"well we're never really 100% of the evil Umbrella Corp's motivations any more."
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The unmentioned rule 23 is to gut punch people with their own fleeting mortality so that an otherwise cheery kids movie inexplicably fills the theater with grown men and women bawling their eyes out.
The way it's explained, the men of the Night's Watch are not supposed to have any connection that might shift their loyalties away from their duty as a man of the Night's Watch. Once you join, you guard the wall and that's it. As you touched on though, it's a rule that's pretty much broken and looked the other way. …
Far more practical concern is cluttering up our atmosphere with various junk as we launch shuttles making future launches more and more dangerous and as they go on. I could be wrong, but some of the concern over increased space traffic causing ecological damage was analyzed back when they were consideirng those…
If I'm remembering the right show, this particular 'special' was devious in the way it screwed with people as well. There would often be someone standing in the background (say, behind the curtain) for like a split second on some shots throughout—but when they would reshow the clip (say, having the cast 'examine the…
I think it's precisely because it's an ensemble superhero film and that it essentially had to overcome massive hurdles to get here are why people's expectations run so high.
Well in this case it tastes like 'There are three writing credits on this movie and it was not directed by. In addition to Whedon himself had no direct involvement in the shooting process whatsoever.' but I guess that wouldn't make for such pith.
Sooooooo... what did the art book say about the movie reel?
If it turned out that his creation was George Washington or even Abraham Lincoln, I would give you all of my dollars to get this made.
Yeah, cute little subversion of the 'sexy times' trope by very CLEARLY crossing the line into something that would make the audience (and the characters) uncomfortable and weirded out by the situation.
I'm just saying, that particular point of logic doesn't make much sense. Pretty much every monster in the film was 'popularized' in Film, so that doesn't fit. You could use that point of logic on nearly anything: Hell, the image of Zombies as slow, shambolic blue-skinned types were popularized by the Romero films. …
Similar (but less of a skewer) is the stereotypical Jock, who is of course, not only quite intelligent but a pretty nice guy over all. They basically have to dose him with stupid repeatedly to make the audience 'root' for him to die, because we're supposed to want to.
...How is that related? You uh, know It was a book first, right?
Well, that can't be the case, because that happened. :P Besides, it has to be something from the cellar, because it's referenced fairly specifically. 'They don't have to go down there.'
1). If viewed through the lens of horror films, the idea that each country has its own 'rules' becomes easier to swallow. The 'rules' for a J-horror film are intrinsically different from say, the rules of an American horror film (a good short comparison—the Japanese and English versions of the Ring are completely…
(Man, lot of people are saying stuff like this lately). Paleontologists are almost 100% certain that Dinosaurs are endothermic The idea that Dinosaurs are like Lizards has been out of vogue for decades. Robert T. Bakker posted a paper in the 60s that laid the evidence for that claim and it's only been getting…
The most current reasoning on Dinosaurs suggests they are endothermic, not ectothermic. And they haven't been Lizards for a while.
Fuck, ask a few species how being suspected of stealing from farmers work out. There's a big legal battle going on up here in the Pacific Northwest over this, as a few Seals have figured out that nice little salmon bridge built to help Salmon up the dam is a delicious little smorgasboard, so they've got the okay from…
To add on to the quotation of Cersei 'winning', it's made all the worse because the power play actually erodes Cersei's own power base a little (juxtaposed in a lovely fashion by Joffrey, who's busily alienating everybody and anybody around him and losing the kingdom without even knowing it). Her power play aside,…
Yeah, I know the books have kindled an interest in a lot of people—but the book has been out for a long time now. Just because you walked into a series during a surge of popularity doesn't mean the entire fandom has to tiptoe around you just because you came in during say—a syndicated release of a series that's been…