The Screening Room - 2019-01-22

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12:11 AM

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Q: What is the significance of Alara's gift to Capt. Mercer?

In the third episode of The Orville, Alara gets a gift for Capt Mercer as a goodbye present. The gift isn't revealed until the end of the episode. Capt Mercer opens the box and pulls out a jar of pickles and smiles. What is the significance of pickles? I must have missed or am not remembering som...

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1:46 AM

@AnkitSharma lol

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4:26 AM

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Q: Can cancelled released movie scripts be put back in production?

I was wondering if it would be possible for movie scripts that been released for the public could be put back in production. For example a few years ago when the potential for a new Friday the 13th movie was cancelled the script was released to the public so would it be possible for whoever gets ...

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6:00 AM

Did anybody participated in ToW yet

6:21 AM

Feb 4 '18 at 15:18, by A J

I watched The Sixth Sense. And I was curious why Bruce Willis character didn't change the attire the whole time.

Feb 4 '18 at 15:19, by Napoleon Wilson

@AJ Um, if you watched it till the end, you should know. ;-)

I had that question about the Sixth Sense.

@AJ self answered in film itself

Still no good answer to this one

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Q: Why was Vincent in his underwear?

In The Sixth Sense, Malcolm and his wife discover an intruder in their home to be one of Malcolm's former patients, Vincent Grey. Vincent is standing in Malcolm's bathroom dressed only in his underwear to confront Malcolm. We see Vincent's clothes on the bathroom floor, so he removed them aft...

plot-explanation sixth-sense

@AnkitSharma Wasn't Bruce a doctor in the movie?

@AJ psychiatrist or say child psychiatrist to be exact

Being psychiatrist was one of my dream job but I have to study rest of the science too which is bleh

LOL

6:36 AM

I though @Jenayah was going to ask a question from The Last Airbender ;)

Great the two out of one the-last-airbender question was also wrongly tagged

Even scifi.se have no question from film

Only one off topic for sequel

Not even anime,se

in Maid Café (メイド喫茶), 6 mins ago, by Ankit Sharma

Why avatar and not avatar-the-last-airbender

@Memor-X ^

6:55 AM

@Richard There is no movie in Ba Sing Se — LogicianWithAHat Mar 21 '16 at 12:48

But there is a film, hate it as much as you can but you can't run away :P

@Valorum run, hide or ignore but you can't deny truth :P — Ducky Momo 8 secs ago

7:19 AM

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Q: Is Glass self-explanatory?

I know Glass is third part of the trilogy but I wanted to watch the film so wanted to know is it self-explanatory enough to skip previous films? Do I need to watch both of them before Glass? Note:I have seen Unbreakable but not Split

suggested-order split unbreakable glass

Done with my first entry

Do we use words like trilogy in franchise's name?

I wonder if it can be tagged as the-eastrail-177-trilogy.

@AJ I doubt we need that

8:07 AM

Wow Aquaman is in top 25 highest grossing film ever and might go little more up

@Tinkeringbell hey o/

8:19 AM

Morning

@Tinkeringbell good afternoon/morning, how is it going there?

Okayish. Having a cold, being cold ;)

But working from home, so that's good

Very chilled here to contrary to previous years.

chilled as in cold, or relaxed?

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9:33 AM

@Tinkeringbell I will go with first option

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10:44 AM

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Q: The story of TV serial - Mazya Navryachi Bayako

"Mazya Navryachi Bayako" (means - My husband's wife) is a Marathi language serial on 'Zee TV Marathi' channel. Is the story from start to end of this serial already decided before launching or are they changing the story in the mid as per the response of viewers?

11:13 AM

@MovieReel cv-pls

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12:44 PM

Since people here may go to the queues... :) movies.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/77919

12:59 PM

@Jenayah how did I missed that

@AnkitSharma same reason i missed it. lazyness

lol

But I am sure I check franchise tag stuff occasionally whenever I get time

Napoleon Wilson

Well, thank god the irritating GIFs have alt text now. ;-P

Gone one more

@NapoleonWilson lol

@NapoleonWilson lol

Napoleon Wilson

1:03 PM

>#<

I am not aware of this emoticon

Napoleon Wilson

The TIE fighter dominance was getting a little concerning.

O.o

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Q: Why can't Iron Man travel to outer space?

Why can't Iron Man travel to outer space with his suit on? What is the science behind that? Can't he use the material used to build the space shuttles to build his suit and travel into space?

Should I retag this or it's too bleh

Napoleon Wilson

Meh.

2.5k views O.o

1:07 PM

@AJ don't look at me, I closed it

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Q: How did Black Widow survive while holding four Infinity Stones

In Avengers Assemble Season 2 Episode 12 Black Widow controls 4 infinity stones (Reality, Space, Time and Mind). However she didn't collapse with all that power. Perhaps she should have disintegrated, being a mere human she cannot survive with such power let alone being able to control it. Captai...

plot-explanation avengers-assemble

I am sure what is the answer but have to watch show to verify, uffff

Napoleon Wilson

For a second I thought someone tagged it with the British title. But apparently it's a TV-series.

I have a couple more missing MCUs

I wanted to dilute them not to clutter the homepage ajaj

Napoleon Wilson

Well, how many are they? If it's 40, maybe dillute. If it's 5, we...really aren't that strict here.

@Jenayah I am doing already , f*** hoempage

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Q: Why didn't the Tesseract got transported with Red Skull?

At the end of Captain America The First Avenger Red skull disappears which was later discovered that he was transported by the Tesseract. In other circumstances like Thor took Loki to Asgard at the end of The Avengers, the Tesseract went with them. But in case of Red Skull he transported but the ...

plot-explanation marvel-cinematic-universe the-avengers captain-america-the-first-avenger

Napoleon Wilson

But at the end, you're bound to the 5 edit suggestions at a time rule anyway, so it'll be the approvers' fault. ;-)

1:11 PM

How it's dupe @AJ

@NapoleonWilson they're in my favorites

@NapoleonWilson hey Al text is important

Alt

Mobile

@Jenayah you did very less as per my standards :p

@AnkitSharma my easy rep points ;_;

@Jenayah ok I will leave rest for your free rep ;)

Napoleon Wilson

@Jenayah Yes yes, I know, blind people and linux console geeks. It's commendable that you go for the effort.

1:12 PM

@Jenayah sorry I can't keep my hands away

@AnkitSharma dupe has the answer in spoiler markup

@Jenayah free rep point is my posts as they always have grammar mistake :D That's how @AJ got all his rep :P

Ahah

@AJ I though answer don't make dupe here but question do

@AnkitSharma Not really. I earned only 108 rep and most of which were tag edits. :P

1:19 PM

@AJ don't lie :p

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Q: Why would that kill his mother?

This is about the 1987 film Moonstruck (Academy Awards for Cher and Dukakis), about Loretta Castorini who is engaged with Mr. Johnny Cammareri but then falls in love with his estranged brother Ronny Cammareri. Mr. Johnny is away in Sicily, because his mother was breathing her last breath. In the...

plot-explanation moonstruck

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@AnkitSharma ^

@AJ ufff you are punkiller

Napoleon Wilson

1:34 PM

Then you're the illest punk there is! ;-P

That's the newest thing I ever heard

Napoleon Wilson

Well, of course it is...or was, now it's this. ;-)

:D

reject needed

@AnkitSharma you already have

as in i can't reject too

Napoleon Wilson

Wikipedia, I assume?

1:39 PM

Funny coincidence, seeing the reject edit suggestion

@NapoleonWilson yep, just checked it

But I can't review it

huh, so @AnkitSharma did need a second reject. i wonder why i couldn't reject it

Napoleon Wilson

Maybe you aren't allowed to review tag edits?

@NapoleonWilson yup

Napoleon Wilson

You shouldn't be allowed to make them anyway.

@Memor-X ufff lazy, you should have participated more by now to get those privileges

Napoleon Wilson

1:43 PM

He did, but he lost about 5k rep when all his ID questions got deleted.

wait, i lost 5k?

@NapoleonWilson ohhh

@Memor-X throw some anime stuff to get it back

Napoleon Wilson

@AnkitSharma Not really. ;-)

@NapoleonWilson I am still waiting Walt to get 100k back

93,075 already

The above was clear case of copy pasting, but even if you write it yourself and follow the guidelines, it almost looks like wikipedia. The guidlelines are: "name" "(year)" "country" "genre" "director / producer" "actors / actresses" "roles" ("summary"), which almost looks exactly like wikipedia. Often, the only difference is that there the year is not in parentheses.

1:47 PM

@NapoleonWilson ouch

@Jenayah he was joking I guess

Napoleon Wilson

@AnneDaunted Yeah, it can be quite difficult. You seem to manage it well usually, though.

I tend to simply not look at Wikipedia other for the actual information, often just the year, and try to come up entirely with my own description. I usually don't inlcude actors or directors anyway.

including actors or directors is not of great need to tag wikki for me

@NapoleonWilson Thanks! It's doesn't always seem possible though. Sometimes I give up. E. g. I started one for The Interview but aborted it. I saw the movie, so I can summarize its content without imdb or wikipedia, but I looked at their summaries and wondered how I could formulate it differently. Didn't manage to.

@NapoleonWilson The idea is not bad, but what if you wrote it yourself and it still looks like wikipedia, even without looking at it. There are often not so many ways to summarize the content in one sentence. Even if one or two expressions are different, someone may believe you copied from there.

Napoleon Wilson

@AnneDaunted See, that's what I mean. Sometimes it can be counter-productive to even look at these pre-made summaries, since they then tend to preclude what you would have written and you start to think in terms of "how can I be explicitly different". Whereas if you had just written it yourself, the chances of coming up exactly with Wikipedia's summar would be rather low.

1:53 PM

@NapoleonWilson agreed

Napoleon Wilson

@AnneDaunted I'd think the practical chances for that are low, though.

@NapoleonWilson Okay, I will try it out. Maybe check wikipedia afterwards, to see if it matches too closely.

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3:25 PM

Oscar nominations 2019: Full list by category

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I guess nobody mind if I pin it

ON the second note no Aquaman nomination :(

> “Kelvin, you and your department are the unsung heroes of this film. The fact that your VFX peers in the Academy aren’t recognizing or appreciating what we/you’ve all contributed to the film and cinema is a fucking disgrace.” - Wan

Napoleon Wilson

Oh, cool. I can write up my usual challenge proposal then.

So you don't want to bitch about the nomination ;)

Napoleon Wilson

Well, I haven't even looked at it yet.

But...I doubt I've seen much from it anyway.

Oh, the effin' Black Panther, of course!

From best film listt I have seen only Black Panther

Napoleon Wilson

Wanna have one of these MCU things for the Best Picture? Make it generate diversity fuss!

3:37 PM

Now I have to think how many films even released in 2018

But Aquaman not even getting nomination is bad

And who really care for Mary Poppins to be nominated O.o why it's there

Too Disneyish

Napoleon Wilson

@AnkitSharma For what? It's a run-of-the-mill blockbuster.

7 mins ago, by Ankit Sharma

> “Kelvin, you and your department are the unsung heroes of this film. The fact that your VFX peers in the Academy aren’t recognizing or appreciating what we/you’ve all contributed to the film and cinema is a fucking disgrace.” - Wan

Napoleon Wilson

Now...if Aquaman was a black LGBT woman, maybe.

I prefer Indian gay hero having a south Indian bf

Oscar lacks in brown skin winners

And ~~cake~~ slumdog is a lie

Napoleon Wilson

@AnkitSharma In nowadays' simplistic interpretation of what "representation" and "identification" mean, that seems natural. ;-)

3:42 PM

It looks Disney will win many Oscars this year

People will shit there pants if spider-man web thing don't win

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Q: What is a negative pressure test and why did it give the results it did?

In the movie Deepwater Horizon they conducted a negative pressure test to see whether or not it would be safe to drill. But I cannot recall them explaining what such a test actually does or what it means. So my question is what is a negative pressure test and why did it seem like everything was o...

plot-explanation deepwater-horizon

Napoleon Wilson

However, the Production Design and Score nominations for Black Panther seem justified. That film did have an interesting design. While it's naturally the same sleek near-future look of any MCU film, the Afrofuturism aspects were quite compelling. And the soundtrack was quite unique, especially for an MCU film, whose soundtracks generally tend to blend into one for me.

Napoleon Wilson

4:03 PM

In fact, I really hope it wins Best Score. While I haven't seen the other ones, that was an absolute highlight in recent times, soundtrack-wise.

Topic Challenge Suggestion

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A: Weekly Topic Challenge - Ideas

While I know that not everyone might agree about the Academy Awards's true artistic and critical significance, it is nevertheless one of the biggest events in and about one of the biggest and most famous movie industries in the world. So like we did last year I would yet again use this event, as...

Napoleon Wilson

Though, Desplat is nominated too, for a Wes Anderson film even, so...he might sack that as well.

4:36 PM

I do not know if this has been so for a while, but none the identification questions I saw being posted have the identify-this-... tag. I mean, you can still use the tags. Does it not occur to people that these tags exist or do they see them (and the warning to not use them) - then why still post anyway? This is puzzling.

Napoleon Wilson

@AnneDaunted You can't. If you try, an error pops up.

@NapoleonWilson can't disagree

@NapoleonWilson Oh, I didn't know that such a mechanism exists. So it's possible they get that warning and just use a different tag. Weird.

Napoleon Wilson

What should happen is that people see the tag, try to use it and then look at the tag wiki and/or the error to notice the questions aren't supported. But even back when we did people occasionally didn't use them. Not everyone gets the SE tagging system immediately.

It's probably not too intuitive for people unknown to the site to even think of the word "identif..." let alone put it into the tagging line. So...they probably just choose the next best, like the most used one (plot-explanation), or aliens or unknown.

@AnkitSharma They finally caught the culprit.

4:41 PM

@AJ ohhh good

True, sometimes people really use random tags.

@AnkitSharma It was a person who they lend some money to. He does a job in finance and wasn't returning the money after being asked for several times.

@AnneDaunted specially new user

Napoleon Wilson

I'd have to check, though, if it still pops up as one of the first suggestions, since it should still be among the top used tags with about 1,000 remaining questions. Unless the blacklsting system somehow makes it not show up.

I have seen new user having 5 tags in question but all wrong even when the right one exists

4:44 PM

I wonder if I had ever used all five tags even as a new user.

Napoleon Wilson

No, it's still in the normal order, so it pops up among the first results when typing any of its letters, including "mov...".

@NapoleonWilson identify-this-movie is the 4th suggestion when asking a new question and entering i or m.

@AJ did you figure out any other ToW question?

@AnkitSharma nope. didn't get time for that. and I am busy this weekend.

Did anybody notice finally Netflix got nomination

4:47 PM

nope

@AJ you still have time

Roma (2018 film)

Roma is a 2018 Mexican drama film written and directed by Alfonso Cuarón, who also produced, co-edited and shot the film. A co-production of Mexico and the United States, it stars Yalitza Aparicio and Marina de Tavira. Set in 1970 and 1971, the film is a semi-autobiographical take on Cuarón's upbringing in Mexico City, and follows the life of a live-in housekeeper to a middle-class family. The title refers to Colonia Roma, a neighborhood in the city.Roma had its world premiere at the 75th Venice International Film Festival on 30 August 2018, where it won the Golden Lion. It began a limited theatrical...

Napoleon Wilson

Well, only because it it was also a cinema release. I think the whole point of the limited cinema release even was to be able to get nominated for the Oscars.

ohh

I guess it's first Netflix movie to get nomination in Oscars

@NapoleonWilson I know

And The Oscar Goes To... How $$$ and Insane Campaigns Dictate Who Wins Big!

Interesting piece related to Oscar

And what goes behind the scenes

Napoleon Wilson

Is that one of these infamous US YouTube vlogs? ;-)

Like, Logan Whatever or that suicide dude?

4:57 PM

@NapoleonWilson no

It's Philip DeFranco who do news stuff not so controversial

It's about influencing best film nomination, negative bashing competitor , and how voting can go wrong

Napoleon Wilson

I see.

Nice video, try

Napoleon Wilson

Maybe...at some point.

ok

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8:16 PM

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Q: What do the colours in the different areas in The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover signify?

Peter Greenaway's art house epic The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover was adored by many critics but never got a wide audience. The movie is set in various rooms of a restaurant frequented by a crime lord and his philandering wife. The different areas of the set have different colour schem...

^ what work tag for this? This messes with the 35 character limit big time :P

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