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muscles like this! posted:Isn't Kit Fisto part of the crew trying to arrest Sheev? Yes. Also, there are at least two other black guys in the original trilogy. How can you all forget Grizz Frix and Willrow Hood? I just spent like 20 minutes to figure out that first name. Already knew the second. 
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Wheat Loaf posted:Were remakes of 60s TV shows a big thing in the 90s? Because in the 90s, you also had The Beverly Hillbillies starring Jim Varney, The Flintstones with John Goodman and Rick Moranis, two The Addams Family movies, and I think two Brady Bunch films, and probably more. Also from roughly the same time frame, you had The Untouchables and The Fugitive as two of the higher profile ones. And a few years later, that really crappy Avengers movie.
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I’m not sure if  or not, and I know it’s referenced the first time McCoy shows up that he’d slept with previous assistants, but wasn’t Claire Kincaid the only one he had a relationship with during the course of the show? I thought it was pretty clear after that he never does anything with the others (Jamie Ross even mentions setting him up with a friend once)...
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Imagined posted:If it was the Friar Tuck from the Kevin Costner movie, absolutely would in a heartbeat. I’m just amazed Mike McShane is still alive. He looked like he was gonna have his heart attack from Office Space in real life in some of the mid-90’s British Whose Line episodes...
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Mar 8, 2020 16:08
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Jedit posted:Well, if you want irrationally irritating: the Korean War lasted from 1950 to 1953, but every one of the eleven seasons of M*A*S*H has its own Christmas episode. M*A*S*H makes no attempt to keep a consistent timeline with the actual Korean War for almost its entire run. Aside from a Christmas episode every season, I’m pretty sure they have the 1950 Chinese entry into the war more than once, well after episodes that already involved them, plus a good episode that covered all of 1951 in it, or references to generals like McArthur and Ridgeway all at random. Like, ten of the eleven seasons take place in a nebulous 1951/1952 setting (I think the opening of the pilot said it was supposed to be 1952?), and I vaguely remember that the final season kinda-sorta sticks to 1953 as they headed toward the finale. A similar example is the old World War II show Combat! It was very good for its era, being fairly grounded and following basically an American rifle platoon in France after D-Day in the pilot. The war in Europe ended 11 months later, but all 5 seasons are set in generic French villages and countryside, with few real efforts to involve the real progress of the war that I can recall. Both shows are really good and I do like them, just to be clear, but those weren’t things that seemed to be done until fairly recently.
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Mar 22, 2020 13:23
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BiggerBoat posted:I think MASH was just a thinly disguised allegory for Vietnam. Even though it was set in Korea, everyone took it as a Vietnam commentary. poo poo, when I watched it as a kid I just assumed they were Nam. Yeah, a lot of MASH is clearly meant to reflect Vietnam, since the war was still going on pretty heavily when the show started in ‘72. Over time, that faded a bit, and there are definitely some episodes that touch on it being more on the 50’s. And did they have an episode about them addressing their drinking? I know there’s one with a nurse friend of Margaret’s having severe withdrawals, and maybe one of the early episodes with Alan Alda’s dad’s character being drunk (That came to me as I typed this), but I honestly can’t remember it being ever mentioned as an issue for the main cast at all...
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God Hole posted:left the show early to try to launch a movie career (then spider man 3 happened lol) and everyone kind of blamed him afterward for killing the show (even though kutcher kinda dipped out first). I’m not sure if it was announced this way or not, but Topher Grace left the show first. Eric ran off to Africa at the end of season 7, while Ashton Kutcher still appeared as a guest in the 4 or 5 episodes of season 8. Eric was supposed to be replaced by a guy named Charlie, but... muscles like this! posted:When Topher Grace left That '70s Show they brought in a new guy who was really obviously supposed to be the new Eric. Although they ended up killing him off fairly quickly because he got a better offer on another show. At least I don’t remember Charlie being completely terrible in the handful of episodes he appeared. They other people they brought in for season 8, namely the second attempted Eric replacement, Randy, and Hyde’s wife, where just awful and it became so clear almost everybody was checked out.
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Apr 21, 2020 12:48
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Offhand & phone posting, but I think it was more of a case that not everyone actually believed it, or that it was occurring to such an extent, until they got to the camps. People knew bad stuff was happening to the Jews and others, but to what extent is something of a debate, and how much actually made it down to frontline troops is another matter. A lot of the things that actually happened in the camps had been reported in the WWI too (Babies into bonfires and whatnot), where it turned out to be false, and rumors of insane stuff were always going around. It’s not hard for soldiers to dismiss some of the rumors of the camps as exaggerated or false, until units actually found them. IIRC most accounts of units finding the camps, particularly from the Western Allied armies, pretty much had the same “  holy poo poo” reaction that they show in Band of Brothers.
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May 31, 2020 19:33
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Carthag Tuek posted:I'm sure there were some soldiers who didn't know or believe it, but it's all of them, even the officers. Including generals like Eisenhower and Patton. Until they saw the camps too, they believed some of it had to be propaganda.
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May 31, 2020 19:45
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FreudianSlippers posted:The first camps, the ones for political prisoners, opened in 1933 and weren't really a secret. Very, very different thing from what was going in camps after 1941, Wannsee, and the general state of Germany in 1945.
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May 31, 2020 19:55
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Sand Monster posted:Much less world affairs but as we saw where Bill Guarnere didn't even know his brother had been killed, having found out because the wife of a fellow soldier mentioned it in a letter to her husband, they're not even up to date on highly personal news. Or the Niland brothers, the inspiration for Saving Private Ryan. The one in the 101st wasn’t told about his brothers being reported KIA and pulled from combat for something like 3 or 4 weeks. IIRC, he first found out about two of them because he went to try and visit their units and found out they’d been killed weeks earlier on D-Day. It took a decent bit of time for the information to get to the War Department or whoever and issue his orders to go home (Compared to the movie showing it all happening by D+3 or whatever). And even then, the brother in the Pacific was actually alive and a POW, but it took till the summer of ‘45 for that news to get back. Again, it’s a much more personal, smaller level than the stuff like the extermination camps or the exact conditions of the concentration camps, but I think it helps show how much longer it took information to spread at the time. The examples from Generation Kill about J-Lo being killed (And I think there were others thrown around, but that’s easily the most memorable) show that sort of stuff in a more modern context.
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Jun 1, 2020 15:32
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Who else hit solid-gold only once in their career? Michael Cimino probably qualifies. IIRC, The Deer Hunter was the first big movie he directed, but the next one he did was Heaven’s Gate which absolutely bombs and he never does much of anything again.
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Jun 17, 2020 12:48
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Krispy Wafer posted:Can ghosts cross the Atlantic ocean? Huh, so this is how I learned Matthew Broderick killed some people.
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Jun 20, 2020 17:14
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https://youtu.be/6Sh1wNjjPpg This was pretty good.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:The Circle, in addition to being a bland, boring movie with zero likable characters, never seems to decide on what message it's trying to send. Emma Watson gets her friend killed by embracing mass surveilance and using it to stalk people...so her solution is to fight even harder for the idea that there should be no privacy? And then at the end she actually smiles and says hello at the drones that are filming her kayaking? You know, the type of thing that got her friend killed? It seems to be saying "mass surveillance is good, except when it's not". Make up your mind. The only things I remember about that movie were John Boyega have like 2 minutes of screen time and Tom Hanks dropping the f-bomb at the end getting a bigger reaction than almost anything else that was actually part of the plot. Oh, and Bill Paxton 
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Jul 11, 2020 23:38
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Gargamel Gibson posted:Which F-bomb? Phone posting, but it’s at like 3:25 of this video https://youtu.be/CDj_sgTnm-U
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Jul 12, 2020 12:46
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Krispy Wafer posted:It’s a little surprising that Harrison Ford only has 2 characters, but then again what other character are they going to use? A LEGO playset for the film Sabrina? I’d buy a LEGO Air Force One set in a loving heartbeat. Probably The Fugitive and Blade Runner too.
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Jul 21, 2020 04:47
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SneezeOfTheDecade posted:Revenge of the Sith is set 19 years before A New Hope; The Force Awakens is set 30 years after Return of the Jedi, or 34 years after A New Hope. Rey is 19 in The Force Awakens, putting her birth 15 years after A New Hope. If Palpatine - who was 63 in Revenge - hosed before he was revealed to be Darth Sidious (and thereby gained his scarring), his child would have been at least 34 years old when Rey was born, and (hopefully) no more than 79. Completely reasonable. It doesn’t matter if it’s the new movies or the old EU or whatever, Palpatine always fucks.
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Aug 13, 2020 13:41
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Barry Bluejeans posted:Jedis in modern society would absolutely be Whole Foods liberals I mean, if you use the crystal the right way, in the right tool, it’ll cure anything. 
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Captain Monkey posted:Is this sharks in Antarctica, a shark that was frozen in Antarctica but thawed due to global warming, a shake that bred with an ant, or a conglomeration of sharks formed into a colony with a queen shark? E. All of the above. 
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Aug 26, 2020 20:40
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Android Apocalypse posted:Remember when Dennis Miller was in the announcer booth for Monday Night Football? What’s funny is those two years had a few of insane, all time games when he was there. The Dolphins-Jets Monday Night Miracle, Favre to Freeman “He did what?!” in overtime. I’d rather here him make insane references to poo poo than whatever Phil Simms was doing for a decade other than saying “Jeem” a lot.
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Krispy Wafer posted:Wasn't Rush Limbaugh doing play-by-play around that same time too? It was a weird era for football. He wasn’t on an in game broadcast, he was on ESPN’s pregame show for part of one season. He’d basically have like one 5 minute segment in a 2 hour show that was supposed to be a “fans voice” sort of thing. He lasted literally only like the first month of the season before he said racist poo poo about  and got fired, after which it came out that Chris Berman and Tom Jackson (Who were the main guys on that show for 20+ years) hadn’t wanted him involved in the first place.
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rydiafan posted:I'm still angry that after 11 films we've never gotten to see a Matter and Commander style broadside in a Star Wars film. There are a few broadsides shown in the opening battle of Revenge of the Sith, and I think in some of the Clone Wars stuff as well.
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theironjef posted:In the Expanded Universe timelines, E-Wings are a ship built to replace the X-Wing. They're newer, more expensive, a little smaller, and can carry some more advanced weapons. Here's a small tour through the soup of letter-wings. Plus Rogue One added the U-wing, and the old EU had a different V-wing that showed up in the Dark Empire comic and Rogue Squadron 64 game.
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Cowslips Warren posted:2. Yes but survived somehow. There's probably a million fanfics about it. Just to add on to these two, Fett surviving the sarlacc was a thing since the early days of the old EU. Naturally, there are contradictory stories of how long he was in there or how he got out, but the basic gist of all them was he used something explosive (His backpack, its rocket launcher, a grenade, or whatever) to get out. For the Clones, again going with some stuff from the old EU that may not be canon anymore, they stopping using solely Jango Fett clones after the Clone Wars end. There was briefly a period of using clones of multiple people, not just Jango Fett, but the Empire quickly switched to just recruiting or conscripting humans from all the planets they controlled as it was much faster and cheaper to train them than to raise a clone army, so the clones were mostly gone (Either from combat or advanced aging) by the OT.
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oldpainless posted:Would Goof Troop count? Only this version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKqs1JLDbp4
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That picture is actually from an Avtomat. Easy mistake to make.
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Feb 19, 2021 23:14
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HopperUK posted:i know there are good storytelling and time-saving reasons we don't see things like people properly saying goodbye on the phone, or people paying taxicabs, or whatever. But for some reason it's starting annoying me that nobody on TV or in movies ever has to pee right when they wake up. Surely it's the first thing almost everyone does in real life. And it's not even that I want to see it. It just annoys me that I don't. I don't know what I want. IIRC, they use that as part of a morning wood joke a few times in The 40-Year Old Virgin too.
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christmas boots posted:The best Star Wars example (from the old continuity anyway) was probably Jabba's Rancor trainer who apparently hated how the beast was being mistreated and was saving up the credits to buy him off Jabba and, I dunno, take him to some kind of Rancor sanctuary to live out his days in peace and almost had enough when Luke showed up and killed it. And it's just, lmao why? Because Kevin J. Anderson wrote that story, of course.
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Yeah, that’s from the old Tales of the Bounty Hunters short story collection from 1996, so it’s not canon anymore. To my mild surprise as I just checked my old copy, that story was by Kevin J. Anderson, who usually doesn’t do anything intentionally funny.
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Cowslips Warren posted:Other than The Sixth Sense for pretty much being the first in its generation, what movies do the twist ending with any real decency? The original Planet of the Apes.
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May 23, 2021 00:36
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The Academy Awards have always been dumb. Go look at the movies that beat Star Wars, Apocalypse Now, or Raging Bull for Best Picture, or how some movies like Full Metal Jacket or the aforementioned Do The Right Thing weren’t even nominated.
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Jul 13, 2021 13:18
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flavor.flv posted:The worst part about Tommy Lee Jones as Two Face is that the Burton movies had already set up a different actor who would have done a much better job At least he finally got to play Two-Face in the Lego Batman Movie.
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Jul 22, 2021 15:56
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Baron von Eevl posted:They definitely used less of Mrs Bouvier, but I think it's because Julie hated doing that voice. Regarding Marge’s mom, I thought this was the reason as well. Similarly, Dr. Marvin Monroe is in a bunch of episodes in the first few seasons and was dropped because the voice was difficult and uncomfortable for Harry Shearer to do, with the show making jokes about the character having died before having him pop up a handful of times like 15 years later.
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Aug 9, 2021 12:58
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BrigadierSensible posted:This is a fair enough explanation. Now onto the second part of my irritation: It’s a Gonk droid and everyone is jealous of them. Gonk.
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Aug 11, 2021 12:59
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Yeah, and it’s spelled out as “Threepio” during dialogue in most novels and comics. Same with R2-D2 being “Artoo” and so on for other droids.
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Aug 11, 2021 14:04
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8one6 posted:Yodas are popular. The next series will have a sexy girl Yoda named Yodette. Prequel movie about Yaddle to make the life of whoever created this old classic: Mildly  
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Aug 11, 2021 22:53
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Also keep in mind for the “leave the gun” thing is it’s a movie from the 70s set in the 40s, so a lot of what would be done to trace the weapon today like DNA or whatever wouldn’t have been a consideration. I don’t even know if cars back then had VINs or stuff to make them as easily traceable as well.
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Aug 31, 2021 19:11
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Sand Monster posted:I thought it was that the scare scene was just re-shot again. Hooper and Brody have the conversation with the mayor about finding the tooth, unless that was also added. It was just reshot: Wikipedia posted:Spielberg also decided that he was greedy for "one more scream", and reshot the scene in which Hooper discovers Ben Gardner's body, using $3,000 of his own money after Universal refused to pay for the reshoot. The underwater scene was shot in Fields's swimming pool in Encino, California, using a lifecast latex model of Craig Kingsbury's head attached to a fake body, which was placed in the wrecked boat's hull. To simulate the murky waters of Martha's Vineyard, powdered milk was poured into the pool, which was then covered with a tarpaulin.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:There's a scene in a Simpsons episode where they go to Itchy and Scratchy Land and, after things go haywire, Bart smashes a window and grabs a bunch of cameras so the family can use the flashes to kill the robots. A lot of that is using syndication versions of the show, and for the Simpsons there are more than a few. A good example recently has been the Lowmer meme, which came from a cut away joke that was apparently cut out of certain American TV versions for time, so some people didn’t know where it was from at first.
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