@steelersquirrel It's not exactly bandwagon, though. One of the close-votes is stupid, the ID one, but the other one isn't for the same reason. I agree the question isn't trivia, but it's not exactly a case of bandwagon close-voting. (Besides that, I'm not entirely convinced about the motives behind the trivia close-vote to being with.)
@AJ What exactly was I supposed to reply to your last message anyway? ;-)
@NapoleonWilson We don't want you to tell us...we're just curious if you guys can see who cast the votes. Just because someone doesn't give the same vtc reason, doesn't mean that it's not bandwaggoning.
Anyway, in fact whoever close-votes a question isn't exactly sectret information either, since once it's closed, the people's names are put in public anyway.
@steelersquirrel And The Prestige and Iron Man ...3(?).
I think there's also a film with her and Eric Bana about terrorism surveillance in Britain that I once saw a trailer of but never ever heard anything about again.
OMG! It's sooooo good! Your gf, Rebecca is a paranormal investigator in the late 19th early 20th century. She tries to disprove ghost stories and sightings. It's really good.
Haha! Awwwww. I'm sorry. I have just not seen it before and I watched it this morning. I'm totally envious of her bewbs, so I get a thrill every time I see them in a movie ;)
I know! It's from 1988! I hadn't even heard of it before! Then I started watching it and saw that Andy Garcia was in it and then John Malkovich was in it and then Uma Thurman showed her beautiful and awesome bewbs!!! Triple awesomeness!!!
Anyway, another great Andy Garcia film I always like to watch, but which I think is somehow less known than others of him would be Night Falls on Manhattan. It's a great law piece from Sidney Lumet.
Sherlock does not believe in god and has often ridiculed the idea.
Yet, quite often, he uses expressions like "Dear god", "for gods sake" and "Oh god". Why?
Was the ( SHOT ) horse a real horse ?
In the beginning scenes, when th Ed men are running heading for the boat , a quick clip shows a barely clothed man come out of a tent or some type of structure. ( He aims a gun and SHOOTS a horse )
He turns and wobbles back into the covering.
It didn't mak...
> Uh, sir, why don't you just use real cows? > Cows don't look like cows on film. You gotta use horses. > What do you do if you want something that looks like a horse? > Uh, usually we just tape a bunch of cats together.
I've probably eaten a pie before, but didn't call it that. We have two words for those big baked things, too. But I doubt they're translatable one to one to "cake" and "pie". One is for rather warm-prepared and whole-baked things and the other is for something rather cold-prepared with only a baked base. But I don't know if that is even accurate.
For example you'd never make a wedding cake, you'd make a wedding tart. But I doubt tart is the correct word in English either.
@NapoleonWilson That's an Apple pie. Next time you see one, just stick your fingers in it. It feels waaaaay different than a cake. You can decide for yourself if I'm talking about actual baked goods or not ;)
@steelersquirrel No, that seems rather straight forward. I'm talking about the difference between languages and the non-bijective mapping between terms.
@steelersquirrel That's not a bad thing, though, I wasn't complaining really.
@AnkitSharma Well, a great deal of my life is waiting for me 8000 km away. Besides that, I'm enjoying it and I have to watch football after that anyway. ;-)
Why doesn't the title of this thing surprise me? ;-)
Well, @steelersquirrel seemed to be getting sick from the discussion, so I think we probably shouldn't.
@NapoleonWilson Sure, we have that but it's mostly between versions of English... I think there's a second one with English -> non English "false friends" - terms that look the same/similar but aren't.
This post is an attempt to keep track of the terms that differ between dialects of English or exist in some dialects but not others: British / Australian / Canadian / American / etc.
Please note that Canada may be difficult to classify, as some regions (especially near the southern border) use U...
I am not the only international user here, and I bet that others are just as confused as I am when we read something on an American-centric resource and the corresponding translation in our language turns out to mean something entirely different.
There are also examples in the other direction, w...
That's quite confusing when talking about peperoni(DE)-filled olives. But then to find out that are actually exist peperoni(US)-filled olives too is even more baffling. ;-)
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17/MAS17) was a regularly-scheduled international passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. On 17 July 2014 a Boeing 777-200ER, which was operating as Flight 17, was shot down, killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew on board. Contact with the airliner was lost about 50 km (31 mi) from the Ukraine–Russia border, and it crashed near Torez in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, 40 km (25 mi) from the border. The crash occurred during the Battle in Shakhtarsk Raion, part of the ongoing war in Donbass, in an area controlled by the Donbass People's Militia. The crash is the...
In Big Hero 6 Baymax shoots its arm to save Hiro and Callaghan's daughter. Later, Hiro discovers the green "good" chip and he is able to replicate Baymax.
From previous scenes, the chip clearly acts as a "brain" (when only the red "evil" chip remains and Baymax tries to kill R. Callaghan) and Ba...
My question How closely tied into the source material is Assassin's Creed? is specifically about the differences between the source material and the movie adaption.
So why is the tag being removed multiple times? http://movies.stackexchange.com/revisions/66640/5
@SQB My current working theory is that nearly any question mentioning Tump has at least a 50% chance to end up on HNQ. If you use this hint, I expect royalty payments on the patent contained in this post off any rep earned.
@Catija Link? I think I might have enough rep to delete on MTV, though it's not binding
After hitting 10K, I was amazed at just HOW MUCH truly troll answers get posted. I could never figure out why anyone'd bother making them, knowing it gets deleted shortly anyway.
I heard about this horror movie from a friend, he watched it around 20 years ago so doesn't remember much except it was great. It was probably trash (I don't trust his taste) but it intrigued me anyway because it is basically the same setup from Cabin in the Woods. Maybe it is too common a setup ...
When I was little, I had this one VHS with home-taped cartoons [but not by us] that I watched endlessly. One of the cartoons was unknown to me even then, but it was very characteristic and I'd love to find it somewhere.
Here's what I know:
Info about the cartoon
Very old: I watched the tape ...
15 minutes into the Brooklyn Nine-Nine episode "Cheddar" (s3, e18), Charles is lying on a coffee table, which then collapses. It's obvious he has a rectangular box or book in the seat of his sweatpants. No one mentions it. Was there a deleted scene that explained the rectangle in his sweatpants?
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