[quote]jskrabac wrote:
Whenever there’s a traffic jam there’s also a nice symphony of honking horns.
I grew up in Chicago and now spend alot of time driving around L.A. when I visit my gf, and not once have I heard a car honk their horn in bumper to bumper traffic. [/quote]
You’ve never been to NYC, have you?
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
[quote]jskrabac wrote:
Whenever there’s a traffic jam there’s also a nice symphony of honking horns.
I grew up in Chicago and now spend alot of time driving around L.A. when I visit my gf, and not once have I heard a car honk their horn in bumper to bumper traffic. [/quote]
You’ve never been to NYC, have you?
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NO SHIT OR Honolulu H1
[quote]Nards wrote:
Another is using the game of chess as a metaphor for the events between the good guy and the bad guy. Overdone.
Especially when one of them actually fucking says “Checkmate,” at the end.[/quote]
Or using chess as a tool to describe how so very intelligent one character is compared to the other characters and the audience. Some of us know how to play chess. Some of us can recognize a game that’s only seen 10 moves. Inexplicable checkmates do not “wow” us. Switching the game from chess to go does not improve the effect.
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
[quote]jskrabac wrote:
Whenever there’s a traffic jam there’s also a nice symphony of honking horns.
I grew up in Chicago and now spend alot of time driving around L.A. when I visit my gf, and not once have I heard a car honk their horn in bumper to bumper traffic. [/quote]
You’ve never been to NYC, have you?
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Have not. Do people actually do that?!
[quote]jskrabac wrote:
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
[quote]jskrabac wrote:
Whenever there’s a traffic jam there’s also a nice symphony of honking horns.
I grew up in Chicago and now spend alot of time driving around L.A. when I visit my gf, and not once have I heard a car honk their horn in bumper to bumper traffic. [/quote]
You’ve never been to NYC, have you?
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Have not. Do people actually do that?![/quote]
Yep. It’s very intimidating on your first visit/drive through Manhattan. After a while you don’t even hear it anymore.
There were some mentions of accent/language and bullet physics (not in relation to each other…)
Russian language seems to often be mangled, or just left out there in the ‘we don’t really care enough to try’ category. Toss a couple of misused cyrillic characters up there, and tah-dah, it’s Russian. Who cares if that launch button label actually says “Reyaguplopyomamma?” Or want to establish that the bad guys are Russian? As long as they have shaved heads and say ‘davai’ once or twice, that’s good enough for the mainstream audience.
Regarding bullets…I have only seen a handful of films that have even attempted to pay attention to what happens to bullets after they hit one target. Most notably – a bullet will penetrate one car’s window, leaving big gaping holes and causing the drivers to duck…yet it never seems to break any other window in that car. That bugged me in Training Day. Similarly, a bullet seems to exit a human’s body, and will make a blood spatter on an opposing pane of glass…yet somehow that opposing window is never shattered or even chipped…I wouldn’t say that ‘ruined’ Road to Perdition (aka Lone Tomhanks and Cub) for me, but it was enough to shake up my suspension of disbelief.
I’m sick of the music always giving everything away…telling you when something shocking, heartfelt, or tragic is happening or about to happen.
When good or bad guy jumps on a car roof with a sword, and stabs down through the roof and then they show the inside of the car and the sword is a foot in front of the passenger’s face. Guy on the roof can never get it right.
[quote]Nards wrote:
When good or bad guy jumps on a car roof with a sword, and stabs down through the roof and then they show the inside of the car and the sword is a foot in front of the passenger’s face. Guy on the roof can never get it right.[/quote]
Oh, same with a machine gun. They’ll always trail him as he’s running by about 2 feet. Wouldn’t a smart guy just randomly spray the whole room with bullets?
I just saw an ad on TV for Little Fockers. Now, while I normally wouldn’t give a turd like this any attention, it got me wondering; What the fuck happened to DeNiro…?
Has he lost all self respect or what…?
[quote]Jereth127 wrote:
I just saw an ad on TV for Little Fockers. Now, while I normally wouldn’t give a turd like this any attention, it got me wondering; What the fuck happened to DeNiro…?
Has he lost all self respect or what…?[/quote]
Probably heavily in debt, just like Eddie Murphy.
Makes me sad, considering how great he was in Once upon a time in America, The Godfather 2, Goodfellas, Deer Hunter, this Boy’s life and many others…
In action movies and some TV shows (especially on 24!) where one time the good guy comes up against one of the bad guys and he’ll just punch him or shoot at him or whatever, but some other time (not even for the main bad guy) he will run or give in.
What I mean if you watched 24 was in one episode a terrorist they catch may refuse to talk, but then Jack Bauer will smack the guy and threaten him and the guy gives in.
Next time, the same kind of terrorist gets caught, refuses to talk and Jack Bauer then asks what he wants nad the guy says he wants 5 million and a plane out of the US so they bend over backwards for the rest of the episode to arrange it.
Or in action movies the good guy may do some dangerous things at some times to get to a bad guy , but at others he’ll do insanely dangerous things just to get away.
One big one was in Die Hard where John McClane was near the roof and a couple of guys were coming but instead of doing something to stop them or shoot at them he uses the MP5 as a sort of grappling hook and the strap to hang down a ventialtion shaft to try and get one floor down. That just seemed far too dangerous just to get away from two guys when he’s doing so much other gung ho stuff at other times.
Still one of the best action movies of all time though of course.
Also here’s what must take place before every mission is given over to the Impossible Missions Force:
[i]Impossible Mission Chief: “We have a matter of national security!”
Assistant to the Chief: “Do you think it can be resolved by sky diving or jumping off of tall things?”
IMC: “Um, maybe…I’m really not sure. Maybe just stealing documents I guess, that’s generally how spy stuff really works.”
Assistant: “We got a fruity little guy just right for the job if you can find out how to fit some sky diving or base jumping intp the mission!”[/i]
In Hanna, when it turns out the little girl speaks Arabic, she happens to speak the Moroccan dialect. What the hell are the chances her father would choose to teach her that particular dialect? Do you know how many Arabic dialects there are, and where this dialect ranks on order of tactical importance?
[quote]Nards wrote:
Still one of the best action movies of all time though of course.[/quote]
SO true!! I remember getting that for christmas when I was a little girl and my uncle (he bought it for me) asked my mom why such a young girl would ask for something so violent, Lol. CAUSE John McClane is the awesomest of the awesomest, that’s why!!
[quote]jward7892 wrote:
[quote]Hallowed wrote:
Ugly actresses.[/quote]
when the fuck did she become ugly? I’d be willing to bet that she’s hotter than any of the bitches that y’all have been fucking
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Ha!
[quote]Painsama wrote:
[quote]jward7892 wrote:
[quote]Hallowed wrote:
Ugly actresses.[/quote]
when the fuck did she become ugly? I’d be willing to bet that she’s hotter than any of the bitches that y’all have been fucking
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Ha![/quote]
That poster sounded like some idiot girl we all knew in college. Fucking moron.
If he thinks I’ve never been with anyone prettier than Maggie Gyyleenkeeall then he must not think too much of his own mother.
when people hide behind other people while getting shot at. not one bullet can penetrate through the body for some odd reason.
the sound effects for two characters fighting…a punch that sounded like that would cause your head to explode.
knife fights when the fighters are using the knives like swords and doing all kinds of funny shit like blocking the other guys swings with the knife.
when men dress up as woman and no one notices.
anything shia labeouf (sp?) is in.
[quote]Ambugaton wrote:
In Hanna, when it turns out the little girl speaks Arabic, she happens to speak the Moroccan dialect. What the hell are the chances her father would choose to teach her that particular dialect? Do you know how many Arabic dialects there are, and where this dialect ranks on order of tactical importance? [/quote]
Damn.
That is rather specific, but I am still impressed.
[quote]baretta wrote:
… the sound effects for two characters fighting…a punch that sounded like that would cause your head to explode…
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Man, this is so true. It was worse in old movies. I recently came across a fight scene in an old Western, and every time a punch connected, it sounded like billiard balls colliding.