Movie Stuff You Only Now Just Realized - Part 7

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

Of all the live action movies, I can think of only one time where Batman uses a smoke pellet.

 

[gohei_]

Of all the live action movies, I can think of only one time where Batman uses a smoke pellet.

What do you mean? I seem to remember seeing it happen several Times.

 

[Guts]

What do you mean? I seem to remember seeing it happen several Times.

Of the 80s/90s Batman movies I only remember one time where he used a smoke pellet or bomb. When he's escaping from the police at Axis Chemicals. I don't remember him using smoke bombs in any of the Nolan movies. Batman did use a smoke bomb once in BvS as a distraction on Superman to hit him with a kryptonite smoke grenade.

 

[weezerspider]

Game Night, Date Night, Rough Night, and Bad Night all have similar premises about regular people accidentally getting caught up in crime due to mistaken identity.

That’s Hitchcock’s whole career.

 

[Dave McFly]

saw they were playing the 90s Dennis The Menace movie on the TVs at a local video store and I did not know that Natasha Lyonne played his babysitter and also the guy who played her boyfriend was Buzz from Home Alone.

 

[gohei_]

Of the 80s/90s Batman movies I only remember one time where he used a smoke pellet or bomb. When he's escaping from the police at Axis Chemicals. I don't remember him using smoke bombs in any of the Nolan movies. Batman did use a smoke bomb once in BvS as a distraction on Superman to hit him with a kryptonite smoke grenade.

I have a vague memory of him using it in BB, but I need to go and check to be certain.
He also uses smoke against Doomsday.

 

[Guts]

What is up with Henry Cavill fighting people in bathrooms?

 

[CJ]

Dug from Up makes a cameo in Ratatouille (His shadow can be seen barking at Remy)

 

[DawnWarrior]

Thanks to Josh Gad's "Reunited Apart" I found out that the one girl from Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Simone ("My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy...") was Kristy Swanson, the OG Buffy. Which means the other role I know her best from, The Chase with Charlie Sheen, pairs up two Bueller bit players to lead roles.

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

It's TV related but I just realized that actor Hiroyuki Sanada (Westworld and many other I saw) was Aiato in San Ku Kai (a StarWars rip of from Japan which was very popular in France).

 

[Jordacar]

In Captain America: The Winter Soldier, the song Nick Fury is blasting when he's hiding out in Cap's apartment is "It's Been a Long, Long Time", the same song that closes out Endgame.

 

[Drizzle]

Tim Burton has directed 19 films. Out of those, only five are wholly original and not based on previously existing IPs or remakes: Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Corpse Bride, and the biopics Ed Wood and Big Eyes. Not that there's anything wrong with that since he's got a great visual eye but I had thought he had done more original properties than that.

 

[DawnWarrior]

I would point to 'Nightmare Before Christmas' as well since that's spun from a short story Burton wrote himself. But of course he wasn't the director, Henry Sellick was, but that's mainly for technical reasons since Burton didn't know enough about directing stop-motion to do it on his own. (He learned enough from it to do Corpse Bride himself.) Still, I think it ought to count since Burton is still undeniably the creator of that whole world, those characters, that story, and his name is above the title.

 

[Schlosser85]

I would point to 'Nightmare Before Christmas' as well since that's spun from a short story Burton wrote himself. But of course he wasn't the director, Henry Sellick was, but that's mainly for technical reasons since Burton didn't know enough about directing stop-motion to do it on his own. (He learned enough from it to do Corpse Bride himself.) Still, I think it ought to count since Burton is still undeniably the creator of that whole world, those characters, that story, and his name is above the title.

I consider it a Tim Burton movie. It’s got “Tim Burton” written all over it.

 

[Drizzle]

I would point to 'Nightmare Before Christmas' as well since that's spun from a short story Burton wrote himself. But of course he wasn't the director, Henry Sellick was, but that's mainly for technical reasons since Burton didn't know enough about directing stop-motion to do it on his own. (He learned enough from it to do Corpse Bride himself.) Still, I think it ought to count since Burton is still undeniably the creator of that whole world, those characters, that story, and his name is above the title.

Fair enough. I didn't forget about Nightmare Before Christmas which is why I stated films he specifically directed but he did have a hand in it creatively through the whole process.

 

[chamber-music]

I noticed Maggie grace hilarious running in the taken movies. A twenty something actress playing a seventeen year old that runs like a toddler who just learned how to walk.

Also grace character goes to Europe to follow U2 on tour. A teenager in 2008 being a hardcore U2 fan might just be the least believable thing about the movie.

 

[Sundancer]

Kevin Hart is in 40 Year-Old Virgin

Bryan Cranston is in Saving Private Ryan

 

[gohei_]

I noticed Maggie grace hilarious running in the taken movies. A twenty something actress playing a seventeen year old that runs like a toddler who just learned how to walk.

Also grace character goes to Europe to follow U2 on tour. A teenager in 2008 being a hardcore U2 fan might just be the least believable thing about the movie.

This is way too funny lol.

 

[Sundancer]

If Aladdin had said "I wish to be rich" instead of "I wish to be a prince" and then simply pretended to be a prince the movie would have been exactly the same.

In other words, the genie did not make him a prince. If he did, then why is Aladdin so anxious about confessing he is not a prince?

 

[Schlosser85]

If Aladdin had said "I wish to be rich" instead of "I wish to be a prince" and then simply pretended to be a prince the movie would have been exactly the same.

In other words, the genie did not make him a prince. If he did, then why is Aladdin so anxious about confessing he is not a prince?

Also being some random rich guy or the son of such and such lord or whatever, seems an easier ruse to get away than specifically pretending to be the prince of a kingdom you’re making up and hoping nobody questions why they’ve never heard of it before.

 

[DawnWarrior]

That was one of the aspects of the live-action remake I did enjoy, what with the "gray area in Make Me a Prince" and "show me Agrabah on this map." It's clear that, even with genie magic, wishing yourself into a royal position is a dicey proposition because other people have to believe it.

But yeah, Aladdin could have wished for 10 chests of gold and then faked the rest of it like The Count of Monte Cristo.

 

[Schlosser85]

That was one of the aspects of the live-action remake I did enjoy, what with the "gray area in Make Me a Prince" and "show me Agrabah on this map." It's clear that, even with genie magic, wishing yourself into a royal position is a dicey proposition because other people have to believe it.

But yeah, Aladdin could have wished for 10 chests of gold and then faked the rest of it like The Count of Monte Cristo.

Yea, the Count of Monte Cristo is just pretending to be random mysterious foreign guy who's super-loaded, and he even sort of explains his wealth by letting hints slip to his enemies that he found the legendary treasure to reel them in.

 

[sueb1863]

Frank DeKova, who played Chief Wild Eagle on the TV show "F Troop", was also in the 1956 Cecil B. DeMille epic "The Ten Commandments". He played Abiram, brother to Edward G. Robinson's Dathan.

 

[Immortalfire]

Bryan Cranston plays Gus Grissom in That Thing You Do

 

[Immortalfire]

Sir Cedric Hardwicke plays Pharaoh Seti in The Ten Commandments, and also narrates The War of The Worlds (1953)