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Inzombiac posted:The Thing: Hey, but the plus side to that title is that the Thing video game, which John Carpenter considers canon, is also called The Thing, which makes the full trilogy The Thing, The Thing, and then The Thing. Also, yeah, the 2010 Thing was a pretty solid movie except for those weak-rear end CG effects replacing awesome practical effects.
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# ¿ Nov 4, 2015 06:52 |
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# ¿ Apr 18, 2024 04:10 |
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Watching Inside Out made me like Frozen a lot less in hind-sight. To be fair, I think part of the whole purpose of Hans was to go against the typical Disney/fairy tale story trope of having the princess find a perfect guy and fall magically in love with him instantly; having him turn out to be the villain highlights what bullshit "love at first sight" is in movies, and that the bond between the sisters trumps whatever they have going on with guys. Basically, Uteruses before Duderuses.
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# ¿ Nov 7, 2015 06:55 |
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Your Gay Uncle posted:I've always wondered about about sexual assault on the Hogwarts campus. Any place that mixes 14-17 year old boys, "love potions" and memory erasing spells would be rape central. Does Hogwarts do what most colleges in these cases do and just cover everything up? Do they tell the girls " It was your own fault for not practicing your Legumitilitis or not having your anti rape patroneus summoned"? What a dark and creepy thing to always wonder about.
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# ¿ Dec 3, 2015 22:21 |
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God Hole posted:my irrationally irritating moment is that the first film ends with a murder that is never addressed in the subsequent films by a man who supposedly understands time enough to build a machine that can navigate freely through it. We see Rich Marty get into a time machine when Poor Marty arrives, presumably off to have his own time travel adventure. I've always assumed he either ended up in another alternate timeline, creating a domino effect where one Marty keeps arriving in another Marty's life, or Rich Marty, Poor Marty faded together when the time lines corrected themselves, in much the same way that Marty was fading away in '55 when he was in danger of not being born.
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# ¿ Apr 17, 2020 03:07 |
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Megillah Gorilla posted:But for some reason we're supposed to like Logan. Yeah, Logan sucked hard. The actor gave an interesting performance in that you really saw how wounded and self-destructive Logan was, but at the same time the character was also a whiny, privileged shithead kid from moment one. I think the main reason he and Veronica became the OTP on the show was that the love story between her and Duncan fizzled so hard because that dude had zero chemistry with anyone. And season 3 brought in Chris Lowell to try to have another potential love interest for Veronica and went on to mad underutilize him on the show/in the movie. That guy's loving fantastic on GLOW.
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# ¿ Jun 8, 2020 18:12 |
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Antioch posted:Andy Samberg claims he forgot what he did for a living, which means he's been in the loop for a long long time. He may have been lying about that part. Throughout the course of the movie he said jack-poo poo about what his life was like outside of the loop because I think he'd been in it for so long that he felt completely disconnected from his old life. Antioch posted:Last bit when JK Simmons finds Andy Samberg after Andy and mom from HIMYM escape. How does all that work? I guess there's just an expectation that people would still exist in the loop but it was weird that it was Samberg's character with no memory. I figured that JK was interacting with a Niles from a different timeline in much the same way that Niles and Cristin Milioti (sp?) interacted with a fresh timeline's worth of people every day. Antioch posted:I want to know more about how the lady figured out explosions in the cave would break the loop. That whole bit just seemed sort of tacked on. They could have gone into more detail about that, but given that she studied way more physics than me I was down for her to basically be like "I figured it out because I know a fuckton about physics now."
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# ¿ Jul 27, 2020 18:28 |
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Why the gently caress does Emperor Palpatine keep thinking Force Lightning is a good idea? He's 3/3 on frying himself at the end of a trilogy, like he just cannot stop himself from using it and subsequently roasting his own rear end. I can just see him in Force Bad Guy Hell, sliding in like Kramer: Palpatine: Guess what bitches? I just got a body again! Count Dooku: So what? You're probably just going to electrocute yourself with Force Lightning again Palpatine: I am not! Ron Howard Narrator: He did.
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# ¿ Aug 11, 2020 19:53 |
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jojoinnit posted:The flesh is nanobytes in the liquid metal? I'm honestly shocked I never had that realisation before, especially since this got discussed ages ago when sometime asked why skynet didn't send a nuke wrapped in flesh like a giant death testicle through time. Skynet tends to be a little on the cautious side when it comes to loving up the timeline, or at least acts like it's trying to be cautious. If it fucks up the past too much, it'll create a situation where it doesn't come into being and then we've got a https://thumbs.gfycat.com/DrearyRealisticBlackmamba-mobile.mp4
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# ¿ Aug 27, 2020 16:32 |
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Cowslips Warren posted:Inside Out was okay. I remember mostly wondering why Fear and Anger were male, but everyone else's internal people were the same gender as their person. I would guess they based the emotions on Ekman's universal facial expressions, the six emotional expressions found to be nigh-universal cross-culturally: happy, sad, angry, fear, surprise, an disgust/contempt. Seems like Pixar put Surprise and Fear together as one entity, which makes sense.
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# ¿ Jan 27, 2021 04:57 |
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Inzombiac posted:
I'm sorry, this is the Irrationally Irritating Movie Moments thread, not the Completely Rationally Irritating Movie Moments Thread: Shyamalan How loving Could You
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# ¿ Feb 27, 2021 15:54 |
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Inzombiac posted:I'm one of the weirdos that actually really likes IM3. The main criticism I see a lot is that the final fight is just a huge, flashy mess where Tony (Marvel) is showing off all his cool toys. Iron Man 3 has its flaws, but it's also a really good on-screen depiction of PTSD, which is great because there are too few pieces of media doing even half-assed jobs in depicting mental health issues. When they do, it helps people open up about their suffering & seek help because it helps empower them to have a reference point for what they (or their loved ones) are going through while also making them feel not so alone. Wandavision does a similarly good job about grief in creating an atmosphere where that's something which can be spoken about more freely and with greater understanding.
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# ¿ Mar 9, 2021 01:29 |
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rydiafan posted:Was Stay-Puft a ghost? Stay-Puft was a shapeshifting interdimensional being worshipped by some as a god Android Apocalypse posted:The Stay-Puft Marshmallow man was Gozer taking a physical form. It was destroyed by crossing the streams of the proton packs & reversing the flow of the gateway. In fact you could see the proton packs by themselves couldn't stop it. ^^What they said Baba Yaga Fanboy has a new favorite as of 23:52 on Mar 20, 2021 |
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Biplane posted:Am I supposed to be cheering for the antagonists in captain america and the winter soldier? What the gently caress I certainly think so. They're interesting in that you've got John Walker who's way too psyched to be Cap without thinking too hard about what that means, and you've got Carly who is fighting a good fight but going about it in increasingly violent and radicalized ways. In effect, Walker's doing the right thing for the wrong reason, while Carly's doing the wrong thing but for the right reason. Edit: poo poo, I just realized you wrote "Captain America and the Winter Soldier" not "Falcon and the Winter Soldier"
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# ¿ Apr 25, 2021 18:20 |
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BiggerBoat posted:
The arms blocking the punches makes total sense. My headcanon for moments like that in a superhero flick, though, is that Spider-Man (or whomever else with super strength) is holding back. If you're strong enough to lift a car above your head, you've gotta be real careful to make sure a punch is knockout-strength, not head-off-strength. Otherwise we get Infinite Crisis Superboy Prime casually taking someone's head off.
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# ¿ May 30, 2021 00:02 |
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Here's one for Space Jam 2: WHY THE gently caress IS THE SONG SPACE JAM NOT IN THE MOVIE?!?!?!?
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# ¿ Jul 18, 2021 15:43 |
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Push El Burrito posted:You gotta kill him before he transfers his soul into a doll.
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# ¿ Dec 11, 2021 21:18 |
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BrigadierSensible posted:Has there ever been anybody, (in real life or in fiction), who willingly goes by {name} the third who wasn't a total and complete fuckwit?
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# ¿ Jan 17, 2022 01:34 |
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Spaceballs is such an... odd film. It's a Star Wars parody that came out at a weird time- 1987, years after Return of the Jedi. It has no love of the source material or special insight into it, and Bill Pullman is just a big-rear end dud of a main character. For me, the only stuff about that flick that works at all involves Rick Moranis. And speaking of Blazing Saddles, it's the subject of one of my absolute favorite bizarre TV edits. There's a scene in the movie where the sheriff says hi to an old lady, who responds with "Up yours, N-word!" In the TV edit, she says "Out of my way, N-word!"
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# ¿ Feb 22, 2022 23:22 |
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It's because of that goddamn movie I am still, to this day, hosed up at the idea that I might accidentally suck up my cord while vacuuming and choke the vacuum.
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# ¿ May 16, 2022 17:45 |
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I would say my irrationally irritating movie moment about the movie Morbius starring Jared Leto as Doctor Michael Morbius is that it's not at least three and a half hours long but that's a perfectly rationally irritating movie moment, so my apologies for misplacing this here
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# ¿ May 27, 2022 15:47 |
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Morpheus posted:
Not in that universe, he wasn't Also, for the smartest man in the universe, Reed Richards probably could have come up with a better plan than GRAB HER
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# ¿ Jun 30, 2022 01:02 |
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Yeah, honestly the unrealistic thing about zombie movies is how well people handle the zombie apocalypse at large in them. A real zombie scenario would be full of people calling it a liberal hoax, getting bitten to own the libs, etc
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# ¿ Jul 5, 2022 18:50 |
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Something that's bugged me for years about Goodfellas. On a related note: I've seen so many movies and TV shows where people will agree to meet for dinner at a restaurant at like 8:30. That means you'd actually be eating dinner at like 9! Who does that outside of night shift workers and vampires?
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# ¿ Aug 23, 2022 15:03 |
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Carthag Tuek posted:batman is made out of bats & spiderman is made out of spiders, but what is superman made out of
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# ¿ Aug 27, 2022 00:57 |
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Pinhead, showing up to David Chase's house IF YOU DO NOT TELL ME WHAT HAPPENED TO TONY SOPRANO THEN YOUR SUFFERING WILL BE LEGENDARY, EVEN IN HELL
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# ¿ Oct 18, 2022 19:37 |
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credburn posted:I thought it was alright. It did a neat job being a reboot and sequel and expanding on ideas from the first that I didn't think felt especially forced, though I know a lot of others sure did (specifically racism, which I keep reading about people saying wasn't a big factor in the original while also acknowledging, Candyman is an incarnation of a guy who was brutally murdered for having an affair with a white girl.) I think it also references or incorporates somehow things from Candyman 2 and 3, which I have not seen and of which I have never heard anything positive. Yeah, the new Candyman has a lot of cool ideas to it, and I felt like it doesn't quite stick the landing in matching the tone or atmosphere of the original, but it's much more thematically consistent. The original Candyman flicks have some mixed messages wrt race. Goddamn did I miss the original's oppressive, choral soundtrack though. credburn posted:Hey, side note, I can only think of two black Jason or Michael Meyers-level serial killers, and that's Candyman and that guy from I Know What You Did Last Summer, and both have hooks for hands. Hate to tell ya, but hooking is about the only thing those dudes have in common.
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# ¿ Nov 5, 2022 15:01 |
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Halloween: Season of the Witch is the only good or canon Halloween film
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# ¿ Nov 19, 2022 23:13 |
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Away all Goats posted:The Last of Us Episode 3 Why is Bill, the survivalist, capable of laying traps and possessing an entire armor of weapons, standing in the middle of the street to engage in a firefight with a bunch of raiders? I understand he might want to draw fire away from the the house with Frank inside, but you can also accomplish that with a machine gun in the second floor of another building. Great episode otherwise. Potential explanation: Bill is good at planning things out ahead of time but isn't good at thinking straight in the heat of the moment.
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# ¿ Feb 21, 2023 06:20 |
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rydiafan posted:My favorite is Lanky Kang. He has a funny face. SO THEY'RE FINALLY HERE PERFORMING FOR YOU WE GOTTA LOTTA KANGS IN THE EM SEE YOU
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# ¿ Mar 3, 2023 22:04 |
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Cowslips Warren posted:I loving love Lackadaisy comic and the new cartoon they have out is amazing. Seriously, agreed on both counts. He gets a, what, like three minute rambling poetry-reading monologue at the start of the episode, too? Like, come on Tracy Butler, you've had plenty of time to polish any rough edges up. That poo poo does not work in non-comic form. We need a sense of character, stakes, etc. I'm talking elemental storytelling poo poo. Also, another thing that struck me about the pilot was just how many characters laughed like demons during the shootouts/violence. The whole "laughing violent maniac" trope doesn't really work if you've got four loving characters doing it.
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# ¿ Apr 6, 2023 17:09 |
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Pope Corky the IX posted:It's the amazing Laura Linney. I absolutely love the bit where she tries doing product integration because she's just kind of floundering around. My brother and I have quoted that scene for years when someone's rambling about a topic no one else understands/gives a poo poo about, or when someone's obviously shilling. "What the hell ya talking about? Who're ya talking to?!"
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# ¿ Apr 27, 2023 00:30 |
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KirbyKhan posted:
Well, yeah. That's what happens when fish hit land.
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# ¿ May 26, 2023 19:34 |
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the holy poopacy posted:I'm not sure if self-awareness is the term. I think it's more to do with 1970s Britain having a more rigid hierarchy of class than America, so Basil can simultaneously be a pompous rear end in a top hat while also knowing that regardless of his opinion of himself he is factually outranked by the elite clientele he tries to woo. American takes on that sort of character aren't going to have the same simpering obsequiousness to their betters; there might be the occasional episode where they're trying to suck up to someone in particular, which will inevitably be used to contrast with their usual attitude and behavior, but it's not going to be an ingrained character trait. I remember Craig Charles talking about one of the many reasons he felt the American Red Dwarf remake just didn't work- the U.S. has got a fuckload of societal problems, but we lack that same kind of hopeless classism that makes for the comedy of Rimmer desperately wanting to be one of the upper-crust posh fuckheads but instead having to throw his lot in with super-schlub Lister. Cheers is probably the show that comes the closest to touching on this, but it still sometimes depicts class mobility in a way that's not common in older British shows.
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# ¿ Nov 28, 2023 19:23 |
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Yngwie Mangosteen posted:Why do the power rangers fight a while before forming the big power rangers guy or pulling out the insta kill sword? Also, in the first episode of Power Rangers, Zordon warns them to never "escalate a battle," which I guess means "wait until the thing you're fighting is huge and about to destroy buildings instead of just Zording up and stomping its rear end"
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# ¿ Jan 4, 2024 17:22 |
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Phy posted:Nobody tell SSF that they've never heard The Monster Mash, they've only heard a song about The Monster Mash That's because the original song was deemed "too risque" for most listening audiences. I give you: Leo Karpatze's The Monster gently caress (Part 1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c2RTvP0bEQ
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# ¿ Mar 22, 2024 21:11 |
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A Worrying Warlock posted:From awhile back, but am catching up on the thread and this reminded me of an IIMM for X-Men: Days of Future Past: I looked this song up based on your post, and I don't recall having ever heard it before in my life It's also rad as gently caress, so thanks for the recommendation! Also my IIMM for X-Men DOP is Kitty Pryde getting fuckin' booted out of the storyline Also Bryan Singer's weird obsession with horrifying, but technically PG-13 deaths (like Colossus/Ice Man getting melted) Also that Bryan Singer ever had anything to do with the X-Men
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# ¿ Apr 5, 2024 18:49 |
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# ¿ Apr 18, 2024 04:10 |
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Baron von Eevl posted:What was the movie where the "unrated" cut was an insane version of the movie where like unrelated nude models would walk in front of the screen for no reason? Yeah. The "unrated" version was great because in the commentary they were like "listen, there are so many unrated DVDs out there that add like one pair of boobs and call it a day. We say bullshit, so we've stuffed this thing with tits and cocks. If this is your first time watching this movie, watch the regular version because this one makes no sense. Enjoy!"
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# ¿ Apr 6, 2024 01:00 |