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  2. Posted

    I have to agree with Paul that this would totally work as a play and take it a step further.  My first experience with Night of the Living Dead was actually watching a stage company do it as an audio play as part of their "Midnight Radio" series.  To be clear, they were on stage, but all we were watching was them reading the script and doing sound effects.  Even in that medium it works really well, and I think it's largely because it's not so much about the zombies as it is about the people reacting to them.  

    And yes, I absolutely voted yes on this.  Among zombie films, I would say Shaun of the Dead is the only one that stands up as its equal, but Shaun can only exist because of what Night of the Living Dead created.

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    On 11/9/2020 at 10:38 AM, Cam Bert said:

    I'm not American or know much about American politics but I assume the whole state votes for the govern correct? So say Gabbi does make it on to the ballot, that means that a majority of the voters still had to vote for her right? Not just her five friends and grandma, but the majority of the third most populated state. California in 2017 had a population of 39,360,000 people. However that population includes youth and people that can't vote not to mention the number of people that don't vote for governor. The 2018 gubernatorial race had a turn out of 12,464,235 voters. That means Gabbi would need at least 33.4% of that vote which means roughly 4.2 million votes. That's more votes than any third party candidate has gotten in the history of California gubernatorial elections and as far as my math can tell more than all third party votes in California ever! What was it that drove them to this candidate they had never heard of? 

    There is one scene that shows the actual breakdown of the votes and Gabbi received 51% to 48% for the runner up and just 1% for third place.  That means she didn't just win a close election in which no one had any interest in either candidate.  Among the people who voted for someone they actually heard of, one candidate must have been so beloved that they had almost universal bipartisan support.  Gabbi winning was arguably an injustice to the people who were paying attention to state politics.

     

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    On 11/7/2020 at 6:22 PM, Cam Bert said:

    Govern Gabbi's first initiative as governor is for people to ride the bus instead of drive cars. The female crony of Balse complains numerous times of riding the bus so we know that this measure went into effect. Yet we have two story points that revolve around Gabbi's friends and family driving. First there is her Grandma and her non-stop car problems which means she's still driving around around and not bussing it which Gabbi is cool with. Also her friend Ellie is driving around getting parking tickets because she refuses to pay for parking. Balse threaten to boot her car because driving means so much to her. Gabbi is also seemingly fine with her friend driving everywhere and not paying tickets. Now if her plan was to force people with environmentally bad cars to stop driving, what's to stop them from buying an old clunker like her grandma or friend? Or rather is this all a deep statement on the hypocrisy of politicians looking the other way when policies would effect their friends and family.

    I assumed she meant she was taking away the government -owned vehicles from the other officials, not that everyone in the state would be required to ride the bus.

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    7 hours ago, sycasey 2.0 said:

    Was it just me, or did Turbo somehow heal a broken leg in roughly 36 hours' time? His leg is in a cast and elevated in the hospital bed, but then later that day he's out there dancing with the crowd.

    Is Turbo an X-Man?

    Not only did he heal in 36 hours, he had coordinated the sock underneath the cast with the one on his other foot and the giant one over the top.

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    I hate to agree with June on this one, but in the end Kelly really didn't contribute anything to saving the building.  Once the city decided to pull out of the deal selling to the developer, the 30 day time limit to raise the funds is meaningless.  Even if Kelly's parents didn't write a check, Miracles could start doing whatever work they could afford while continuing to raise funds because it is clear that the city will not be rushing to tear it down.  Also, if the city was in a position to pull out of the deal, that means the property had not yet officially been condemned and sold to the developer, so it seems that the plan was to destroy city property before it was even purchased.

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    With the exception of some high performance military jets, planes are designed to be inherently stable.  Turning off the autopilot wouldn't send the plane into a sudden roll or make it pitch back and forth like a fishing boat in a rough sea.  It would just mean it wouldn't adjust course for wind gusts.  Granted on one of the passes of Tanya's head, the plane's jet engine noise transforms into the sound of a World War 1 biplane's piston engine, so it's almost like they actively tried to be inaccurate.

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    4 hours ago, Cameron H. said:

    What cracked me up the most about Margaret handing her daughter 2k in a filthy, crumpled wad, was when she whispered, "I know you need it." The only reason she would know that they need that money is because she pays Jake's salary! If she was truly concerned about her daughter's financial situation, she could always just pay Jake more. She has full control of her daughter's economic stability, and while I get she doesn't like Jake, paying him more would at least ensure her daughter's lasting comfort better than intermittent hand outs beneath the kitchen table. Hell, if Jake was making decent money, it might make him feel more ownership over his work , and inspire him to be a better employee overall. 

    The investors in Santa Barbara would never accept her paying Jake more money.  

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    1 hour ago, Scary_Mirage said:

    Corrections and omissions:

    Paul misspoke - the (awful) Jim Carrey movie is "The Number 23", not Se7en.

    There actually is a good time numeral film - 4:44 (Last Day on Earth), which is 2011 film directed by Abel Ferrara about people trying to find the meaning life on the final day of Earth's existence. (Scientists predict that due to cosmic radiation destroying the ozone layer, all life on Earth will end on 4:44 AM EST.)

    4:44 is a doubling of 2:22!!!

     

    P.S. And, fun trivia, in Japan (and other East Asian countries), 4:44 is an unlucky time because the pronunciation of four is 'shi', which is also the word for death (and the characters look similar.)  So in many Japanese  horror films and video games (e.g. Katasumi and 4444444444, Harvest Moon) 4:44 has a creepy significance.  Hotels and hospitals often don't have a fourth floor or a room 444, like how in America hotels won't have a 13th floor. 

     

     

    Another good one is a racing documentary called "1" that looks back to the most dangerous era in grand prix racing and the efforts made to improve the almost nonexistent safety features of 1960s racing.

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    I know Dylan thought he saw the day he died, but he really saw the day everyone missed their train.  The movie showed the train on the board as being scheduled for 2:22, so it should be just about ready to pull away from the platform as they all mill about in the Great Hall. 

    Also did the aerial ballet have 2 superhuman performers or was it only like 15 minutes long?  I have trouble believing 2 acrobats would have the physical stamina to extend a 10 minute circus act into a 90 minute show.

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    7 hours ago, ErinZaborac said:

    The idea that Stanley does not know how to drive a stick shift, then is forced to drive a stick shift in a high stakes situation - and is IMMEDIATLY amazing at it, is ridiculous. And the idea that John Travolta would risk this with his elaborate plan now in peril - crazypants. That car should have stalled out and jerked to a start. The idea that he hits his stride mid-car chase and then is shifting like he’s on Fast and the Furious? Nope. 
     

    Also I can’t figure out how these message boards work so sorry if I’m a moron and posted it in the wrong place. 

    Realistically the car should have already stalled when Travolta does the handbrake turn and stops.  It's not like anyone is pressing on the clutch.  It would be a surprise that Jackman could even get it into neutral to start it then find 1st gear.

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    This movie isn't really good with money.  When Ginger gives the hacker the cash, we can clearly see there is only 4 packs of bills each marker $10,000, yet Ginger says it's $100,000.  At the other extreme, in order for $400 million to grow to $9.5 billion in 15 years, it would have to collect interest at an average annual rate of 23%.  If it grew at the actual rate of inflation, it would have ended out around $650 million.

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    When it comes to the premise of the Money Plane as a flying casino in international airspace, there is, surprise, surprise, a fatal flaw.  Every aircraft flying internationally is required to be registered to a particular country.  If that aircraft is in a nation's airspace, the nation it is flying over has jurisdiction, but if it is over international waters the nation the plane is registered to has jurisdiction.  Of course, none of that matters since the major criminals boarding the plane would all be rounded up in the airport since Money Plane apparently has it's own gate at a commercial airport.

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    25 minutes ago, grudlian. said:

    Let's not discount Steve Guttenberg as also being a villain. How many stalkers and "nice guys" claim they fell in love at first sight and follow the person around?

    Steve seems genuinely charming in this movie once he gets healthy again but he still goes along with this plan. This isn't some spur of the moment choice. He puts on makeup and contacts and an accent. This is six months and exercise (which I guess he would have done anyway once he finished cancer treatment but still...). He isn't the mastermind, but he's still going along with the villainous plan.

    Not only does he go along with a clearly manipulative plan, he sleeps with a woman who isn't actually giving consent to Gus.  This goes beyond fluffing up your image to get with someone.  He knows, or at least has reason to believe, she wouldn't sleep with him if she knew who he was and still goes for it.

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    The dance they were doing was supposed to be the Shag, which people have been doing in the Carolinas since the 1940s.  Of course, there version of the dance was about as accurate as the Southern accents that no main characters bothered with despite apparently being born and raised around Charleston.  If it wasn't for a couple minor characters, this could have been Chicago.

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    Am I the only one that finds the very existence of Alpha to be depressing?  I mean we start out with a space station that is meant to bring about harmony among nations and when it gets too big we just jettison it and all of its inhabitants out into deep space with no hope of ever returning.  Is there no need to keep the scientists and engineers that would be occupying such a station around or was it serving no direct purpose at all?

    Second, as beautiful as the planet Mul was, there is clearly a horrifying monster species living on that world.  Giant seashells don't exist without giant mollusks to produce them.  With very little vegetation, there must be carnivorous snails weighing several tons roaming around in search for food.

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    On 11/25/2019 at 2:16 PM, CaptainAmazing said:

    From seeing this turd around 2003, here's what I remember/reconstructed from later, but not recent, readings:

    -Having to watch the DVD menu screen for ages before we could start, and thinking "This movie had better be REALLY good." It wasn't.

    -A metric fuckton of college parties that had no relevance to the plot.

    -Not much happens for much of the movie. The only even mildly interesting thing in the first half is a scene where another girl seems to be spying on the main character in the library before running away, which turns out to be a red herring that is never brought up again.

    -The main girl meets a lot of guys and then never talks to them again. I think we're supposed to wonder if she's murdered them or something.

    -This "mystery" is anticlimactically solved at a random moment more than halfway through when we just suddenly see her "going to work on one of her victims."

    -Finally seeing the original movie years later and learning that this movie didn't even start out as a sequel to it, which made a LOT of sense. It's like the writer had only just barely heard of the first movie.

    -One review of it said "When the best part of this movie is William Shatner's acting, you know it has problems."

    My understanding is that this didn't start out as a sequel to American Psycho at all.  The scenes at the beginning of the film were added into the script when the studio decided to tie the two films together.

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    On 1/17/2020 at 2:54 PM, MaraQuah said:

    It's a wonderful movie!

    I'm only, like, 60% cynical. Cats has a ton of bad choices, but also some really good ones (Victoria as the audience's window, Mr. Mistoffelees' character) that result in an extremely fun experience. The crowd makes a huge difference too. Here in Toronto it already has cult following with sing-along screenings!

    It's a bad movie in the sense that even without the glaring mistakes in the CGI, the characters often don't feel like they are actually in the scene somehow, especially when tap dancing.  There's also the issue of Idris Elba's cat being nightmare fuel when he ditches the coat and hat.  Otherwise, I agree that it is a pretty fun movie to watch if you go in knowing that there is no real plot.

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    I realize there obviously is an evil plan to turn boys into donkeys, but given that there isn't the slightest hint of that for the first hour or anything that suggests any characters know of it, why is Lorenzini presented as a villain?  His evil plan at the start of the film is to go to a puppet maker and....buy a puppet to put on a show for kids in a theater?  When that fails his plan is to massively overpay for the puppet and keep an old man out of prison?  If anything, the sentient block of wood that, in an effort to save inanimate objects, sets fire to a theater full of children is the problem character at that point of the film.

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