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I'm not sure how to start this, but I didn't see a thread for moments in movies that just make things ridiculous. The Girl Next Door: Around an hour and fifteen minutes in the main character goes to a bank and finds out that the cashier gave $25,000 to someone not on the account. The account was a fundraiser holding to pay to get someone brought to the U.S. from Cambodia(not really the point). But the cashier starts talking about how she isn't going to lose her job over this and how it's his fault and trying to trick a high school senior into owning responsibility for (clearly) her mistake. The main character even tries to help her by not wanting to tell people while he tries to recover the money, and the cashier threatens him with jail. It is so badly her fault and the m.c. did not actually break the law. So that's what just irritated me about that movie. Kill the thread if need be or point me to the correct one to rant about things like this if it is already up somewhere.
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May 23, 2018 17:34
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The last ten or so minutes of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.
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May 23, 2018 17:45
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In The Box, Frank Langella's character says that the $1 million payment for pushing the button is "tax free." But whether it's a payment for pushing the button, a cash prize, or simply a gift, there's tax implications to that. You can't just declare something tax free like you're calling out no take backs. Also, this thread is going to get closed pretty quick. You're looking for "PYF Irrationally Irritating Movie Moments" in PYF.
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May 23, 2018 20:09
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He should've just said "cash".
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May 23, 2018 20:12
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I just don't care for "if you're willing to commit tax fraud" as an implicit element of "tax free" and I wanted everyone to know. In general, the aliens using animated corpses to deliver murder-based moral conundrums to random yahoos don't really come across like they're acting in good faith.
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May 23, 2018 20:18
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Sir Kodiak posted:In The Box, Frank Langella's character says that the $1 million payment for pushing the button is "tax free." But whether it's a payment for pushing the button, a cash prize, or simply a gift, there's tax implications to that. You can't just declare something tax free like you're calling out no take backs. Hey, thanks for pointing me over there.
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May 23, 2018 20:22
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I love that part of the premise here - alien angel/demons who grant wishes - are just background information.
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May 23, 2018 21:14
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Sir Kodiak posted:I just don't care for "if you're willing to commit tax fraud" as an implicit element of "tax free" and I wanted everyone to know. In general, the aliens using animated corpses to deliver murder-based moral conundrums to random yahoos don't really come across like they're acting in good faith. I just presumed that it would be worked out somehow so that they get the money tax free. With all the other poo poo they were able to pull off in that movie, the idea that they might have a means of circumventing the IRS didn't really seem over the top to me.
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May 23, 2018 21:17
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The aliens in Life of Brian (1979): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSY4fEEg4j0
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May 23, 2018 22:15
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Pancakes. Followed by a karate demonstration. Thanks, Eli Roth. Gavok posted:That random Holocaust shout-out in Monster Squad. I get what they were going for, but it's such a strange little moment that is never brought up ever again. That’s a good one. Tart Kitty fucked around with this message at 22:27 on May 23, 2018 |
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May 23, 2018 22:20
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That random Holocaust shout-out in Monster Squad. I get what they were going for, but it's such a strange little moment that is never brought up ever again.
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May 23, 2018 22:23
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Zogo posted:The aliens in Life of Brian (1979): Oh god that was awesome. And I loved Pythons' reason for it. "How do we get Brian away?" "Aliens?" "Right."
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May 24, 2018 04:32
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I never understood the random sped-up chipmunk dialogue scene in Carrie, an otherwise 100% played straight horror film. Why does this exist? Who thought it added anything to the movie?
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May 25, 2018 18:34
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The part in Barton Fink where it goes from quirky Hollywood comedy to 
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May 25, 2018 23:49
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exquisite tea posted:I never understood the random sped-up chipmunk dialogue scene in Carrie, an otherwise 100% played straight horror film. Why does this exist? Who thought it added anything to the movie? don't forget that silly music that plays.
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May 26, 2018 00:07
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That scene in Wild Wild West where Will Smith is fighting the steam powered cyborg guy and he can't beat him and then the cyborg just kind of... dies?
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May 26, 2018 01:43
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muscles like this! posted:That scene in Wild Wild West where Will Smith is fighting the steam powered cyborg guy and he can't beat him and then the cyborg just kind of... dies? Doesn't he electrocute the guy?
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May 26, 2018 01:47
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No, he keeps hitting his head and then the robot man short circuits.
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May 26, 2018 01:52
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muscles like this! posted:That scene in Wild Wild West where Will Smith is fighting the steam powered cyborg guy and he can't beat him and then the cyborg just kind of... dies? People always forget about the third-act Frankenstein in that flick.
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May 26, 2018 01:57
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CelticPredator posted:No, he keeps hitting his head and then the robot man short circuits. Oh yeah that's right. For some reason, I thought there was like, live current involved.
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May 26, 2018 02:12
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nesamdoom posted:The Girl Next Door: Around an hour and fifteen minutes in the main character goes to a bank and finds out that the cashier gave $25,000 to someone not on the account. The account was a fundraiser holding to pay to get someone brought to the U.S. from Cambodia(not really the point). But the cashier starts talking about how she isn't going to lose her job over this and how it's his fault and trying to trick a high school senior into owning responsibility for (clearly) her mistake. The main character even tries to help her by not wanting to tell people while he tries to recover the money, and the cashier threatens him with jail. It is so badly her fault and the m.c. did not actually break the law. Yeah that made absolutely no sense even at the time.
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May 26, 2018 18:30
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The original Dawn of the Dead is one of my favorite zombie movie, but the entire sequence with the biker gang throwing pies into the zombie faces is so out of place and pretty much sucks all the tension out of the movie.
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May 27, 2018 05:37
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Vakal posted:The original Dawn of the Dead is one of my favorite zombie movie, but the entire sequence with the biker gang throwing pies into the zombie faces is so out of place and pretty much sucks all the tension out of the movie. That's because it's as much a comedy as a horror film. (Also a drama. Also an action flick. It is many things.)
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May 27, 2018 05:48
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It's hard to pick just one scene in The Visitor, but here's a taste: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN6wBJt7Azk
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May 27, 2018 05:53
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Maxwell Lord posted:That's because it's as much a comedy as a horror film. (Also a drama. Also an action flick. It is many things.) Is there really anything before or after that scene that was meant to be funny though?
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May 27, 2018 06:38
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Vakal posted:Is there really anything before or after that scene that was meant to be funny though? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVry0sp0PkE
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May 27, 2018 13:43
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Also Roger, Fran, Peter, and Stephen living it up in the mall at first.
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May 27, 2018 14:21
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Vakal posted:Is there really anything before or after that scene that was meant to be funny though? The entire film.
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May 27, 2018 14:31
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For me it was when Flyboy went apeshit and decided to go nuts on the bikers instead of just listening to Peter. Just cut your losses buddy!
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May 27, 2018 15:44
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Vakal posted:Is there really anything before or after that scene that was meant to be funny though? Hundu's right. One of my favorite bits is the "We got this man! We got this by the rear end!"
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May 27, 2018 16:15
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Probably the most WTF?! moment in movie history, Transformers: Age of Extinction grinding to halt to explain Romeo and Juliet laws
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May 27, 2018 18:51
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Davros1 posted:Probably the most WTF?! moment in movie history, Transformers: Age of Extinction grinding to halt to explain Romeo and Juliet laws They had to stop for a moment to settle an issue they created just to stop and settle. Vakal posted:The original Dawn of the Dead is one of my favorite zombie movie, but the entire sequence with the biker gang throwing pies into the zombie faces is so out of place and pretty much sucks all the tension out of the movie. I wonder if this was their regular method of clearing out zombies. The guy that died checking his blood pressure didn't seem to have much experience.
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May 27, 2018 19:10
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I feel like the gang's big secret to survival is just there are so many of them that they can lose a few to zombies every stop and still run away.
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May 27, 2018 21:01
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Davros1 posted:Probably the most WTF?! moment in movie history, Transformers: Age of Extinction grinding to halt to explain Romeo and Juliet laws Same movie, similar WTF: Optimus fighting the Dinobots: "I'M GIVING YOU YOUR FREEDOM!  "Optimus after defeating the Dinobots: "JOIN ME OR DIE. "
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May 28, 2018 00:59
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Almost Blue posted:Hundu's right. One of my favorite bits is the "We got this man! We got this by the rear end!" Compared to Night, Dawn is funny even if most of the jokes are very grotesque - storing bodies in the meat locker, for example. You also have to consider Night and Dawn from the perspective of Land and Day, meaning the films' sympathy with the zombies starts right from the denoument of Night. Two of the films heroes begin the film participating in a thinly veiled pogrom.
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May 28, 2018 01:34
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Danny Boyle directed this movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMHINpgFO3I
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May 28, 2018 02:26
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz4JSTXuP9E arrhhhhhhhhhh*BOINK*
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May 28, 2018 03:05
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The end of Se7en
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May 28, 2018 03:15
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The twist in Tully, which changes the theme of the movie from “friendship can change your life” to “your life is better when you’re crazy.” People in my theater audibly sighed.
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May 28, 2018 03:26
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Golden Bee posted:The twist in Tully, which changes the theme of the movie from “friendship can change your life” to “your life is better when you’re crazy.” People in my theater audibly sighed. Actually it's more about drawing on, while also recognizing your difference from, who you once were before major life changes (like marriage and children.) I never got that she was literally insane or talking to no one, just having these dialogues in her head.
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