[quote]roybot wrote:
Why do people in movies have to shout “yee-haa!” when they drive really fast or if they’re about to make a death-defying leap across a closed bridge or a ravine?
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X2
I mean I always yell, KAWABUNGA in those moments.
I hate when someone falls out of a window or off a balcony and they always land on a car. And thast car always has an alarm. and all the alarms sound the same.
^^That’s a good one…yeah car alarms are overused in movies.
I just watched the trailer for Brave the new Pixar movie that seems to be about a princess that wants to compete in archery, and it made me think that we’ll never ever see the end of movies that pander to women by showing them a woman doing great things as though women are all sitting around feeling useless until a movie or TV show with a woman doing things somehow makes it all seem within reach.
I mean it is within reach, but I don’t think there will ever be a woman who attains greatness that will then attribute her success to the inspiration of a fictional character.
That’s just me though.
I just think that in 1000 years during the behind-the-scenes of whatever form of holographic/interactive entertainment we will have there will still be the main actress saying "It’s great not to be playing the damsel in distress that just screams for the hero to help her and to get to do some fighting in this role to show young women out there watching that they can be whatever they want."
[quote]Bujo wrote:
[quote]Gkhan wrote:
What’s wrong with movies today? Case in point: The Vanishing. Check out the American version, then the original French version. The French version was far superior. Great, dark ending.
(no spoilers).
Why did they have to change it for American audiences? Do they think we can’t handle an ending like that? An unhappy ending wouldn’t sell?
The French ending was cool and totally appropriate. [/quote]
What annoys me the most is trying to remember which side is the US version and which is the european.
Edit:
Never mind I got Vanishing Point and The Vanishing confused.[/quote]
The original “The Vanishing” is a dutch movie, not french. Please get your facts straight when you talk about one of the few watchable dutch movies ever made.
Thank you.
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[quote]Nards wrote:
^^That’s a good one…yeah car alarms are overused in movies.
I just watched the trailer for Brave the new Pixar movie that seems to be about a princess that wants to compete in archery, and it made me think that we’ll never ever see the end of movies that pander to women by showing them a woman doing great things as though women are all sitting around feeling useless until a movie or TV show with a woman doing things somehow makes it all seem within reach.
I mean it is within reach, but I don’t think there will ever be a woman who attains greatness that will then attribute her success to the inspiration of a fictional character.
That’s just me though.
I just think that in 1000 years during the behind-the-scenes of whatever form of holographic/interactive entertainment we will have there will still be the main actress saying "It’s great not to be playing the damsel in distress that just screams for the hero to help her and to get to do some fighting in this role to show young women out there watching that they can be whatever they want."[/quote]
yeah i just saw that trailer and i thought the same thing! Like aaah, so predictable. I’m sure later in the movie she’ll beat up 100 men who are all 2x her size too.
The one that always gets me is when you have criminals that launder money by literally washing it. There is even a scene in Bad Boys 2 that featured the criminals exchanging money cash for cash that had apparently gone through a washing machine. How does no Hollywood writer know what ‘laundering’ means? I believe that ‘The Town’ also featured this.
[quote]ephrem wrote:
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sorry, yeah, it was GREAT.
[quote]Razamataz wrote:
The one that always gets me is when you have criminals that launder money by literally washing it. There is even a scene in Bad Boys 2 that featured the criminals exchanging money cash for cash that had apparently gone through a washing machine. How does no Hollywood writer know what ‘laundering’ means? I believe that ‘The Town’ also featured this.[/quote]
LOL!
Are you serious?
I never noticed the literal depictions.
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
[quote]Razamataz wrote:
The one that always gets me is when you have criminals that launder money by literally washing it. There is even a scene in Bad Boys 2 that featured the criminals exchanging money cash for cash that had apparently gone through a washing machine. How does no Hollywood writer know what ‘laundering’ means? I believe that ‘The Town’ also featured this.[/quote]
LOL!
Are you serious?
I never noticed the literal depictions.
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I think this happened in Lethal Weapon 4? Or maybe one of the Rush Hour movies?
It may have been a play on the term for comedic effect…
[quote]RTJenforcer wrote:
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
[quote]Razamataz wrote:
The one that always gets me is when you have criminals that launder money by literally washing it. There is even a scene in Bad Boys 2 that featured the criminals exchanging money cash for cash that had apparently gone through a washing machine. How does no Hollywood writer know what ‘laundering’ means? I believe that ‘The Town’ also featured this.[/quote]
LOL!
Are you serious?
I never noticed the literal depictions.
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I think this happened in Lethal Weapon 4? Or maybe one of the Rush Hour movies?
It may have been a play on the term for comedic effect…[/quote]
The only time I have ever seen this in a movie is when they took freshly minted bills and ran them through washing washings to make them look used. The fact that you took that to be a symbol of financial-laundering makes me think you just missed the point.
Unless it was a comedy, then maybe they were joking.
If you ever have a chance to see this, jump off a f*cking cliff.
I can’t even begin to tear this piece apart.
*SPOILER ALERT
Serious plot fault.
In the very beginning of the movie Ryan Renalds character can’t bring Denzel’s character straight to the embassy because they are being pursued and shot at. Ryan loses the people following him but is never again given the option to go to the embassy. All they needed to do is omit the part about him trying to get there in the first place or add a reason he still can’t go after the fact. Ruined the movie for me, which is a shame, I like Denzel.
[quote]RTJenforcer wrote:
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
[quote]Razamataz wrote:
The one that always gets me is when you have criminals that launder money by literally washing it. There is even a scene in Bad Boys 2 that featured the criminals exchanging money cash for cash that had apparently gone through a washing machine. How does no Hollywood writer know what ‘laundering’ means? I believe that ‘The Town’ also featured this.[/quote]
LOL!
Are you serious?
I never noticed the literal depictions.
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I think this happened in Lethal Weapon 4? Or maybe one of the Rush Hour movies?
It may have been a play on the term for comedic effect…[/quote]
I think counterfeiters will literally wash smaller bills like 10s and 5s and use the clean paper to print 20s and 100s. It’s the paper that’s hard to copy so they just wash off the old ink.
[quote]Nards wrote:
I think counterfeiters will literally wash smaller bills like 10s and 5s and use the clean paper to print 20s and 100s. It’s the paper that’s hard to copy so they just wash off the old ink.[/quote]
You and Jack Reacher.
[quote]JLone wrote:
[quote]RTJenforcer wrote:
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
[quote]Razamataz wrote:
The one that always gets me is when you have criminals that launder money by literally washing it. There is even a scene in Bad Boys 2 that featured the criminals exchanging money cash for cash that had apparently gone through a washing machine. How does no Hollywood writer know what ‘laundering’ means? I believe that ‘The Town’ also featured this.[/quote]
LOL!
Are you serious?
I never noticed the literal depictions.
[/quote]
I think this happened in Lethal Weapon 4? Or maybe one of the Rush Hour movies?
It may have been a play on the term for comedic effect…[/quote]
The only time I have ever seen this in a movie is when they took freshly minted bills and ran them through washing washings to make them look used. The fact that you took that to be a symbol of financial-laundering makes me think you just missed the point.
Unless it was a comedy, then maybe they were joking. [/quote]
Everytime I’ve seen it, they’ve been completely serious and without any (apparent) symbolism. In ‘The Town’, I think they meant to show what professionals they were (“This money couldn’t have been stolen. Look how clean it is!”) and it was actually a plot point in Bad Boys 2.
[quote]Nards wrote:
[quote]RTJenforcer wrote:
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
[quote]Razamataz wrote:
The one that always gets me is when you have criminals that launder money by literally washing it. There is even a scene in Bad Boys 2 that featured the criminals exchanging money cash for cash that had apparently gone through a washing machine. How does no Hollywood writer know what ‘laundering’ means? I believe that ‘The Town’ also featured this.[/quote]
LOL!
Are you serious?
I never noticed the literal depictions.
[/quote]
I think this happened in Lethal Weapon 4? Or maybe one of the Rush Hour movies?
It may have been a play on the term for comedic effect…[/quote]
I think counterfeiters will literally wash smaller bills like 10s and 5s and use the clean paper to print 20s and 100s. It’s the paper that’s hard to copy so they just wash off the old ink.[/quote]
I think that’s a myth. I don’t think it’s actually possible to wash the ink off those bills. I’ve left plenty of bills in the pockets of pants and ran them through the washer. Not once did any ink ever come off.
Even if that’s possible in Hollywood movies, it wasn’t what they were attempting in these movies. They were literally trying to conceal the source of the funds by washing them.
Yeah…maybe anonym was right and I read it in a Reacher book.
[quote]Razamataz wrote:
[quote]Nards wrote:
[quote]RTJenforcer wrote:
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
[quote]Razamataz wrote:
The one that always gets me is when you have criminals that launder money by literally washing it. There is even a scene in Bad Boys 2 that featured the criminals exchanging money cash for cash that had apparently gone through a washing machine. How does no Hollywood writer know what ‘laundering’ means? I believe that ‘The Town’ also featured this.[/quote]
LOL!
Are you serious?
I never noticed the literal depictions.
[/quote]
I think this happened in Lethal Weapon 4? Or maybe one of the Rush Hour movies?
It may have been a play on the term for comedic effect…[/quote]
I think counterfeiters will literally wash smaller bills like 10s and 5s and use the clean paper to print 20s and 100s. It’s the paper that’s hard to copy so they just wash off the old ink.[/quote]
I think that’s a myth. I don’t think it’s actually possible to wash the ink off those bills. I’ve left plenty of bills in the pockets of pants and ran them through the washer. Not once did any ink ever come off.
Even if that’s possible in Hollywood movies, it wasn’t what they were attempting in these movies. They were literally trying to conceal the source of the funds by washing them. [/quote]
It’s possible to “wash” bills … but not using washing detergent
Actors holding the backs of their heads to show stress, especially during phone calls.
[quote]polo77j wrote:
[quote]Razamataz wrote:
[quote]Nards wrote:
[quote]RTJenforcer wrote:
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
[quote]Razamataz wrote:
The one that always gets me is when you have criminals that launder money by literally washing it. There is even a scene in Bad Boys 2 that featured the criminals exchanging money cash for cash that had apparently gone through a washing machine. How does no Hollywood writer know what ‘laundering’ means? I believe that ‘The Town’ also featured this.[/quote]
LOL!
Are you serious?
I never noticed the literal depictions.
[/quote]
I think this happened in Lethal Weapon 4? Or maybe one of the Rush Hour movies?
It may have been a play on the term for comedic effect…[/quote]
I think counterfeiters will literally wash smaller bills like 10s and 5s and use the clean paper to print 20s and 100s. It’s the paper that’s hard to copy so they just wash off the old ink.[/quote]
I think that’s a myth. I don’t think it’s actually possible to wash the ink off those bills. I’ve left plenty of bills in the pockets of pants and ran them through the washer. Not once did any ink ever come off.
Even if that’s possible in Hollywood movies, it wasn’t what they were attempting in these movies. They were literally trying to conceal the source of the funds by washing them. [/quote]
It’s possible to “wash” bills … but not using washing detergent[/quote]
Maybe it’s possible, but they make no mention of this in the movies I mentioned. Just washing the cash.