through 400 pages of goofing-off, badly-done retcons and camping before Harry destroyed a single mcguffin, and then all the action and plot and Neville happens in the last 100 pages or so.
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Feb 26, 2015 22:51
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I can't help but notice whenever that same stock door-opening effect is used in Breaking Bad.
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Mar 4, 2015 01:49
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muscles like this? posted:HE MADE A DEAL WITH THE DEVIL AND IT WENT AWAY. This is why I hate Superhero comics.
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Apr 21, 2015 14:55
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I thought it was lame how in Guardians of the Galaxy the heroes are able to hold on to the deadly macguffin and fry the bad guy with it, and the message we get is that teamwork and resolve save the day, only for the next scene to tell us that the hero lived because of his mysterious alien ancestry. It reminds of the later, crappier Harry Potter books where we learn that the sword of Gryffindor can destroy evil Horcruxes, not because it's an heirloom that symbolises good and bravery, but because it's filled with Horcrux killing juice. I think there's a name for this brand of Fan-Wank, where symbolic stuff gets the symbolism ripped out of it for the sake of nerds.
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Apr 30, 2015 19:08
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The events of the first three novels in ASOIAF were conceived as one long book that was written from 1990 to 2000, which explains the short time between publications (1996, 1998, 2000). The problem is GRRM didn't give much consideration to how the second long book would go. This is just one of many factors as to why the rest of the series fizzles out.
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May 21, 2015 20:55
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Book Seven was lame because it finally showed how limiting it is tell this big grand story from the perspective of its least interesting character. Neville Longbottom is super-cool and heroic, banding all the students we care about together in a rebellion against an evil dictatorship, but instead we have to follow wet-blanket Harry with his messiah complex on a camping trip where he wipes his arse with leaves for 400 pages. That other wizard named Harry was never this boring.
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Jun 27, 2015 14:43
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Eh! Frank posted:The introduction to the Sherlock Holmes collection I have encourages readers to skip the section of A Study in Scarlet about the Mormons. Which really pisses me off, no professionally-written introduction to a classic novel should be loving encouraging readers to skip sections of the writing, especially if it's just because the editor finds the section offensive. Both A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the Four make the rather bad decision of cutting away from Watson and Holmes to a boring long-rear end account of the murderer's backstory, sapping all tension with this exposition being introduced at the end of the story instead of the beginning. The other two novels and short-stories are a much better introduction to Holmes and Watson.
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Aug 25, 2015 08:03
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Who's noticed the trend where in a reboot of some property they drag out the origin story out so far, that by the time we've gotten the to the premise of the story, the movie's over? They did it on Ridley Scott's lovely Robin Hood and this year's lovely Fantastic Four.
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Sep 7, 2015 07:24
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What was the point of all that exposition about that Darkseid guy in Guardians of the Galaxy? We learn all this stuff about him, green woman, and blue woman, second-hand and very little of it comes to play in the movie. I wish some stories would only tell us poo poo as it becomes relevant, and not devote screentime to a guy who has gently caress all to do for another couple movies.
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Sep 18, 2015 19:38
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It feels cheap to have some divorced-parents backstory in JW seeing as it never comes into play again. Nobody gives a gently caress about you kid or your stupid parents, we came for the dinosaurs.
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Sep 23, 2015 00:42
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A mistake of many a film is the belief that a story about an unusual character has to be filtered through the viewpoint of a milquetoast lead character. Say you're your watching a movie about a dog or a robot or somebody foreign, there'll probably be a bland white guy whom the audience is supposed to relate to. They can't simply make a movie about Pablo Escobar, they have to put in Bread Man from the Hunger Games as the lead role. They can't simply make a movie about Optimus Prime, we need to see Even Stevens stutter for an hour. I loved the last two Planet of the Apes movies, because no matter how dumb the story got, it was all held up by the incredibly likeable and tragic ape Caesar as the leading man. There was only scene in the two movies where I yelled to the screen "Get back to the loving monkeys ".
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Sep 23, 2015 01:03
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The third ending of Clue is so much more elaborate than the first two that it would have been a shame to miss it when the movie came out. The second ending where all the murders are committed by the one person is just too straight-forward.
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Sep 27, 2015 10:51
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Star Wars would be R-Rated if R2 or Chewie got subtitles.
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Oct 13, 2015 20:09
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LXG was baffling in how they couldn't get Dorian Gray right. Dorian dies when he looks at his painting, which until now was hanging in plain view in a hall in his house.
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Nov 3, 2015 23:13
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Tunicate posted:No he doesn't. At the end of the story he stabs the painting, and that's what kills him. Dorian dies by stabbing his own painting in the Oscar Wilde book. But in the LXG movie he just has to lay eyes on his painting in the climax which reduces him to dust. This same painting was in his possession on a wall in his own entrance hall. The film-makers hosed up the one thing people know about him, and never explain how he walked around his own house without disintegrating.
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Nov 4, 2015 23:37
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Watching Inside Out made me like Frozen a lot less in hind-sight. In Inside Out, the conflict is Riley's emotions being thrown out of balance when her family moves to another state. Everyone in Riley's head want's to do the best for Riley, and Riley's Joy comes to realise that she needs to work with Riley's Sadness and not reject her. There's a conflict but there's no villain. In Frozen, Queen Elsa throws herself into icy exile and the conflict involves her sister Anna trying to talk her out of it. So why do need a bad guy show up in Act 3 to get the balls rolling? Unlike most Disney villains Hans doesn't get his own song, isn't especially powerful, and is pretty much divorced from the real conflict. Barely anyone knows him all that well and he scarcely does anything in middle act. He can't help but feel disposable. What other films suffer from having a completely redundant villain?
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Nov 7, 2015 01:11
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I haven't watched Spectre, but I'll assume Bond gives an innocent crowd of people the John Landis treatment with a helicopter.
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Nov 7, 2015 09:53
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Back in the olden days Judd Apatow would gauge his test-audiences reaction to a new comedy. The scenes where people didn't laugh he'd then edit down afterwards. Nowadays any movie produced by him are in excess of two hours. There should be a law that any movie that bills itself as a comedy should not last longer than 100 minutes.
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Nov 19, 2015 14:35
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They never did do anything with Muggle relations. Wizard Hitler's on the loose but everyone without magic is kept in the dark. I really liked the Bartimaeus Trilogy instead, because it showed what it would be like if there were a magic ruling class; pompous dick-heads who get what they want, who seldom face repercussions for their actions, and who deem everyone else beneath them. The hero goes through this mindset until other people knock sense into him.
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Dec 2, 2015 01:12
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Has a goofy film ever been ruined by having an extremely dark moment so horrific you can't think bear to rewatch? That superhero comedy Mystery Men has a scene where the heroes accidentally zap with the city's most popular Superhero with a death-ray. It turns him inside-out into a misshapen lump of petrified organs in an image that loving haunts me. Non-horror movies tend to be better at scaring me because they don't try to be scary, it happens by accident.
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Dec 8, 2015 17:53
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What sports game was it that fans on the winning side left early, only to barred from coming back because the other side won in the last minute?
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Feb 27, 2016 18:34
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Playing the first Arkham game reminded why I tend to dislike Batman when they put him into the "Edgey" territory instead of the "Camp" camp. They mention off-hand how many hundreds of people have died at the hand of the Joker and Poison Ivy, and the only recourse is to put them in an easily-escapable prison. Why the gently caress is a huge mutant like Killer Croc put into an Asylum near a major city instead of a remote government facility? I find the character of Zsasz weirdly distasteful given how he's no different from real serial-killers. You can punch his lights out, sure, but you can never stop his rampages. The problem with Edgey Batman is that his world is beyond saving and that he only takes half-measures when dealing with super-villains. It's almost as if he wants to fight the Joker in every game, to the point that he hallucinates the Joker is still alive after his death. Harley Quinn is loving annoying. The Brave and the Bold is the best Batman adaptation.
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Apr 8, 2016 15:48
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Since Spiderman keeps getting rebooted and we keep having to relearn his backstory, why not have the ultimate origin film so there's to retell it : It's just Uncle Ben in his car getting shot over and over again, and he's played by a different actor every 30 seconds. Sometimes he's a different race, sometimes he's a different gender.
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Apr 9, 2016 19:55
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Where do you think we are?
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Apr 18, 2016 21:41
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bobkatt013 posted:Also gets a lot creepier with Jeffrey Jones chasing after a high school student. Or Jeffrey Jones getting into that School bus full of 8-year-olds.
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Apr 19, 2016 16:30
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Did Bond's Japanese disguise actually accomplish anything in the movie, or was it just pointless padding? I can't remember.
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May 20, 2016 23:35
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You can tell a comedy movie is going to be bad when they devote several seconds showing someone's flabbergasted reaction to something mundane. This is how you realise Spy Hard is not made by the creators of Naked Gun.
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Jun 5, 2016 08:57
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Lotish posted:I thought the Cell book was okay, though it kind of ends on a wet fart. Doesn't near every King story end the same way?
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Jun 11, 2016 15:47
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dpack_1 posted:I recently watched Gods of Egypt. http://www.theonion.com/article/leaked-documents-reveal-studio-executives-knew-abo-52989
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Jun 12, 2016 13:16
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Didn't they cut an awesome scene where Postlewaith's character saves a waitress, because they realised they made the antagonist entirely justified and more moral than the heroes?
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Jul 1, 2016 19:08
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Why is Killer Croc locked up in an criminal asylum instead of a government facilty in the stories where he's a massive super-mutant?
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Aphrodite posted:And had him kill the original one that people liked, I think. And sometimes people wonder why MCU keep making bank.
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