Tardstar posted:

Did you someone how just miss it or are you one of those wretched young people? I'm literally scared that there are people born in the 90's on SA. It sucks.

gnarlyhotep posted:

Oh gently caress yes. But I have to disagree on Worst Offender. My suggestion is Independence Day: "NP I'll just hack the alien computer with my MacBook because hackers viruses information superhighway mathematics insert thing producer heard from nephew last week"

beatlegs posted:

There were some great, substantial films made in the 80's. The lovely ones you can easily spot by the cheesy titles and garish cover art. Just a tip.

Stoatbringer posted:

And ricocheting bullets, no matter what they hit.

Mauzeraut posted:

The Matrix: Reloaded

I still enjoy this series despite its flaws, but one part really kills it for me. The fight scene with Agent Smith. Neo is flinging Smiths around and generally doing his super-badass thing.

And then he picks up the pole. About here, Neo becomes CGI-Generated Neo and it's horribly obvious. It just doesn't look real in the slightest, and it has nothing to do with artistic effect. His face looks like an EQ-II character and the physical effects of his clothing seem too smooth.

misplaced axon posted:

Shrugging off 'shoulder' wounds happens in more movies and TV shows than you can list. I don't think most people realize the lung goes more or less up to the collarbone.

Malachite_Dragon posted:

Huh, really? Learned something from this thread today. I'm still using the original battery for my cell that came with it, and while it doesn't hold as much of a charge as it used to it still holds a pretty good one since most what I do is texting, what with being deaf and all. I thought that cell batteries from the store were totally empty and needed to be charged a good long while before use.

Mu Cow posted:

Koreans do this. Maybe I was missing something as my Korean is terrible, but all their phone conversations ended rather abruptly.

Razorwired posted:

Be Cool, a pg-13 movie. Did a bit about how you could only use the "f word" once unless you wanted an R rating. The main character responded to the speech with "gently caress that".

Cowslips Warren posted:

So why did the Walking Dead zombies suddenly learn to run in season 2, the last episode to air so far? Up till then I've never seen a zombie do more than shamble around. In the school yard though, the fuckers are moving like someone jammed a live wire in their rear end.

Zero Winter posted:

In fact any general injury in movies irritate me since they generally have 0 repercussions.
"I got shot in the arm, knifed in the back, and a piece of metal lodged itself in my shoulder. But I can still fire this shotgun one-handed. Hell, I'll even carry all the shopping up the stairs."

Dr. Red Ranger posted:

That's what would make sense, although since there isn't any real contextual information to go on about how much of an investment the bridge is it's hard to tell the difference between what the writers intended to infer from the scene and what I'm subconsciously filling in to make it make sense. But eh, it's not like that one part turned the movie from a shining example of the art to complete and utter dreck in 15 seconds of a blond man crying.

About Starship troopers, I can accept underslung shotguns and over-the shoulder mini-nukes to a degree because it's supposed to be some sort of future federal/fascist society who (in the novel) uses powered armor dropped from space flying over battlefields bombing huge areas with miniaturized fusion weapons and such. They could have probably gone further into exploring some kind of impressive tech and weapons to reinforce what Heinlein was originally going for but it came off as really sketchy Scify originals generic stuff. I don't remember any orbital bombardments or specialized troops or weaponry beyond the aforementioned mini nukes. The 1 casing per handful of bullets thing just smacked of lazy though. That and little 11 year old me was yelling at the Navy idiots for piling all their drat ships within flinching distance of each other just to act surprised when the bugs started hitting their oversized clusterfuck of a target causing each ship to crash into the next like a line of giant exploding dominos. Oh, and lets just send piles of dudes at the planet with no armor or air support of any kind. Or any plan really, just throw dudes at it until all the bugs go away.

I sound madder than I am at Starship Troopers, but it was frustrating to Junior Elementary School Kid Red Ranger that even simple enjoyment of the movie was spoiled by the casual dismissal of any sort of structure of reality that would prevent those irritating details from ever occurring.

KillRoy posted:

My favorite will always be Russell "I'm a spaniard by crikey!!" Crowe in Gladiator. At no point does he even attempt a spanish accent.

headrest posted:

In temple of doom, why don't the guards lunge at Indiana while he is threatening to cut down the bridge? They all have pointy swords, yet are moving very slowly at indy. And at this point, Dr. Jones is no longer dangling the stones over the bridge, so that threat is gone. And really, depending on the angle, the guards are about 3 feet away from him, enough to lunge at his torso with a sword

headrest posted:

Also, hey kid with the Indy voodoo doll: IT'S A loving VOODOO DOLL. Get creative. All you are doing is sticking a pin in it every 15 seconds? Some of us are actually trying to stop Dr. Jones from getting away, care to take part?

Dr. Video Games 0055 posted:

I recommend this interview he did last year. Yes, it's AICN but it's a really informative interview they did. He admitted that while Indiana Jones is Lucas' baby, he adds in little bits here and there. The nuking the fridge scene was Spielberg's idea, for example.

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/49921

quote:

When I told Lucas that Spielberg had accepted the blame for nuking the fridge, he looked stunned. “It’s not true,” he said. “He’s trying to protect me.”

In fact, it was Spielberg who “didn’t believe” the scene. In response to Spielberg’s fears, Lucas put together a whole nuking-the-fridge dossier. It was about six inches thick, he indicated with his hands. Lucas said that if the refrigerator were lead-lined, and if Indy didn’t break his neck when the fridge crashed to earth, and if he were able to get the door open, he could, in fact, survive. “The odds of surviving that refrigerator — from a lot of scientists — are about 50-50,” Lucas said.

EPCOT posted:

As far as being irrationally irritated in the Harry Potter movies, what bothers me the most is Harry still showing amazement by how day to day magic things. Sure in the first two movies it was expected, but after a few years of your entire world revolving around magic, wouldn't the wonder of it all cease to be there?

The Duke of Ben posted:

The portrayal of Worf in TNG always bothered me, especially the earlier seasons. He's built up to be this big hothead who's constantly itching for violence, but he never actually flies off the handle. One word from Picard or anyone else and he's back to calm and rational. It's as if his whole persona is a complete fake, and he's not actually irrational or hot headed at all. He plays it up like he is, and everyone just goes along with it. We learn in later seasons that he was raised by humans and has a half-human son, acts completely sane, and has good technical skills. He learned how to be Klingon from a book, or perhaps watching original Trek episodes.

Poop Delicatessen posted:

Best use of this was Valkyrie, which had Tom Cruise reading out a letter in German and then slowly fading into English in the opening. It was simple and well-done. The movie was better than I expected in pretty much every way.

IShallRiseAgain posted:

I think the trailers are just bad. Watch the Japanese one, it makes the movie look a lot better http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zzSqWUmlts.

Sagebrush posted:

If it's anything like the Harvard of today, if you got in but didn't get a scholarship that waives either all or most of the tuition, you're not that smart and they don't actually want you.

Sucrose posted:

Oh yeah, that guy. I can't think of any examples off the top of my head, but I know and hate that guy. He can't be just a good guy for the time period, no, he has to have morals exactly mirrored to modern day ones, like he's a fricken time-traveler or something.

DrBouvenstein posted: