Movie Stuff You Only Now Just Realized - Part 7

[gohei_]

The other day I learned that Tim Drake was planned to feature in Batman Returns, they even had an action figure ready that they released.

 

[DawnWarrior]

^I got that action figure for Christmas as a kid. I knew he wasn't in the movie, but it was still a cool looking toy.

 

[Batmannerism]

Rewatched Shazam, it dropped on Netflix NZ today.

Just noticed that when the Shazam family do their first big pose Freddy gives Dr Sivana the finger... lmfao.

 

[Schlosser85]

I kinda want to rewatch Shazam.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Not exactly what the thread is about but couldn't think of another place to put this:

 

[Batmannerism]

Elizabeth Debicki plays pretty much exactly the same character in TENET as she does in the Night Manager.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

I don't know if this is on purpose or not but... There's some odd vibing between Wonder Woman 1984 and Commando.

 

[Batmannerism]

I don't know if this is on purpose or not but... There's some odd vibing between Wonder Woman 1984 and Commando.

Wonder if it's the same mall - although you can't have that real 80s vibe without acknowledging the rise of shopping malls.

 

[DawnWarrior]

^X-Men Apocalypse and Stranger Things certainly understood that.

 

[Dave McFly]

a young Kaley Cuoco played Kelly Lynch's daughter in Virtuosity wow.

 

[Immortalfire]

During their face to face meetings in The Dark Knight, neither Batman nor Joker refer to one another by name.

 

[Batmannerism]

This is a TV "just realised" so I might move it over to the TV thread, but I thought I'd share it here first to get the reactions from you fine connoisseurs of film.

Okay, I never really got into Game of Thrones ( yeah, me and 3 other people in New Zealand, 1 of whom lives in a cave) .

Anyway, because I love a good duel scene I just watched the Mountain vs Oberyn Martell on youtube.

While watching it, I noticed that Oberyn keeps repeating the lines about the Mountain killing his sister, raping her and killing her children.

"Say it. You raped her. You murdered her. ... You killed her children!"

Anyway, this must have been back before the writers started hating their audience, because as I watched it, it somehow felt very familiar.

Then I realised it's a very dark parody of the famous Inigo Montoya speech from Princess Bride
"Hello my name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die"

(Oberyn's hispanic looks and accent only strengthen this impression). Given then similarities I can only assume this was intentional - so very clever, and disturbing.

No doubt serious GOT fans figured this out ages ago, but it only dawned on me five minutes ago.

 

[Babillygunn]

Two things:
(1) the guy who played Randall Flagg in the 1994 The Stand also played Oliver Queen’s dad in the flashbacks in season one of Arrow.

and

(2) in Thelma and Louise, the cop who was locked in the trunk in the desert was never released. He probably died an excruciatingly slow and painful death by dehydration and heat stroke, and he didn’t deserve that at all.

 

[Drizzle]

I'm just now realizing that pretty much everything Eddie Redmayne has been in is a period piece. People joke that Keira Knightley has done the same thing but at even she'll do a Seeking a Friend For The End of the World or a Begin Again every so often. What's the deal, Redmayne?

 

[Dave McFly]

Garcelle Beauvais who was Jamie Foxx's love interest/girlfriend on The Jamie Foxx Show played the first lady to his president in White House Down.

 

[Batmannerism]

I'm just now realizing that pretty much everything Eddie Redmayne has been in is a period piece. People joke that Keira Knightley has done the same thing but at even she'll do a Seeking a Friend For The End of the World or a Begin Again every so often. What's the deal, Redmayne?

Jupiter Ascending ?

 

[DyeLorean]

Didn't realize until a few months ago that Gal Gadot was in a couple of Fast & Furious movies.

 

[Batmannerism]

Didn't realize until a few months ago that Gal Gadot was in a couple of Fast & Furious movies.

Yeah, her acting in those films isn't terribly memorable.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Yeah, her acting in those films isn't terribly memorable.

Yeah but... No ones' is.

Does anyone have fond memories of the character Charlize Theron played in one? And while I like Gadot as WW I know that she isn't on the same level as Theron... And Theron's performance and character is basically in one ear and out the other for us all I think.

Tis' the nature of the beast.

That said... FF probably also got Gadot Diana given how popular those films are.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

So...

Chaplin from 1992 has Tony Stark as the lead along with appearances by Agent Mulder, Odin, Martha Kent, Ray Stantz, Leeloo, Aunt May and was directed by John Hammond.

 

[Batmannerism]

Yeah but... No ones' is.

Does anyone have fond memories of the character Charlize Theron played in one? And while I like Gadot as WW I know that she isn't on the same level as Theron... And Theron's performance and character is basically in one ear and out the other for us all I think.

Tis' the nature of the beast.

That said... FF probably also got Gadot Diana given how popular those films are.

Oh come on, clearly Vin Diesel was robbed by not being nominated for Best Acto.....okay I can't even say that without falling over laughing.

I remember this Kevin Kline movie from the 90s where he's this uptight drama teacher and one of his students, played by Matt Dillon ( remember him?) Wins an oscar and one of the other nominees is " Steven Seagal for Snowball in Hell"
it's a very sly throwaway gag, but I think of it every time some action star's wooden acting is talked about.
I have no doubt that Gadot got the exposure from FnF to move on to better things...yes that is a double entendre referring to her bikini scene.

She was awesome as Wonder Woman, and pretty mediocre at everything else , but who cares ?

 

[samsnee]

Portia de Rossi was a sorority girl in Scream 2. Must have been before her nose job.

 

[DawnWarrior]

Jennifer Garner pretty much only plays characters who are mothers now.

 

[DawnWarrior]

'Princess Bride' and 'Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid,' which are both written by Willaim Goldman, both have that scene where somebody's being followed, and every time they see that the enemy is still on their tail, they keep saying the same thing. For 'Bride' it's Vizzini's "Inconceivable!" while for Butch and Sundance it's "Who are those guys?"

 

[Batmannerism]

Stephen Lang, who played the super badass colonel in Avatar also played the weasley, scumbag cowboy thug, Ike Clanton in Tombstone.