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Worst movie death scene ever

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fireproof78 wrote:
Zarban wrote:
Eddie wrote:

Damon Lindelof  had just wrapped Lost when Ridley calls and says, "Hey, Im a fan of Lost." Lindelof comes on board, and with each new draft, the "sandbox got bigger and bigger," until one day, Prometheus happened.

That's what you get when you hire a guy who wrote for Lost. You're basically saying, "I'd like to introduce some totally inexplicable batshit insanity into my story with no rules or plan for how to make it make sense."

That should be on his business card.

I'm told it is, but in the form of some alien QR code that every scanner on Earth thinks means "seven buckets of steamed punk with extra Tuesday, and a rhinoceros butt-plug".

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Yo-yos in Space

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If you do Psycho, consider doing Psycho 2 for comparison.

Is there any Cronenberg worth DiFing?

And given that Halloween is about kids as much as scares, how about a David Bowie double-bill of Labyrinth and The Hunger?

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The Bus

Jimmy B wrote:

http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/580756_459894214028349_1103247694_n.jpg

I take it this is a poster for John Carpenter of Mars.

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When you guys mentioned Vasquez Rocks were in yet another movie, it made me wonder.

Can we consider Vasquez Rocks to be the Wilhelm Scream of alien landscapes?

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Dave wrote:

How is this not here?

Perhaps because we were waiting for this:

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Well, my payment's been taken now, so presumably Trey is on the phone ordering his Nebuchadnezzar of champagne.

And none of that imported crap, neither! No, sir! Genuine American champagne, from the Duff Champagne brewery.

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Welp, there goes the other stretch goal.

Coming soon: Episode 0: the Pink Menace?

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If it's a joke, IMDb is playing along. Although it is partially categorized under 'Comedy'.

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Every time I watch video of the Curiosity landing procedure, I become re-convinced that it will never work. Even though it already has.

Who's crazy now, eh? Eh?

Hold on, let me think about that.

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Except that's already been done with River Song. We see her ending first, and then what came before. The trouble with this as a dramatic structure is that it has the same problems as a prequel; no real jeopardy for that character, because we know they make it. (Although, at least in Who, "time can be rewritten", "wibbly-wobbly", et cetera.  But still.)

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Eggs...

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How about hiring the London Symphony Orchestra to record the score?

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*FHTHOOM*

Okay, kid, you're all clear. Now let's blow this thing and go home!

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2 Hamsters, 1 Wheel.

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Zarban wrote:

But as it went on it seemed to be a Bill Bailey comedy show WITH AN ENTIRE ORCHESTRA. Who does that?!

Well, it was a BBC show, and the BBC does have several entire orchestras lying around. They're not all doing Doctor Who scores, you know.

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Good lord, have I part-funded a fruity porn movie?  That's an unexpected bonus/subpoena.

avatar wrote:

Bit of a snobs list - dominated by old b/w inaccessible foreign films about existential angst

Sir, I am shocked - SHOCKED! - at your accusation that film critics might be snobs about film.

Although actually, now that I think about it, not that shocked.

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Owen Ward wrote:

To get (slightly) back on track...

"Also Starring...Simon Pegg"
"Directed by Edgar Wright"

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Coming soon: Cockneys vs Zombies

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BigDamnArtist wrote:

And yeah...Pegg definitely helps make anything better.

I wonder if Pegg is now consciously collecting franchises: Who, Mission: Impossible, Trek, Tin-tin, the Edgar Wright trilogy...

He needs to get parts in Futurama, something by Marvel, something by DC, maybe The Man From UNCLE if anyone is making that, and he needs to persuade George to paint him into Star Wars as if he'd always been there.

Then he could do a special edition of Spaced where he has always been his own collectible figure set.

The British Film Institute has published its ten-yearly update of its Greatest Films of All Time poll, in which My Neighbour Totoro has a higher ranking than Star Wars, and Shawshank ties with Starship Troopers, albeit at 894th.

But Troopers also ranks in the directors' poll, whereas Shawshank doesn't.

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Jimmy B wrote:

Yeah, a kid designed the alien for a Blue Peter contest. A kid didn't write the story though big_smile

Apparently, the kid wasn't completely pleased to see the realization of the Absorbaloff, as he'd conceived it at about the size of a house, not the size of an actor.