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Nosferatu (1979) German version, when Lucy is standing in front of the mirror and the vampire comes up behind her you can clearly see his reflection. Doh! Other than that, awesome movie
Good guess but nope!
Another clue from the same movie, same character...
"MASTER! MASTER!! (notices everyone looking at him suspiciously) I mean... mister! mister!"
You should play along, tell them you'll pay in cash, arrange a meeting in a private place. Then pay them with a sack of doorknobs if you know what I mean
I'll be really surprised if anyone gets this...
(Guy falling down a flight of stairs)
"A! E! I! O! U! ...whyyyyyyy?"
[quote]Leslie Nielsen's in "The Naked Gun." [/quote]
OMG YES
To this day I can't hear that song without thinking "Gave proof through the night... that we still had our flaaaaag"
RIP Leslie Nielsen, American treasure
Bahahaha please say it's so
If ex NJ Governor Chris Christie and country singer Kris Kristofferson got married they would be Chris Christie Kristofferson and Kris Kristofferson Christie
Remakes in general bother me, but to remake a cult classic where the legendary main actor tragically DIED on set and the original film was completed to honor his memory and was dedicated to his grieving fiancée... Wow, real bad karma 0_o
+1 for Leslie Nielsen who could read the Gettysburg Address and make me die laughing.
+1 also for Jerry Lewis in his "straight roles" (Buddy Love, Uncle Leo in Arizona Dream)
+1 for the entire Mel Brooks crew (Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Harvey Corman, etc)
Melissa McCarthy cracks me right up (Lulu Diamonds on SNL omg lmao)
But I gotta say my all time faves are the Christopher Guest gang (Spinal Tap) pure comedy gold
Shortly after 4K hit the market there was a great article that pointed out the obvious (even though most of us overlook it)...
It all depends on how close you are to the screen.
Here's an extreme example: if you stick your face right up to the screen, say 6" away, you'll definitely see the difference between 4K & 1080p. This is how stores sell you on the idea, because shoppers walk right up to the screen and immediately see the difference.
But in the average home, we sit 8-10 feet away where (the article claims) the human eye can't tell the difference. After all we're talking about a fraction of a millimeter pixel difference at 8-10 feet away.
Making matters worse, studies show the larger our screens, the further away we sit. So you have people watching 70" 4K screens at sometimes 16-20 feet away where you *definitely* can't see the difference.
The bottom line, if you really want to see the difference between 4K & 1080p, you have to sit 5' or less from the screen. If that describes you then go for it. But if you're like me and you watch movies in bed 8-10' away, save your money or shop for larger screen size & better contrast ratios where the difference can be appreciated at normal viewing distance.
"one of the classic blunders - the most famous of which is 'never get involved in a land war in Asia' - but only slightly less well-known is this: NEVER REMAKE THE CROW"
True. Spock was one tough summabich
The short answer: watch Star Trek TOS Galileo Seven episode se1x16
The long answer: Emotions, or impulsive reactions based on instinct rather than logic, often cloud our judgment, but they also provide the catalyst or "leap of logic" that allows us to bridge gaps in knowledge. For example, Spock's shuttle is about to run out of fuel and crash. He doesn't have enough thrust to escape the atmosphere and only has enough fuel to stay in orbit a few minutes hoping to be rescued before inevitably crashing. "Logic" tells him this is the smartest action: to stay alive as long as possible and await the faint chance of rescue. But instead desperation & emotion push him to do something crazy (I won't spoil it, but suffice it to say he survived for 57 more episodes and 6 feature films). The point being, until we become omniscient star children who know everything, there will be gaps in our knowledge and consequently faults in our logic. Emotion allows us to "jump our programming" so to speak, and do things that saner minds would never try.
About cavemen, yeah they pretty much killed or raped everything that moved. So we got that little bonus in our DNA. Scientists say that sort of violence/fear/anger comes from the amygdala or "reptilian" center of our brain which, luckily, has been relegated to a small peanut sized nerve center while the larger and more logical cerebellum developed around it. For some of us. I can't help reading the daily news and thinking some human specimens are still operating on that peanut.
I believe the official explanation is that she wasn't going along with our tenant relocation program. Then her idiot boyfriend shows up and turns a simple sweep & clear into a total cluster fuck! Who gives a shit? It's ancient history. Why? What do you want? What is it? What? Speak to me! Speak!
It's all part of the same process. Just like in the beginning, the ape creature is introduced to the monolith and has eery visions but doesn't actually reach "enlightenment" until later when he picks up the bone. Bowman also has his introduction to strange visions, but he doesn't reach his enlightenment until later when he begins to see his own existence from the outside.
The Kubrick version has these parallel bookends (ape & Bowman) which tie up the story neatly. A lot of people miss the parallels and think Kubrick just went on a random acid trip at the end, but he was really telling the same story as the beginning but on a higher level.
Every movie is 10x better with a Queen soundtrack. Flash... Highlander... Wayne's World ;)
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
New Waterford Girl (1999)
Almost Famous (2000)
C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005)
Zodiac (2007)
A couple obscure '90s British shows that are definitely binge worthy...
Cracker (1993) - a dark REALLY dark crime drama about an alcoholic misanthropic psychologist who solves brutal murders
Ultraviolet (1998) - vampires in London. nuff said
The Omega Man (1971)
Three's Company (1977)
Battlestar Galactica (2003)
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
Flash Gordon (1980) - only because Queen didn't exist in 1936
For me it's a tossup between F. Murray Abraham in Amadeus
(addressing God) "From now on, we are enemies... You and I. Because You choose for Your instrument a boastful, lustful, smutty, infantile boy and give me for reward only the ability to recognize the incarnation. Because You are unjust, unfair, unkind, I will block You, I swear it. I will hinder and harm Your creature on earth as far as I am able. I will ruin Your incarnation."
and Leslie Neilsen in Naked Gun
"It's a topsy-turvy world, and maybe the problems of two people don't amount to a hill of beans. But this is our hill. And these are our beans!"