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The Picard Maneuver piefed.world The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world
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rants_unnecessarily piefed.social rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social
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What?

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CIA_chatbot lemmy.world CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world
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#3 · Quote Reply

What?

Yea imma need a bit of explanation on this one, this feels like AI just posting random shite

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jellyfishhunter lemmy.world jellyfishhunter@lemmy.world
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What?

Yes, it's true

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slazer2au lemmy.world slazer2au@lemmy.world
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obi wan Kenobi?

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NoSpotOfGround lemmy.world NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world
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What?

Back To The Future, where Marty McFly calls himself Darth Vader in front of his terrified father, while pretending to be an alien.

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ApplyingAutomation lemmy.world ApplyingAutomation@lemmy.world
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What?

Context

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N0t_5ure lemmy.world N0t_5ure@lemmy.world
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#8 · Quote Reply

What?

This one took me a minute. The actor in the pic played Marty McFly's dad in Back to the Future. There is a scene in the movie where Marty is trying to scare his young dad, and wakes him up wearing a hazmat suit with face covering, putting headphones over his ears to blast Van Halen and calling himself Darth Vader.

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N0t_5ure lemmy.world N0t_5ure@lemmy.world
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Yea imma need a bit of explanation on this one, this feels like AI just posting random shite

https://old.lemmy.world/comment/22711402

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rants_unnecessarily piefed.social rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social
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#10 · (edited) Quote Reply

Back To The Future, where Marty McFly calls himself Darth Vader in front of his terrified father, while pretending to be an alien.

Oooh, ok, that's hilarious. Had no idea about that! Was that in the movie? No recollection!

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usualsuspect191 lemmy.ca usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca
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#11 · Quote Reply

What?

In Back to the Future, Marty uses his father's love of sci-fi books to scare him by pretending to be an alien called Darth Vader from the planet Vulcan. This meme shows the realisation later when the father watches Star Wars (the father is played by Crispin Glover)

https://youtu.be/hHZctSnNrsw

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rants_unnecessarily piefed.social rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social
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Whaaat!? I have no recollection of this! Was this is in the final cut?

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bamboo lemmy.blahaj.zone bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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Whaaat!? I have no recollection of this! Was this is in the final cut?

This is how the scene was in the final cut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHZctSnNrsw

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CIA_chatbot lemmy.world CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world
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https://old.lemmy.world/comment/22711402

Oooooh ok, yea damn that’s reaching back a bit

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Ghostie lemmy.zip Ghostie@lemmy.zip
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NoSpotOfGround lemmy.world NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world
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Oooh, ok, that's hilarious. Had no idea about that! Was that in the movie? No recollection!

It was at least partially a deleted scene actually? I'm not sure anymore either... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaYADHcpdng

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TachyonTele piefed.social TachyonTele@piefed.social
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What's really the best part of this is that Marty isn't even the oldest. So that would mean Calvin came back and she did it with him.

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grue lemmy.world grue@lemmy.world
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Oooh, ok, that's hilarious. Had no idea about that! Was that in the movie? No recollection!

If you can't quote every line from memory, clearly you need to watch the whole trilogy again.

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grue lemmy.world grue@lemmy.world
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#19 · (edited) Quote Reply

It was at least partially a deleted scene actually? I'm not sure anymore either... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaYADHcpdng

The part that was actually in the released movie ends at 0:45. (You can also tell by the fact that the audio/video very obviously changes to daily footage at that point.)

See also the scene afterward where George tells "Calvin" about the encounter, which IMO worked way better than actually showing the rest of it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUXjfYFwgZo

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grue lemmy.world grue@lemmy.world
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This is how the scene was in the final cut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHZctSnNrsw

And then there's a follow-up scene the next day, where George tells "Calvin Klein" about the encounter.

Having George retell it worked way better than showing it directly, IMO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUXjfYFwgZo

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bamboo lemmy.blahaj.zone bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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And then there's a follow-up scene the next day, where George tells "Calvin Klein" about the encounter. Having George retell it worked way better than showing it directly, IMO. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUXjfYFwgZo

Agreed, but without showing it, it would be extremely confusing to the audience. After watching the extended scene, it would have been really bad if they left that all in. Plus the scene is funny with the eddie van halen tape, and also uses the contents of Doc's luggage with the hair dryer for another gag.

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ChicoSuave lemmy.world ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
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Crispin Glover's face looks extra textured and the lighting doesn't seem right. Is this AI?

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skisnow lemmy.ca skisnow@lemmy.ca
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There’s a sequel novel to the UK time-travel sitcom Goodnight Sweetheart on kickstarter, where all the future pop culture references that Gary Sparrow used to make start to catch up with him as he gets older.

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Jax sh.itjust.works Jax@sh.itjust.works
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Crispin Glover's face looks extra textured and the lighting doesn't seem right. Is this AI?

I think the lighting seems fine, and Crispin Glover's face has always been... sort of jarring, to me anyway. There does seem to be something odd about his skin, though — it's got that plastic-y nature that most AIs produce.

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WesternInfidels feddit.online WesternInfidels@feddit.online
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#25 · (edited) Quote Reply

George would have some confusion about the "planet Vulcan" bit long before Star Wars, though.

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Affine Connection lemmy.world AffineConnection@lemmy.world
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George would have some confusion about the "planet Vulcan" bit long before Star Wars, though.

Vulcan was already the name suggested for a hypothetical planet closer to the sun than Mercury. One motivation for the hypothesis was an observed discrepancy in Mercury's perihelion precession compared to Newtonian predictions using the known planets, but then general relativity perfectly predicted the discrepancy without requiring an extra planet.

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rants_unnecessarily piefed.social rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social
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If you can't quote every line from memory, clearly you need to watch the whole trilogy again.

That is a fair argument.

Goes to pop some popcorn

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Affine Connection lemmy.world AffineConnection@lemmy.world
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#28 · (edited) Quote Reply

In Back to the Future, Marty uses his father's love of sci-fi books to scare him by pretending to be an alien called Darth Vader from the planet Vulcan. This meme shows the realisation later when the father watches Star Wars (the father is played by Crispin Glover) https://youtu.be/hHZctSnNrsw

Last night, Darth Vader came down from planet Vulcan, and told me that if I didn't take Lorraine out, that he'd melt my brain!

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nova_ad_vitum lemmy.ca nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca
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Crispin Glover's face looks extra textured and the lighting doesn't seem right. Is this AI?

Also I feel like as a society we haven't sufficiently discussed the fact that this dude's name is Crispin.

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FrChazzz lemmus.org FrChazzz@lemmus.org
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He then uncontrollably pisses himself the first time he hears "Eruption" blasting out of Marty's room

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