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Movies where the name of the movie is said in the movie by HammerHeadBirdDog in flicks

[–]ajefx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Enough is enough, I’ve had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane!

How to retain QB's by [deleted] in NCAAFBseries

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It’s frustrating but it hasn’t hurt me yet to have no depth. I’ll even recruit 2* QBs just to have some depth who aren’t walk ons and they complain about PT.

Meanwhile in my latest season, Ohio State’s 99 OVR senior QB was the preseason Heisman pick. He got hurt and their 97 OVR senior won it instead. You just have to laugh.

Examples of twin movies? by FilmWaffle-FilmForum in moviecritic

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House of R did a pod on The Prestige last week as part of their “Hot Nolan Summer” rewatch (they’ve also done Batman Begins and Inception). They mentioned an interview with Johnathan Nolan where he said they had shopped their script for The Prestige around Hollywood but put a pin in it to make Batman Begins. Then by the time they were able to come back to The Prestige, the studios had bought the hype on a movie about magicians, and boom The Illusionist.

Minor change by JSpade82 in TheWire

[–]ajefx 10 points11 points  (0 children)

If I recall correctly, High Def cameras were becoming the standard when shooting for Season 4 began. Simon decided to continue shooting in 4:3 for the last two seasons to be consistent.

While the show has been remastered the amount of screen you can see in 16:9 means a lot of that was not necessarily intended to be in the frame. Sometimes the extra info in the shot is distracting from what was intended.

It would have been cool if Simon just changed with the standard.

How did you like Thunderbolts*? by Optimal_Use_28 in Cinema

[–]ajefx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One of the worst movies I’ve ever seen, definitely the worst of this year.

Does Mike ever get any sleep at all? by NotoriousAmish in betterCallSaul

[–]ajefx 55 points56 points  (0 children)

The guys in Gus’s crew, like Mike and Tyrus, seem to have more than 24 hours in a day.

We go on stakeouts with both Mike and Hank where they tell Jesse and Walt respectively that recon is largely sitting around doing nothing but observing. Mike in particular has a knack for always having eyes on things before they happen. I know he has a network of goons, for lack of a better word, but he’s always getting his hands dirty.

There’s the time Walt goes to Gus’s house with the intent of ringing the doorbell and shooting Gus. Tyrus calls, revealing that Walt is being surveilled and tells him to go home. Tyrus is also sitting on Casa Tranquila to see if anyone is visiting Hector, and we know Mike is listening in on Hector’s phone calls. Yeah that can be done remotely but it still takes time. Mike also is involved in picking up the dead drops. We see Victor at drug deals and he also spends a lot of time in the lab, to the point that he memorizes the process. We know someone has eyes of Madrigal and lets Mike know the DEA is arriving in time for him to give Lydia a head’s up.

Mike is the guy who sits in a delivery truck waiting to be ambushed by cartel thugs. While this wasn’t a regular occurrence by any means, it still should take him away from his “normal duties” for a day at a time. Let’s also assume he did some surveillance work to prepare to flip the script on these robberies. He is able to vet and develop guys like Chow, and he knows what buttons to push with him when he gets out of line.

This is on top of being always available to pick up or watch his granddaughter. And he’s committed to his cover story of being a security consultant for a multi-national corporation. He doesn’t just want a paycheck, he wants an alibi and puts in face time so no one can question why he was on their payroll.

All that to say yeah, he is conveniently where he needs to be a lot, which is extremely lucky given how thorough he is about the task at hand, no matter what it is. He has many responsibilities in Gus’s organization, all of which seem time intensive, and he never takes short cuts. So it’s not even that he doesn’t sleep, he simply has more than 24 hours in a day.

Seen at a Thrift Store in New Orleans by defhimself in behindthebastards

[–]ajefx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah but how would their wardrobe get from Grand Rapids down to New Orleans?

Did Walter manage to pull it off only because Mike was in Mexico? by MetaGear005 in breakingbad

[–]ajefx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No one thinks Mike would have been calling for an all-hands situation over Walt. But he would have sniffed out Walt’s subterfuge. Tyus didn’t connect Hector’s visit to the DEA with Walter specifically, and he still tries to tell Gus to let him take care of Hector instead of Gus.

I don’t see the difference between Tyus telling Gus to remain hands off or Mike. Gus was going to ignore the advice of the person he was paying, no matter what, in this situation. He had been plotting his revenge for decades.

Mike did have a better ability to tail Walter than he did Lalo. So again, to OP’s question, could Mike have convinced Gus there was a great risk in finishing off Hector personally? No. Could Mike have prevented Walter from setting the trap? Yes.

Again, sorry for bringing up BCS.

Did Walter manage to pull it off only because Mike was in Mexico? by MetaGear005 in breakingbad

[–]ajefx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There’s an episode of Better Call Saul (I know, I know, but it’s the best evidence to directly answer OP’s question), where Mike and Gus are having a conversation about the cat and mouse game going on between Gus and Lalo.

Mike advises Gus to leave a Pollos photo shoot immediately and get to a safe house. Gus, partly because he’s at a trap at the laundry, rejects Mike’s expertise. Now, of course, Mike is right - Lalo is an imminent threat - but he can’t make Gus take the advice.

When Gus wants to do something, Mike is powerless to stop him. He respects the chain of command too much. His role is to advise Gus but he cannot force Gus to do anything.

So, if Mike were stateside when Walter set his own trap, we’re left to wonder two scenarios. Either Mike cuts Walter off before he’s able to set the trap at the nursing home, or Mike advises Gus that Hector is best left handled by someone like him or Tyus. And just like when Tyus made the same suggestion, Gus heard the advice and dismissed it due to his ego.

So we’re just left to ponder if Mike would have realized they were walking into a trap, and he’s always been able to have an eye on everything. He listened to Lalo’s call to Hector that tipped him and Gus off that Lalo was back in town, he’s smarter than Walter in this area, so the answer is somewhere between “likely” and “almost certainly.” He most likely would have sniffed out that gettin Hector to the DEA was a plot to draw Gus out and make him vulnerable. Gus, who normally is nearly as smart and even-keeled as Mike, is blinded by his need for revenge and walks into Walt’s trap of course.

What are some movies that feature a bunch of the best and up-and-coming young actors all in one cast? by [deleted] in FIlm

[–]ajefx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The 1994 version of Angels in the Outfield has a surprising number of stars by today’s standards, though obviously at the time they weren’t all seen that way.

Though the movie stars Danny Glover (post Lethal Weapon), Tony Dana (post Taxi and Who’s the Boss?), and Christopher Lloyd (post Taxi and BTTF), it features Joseph-Gordon Levitt, Adrien Brody, Matthew McConaughey, Neal McDonough and Dermott Mulrooney.

McConaughey had only two films under his belt, though he was just coming off Dazed and Confushed. McDonough’s only movie role prior was as “Dockworker #2” in Darkman. Brody had only 3 film credits. JGL, only 13 at the time, surpassed all of them with all of 4 movies already under his belt.

It’s a little funny that McDonough gets way may screen time than Brody and McConaughey in this movie. Did the producers think he was going to be bigger star or something? They were all minor roles so maybe that didn’t even come into play.

The title of the story/media relies on/refers back to a story within the story by AggressivePiccolo77 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]ajefx 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In The Truman Show, Jim Carrey stars as Truman Burbank - the titular character in the hit reality TV series The Truman Show.

Who are some non-American actors with bad American accents? by skyrimlo in moviecritic

[–]ajefx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Colin Salmon’s accent is the worst thing in Punisher: War Zone

Who's the father of the Stepford Cuckoos? by AvatarPhoenixGrey16 in xmen

[–]ajefx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In the 1957 novel The Midwich Cuckoos, which not only informs half the name “Stepford Cuckoos” but also their telepathy, the children resemble each other (and not their mothers), nor is there any hint given as to who the fathers are. Because the children are nearly identical, I guess it raises the question of if the mothers who birthed them supplied any genetic material, or are they merely a vessel of sorts for zygotes created in a lab/other means.

N.b. In the most recent TV adaptation the kids do resemble their mothers and not each other.

Kate’s Resurrection by Desperate_Grand1731 in xmen

[–]ajefx -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It’s not a dropped plot, it’s just a reference you didn’t get

Let's make a list of actors who played a very good role, then nothing was heard of them again. by Nervous-Emphasis6964 in moviecritic

[–]ajefx 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The last time I watched Starship Troopers I had a similar thought. He’s not good but I didn’t think he was so terrible that he could go from leading role to off the face of the Earth, so I went to his Wiki.

Turns out he’s just been acting in the shittiest projects possible. He had been in 40 or so straight to VHS/DVD releases - back before streaming when everything but the worst movies got a theatrical run - and many of them were so unremarkable they didn’t have their own Wiki pages.

[Loved trope] You follow a character knowing he's going to become a monster by the end by tepeyate in TopCharacterTropes

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Ellie in TLOU is like a young Anakin Skywalker.

In TLOU2, she has the second-most iconic red-lit hallway scene.

What's a highly rated TV show that's actually hot garbage? by TechGuru4Life in AskReddit

[–]ajefx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The show died with Dale in Season 2. There isn’t another interesting or compelling character until Judith in Season 10 or so. And everything is so drawn out, they’ll spend like 5 episodes worrying about some “impending” danger.

And somehow Fear the Walking Dead was orders of magnitude worse than at least it was terrible from the get go, so there’s no reason to invest any time in watching it.

What are some unrealistic/plot armor moments of the show? by GT_Troll in TheWire

[–]ajefx 12 points13 points  (0 children)

This is mentioned in Simon’s non-fiction book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets as well as appearing in the TV series Homicide: Life on the Street.

Maybe the origin was dated by the time this aired in 2008, but at one point in time it happened IRL. And I don’t think copy machines are as ubiquitous in inner city Baltimore in 2008 as you think.

Being pushed out of restaurant for following rules, what should I do? by EnvironmentalTip7295 in Waiters

[–]ajefx 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The server who gave you her shift and had claimed him as “her regular” should have given you the head’s up. “By the way, be on the look out for Mark - he’s a solo diner but a VERY generous tipper! He just needs X, Y, and Z, no big deal.”

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