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 Posted:   Jan 18, 2016 - 11:16 AM   
 By:   Nicolai P. Zwar   (Member)

Jimmy Olsen is not black... or is it African-American today?
Getting really tired of this politically correct bidness.
Denzel Washington as James Bond... okay, maybe.


No Denzel as James Bond. He is not British.

 
 Posted:   Jan 18, 2016 - 11:23 AM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)

In science fiction films there's always some autonomous computer voice constantly yapping in the astronauts ear. Appears again in "The Martian".

"...What are you doing, Dave?"

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 18, 2016 - 3:23 PM   
 By:   Disco Stu   (Member)

Jimmy Olsen is not black... or is it African-American today?
Getting really tired of this politically correct bidness.
Denzel Washington as James Bond... okay, maybe.


No Denzel as James Bond. He is not British.


Said it before and say it again: Idris Elba!
I hate all those "blackwater operations". Did so back in '89 when Bill Dee was playing Harvey Dent but DAMN Idris seems so right for Bond!!

D.S.

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 18, 2016 - 6:34 PM   
 By:   The Wanderer   (Member)

Jimmy Olsen is not black... or is it African-American today?
Getting really tired of this politically correct bidness.
Denzel Washington as James Bond... okay, maybe.


No Denzel as James Bond. He is not British.


Said it before and say it again: Idris Elba!
I hate all those "blackwater operations". Did so back in '89 when Bill Dee was playing Harvey Dent but DAMN Idris seems so right for Bond!!

D.S.


They could always introduce him as 008 or something in the next Bond film then let him go off on his own adventures. Might keep everyone happy?

 
 Posted:   Jan 18, 2016 - 7:04 PM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

Jimmy Olsen is not black... or is it African-American today?
Getting really tired of this politically correct bidness.
Denzel Washington as James Bond... okay, maybe.


No Denzel as James Bond. He is not British.


Said it before and say it again: Idris Elba!
I hate all those "blackwater operations". Did so back in '89 when Bill Dee was playing Harvey Dent but DAMN Idris seems so right for Bond!!

D.S.


They could always introduce him as 008 or something in the next Bond film then let him go off on his own adventures. Might keep everyone happy?



Isn't the 8 ball black?

 
 Posted:   Jan 18, 2016 - 8:27 PM   
 By:   Mr. Jack   (Member)

In science fiction films there's always some autonomous computer voice constantly yapping in the astronauts ear. Appears again in "The Martian".

...and the voice that announces self-destruct countdowns is always female, for some reason ("YOU HAVE TEN MINUTES TO REACH MINIMUM SAFE DISTANCE").

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 19, 2016 - 3:04 AM   
 By:   Rameau   (Member)

Not a complaint, as they have to do it, but you never see the second hand on a clock sweeping around in a film or TV series, that's because they take out the battery so the hands don't jump around all over the place once the scene has been edited (a minute or two screen time may take all day to film). You don't get digital clocks for the same reason.

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 19, 2016 - 6:41 AM   
 By:   Disco Stu   (Member)

Jimmy Olsen is not black... or is it African-American today?
Getting really tired of this politically correct bidness.
Denzel Washington as James Bond... okay, maybe.


No Denzel as James Bond. He is not British.


Said it before and say it again: Idris Elba!
I hate all those "blackwater operations". Did so back in '89 when Bill Dee was playing Harvey Dent but DAMN Idris seems so right for Bond!!

D.S.


They could always introduce him as 008 or something in the next Bond film then let him go off on his own adventures. Might keep everyone happy?



Isn't the 8 ball black?


So James Bond gets black balled. That would make him an undercover brother


D.S.

 
 Posted:   Jan 19, 2016 - 8:13 AM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

Not a complaint, as they have to do it, but you never see the second hand on a clock sweeping around in a film or TV series, that's because they take out the battery so the hands don't jump around all over the place once the scene has been edited (a minute or two screen time may take all day to film). You don't get digital clocks for the same reason.

I never caught onto this! They even made a joke about the missing second hand in a King of Queens episode. To funny.

The only thing I'm aware of that always sticks out is when they remove the rear view mirror in cars.
I understand why but it's distracting.

 
 Posted:   Jan 19, 2016 - 8:14 AM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)

In science fiction films there's always some autonomous computer voice constantly yapping in the astronauts ear. Appears again in "The Martian".

...and the voice that announces self-destruct countdowns is always female, for some reason ("YOU HAVE TEN MINUTES TO REACH MINIMUM SAFE DISTANCE").


Except in this one..

Bomb #20: "..Intriguing. I wish I had more time to discuss this."
Doolittle: [frantic] "...Why don't you have more time?"
Bomb #20: ".. Because I must explode in 75 seconds..."

 
 Posted:   Jan 20, 2016 - 9:27 PM   
 By:   Mr. Jack   (Member)

...a woman cuts her own hair by looking in a mirror, and despite having no experience, always ends up with a perfectly-styled bob with no loose ends or ragged parts? Even in the back (which she wouldn't be able to see, unless she had a hand-mirror handy). See Shailene Woodley in Insurgent and Rapunzel in Tangled for good examples (in the latter Rapunzel has her hair shorn with a shard of broken mirror, and somehow it comes out looking fab-u-loooooooooooooooooous!).

 
 Posted:   Jan 20, 2016 - 10:00 PM   
 By:   Mr. Jack   (Member)

The hero is in a busy airport. After escaping from a gang of villains, he goes into the large restroom where he's alone. He then fills the sink with water and scrub his face with that water.

Would you wash your face with water from a sink in a large, busy airport?


No, and would the washroom ever be empty? Even less likely.


On the commentary track for the movie The Heat (the Sandra Bullock/Melissa McCarthy comedy) featuring the MST3K crew, they point out the absurdity of how Bullock and McCarthy can have a five-minute conversation in the ladies' room of a busy nightclub and not once does another woman enter to use the facilities.

 
 Posted:   Jan 21, 2016 - 8:24 AM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

When characters are tossed through glass windows or partitions they don't have a scratch on them. (they may have a single cut) There should be little shards of glass and cuts all over their exposed bodies.

 
 Posted:   Feb 20, 2016 - 1:26 PM   
 By:   Metryq   (Member)

Hollywood sound editors (or directors) just love gun sounds since people are too blind to see the guns in the picture. We hear thumb safeties clicking off on guns that do not have them, ejected brass hitting the floor from revolvers, and all manner of other noises that make guns sound like loose handfuls of metal that rattle a lot.

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 20, 2016 - 1:40 PM   
 By:   Last Child   (Member)

On the commentary track for the movie The Heat (the Sandra Bullock/Melissa McCarthy comedy) featuring the MST3K crew...

Never heard of this one. Have they done any other riff-commentary tracks like this?

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 20, 2016 - 2:06 PM   
 By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member)

The hero is in a busy airport. After escaping from a gang of villains, he goes into the large restroom where he's alone. He then fills the sink with water and scrub his face with that water.


I've never seen a restroom sink in an airport that had a stopper that would allow it to be filled. You can find regular sinks with stoppers in small bathrooms in restaurants, but not in large public restrooms.

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 20, 2016 - 2:08 PM   
 By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member)

When characters are tossed through glass windows or partitions they don't have a scratch on them. (they may have a single cut) There should be little shards of glass and cuts all over their exposed bodies.

Same with breaking a bottle over someone's head. Head cuts are quite bloody, but usually in the film it has no effect.

 
 Posted:   Feb 20, 2016 - 2:42 PM   
 By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member)

When characters are tossed through glass windows or partitions they don't have a scratch on them. (they may have a single cut) There should be little shards of glass and cuts all over their exposed bodies.

Same with breaking a bottle over someone's head. Head cuts are quite bloody, but usually in the film it has no effect.


that's because they use candy glass - everybody knows dat!
wink

 
 
 Posted:   Feb 20, 2016 - 6:59 PM   
 By:   Rameau   (Member)

When characters are tossed through glass windows or partitions they don't have a scratch on them. (they may have a single cut) There should be little shards of glass and cuts all over their exposed bodies.

Same with breaking a bottle over someone's head. Head cuts are quite bloody, but usually in the film it has no effect.


I think in real life bottles would rarely break, the victim would get a fractured skull. Remember that scene in The Long Goodbye, where the girl gets smashed in the face with a Coke bottle. There's no way those very thick bottles would break.

 
 Posted:   Feb 21, 2016 - 5:13 AM   
 By:   Metryq   (Member)

I think in real life bottles would rarely break, the victim would get a fractured skull. Remember that scene in The Long Goodbye, where the girl gets smashed in the face with a Coke bottle. There's no way those very thick bottles would break.

It's probably those thick, lens-like coke bottles—left on the computer desk—that project the graphics from the computer screen onto the user's face. 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY is the oldest example of this gimmick that I can think of.

 
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