The Screening Room

Ankit Sharma

4:46 AM

@steelerfan But it's risky as hell

@NapoleonWilson seen 2nd season too?

Movie Reel

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Q: an old movie about a boy who sells condom as a balloon

this was a movie of 70~90ish, and it was a color not a B&W. I'm not sure of the plot of the whole movie, and where it made as well. But a boy was a main character and his parent sold condoms in their shop which became sensational in their small town. I remember a scene his mother shows people ho...

identify-this-movie

Movie Reel

5:00 AM

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Q: Unusual Death in Django Unchained (Female death censoring?)

Spoilers ahead. Near the end of the movie the title character shoots several people from the balcony. They have (relatively) realistic knock back/falls from the shots; the fall down and move slightly back. He then shoots the main villain's sister, Lara Lee Candie-Fitzwilly. However her death is ...

censorship django-unchained

steelerfan

@AnkitSharma I agree. I was totally kidding ;)

@NapoleonWilson I watched the Hard Knocks episode about the guy who believes in mermaids. Hilarious. Now, I need to choose between Batman&Robin or Red Dragon. Hmmm... hard choice ;)

Ankit Sharma

There was some news about some girl admitted to hospital because of it and her mother did it due to beauty pageant

@steelerfan Is red dragon that bad?

steelerfan

Yeah, it's amazing what girls do to be thin ;)

@AnkitSharma Oh, I think that it's great!

@AnkitSharma That's complete bs that her mother did that to her, though. It's one thing if we do it to ourselves, but that's f-ed up.

A J

5:37 AM

Rumors are that TBBT cast hates Kaley and do not want her on the show. Hmm interesting.

Ankit Sharma

6:13 AM

@steelerfan Then why you sorting it on same place with batman & robin

Maybe I misinterpreted your msg

A J

@NapoleonWilson Just read your answer to Bond opening sequences. Nice and detailed one. On the sidenote, that user hasn't come back after posting question.

Ankit Sharma

@AJ People do that all the time but at-least that question have good positive score now with good answers

A J

That question is also in hot network list.

Ankit Sharma

Hmmm

A J

This user has had nice beginning.

@AnkitSharma Not coming back after posting a question actually makes me not to post an answer to users specific questions.

Ankit Sharma

6:37 AM

@AJ SE is more a community driven site then user centric

So acceptance shouldn't bother you much, upvote are better in expressing goodness in answers

-1

Q: Why MPAA warning also present in 80s movies?

This motion picture is protected under the laws of the United States and other countries. Any unauthorized reproduction, distribution, or exhibition of this motion picture or any part thereof including the soundtrack may result in severe civil and criminal penalties. Any unauthoriz...

production content-rating

^ Sound like valid question to me

Ankit Sharma

6:58 AM

Ufff votes ended again and I still left too much pending stuff

steelerfan

@AnkitSharma Because I was totally being facetious. Those two movies are complete opposite in terms of awesomeness.

Ankit Sharma

Uffff, never get weird US/UK humor

steelerfan

Sorry. I was just joking around about it :(

Ankit Sharma

No need to be sad for my disability to understand random jokes ;)

Timt to craft my superman/flash reference question

steelerfan

No worries. I'm used to it with Napoleon ;)

Movie Reel

7:06 AM

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Q: Title of World War 2 movie about a group of soldiers trying to get one guy to location to help end the war?

While watching a DVD, I saw a preview of a World War 2 movie. One guy in the movie tells a group of guys that if they can get him safely to a certain location they can help end the war (or something to that effect). Guessing it was made in the 90s/00s. It is an American film and the soldiers see...

identify-this-movie drama

Ankit Sharma

@steelerfan poor soul got bothered by mod a lot ;)

steelerfan

@NapoleonWilson Argh!

@AnkitSharma Hehehe!

@AJ How do you know that they didn't come back?

A J

@steelerfan I noticed.

steelerfan

@AJ Oh, I didn't know if they said that they were leaving or something.

Ankit Sharma

Done with my question

A J

7:14 AM

They do not say anything actually about leaving. They just don't come back. Most are new users like the user who asked MPAA warning question.

Ankit Sharma

@AJ Or whole bunch of ID don't give a shit to ur site Users

steelerfan

Well, hopefully they come back. Hopefully Napoleon didn't scare them away ;)

Ankit Sharma

Poor nap

steelerfan

Awww. He knows that only playing with him.

Movie Reel

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Q: When did Brandon Routh mention his time as Superman in The Flash?

From Wikipedia page about Superman curse Routh eventually played recurring character Ray Palmer (The Atom) on other DC Comics-related projects, Arrow and The Flash. (In The Flash, characters even make veiled references to his time as Superman.) When did that reference to Superman Returns oc...

reference arrowverse the-flash superman-returns

steelerfan

7:17 AM

I didn't even think his comment was bad at all. I don't know.

@AnkitSharma +1 :)

Ankit Sharma

@MovieReel Wow 2 upvote before it even reached chat, didn't occurred to me before I suppose

@steelerfan Agreed, people have hard time understanding long comments

A J

I neither watched The Flash nor Superman, so typical to answer.

Ankit Sharma

@AJ I watched both but missed that reference. On the sidenote I never liked that Superman Returns

steelerfan

@AnkitSharma Yeah. People also misinterpret comments, especially from Napoleon. I have misinterpreted them before as well. I totally understand.

A J

@AnkitSharma So did I (the sidenote).

Ankit Sharma

7:20 AM

And I don't even like Brandon Routh as superman or as Atom but I do want to tarck taht reference

@steelerfan His jokes even sound too serious ;)

Someone canceled his upvote to my question :(

A J

@steelerfan Happens. Even my jokes sound serious.

Ankit Sharma

But I am sure it's not going to be in HNQ and i think @steelerfan knows why ;)

steelerfan

@AnkitSharma Exactly! People misinterpret that as him being a d*ck...I guess I just know him well enough to know when he's being serious or not. Maybe I don't...I don't know ;)

@AnkitSharma You didn't put "sex" in the title! Dammit!!

@AnkitSharma Awww. Wasn't me.

Ankit Sharma

@steelerfan Like how can Brandon Routh's version of superman able to make Lois pregnant with his alien dick ?

@steelerfan I didn't even expected more then 2 upvote , so not a big deal ;D

steelerfan

"When did Brandon Routh mention his sex life during his time as Superman in the Flash?" Boom! There's your HNQ! ;)

A J

7:27 AM

@steelerfan HNQ?

hot network question

Ankit Sharma

@steelerfan Answer will be no he didn't but HNQ will be surely done

@AJ yes

@AJ WE have a theory that 18+ question have more chances to reach HNQ

steelerfan

@AnkitSharma Hahaha! Wow. That's two days in row that we have had dick talk in here ;)

A J

Like why adult flims are called blue films and Kirk and Uhura's kiss

I noticed this many times.

steelerfan

@AJ Exactly! HNQ Baby!

Ankit Sharma

@AJ I only noticed hinduism.se once in HNQ and that was for masturbation question with my own answer ;)

steelerfan

7:29 AM

Haha! That's right!

A J

@AnkitSharma what the ..

Ankit Sharma

I still laugh on those comments under my masturbation answer

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Q: What does Hinduism say about masturbation?

Semitic religions such as Islam and Christianity consider masturbation to be a sin. What about Hinduism? Please give some authentic quotes for the answers.

belief sex

steelerfan

Sure...who wouldn't ;)

Ankit Sharma

here are the deleted comments if u wish to read

Kiran's comment was the charm ;D

steelerfan

HAHAHA! Hilarious.

I liked the one about positions. Really? For masturbation? Lol.

Ankit Sharma

7:34 AM

Detailing is important ;)

We scarred away poor @AJ

steelerfan

Yeah...I really need to switch positions. I need to spice things up for ~~my partner~~ myself :P

Ankit Sharma

lol

steelerfan

Who can blame him? ;)

Maybe a topic change, then ;)

A J

@AnkitSharma Actually I was busy reading that

Ankit Sharma

You mean talk about female bodyparts then ;D

A J

7:36 AM

No wonder why you got more upvotes than accepted answer

and there you go

+1

Ankit Sharma

I should remember I am still in office

steelerfan

Sure, we have already discussed dicks...why not ;)

Ankit Sharma

@AJ My answer was first and reached HNQ after my answer

A J

@AnkitSharma Oh

steelerfan

Ankit is the King of HNQ's!

A J

7:38 AM

My questions were in HNQ, but none of them have such reference.

Ankit Sharma

@steelerfan I just know the secret ;D

steelerfan

Hehehe!

A J

@AnkitSharma You really guided OP. ;)

Ankit Sharma

@AJ My top HNQ were also not all 18+, only very very few

steelerfan

Yeah, it's more of an inside joke ;)

A J

7:40 AM

@AnkitSharma I actually never give it a thought.

Ankit Sharma

My top HNQ

25

Q: What is the best order to watch LotR/Hobbit franchise?

I have not watched any of the entries in the Lord of the Rings/Hobbit franchise and as per my knowledge The Hobbit's story occurs before LotR but the release order is different. So for better understanding should I go with the Hobbit trilogy first or should I go with release order?

the-lord-of-the-rings the-hobbit suggested-order

A J

and the question Why-adult-films-are-called-blue-films was on my mind, but skipped it.

Ankit Sharma

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Q: What was the origin of the meme where Batman slaps Robin?

I have seen meme of Batman slapping Robin so many times. I really want to know the origin of it. When did it occur in comics, and why did he even slap him? Note: Spoilers are welcome.

batman meme robin

Have nothing 18+ in them

And I still haven't checked hobbit/LoT yet

steelerfan

@AnkitSharma Haha! I was reading your answer and I thought that it said the "taste" of sex rather than the "treatise" of sex. Oh my.

Ankit Sharma

@steelerfan oh lord

steelerfan

7:45 AM

@AnkitSharma Da...wut? I'm trying to understand how this position is even achieved that you described.

Ankit Sharma

I just answered that question for fun, I was not mod of that site when I answered that and it got lots of upvote and very less downvotes so I went wild with comments

A J

@AnkitSharma over 150k views. How many days it was on HNQ?

?

Ankit Sharma

@AJ I really don't remember

Suggest order of recent released film's franchise do get lots of Importance

Was there any ToW about it and I still lost it O.o let me check

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A: Topic Challenge: The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings

The challenge is over and the top-voted question (with a score of 25 and ~5500 views) was asked by Faizan Rabbani, which makes him the winner of this challenge: 1. Why didn't Bilbo become a creature like Gollum? The other questions asked, in order of votes are (the numbers are the votes and vie...

steelerfan

How in the heck do you...ahem churn with a lion's pounce? Do you pounce on it like a cat? OMG. Hehehe.

Ankit Sharma

I did lost ToW taht time

A J

7:47 AM

@AnkitSharma Right. My star trek beyond question also got over 6k and I was hoping for 10k. But still it was good.

Ankit Sharma

Stupid bilbo question won

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Q: Why didn't Bilbo become a creature like Gollum?

In The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, it is shown that Bilbo keeps the ring for almost 60 years, not as much as Gollum (who kept it for centuries). But still Bilbo remains totally unaffected by the powers/burden of the ring. Why didn't Bilbo develop characteristics that Gollum dev...

plot-explanation the-lord-of-the-rings

And it still have way more votes then my question

steelerfan

Stupid questions usually win that challenge ;)

Ankit Sharma

But 9k views only

What happen to the hands of 151k user who viewed my question

O.o

A J

LOL.

Ankit Sharma

I smell conspiracy here O.o

steelerfan

7:52 AM

I agree! File a complaint! ;)

Ankit Sharma

Or start a new Satyagraha?

steelerfan

Does it allow masturbation? :P

Ankit Sharma

Gandhi is gone, whom should I confirm it with

Maybe I can ask Anna Hazare

steelerfan

I don't know...ask question about it ;)

Time for sleep. Goodnight guys :)

Ankit Sharma

Goodnight

A J

8:21 AM

Good night

@AnkitSharma A cleaned way to guide how to.

A J

8:43 AM

@Walt hello

Walt

@DrRDizzle Oh, do do hear of it. Highly recommended.

@AJ Hello there!

@AJ Brief visit, mfraid. I see you guys were all chatty

@AnkitSharma Did you find that movie? I see you were looking for me a while back. Let me know if you need any help

[Lunacy] Unless he put extra emphasis on the word, then put air quotes around it and winked at the camera, I might have to concur with @Catija :P

A J

@Walt Seems Like a new question for you.

Walt

@AJ Nah, I saw it yesterday, just didn't respond

Doesn't strike me at all as that obscure a word, especially coming from someone like Watney

A J

New user's ID question mentions:

She had long black hair , black eyes , white skin , about 1.65 m - 5' 5'' height , normal weight .. Her boyfriend was white , tall , 1.88 m - 6' 2'' height , short black haired , had a beard and muscled .

Ankit Sharma

@Walt I just completely forgot about the premises

Walt

8:50 AM

@AnkitSharma Cool, less work for me ;)

Ankit Sharma

hhahaaaa

Walt

@AJ I think you're just reading the singles ads

A J

@Walt A new ID question mentions this.

Ankit Sharma

@Walt lol, looks same to me

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Q: A British drama movie made in between 2003 - 2013

I'm looking for a British drama movie . The theme was several people's daily life in a poor neighborhood in London . I guess it was a South London , because people and the apartments were in a really bad condition . The theme was like New York I love you (2008) , Valentine's day (2010) , Scenes...

identify-this-movie

Walt

8:54 AM

Oh, holy crap, you were serious

@MovieReel Er. Night On Earth. No, McGovern's Moving On. No, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Ankit Sharma

Seems good detailed ID to me

Even if I ignore matrimony part

Walt

@AnkitSharma Detailed and then some ;)

But I'm in work mode and can't think straight :(

Seeya guys later!

Ankit Sharma

@Walt BYe

Unfortunately I can't upvote this ID :/

A J

@AnkitSharma Oh

movies.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/47081

Ankit Sharma

@AJ I submitted my edit and it automatically rejected yours

Sorry for that

A J

9:02 AM

No worry

Ankit Sharma

Our edits looks complete identical to me

A J

Yes. I actually edited it while reviewing first posts.

Ankit Sharma

k

I have too much old stuff to review but don't have votes left, so not doing the rest

A J

None of the review queues?

Ankit Sharma

@AJ I mean questions from the day when I was on vacation

A J

9:11 AM

@AnkitSharma Oh now I see where you have used votes. There are not usually much question/answers to vote.

Ankit Sharma

@AJ Usually when I am free, I use to track old random question too, mostly what I have seen recently

Napoleon Wilson

@AnkitSharma No.

@AJ Meh.

Ankit Sharma

@NapoleonWilson Then I shoudl avoid discussing s03 with you ;)

Napoleon Wilson

@AJ And he won't ever. I knew that beforehand. though.

Walt

@MovieReel [Nevermind, I do know this, now that I read it all properly]

Dr R Dizzle

9:17 AM

@Walt Is it as depressing as it sounds.

Napoleon Wilson

@AJ Well, then again, acceptance really doesn't mean much at all. The community still appreciates your answers.

Walt

@DrRDizzle Nobody Knows?

Dr R Dizzle

@Walt Yeah.

Walt

It floored me. Which rarely happens.

Though from that list, Cache and A Seperation came close

Dr R Dizzle

Judging from that brief synopsis on iMDB, I don't think I want to watch it.

Napoleon Wilson

9:20 AM

@steelerfan Because the user is part of a humunguous collection of one-shot users (which are probably all the same person anyway).

Walt

@DrRDizzle If it's not your thing, that's cool. But I won't trust IMDb's synopses if my life depended on it :P

Napoleon Wilson

@steelerfan Why do you say that? :'(

@steelerfan Yeah, I guess so.

Dr R Dizzle

@Walt The synopsis simply says that a boy has to look after his siblings when his mother disappears. Is that not accurate?

Walt

@DrRDizzle Wow, that's some lame synopsis then

But that's the gist of it, I guess

Dr R Dizzle

I'll add it to the list. I'm hoping I'll have more time to watch more movies when I'm settled in my new house.

Napoleon Wilson

9:22 AM

@AnkitSharma I was more concerned about my first, now deleted, comment, which just said "there's not much significance beyond tradition", which might have been interpreted by people as saying the question is crap, which it is not. But anyway, that user never ever read any comments actually. I was more concerned about the voters.

Ankit Sharma

IMDb synopsis written by weird users, they varies from good, bad to worse.

Ufff, I gone to SFF after days and I started another discussion about tags

Walt

@DrRDizzle All I can say is that if you're looking for character development, this is probably the most you'll ever get in a movie, ever. It beats Boyhood with both hands behind its back.

Ankit Sharma

@Walt Never seen boyhood but ti sounds quite psoitive

Walt

But I'll stop waxing philosophical before I get fired :/

@AnkitSharma Nice avatar, BTW :)

Dr R Dizzle

Has anyone put any thought into making their own top 10 films of the 21st Century List yet?

Ankit Sharma

9:26 AM

@Walt Yeah, blame @steelerfan :)

Walt

@AnkitSharma Why?

@DrRDizzle Do they have to be from that list?

I've already mentioned three, anyway

Dr R Dizzle

@Walt God no.

Walt

@AnkitSharma I mean, I'll gladly blame her, but what's the context? :P

Ankit Sharma

@Walt She tricked me to add Lost boys in my watchlist and then greenlighted my wish to change the dp to Jason Patric

Walt

@DrRDizzle Will require a little thinking then

Dr R Dizzle

9:29 AM

@Walt Agreed. I'm struggling to name just 10.

Walt

@AnkitSharma Oh, you never saw it before?

Ankit Sharma

@DrRDizzle Why don't we make similar pole and make it movies meta post?

Dr R Dizzle

@AnkitSharma I don't know how to do any of that.

Ankit Sharma

@Walt Not the original but did checked and liked the first sequel

Napoleon Wilson

@AnkitSharma Meh.

Walt

9:32 AM

@DrRDizzle Why are we already summing up this century, BTW? Any upcoming apocalypse I'm unaware of (except whatever's going on in the elections)?

Dr R Dizzle

@Walt That BBC poll is why.

Ankit Sharma

@NapoleonWilson Not that bad idea we did similar pole for oscar film then whyn't do similar poll to BBC. Seems nice idea for community involvement to me

Dr R Dizzle

They did a "top 100 films of all time" list and got concerned that there were so few modern films on it, so they also asked the same (and more) people for just this century.

Ankit Sharma

@Walt BBC did same

Walt

@DrRDizzle Maybe they're just sensing that movies are getting exponentially worse :P

Dr R Dizzle

9:33 AM

@Walt I can't even begin to express how much I disagree with that statement, even if you said it in jest.

Walt

@AnkitSharma God, I totally forgot there was one. Those were brighter, simpler times :(

Ankit Sharma

21st century is newest and more user might feel like to involve in it but voting for single movie will be bad idea, we should go for ranking like SE election do and tehn results

@Walt There are two but the last one scared me form Borden just from poster, not going to check it ever. Anyway lost boys TV show is under development

Walt

@AnkitSharma Blech. Don't tamper with the classics

Ankit Sharma

@Walt But they can still make it good

Take stranger things for an example, It's really good show set in 80s paying homage to lots of stuff

Walt

@AnkitSharma I haven't bothered yet

@DrRDizzle Snacks are getting better, though, so it evens out

Dr R Dizzle

9:38 AM

My current list is City of God, The Departed, The Darjeeling Limited, Hot Fuzz, The Dark Knight, Up, The Raid: Berandal, The Hateful Eight and Creed. I need one more, but it's so hard.

Ankit Sharma

@Walt You are missing a good thing

Dr R Dizzle

I'm considering Green Room, but then my list skews a little too new.

Walt

@DrRDizzle Cool. I don't think we'll have any in common though :) [Though some of those are nice, sure]

Dr R Dizzle

@Walt I'd be surprised if many people and more than one or two in common, to be honest. There have been a lot of great films released over the last 16 years.

Walt

@DrRDizzle Skew away, there are no rules to this

Dr R Dizzle

9:41 AM

@Walt That's true. My only concern is that my list skews new simply because I've seen those films more recently though, not because they are genuinely better.

Walt

@DrRDizzle Good point

Ankit Sharma

I am really invested in creating movies.se poll simialr to BBC. What you gusy think @steelerfan @NapoleonWilson @iandotkelly @DrRDizzle @Walt @AJ ??

Walt

@DrRDizzle ...Though I'm actually struggling to think of a movie I saw in the past year for this list, so I might not have that problem

Dr R Dizzle

@AnkitSharma Go for it.

Walt

@AnkitSharma Sure, seems fun

Napoleon Wilson

9:43 AM

@Walt Sure, the answer's still nice, though.

A J

@AnkitSharma nice idea

Walt

@NapoleonWilson Oh, there's an answer?

Dr R Dizzle

Ooooh, Snowpiercer and Whiplash are both contenders now.

Napoleon Wilson

@AnkitSharma Well, meta isn't really made for stuff like that. We did the "best in 2014" one, which was an exception and we could have done that for the following years. But this 21st century thing seems a little arbitrary to me.

Walt

@DrRDizzle Hot Fuzz is an interesting choice. If I could cheat and go for the entire trilogy, it might make it to the top 15 or something

Napoleon Wilson

9:44 AM

What's the occasion? I don't know what on earth a BBC is.

Walt

@DrRDizzle I was impressed with the former and very impressed with the latter, yeah

Dr R Dizzle

@Walt I'm trying to keep a "one film per director limit", otherwise my entire list would be comprised of almost just Edgar Wright.

Napoleon Wilson

@AnkitSharma If you could somehow integrate it into the site (like we did with the chat event), it could work better.

Ankit Sharma

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster. It is headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, and is the world's oldest national broadcasting organisation and the largest broadcaster in the world by number of employees, with over 20,950 staff in total, of whom 16,672 are in public sector broadcasting; including part-time, flexible as well as fixed contract staff, the total number is 35,402. The BBC is established under a Royal Charter and operates under its Agreement with the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. Its work is funded principally...

Napoleon Wilson

But this way it might just open the door for meta to become a place for arbitrary off-topci dicsussions.

We don't migrate recommendation questions to meta either.

Ankit Sharma

9:47 AM

This can be just one exceptional case

And that BBC poll is really getting good attention and we can use some of it here

Dr R Dizzle

I think anything that might encourage a discussion and greater interaction between the community is ultimately a good thing. Plus, it's interesting!

Ankit Sharma

@DrRDizzle Did BBC did qualifying rounds too or it's open for every film in 21st century

Napoleon Wilson

@AnkitSharma Just be sure to make it primarily about the community and less about the films.

Dr R Dizzle

@AnkitSharma Every single film was up for nomination.

Walt

...I could only think of 8 candidates so far, and 4 of them are Asian

Ankit Sharma

9:50 AM

@Walt Can you share it if not wanted keep it under wraps

Napoleon Wilson

@AnkitSharma Then at least make sure to reference it, so people know the occasion.

Walt

Oh, wait, Spirited Away. Make that five

Dr R Dizzle

My final list ended up being City of God, The Departed, The Darjeeling Limited, Hot Fuzz, The Dark Knight, Up, The Raid: Berandal, Whiplash, The Hateful Eight and Creed. I'm 100% sure this will be different in just a few hours though. Such is life.

Ankit Sharma

@DrRDizzle That will be difficult to add in a poll. Or we can do facebook like poll where anyone can add there new suggestions too, I am confused

Walt

Do documentaries count?

Dr R Dizzle

9:51 AM

@AnkitSharma We could just have people post their list, and then aggregate is in the same way the BBC did. Top spot is worth 10 points, second is worth 9, third 8 etc...

Ankit Sharma

@DrRDizzle Except dark knight, none can break my top 10 list

Dr R Dizzle

@Walt Yes. I believe that The Act of Killing or The Look of Silence was in the top 10 on the BBC poll.

Walt

@DrRDizzle Now it's even harder :(

Ankit Sharma

@DrRDizzle That will be a lot of work but still a good idea.

Dr R Dizzle

ShrugEmoticon. I just think it would be a bit of fun.

Walt

9:54 AM

...Forget Asian, all of my movies are also foreign so far. Whoa

Dr R Dizzle

@Walt I want to see!

Ankit Sharma

@DrRDizzle me too

Walt

@DrRDizzle I'm going by my IMDb ratings. But it's incomplete

In the 2000s, I gave a perfect 10 to 3-Iron, Yi Yi, Nobody Knows, In the Mood for Love, Cache, Spirited Away and A Separation

...and wait! Also to Ratatouille! So one US movie hurray

Napoleon Wilson

@DrRDizzle Sounds like the most reasonable approach.

Walt

I guess I'll have to search my 9's too

Dr R Dizzle

9:58 AM

@Walt I've never quite understood the acclaim that Ratatouille has enjoyed. Don't get me wrong, I like it, but I'd still consider it to be one of Pixar's worst. I think I maybe just don't "get it".

Walt

@DrRDizzle It's certainly their best written film

Napoleon Wilson

Well, it's just one 'o those animated things anyway. Nice, but not too nice, and nothing a life-action film couldn't accomplish either.

Walt

But I know people who don't get it either

Dr R Dizzle

See, I just don't see that. It's a nice story about a rat who wants to be a cook, but for me it's lacking the depth and emotional maturity and theme of films like Toy Story, The Incredibles, Up, Wall-E...

Ankit Sharma

I do love Ratatouille but i can't pick it as my top 10 or even top 25, maybe 50 too

Dr R Dizzle

10:01 AM

@NapoleonWilson You are to animation what @Randal'Thor is to films. A menace :P

Walt

@DrRDizzle It's more about plot structure. And it's about the struggles of an artist, which many movies tried to do and most of them failed

Ankit Sharma

Mine will be Watchmen, Memento, dark knight for sure, rest I need work to think

Maybe brockback mountain or maybe not

Dr R Dizzle

Oh my God.

Walt

I'll pick Wall-E too as the emotional choice, though, sure. And Toy Story 2.

Dr R Dizzle

I forgot about Ghibli

Howl's Moving Castle should probably be on that list.

Ankit Sharma

10:04 AM

@DrRDizzle I will pick wall-e from the list only for top contenders, rest were just good for my list

Dr R Dizzle

I'm excited to see everyone's lists.

Ankit Sharma

I need to leave SFF tag talk to concentrate on poll and how to implement it

@DrRDizzle You might hate mine ;D

Dr R Dizzle

What about Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring though.

What about Children of Men.

Ankit Sharma

@DrRDizzle never seen

Dr R Dizzle

What about Inception, or The Prestige.

So many films!

Ankit Sharma

10:09 AM

@DrRDizzle prestige can make it for me but inception might not secure top 10 or mayeb 25

Walt

Sorry, that was random :P

Dr R Dizzle

lol

Walt

@DrRDizzle Inception... Hmm. I'll mull it over

Ankit Sharma

@Walt I do expect that from you

Walt

Food break, nice chatting to you guys

Good lock with the poll

Ankit Sharma

10:12 AM

@Walt I am not going to make it officially till tonight

Ooops I forgot Donnie Darko

Dr R Dizzle

@AnkitSharma ¬_¬

Ankit Sharma

And I might watch some urgent ones form pending list first

Dr R Dizzle

@AnkitSharma I can almost guarantee my list will be 80% different by that point. I'm going to have a long look through my DVD/Blu Ray collection when I get home.

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Q: A man is framed as a killer because he was mistakenly thought he had a weapon

I watched this movie back in the late 80s / early 90s. (Color / English / Hollywood). The only scene I remember is this man in his home/hotel room, wearing a bathrobe. He is thought to be holding a gun, and is shot by police (injured but not killed). Later the police found out that he was holdi...

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Q: How was Will aware of the lights?

In Stranger Things (2016) Will Byers gets taken to the "Upside Down". But he manages to communicate with his mother, e.g through the christmas lights. When Joyce is in the cupboard and says "Once for YES, twice for NO.", how would Will make that happen? He can't see his mother, but does he s...

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Q: Simpsons episode where "Springfield" is mentioned

I can't remember which episode of The Simpsons was this scene from: A man is running behind a train (maybe something he wants is on the train), and he can't keep up with it, so he shouts asking one of the passengers on the train: where is this train going to? The passenger says: Springfield. The...

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Ankit Sharma

@MovieReel Grrr, I need to vote it up

@DrRDizzle hmmm

@MovieReel I do think, I can even answer it but need to do homework first

Movie Reel

10:25 AM

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Q: In "The One With The Flashback", why doesn't Rachel comment about Monica's weight(loss)?

The episode in question is S03E06 "The One With The Flashback". At the bar, Rachel is having a conversation with her friends while Monica & Chandler are hanging out together. A while later Rachel & Monica briefly catchup but Rachel does not comment about Monica's weight loss. It is apparent that ...

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Ankit Sharma

@DrRDizzle What about Attack The Block?

Napoleon Wilson

@DrRDizzle No, I like and appreciate animation films. I just don't run around and call 'em groundbreaking story-wise, since they're not.

Ankit Sharma

I want Mean Girls in the list ;)

Why every list have Mulholland Drive, anybody here seen it?

Napoleon Wilson

I have, it's nice, and totally weird, like a Lynch film.

Ankit Sharma

Is it worth it to check before making my list?

A J

10:40 AM

@AnkitSharma @NapoleonWilson I think both are the same users.

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@NapoleonWilson Some are. You act like animation is a lesser form of story-telling to live action, or at least that's the impression I get from you, rightly or wrongly.

@AnkitSharma I like that, but I've only seen it once.

A J

Oh I should have mentioned it in other room.

Napoleon Wilson

@DrRDizzle Well, I don't. I just don't act as if it's a higher form of story-telling. A story that every second live-action film told a thousand times in the past doesn't get original and groundbreaking because it's told by animated people now.

Dr R Dizzle

@AnkitSharma I haven't seen it, but I have seen Eraserhead, which made me want to never watch a David Lynch film ever again.

Napoleon Wilson

@AJ No, it's fine here.

Dr R Dizzle

10:48 AM

@NapoleonWilson I don't think anyone here acts as if animation automatically makes something better. What I love about the Pixar films I mentioned earlier is exactly what I said - the depth, emotional maturity and themes of the films, not the fact that they are animated.

Napoleon Wilson

@DrRDizzle I get the impression from you that you don't actually like, enjoy or even want to watch about 90% of the films you watch, but I guess that's inaccurate, too. Such is it with subjective impressions. ;-)

Dr R Dizzle

The fact that Pixar often break new technical grounds while telling great stories is nice, but it's ultimately secondary to the stories they are telling.

@NapoleonWilson 90% seems high, even for an over-exaggeration. I'm sure I give more positive reviews than negative ones.

Hell, the review I'm writing right now is nearly entirely positive.

Napoleon Wilson

@DrRDizzle Sure, and I'm saying those themes aren't really that unique and not to be found in many other films. Sometimes people just value them somehow higher because they're in an animated film now. Maybe you don't.

Dr R Dizzle

@NapoleonWilson Does a theme have to be unique for it to be handled incredibly well? I don't think so.

Napoleon Wilson

@DrRDizzle For the purpose of over-exaggeration it actually seemed a little low to me.

Dr R Dizzle

10:52 AM

Toy Story is, when we get down to it, a buddy movie with the theme of fear of redundancy running though it. Neither of those things are unique - what makes Toy Story so great is how well it deals with the main theme, the characters of the film, and the emotions generated.

Napoleon Wilson

Meh, I guess. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I liked Rango and Inside Out. Wall-E was nice, too, I guess.

Dr R Dizzle

I haven't seen Rango, but I've heard good things.

I actually think Inside Out is a lesser Pixar though.

Ankit Sharma

@NapoleonWilson I like rango and wall-e. Inside out is good but way overrated for my taste

And I do think when animation do mature stuff which have been done in 100+ films already. It get bit more attention then it deserve

Napoleon Wilson

Most of (computer-)animated fare I see is largely forgettable to me, though, while being a nice entertaining thing you can watch now and then.

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Q: In “The One With The Flashback”, why is the Bar empty yet operational when Ross & Phoebe hang out?

If you've watched the episode, Phoebe is at the bar and Ross arrives moments later, informing her of Susan being a lesbian. The entire bar since the start of this scene is empty! There's not even a bartender as Ross proceeds to make himself several drinks to drown his sorrow. What kind of a 'buff...

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Napoleon Wilson

10:59 AM

So maybe I do think Pixar is a little overrated on the internet.

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