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And probably used to kids being troubled in general. Yeah, that's pretty thin evidence.

Then why not accuse her of lying the second time?

Because Mathilda is a compulsive bullshitter in the movie? The only look we get from the headmistess is a look of concern because Mathilda's spinning some other lie.

There's nothing in the film to link it to the government program in Nikita whatsoever.

I read it as a look of compassion. But fine, I'll take this to the Personal Continuity thread.

In a couple of weeks, Wayne's World (the movie) turns 20.

I don't know why this should bother me, but it does.

When Reality Bites turns 20, that's when I plan to put my head in the oven. Batman Returns' anniversary ain't helping either. I remember seeing bus ads for that like it was yesterday!

Other anniversaries pass and I celebrate them; yay, The Silence of the Lambs is 20 (last year). This one, though...I think I associate it way too much with being young in college.

The fact that some of you zygote assholes weren't even born yet when it came out doesn't help.

Kidding. You're not assholes. Just zygotes.

I used to not trust anyone over 30. Now, I don't trust anyone born after Ghostbusters 2.

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Originally Posted by Martin Blank 

In a couple of weeks, Wayne's World (the movie) turns 20.

 

I don't know why this should bother me, but it does.

Oh FFS.  I'd left school when that came out.  Now I feel really old.

It's like looking at old CDs you have and seeing the date and going "that's TWENTY years old??"  Nirvana NeverMind, Stone Roses eponymous album, Pearl Jam to name just three.

And that's not even going into stuff I listened to as a youngish teen like The Cure or the Cult, Depeche Mode and stuff.

urghhh.

It still shocks me when people I work with say they were born in the 80s or even (shudder) the 90s.

It's like the old Margaret Cho joke: one day, we're all gonna end up in a nursing home asking someone to put "Hungry Like The Wolf" on for us.

The confusing thing with old music like The Cure, The Cult, & Nirvana is all of that stuff still sounds crazy fresh. Today, I can listen to any contemporary band's stuff from the mid-00s & spot the dusty/trendy shit & it sounds way dated. But I listen to The Cult's "Love" & it sounds like it was recorded yesterday.

When the day comes that I hear Black Flag or the Dead Kennedys being used as grocery market music, that's the day when I say goodbye to society & disappear into the woods.

As long as it's this version of Hungry Like the Wolf

Ha, old people. Wayne's World? I didn't comprehend things when that movie was released.

Now excuse me, I need to go eat forty cookies with no adverse health effects and achieve an erection without any effort whatsoever. 

Dude, you're all cupcakes & comedy today but wait - the years go by FAST. Once you go past 27, they feel like months & the weeks feel like hours.

Pffft, no way, man! I'mma be cool forever! Forever! Forever! Forever!

Forever... forever...

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Originally Posted by Whiteboy Jones 

Ha, old people. Wayne's World? I didn't comprehend things when that movie was released.

 

Now excuse me, I need to go eat forty cookies with no adverse health effects and achieve an erection without any effort whatsoever. 

from hell's heart I stab at thee...

Us oldie timers will have to rest our egos upon the fact that Jones' generation's closest equivalent to Henry Rollins is Justin Bieber & that their MTV is really just a hyper-sexualized Disney Channel while our MTV was about revolution against the poison of corporatism & Reaganomics!

One day, Whiteboy Jones & his skinny jeaned ilk will happen upon a show late at night on TV Land &, in a pot & hot pocket haze, see sweater & khaki draped figures dance across the screen & they'll say to themselves, "yes...YES...I understand now".

Oh god, it's true...

Although my jeans leave plenty of room to breathe.

Old can still be relevant! Rambo, right? 26 years after First Blood -- *sob* -- there was RAMBO! As in, to bring it back around to the thread topic: I hadn't seen Rambo since the theaters, and only just discovered the other night that at the climax of Rambo's b/w flashback/dream sequence Sly slips in First Blood's deleted/alternate ending in which Trautman shoots Rambo in the police station -- which I'd never seen or heard of before, either. Thank you, Rambo/First Blood blu-ray 2-pack!

When we first meet David in Wargames, he gives his game to a kid because he's late for school. What arcade is open that early in the morning? Unless he was there during lunch, which begs the question, why wasn't the kid he gave his game to in school?

There was an arcade open in my town that early.  It used to be packed before school and all of the people that my Mom called "bad influences" would usually hang out the entire day instead of going to class.

And something I only realized a few years ago about Wargames:  Ally Sheedy was EXTREMELY cute in that movie.  It might be the only movie of hers that I have seen in which she plays a bright-eyed teenager.

It wasn't so much an arcade (too well-lit) as a convenience store, so they'd totally be open. But the school thing is interesting.

Just noticed that "This Means War" stars Chris Pine, who plays an alternate reality James T. Kirk, and Tom Hardy, who played a (kinda) alternate reality Jean-Luc Picard.  As a Star Trek fan I should be kinda excited to see this movie .... I'm not.  According to Wikipedia, Sam Worthington, Bradley Cooper, and Seth Rogan all turned down roles for this movie, so the pairing of these Star Trek actors is I guess a weird coincidence. 

Also just noticed that "The Avengers" stars two of the three leads from "Zodiac".

27 years after the event, I've just realised that Doc Brown's house in 1985 is his 1955 garage.

I've seen this movie billions of times and only just realised that.

Was reading "The greatest scifi movies never made" last night...were I found out that Paul WS Anderson was "this close" to adapting "The stars my destination"...and the guy was fresh from "Mortal Kombat" at the time.

Talk about dodging a bullet there.

Frank Miller openly stole from himself w/ Robocop 2 as the main plot of that film is a subplot in Daredevil: Born Again. Kane is to Robocop as Nuke is to Captain America and to make it even more obvious, the drug Kane is addicted to is called Nuke. I guess my not being a huge Daredevil fan has something to do with completely missing it all these years, but now it's striking how blatant it is.

I don't know if this counts, but there's been a number of times in which I've not realized that John Hurt is in the movie I'm watching. I'm pretty terrible at paying attention to the credits that roll before the movie, which doesn't help.

I first saw the original Alien movie in 1997, which is the same year the movie Contact came out, which I saw in the theater, and it only took me about eight years to I finally realize that the old rich guy Hadden was the same guy who played Kane in Alien. He also got me in the first Hellboy and History of the World Part 1 (played Jesus), the latter of which not coming to mind until three years ago. He was easy to spot in V for Vendetta and the Harry Potter flicks though. I'm waiting for him to get me again, no other actor manages to elude my watchful eye so well, not even Gary Oldman, who's quite the accomplished chameleon himself. I can't tell you how funny it was to explain to my brother that James Gordon, Mr. Zorg, Sirius Black, and the bad Russian dude from Air Force One are all the same guy. :P

John Hurt's a chameleon. Check out "The Elephant Man." He's barely recognizable in that.

Christopher Guest plays a young, beat cop in the original Death Wish. Not nearly as memorable as Jeff "I'm gonna paint her goddamn mouth!" Goldblum's role, but it's kind of amusing seeing some of the eventual somebodies pop up in these movies when they were nobodies.

If I'm not mistaken, the police are the only people with flying cars in Bladerunner. Up until I watched The Final Cut recently, I assumed it was a Jetsons/Back to the Future 2 situation, but as far I can tell it's only the police. That fits with the "if you're not cop you're little people" line nicely.

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Originally Posted by Bartleby_Scriven 

If I'm not mistaken, the police are the only people with flying cars in Bladerunner. Up until I watched The Final Cut recently, I assumed it was a Jetsons/Back to the Future 2 situation, but as far I can tell it's only the police. That fits with the "if you're not cop you're little people" line nicely.

There are some wide shots where you see "highway" action in the background.

If flying cars were a thing, I can't see something like that ever working though, unless it was all autopilot. I think they would have to restrict it to emergency vehicles or it would be utter chaos.
 

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Originally Posted by Nexus-7 

There are some wide shots where you see "highway" action in the background.

If flying cars were a thing, I can't see something like that ever working though, unless it was all autopilot. I think they would have to restrict it to emergency vehicles or it would be utter chaos.

The old Criterion laserdisc had notes from a fan who was a retired air traffic controller. He confirmed that a lot of the background chatter in the flight sequences was accurate.

I/r/t Blade Runner and the flying cars, this should probably go in the Stuff You Started Doing Because of a Movie thread (or whatever it's called — can't find it at the moment), but for years I emulated the bored-sounding cop on Deckard's car intercom: "Have a better one."

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Originally Posted by Art Decade 

I used to not trust anyone over 30. Now, I don't trust anyone born after Ghostbusters 2.

...and sigged.

While watching Star Trek: The Motion Picture last night I noticed that, among the crowd of onesie pajama-clad future-folk, there stood one fella who's dedication to cultural diversity is no doubt unmatched in the Star Trek universe:

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Hi...larious.

Cultural diversity nothing, there's like only one alien there that's not a Vulcan.  And there's only like two Vulcans.

Introducing my children to Clash of the Titans(1981) and have just realized that Professor Minerva McGonagal was Thetis.

In "Lethal Weapon 2," when Murtaugh is setting up the VCR to record his daughter's commercial, the pilot episode of "Tales From the Crypt" is on the TV. It stars Mary Ellen Trainor, who's also in "Lethal Weapon 2" as the department psychologist.

This one is kinda convoluted...

I have been watching a bunch of Futurama and looking up many of the voice actors on IMDB.  At one point this weekend I decided to watch Back to School with Rodney Dangerfield.  My oldest was freaked out to see a young Tony Stark.  In that film is a band that I have known of for years, Oingo Boingo.  I was never a fan beyond the aforementioned film and their appearance in Bachelor Party though.

Last night I began to watch a few episodes of Dilbert which featured Billy West from Futurama in a minor role.  As I was looking through information on the show I found the following trivia bit about the opening theme to the Dilbert TV show:

which lead me to look at Danny Elfman's wiki because I NEVER realized that was him singing "Dead Man's Party" in Back to School.

So, uh, yeah.  Tim Burton's sidekick was once a New Wave band lead singer and I didn't know.

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Originally Posted by TzuDohNihm 

So, uh, yeah.  Tim Burton's sidekick was once a New Wave band lead singer and I didn't know.

Wow, man, that's one heckuva movie/music trivia blind spot (no offense). Boingo rocks. They also did the theme to Weird Science and were a mainstay of 80s alternative video shows. I remember being crazy impressed when I heard his Batman score in '89. That film was Elfman's first major opportunity to prove himself as a genuine A-list composer & that's the reason Batman '89's score is so damn good. The guy was hungry.

Other ex-rockers turned film composers include Darren Aranofsky's guy, Clint Mansell, who led 80s/90s industrial band Pop Will Eat Itself & Hans Zimmer, who played keyboards in the New Wave band The Buggles ("Video Killed The Radio Star").

One day, 20 something-odd years from now, people will be shocked to find out Trent Reznor was once Nine Inch Nails.

I saw Boingo(they'd ditched the Oingo at that point) on their farewell tour. Got to shake Elfman's hand, which I was really psyched about at the time.

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Originally Posted by Art Decade 

 

Other ex-rockers turned film composers include Darren Aranofsky's guy, Clint Mansell, who led 80s/90s industrial band Pop Will Eat Itself 

say what now?????

I used to love PWEI. I still have Dos Didos Mes Amigos but have sadly lost my tape copy of This is the Day...(my fave PWEI album)   Had absolutely zero idea that Clint was doing film composition work.

My mind is totally fucking blown by the fact that he composed one of my favourite pieces of music of ALL time (Requiem for a Dream).

I need to lie down.

Fuck

In the early 60s, John Williams was a Jazz pianist known as "Little Johnny Love" & played with Henry Mancini.

In the mid 50s, John Barry led an English rock band called The John Barry Seven. They had a few hits and wrote some songs for the movies, which is how Barry segued into the role of film composer.

Let us not forget Mark Mothersbaugh, Devo frontman and Wes Anderson's go-to scoresmith for a while. Not to mention writing the Rugrats theme, I think.

Get your hands on Urgh! A Music War and see the elder statesmen of major motion picture soundtracks Elfman and Mothersbaugh back in 1980, being sweaty madmen no studio in its right mind would hire to score a flick. Heck, just get your hands on it on general principle, it's a great concert film I never tire of flogging.

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Originally Posted by Art Decade 

Other ex-rockers turned film composers include Darren Aranofsky's guy, Clint Mansell, who led 80s/90s industrial band Pop Will Eat Itself & Hans Zimmer, who played keyboards in the New Wave band The Buggles ("Video Killed The Radio Star").

Mansell, i knew about. Pop Will Eat Itself was awesome. Still amuses me to no end that the guy who wrote Lux Aeterna and Death is The Road To Awe also scored this thing.

Zimmer, on the other hand, is news to me. Wow.

On the same note, discovering Michael Giacchino's start in video games is kinda mindblowing, too. Besides Medal of Honor, before that, he worked for Disney Interactive. The scores for Mickey Mania, the Genesis Gargoyles game, and The Lion King (even though it was all just reworkings of Zimmer's score) were all his.

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Originally Posted by Art Decade 

In the mid 50s, John Barry led an English rock band called The John Barry Seven. They had a few hits and wrote some songs for the movies, which is how Barry segued into the role of film composer.

Oh did he fucking ever:

Ample proof, IMHO, that if Monty Norman wants to claim the "James Bond Theme" for himself, then what Barry should have sued for was plagiarism.

BTW, my "WTF?" Oingo Boingo moment is from seeing "The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo" as a weird onstage comedy revue when I was in college, and later having them turn up on the radio with stuff like "Dead Man's Party." Honestly have no idea if Danny or his brother was leading them when I saw them, but for the time, they were pretty far off the wall.

Not just realized, but took like, 4 or 5 viewings to realize what Jerry Lundegaard needed the ransom money for.

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Originally Posted by Martin Blank 

Let us not forget Mark Mothersbaugh, Devo frontman and Wes Anderson's go-to scoresmith for a while. Not to mention writing the Rugrats theme, I think.

 

The same opening theme that was animated by Peter Chung.  File that under animation openings that were way better than the actual show.

Det. Dave Starsky directed The Running Man!

Jesse Eisenberg is the older brother of that 90s Pepsi moppet.