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Yeah that is literally the entire point of the end of the film that Wolverine remembers the 50 years that never happened. Xavier even explicitly stated it in the first 10 minutes that that's what would happen.
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On a more relevant note, on rewatching The Raid, why does Rama never pick up a single weapon? Even when he drops his own knife then beats 10 guys to death he just wanders off without picking it up into another situation where he has no weapon and is at a disadvantage. He obviously has no problem killing people so why is he making it harder for himself? At least Dredd has the reason of never lowering himself to using a non-judge weapon.
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May 25, 2014 01:29
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An annoying thing about The Raid 2 is how they just kill off the corrupt cop and Rama's brother in the first five minutes. If you skipped the very beginning you could watch it on its own without considering it a sequel.
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May 25, 2014 01:31
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Celery Face posted:Last time I saw Into The Wild was in grade 9 and it was only part of it but there's something I still don't get about it. Was the movie trying to make you agree with Christopher McCandless? Even in grade 9, when I didn't know anything about the incident, I knew he was going to starve to death. He makes a big deal about how horrible his life is but he just graduated from university with a law degree and his parents were trying to buy him a nice car. Then he just abandons his family to go into the Alaskan wilderness with almost no gear or any knowledge of how to survive. Plus, he mooches off of people he meets, ignores warnings from park rangers and poaches animals. I am a very big fan of Chris' story and feel I can attest that no, you aren't supposed to actually agree with his direct actions. Only the spirit of them. What he did was stupid, selfish, and essentially suicide. However, the point of the book and movie were to help you understand him. An important theme of the movie and Krakauer's book is that you can lend some understanding to a person without completely buying into what they're selling. Chris was a disillusioned young man who held tightly onto many disappointments about life and its meaning, which is something that just about any starry eyed kid can relate to. So in that vein one should be able to understand his intentions. Chris' story is one that has been close to my heart since I was an edgy teenager. But it served it's purpose in also showing me the folly of taking such drastic actions. My own issues with society and the meaning of life allow me to relate to Chris and sympathize with his plight, while at the same time his story serves as a shining example of what not to do when faced with such weariness about the world.
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May 25, 2014 06:45
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I watched The American last night and thought it was great how they had George Clooney's assassin character take his shoes off, presumably so that his footsteps would not make any noise as he and another man ran down the cobbled streets. Very smart. Then about 30 seconds later a moped came hurtling down the same narrow street, surprising and smashing through both of them, because it is, of course, a law of cinema that if you can't see something then you can't hear it either.
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May 25, 2014 16:01
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Days of Future Past reminded me of one: I hate when people that have innate / perfect control over something (Magneto with metal, anyone with The Force or Telekenesis, etc) do outlandish hand/head motions when doing their thing. If you're that awesome at it, you should be able to do it without flinging your arms around. It's especially annoying because I know exactly why it bugs me: I remember some lovely early-90s miniseries about Merlin, and in that miniseries it codified the levels of wizardry by how the wizard could cast spells. From weakest to strongest, it was Cast From Books, Cast From Incantations, Cast With Hand Motions, Cast Effortlessly. Despite it never being A Thing in any other property, it somehow has welded itself into my memory that I innately apply it to everything else.
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May 25, 2014 18:54
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I always took it that Magneto waves his arms around majestically so everyone around knows exactly who is moving things. It's part of his personal sense of asserting his superiority/powers.
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May 25, 2014 18:59
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That awful WB series about witches Charmed actually did something entertaining with that. One of the main characters had telekinesis ,but unlike her ancestor who had the same power, she was able to move things without having to wave her hands around like an idiot. Instead she rolleded her eyes around like an idiot.
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May 25, 2014 19:39
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Slim Killington posted:Whatever happened to good old-fashioned paranoia-inducing film? There's a reason we're scared to swim in the ocean or why we get a little nervous in the shower when we're all alone. It's time to make a film that preys on everyone's attachment to cell phones and scares people a little. They did, it's called App. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLIbQsv7_jI
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May 25, 2014 21:33
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Bill Dungsroman posted:I always took it that Magneto waves his arms around majestically so everyone around knows exactly who is moving things. It's part of his personal sense of asserting his superiority/powers.  That's just how he rolls.
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May 25, 2014 21:39
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New Godzilla: it you cut out every scene where a monster roared toward the camera pointlessly the movie would be 20 minutes shorter. And you'd easily lose another 10 if you also took out the scenes where the camera comes around a corner or through a door to reveal that the entire other side of it missing in a huge crater.
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May 25, 2014 22:51
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Paper Diamonds posted:New Godzilla: it you cut out every scene where a monster roared toward the camera pointlessly the movie would be 20 minutes shorter. And you'd easily lose another 10 if you also took out the scenes where the camera comes around a corner or through a door to reveal that the entire other side of it missing in a huge crater. I also hate fun.
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May 25, 2014 22:53
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Those roar moments are sincerely my favorite part of the movie, that and the fatality. The holes though, the first was understandable , the second was just silly.
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May 26, 2014 00:05
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Bill Dungsroman posted:I always took it that Magneto waves his arms around majestically so everyone around knows exactly who is moving things. It's part of his personal sense of asserting his superiority/powers. I just assumed its like one of the many quirks humans have, like closing your eyes when trying to listen intently, turning the music down when trying find a certain street while driving, or tilting the joypad when playing a racing game. Maybe the manipulation of metal is helped by a small gesture to focus your mind. Who knows, but if I was flying along like Magneto I'd probably put my hands out like that too.
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May 26, 2014 00:07
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bucketybuck posted:I just assumed its like one of the many quirks humans have, like closing your eyes when trying to listen intently, turning the music down when trying find a certain street while driving, or tilting the joypad when playing a racing game. Plus, I think it would just be boring, visually, if every shot of him doing things is just him standing static.
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May 26, 2014 00:43
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What's the point of having an overt power like that if you have no showmanship?
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May 26, 2014 00:44
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That's what Charles is trying to take away from mutants in that little school of his- pizzazz!
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May 26, 2014 01:08
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Squalitude posted:I watched The American last night and thought it was great how they had George Clooney's assassin character take his shoes off, presumably so that his footsteps would not make any noise as he and another man ran down the cobbled streets. Very smart. Then about 30 seconds later a moped came hurtling down the same narrow street, surprising and smashing through both of them, because it is, of course, a law of cinema that if you can't see something then you can't hear it either. The moped had removed its shoes as well.
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May 26, 2014 02:51
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Veib posted:
Why is Magneto hella ripped? This Magneto looks like he just bends metal with raw brawniness. This Magneto doesn't even look like he uses mind-radar to manipulate magnets. How's Magneto get quads like those by just waving his arms around???
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May 26, 2014 06:10
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:Why is Magneto hella ripped? This Magneto looks like he just bends metal with raw brawniness. This Magneto doesn't even look like he uses mind-radar to manipulate magnets. How's Magneto get quads like those by just waving his arms around???
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May 26, 2014 06:45
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:Why is Magneto hella ripped? This Magneto looks like he just bends metal with raw brawniness. This Magneto doesn't even look like he uses mind-radar to manipulate magnets. How's Magneto get quads like those by just waving his arms around??? It's a fighting game, I'm pretty sure Xavier was in it and was hella ripped despite not actually having any means to participate in the average brawl. They probably gave him telekinesis or something.
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:Why is Magneto hella ripped? This Magneto looks like he just bends metal with raw brawniness. This Magneto doesn't even look like he uses mind-radar to manipulate magnets. How's Magneto get quads like those by just waving his arms around??? For the same reason that 
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May 26, 2014 09:18
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bucketybuck posted:I just assumed its like one of the many quirks humans have, like closing your eyes when trying to listen intently, turning the music down when trying find a certain street while driving, or tilting the joypad when playing a racing game. It's like how people swerve the whole controller even when games have no motion controls.
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I remember watching a video a while back where people were wearing a sort of headset which measured brain activity in some way. The machine could recognize certain patterns and it was really easy to calibrate certain patterns (the user imagining moving a cursor up, for example) and link it so that those thoughts would actually be realized in a digital environment. The manipulation was quite advanced, allowing a novice user to move a camera perspective around (including zooming in and the like) quite easily after only 5 minutes or so of practice and calibration. I'm sure that as these kinds of technologies will become increasingly common and tasks performed with them will be more complex, research will be done (or already is being done) on the effect of gestures on mental tasks like that. It wouldn't surprise me that Magneto would point at a single, specific bit of iron to focus on and manipulate it instead of picking up the wrong bit or the whole pile by mistake. This is probably the nerdiest thing I've thought about in the last week.
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Paper Diamonds posted:New Godzilla: it you cut out every scene where a monster roared toward the camera pointlessly the movie would be 20 minutes shorter. And you'd easily lose another 10 if you also took out the scenes where the camera comes around a corner or through a door to reveal that the entire other side of it missing in a huge crater. Counter-point: if you took out every scene where the guy or his wife did anything at all, it would be a pretty good movie.
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In the new Godzilla just make Bryan Cranston the main character. Seriously he packed more acting into that 45-second scene of him talking through the glass than the rest of the movie combined
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May 26, 2014 16:58
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:Why is Magneto hella ripped? Because Rob Liefeld: 
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May 26, 2014 17:08
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You mean Jim Lee, Liefeld's partner:
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May 26, 2014 17:16
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Mission Impossible's super spying where Ethan Hunt goes on Usenet and looks up "Max.com" to find the black market broker.
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Creature posted:The moped had removed its shoes as well. Falsehood- Clooney then gets onto the moped (without his shoes!) and drives off, and the mped is still really noisy!
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Veib posted:
"You arrrrrre the last dragggggon and you possess the power of the glow (the glow... the glow...)"
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Slim Killington posted:You mean Jim Lee, Liefeld's partner: He drew Prof. X with the same build (including his loving legs).
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OK Octopus posted:"You arrrrrre the last dragggggon and you possess the power of the glow (the glow... the glow...)" Oh wow, I haven't seen the full movie but the resemblance really is uncanny.
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:Why is Magneto hella ripped? This Magneto looks like he just bends metal with raw brawniness. This Magneto doesn't even look like he uses mind-radar to manipulate magnets. How's Magneto get quads like those by just waving his arms around???
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CJacobs posted:
This also happens in real life, all the time. Like stranded people yelling at helicopters or planes flying over head.
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May 26, 2014 22:29
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Say whatever you will, but talking/yelling to my old 56K modem made it connect faster.
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mng posted:Okay it's not really irrational because I think a lot of people hate this, but the loving Wilhelm Scream! No matter how 'clever' the editors try to sneak it in or mask it, it is instantly obvious and takes me right out of the movie for a minute. It's not funny any more! There's another sound effect that I hear in just about every movie, TV show and video game that really annoys me. Whenever anyone opens a metallic door or hatch, there's the exact same sound: one long high-pitched squeak and two short low-pitched squeaks. I'm sure it's the same thing but I have no idea how to transliterate that sound or search for it to find out if it really is the same thing or if anything hinged and metal just sounds like that.
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Stottie Kyek posted:There's another sound effect that I hear in just about every movie, TV show and video game that really annoys me. Whenever anyone opens a metallic door or hatch, there's the exact same sound: one long high-pitched squeak and two short low-pitched squeaks. I'm sure it's the same thing but I have no idea how to transliterate that sound or search for it to find out if it really is the same thing or if anything hinged and metal just sounds like that. I've been trying to search for it, and I think I know which one you mean. Is it this one? http://www.hark.com/clips/glnvyhrndp-metaldoor
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muscles like this? posted:Mission Impossible's super spying where Ethan Hunt goes on Usenet and looks up "Max.com" to find the black market broker. Mission Impossible came at the perfect time because it encapsulates the technology of that era without going full-retard like most late-90s techno-thrillers.
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mng posted:I've been trying to search for it, and I think I know which one you mean. Is it this one? http://www.hark.com/clips/glnvyhrndp-metaldoor Yes!! Yes, that's it! Why has it been in everything? How hard can it be to record something else metal and creaky, or just use the actual noise in the background without adding that in? edit: thank-you so much for finding it, by the way. Now I can explain to my friends the thing that annoys me without having to try to make that noise. Stottie Kyek has a new favorite as of 00:41 on May 27, 2014 |
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