11 pages and not one person mentions the unbelievability of bud choosing sissy over pam? i am @disappoint
I have a theory about this.PharmD4 said:
Somebody on this board pointed this out a long time ago and forever changed movies for me...
It always rains too hard. Go watch rain scenes...any of them...all of them...just torrential downpours every single one. Drives me crazy. I can't watch a rain scene without pointing out how unbelievably hard its raining. Even movies I like, great movies...The Departed for crying out loud...just too much rain.
So to whoever it was on this board a long time ago... thanks?
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11 pages and not one person mentions the unbelievability of bud choosing sissy over pam? i am @disappoint
Or Aussies.Unthought Known said:
Today if you want a good young actor, they hire British to play Americans.
MooreTrucker said:Or Aussies.Unthought Known said:
Today if you want a good young actor, they hire British to play Americans.
According to them, yep. Brits get upset, Aussies get downright angry if you refer to them the wrong way.Unthought Known said:MooreTrucker said:Or Aussies.Unthought Known said:
Today if you want a good young actor, they hire British to play Americans.
There's a difference?
Forgive the retort, General....Maximus_Meridius said:
The one that always drives me nuts is in Contact. At the end, in the Congressional hearing Kitz throws down saying that it was all a hoax perpetrated by Hadden.
1) He misquote's Occam's Razor. Science just uses it as a friggin' guide, meaning that you should prefer a hypothesis with fewer assumptions because it's easier to test, but that doesn't necessarily mean that hypothesis is true
2) Vega is 26 light years away. And the location was verified by SETI and independent sites around the world. That means that 52 years prior to the movie (1945), Hadden had to launch a satellite that would travel at the speed of light, reach Vega, and then broadcast it's signal back to earth. At that point in time, Werner von Braun was feeling pretty damned good about hitting London with a V2 with reasonable accuracy, let alone ****ing VEGA. How the **** did Arroway not bust out laughing at that ****?
Granted, there is a metric ****-ton wrong with that movie, but this one drives me the most bonkers...
PDEMDHC said:Forgive the retort, General....Maximus_Meridius said:
The one that always drives me nuts is in Contact. At the end, in the Congressional hearing Kitz throws down saying that it was all a hoax perpetrated by Hadden.
1) He misquote's Occam's Razor. Science just uses it as a friggin' guide, meaning that you should prefer a hypothesis with fewer assumptions because it's easier to test, but that doesn't necessarily mean that hypothesis is true
2) Vega is 26 light years away. And the location was verified by SETI and independent sites around the world. That means that 52 years prior to the movie (1945), Hadden had to launch a satellite that would travel at the speed of light, reach Vega, and then broadcast it's signal back to earth. At that point in time, Werner von Braun was feeling pretty damned good about hitting London with a V2 with reasonable accuracy, let alone ****ing VEGA. How the **** did Arroway not bust out laughing at that ****?
Granted, there is a metric ****-ton wrong with that movie, but this one drives me the most bonkers...
Agree with point 1. For point 2, I thought they used the broadcast of the opening ceremony of the Berlin Games in 1936 as its signal was powerful enough to reach Vega? Been a while since I've seen that movie.
Maximus_Meridius said:
It's been a while since I've seen it, too. But basically Kitz is saying it was all a big hoax. Ok, where did that signal come from then? They covered that when it was discovered, and had the Australian site confirm the location. It had to have come from Vega.
So you're getting a signal of the 1936 games from Vega. Great. But there was more in that signal, so it wasn't the original broadcast that was sent out. Which means that for Hadden to fake it, he would've had to have sent either a separate signal (again, 52 years prior to the time of the movie) that bounced off something in Vega and was received here, or a satellite to re-broadcast the signal.
MooreTrucker said:According to them, yep. Brits get upset, Aussies get downright angry if you refer to them the wrong way.Unthought Known said:MooreTrucker said:Or Aussies.Unthought Known said:
Today if you want a good young actor, they hire British to play Americans.
There's a difference?
Did you ever see Whiskey Tango Foxtrot with Tina Fey? There's a very funny joke about Canadians/Aussies.Champ Bailey said:MooreTrucker said:According to them, yep. Brits get upset, Aussies get downright angry if you refer to them the wrong way.Unthought Known said:MooreTrucker said:Or Aussies.Unthought Known said:
Today if you want a good young actor, they hire British to play Americans.
There's a difference?
I understand that. If I was called Canadian or even Oklahoman I get kind of annoyed by it.
Indeed it does. It was good, we thought. Not as funny as we expected given Tina Fey.Champ Bailey said:
No, was it good? It has the E-board's favorite actress in it, right?
i liked it a lot actually. nice and light but still interesting content.Champ Bailey said:
No, was it good? It has the E-board's favorite actress in it, right?
Champ Bailey said:
I can't believe nobody has mentioned the eagles in Lord of the Rings yet. Why wouldn't they just fly the whole way there?
Lucky #007 said:
Aragorn gave his word that they would be released if they fulfilled their duty to defend Gondor. They did so he let them go.
Bulldog73 said:
What happens to all the poo on these space ships? Do they ever just dump the waste behind them when being chased sometimes?
AggieSouth06 said:The Debt said:Cinco Ranch Aggie said:
The Lost World -
The boat arrives out of control at the harbor in San Diego, at which times people go on board to determine why the boat lost control. All they find is carnage, including a couple of severed hands. It is shortly thereafter revealed that the Tyrannosaur is locked in the cargo hold. We never see thatnthere are any other dinosaurs on the boat.
If the Tyrannosaur is the only dinosaur on board, how did it get its massive head inside the control room (where we find one of the severed hands still holding onto a control lever) without damaging the door frame, roof or surrounding structure?
The second severed hand is still grasping the controls that operate the doors to the cargo hold. If the Tyrannosaur is the only dinosaur on board, then how did the previous owner of that hand die? Yet the implication is that the Tyrannosaur killed him, so if that was the case, how did the dude push the button to entrap the Tyrannosaur since, presumably, most of that guy was roasting in the Tyrannosaur's gut?
Or were there velociraptors on the boat? Where did they go? Are there raptors loose in San Diego?
If I recall the books, there were raptors on the boat that got off the island. Obviously a 50 ft trex isn't killing people at the helm.
But that was lazy filmmaking.
That was the first book. And the boat never made it to the mainland. They got the phones working and Genarro made up some military code to get them to turn the boat around. Part of the big climax that was cut out of the movie (also, Genarro was a completely different character and died 20 minutes in).
The second book didn't have any subplots about dinosaurs getting off the island. It's totall self-contained.
i'd rather the ambiguity of the beer over overtly having the camera focus on the beer name in a transformers style in movie advertising segment.Stupe said:
A common thing across all movies / tv shows is when someone walks into a bar and orders a drink.
Order liquor or a mixed drink: Order exactly what you want
Order a beer: "I'll have a beer" and get served without being asked what kind of beer you want.
I know it's advertising, but it still bugs me.