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It's fine if they aren't expecting the call, but if the character knows that there's an important call coming, it's unforgivable.
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I feel like there was a recent movie that did that. Just panning over the destruction and then one by one cell phones start going off?
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Yeah pretty much. Blade vampires are a separate species with certain biological characteristics, they aren't undead.
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The admiral is an atheist redditor
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Jun 14, 2014 03:56
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Jun 14, 2014 17:01
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Maybe all remaining jedis were 12 years old when they had sexual relations with Han Solo That would explain everything
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Jun 14, 2014 21:10
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Frostwerks posted:Fine, I'll beat it. 8 1/2. please dont
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Jun 15, 2014 08:13
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The train is a metaphor.
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The expert who says Helsinki syndrome has a book called "Hostage Terrorist / Terrorist Hostage: A Study in Duality" which is an obvious joke on academia. I always assumed it was intentional that he's talking out of his rear end. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7VHiz1V7Fs (0:45 and on)
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Henchman of Santa posted:A couple of things in Snowpiercer: You can actually hear the translated dialogue low in the audio in every scene it's used. It's meant to be watched with subtitles for the language(s) you don't understand, but I thought it was pretty neat how they kept the machine-translation instead of changing what language the actors speak.
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Jul 11, 2014 11:42
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Ror posted:I had to look it up, it's amazing. oh my god that is not a parody. I had completely forgotten what that scene was like so I didn't realize it was the real thing until Rene Russo came on. "oh but what about aids" "ah gently caress it who cares"
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Jul 11, 2014 22:50
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Pilchenstein posted:Yeah, I retract my earlier objection - that's way dumber than I remembered. It literally plays out like someone making fun of what went wrong in the scene. Straight up comedy. As I remembered the movie, it was all serious. I guess it was a comedy.
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Jul 12, 2014 00:35
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Cowslips Warren posted:In the Planet of the Apes movies, why do the apes live in human-like relationships? Gorillas live in family harems. Orangutans are solitary, and chimps don't form any form of partnership. Chimps have sperm warfare built into their genes, gorillas don't. Why the hell would they mimic human monogamy? Easy answer: Humans made the movie before these things about ape relationships were known. In-universe answer: The apes formed their society & thus their relationships on the ruins of human societies (The first 3 Planet of the Apes all support this, I don't recall the 4th & 5th exactly).
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bobua posted:What is the appropriate age to mention to children that birds make(fertilize for the pedantic) eggs by having the sex? (Pg-)13 seems a little late. My parents showed me a video of a childbirth with the head crowning & all when I was I guess like 3 or 4. As I recall there were also some discussion of male/female anatomy and the whole process coming before the actual birth. But that was Denmark in the early 1980s.
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Jul 24, 2014 23:54
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It's okay, even though he looks like a child, he's actually an adult! There's nothing weird about being attracted to an adult in a child's body.
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Jul 26, 2014 12:30
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Seventh Arrow posted:Maybe this is low-hanging fruit, but I found Apollo 18 to be terribly dumb. The premise is that two astronauts are sent to the moon, where they encounter spider-like creatures that attack them and...eat them, or something. I can't exactly remember. But anyways - carnivorous creatures on the moon? What did they eat before the 1960s? Even if they're omnivores, it's not like moon dust has any nutrients. How do they survive without water? Without oxygen? How did they develop predatory instincts without any prey? I get that they were going for the idea that the moon is probably the loneliest, most isolated place to start having a monster problem, but it's just so implausible that it ruins the whole thing. I figured they were just really into moisture, what with the moon being pretty dry in general. So some dudes walking around all moist was just right up the rock spiders' alley.
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BiggerBoat posted:I hate how in Rocky, after going out their way to do the middle rounds as a montage, they supposedly show the final round in real time yet that poo poo is over in something like a minute. Is it irrational to be annoyed that he gets away with some rapey poo poo? Even as a child who had not even heard about social justice warriors I never liked that first "date" she's forced to endure, Rocky just getting way up in her space just keeps pressing on until she gives in. It's pretty lovely. Disclaimer in case some cannot understand that a person can like a film and still disagree with given characters and how their scenes play out.
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TheFallenEvincar posted:look at the this loving dog bigot right here! :mradog: fuckin guy /w access w / e
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Sobatchja Morda posted:Another: I know nobody likes product placement, but Apple's has been extremely annoying to me lately. All characters use Macbooks or Imacs, their budget be damned, even if they (judging by the look of the programs they run) all immediately install Bootcamp on them. This is especially annoying in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo: are you really telling me that Lisbeth Salander, a hacker punk, is using a MacBook rather than something she cobbled together herself? Going by the character, that computer is not only impractical to her, but should literally be the last thing she'd want to use. Have any people in the history of computing even built their own laptops? I guess I saw a picture of a steampunk one that someone did, but I honestly did not know that building your own laptop was even a thing that anyone did.
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TheFallenEvincar posted:This probably isn't so irrational so much since White House Down is pretty dumb, but once that limo chase on the White House lawn happened and President Sawyer was like "SEND IN THE TANK" I was just thinking "Wait...why not just send in...all the national guard? All out assault on the White House? The limo is right there, you could retrieve the President and fight off the guys chasing him and on the roof! They're shooting at him right there! Why just send in the one tank and then stop when it gets blown up? Do we only have one tank?!?!? quote:Also this is probably blasphemy to some people or irrational, but I never liked Brad Pitt in 12 Monkeys at all. I dunno, it's just not there for me with his performance. I feel like there are people who rave about it, but whenever I watch him in the film I just roll my eyes. Just sort of tryhard and forced, corny, goofy/cartoonish in a bad way, and not really...natural (if you get what I'm trying to say). There are plenty of actors who have pulled off this sort of zany character but I don't really think he was a good fit. Especially when I think of all the perfect memorable mental patients in One Flew Over a Cuckoo's Nest, an unfair comparison to be sure. I don't really think he has the range for this sort of role. It's not like, Tyler Durden. I get what you're saying, but he is supposed to be cartoony. There's a cartoon on the TV in the asylum when he's introduced, also, the motif of a drugged out Willis not knowing what the gently caress is happening, being educated on the brave old world by a cartoonish psychopath is a good one. This is our world, it is insane. The humor is the valve to prevent us from killing ourseles. Plenty of more accurate portrayals, but they wouldn't fit into a Gilliam movie with bizarre panopticon timetravel machine and Bruce's badly pasted on moustache.
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You know the President is no longer a hostage, potentially, and is under attack. Are you afraid they kill the Cabinet? Is that really a priority when the President is right there?"
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Re: Terminator time travel By his own account, Kyle Reese doesn't know tech stuff. His explanation of the time travel mechanics is untrustworthy. It may easily be possible to send all kinds of poo poo through the machine, there's no way of knowing. As for why Skynet didn't do that, it's an artificial superhuman intelligence, and trying to figure out the thought processes of superhuman intelligences is a bit outside human capabilities.
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Saikonate posted:I know the accent chat was about 10 pages ago, but there is no more-consistently-hosed accent/foreign language in movies than Russian, imo. I'm amazed at how often people who speak exclusively Russian in movies aren't native speakers. My girlfriend's from Ukraine and it stands out to her like a sore thumb, but when I can tell someone's speaking poo poo Russian and I can barely carry on a conversation something's really hosed. The AI isn't in his phone, he just uses the phone to talk to her. I assume she's in his computer at home, as when she stops answering and he freaks out, he rushes towards home to check what's goin on.
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I didn't watch the dark knight movie, but Tom Hardy can be pretty scary imo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtkR3Oni1rY (  at the video title)
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I don't get what the big deal is. Just have all characters speak chauderwelsch and be done with it!
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Gordon Shumway posted:HBO seems to do this a lot. I remember it happening in Boardwalk Empire, with Meyer Lansky speaking unsubtitled Russian (coincidentally, in a scene where he beats the poo poo out of someone). That was Yiddish, but yeah, there were quite a few scenes of unsubtitled Yiddish & Sicilian in Boardwalk. Also Eddie's gothic cursive letter that wasn't directly translated, IIRC it was only partially summarized by a character. A nice detail not having him use latin cursive.
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Sentient Data posted:I've never seen the show, but if it's a drama then they could have even written some pretty big character arcs around the whole jettisoning execution method in the first place. I'm sure that to viewers not thinking about closed systems (and even some who do), going from the now stereotypical 'out the airlock' method of death to putting someone in an airlock without a suit then just slowly depressurizing it to 0 would totally cross the line from a tough but fair wartime ruler to an utter psychopath. And that's not even getting into the pretty There's a lynching by airlock in one of the early battlestar galactica seasons for what it's worth.
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Aztec style of sticking open the prisoner and fertilizing plants with their blood
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Screaming Idiot posted:That reminds me of an irritating moment in pretty much every movie I watch: how come most movies are about more-or-less successful, well-off people who have one tiny little problem that their movie is based around? Same goes for TV as well, where the gently caress are the poor people? Louis CK's Lucky Louie has that quality, that you can actually tell that the main characters are poor working class. It's not one hundred percent successful as a show, but it has its moments and it's overall a good season. The early episodes in particular reuse bits from his standup, so if you've seen his specials it might be repetitive at first, but I think all in all the show is worth watching. Apparently the whole thing is on Youtube. First ep: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFvkVKR39f4 (edit: I guess some shitbird letterboxed it, and badly. wtf) Carthag Tuek has a new favorite as of 02:57 on Dec 31, 2014 |
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Gaunab posted:It's sort of irritating how fast characters find jobs in movies/tv shows. Like they haven't worked in 5 years but are able to get a decent job immediately. lot of the time I put that down to movies getting worse at showing the passage of time, in my opinion. Used to be they'd put in a montage or something to show okay six months, one year, whatever, just make some weather outside the window while the characters are inside doing some number of different things. I had a really good example but as I was writing this, it went away.
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Lotish posted:The classic Irish dilemma: To eat the potato or wait for it to ferment. The Scandinavian version of this dilemma is quite similar, except the potato is a herring, possibly a barrel of them.
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nexus6 posted:I agree, but that is probably the worst version of the theme in my opinion. gently caress is wrong with you
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Tweet Me Balls posted:The movie is just really really well put together. If it were any less campy, shot and arranged with any less love and care, it would be another forgettable sci-fi movie with a stupid premise. Just imagine the language is actually Abkhaz, аибашьра is much earlier in a dictionary 
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MisterBibs posted:Book example, which I'm not spoiling since it's been around forever: I always thought the "Hate speech" was goony as gently caress
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I'm kindof annoyed when in thrillers an unsympathetic character is introduced just so they can get killed without the audience feeling too bad about it. Watched Contract with Morgan Freeman and John Blandsack and they're in the wilderness and there's bad guys & whatever and they meet a young couple camping, and the guy is immediately a piece of poo poo, and of course he gets killed and even his girlfriend doesnt really care that much cause tbh he was kindof a scumbag so whatever. Weak, hollywood.
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Especially when they swerve the wheel while looking at the passenger
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Henchman of Santa posted:I haven't seen the movie but isn't one of them Samuel L. Jackson? Americans aren't Kingsmen. Only the aryan race may call themselves that.
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muscles like this? posted:No, he's the bad guy. As for the Thatcher mention, they do temper it with Eggsy saying that some people hated her. Yeah, "some". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmmomV-ax-s
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Imagined posted:Edit: nope, thinking of Frank Miller. I don't think Frank Miller was ever not authoritarian, but for sure he went just way over the cliff after 9/11. Like underneath the sexism &c there are entertaining stories in Sin City & Ronin & the Batman things, but after 9/11 it's basically just revenge porn. Ego-bot posted:It was a bad show because it was too afraid of admitting the main characters are terrible people. Yeah this is the exact problem with a lot of things. If the protagonist does a thing, there's immediately a justification pushed into frame just to offset any worries you might've had. You haven't even gotten to process whether it's good or bad yet. Btw, The Drop handled this excellently, and Gandolfini & Hardy were great. I loved it.
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All beasts were named by Adam in the Garden of Eden, thus birds and dinosaurs share names as they are siblings in creation. Duh 
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bobkatt013 posted:Those were not the aliens but the Star Whackers is that like bangbus but interstellar?
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