Things that took you way too long to realize....

[TripleCrown9]

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1594 was a damn good year

Especially if you like tulips.

[Blzer]

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Tony Scott and Denzel Washington's Man on Fire is a remake.

EDIT: Oh, also a couple of weeks ago after I saw Dark Fate, I was talking to my friend about it who said she was rusty with her T1 and T2, so I said I'd lend them to her blah blah blah... anyway we spoke of the other Terminator films we'd seen, and while I hadn't seen Genisys I was describing it as: "That movie has Emilia Clarke as a younger Sarah Connor, um... I think Jason Clarke plays John Connor... wait a minute... the Clarke's played the Connor's??" I was sitting there thinking, wouldn't it be weird if they were siblings and they played a mother-son combo? Turns out they're not siblings, but I never put two-and-two together. Probably because I didn't ever actually see the film.

[Caulfield]

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I thought Bambi was a female deer. Did I used to know he was a he or am I just realising it I'm not sure. I think I'm just realising it.

[Caulfield]

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Tony Scott and Denzel Washington's Man on Fire is a remake.

EDIT: Oh, also a couple of weeks ago after I saw Dark Fate, I was talking to my friend about it who said she was rusty with her T1 and T2, so I said I'd lend them to her blah blah blah... anyway we spoke of the other Terminator films we'd seen, and while I hadn't seen Genisys I was describing it as: "That movie has Emilia Clarke as a younger Sarah Connor, um... I think Jason Clarke plays John Connor... wait a minute... the Clarke's played the Connor's??" I was sitting there thinking, wouldn't it be weird if they were siblings and they played a mother-son combo? Turns out they're not siblings, but I never put two-and-two together. Probably because I didn't ever actually see the film.

John and Joan Cusack have played in at least 10 movies together. I dont know if she ever played as his mother but what would be weird is if they had roles as a married couple

[Caulfield]

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1594 was a damn good year

mmm, no baseball basketball or football (American, as if I should have to distinguish from soccer lol), no AC or even electricity. was there indoor plumbing? I'll stick with 1869 as the first Damn Good Year. any before that were merely regular good years.

[daflyboys]

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Tony Scott and Denzel Washington's Man on Fire is a remake.

The original can't be as good. Even the text overlay edits were done well in this. Probably my favorite Denzel movie. That twist.

[Caulfield]

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just looking at Tony Scott's resume as director. didn't know he did True Romance. Sure, he made bigger box-office draws but this is my favorite movie of his. The thing is when I think True Romance, Tarentino's name first comes to mind. And how can you not like a movie with a prostitute named Alabama.

[Blzer]

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just looking at Tony Scott's resume as director. didn't know he did True Romance. Sure, he made bigger box-office draws but this is my favorite movie of his. The thing is when I think True Romance, Tarentino's name first comes to mind. And how can you not like a movie with a prostitute named Alabama.

Tarantino only has nine directorial efforts (if you count Kill Bill: Vol. 1 & 2 as one), so most film buffs will be wise to know those nine when they hear them if they can't recall them, themselves.

I don't know his film release order (I think I do but won't try) so I'll just write the first ones to come to mind, but here are the Tarantino writer-director film credits:

Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Pulp Fiction
Inglourious Basterds
Django Unchained
Reservoir Dogs
The Hateful Eight
Jackie Brown
Death Proof


As far as Tony Scott goes, he definitely had great visual flair told through editing (like Edgar Wright, but in a different way). It's funny how often he collaborated with Denzel, and all of those flicks are stellar (the aforementioned Man on Fire, Deja Vu, The Taking of Pelham 123, and Unstoppable). Scott was taken from us too soon. Would have loved to see more of him today, for sure.

[Majingir]

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The phrase "famous last words".

When I was younger I never knew what that meant. For some reason I always thought it was something like "Phamus(spelling not important here) last words", as in theres a person(philosopher for some reason) who went by that name and it was some running gag where anytime someone makes a statement, people would use that phrase.

So that guy basically got turned into some Chuck Norris/Yakov Smirnoff type joke. Nobody knew his actual last words, so they'd always randomly fill in the blank.

[Caulfield]

Re: Things that took you way too long to realize....

The phrase "famous last words".

When I was younger I never knew what that meant. For some reason I always thought it was something like "Phamus(spelling not important here) last words", as in theres a person(philosopher for some reason) who went by that name and it was some running gag where anytime someone makes a statement, people would use that phrase.


So that guy basically got turned into some Chuck Norris/Yakov Smirnoff type joke. Nobody knew his actual last words, so they'd always randomly fill in the blank.

I just realised ''famous first words'' should be a thing. I, mean, wouldn't we all feel a little better about ourselves if we knew Einstein or Stephen Hawking's first words?

[Blzer]

Things that took you way too long to realize....

I’ve been singing the Bingo song incorrectly my whole life, apparently.

I thought it was: “There were some kids who had a dog...” and instead it’s “There was a farmer had a dog...”

That sentence doesn’t even make sense. Unless you use commas I guess, but the lyrics I just read on the bottom of the screen didn’t (doing songs with my baby nephew) so it was just weird. Plus, the video only had kids and no farmer, so I’m still somewhat perplexed.

Everyone else in my family always said “farmer.” I don’t know where I got “kids,” but I guess I’m the wrong one here.

[Caulfield]

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rewatching Die Hard for about the thousandth time right now. never noticed USC & Notre Dame were playing on Christmas Eve. WTH?

[Sportsforever]

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rewatching Die Hard for about the thousandth time right now. never noticed USC & Notre Dame were playing on Christmas Eve. WTH?

There is actually a lot of theories on why this is in the movie...but one of the most plausible, IMO, is that the original script was written with the movie centered around Thanksgiving, which is when the game actually occurred that year. The theory is that they later shifted the script to be centered on Christmas, but never went back to change the football game.

[Blzer]

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There is actually a lot of theories on why this is in the movie...but one of the most plausible, IMO, is that the original script was written with the movie centered around Thanksgiving, which is when the game actually occurred that year. The theory is that they later shifted the script to be centered on Christmas, but never went back to change the football game.

This probably happened around the time they were shooting the scene where Alan Rickman would have to say: "NOW I HAVE A MACHINE GUN. GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE!"

At that point, McTiernan likely yelled cut and demanded a rewrite.

[Caulfield]

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I guess the USC-ND game in Diehard is a rematch in the Sun Bowl lol