Ever notice how in old movies when people are having negative feelings during a conversation, they'll stand up, walk a few paces, and keep their back to the other person while the conversation keeps going? Who the hell has a conversation like that? This week try that at home and at work and let me know how that goes.Oh, but wouldn't it be everso romantic if he rushed up behind you, grasped you by the arms, whisked you around and, overcome by emotion, clasped you into his embrace? I know I'd just swoon. Alas, the alternative is finally turning around to discover oneself conversing with an empty room.
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things in movies that made no sense
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Posts: 1453 (03/18/08 9:13 PM) Registered user |
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pseudopoganandra |
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Posts: 12128 (03/18/08 9:15 PM) Registered user |
Oh I thought of one that drives me crazy. Everyone had seen enough of the "behind the scenes" clips to know that when people are driving in a movie
they aren't really driving. They are attached to some sort of tow truck with cameras on it filming them. This does not however mean that just because they
aren't really driving that they should feel they can turn to the person they are with and have a five minute conversation with them without ever once
turning back and watching the road.
Try it yourself. Next time you are driving with someone going 35mph in the middle of town with traffic and pedestrians around turn to the person in the passenger seat and see how long you can look at them without looking at the road. See how long you can do it without crashing the car. One of the worst offenses of this I can think of off the top of my head is the movie The Hours where Julianne Moore turns to her young son and has this emotional conversation with him and doesn't watch the road once in the entire scene. Grrrrrr...makes me angry! |
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Posts: 3647 (03/18/08 9:17 PM) |
Jurassic Park II. The goddamned T-Rex was STILL IN THE HOLD. They cut all the scenes of the raptors killing the crew, so it looked like they all just spontaneously DIED or something. OMG YESSSSSSSSS!!! The dinosaurs that killed the crew had to still be on the ship, did they all just jump off the side of the boat or something??!! |
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NlGHTCRAWLER |
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Posts: 13829 (03/18/08 9:21 PM) >: | |
I thought the same thing, but since we see a severed hand holding the control to the door, I think they wanted us to
think that the T-Rex had got out, attacked and eaten everyone, and then that last guy trapped him in that holding bay again, and pressed the button, when the
T-Rex ate all of him but his hand.
*shrugs* |
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GrenadeJumper85 |
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Posts: 3648 (03/18/08 9:23 PM) |
I never thought of that.
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Posts: 13830 (03/18/08 9:25 PM) >: | |
Did you read the first book of Jurassic Park? Its COMPLETELY different from the movie.
There's a scene where this Chinese guy is disemboweled by a Raptor, and he holds his intestines! I bet THAT would've erased the "Ahhh-factor" of the CG dinosaurs! 
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Posts: 4148 (03/18/08 9:26 PM) |
Nah, I actually looked it up because I walked out of the theater going WTF. They shot footage of raptors killing everybody and cut it for time.
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GrenadeJumper85 |
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Posts: 3649 (03/18/08 9:26 PM) |
Yes, Jurassic Park is one of my favorite books. They should have stuck close to the book, but the original is still a masterpiece.
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Hamdingers |
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Posts: 4149 (03/18/08 9:28 PM) |
The first Jurassic Park novel is actually fairly decent for a plane read or summat. The Lost World is crap and reads like he was envisioning it on screen.
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shadowdiana |
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Posts: 3528 (03/18/08 9:28 PM) MESS member |
LOL NC
I just picked up a copy of "Jurassic Park" to read. Have seen all the movies, never read the book. Will look forward to that. |
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Posts: 3651 (03/18/08 9:30 PM) |
I could never get through the Lost World novel, it was like reading a biology textbook.
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Posts: 13831 (03/18/08 9:32 PM) >: | |
Nah, I actually looked it up because I walked out of the theater going WTF. They shot footage of raptors killing everybody and cut it for time. You serious?! I didn't know that. That's retarded. They could've cut out that 12-hour "save the trailers from going over the edge" scene that was about 20 minutes too long, and then immediately ends with happy music after that guy was eaten. |
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Hamdingers |
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Posts: 4150 (03/18/08 9:34 PM) |
I agree, but that was a set-piece with the Big Money actors, so when you're in the cutting room...well, Stars versus Logic. Guess who wins?
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Posts: 1958 (03/18/08 10:12 PM) Treadmill martyr |
Alright. Phantom Menace. Amidala stands before the Senate claiming the Trade Federation has invaded Naboo, and of course the Federation denies it, so the
whole thing gets bogged down in politics and inaction. Why the fuck didn't Amidala or Chancelor Valorum call Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan to testify? You've
got two Jedis right there who saw the invasion with their own fucking eyes.
And why in the FUCK couldn't they use cgi to make the Trade Federation alien's mouths synch up with their voices??? WHY???? |
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Posts: 1784 (03/18/08 10:29 PM) Registered user |
Lloyd Bonafide wrote: Not only that, but they are usually bad guys. Why do they all wait patiently and watch while the "hero" beats the shit out of each one of them? I mean, if they are truly bad guys, would they really engage in such fair play? |
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Posts: 1224 (03/18/08 10:34 PM) |
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pseudopoganandra |
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Posts: 12130 (03/18/08 10:42 PM) Registered user |
shadowdiana wrote: The movies are like they took their favorite bits and pieces and threw them up in the air and stuck them in whichever movie they landed closest too. That said the books were kind of meh. The first film was great. The second one was god awful and the third one was weak but had some nice parts. |
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Posts: 7821 (03/18/08 11:42 PM) Registered user |
What bothers me the most about The Lost World is that I never once seen a human ever fire a gun against a raptor in self-defense. Not once. It is really,
really lame.
Why does Chuck Norris act like he is in his 30's? Why didn't they follow the original script of Alien III instead of that stupid prison planet theme? In Airforce One, why didn't they go all-out to find Harrison Ford? In Resident Evil Saga, how can it be wise to send one or two patrol party to a site where there is a high risk for casaulaties or zombie conversion? How can you develop sexual attraction after being exposed to danger for so long? In Starship Trooper, why didn't they rely on airforce to kill off those bug armies?! Why didn't people attempt to kill Wolverine with electric given his body being full of metal? Why didn't Bride get automatic killed after being shot down by a shotgun by Sidewiner?! Why didn't Sidewiner used his sword fighting ability against eye-patch doll? |
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star jumper |
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Posts: 31596 (03/18/08 11:58 PM) I'm an ugly Yeti King |
NlGHTCRAWLER wrote: I always wondered where B. D. Wong went when all the shit hit the fan. |
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GrenadeJumper85 |
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Posts: 3661 (03/18/08 11:59 PM) |
Why didn't people attempt to kill Wolverine with electric given his body being full of metal? Uh, because his body would just heal from the electrical shock? There's no way to kill him unless you cut off his head, and that pretty impossible w/ the unbreakable metal coving his entire skeletal system. Why didn't Bride get automatic killed after being shot down by a shotgun by Sidewiner?! It wasn't a bullet, it was rock salt. Why didn't Sidewiner used his sword fighting ability against eye-patch doll? Uhh, because he had just gotten bitten in the face by one of the most venomous snakes on the planet?! |
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