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Pilchenstein posted:Equilibrium is as dumb as a box of rocks but totally worth it for the fight he has with Robert the Bruce at the end. Had to look up a clip for this. Totally did not recognize him originally. Also noticed this ridiculous little detail:  clip for context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWsz7u4eN8I
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Something that bugs me about the first Mission Impossible movie is all the misleading scenes early on with Jon Voight. Mainly the stuff where he's betraying the group but they film the scenes in such a way that you don't see it, even though nobody else is there watching it happen.
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May 16, 2014 19:55
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In Desolation of Smaug, why was Thorin totally willing to leave Bofur behind in Laketown? "He overslept, leave him. We can afford it." No you loving can't! You'd think he'd want every able-bodied dwarf with him in the mountain, looking for the keyhole and whatnot. What was even the point of Bofur in particular staying behind? If you wanted someone to look for athelas to cure Kili's life threatening wound, have it be his brother; make it a bonding brotherly moment between them before they both die in the next movie.
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I was more annoyed by Smaug deciding that the best way to hurt a bunch of dwarves and a hobbit was to go burn a town of men, leaving them behind to scurry away out of his grasp and not die in dragonfire (hint that might have been a better way to give agony to the "thieves" directly in front of you). I mean, assuming they decide to just leave the goddamn mountain while you're gone, what hope is there of tracking them down dragon or not. They're all pretty small dudes, they could just escape into some hideyhole and you'll never see them again. For such a supposedly intelligent life form the dude was either ineptly Scooby Doo chasing them or being worse than a James Bond villain. At least slowly lowering them into a pit of piranha or some poo poo is an act that actually might end up hurting them in theory. Hell usually even James Bond villains that do the whole "I'm not going to kill you, I'm going to leave you to watch me destroy this thing you love." usually make sure that a.) they are targeting something the hero actually does treasure and b.) the hero is at least in theory incapacitated or trapped or in a poor position to escape. Like, I get that he's a dragon but he's also dealing with fantastical creatures, these specifically being ones he KNOWS are tiny beings good at digging and hiding. Later guys! Punkin Spunkin has a new favorite as of 22:44 on May 16, 2014 |
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TheFallenEvincar posted:I was more annoyed by Smaug deciding that the best way to hurt a bunch of dwarves and a hobbit was to go burn a town of men, leaving them behind to scurry away out of his grasp and not die in dragonfire (hint that might have been a better way to give agony to the "thieves" directly in front of you). In the book it was more that Smaug assumed Bilbo was from Laketown because his riddle included the phrase "barrel rider" and thus he was scouring Bilbo's home, possibly with him in it but at least all of his friends and family would be there, right?
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May 16, 2014 22:48
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One thing that was dumb as hell in those Hobbit flicks is that they once again used the stupid eagles that confused and irritated audiences in the last Rings movie. So once more, why didn't they just use the dumbass eagles to fly to their destination? Because the idiot eagles are fully sapient and can speak and reason. In the Hobbit, the eagles didn't want to risk their eagle buddies helping Bilbo and his band of smelly dwarves, and they presumably would have just eaten Frodo and stolen the ring in LOTR. There is no way for movie goers to know that without reading the insufferable books. With all the bloat of the new films, why did they cut that part and reintroduce a huge plot hole from a decade ago?
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I didn't quite follow the point of starting your mass executions with floating death zeppelins in New Jersey in Captain America. Surely they could've taken the general idea, toned it down to somewhat believable levels, and still made it seem like a terrible idea that needed to be stopped.
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I didn't like that they were able to identify every human being through their DNA from afar. Maybe I'm just short-sighted but I simply cannot fathom how it will ever be possible to check DNA without an actual sample from the person being tested.
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Whatev posted:One thing that was dumb as hell in those Hobbit flicks is that they once again used the stupid eagles that confused and irritated audiences in the last Rings movie. So once more, why didn't they just use the dumbass eagles to fly to their destination? The Eagles stay out of human territory as much as possible because men have a tendency to flip out and shoot at them. They're also capricious dicks and only help Gandalf because they're bros with Radagast.
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May 17, 2014 19:15
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Razorwired posted:They're capricious dicks. birds.txt
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Squalitude posted:I didn't like that they were able to identify every human being through their DNA from afar. Maybe I'm just short-sighted but I simply cannot fathom how it will ever be possible to check DNA without an actual sample from the person being tested. But you were right behind a skinny guy getting injected with drugs and bombarded with Magic Science Rays that made him grow a foot and gain sixty pounds of muscle in 15 seconds, I take it.
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Scuse me, those were Vita-Rays, not Magic Science Rays.
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The Dark Knight Rises: You've captured/incapacitated Batman, will you: A) Immediately shoot him in the face or B) leave him to suffer in some deathtrap (the pit or leaving him to get nuked) where he'll inevitably escape and gently caress everything up? BOTH villains do that, you'd have thought they would learn once he returns to Gotham.
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I can get over that in Batman movies, because nobody important just gets shot in the face in that universe. Same with slasher films where they mildly incapacitate Jason Vorhees or whatever and don't finish the job. I saw the first ten minutes of the 2011 Three Musketeers movie the other day, because it was on TV and I saw that Mads Mikkelsen had a role. Right at the beginning there was this cliche scene where person A walks into a room and suddenly person B is behind him and holds a gun to his/her head! But then it turns out that they are friends! And then it turns out that person A knew that person B was there and he actually holds a knife to his/her crotch! Wow they are so cool. And then they continue to throw witty oneliners at each other and a lot of sexual innuendo because person B is a chick with big breasts who wears a baroque dress while they break into some palace. The movie continued to be amazingly lovely. It even starred Till Schweiger, and let me tell you as a German, it is Tarantino's greatest achievement to create a film with Till Schweiger that is not insufferably lovely. Mads Mikkelsen however apparently plays the coolest dude in history. Some junior hero, whom the audience is supposed to like, just won't accept Mikkelsen's badassery and challenges him to a duel. The young lad then does the whole spiel with turning around and walking ten steps away from the opponent and when he turns back Mikkelsen just shoots him in the face - at least he tries, his gun was maladjusted or something and then I switched off the TV. VVV WS Anderson? drat, I didn't even know that, it makes so much sense. Especially how there is a scene that is a carbon copy of the laserbeam scene in Resident Evil, set in the 17th century. sicDaniel has a new favorite as of 22:16 on May 17, 2014 |
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May 17, 2014 22:02
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sicDaniel posted:Musketeer stuff.
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Spalec posted:The Dark Knight Rises: I really loved the scene in TDK where the Joker flat out says he'll never kill Batman because he's just too much fun.
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May 17, 2014 22:08
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syscall girl posted:In the book it was more that Smaug assumed Bilbo was from Laketown because his riddle included the phrase "barrel rider" and thus he was scouring Bilbo's home, possibly with him in it but at least all of his friends and family would be there, right? Wasn't also Bilbo invisible the entire time in the book? From what i remember part of the frustration was him not being able to see him. I guess my pet peeve is why Smaug didn't just torch/eat Bilbo and then making a move on Laketown.
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That red haired guy with the bulldog in Pacific Rim has the worst Australian accent I've ever heard.
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Razorwired posted:The Eagles stay out of human territory as much as possible because men have a tendency to flip out and shoot at them. They're also capricious dicks and only help Gandalf because they're bros with Radagast.
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Falukorv posted:Wasn't also Bilbo invisible the entire time in the book? From what i remember part of the frustration was him not being able to see him. Whatev posted:Yessir, but there is no way for audiences to know that crap from seeing the films. There's never any indication that the birds are anything more than big dumb animals, so the characters seem stupid for not using them more. here
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Jedit posted:But you were right behind a skinny guy getting injected with drugs and bombarded with Magic Science Rays that made him grow a foot and gain sixty pounds of muscle in 15 seconds, I take it. That's it, we might as well close the thread guys, Jedit says if you note one irrational dislike you have to list every other one as well.
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sicDaniel posted:I can get over that in Batman movies, because nobody important just gets shot in the face in that universe. Same with slasher films where they mildly incapacitate Jason Vorhees or whatever and don't finish the job. It occasionally happens: in the 5th or 6th friday the 13th movie there's a scene where the FBI just gun him down with automatic weapons. It may or may not have stopped him, I don't remember.
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Puntification posted:It occasionally happens: in the 5th or 6th friday the 13th movie there's a scene where the FBI just gun him down with automatic weapons. It may or may not have stopped him, I don't remember. That was in the 9th movie, Jason Goes to Hell. It was a weird one because that's the one where Jason gets the ability to swap take over bodies after he's "killed."
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muscles like this? posted:That was in the 9th movie, Jason Goes to Hell. It was a weird one because that's the one where Jason gets the ability to swap take over bodies after he's "killed." Still less stupid than the sewage in manhattan's sewers turning him back into a little boy.
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A stupid thing about the end of the first Men in Black is how Will Smith has some new "stylish" version of the suit and sunglasses. Even though that defeats the whole purpose of both in the first place. They're supposed to be nondescript, not flashy. Apparently I'm not the only one who thinks this since they go right back to the plain versions for the sequels.
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Why does it even matter how obtrusive they are if they just neuralise everyone? Motherfucker could wear a sandwich board all "YO I AM THE LIKEABLE FISH-OUT-OF-WATER EVERYMAN WHO WORKS FOR A SECRET GOVERNMENT ORGANISATION THAT MANAGES EXTRA TERRESTRIAL AFFAIRS ON EARTH" and it wouldn't matter.
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What did the morgue lady like to do sometimes when it's really late? Irritating not to know.
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Disgusting Coward posted:Why does it even matter how obtrusive they are if they just neuralise everyone? Motherfucker could wear a sandwich board all "YO I AM THE LIKEABLE FISH-OUT-OF-WATER EVERYMAN WHO WORKS FOR A SECRET GOVERNMENT ORGANISATION THAT MANAGES EXTRA TERRESTRIAL AFFAIRS ON EARTH" and it wouldn't matter. Because they only neuralize people who've seen extra terrestrial poo poo. They didn't neuralize the newspaper vendors or anything.
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Supreme Allah posted:What did the morgue lady like to do sometimes when it's really late? Irritating not to know. She hosed the corpses.
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muscles like this? posted:A stupid thing about the end of the first Men in Black is how Will Smith has some new "stylish" version of the suit and sunglasses. Even though that defeats the whole purpose of both in the first place. They're supposed to be nondescript, not flashy. Apparently I'm not the only one who thinks this since they go right back to the plain versions for the sequels. The blue memory eraser in the Statue Of Liberty in the secon MiB was also incredibly stupid. It would only work if every single New Yorker was looking at the Statue when it went off. What about the people facing away from it? Or the people in subways, inside their houses, sleeping, etc.
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Your Gay Uncle posted:The blue memory eraser in the Statue Of Liberty in the secon MiB was also incredibly stupid. It would only work if every single New Yorker was looking at the Statue when it went off. What about the people facing away from it? Or the people in subways, inside their houses, sleeping, etc. So you're saying it wouldn't affect the people that didn't see anything?
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kinmik posted:In Desolation of Smaug, why was Thorin totally willing to leave Bofur behind in Laketown? "He overslept, leave him. We can afford it." No you loving can't! You'd think he'd want every able-bodied dwarf with him in the mountain, looking for the keyhole and whatnot. I thought it was more they were on a time table and had no idea how long it would take to get to the entrance?
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Star Trek: First Contact. I hated how the Borg Queen gives Data skin on his forearm to try and win him over. Give that man a dick first.
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FAGGY CLAUSE posted:Star Trek: First Contact. I hated how the Borg Queen gives Data skin on his forearm to try and win him over. Give that man a dick first. Data has a dick - see "The Naked Now"
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Yeah, her giving him skin was stupid because he could already feel with his robot skin.
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muscles like this? posted:Yeah, her giving him skin was stupid because he could already feel with his robot skin. Data's entire "I wanna be human" shtick was irritating. It makes sense for an actual robot. But he was already a sapient being. Him wanting to be human was like an alien wanting to be human. As if his own "species" wasn't good enough. That dude was basically an android racist.
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Esroc posted:That dude was basically a racist. StarTrek.txt
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Esroc posted:Data's entire "I wanna be human" shtick was irritating. It makes sense for an actual robot. But he was already a sapient being. Him wanting to be human was like an alien wanting to be human. As if his own "species" wasn't good enough. That dude was basically an android racist. Also the fact that he clearly had emotions the whole time and everyone acknowledged that in the way they treated him.
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Esroc posted:Data's entire "I wanna be human" shtick was irritating. It makes sense for an actual robot. But he was already a sapient being. Him wanting to be human was like an alien wanting to be human. As if his own "species" wasn't good enough. That dude was basically an android racist. "Human" was really shorthand for "biological." He was mostly around humans, created by a human,etc. He probably would have been just as happy wanting to be bejoran or betazoid, but the audience relates to "human". LeJackal posted:StarTrek.txt It's annoying when Vulcans say "that is a human emotion (dumbass)" to someone like Phlox who isn't loving human at all.
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Did they ever have an episode where other semisapient robot life calls out data for being an uncle tom? edit: Wait, poo poo, this is basically first contact isn't it Ignite Memories has a new favorite as of 05:27 on May 20, 2014 |
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