#71

Yeah, classic Fincher: man can direct the shit out of a film.

Apart from Alien Cubed. Even the workprint of that isn’t good. Unless the whole point of the film is to have a horror action film that contains neither horror nor action.

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#72

That bit in one of the Nolan Batman films where literally everything.

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#73

san andreas (2015) breaks a suspension bridge

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way cooler

#74

The bit in Interstellar where they get stuck on the ocean planet. Their crewmate who’s been left alone on the spaceship for 20 years just behaves like they’ve been away for a few days

#75

Most of it, broken back included, is just straight from the comics, isn’t it? I dunno, why is Iron Man excluded from this sort of thing but Nolan’s Batman films are failures for both not being comic book enough and for not being realistic enough? (I’ll accept any criticism of them being overly humourless, natch.)

#76

Never understood the, ‘why didn’t they just fly into Mordor?’ thing. As if Sauron, a giant fuck off eye in the sky with a bunch of flying dragon riders at his disposal, wouldn’t spot them. That’d be a shit plan.

Probably should have bricked the volcano entrance up just to be safe though.

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#77

The patent ridiculousness of everything that happens in the Nolan Batman movies was always emphasised by the dour seriousness it was all played with (seem to remember the Joker surfing down a gigantic stack of money at one point). The first one was carried along by HOLY SHIT IT’S BATMAN AND IT’S NOT REALLY CAMP AND SHIT, the second by Heath Ledger. The third one’s hilariously bad. There’s nothing specifically wrong with Batman recovering from a broken back in record time, but the movie’s full of similarly desparate crap, awful dialogue and just generally what happens in a superhero franchise once the writers are bored and out of ideas. In time I think it’ll fit right into the pantheon of so-bad-it’s-good Batman movies.

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#78

and the batmobile was shit

#79

huh?

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#81

this is a problem i have with musicals. i know it’s not supposed to be realistic but the idea of everyone suddenly singing spontaneously along to some omnipresent music does sort of take me out of the story tbh.

the other problem i have with musicals is that they’re terrible.

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#82

Newsflash. Some people who don’t know their way around specific cities have watched films that feature those cities.

#83

because in films/TV all priests are always irish. this is a thing i have noticed.

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#84

is that it?

#85

Yup. Only saw begins but it goes from gritty training camp violence to batmobile like they belong in the same film. Nope.

#86

notafilm but there’s a bit in The Thick Of It where Terri says people might think Andy Murray is related to Nicola, and Nicola says “what, like Russ and Diane Abbott are related?” it’s a good joke but TTOI is obv a fictionalised version of UK politics SO WHO IS DIANE ABBOTT TO THEM? surely she doesn’t exist as an MP in their continuity where the rest of the MPs aren’t real.

also feels weird for the show to mention two Abbotts without someone referring to Hugh.

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#87

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#88

I only have one, but it does make me quite the nerd.

The bit in Die Hard 2 where the baddie changes ground level and the British plane crashes. The ILS is a bit of equipment sitting at the end of the runway, beaming a signal to the aircraft approaching to keep them on the glide path. It can’t be moved down without digging a big hole very quickly.

#89

Goes without saying, but there’s plenty about that scene that isn’t quite an accurate representation of how things work.

The best one with planes in films is when the pilots gradually power the engines up throughout the takeoff roll, rather than just setting the throttles and leaving it.

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#90

Staggered to read that. I knew it was commercially popular, but given that it is atrocious on every level, I’m pretty surprised the critics don’t spot it.

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