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Alan Smithee posted:I know for a fact in my mind I did not see her do that in Dr Strange and yet I feel like I very much did Well she must have done such in Constantine 
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Doggles posted:What if, get this, jet fuel could melt steel beams? Is stephen king the only one so far that has brought 9/11 into their fictional lore? Like lots of stuff has "my son was a firefighter on 9/11" or made fictional events analogies of 9/11 but as far as I can think only the dark tower brought 9/11 into a supernatural sort of lore with the "black 13 was in 9/11 and/or caused 9/11"
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Doggles posted:What if, get this, jet fuel could melt steel beams? So the original ending to mib2?
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Jun 17, 2019 03:11
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The Boys has a 9-11 happen but it is different There was also that Fox series where there was an alternate universe and the giveaway was the Twin Towers were still up
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I forget if it was this thread but there was Sarah Connor Chronicles (though it happened as is) where it's told to her by cholos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPzzYhuhOxo I joked that michael pena should have been the one retelling it
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Jun 17, 2019 03:44
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Rageaholic posted:I saw The Dead Don't Die, which wasn't a great movie, but if you'd enjoy seeing Tilda Swinton proficiently decapitate zombies with a katana (& honestly who wouldn't?), it might be worth your time. She does this for one minute and the rest of the movie is tedious and an absolute waste of the cast. Like loving MIB was more enjoyable because at least things moved along. They were both equally unfunny, though.
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It's kind of hard to incorporate 9/11 into any kind of fictional mythos because it was verboten for so long and after it "became alright" to talk about it had become associated with so much reprehensible poo poo (Iraq, truthers, anything to do with the Bush admin) that bringing it up in any capacity is like walking into a minefield and anyone crazy enough to try anyway is usually the absolute last person who should be saying anything about it (looking at you Orci).
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that and "Jews did 9/11" kinda makes alt 9/11 theories icky in general and jokes about it make you a edgelord not fit for public consumption hence why we're here and not allowed outside
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Tars Tarkas posted:The Boys has a 9-11 happen but it is different lol by "that Fox series" do you mean Fringe?
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Autism Sneaks posted:lol by "that Fox series" do you mean Fringe? I couldn't tell you the difference between it and Bones except one has the other deschanel and boreanaz and the other has casey affleck or tobey maguire or idk
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Jun 17, 2019 04:06
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Alan Smithee posted:I couldn't tell you the difference between it and Bones except one has the other deschanel and boreanaz and the other has casey affleck or tobey maguire or idk Bones is a bad procedural, Fringe was a great show that started as an X-Files riff and eventually became a crazy story about mad scientists and parallel universes.
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Jun 17, 2019 04:09
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Autism Sneaks posted:lol by "that Fox series" do you mean Fringe? I wanted to bring that up, but I never watched the show and know absolutely nothing about Fringe except it loved alt-universe shenanigans and also those magical hat guys from The Adjustment Bureau show up at some point. Big Mean Jerk posted:Bones is a bad procedural, Didn't one season end with the main characters partner revealing he was Super Evil all along before he died on the way to his home planet?
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Jun 17, 2019 04:12
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Chris James 2 posted:https://twitter.com/ERCboxoffice/status/1140272023324807169 I don't usually post these graphs any more but this one is just pathetically hilarious:  https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/...ast-Stand/X-Men According to the Wikipedia listing it had a $200 million production budget which is pretty much the same as Last Stand and Days of Future Past, the most expensive entries in the franchise.
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MechanicalTomPetty posted:Didn't one season end with the main characters partner revealing he was Super Evil all along before he died on the way to his home planet? Close enough. That's where I nope'd out of the show. They spent the entire season on this sub-plot about a cannibalistic serial killer, only to reveal in the season finale that one of Bones' team members was the secret assistant for said killer. It felt like it came out of nowhere and left me laying there afterwards going 'wait did that really just happen'? He didn't die though, just got locked in an insane asylum, IIRC.
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The weirdest thing about Bones is that the series finale was in 2017. I could've sworn it ended like a decade ago.
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Bones also had a crossover with Fox's Sleepy Hollow, which means in Bones there are zombies and demons kept at bay using magic and technology wielded by the Founding Fathers. Fringe is also a freaking nerdy show. One detail about the alternate universe they went to was that DC published Red Lantern/Arrow comics instead of the Green versions we got.
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Dr. S.O. Feelgood posted:The weirdest thing about Bones is that the series finale was in 2017. I could've sworn it ended like a decade ago.
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The MSJ posted:Bones also had a crossover with Fox's Sleepy Hollow, which means in Bones there are zombies and demons kept at bay using magic and technology wielded by the Founding Fathers. My favorite alternate universe thing in Fringe is that Cary Grant starred in The Maltese Falcon instead of Bogart and Casablanca starred Ronald Reagan and had a happy ending.
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Autism Sneaks posted:lol by "that Fox series" do you mean Fringe? The MSJ posted:Bones also had a crossover with Fox's Sleepy Hollow, which means in Bones there are zombies and demons kept at bay using magic and technology wielded by the Founding Fathers. Sleepy Hollow was so insane in the first season and just took a big dump on itself until it drove everyone away, a shame
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But Casablanca does have a happy ending?
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/\/\/\ Seriously,  MechanicalTomPetty posted:I wanted to bring that up, but I never watched the show and know absolutely nothing about Fringe except it loved alt-universe shenanigans and also those magical hat guys from The Adjustment Bureau show up at some point. The boy wonder was a serial killer, iirc. Also there was a Family Guy crossover dream sequence.
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Barudak posted:But Casablanca does have a happy ending? Skratchez posted:/\/\/\ Seriously, “Happy” as in Rick runs off with Ilsa at the end.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:“Happy” as in Rick runs off with Ilsa at the end. Yeah it's called Springtime for Hitler 
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Big Mean Jerk posted:My favorite alternate universe thing in Fringe is that Cary Grant starred in The Maltese Falcon instead of Bogart and Casablanca starred Ronald Reagan and had a happy ending. Does Reagan get shot by Bogey
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Big Mean Jerk posted:My favorite alternate universe thing in Fringe is that Cary Grant starred in The Maltese Falcon instead of Bogart and Casablanca starred Ronald Reagan and had a happy ending. Didn't they also have a cinema that was playing Back to the Future starring Eric Stoltz? They clearly liked those kind of jokes.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:My favorite alternate universe thing in Fringe is that Cary Grant starred in The Maltese Falcon instead of Bogart and Casablanca starred Ronald Reagan and had a happy ending. Eric Stoltz was the star of Back to the Future, too. Fringe had so many cool little details like that. E: beaten. Should have refreshed first.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Okay I had some time to spare so I ran out and caught Men In Black: International and it just felt so perfunctory. Everyone was just running through the motions, Hemsworth and Neeson were clearly sleepwalking through their roles. Hemsworth was weirdly uncharismatic for the first 3/4 of the film and had zero chemistry with Tessa Thompson. She was actually good but not good enough to save the film and it felt like the writers forgot what her character's traits were supposed to be from scene to scene. Emma Thompson did okay with what she had, which wasn't much. The thing that really gets me about MIB International is... why would other countries have the MIB? They're such an American concept. I don't think Europe, North Africa, Asia, or even other nations have that kind of image of the government, so why the heck would you go 'let's take this cool concept that works super well in New York and take it to another country'? It's not even that much of a MIB movie. I think if you changed a couple of names, this would be the most generic 'humans defend the planet against aliens' plot ever.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:“Happy” as in Rick runs off with Ilsa at the end. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-53Ba6hIEAc
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Jun 17, 2019 09:59
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The comic book series Ex Machina has it as part of the story that the main character was able to stop one of the planes so only one tower went down.
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stratofarius posted:The thing that really gets me about MIB International is... why would other countries have the MIB? They're such an American concept. I don't think Europe, North Africa, Asia, or even other nations have that kind of image of the government, so why the heck would you go 'let's take this cool concept that works super well in New York and take it to another country'? New York is also famous for being the first port of call for mass immigration with the whole “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free" history and for taking in foreigners from anywhere and assimilating them whatever they looked like but I guess that might also be why MIB London seemed to be more concerned about organising some sex tourism for the interstellar equivalent of Saudi royalty than processing space refugees.
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stratofarius posted:The thing that really gets me about MIB International is... why would other countries have the MIB? They're such an American concept. I don't think Europe, North Africa, Asia, or even other nations have that kind of image of the government, so why the heck would you go 'let's take this cool concept that works super well in New York and take it to another country'? Because they're not thinking of MIB as a "mythology". They're thinking "of course an agency that handles alien life on Earth is global". In fact, many now would also think your view for the MiB legend as offensively America-centric.
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The film also slightly developed the idea of aliens working for the MIB that was touched on in the original film (the Worm guys that hang out in the MIB break room, the octopus-like things operating the observation screens) by having a bunch of aliens wandering around in MIB agent black suits and such but just didn't do much with it, which was disappointing. I have a suspicion that half the time it was because they realised they could save money by putting a monster mask on a person in a black suit rather than creating an entire alien costume.
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lol Remember Me's ending https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPyd9J9kkJk
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Jun 17, 2019 11:48
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Alan Smithee posted:lol Remember Me's ending
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I'd be surprised if nobody had added the Curb theme to the end of that yet.
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muscles like this! posted:The comic book series Ex Machina has it as part of the story that the main character was able to stop one of the planes so only one tower went down. I liked that series but one of its dumbest moments was when there was this whole thing about Mitchell having to decide what would be built in the destroyed tower's place and then he makes this passionate and dramatic speech to reveal... that the original tower is going to be rebuilt exactly the same. As if that if that was the case in real life, that wouldn't be pretty much the only thing you could do.
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AceOfFlames posted:I liked that series but one of its dumbest moments was when there was this whole thing about Mitchell having to decide what would be built in the destroyed tower's place and then he makes this passionate and dramatic speech to reveal... that the original tower is going to be rebuilt exactly the same. As if that if that was the case in real life, that wouldn't be pretty much the only thing you could do. Makes me wonder how that would go actually, would be surprised if a surviving second tower wouldn't basically have to be condemned anyway from structural damage.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Makes me wonder how that would go actually, would be surprised if a surviving second tower wouldn't basically have to be condemned anyway from structural damage. IIRC in the comic the surviving tower is abandoned and under guard even several years afterwards. At one point an activist sneaks in and base jumps off of it.
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The MSJ posted:Because they're not thinking of MIB as a "mythology". They're thinking "of course an agency that handles alien life on Earth is global". In fact, many now would also think your view for the MiB legend as offensively America-centric. Or maybe Sony wants to turn Men in Black into an extended universe so they crapped a dumb movie out.
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It's feeling like every studio except Disney is just going to eat poo poo all year. Even Detective Pikachu which I thought was a surefire hit, only did ok at the box office.
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