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BrBa posted:- This one doesn't bother me for sounding artificial, but more for being silly and unnecessary: At the very end when Jeremy Renner asks her 'Do you want to make a baby?' As if anyone watching the movie is somehow still confused about him being her baby daddy. You'd be surprised how many people came away from that movie having absolutely no idea about what it was trying to convey at the end. I think probably because it had a pretty big mainstream marketing campaign, you had a decent amount of older people and those less experienced with the conventions of science fiction watching the movie. It seemed like anyone over 50 that I talked to about it were just completely clueless as to what was going on there towards the end. Somebody has a new favorite as of 04:33 on Dec 15, 2017 |
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Samuringa posted:It's one very little thing and it doesn't really bother me because it was just a dumb action movie but I think I missed something in The Raid 2: the first 30 minutes or so are tying loose ends and setting up the future plot, they kill Rama's brother, the corrupt cop, introduce the villain and explain that nobody will miss Rama since he was just a newbie. But what about his buddy cop that gets escorted out from the shack? He was someone in the force but never gets mentioned again. I think it's less about Rama being new to the force, and more about the huge body count. They have this police van stuffed with dead cops, and they can make sure that nobody knows that the list is missing two names. I assume by "nobody", they are referring more to the press and the general public, because that many cops being killed will be big news. But these guys are at a high level in the police department and would be able to fudge whatever paperwork they need to make it look right to a layman looking at the report. They'll just make it so Rama's friend was officially not on that assignment and maybe he was in a car accident or something to explain his injuries. Shorter version: Rama is a guy that can truly disappear and not many questions would be asked, the other surviving officer will just be given a cover story and told to keep it quiet about Rama not being dead.
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Jan 2, 2018 21:35
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Two Feet From Bread posted:I'm fine. Trump won the election. He didn't break any laws and wasn't colluding with the Russians. People who didn't vote for him might want to just get the gently caress over it instead of shoe horning it into EVERY loving TOPIC. That's only like half of the reason for the investigation. Even if we've proven beyond doubt that Trump is innocent(we haven't), a full investigation still needs to be conducted on how/who/to what end the Russian government tried to influence the outcome of one of our elections. Who cares if they succeeded this time? They tried, which is at this point an incontrovertible fact, so it needs to be investigated. Which was going along fine until Trump fired the guy in charge of the investigation, prompting another guy to be appointed so that it could continue. It's really not that complicated unless you just think it's cool for representatives of a foreign government to be actively trying to penetrate out election systems.
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Mar 1, 2018 22:02
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Jedit posted:Mortal Kombat is a great movie to enjoy with popcorn while your brain does something else. I watched it recently while half paying attention to something I was cooking and it's perfect for something like that. Every time I glance at the screen here's a little fun scene I remember from when I was a kid, but I don't have to fully invest my time in watching it.
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Mar 2, 2018 19:26
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Also, remember that these shows are targeted at old people who live in places where the problem we have with law enforcement in this country still isn't widely recognized. So when boomers watch a show where cops abuse suspects and are still portrayed as purely good guys, they still eat it up.
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Mar 15, 2018 20:24
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Light Gun Man posted:Makes you wonder why they don't just use this trick to get like, literal superpowers then murder the demon. Just trick the low rank noobs into giving you a deal then bam. Because it never actually works out. It "works out" in the sense that someone usually ends up in Hell or possessed by a Nephilim or some poo poo and they spend half a season fixing the mistake.
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Mar 23, 2018 20:46
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Leavemywife posted:And this guy is the protagonist? The protagonist in the first film was not Del Toro, it was an inexperienced agent played by Emily Blunt. That's what made the movie compelling, the interplay between her, her boss played by Brolin, and Del Toro. The sequel seems like it's going all Death Wish on us so we'll see, but it's still Sheridan writing so I'm still optimistic.
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Mar 26, 2018 20:51
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Hercules is good but beating Lion King and The Little Mermaid back to back is bullshit.
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Mar 27, 2018 16:36
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MrJacobs posted:What kind of fucktard doesn't use classic era Disney in this kind of comparison? Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Jungle Book, The Rescuers, and motherfucking Fantasia should have been on that list. The kids voted for Tangled over Lion King, how many of them do you think have ever seen Sleeping Beauty or Fantasia?
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Mar 27, 2018 18:50
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Ego-bot posted:If I'm watching a movie on bluray, I don't need a commercial trying to convince me that I should be watching movies on bluray. Just another reason to try to stick to more serious releases that are aimed more at collectors, like Criterion, Arrow, or collectors edition box sets. They usually don't have any of the annoying adds and they take you straight to the menu. Like, don't buy John Wick on blu ray, wait until JW3 comes out and buy them all in a big set and it probably will be much nicer and have no ads.
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Apr 4, 2018 21:23
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jabby posted:The best thing is that the time travel in Looper is pretty much perfectly logically consistent if I remember correctly. So they could have explained it, they just chose not to. It's consistent within the framework of the film, but certainly not to any real logic as we understand it or that could be easily explained. Main example being that young Bruce only does what he does because of his encounter with Old Bruce, and yet the ending of the film has him erasing all that by killing himself. So if Young Bruce never grows old, how does Old Bruce come back and cause the events that lead to the creation of the Rainmaker? One possible explanation is that we're seeing the birth of a completely new timeline, but of course that itself is sci-fi mumbo jumbo and I'm not sure it really qualifies as an "explanation". The mob's entire scheme is like that actually. They're sending old versions of their employees back in time to be killed, and then the younger version gets a retirement bonus and gets to go off and live a great life for the next 25 years. So if they do that, why will they need to then be sent back and killed 25 years later? Basebf555 has a new favorite as of 20:13 on Apr 12, 2018 |
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Apr 12, 2018 20:05
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Armacham posted:A lot of movies nowadays will just have a title card at the beginning. Many modern films will actually have 2 closing credits sequences because they are obligated to list certain credits twice and with no opening credits, this is the only solution. The Marvel films have been doing this for a good while now, cold open with a title card, then double credits at the end. It works for them because the post-credits teaser has become a thing on it's own that people anticipate, so now they've just doubled up on that and every Marvel movie has the standard post-credits scene, then a super secret teaser after the second credits.
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Apr 25, 2018 16:05
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Stairs posted:I watched Tremors 6 yesterday and it mostly upset me because Burt was way harsher and meaner than he needed to be in almost every way. Burt's a chill badass who doesn't need to swear like a sailor or threaten people all the time to make his point and they just turned him into a jerk. I'm sorry to say that I have to agree with this post. I watched Tremors 5 and 6 back to back last night, and while 5 will never be preserved by the Library of Congress, it was still fun and entertaining overall. Tremors 6 is just not a lot of fun at all, and Burt is way more abrasive than he's ever been in the past.
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May 4, 2018 14:38
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Imagined posted:I don't even understand why they went to the trouble of licensing the 'Rampage' name. That game was never the most popular arcade game and its peak was thirty years ago. There are no diehard Rampage fans clamoring for a movie. There's only the barest plot in the game. Werewolves and giant apes and gorillas aren't copyrighted. I'm sure the license wasn't that expensive nowadays, but why even bother? It's not like "Rampage" is an inappropriate name for the movie they made, and if the name gets 2% more people to buy tickets then they're definitely going to do it. It's not like Rampage would've been an expensive property to license.
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May 16, 2018 18:25
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Imagined posted:Jupiter Ascending was the movie that really drove home to me though that there are absolutely no limits anymore to what can be shown in a movie except imagination and budget. I think this is an admirable quality that the Wachowski's seem to be able to consistently deliver even when the movie isn't great overall. Jupiter Ascending, Cloud Atlas, and Speed Racer are all films that certainly have flaws but the imagination and creativity in them is also extremely obvious and I find it impossible not to enjoy them. Basebf555 has a new favorite as of 14:24 on May 17, 2018 |
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May 17, 2018 14:21
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Yea the idea is that a "destroyed" program like Smith would've been supposed to return to the Source, and yea theoretically once there maybe he'd be reuploaded or repurposed or whatever. But Smith, somehow as a result of his contact with Neo, was able to rebel against that and remain in the Matrix as more of a virus.
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May 17, 2018 15:22
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Beef Jerky Robot posted:Speed Racer is a stone cold masterpiece Speed Racer is the one out of those three that does get some positive attention, but Cloud Atlas deserves some too. For whatever flaws you might want to argue it has(shoddy make-up jobs, dumb sounding dialects) I still think it's a massive accomplishment and I rewatch it every few years because the scope and variety of it is something you don't find in many films.
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May 17, 2018 16:36
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yeah I eat rear end posted:If they are actually making a crank 3 it would make my year. Probably not gonna happen. Especially if Hobbes & Shaw makes a billion dollars, Statham will probably be on to bigger and better things for the forseeable future.
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May 17, 2018 17:53
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Was Molly Weasley evil for killing Bellatrix? No, she was doing what was necessary. Dumbledore should have killed Voldemort even in the department of mysteries battle but his arrogant moral code got in the way and required harry to do the dirty work for him. He's saying that it would be impossible for Dumbledore to even use the killing curse, it's not in him. Molly was able to use it because she was enraged by her child's death and the near death of Ginny.
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May 21, 2018 19:19
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Snape was a creepy bastard, but he wasn't evil. (for the record, this opinion and my lack of fawning over his "love" (obsession) got me banned from the harry potter reddit) Really? Kinda surprising, but not really I guess considering it's reddit. I thought Snape's creepiness was an intentional part of the character, like hey yea he's a bit of a creeper to be still obsessing about Harry's mom but whatever deep down he's not a bad guy.
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May 21, 2018 19:52
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Wheat Loaf posted:The thing that used to irrationally irritate me about Return of the King is in the scene at the Black Gate: Aragorn rallies his men and he's on horseback (as are Gandalf, Gimli and Legolas, Eomer et al.), then it cuts to Frodo and Sam trudging through Mordor, then it cuts back to the Black Gate, Sauron's army has surrounded Aragorn's party and none of them have horses any more. They just disappear. One thing that irritates me about those scenes is that Viggo's voice gets like oddly nasally while he's making his big speech and imo it kinda ruins it. It happens a few other times in the trilogy but not at such a crucial moment.
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May 21, 2018 20:46
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Alhazred posted:Also, it incredible hard to sneak into Mordor in the first place. In order to avoid the Black Gates (which is impossible to go through undetected) you have to find a secret stairway which lead to a giant spider. If you manages to get pass that (and Sam and Frodo is the only ones ever to have done that) you enter a land where everything is trying to kill you (including the very air you breathe). All that is true but the real answer is what VanSandman said, it's just not in Sauron's worldview to even attempt to destroy The Ring. The only context he sees all of these events in is a battle for possession of The Ring, and therefore the power to rule over Middle Earth. It simply never occurs to him that others would not be interested in this power and would instead choose to destroy it to prevent him from having it.
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May 22, 2018 20:02
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Sauron and Voldemort are very similar villains in that way. They both think that everyone else is driven by the same thing that drives them. In Sauron's case it's a lust for power, in Voldemort's it's hate and fear, but it leads to their downfall in both situations because their opponents are just running on a different core than they are. Harry's love for his mother and his friends overcomes Voldemort's hate, and the humble, earnest desires of Hobbits; their complete lack of worldly ambition, is able to subvert all of Sauron's plans and defenses.
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May 22, 2018 20:20
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RareAcumen posted:Yeah, he spent two years being champion of Sakaar so all of a sudden he loses a fight and he refuses to fight anyone anymore because champions don't lose. I think the missing piece here is that Hulk actually develops a lot as a personality and gains the ability to have more complex thoughts and feelings towards others while he's on Sakaar. So when he leaves it makes sense that he wouldn't want to immediately jump right back into being a weapon that the Avengers just point at whatever they want to get smashed. Of course, none of this is actually in the movie so...
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May 31, 2018 19:16
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I still can't believe this is a real thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCKhktcbfQM
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Black August posted:Hulk spent TWO years, as himself, with friends, admiration, comfort and endless stuff to smash. He became his own person in that time, and now it’s all being taken away while he gets punched and dicked around by people he hasn’t seen for years. Right but I guess the point is only a small group of comic book readers know that, none(or very little) of it is actually in any of the movies. The mainstream audience who knows nothing about Planet Hulk seems to have interpreted it a different way because of the way they set everything up.
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rydiafan posted:As with all superheroes, his powers are exactly as strong as the current plot line requires them to be. And now that he's heading up his own blockbuster franchise, the plot line will never require him to be dead so yea lets just go with he's functionally immortal.
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Jun 7, 2018 21:39
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My Lovely Horse posted:Speaking of which it's also really weird to have just one Spider-Man movie and then already go NEW SUIT TIME. I feel like with Spiderman they're listening to fans who pretty unanimously said they didn't want to start all the way back at square one again with another origin story. So they've compressed all that by having him developing as Spiderman mostly off-screen. By the time we see him in Infinity War, he's already gone through those first few years of growing pains, saved the city from supervillains a few times, and helped Tony Stark in a big showdown with the rogue Avengers. It seems to have been the right way to handle it, especially with how perfect the casting was this time around. Holland absolutely did not need multiple solo movies to establish himself, he did that almost immediately within a single scene.
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Aleph Null posted:Jurassic Part III and Tea Leoni. No good YouTube compilation of her yelling in the dinosaur filled jungle. Well in Jurassic Park III that's the whole point of the scene. She and her husband are bumbling around in the jungle without having any idea what the gently caress they're doing. Grant immediately tells her to shut the hell up.
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Jun 22, 2018 20:13
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The point is there is no reason to assume the meteor was purposely send towards Earth by the bugs, there's zero evidence that the bugs have the capability of doing something like that. But of course the fascist government will jump on any opportunity to justify a new war against the bugs so nobody gives a poo poo whether it really was them or not. The true answer to the question doesn't matter, the point is that the people in power don't care either. They get the outcome they want either way.
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Jul 11, 2018 15:22
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The Bloop posted:I... Did you watch the whole thing? That beginning was fully explained at the end If you'd already checked out by that point it would be easy to miss, it's really just like a 5 second clip that shows you where that voiceover was coming from.
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Jul 13, 2018 15:10
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Aphrodite posted:Oh I don't know, I'm a big coward who can't do horror movies in theaters so I haven't seen it yet. Part of the premise of the movie is that the creatures have some sort of armor that is impenetrable to everything we can throw at it. You either accept that or you don't. They're aliens. They're also agile and move extremely fast, doesn't seem like there would've been an opportunity to just drop a nuke on all of them at once, if we assume something like that would've been effective.
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Jul 16, 2018 16:05
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Serf posted:They were clearly opening their head-shells every time they tried to listen for stuff. You can see it both times they're attacking the girl and get driven off, and when the one kills Jim from the Office at the end there. Seems like you'd have a clear shot in that moment. Big difference between what they do when they're listening, and this:  which allows someone to step right up within inches and put a shotgun blast into it's face.
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The Thin Red Line is about 3 hours long, but like 2.5 hours of that is guys walking through the jungle with various philosophical voiceovers in hushed tones so that you can't even make out which character is saying the words.
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Perestroika posted:Yeah, in retrospect the long timeskip of 1+ year was kind of a bad idea. They should have stuck at the ~day 90 mark the movie started out with. At that point it'd be much more reasonable that nobody really knows what the gently caress, with the monsters still freely roaming around the more rural areas while the military is still on the back foot. And it'd also be less annoying if Blunt's character had simply been still pregnant from a time before the invasion, instead of the two of them deciding to rawdog it post-invasion with the full knowledge of the sort of circumstances the birth would take place in. The "why did they get pregnant" thing is one I really don't understand. It's what humans do, they gently caress and have kids. For a husband and wife desperately clinging to the hope that the world will return to normal and this won't be the rest of their lives, it makes perfect sense to me that they'd try to carry on with building a family. Not to mention the ingrained evolutionary stuff that's in us about safety in numbers and building as big a family as possible so that the future is secure no matter what happens to any one particular person. Like, for all Krasinski knows his family and maybe a few neighbors are all the people they'll see for the rest of their lives. The next generation needs to be planned out so that there are actually people around to do the things necessary to survive.
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Jul 18, 2018 19:40
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Morpheus posted:I mean, normally, yes. In a world ravaged by disease or ecological disaster, sure. But in a world where the greatest threat to humanity are creatures that specifically target noise, maybe a baby, you know those things that are extremely well known to cry, squeal, shout, and in general make a shitload of noise, wouldn't be the greatest idea unless you can be assured of its safety? That's the point though, people(for the most part) don't decide to have kids or not based on whether the circumstances are ideal for taking care of a newborn baby. It just happens, and it happens even in the most stressful of situations. Throw in all the stuff that must have been constantly going through the heads of Blunt and Krasinski's characters, about the future of their family and the loss of their son and the strain that it all was taking on their relationship and having another kid actually feels like the more human thing to do than not. Basebf555 has a new favorite as of 17:22 on Jul 19, 2018 |
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Zaphod42 posted:I haven't seen the film yet but IDK, build a bunker? Go find a bunker and seal it off? They live on a farm that is perfect for all of their needs(remember, they have young kids), and there's no guarantee that if they set out looking for a bunker that they'd ever find one. They take expeditions for supplies but just walking off in some random direction hoping to find a soundproof building is just not practical. They have systems set up for catching and cooking food, and for tracking the creatures in the area. They've got a huge grain silo at their disposal, and a whole network of lights set up as a silent alarm. It makes sense that the parents are looking at what they have and not wanting to risk that for a chance at stumbling on something better.
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Calaveron posted:How many scenes are there of a character making some slight noise and Jim reacting by putting his finger on his lips slowly as he looks around Like 2 or 3?
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yeah I eat rear end posted:I thought there were raptors on the ship too or something and it was supposed to be them that did it? Admittedly it has been years since i've watched that one, I still can't handle the ridiculous child gymnastically punting of a raptor scene. The T-rex woke up during the trip, busted out and was rampaging around on the deck of the ship eating everyone. The last survivor grabbed the door switch and got the T-rex to chase him back into the hold of the ship, where he hits the switch as he is eaten, closing the doors again.
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Quote-Unquote posted:I started the argument, sorry about that. Earlier in The Lost World Eddie gets plucked out of the Jeep by his ankle by a T-Rex. They do have some dexterity. I think the video that was posted makes a pretty compelling argument that the T-Rex busted through the wall of the captains cabin and yanked him out, leaving only his severed hand on the wheel. The shot that's in the movie just doesn't show that side of the room where presumably there is no wall anymore.
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