Oh God yes and women with no body hair in times when only sex workers would shave pits&crotch

That's how you lucid dream. You realize the absurd, then wake up in the dream. Then, it goes where you want it.

Off with Snyder's Cut, in with Dad's Cut.

I don't care about the extra mass, but how do his boxers work?

Isn't that the same steps as making a GUI using C#.NET?

But then there's the films that nail even the most pointless things

Yeah I saw a still frame from what appeared to be some sort of post-apocalyptic movie with a grungy super-spy/bounty-hunter type woman as the protagonist. Dirty torn clothes, nappy dreadlocks, the whole works. Clearly hadn't showered in months. And her pits were clean-shaven. I was like "wat."

That's not "stupidly unrealistic though". Because the unrealistic part (everybody waiting together in the waiting room) actually plays a huge part in the plot moving forward. That's just bad writing.

Going the the post office on a sunday is something that can be easily tweaked without changing the rest of the plot.

There's a scene in Community about this, where Abed is narrating a story, and when a story character turns on the radio, and its just playing conventional chill music instead of anything notable. Abed then points out that it's unlikely the radio would have anything notable right as they turned it on.

I get what you're saying but I think society would change much more in 30 years with billions of deaths compared to covid which effectively lasted for like 2-3 years. A generation would grow up that doesn't know any better. Society would change. Covid was peanuts compared to the crisis in the movie. There is no going back in the movie.

All of humanity is doomed but the movie doesn't really show what that would do to society generally. A movie like Children of Men does show that. They also still have blaming immigrants and shit, but at least that movie doesn't pretend life would carry on as normal when faced with "no more food, we're all going to die"

Who uses a TV anymore?

If they want to make it realistic, they're texting a link.

Perhaps its pulled from another dimension, like Cyclop's laser from the DCU, or maybe it's another force of the universe, like the speed force also from the DCU. There's endless ways to explain it.

Someone explained to me that apparently in later comics it has been revealed that the gamma radiation that his anger resonates with is drawn from something called the green door which is created by a character known as the one below it all who is more or less Satan (gods nasty alter ego).

And apparently this is limitless so if he gets pissed enough he could destroy the universe as we know it.

Well, I mean, he is wearing those purple shorts. Maybe they're... battery shorts.

It's a quiote from a crimgy tv show.

A shit plot is not better....?

They could have just used a normal lighter (with butane)....

had to look it up, this is indeed ridiculous 😅 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vCvnOv3-Og

I mean, it's a movie. They have license to cut out the boring parts seamlessly.

Whats up tiger lily

I love that level of detail in books! Reportedly in the first 6 books of the Wheel of Time every time they mention the moon, it's in the correct phase. Iirc it's never relevant to the plot.

Hahahaha whoops

Yep. Could have
But the virgin makes a show of lighting it.

It's just one of those things in movies where it's product placement and it needs to light. But it just bothers me. Lol

Inconsistencies in movies or shows do that to me.
Happens.

28 Days Later was fantastic. 28 Weeks Later was shit sandwich. I've not yet seen 28 Years Later.

To be fair, if it was a zombie apocalypse scenario in the states, the national network news would have cut in on the local broadcast and the talking heads would be yapping 24/7 for the ratings. Every channel. There's be a good chance that you'd turn on your TV right to a newscast about the zombies.

Now something like an insane killer escaped from a mental institution would be at most a ticker across the bottom of the local broadcast after a brief local cut in when the story broke.

Was watching the latest season of slow horses. Great show, I fully recommend. However... a couple of assassins that kept firing their pistols while chasing someone annoyed me. Sure, there was time to reload and it's plausible that they simply didn't show that. But what are the odds that they were carrying 3-4 spare clips with them? Especially since they weren't wearing tactical gear anything of the sort.

Looks like an Adafruit Feather nRF52

Also Pawnee is supposed to be a kinda folksy midwest town with like 30,000 population but the city hall is seemingly a modern $15mil building with floors and departments.

The actual Parks and Rec "department" of a town like that would be one haggard "Selma from the Simpsons" type character chainsmoking and sitting at a folding card table in some shitty repurposed storefront in a building from the 1950s across the square from the old courthouse.

But it's still stupidly unbelievable though, whether or not the plot hinge on this shouldn't matter imo. But i guess it's not minute enough in this case.

I still haven't watch 28 days later, currently not in the mood for horror. But definitely in my watchlist.

Keep in mind that I saw it when it came out and it was my introduction to fast zombies. They were not popular before that movie, although DDG says a movie in 1980 had fast undead. Also it was artistic in a time when all movies were leaning toward "independent film" asthetics, despite being big budget films. And the opening with the Godspeed You Black Emperor song playing was freaking great.

I don't know how the movie will come across having decades of films in between. Will it still seem fantastic to an early 20s kid? No clue. But I thought it was fantastic back then.

My pet peeve is the reactionless guns with unlimited kinetic energy bullets. The shooter's hand barely twitches but the target flies as if they were hit by a cannonball. Newton would be spinning in his grave.

I lost it during Raiders of the Lost Ark when Indy stowed away on the outside of a U-boat and then rode it like a thousand miles across the Mediterranean or wherever they were. I guess they thought submarines just buttoned up when they left port and nobody ever went outside on the conning tower. And they never dove or anything.

...velocity in joules?

The snakes were not even dangerous in any way, they were mostly ball pythons if I remember correctly, those are neither venomous, nor eager to bite, their usual reaction is to curl into a ball. Oooh so dangerous! The common theme is to use non-venomous species (for obvious reasons) and people do not notice, since they usually know jackshit about reptiles, and ooh aaah snakes! Scary!

I also laugh, when there is some "super dangerous spider" or something, and then it is always of one of the slowest moving, least venomous, most docile tarantula species. The worst thing with those species is, they might kick itchy hairs on you, and the fangs make a small wound, if you manage to somehow make them bite. But aaah! Spiders! Scary!

Also hilarious when they use goddamn show bred huskies for wolves. Oh come on.

who’s tuned to the news channel

I agree this is rare, but my TV happened to be tuned to CNN on 9/11 when I turned it on around 10:30. I was playing hooky from work and getting high while playing bridge on my computer and nobody had called me. The screen showed a pillar of smoke and the caption said "second World Trade Center tower collapses" and I was like "what fucking movie is this?" Took a while for me to process what was happening.

anachronistic makeup/hair styling

I don't know if this is exactly "anachronistic" since the movie is set 20,000 years in the future and who knows, but there's a scene in the second installment of the new Dune where the emperor is surrounded by his Sardaukar soldiers and they all have LA hipster haircuts.

Ironically, that is exactly what Visual Basic was good at.

Marvel has clearly shown that in their world mutations just unlock some sort of magic.

This never gets mentioned, but I wonder what responsibility Marvel bears for the generally low level of comprehension in our society of how evolution by natural selection actually works.

I think the problem is that Cate Blanchett has too big an ego to be taught/learn anything,

Where do you base this on? Have you got any experience shooting with her?

Yes, that is certainly the only inaccurate part in that dialogue. ;)

I don't agree movie need to be as realistic as possible or insist on enforcing fact to audience face ,especially when the movie theme based or source is fiction itself , but i do agree realism and fact matter in movies that sell themselves as inspired, based on true event or a documentary and such.

It's honestly still pretty good, they were the first fast zombies I remember as well. Good tone throughout, good pacing, good sound I don't know much more you could ask for in a zombie movie.

It was shot on an old Motorola phone, but there are some shots that are really awesome and it works well. It's been pretty emulated, so it may not have that novelty anymore. It's still one of my favorites.

I'm very forgiving in this regard, as long as the movie is entertaining, I'll go along for the ride.

I did have a related weird thing happen once, though. I don't remember what movie I was watching, but about halfway through I suddenly realized everyone in the movie was acting and I couldn't watch anymore. It was a weird feeling, like they were all just lying to me, which of course they always are, but I was suddenly offended--"WTF? This is all bullshit!"

Maybe it was terrible chemistry. Maybe I subconsciously noticed all the subtle clues that the actors hated each other, but were pretending to be friends.

I suppose the one thing I can't forgive is a complete lack of chemistry between the actors, and that killing their performances.

They still make revolvers today. They’re supposedly more reliable and easier to maintain.

For sure. A great film.

I can't find anything about the Motorola Phone stuff. Do you have a source?

Here's what Wikipedia says, "The majority of the film (except for the final sequence when the military plane finds Jim, Selena, and Hannah, which was shot on 35mm film) was shot on Canon XL1 digital video (DV) cameras,[24][9] which were smaller and more manoeuvrable than traditional film cameras, which would have been impractical on such brief shoots. Boyle said the early London sequences avoided "litter[ing] the world with corpses", instead emphasising a more symbolic emptiness and atmosphere.[25] The scenes of the empty M1 motorway were also filmed within limited periods; Boyle said police created a "rolling block" in both directions to produce a temporary corridor of empty road, giving the crew seven or eight minutes to shoot using multiple cameras.[26]"

Yes I think anything that is specifically recognizable like that counts. 80s permed hair is especially noticeable.

I also sometimes notice "old lady hairstyles" in the old movies that those old ladies watched in their teens, copied their style, and kept doing it for several decades, but that's different.

I stopped watching Stranger Things because in a show about demons from a parallel universe invading a small town, I couldn't get over a soccer mom breaking her friend out of a Russian prison camp.

That broke the realism for me.

You learn a great deal about certain people by working high-end retail.....