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"The Following" with Kevin Bacon had the following exchanges in the pilot:quote:Every Tuesday, Carroll was shackled and transported to the Sussex County law library, where he was confined to a sealed room, one guard. quote:Carroll never visited same web address twice, which suggests he's using various URLs. Carroll was an english professor btw
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Was gentrification a theme anyone else picked up on in BB2000? I only saw it ounce as a kid long ago so maybe I'm overanalysing stale memories. In the first film, everyones part of the struggling underclass. The orphanage is being closed by an uncaring bureaucracy and Curtis and the Penguin will be kicked out. We see all these music legends and Aretha Franklin is working in a diner and John Lee Hooker is busking outside. Elwood lives in one room beside a railway line. In BB2000 the soul food diner is a Mercedes dealership and Bob's Country Bunker is a nice restaurant and everything feels so clean in a Star Wars prequel kind of way in comparison. The original had a great character dynamic between Jake and Elwood, but in BB2000 the characters were just... nothing. The kid, John Goodman and the cop all got a little characterisation when we first meet them, but once they donned the suits, their personalities were stripped away.
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Sep 18, 2016 12:58
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Krinkle posted:Whoa buddy you cut out there for a minute. That don't make a lick of sense. There aren't two thousand blues brothers. There's just two. Jake and Elwood. Unfortunately John Belushi died in 1982 so they never made a sequel. It was in the DVD version I had but not the VHS. I thought it was a glue factory, which explained how he had those cans of glue he used on the Good Ol' Boys' RV and the elevator panel? Been a while since I saw it. A couple other differences I recall: The gas station where Elwood meets Twiggy explodes, adding nothing to the story. John Lee Hooker's bit is considerably longer and I have no idea why they cut him down to about 10 seconds in the theatrical release because that's just criminal.
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I hope someday they adapt the books that encourage children to poach pheasants and poison their granny e: well poo poo there is a Danny Champion of the World film. Jeremy Irons and Robbie Coltrane are in it. bitterandtwisted has a new favorite as of 14:31 on Sep 23, 2016 |
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Sep 23, 2016 14:28
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Byzantine posted:Thor (and Norse myth in general) is only well-known in the public consciousness because of Marvel making him a superhero. Thor was actually chosen because Stan Lee figured people were too familiar with the Greek gods and he wanted something more obscure. The general public had never heard of bats before batman made them popular  who the gently caress had even heard of comicbook Thor before the movies came out?
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Speaking of Liar Liar, I rewatched it a while ago and Fletcher's client deserved to win. Some rich rear end in a top hat knocks up an underage girl then tries to leave her destitute following their divorce and we're meant to think this guy's a victim. The only line he had in the movie was "I didn't know she was underage"  Ace Ventura is bizarrely homophobic - inducing vomiting and burning all his clothes when he finds Einhart is Finkle in disguise - and there's no payoff or purpose beyond "kissing boys is gross" Mask was just unfunny. I should stop rewatching things I used to like. :/
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Dec 19, 2016 17:35
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DrBouvenstein posted:Uhh...did you miss the part where he's trying to leave her destitute because she was out there fuckin' other dudes? Prenups are a bad concept, glad we don't allow them where I live. Nutsngum posted:Youve got a really weird way of reading movies. The point was she was underage for the wedding to be legal. Nothing said the guy wasnt 18 or 19 at the time. He's clearly older than her. E: and what wampalord said bitterandtwisted has a new favorite as of 18:50 on Dec 19, 2016 |
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I think they got R2 and 3PO's backstories the wrong way round. Have Anakin build R2. Anakin worked in a repair shop and a repair droid would be useful. Plus R2 seemed to have a lot of non-standard features and spent the rest of the prequels with Anakin and Obi-Wan. 3PO could have just been a droid the queen already owned. Protocol droids sound like the wort of thing a queen would have. Or better yet don't give Anakin robot building skills that would never be seen or referenced again in the franchise.
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Jan 5, 2017 10:41
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Why would marrying Fiona make Farquaad King of Duloc? Is Shrek now King of Duloc?
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Jan 5, 2017 11:33
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Marrying a princess makes you a princess' husband. Even marrying a queen won't necessarily make you king. Mirror gave bad advice there imo
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Jan 5, 2017 11:43
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In JP1, the dinosaurs are animals. As the humans lose control, the island just becomes an ecosystem where humans aren't the top predator. In JP2 the dinosaurs are monsters. Compsognathus are land piranhas. If the sick triceratops scene had happened in JP2, it would have chomped some extra's head off. T-rex in the City was dumb. Maybe I'm it's an unfair stereotype of Americans, but if there was a real life monster walking about town eating people, wouldn't thousands of gun-totting rednecks in pickups be racing to be the one to bag it? Why did anyone want to save the monster that's eating people when you could clone a whole bunch more? JW was just too dumb for me to stay invested in the characters and world Oh no, our super dinosaur is missing, let's just walk right into the last place we knew it was oh poo poo it is still there and has a cloaking device! Let's team up with the velociraptors and T-rex to fight the mutant superdino and learn the true meaning of friendship 
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Feb 2, 2017 12:46
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Beachcomber posted:The T-Rex thing took place over a single night and there probably wasn't even any solid news until it was already over. Also, you would need some serious firepower to even make a dent in an animal that large, which most hunters/gun nuts aren't going to have. Did they have a personal bond with the man eating monster in the post-extinction universe they live in?
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Feb 2, 2017 17:19
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sinburger posted:You are aware that JW is a fictional movie and not a documentary yea? Multiple people had to make a conscious decision to plan and shoot a horrific death scene for a character who didn't do anything remotely worthy of deserving it. I don't think anyone said she deserved it. Toilet lawyer didn't deserve it either. They just weren't given much empathetic characterisation because the purpose of their deaths wasn't to make us sad, but to show the spectacle of people being eaten by dinosaurs.
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Feb 2, 2017 17:59
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I tried rewatching Stargate as an adult. The pilot had more full frontal nudity and rape than I expected from a cheesy daytime sci-fi adventure.
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Jun 1, 2017 10:52
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On the subject of martial arts, I've been watching a bunch of Jackie Chan films lately (not seen much of his stuff before), mostly his Honk Kong ones. The fights are so creative and entertaining. Then I watched Rush Hour. Bleh. There's far less action, what there is is uninventive and edited as if they're filming some actor with no fighting experience and hiding it with cuts. The only bit that felt like his other films was when he's fighting while trying to save the priceless vases. Then they destroy the vases 
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Jun 7, 2017 16:11
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Thanks friends, that's a great video. I wasn't going to bother with The Accidental Spy but maybe I will now 
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Jun 7, 2017 19:39
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Daredevil's sight works like this, right? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ8aLRnd80k
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Jun 13, 2017 13:37
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Stewart has often said he was grateful to star trek for boosting his career and I don't think he ever expressed resentment toward it, but it was probably nice to be complimented on a project he did out of passion. His Macbeth was really good imo
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Jul 20, 2017 12:04
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starkebn posted:Also, nearly every movie that includes it's title as dialogue is incredibly clunky if it's not a common word Bond films always seem to do this but I can't remember or imagine how they worked Quantum of Solace in.
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Aug 15, 2017 12:30
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT8646Nx2C0
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Aug 15, 2017 14:01
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Wheat Loaf posted:It's like, why did He-Man need a secret identity if Skeletor already wanted to kill Prince Adam anyway? To keep his fabulous magical powers secret from his parents.
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Aug 30, 2017 16:19
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The hobbit should have been one film with a more humorous tone. They opened with Ian Holm as old Bilbo narrating the story, so already they have their reason for the inconsistency. More dwarves singing "chip the cups and crack the plates, that's what Bilbo Baggins hates!", fewer long, boring and unbelievable fights and videogame bosses
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Sep 4, 2017 12:20
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Beorn in the book was Brian Blessed, not this boring gloomy-guts 
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Sep 4, 2017 13:02
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Captain Monkey posted:No that's accurate. Later an elf lady falls in love with him and they (probably?) bang. There are three handsome dwarfs: the leader and the two younger ones and she bangs one of the young ones. The dwarves in the book had very little characterization aside from Thorin. There's the fat one who fell asleep alot and is a complete liability, but the film has none of that. There's Balin (later lord of Moria) who is Bilbo's bff but the film had none of that. There's two two young ones who die offscreen. So the film bigs up their roles, gives one a stupid love subplot and has more epic battles.
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Wheat Loaf posted:The one scene in the last one where the Eye of Sauron explodes out of this tower in Dol Guldur is pretty cool-looking,  I''m gonna fight em all A five nation army couldn't hold me back
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Sep 6, 2017 07:25
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I'm an independent torture contractor I get confessions that are totally admissible in court.
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Sep 19, 2017 09:30
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Cowslips Warren posted:
Look at how humans treat humans who are servants, slaves or just a lower social status.
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Nov 15, 2017 16:04
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Why might someone poo poo-talk the tories more from 2010 to present than from 1997 to 2010? 
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Nov 22, 2017 17:34
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Turtlicious posted:Right but how is that a bad thing? I know I'm getting sucked into a troll post, but I wanna know where this is gonna go. Alhazred gave cliches the movie avoids as examples or things noted movie idiot mrbibs might think were missing from the movie oh my god I'm explaining jokes in pyf
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Saw "When Worlds Collide" recently. There's a lot of Biblical allegory going on with the old sinful world burning and a chosen group escaping on the Ark. The chosen are entirely white, with Hollywood good-looks. The director was a Polish Jew who worked in Austria and Germany until the 1930s so I don't expect there was any intended message behind that; it's just how things were in Hollywood back then.
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Dec 11, 2017 11:45
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:It bugs me when in spy movies, the spy guy sneaks into a place to take pictures of some hidden secret plan thing, and for some reason starts acting like he's shooting models. The lace cravat/shirtsleeve combo was also too conspicuous imo
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Dec 13, 2017 19:38
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John Wick really rode a fine line between being self-aware and being an outright parody of action films. I liked the bit where John was killing countless unnamed mooks while one guy was doing the same thing in a videogame
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Jan 24, 2018 12:53
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Jedit posted:Why, does Fred pull the mask off to reveal it was Old Man Simmons? You could be remembered alongside the Wright Brothers, Elon Musk and Zephran Cochrain! -actual star trek discovery line
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Feb 12, 2018 16:23
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Drunken Baker posted:
Buying a plane ticket is not that challenging imo
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Everyone who dies in walking dead comes back regardless of whether they were bit, right? Do they treat the elderly like ticking bombs?
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Triffids and blindness were unrelated. The triffids were a top secret gm crop that spread worldwide when the guy stealing the seeds plane got blown up. Everyone got used to the weird moving plants over the next 20 years and they became a vital food source. The meteors are implied to be WMDs designed to cause blindness and plague and the protagonist is the only one who cares about the triffid threat at first - everyone else gives him poo poo for it. 28 Days Later totally stole the hospital intro from Triffids but I can't be mad, it was a great scene. E: talking about the book. Only adaptation I've seen is a tv movie with Eddie Izzard. It wasn't great. bitterandtwisted has a new favorite as of 10:01 on Feb 23, 2018 |
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Feb 23, 2018 09:57
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Beachcomber posted:Doom isn't even about Doom. It had a pinky demon and BFG Shame they got rid of the whole hell thing in favour of a dumb good/evil dna idea but I guess Event Horizon already did that really well.
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Burtontalk made me look up his filmography and I learned he's making a live action Dumbo film.
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Apr 12, 2018 15:41
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Mu Zeta posted:It's a Disney live action. All the ones that come out have been bland as gently caress like Beauty and the Beast and Cinderella. I'm expecting Aladdin (Guy Ritchie) and Dumbo will be exactly the same. It will be done Burton style and look like rear end 
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yeah I eat rear end posted:he already did plenty of bad things by the time he went to dumbledork for a job though. Also it's debatable that dumbledore was a good guy. Did dumbledore know he’d killed anyone by that point? I recall the penseive scenes were all 2nd hand accounts he’d gathered years after the fact.
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