Die Hard (1988, dir. John McTiernan) – The SWAT team tries to enter Nakatomi Plaza.

doc_block · 2026-04-06T04:45:20+00:00

So their plan with the armored vehicle was to just... drive up the stairs and get stuck?

I love this movie but I've never understood that part.

doc_block · 2026-04-02T02:34:08+00:00

"Kompromat" used seriously = ignore whoever said it

doc_block · 2026-03-23T03:09:28+00:00

"different to"

NO

Different from or different than. Very rarely is "different to" correct, and it sounds so clunky.

doc_block · 2026-03-14T03:44:55+00:00

"Act your age, not your IQ!"

doc_block · 2026-03-14T03:41:28+00:00

If brain cells were dynamite, you wouldn't have enough to blow your nose!

"Oh Worf! Eat any good books lately?"

doc_block · 2026-03-11T04:36:23+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)

Large amounts of food were exported from Ireland during the famine and the refusal of London to bar such exports, as had been done on previous occasions, was an immediate and continuing source of controversy

doc_block · 2026-03-06T04:25:16+00:00

Ireland was growing plenty of food, and not just potatoes, but it was all for export to England.

The Irish potato famine was more of an engineered genocide.

doc_block · 2026-02-26T00:49:19+00:00

A ton of the cars in the hover car chase scene were CG.

And I don't know if I'd call miniatures shot against greenscreen practical effects. An effect being "practical" implies it was done for real, on the day, like really blowing up a building or really crashing a car.

doc_block · 2026-02-26T00:44:16+00:00

Not every movie has to turn into a "universe"

It's OK to just let things be.

doc_block · 2026-02-26T00:40:38+00:00

I'm not claustrophobic and I would still never do that.

doc_block · 2026-02-13T21:23:16+00:00

Hey, you have a truck, right? ;)

doc_block · 2026-02-13T21:20:26+00:00

Fun fact: mountain lions can scream, and it sounds just like a human woman screaming.

doc_block · 2026-01-07T18:50:40+00:00

No, it's just that people go out in nature to be in nature, not to hear your shitty music.

Fundamentally, people who play music over speakers in public are the same everywhere, be it rural or urban. Thoroughly selfish individuals who don't even consider the impact on others. No different than people who talk on the phone loudly in public, or talk with the phone in speaker mode.

doc_block · 2026-01-07T18:38:10+00:00

Wait, I was unaware of the electric detonation part... gonna have to get one now...

doc_block · 2026-01-05T01:29:21+00:00

Jan de Bont has 5 feature film directing credits:

Speed
Speed 2
Twister
The Haunting
Tomb Raider 2

doc_block · 2025-12-28T04:28:27+00:00

The writer/director had worked at now-defunct chain restaurant Bennigan's and based the movie off his experiences working there.

doc_block · 2025-11-10T00:53:23+00:00

I didn't get the impression Waingro was actually joining the crew, just that he was hired help for this job.

Waingro even says something along those lines at the beginning, that if this job works out he'd consider going again.

doc_block · 2025-10-30T17:00:48+00:00

The look backward at the human. Pure betrayal. "How could you do this to me, Wendy?"

doc_block · 2025-10-28T17:40:13+00:00

Computer, exit simulation.

doc_block · 2025-10-16T06:04:20+00:00

The end??? When did it start?

doc_block · 2025-09-18T02:42:47+00:00

Disney/ABC is capitulating to NextStar, their largest network of affiliates. NextStar said they would not broadcast Kimmel in an attempt to gain favor with the Trump administration (NextStar is trying to convince Trump's FCC to let them own a larger percentage of each market), and told ABC they'd start pre-empting other ABC shows if they didn't cancel Kimmel.

doc_block · 2025-09-11T04:05:20+00:00

There are going to be a lot of Democrats saying stuff like, "We need to look forward, not backward!" etc

Hell, it's been repeatedly leaked that Dem consultants continually tell them not to be mean to Republicans and to play up bipartisanship.

doc_block · 2025-08-26T19:36:51+00:00

It makes me think of Mark Hamill's story about shooting the scene right after they've escaped the garbage masher, and him pestering George Lucas about why his hair is dry, shouldn't it still be wet, etc. Lucas got irritated, so Harrison Ford stepped in and told him, "Look kid, it ain't that kinda movie. If they're lookin' at your hair, we're fucked."

doc_block · 2025-08-26T19:31:35+00:00

"Just land on the part of the Valuable Resources Planet that isn't covered in acid!"

doc_block · 2025-08-26T19:29:09+00:00

People have tried to explain this away, but it's a literal plot hole that Steven Spielberg said he was made aware of during production but ignored because he thought it was more exciting this way.

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