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If you remove it slowly and evenly the island will gently float back down to earth. 
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Drunken Baker posted:If you remove it slowly and evenly the island will gently float back down to earth. Earth?
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Jun 30, 2017 13:59
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I feel like this year's Beauty and the Beast is going to end up like Avatar, where it's this really anonymous blockbuster, became the biggest movie of the year (I don't remember if there's anything coming out this year that could top it: I think Justice League is this year; I don't see either Thor or Black Panther beating it - is there anything else out this year that could still be the year's biggest movie?) but it won't have much of a lasting impact.
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Jun 30, 2017 14:04
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Jedit posted:Standing on a large floating rock and removing the only thing keeping it floating doesn't sound like a good plan to me. Depends on the purity - if its high enough just grab it with your anti-grav technology and tow it back to Earth.
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Jun 30, 2017 14:21
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yeah I eat rear end posted:It's irrationally irritating because I'm not sure if I'd be able to react any better, but in movies where people hit something, like a deer for example, in their car (or something scares them like somebody in the back seat) and they spend like 10 seconds screaming and then just violently jerk the wheel to one side causing them to flip over dramatically. They never seem to just slam on the brakes. The most recent example was in A Cure for Wellness, but it's happened in the Walking Dead and I guess the babadook would also qualify but I don't remember if their car flipped, only that she kept jerking the wheel back and forth randomly while screaming. If I remember correctly in a larger vehicle (truck, SUV) youre supposed to accelerate as you hit them so the front of the vehicle is level or raised up so when you hit them they go under your car instead of braking, lowering your hood, and rolling the deer into you through the windshield.
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Barudak posted:If I remember correctly in a larger vehicle (truck, SUV) youre supposed to accelerate as you hit them so the front of the vehicle is level or raised up so when you hit them they go under your car instead of braking, lowering your hood, and rolling the deer into you through the windshield. Well in the case I was referring to the deer was already stuck in the windshield thrashing around. That's good to know though I guess, I didn't know that.
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Jun 30, 2017 14:28
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I liked that the plot of Avatar was driven by the inaction of a serial procrastinator. That was pretty realistic to me.
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Jun 30, 2017 14:35
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Shangri-Law School posted:I liked that the plot of Avatar was driven by the inaction of a serial procrastinator. That was pretty realistic to me. So, 'Hamlet', basically.
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Jun 30, 2017 15:07
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Well in the case I was referring to the deer was already stuck in the windshield thrashing around. I think the deer scene in Get Out was done well. gently caress, that was such a great movie.
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Jun 30, 2017 15:36
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Serf posted:Earth? It's a plot twist from Avatar 2. Sorry dudes.
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Jun 30, 2017 15:36
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Another one: when people realize they need to be quiet and someone says "QUIET" in a really loud voice, louder than the person they are scolding was talking. See: the beginning of 28 days later in the staircase. Is it so hard to whisper it?
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Another one: when people realize they need to be quiet and someone says "QUIET" in a really loud voice, louder than the person they are scolding was talking. See: the beginning of 28 days later in the staircase. Is it so hard to whisper it? There are these things called jokes... E: VVV Non-comedies can also have jokes. I think the obvious nature of this joke is fairly obvious. WampaLord has a new favorite as of 16:03 on Jun 30, 2017 |
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Jun 30, 2017 16:01
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WampaLord posted:There are these things called jokes... 28 days later isn't exactly a comedy.
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Jun 30, 2017 16:02
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Superheroes constantly taking off their masks or having them destroyed to give the actor more face time. Main characters going through hell and back during an action sequence or a swimming/heavy rain scene and regrouping with perfectly styled hair. Also, all of Hulk's clothes ripping off except for his pants every time he transforms.
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Jun 30, 2017 16:03
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BiggerBoat posted:Superheroes constantly taking off their masks or having them destroyed to give the actor more face time. Main characters going through hell and back during an action sequence or a swimming/heavy rain scene and regrouping with perfectly styled hair. Also, all of Hulk's clothes ripping off except for his pants every time he transforms. Characters in a medieval era with perfectly straight and whitened teeth gets me mad every time.
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At the beginning of The Avengers, Tony Stark is returning to Stark Tower after giving himself and only himself free power forever. As he's walking in, JARVIS tells him that Agent Coulson wants to speak with him and Tony says, "I'm not in," and then there's a beat and he says, "I'm actually out." It's filmed and delivered like it's a joke (there's even a pause after it for people to laugh) but... it's not a joke. I mean he's technically outside when he says it but that's still not funny. It bothers me so much and I'm not sure why.
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Jun 30, 2017 16:12
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WampaLord posted:Characters in a medieval era with perfectly straight and whitened teeth gets me mad every time. In a similar vein, women in post-apocalyptic or long-term survival scenarios who still apparently find time and resources to regularly shave their pits/legs, pluck their eyebrows, etc.
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Jun 30, 2017 16:15
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Alexander Hamilton posted:At the beginning of The Avengers, Tony Stark is returning to Stark Tower after giving himself and only himself free power forever. As he's walking in, JARVIS tells him that Agent Coulson wants to speak with him and Tony says, "I'm not in," and then there's a beat and he says, "I'm actually out." It's filmed and delivered like it's a joke (there's even a pause after it for people to laugh) but... it's not a joke. I mean he's technically outside when he says it but that's still not funny. I feel like Tony has a lot of these moments where he makes a snarky aside to himself that seems to only amuse him and is otherwise a terrible joke.
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Jun 30, 2017 16:22
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WampaLord posted:Characters in a medieval era with perfectly straight and whitened teeth gets me mad every time. As I Brit this makes me mad, but in the present day too.
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Jun 30, 2017 16:45
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I appreciate that British television generally puts more normal looking people into their TV shows compared to America's inexplicable cavalcade of beautiful people in every TV show.
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Jun 30, 2017 16:54
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American shows are inexplicably full of British actors
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Jun 30, 2017 17:07
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Terrible Opinions posted:I appreciate that British television generally puts more normal looking people into their TV shows compared to America's inexplicable cavalcade of beautiful people in every TV show. Is there a British city full of beautiful/desperate people competing in the most competitive job on earth? I mean Los Angeles is weird like that, it's less common in shows produced and filmed in New York, but still a thing.
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Oh I get why actors are pretty, I just meant inexplicable in terms of taking me right out of the show when I notice it.
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Strom Cuzewon posted:As I Brit this makes me mad, but in the present day too. Fun fact: if you rearrange the letters of "Elizabeth the First" (who once ate a chessboard made of marzipan) you get "Zebra teeth is filth".
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Jun 30, 2017 17:19
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Alexander Hamilton posted:At the beginning of The Avengers, Tony Stark is returning to Stark Tower after giving himself and only himself free power forever. As he's walking in, JARVIS tells him that Agent Coulson wants to speak with him and Tony says, "I'm not in," and then there's a beat and he says, "I'm actually out." It's filmed and delivered like it's a joke (there's even a pause after it for people to laugh) but... it's not a joke. I mean he's technically outside when he says it but that's still not funny. Because Tony Stark is supposed to be a narcissistic rear end in a top hat huffing his own farts that only psychopaths idolize? The fact that he has "fans" says a great deal about modern America. See also: Fight Club, Scarface.
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Yeah, I am watching all the Marvel movies and I kind of hate Tony Stark with a burning passion now. It's a lot to take when you watch them all in a row. Also Captain America's costume in The Avengers loving sucks, what the hell were they thinking
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Alexander Hamilton posted:Yeah, I am watching all the Marvel movies and I kind of hate Tony Stark with a burning passion now. It's a lot to take when you watch them all in a row. The avengers CA costume cracks me up because Coulson proudly takes credit for its design
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I like guessing the accent of people in movies set in ancient Greece before the person speaks.
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Speaking of accents, I hate when they have an actor who's terrible at accents attempt one that isn't even necessary to the story. Like Gerard Butler playing Americans in romantic comedies. Would it matter or change the story at all if he just used his actual accent? I saw a Dolph Lundgren movie recently called "Don't Kill It" that was cheesy fun except the bizarre choice to have him try some kind of bizarre Texas accent. Was anyone wanting to see a Dolph Lundgren movie where he doesn't talk like Ivan Drogo?
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WampaLord posted:Characters in a medieval era with perfectly straight and whitened teeth gets me mad every time. 
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Disregarding the inherent complications of a man being capable of spontaneously regaining brain function or even bodily life processes after thousands of years encased in ice, I'm a little irritated that in Encino Man, a block of ice somehow stayed frozen through thousands of summers just a few meters underground in Encino, California.
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Imagined posted:Speaking of accents, I hate when they have an actor who's terrible at accents attempt one that isn't even necessary to the story. Like Gerard Butler playing Americans in romantic comedies. Would it matter or change the story at all if he just used his actual accent? My favourite example of this is Colin Farrell. Hes a good actor, but accents are not exactly his forte. So in Alexander they had all the Macedonians speaking with irish accents to match him (according to an interview I saw somewhere "to reflect that the greeks would have thought of the macedonians as being from a parochial backwater" and definately not "Because Farrell cant do any accent other than his own"). Which is fine. But then in the Fright Night remake he's playing a vampire who is hundreds of years old... And he inexplicably decides that THIS is the role that deserves an attempt at an American accent. And it is not good. At all. Made worse by the fact that considering the vampire is hundreds of years old it would be completely fine for him to be an irish vampire who had emigrated to the US.
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Re: accents: I think Rob Roy is a really good movie with Tim Roth and John Hurt playing the slimiest villains ever and a really cool sword fight at the end, but it's really distracting how Liam Neeson lapses out of "Highlands" and into "broadest Ballymena imaginable" accent-wise.
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Colin Farrell is actually pretty OK at a generic American movie accent, certainly better than say, Michael Fassbender, though not as good as maybe Domhnall Gleeson or Ruth Negga. Alexander was a weird movie
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Jul 1, 2017 13:20
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Charlie Hunnam will always be the king of terrible American accents.
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Wheat Loaf posted:I feel like this year's Beauty and the Beast is going to end up like Avatar, where it's this really anonymous blockbuster, became the biggest movie of the year (I don't remember if there's anything coming out this year that could top it: I think Justice League is this year; I don't see either Thor or Black Panther beating it - is there anything else out this year that could still be the year's biggest movie?) but it won't have much of a lasting impact. Star Wars
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Imagined posted:Speaking of accents, I hate when they have an actor who's terrible at accents attempt one that isn't even necessary to the story. Like Gerard Butler playing Americans in romantic comedies. Would it matter or change the story at all if he just used his actual accent? One of my favorite things about old Schwarzenegger movies is when they make no reference to his accent whatsoever, because covering that up was utterly futile and adds nothing to the movie. But then again, for whatever reason they still had to name him John Matrix or John Kimball or whatever, because that's the important thing, calling him Rolf or whatever would shatter the illusion. He's just your average suburban Middle America insanely built superhuman with a thick accent mattress salesman, like you always see!
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Sargent Candy was his best role though?
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I think this is irrational because I think I might be stretching my logic a bit, but in Trollhunter the troll dude makes a big deal about making sure nobody believes in God because the trolls can smell it somehow. If there are creatures capable of smelling such a thing wouldn't it imply that God must exist and therefore he should believe in him as well (even if he might not like him)?
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