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Toy Story - If Buzz believes he is a real Space Ranger or whatever, why does he act like a toy like the others when Andy comes in? Book of Eli - So the Book is a bible, and written in Braille? Have you SEEN how many volumes an entire Braille bible is?
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RagnarokAngel posted:Honestly it's never explained why ANY of the toys have to play inanimate at all. It's not like they signed a contract or their souls will get sucked away or something if they do. I mean Woody reveals himself to be alive to Sid and nothing really comes of it. Well, yeah. That reinforces my point, really. Since nothing bad happens to them if they don't play inanimate, why does Buzz do it despite the fact that he's unaware that he's a toy in the first place?
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Sep 8, 2011 14:55
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Pagan posted:This is one of the things that I am willing to accept, as a viewer. It doesn't necessarily need to be explained. It just is the way it is : toys are alive, but they have to hide it except in extreme circumstances. It's such a major plot point that none of the movies could happen without it. This is totally fine, and something I never had a problem with. But my point still stands - Buzz really thinks he's a Space Ranger. The big point to the film was him coming to the realisation that, yes, he is in fact "just a toy". So if he started out not believing he was a toy, why would he follow these "toy rules"? Mauzeraut posted:-the virus they uploaded was 1)Magical, possibly elven in nature and 2)Doesn't give a gently caress about language compatibility or, I dunno, that the aliens might not even be using binary. There's a deleted scene that settled this one fairly well for me. It showed the scientists talking about how Earth's computer technology was reverse engineered from the advanced stuff in the alien ship they've studied over the years, which is why modern computers can interact with the alien tech. Robzor McFabulous has a new favorite as of 21:02 on Sep 8, 2011 |
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Sep 8, 2011 20:58
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I just watched Ice Age - Dawn of the Dinosaurs. There's a bit where Buck the crazy weasel is talking into a rock as if it was a mobile phone, to show the viewers just how loopy he is. This irritated me, they'd done a fine job already showing the audience that he's genuinely mad, why go so far as to have him pretending to use a modern device he couldn't possibly know about? The other "jokes for the grownups" were funny enough in the context of the situation, like the Flintstones reference, but that bit just bugged me.
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Sep 18, 2011 23:17
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BiggerBoat posted:In the original Terminator, it's established that the resistance keeps dogs around to warn them of Terminators. They even touch on it in the second one when Wolfie is barking as they make the call to John's house. Later on, in T2, Arnold is walking all around the guerilla compound where Sara and John are arming up and there are dogs all over the place but none of them bark at Arnie at all. I would've thought the resistance trained their dogs to recognise the smell of human-disguise Terminators. I don't think they intended that line to mean that dogs just bark at them automatically, the whole bit with the dog barking over the phone was just to give Arnie-Terminator a handy method to trick the T-1000 into giving himself away. That's how I figured it, anyway. If Wolfie was barking his head off it'd be more likely because he just saw/heard his owners get butchered, not because he smelled a Terminator.
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Sep 22, 2011 20:40
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Ape Has Killed Ape posted:The dogs name is Max. Wolfie is the name the Terminator made up to trick the T-1000. Yeah, I knew it wasn't really Wolfie but I couldn't be bothered to look it up. Around the time the film came out my barber had a dog called Max. I used to call him Wolfie. No-one got it. 
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Sep 23, 2011 08:46
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Tiggum posted:And their doorbells are the same. If two people are talking and the bell rings, they finish talking and then answer it. If the focus is on people going up to a door and ringing the bell, if it doesn't get answered immediately, they know something is wrong. "Mister Worf, hail them!" ...a nanosecond later... "NO RESPONSE!" Also, yeah, UGH at Doctor Who, especially for not treating time travel properly.
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Sep 28, 2011 16:31
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I watched The Green Lantern the other day. The awful CGI used for the outfits aside, one part just leapt out and slapped me in the face. After donning the Green Lantern Ring and being dragged across space to their base of operations on the planet Oa, he's being given an "orientation" talk by one of the other Green Lanterns. At one point, his guide says that he is the guardian of Sector 12345 (or whatever), which contains... And then Hal Jordan cuts him off and finishes with "1,265 systems comprised of 15,215 planets" or some such. He asks how he could've known that, and he's told that part of the power of the ring is to infuse his brain with a working knowledge base. The guide then says something like "Come, there is much to show you here." And Hal says... "Where is here, exactly?" ...Right. So much for that "working knowledge base", eh?
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Sep 28, 2011 19:11
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OdorousTobacco posted:Something I remembered that always irked me: Yeah, the line is indeed "You got it, friend", according to the script. At the time I always figured that he knew K was about to "quit", so Z just wanted to let K know he considered him a friend before his memory was wiped clean.
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Oct 3, 2011 00:04
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KillRoy posted:You know what else is rude in movies? No one ever says goodbye at the end of phone calls. They just hang up. I actually started wondering if this was an actual American thing, since it seems to happen in movies and TV a lot. I'm not sure if it applies to British people too, but Americans on screen do it enough to stand out in my mind. I asked an American I knew at Uni if it was a real thing for Americans to not say goodbye when on the phone, she reckons it's just a TV/Movie thing to save time.
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Oct 8, 2011 12:05
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Just finished watching Captain America. Bloody good film, but a couple of things Irrationally Irritated (tm) me, aside from the vibrating shield thing already mentioned earlier in the thread... When Cap gets on board the giant bomber near the end, the bombs in the bomb bay have the city names written on them. ...Really? Why would anyone do that? They all look the same size, do the payloads need to be different for each city? Even then, surely numbering them and matching them to numbered bays would be more... professional?? I dunno, it struck me as odd. Also, I'm pretty sure I never, ever saw Steve Rogers fly anything. Ever. And yet he climbs into the flying bomb thing and pilots it right back into the bomber, needing some pretty precise flying. And then controls the bomber itself, although admittedly that was a fairly simple "point downwards". When did he learn any of that? Other than that - seriously good film, I thought.
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Oct 28, 2011 22:43
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Practical Demon posted:I doubt any of the payloads were different. Bombs have been written on for a drat long time, though usually with something supposedly witty. In the case of the movie, it was just an easy, very concise way of showing the audience which and how many cities Red Skull planned on destroying. Yeah, I got the reason why they did it from a film-making point of view, just bugged me anyway. As for the names being written in English, as far as I'm aware there's no alternative German spelling for those city names.
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Oct 29, 2011 15:55
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OdorousTobacco posted:Also, I have another pet peeve from every movie with romance and/or casual sex ever: Knocked Up is a very good movie indeed which features "accidentally pregnant". Although that is the main plot, so may not count?
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Oct 30, 2011 11:50
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Fantasmo posted:Another thing that bugs me about Magneto is when the movies came out and I first heard the pronunciation. Magneeto? Serious? Reading comics, I always thought it sounded like it's spelled, with a soft 'e'. What is he, the master of mag-nee-tism? I saw the cartoon before getting into the comics, so went with the cartoon pronunciation in my head. I suppose Mag-netto sounds too much like an ice-cream dessert? 
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Oct 30, 2011 20:30
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Mans posted:In the Human Centipede II... Just saw it. I can stomach a lot, but I was close to fully looking away at certain points, which says a lot about how far they push it. And yeah, you're completely right, all those people who'd been shot, bludgeoned and left in a filthy room with no food for at least a couple of days (for some of them) should've been dead or dying long before all the amateur surgery. Oh, and the bit with the baby? gently caress EVERYTHING about that.
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Nov 19, 2011 21:22
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Paint-Drinking Pete posted:If they wanted to, the machines could have made the Matrix a literal Hell where humans are tortured in pits of magma for all eternity Mmmm, I don't know. They tried a perfect paradise, but human minds rejected it, so they had to go with something more "real". I would've thought the complete opposite would have the same effect.
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Jan 17, 2012 22:18
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Frostwerks posted:You wear your hats on your pancreas? ...What? He meant someone would take the hat from the Wardrobe, wear it, and when Wardrobe turned human again the hat would turn back into one of his organs.
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Jan 21, 2012 13:14
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Cowslips Warren posted:Okay, so, Once Upon a Time... Please, PLEASE just stop watching that show. I beg you.
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Jan 22, 2012 22:50
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OK Octopus posted:Consider it for a moment. He's closing all his accounts and essentially taking his business elsewhere. The bank's really under no further obligation to be nice to him. I'm surprised the teller took that from him. That postage couldn't have been cheap. Did the teller pay for it out of pocket, because I bet the bank sure as Hell didn't okay it. It was the mid sixties, professionalism and courtesy to customers were on a vastly higher level than today. You'd go in and chat to the manager about your account, have a cup of coffee. That's just how it was. I bet the bank manager had no problem with it whatsoever, considering how long "Andy" was a customer of theirs. Back then there'd not be any concept of "We're under no further obligation to be nice to him", I'm sure adding things to their outgoing mail was a regular occurrence. I like to think it went nicely with how smoothly he played it all, too. Got to pop into the bank to close the accounts, might as well have them mail the evidence while I'm at it. He was in somewhat of a hurry to, you know, actually get the hell out of there too, remember.
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Feb 13, 2012 19:54
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jeeves posted:What I always wonder about the pipe is how much of a chance he took on there not being a welded on grate, grill, or bars at the end of the pipe or such. He was taking a chance since day one of the tunnel digging. Every single day a random inspection could've busted him. Every day for TWENTY YEARS. I doubt he worried too much about the small stuff like possible pipe grates. Plus, a good part of that time was spent on doing manual labour outside the prison, I doubt it would've taken much to either find out or see for himself if there was anything blocking the pipe. I haven't read the book though, it may have been elaborated on there?
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Feb 15, 2012 20:34
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Trent posted:This book essentially did just that. Reminds me of Snow Crash (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash) and its protagonist hero... er... Hiro Protagonist. 
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Feb 19, 2012 13:23
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Gaunab posted:I don't know dude, people bitch about almost anything. I'd rather just do it in case. If it bothers you so much sorry, otherwise get off my dick. I think he meant you should've phrased it better, like "In <Name of TV show> they [SPOILER TAG STUFF]." So people can tell what the spoiler relates to.
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Mar 20, 2012 20:40
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AFewBricksShy posted:Spoilers like that are hard to deal with though. You're right, the best way would be to not quote a post if you're sticking a spoiler in. Anyone who's watched the show can read the spoiler and relate it to the thread conversation.
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Mar 20, 2012 20:46
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Grendels Dad posted:Yeah, from what I can remember the Navi were pretty receptive to the benefits of civilization until they got the impression that they were being had and "benefits of civilization" means "living in a resort and maybe being allowed to open space casinos". I think there's a deleted scene involving the Na'vi school, something about the elders being happy for the kids to learn there until a trigger-happy marine shot some of them. One of them was the chiefs other daughter perhaps? Could be remembering that wrong.
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Mar 25, 2012 01:16
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Livingston posted:I felt this same thing when watching the first Avengers trailer where Captain America says to Iron Man "big man in a suit of armor, take that away and what are you?". Iron Man pwns him by telling him his a rich genius, but still, of all super-heroes, Captain America started as a scrawny wimp, then got injected with magic drugs to get powers. He didn't do poo poo for his powers, at least in the canon of the new movies; he's the last guy who should be saying "take away X and what do you have left?". The whole reason he was picked to become the super-soldier was because of what he had inside. He was a good man through and through, and if he lost his powers he'd still have his core of goodness, courage, patriotism etc. He called out Stark because without the Iron Man suit he's just a bit of a dick who probably wouldn't go out of his way to do any good.
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Apr 5, 2012 19:38
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Mr. 47 posted:It's one of the many reasons I thought TNG was better. I mean, it's still ill advised to have the XO running the away missions, but far better than just taking the top three or four officers in the chain of command and leaving the goddamned engineer in charge. Until you get to the TNG movies, in pretty much all of them Picard goes off to fight the bad guy in single combat. Really? Even in Nemesis where it's probably going to be a suicide mission? To paraphrase Red Letter Media's Plinkett review - Why not send Worf? He LOVES to fight. To die in combat is a Klingon's greatest honour. He's a big, powerful warrior. Picard's a fairly old guy at that point.
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Apr 6, 2012 11:21
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Tiggum posted:The other problem I have is when they advertise shows to entirely the wrong people by grossly misrepresenting them. What is the goal there? The people who would actually watch it think it looks terrible and avoid it and the people who were tricked into watching it by the ad start and then give up because it turns out to not be what they thought it was going to be. As soon as I read this I thought "Inglourious Basterds". Don't get me wrong, I did enjoy it, but all the advertising and trailers made it out to be entirely about the Basterds and their Nazi-killing antics when that's far from the truth.
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Kung Food posted:Maybe I'm expecting a little too much from a glorified toy commercial, but it just made zero sense to me. Megatron was essentially leaving them for dead, sure he could've made double sure and blown them up or something but he'd only just been revived and likely didn't have the resources or energy. It was Starscream who awakened the Autobots by ignoring Megatron and firing at the mountain, causing a tremor which set off the Autobot ship's repair drones. Given the chance I'm sure Megatron would've returned to make sure they were proper hosed.
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May 8, 2012 20:08
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Dissapointed Owl posted:It's dumb, it's clumsily written, it's ID4. Hell, the fact that they decided to go with "ID4" is irritating enough for me. Same for "Halloween H20"...
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May 11, 2012 12:29
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Modern Day Hercules posted:Originally the studio didn't have the rights to use the name Independence Day, which is why ID4 was used. They reworked the final speech by the president to include the words "Independence Day" mostly to prod the studio into getting the rights to the name the producers of the film wanted. The movie could have ended up just being called ID4 all together I think. Huh, interesting. Who "owns" the name "Independence Day" then? Who did they have to get the rights from?
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May 11, 2012 21:56
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Carthag posted:Isn't he saying that it's the other way around? Ie writing "Munich" (English) instead of "München" (German), "Cologne" instead of "Köln", etc. That makes sense if the ones who wrote it were English-speaking, but not if they were German-speaking. Well yeah, but "New York" (English) is still "New York" (German), same for the other bomb names.
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May 13, 2012 13:08
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Len posted:I think you missed the point of the movie. You're just supposed to watch Liam Neeson fight people for an hour and a half. Maybe his ex will be more grateful when he rescues HER in Taken 2 (Taken Harder).
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May 14, 2012 00:42
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Chunk posted:Slightly cheaper, less chance for spill, easier to maintain continuity shots. Not always cheaper though, in a lot of shows they'll go as far as to give the actors empty cups and add steam later with CGI to make it look like they're drinking a hot beverage.
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Jun 21, 2012 23:42
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Mr. Maltose posted:Apparently Hemsworth was physically ill by the end of shooting the last scene of Avengers because of how many shawarma he ate from all the retakes. How many takes did they need to do to film that one 30-second scene of them sitting round a table silently eating some shawarma?? Of all the scenes in that film, you would've thought that one would be easy enough. VendaGoat posted:I would also use the entire cast of The Big Bang Theory. If they all honestly ate all the food that show presented them with, they would all be a lot larger. True this. They seem to have take-away or fast food restaurant "meal nights" every day of the week, they should be huge.
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Speaking of running out of ammo, I saw Dredd the other day. He advises the rookie he's with to conserve ammo, then kills a bunch of guys with a variety of guns. Later on it's suggested he's running seriously low on ammo. Many more people with perfectly good guns killed by then. Next, he kills one of the 4 corrupt Judges sent in to stop him. He goes on to then run out of ammo fighting the remaining two, wins, and takes spare clips for the Judge's Sidearm from one of them. Why not take the spare clips from the first one? They'd surely all carry them. I know that the Judge's special sidearms have DNA scanners so only the owner can fire them, but surely not every weapon carried by street thugs would have that enabled? I'd guess not, because one of them blows his own hand off trying to fire the rookie's weapon. So why wouldn't Dredd grab a spare gun or two just in case, considering that he knew ammo was going to be a problem?
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jeeves posted:Because Dredd doesn't stoop so low as to deal with lesser quality non-Judge firepower apparently. I suppose not, but man, knowing the situation he was in you'd think he'd make an exception... Second point, yeah you're probably right, although since he'd know where a Judge keeps his spare clips I wouldn't have thought it'd take him long to find and grab them, couple of seconds maybe? Ah well, hindsight's always 20-20 and all that, I'm sure he was probably kicking himself afterwards for not doing so...
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Jan 25, 2013 22:44
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What irritated me far more were the heinously over-long Slo-Mo bits. One or two hit the "arty" mark okay, but the rest could've done with being half as long. It reminded me of a Garth Marenghi episode... "There's a lot of slow motion. The episodes were running up to eight minutes under, the only way to stretch them out was with slow motion. And we tried to keep the slow motion away from the dialogue as much as possible. Anything without dialogue was considered for slow motion."
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Jan 25, 2013 23:57
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IShallRiseAgain posted:Slow motion is literally an addictive and terrible drug in the movie. That was kind of the whole point. True, and they showed that pretty well in some of the slo-mo bits, but I don't think we really needed to watch someone splashing in the bath in slow-motion for what seemed like forever.
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Jan 26, 2013 11:36
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Byzantine posted:I vaguely recall that Buffy the Vampire Slayer did too. Something about wood having magical properties against vampires? Not sure about the piercing thing but they definitely showed metal piercing a vampire's heart having no effect, mentioning that it had to be wood.
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Splicer posted:Please tell me this is from a game or something. http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/531965 - Tremerz "Uh oh Tremerz"
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