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  1. Posted

    MAJOR OMISSION ALERT

     

    There was no discussion of the dumbest callback in movie history. No Bounce No Play. What did the filmmakers think our reaction would be when we saw that stenciled on the wall during the flashback? "Who did that? Banksy? That is fucking brilliant!!"

     

    They thought it was so great that it gets brought back twice including to setup the stupid climax of the movie. But it was the first callback that actually made me angry. When Damian Lewis stops them from breaking down the door to ask the question "but what happens if we just bounce off?" It is the clumsiest setup imaginable.

     

    On a separate note I was pleased with the time they spent setting up Tim Olyphant as the fastest boy in the world. That had a big payoff.

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  2. Posted

    Omission... You guys and girl didn't talk about Olga Kurylenko's character, Headmistress Ellen Kirova...

     

    I found her to be the most confusing character in the movie. I know it was filled with goofy misdirects to try and disguise who the real bad guy is. But she was all over the place. And I really didn't understand why her go to move when Rose burst in asking for help was to try to sedate her against her will. She had that syringe ready to go. Is that what she does with any troublesome student?

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  3. Posted

    OK so if I understand this movie correctly their entire vampire society seems to flow directly from St. Vladimir. What he did was the basis for everything that they are and every time they go to church all they do is talk about him. But until Rose went and looked in some books that anyone has access to no one knew about his Spirit magic? What else do they not know about the foundation for everything they do?

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  4. Posted

    • Take whatever device you use to listen to music, set it to play your entire music library, and put it on shuffle or random.

     

    Caveat this is from the music I have on my phone not the full library. And no one will care about that because a few of these probably only EDI and I have downloaded anyway.

     

    1. Signal to Noise - Frankel

    2. Calendar Smack - The Capstan Shafts

    3. Wheels to Ceiling - Loud Springs

    4. Crows - Car Seat Headrest

    5. Los Borrachos - Car Seat Headrest

    6. Kahlil Gibran - STRFKR

    7. Sounds - Earlimart

    8. You Wanted A Hit - LCD Soundsystem

    9. Spiral Eyes - Paw City

    10. Anna - Will Butler

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  6. Posted

     

    Finally, I'm so glad Charlie brought up the "Welcome to Alaska" line. Okay. I get it. It's an action movie. Whether dumb or cool, you simply can't just blow something up without having something pithy to say, but in context, "Welcome to Alaska" makes absolutely no sense. Seriously, what the fuck is that even supposed to mean? Were his foster parents from Alaska? Until a couple of hours ago, he didn't even know that place existed. He's on their turf. They're the one's from Alaska. Shouldn't that be their line? Were does he get off welcoming them to their own place?

     

    If I remember correctly the hired goon that he blows up after saying "Welcome to Alaska" said the same thing to him as they were getting him out of the cockpit following the crash landing. So Josh Lucas was echoing it back to him. Hired goon should have been given a last line of "It doesn't make sense when you say iiitttttt (trailing off)."

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  7. Posted

     

    I was wondering about the Jamie Foxx death. Were they trying for something emotional like Goose's death in "Top Gun?" Or do we think Jamie Foxx was just like "I'm too famous now, I'm leaving"?

     

    Oh, I think the 'Top Gun' link is absolutely correct - the opening scenes of aircraft carrier landings was accompanied with a soundtrack that I was completely certain was about to break into the big Top Gun theme at any moment. The slow-motion crash of Jamie's plane and the close-up of his face as he made contact with the mountain was geared towards emotion but unlike with Goose, we get no ejector seat or ocean landing (or grieving Meg Ryan!) to make the connection. I think Jamie's death was an attempt to up the stakes on EDI but, like Josh Lucas and Jessica Biel, we just wind up saying 'oh well' and then forgetting he was ever in the movie. And then, as mentioned on the episode, they bail from his funeral early.

     

    I went the exact opposite way with it. I imagined Jamie Foxx telling them "You have got me for 7 days get what you can get and I'm out of here."

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  8. Posted

    I identified the real villain of the movie. The Chief of Naval Operations who is in charge of guiding the Navy's budget (according to a 2 second google search http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=93038). He was obviously trying to be penny wise assigning only one person, Sam Shepard, to be in charge of two separate experimental aircraft programs at the same time. The Talon is so rare there are only 3 on Earth so obviously getting that program going is a full time job. And then he is made responsible for EDI too? The poor guy was probably working 90 hours a week and ended up committing suicide via voicemail.

     

    I can't believe Paul brought up all the apples but didn't mention the scene where Sam Shepard is essentially speaking through an apple while talking to Joe Morton.

     

    There is a lot of wasted time in this movie but was there any point at all in setting up Orbit as the eccentric rich genius? It felt like he must have had more of a story line that got cut.

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  10. Posted

    I dont think anybody else has pointed this out yet, but the massive tower with Gerard Butlers face on it was also being sculpted as to show his beard and moustache. Which for some reason just seemed fucking insane to me.

     

    If nothing else it would give him pause anytime he thought about shaving.

  11. Posted

     

    Yours Sincerely,

     

    Cameron “Cameron H” H.

     

    P.S. No. I have not considered renting it again. It has already brought too much misery in my life.

     

    This is an excellent decision. The movie's listed running time is 7,560 seconds. Of those there is literally 1 second that I am glad I saw.

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  12. Posted

    Of course by all current human standards this is an objectively bad movie. But then the movie showed Ra pulling the sun around the flat disc Earth and I realized this movie isn't for us. And it isn't for international audiences. It was made for ancient Egyptians. I don't know how they plan to get this movie back to 1500 BC but when they do they've got a blockbuster on their hands.

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  15. Posted

    Just a quick potpourri of Phantom observations...

     

    1) In the movie, Remar initially appears to be just a mercenary that Drax hires get recover the magic skulls. Now I may be wrong, but I was under the impression that Drax wanted these skulls for his own evil purposes and that he is not himself a member of the Sengh Brotherhood. However, we learn early on that Remar's character is a part of the Brotherhood. I also got the impression that Remar's character was not particularly fond of Drax ("I don't like to ask Drax questions. His answers scare me.") So, I guess my question is: why would Remar hand the skull(s) over to Drax in the first place? Drax wants the power for himself, but it seems like Remar wants the power for the Brotherhood. Aren't they working at cross purposes? I get Remar working with Drax so that he has access to the green skull, and the amount of adventuring he needs to do to acquire them might require capital that is beyond his means, but why turn the skull over to Drax at all? Why not conveniently "not find" the first skull, steal the second, and deliver them both straight to his beloved Brotherhood?

     

    Remar seemed to treat his Sengh Brotherhood membership like a AAA membership. It didn't seem like he was ever acting in their interests.

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  16. Posted

    I am apparently on an island with this opinion but I was legitimately charmed by Zane's "we're having fun out here" Phantom performance. And I enjoy an enthusiastic villain. Treat William's scene eating was an added bonus. Not that either of those things were enough to add up to an actual good movie.

     

    When Remar and his gang are leaving the cave with the skull one of the henchmen drops the line "This place is giving me the creeps." That was said AFTER a skeleton came to life and choked his friend to death. In my experience you have moved past your initial "creep vibes" at that point.

     

    The Phantom somehow gets the call to spring into action to stop the skull robbers. But he appeared to be doing absolutely nothing at all prior to that. So I imagined this is how the Phantom spent his free time in the jungle.

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    I loved that the two skulls showed the way to the 3rd skull by pointing to a map. If there was no map around would they have played charades to reveal the location?

     

    CZJ had the weirdest line in the movie. When Treat Williams tells his goons to go kill Kit she said "I claim the body when your're done." What the hell for? Is she a necrophiliac or does she have a Frankenstein hobby?

     

    If you ignore the voice over at the end of the movie I think it makes the most sense to imagine Ghost Dad as just a figment of Kit's imagination. No one else can see or hear him and he provides no new information until he tells Kit that Remar killed him. But he doesn't do that until after Kit has seen Remar wearing the belt. So Kit's subconscious could easily form that story on its own after he sees that. Because if you really can talk to your ghost ex-superhero dad it wouldn't come up in conversation once in six years how he was murdered? Also until all was revealed I figured Kit must be aging his vision of his Ghost Dad appropriately because there is no way he should have been Phantoming at that advanced age.

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  17. Posted

    Perhaps the most frustrating thing about this movie confusing everyone is that the solution was right there. The filmmakers already showed they weren't afraid to put in a text crawl ten minutes after the movie started. So why stop there? Five or six more of those placed judiciously throughout and we are all on the same page. Unconventional? Maybe. But what film critic could attack a device bringing clarity to the storytelling?

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  19. Posted

    For my money, Shiwan Khan is the absolute highlight of this movie. He was charming and had a delightful sense of humor. I mean, how can you really hate a guy who has at his disposal all the telepathic, hypnotizing powers in the world, not to mention a sentient floating demon knife, but still chooses to pull the old hide-among-the-mannequins-by-standing-really-still ploy just to allude a couple of feeble old men?

     

    And his polite insistence on paying for his bourbon was his downfall.

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  21. Posted

    I would have liked a quick scene of Shiwan Khan tossing aside Genghis Khan's remains like trash as he is turning the sarcophagus into a shipping container.

     

    Because they couldn't let a good prop go to waste the sarcophagus shows up again as the cover for the escape chute that Shiwan Khan uses. But when he installed that did he have escape in mind? Or did he normally use it to toss his tapestries down to the laundry room?

     

    If the Shadow saw someone in danger who would be of no use to him in the future would he still save them? We don't have enough information from the movie to know.

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  22. Posted

    Lots of butthurt music nerds in here. The point was these aren't Summah songs. the real beef is with Esquire.

     

    Yeah I don't think anyone is upset about anything. I loved hearing one of my favorites bands discussed on one of my favorite podcasts. PFT's exasperation over the name Car Seat Headrest was awesome.

  25. Posted

    Car Seat Headrest are fucking brilliant

     

    I came to say the same thing. I won't say they are Summah songs and I can't defend the name but Car Seat Headrest is my favorite band going right now.

     

    I wish they could bottle and sell the feeling of having PFT on Who Charted. It is perfect.

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