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In real chess, if I have (say) a bishop on A3 and you have a piece on D6, and I want to use my bishop to capture your piece, my bishop will end up on D6, the space previously occupied by your piece. And according to the books, Wizard chess has exactly the same rules as Muggle chess, with the only difference being that the pieces are animate. But in the scene in the movie, the capturing piece was stopping one space short of the piece it captured, so my bishop that started on A3 would end up on C5, not D6.
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I see now. I read your statement…
…to mean that HP’s chess did occupy the space of the piece taken–and shouldn’t have. I see what you mean now.
[QUOTE=CalMeacham]
More to the point, how does the T-1000 get through in Terminator II? He doesn’t have asny flesh on him – he’s all liquid metal.
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Good point.
[QUOTE=Skammer]
To continue the smallpox hijack, I was born in 1969 (in California) and have the scar. My brother, born sixteen months later in 1970, does not.
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I was born in Canada in 1972 and I have the smallpox vaccine scar.
[QUOTE=Rocketeer]
I think this is apocryphal. I’ve been watching a lot of the old (George Reeves) Superman TV show episodes lately, and I haven’t seen this scene.
I did, however, see the opposite–a scene in which the baddy runs out of bullets, and prepares to throw his gun at Superman. Superman fixes him with a steely gaze and asks if he really thinks that’s going to do any good.
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This was animated. Actually it may have even been on the show intro because I remember seeing it enough that I went through the whole sequence of finding it strange-stupid-funny-stupider-funnier-stupiderer-hilarious. And it was one of those things that would get always mentioned every time someone mentioned Superman.
In Bad Boys (the Sean Penn/Esai Morales one, not the Will Smith/Martin Lawrence one), during the climatic fight scene in the prison between Penn and Morales, they switch to a shot of the other prisoners cheering on the fighters. Sitting smack dab in the middle of the frame, in front of all those prisoners, was another camera man filming the fight.
I must have seen that movie a dozen times, and I never noticed it until the director pointed it out on the movie’s commentary track.
[QUOTE=The New and Improved Superman] the Relic
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…a ship bound for NYC when he turns into a monster, and when the ship crashes into the NYC harbor, the monster manages to slip into subterranean tunnels that lead from the harbor directly into the Museum of Natural History.
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To my knowledge, there are no tunnels leading from the (mostly unused and converted into recreation parks) Manhattan piers to the Museum of Natural History.
The museum depicted does not in any way look like the actual Museum of Natural History in Manhattan (This I’d be willing to overlook in a better movie.)
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It doesn’t look like New York because it’s supposed to be Chicago! (And there’s a huge network of tunnels there.)
(Follow MouseMaven’s link)
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ON the TV series Batman, I often wondered how the Batmobile’s tires squealed as it started from a dead-stop. Wasn’t it jet powered?
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I love The Relic – it’s completely stupid, but lovable. It’s based on a stupid but lovable book by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Childs, who have co-written lots of stupid but lovable books (including a sequel to The Relic, “Reliquary”). The movie, as usual, is stupider than the book.
One of the authors wrote a history of the American Museum of Natural History, and so was familiar with that grand and ancient pile, and evidently couldn’t resist the notion of a monster haunting the museum. In the book, IIRC, they changed the name. In the movie, IIRC, they shifted the scene to Chicago (although the muaseum clearly isn’t, and isn’t meant to be taken as, the Field Museum). So your objection about the lack of a way for the Beast to get from the piers to the museum in New York holds no weight. It had to get to the museum from the Chicago wharves. (Actually, I don’t recall anywhere that it had to get from piers to the museum entuirely underground – my recollection was that it found its way from the docks to the tunnels, and from there to the museum.)
As for the second point, as I said, it’s not suppopsed to be the AMNH, and it’s even in a different city. I point out that, in a better movie – Night in the Museum – the action is obviously supposed to be set in the AMNH (and they even shot exterior scenes there), but the interior scenes don’t match the AMNH at all, and are clearlt sets. They show plenty of exhibits you’d never find at the AMNH.
Points three and four are, of course, quite ridiculous. It’s movie sloppy shorthand for a dramatic solution and revelation at the end. This doesn’t nmean thay had to do it that way, and that it isn’t stupid. It’s typical movie treatment, and it is definitely bad.
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ON the TV series Batman, I often wondered how the Batmobile’s tires squealed as it started from a dead-stop. Wasn’t it jet powered?
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I am always annoyed by the Incredibly Roomy Submarine. You know the one with the large hatchways, spacious cabins. long hallways,and conveniently large airducts to crawl though. ANd when the enemy agent has to avoid the search parties looking for him, the empty rooms he can duck into.
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I am always annoyed by the Incredibly Roomy Submarine. You know the one with the large hatchways, spacious cabins. long hallways,and conveniently large airducts to crawl though. ANd when the enemy agent has to avoid the search parties looking for him, the empty rooms he can duck into.
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And it seems that every time Kowalski goes to the storage hold, he turns into a werewolf.
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One of the authors wrote a history of the American Museum of Natural History, and so was familiar with that grand and ancient pile, and evidently couldn’t resist the notion of a monster haunting the museum. In the book, IIRC, they changed the name. In the movie, IIRC, they shifted the scene to Chicago (although the muaseum clearly isn’t, and isn’t meant to be taken as, the Field Museum). So your objection about the lack of a way for the Beast to get from the piers to the museum in New York holds no weight.
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Well all right, I happened to look at the link Mouse Maven provided, which indeed states it’s the Chicago museum, not NYC. So I concede that. But I have to ask - do ships originating from South America frequently dock in Chicago ports - which are in Lake Michigan, and hundreds of miles away from any ocean? Assuming that they do (which I doubt in this day & age of interstate throughway trucking), the plot outline from Mouse Maven’s link states that the ship crashes into the harbor with the entire crew missing / dead. So, if this monster was rampaging through the ship eating people, how in the world did the ship get from South America to Lake Michigan - navigating not just the ocean but miles of canals or rivers w/o a crew? And perhaps in the time of ‘Nosferatu’, the crew of a ship at sea might be helpless against a rampaging monster, but this film takes place in 1997. Couldn’t the crew have at least radioed an SOS at some point?
That’s why I love this stupid movie.
And that’s without inquiring into the insane evolutionary logic that would produce a plant like this in the first place.
I love the fact that the m,onster has to eat the pituitary gland. It’s straight outta the 1960 cheapie The Leech Woman.
In The Stand, Stephen King’s miniseries from 1994, Stu (played by Gary Sinise) and his sidekick are walking on a road in Kansas (or somewhere), on their way to meet the other survivors. A pickup truck appears, coming towards them from the other way. It stops, and the driver says “where you going?” Stu responds that they are going to meet the survivors. The driver says “I’m going there, too. Hop in.” Stu and his sidekick promptly do so, and the pickup truck starts up and drives off…
Back the way Stu had come from.
I was already irritated with the miniseries by that point, and this glaring continuity error made up my mind; I turned the TV off.
On further recollection, the scene from The Stand was even worse than I described. Stu and his sidekick were walking along the road, and the pickup truck came up behind them. It stops, they all realize they are going to the same place, Stu and his sidekick get in.
The pickup truck then turns around.
Everyone, apparently, was going the wrong way before they met each other.
In The Legend of Zorro, Z casts his vote for California statehood, fights uniformed conspirators from the Confederacy, and saves the day just in time for President Lincoln to personally welcome California into the Union. All this takes place within a span of about two months.
Of course, California became a state in 1850–eleven years before Honest Abe took office–and Millard Fillmore was president at the time. Not quite the top-notch history lesson I expect from a Zorro movie.
