Nitpick a movie or what you only noticed years later

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  1. Owain Taggart

    Owain Taggart Vice Admiral Admiral

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    Yeah, I could see that happening. Someone with moral virtues, ie doing it for their family, that would make you feel for them.
     
  2. XCV330

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    As a kid I never got the realization from Raiders of the Lost Ark that Indiana Jones had messed with an underaged Marian, broke her heart, made an enemy of her father and never even apologized for it. It kind of changes the way you view the movies.
     
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  3. JesterFace

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    The missile Tolian Soran shot to the Veridian sun.
    It didn't look like it but we must assume it was warp capable, otherwise it would have taken a lot longer than what it took to reach the sun.
    And it didn't melt or something before impact?
     
  4. SithHappens

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    So many things wrong here. You have to assume the sun was a similar distance as earth is to our sun so even at warp 1 that's 8 minutes to reach it. So for it to take a few seconds it must have very fast warp capability, but even if it had its visible almost until it hits the sun so that means it spent most of the time leaving the atmosphere at sub warp and covered the remaining 90 million miles in about half a second.

    Worf estimates it will take 8-15 seconds but how does he know the capability of the missile?
     
  5. Mojochi

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    Must never be touched by human hands? Well, who's bloody fault is that? You literally JUST danced around singing a song about imagination right after telling them they could eat everything in there. How is the chocolate river NOT part of everything? False advertising, Bro.
     
  6. Vanyel

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    The Enterprise didn't have to destroy the launch pad directly. It could have fired a dozen torpedoes all around the launch pad, outside the shield. The shock waves should have brought it crumbling down.
     
  7. Mojochi

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    In fact, he may indeed also be a glutton, but I'm with Augustus Gloop on this one. If I win one of only 5 golden tickets to see inside the most famous & secretive chocolate factory in the entire world, & the 1st room this guy brings me into has a chocolate river, & therein he tells me everything can be eaten, I might sample a leaf or blade of grass just to confirm his claim, but it's going to be along the way as I make a deliberate B-Line to that damn chocolate river, because THAT my friends is the main attraction, which he made no verbal provision prohibiting the handling of, & if it was mentioned merely in that highly suspicious contract, then he's an A-hole lol

    Clearly, I'm not letting this go :lol:
     
  8. Oddish

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    I put this one earlier, but in "Casino Royale", Daniel Craig's debut as Bond...

    The last hand's pot: $115 million.
    Bond wins it. He tips the dealer with a red tile ($500k). His winnings are now $114.5 million.

    So at the end, when the money is released, it's suddenly... 120 million?

    Even if the writers figure the viewer didn't notice the 500k (Bond was pretty nonchalant about it), where did the extra 5 million bucks come from?

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    Also, a few from "Die Hard 2".

    1. Since real hand grenades aren't intended for playing catch, they don't have 32-second time fuses.
    2. If you blast a guy who isn't wearing armor with 9mm blanks at point blank range, he might not die, but he will probably be severely hurt. And since he will probably fall over in a bleeding heap, his colleagues will likely shoot you.
    3. About that whole Glock 7 thing...
    a. The lowest Glock number is the Glock 17, the guns actually used.
    b. They contain no porcelain.
    c. They were made in Austria, not Germany.
    d. Try to take one through a metal detector, and it will beep like hell, because they contain over a pound of steel.
    e. That airport security guy could probably have afforded one with a couple day's pay. Maybe less, given that Glock Inc. gave huge discounts to US law enforcement (that's why 65% of US cops pack them).
     
  9. Foxhot

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    Always knew Dennis Franz had the rightest tough-stuff. As for CASINO, decimal-free even numbers are sexier and quicker to say.
     
  10. Mojochi

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    Dangerously unpopular opinion: I think Burt Reynolds would've made a more believable Corleone brother to Al Pacino's Michael, & John Casale's Fredo than James Caan did, at least in looks. Caan is clearly a better actor, but he doesn't really look Italian. It always rubbed me wrong that he didn't look related, any more than Robert Duvall did lol
     
  11. Foxhot

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    My two favorite Reynolds films both have him on the verge of tears at key moments (DELIVERANCE followed by SHARKEY) so I'm suddenly picturing him as Fredo now. And his BUT ENOUGH ABOUT ME is a very fun bio-read.
     
  12. Mojochi

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    I was actually picturing him as Sonny, instead of Caan. Reynolds does hothead/toughguy well too. He is a few years older than Caan though.
     
  13. Foxhot

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    When I had many surplus color celebrity photos I would tape Nicolas Cage, Kevin Spacey, et al's heads on TOS actors' bodies to make my best friend's eyes bulge. Chances are Reynolds and Caan might actually be ''headed'' on someone's remastered GODFATHER on the web, or elsewhere. Think of the Trumpian possibilities alone for that film.
     
  14. Gaith

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    I just thought of one: did Tony and Bruce not look for Scott at all after Infinity War? All that equipment being outside should have been a pretty big clue a Quantum Realm experiment was underway, to say nothing of preparatory notes. If they were able to guess that a Quantum Realm experiment was going on, that would mean a 50% chance Scott was stranded there - or maybe greater, as they have no way of knowing for sure if the Snap even applied to the Quantum Realm. (Although, I guess they wouldn't know for sure that Scott hadn't been snapped before he had a chance to get to the Quantum Realm.) Aaaaand, now my head hurts. :p
     
  15. Vanyel

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    Pym would have done everything he could to hide the experiment from Tony, then while Lang was in the Quantum realm, everyone who knew about it was dusted. At the end of Infinity War, if Tony did know about the experiment, he had no way to tell anybody about it. Banner/Professor Hulk, didn't seem to know about it either so when the van was put away, there wasn't anyone left to know about it. The movie End Game did not let anyone know if the Quantum Realm protected Lang, or he was just lucky enough to not have been dusted. I think the QR did protect Lang as it seemed that nothing in the QR was dusted.
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    Anyone see this?
     
  16. Foxhot

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    So many others had vanished. As for Scott, they were clueless. They may as well have checked all of Paris, or asked an anchorman for his whereabouts. (If you see where I'm going.)
     
  17. FPAlpha

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    An attempt to explain this - the money was held by a bank. Maybe they invested it and generated some profit from it until the time it was withdrawn/transferred but it's a very flimsy explanation.

    Reality is that either the writers screwed up or they decided to round up the number to make it even and ignore those small details that nobody but people on message boards would notice and talk about ;)

    The worldwide situation immediately post Snap has got to be one of the most chaotic periods in human history. I figure once the first dust settled and people were not reachable common sense would say they were snapped.

    I guess after the first shock one of the Avengers would try to reach Scott but no one picked up his phone and if they knew his home address ( much more real world - do superheroes know each others private addresses and visit each other socially?) maybe someone went by and he was not there. I figure once they checked they declared him snapped and moved on.
     
  18. Oddish

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    Figure Bond was laid up for about a month, given that he faced digitalis poisoning, a catastrophic car accident, and an extended torture session. An increase from 114.5m to 120m in that time would mean a yearly growth rate of about 55%. The only way you can get that much growth is on high-risk investments, which no self respecting bank would make on its own.
     
  19. Foxhot

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    Just wait until Kang makes all the cell phones vanish in AVENGERS 5.They'll be far more boys than men.
     
  20. Oddish

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    When they made the movie "Demolition Man", they originally intended to have John Spartan's daughter (now in her 40's) turn up among the Scraps. Indeed, in the a tual movie, they come under attack and Spartan is seen protecting a nameless Scrap. Pretty sure that was her, and footage was just chopped.

    In the book, her presence affects what was a rather repellent scene in the movie. Earlier on, Spartan tried to kiss Huxley, his partner. Since kissing wasn't allowed, she wanted none of it. So of course, later in the movie Spartan just grabs her and does it to her anyway, and of course she's fine with it (classic "I'll do it and she'll like it" mentality that leads to date rape). In the book, his daughter kisses him on the cheek, and Huxley doesn't get why that chaste daughterly peck is illegal, so Spartan takes that as permission to... yeah, still not great, but better than just sucking her lips off at random.

    Also at the end of the book, Spartan finally asks how the three seashells work... Huxley explains, and Spartan admits that it's way better than toilet paper.
     
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