kensalriser
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I do, the content in parenthesis is examples of quasi-comedies, where the violence is obvious slapstick. I’m talking about things like the absurd bear attack in The Revenant.
Pet peeves in films/tv
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gez
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Sure of course and 99% of the time that's true for me also. Just over time you get to notice trends and occasionally they are pretty blatant in a scene and just make me do a virtual "roll my eyes" for a moment.
gez
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Interesting. It's surprisingly high pitched and short too. It doesn't even seem to overwhelm the microphone so gives the impression it's not defeningly loud either.
gez
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Yes in the main they're Chimps, but the "military" is made up of Gorilla. I'm not sure I'd say Gorilla's are passive animals, whilst they are vegitarian they're capable of being agressive under the right set of circumstances. Much like Chimps really, wild ones will defend their territory and you wouldn't want to be on the wrong end of either.
gez
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Interestingly I've seen it said that "The Longest Day" was a far more accurate depiction of the invasion. Maybe that relates to the film in it's entirity rather than the beach landing scenes themselves though.I'm sure you're right about the gun. It shouldn't put off people from Saving Private Ryan - I read a while back that soldiers actually part of the landings rate the beginning of that film as unusually (and of course horribly) realistic.
My main pet peeve:
Dramatic Gun Cock
The dramatic gun cock is employed when a character is up to some interrogation work while holding a gun to someone's head. The subject of the investigation is invited to divulge some critical information. The subject refuses or spouts an insult. Here comes the dramatic gun cock. The interrogator...tropedia.fandom.com
gez
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Literally just watched a scene like that in NCIS, where the 5 NCIS members all took turns to say two sentences each (only one secntence at a time) explaining to the perpetrator how they knew it was them.. it was just ridiculous.
gez
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Or in French films where they seem to make a huge deal about it, by needlessly inserting such scenes. But of course it's "realism" isn't it.
Joe P
Memory Alpha incarnate | mod; Shatner number = 2
I would be remiss if I didn’t mention how much it irks me that Trek was canned after three seasons.
It’s right bloody there in the opener! Mind you, it has proved remarkably fertile in other ways, but …. FIVE YEAR MISSION dammit! Five years!
But … man … what a … show .. it was!
Joe
Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds; to seek out new life and new civilizations; to boldly go where Nomad has gone before!
It’s right bloody there in the opener! Mind you, it has proved remarkably fertile in other ways, but …. FIVE YEAR MISSION dammit! Five years!
But … man … what a … show .. it was!
Joe
foxwelljsly
Me too, I ate one sour too.
You've obviously not seen Rudiger Vogler take a very real shit in Wim Wenders' 'Kings of the Road'.
Wim Wenders' interviewed about it far later....
"That’s gonna pursue me for the rest of my life. The truth behind it is that we shot the scene with the guy taking a leak, and then the camera assistant said that we had to do it one more time because the camera jammed, and it’s not on film. I had to break the news to my actor, and I said we had to shoot it again. And he said, well, I can’t do it one more time, I mean, I can only fake it, and I said, well then, just take a shit…. in a provocative way because I thought he’s never gonna do it. And before I knew it, he was leaning down and he was actually taking a shit, and we all were breathless. I didn’t say cut or anything, because he was doing it, so we’re filming it, and I knew in my heart we were never going to use because…. you can’t do that.
Then we came to the editing room, and the editor said, you’re not going to use that, and I said no, but then he said what are we going to do without it, and I said, go ahead, we can always take it out again.
Then it became this thing, because he began teasing me that I didn’t have the guts to keep it in, and it became a game, and it stayed in, and then it was too late to take it out, and it was forever in.
It was the first film I showed in Cannes, and the director of the festival came to me and said, “We all love your film very much, but you have to take that scene out. The jury is not gonna reward it.” But it was too late, because now that it’s in, now I have to insist that it’s in.
I regretted it very often, but then again, at one point, I had to stand up for it. It followed me for the rest of my life. The actor, poor Rüdiger, it marked his life."
darrenyeats
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awkwardbydesign
Officially Awesome
The villain explaining to the hero why he is going to kill him. Just shoot the bugger!
Jezzer
Unspecified
Not just that, but his plans for world domination.
Tony Lockhart
Avoiding Stress, at Every Opportunity
awkwardbydesign
Officially Awesome
If you are talking about the Dukes of Hazzard, "amount" appears to be correct.Shouldn’t that be “number of car crashes”?
Tony Lockhart
Avoiding Stress, at Every Opportunity
Airbags?If you are talking about the Dukes of Hazzard, "amount" appears to be correct.
Well, the toilets in films are obviously occupied with people snorting coke...
