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Originally posted by Jackal Jackal wrote:

In the Shining,  how did Jack know Lloyd's name?

Literally only watched it there on the weekend. Hadn't seen it in years. 

I think it's because he was possessed by the hotel and its apparitions. . 
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Myers didn't take a body from the grave. He took the headstone, which appears later in the movie.

Laurie ran to a neighbour's house first, but they refused to answer the door. The only place she could get to with a phone was the babysitting house.


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Originally posted by irishmufc irishmufc wrote:

Originally posted by Jackal Jackal wrote:

In the Shining,  how did Jack know Lloyd's name?

Literally only watched it there on the weekend. Hadn't seen it in years. 

I think it's because he was possessed by the hotel and its apparitions. . 

Obviously explains better in the book, only shows a glimpse of it in the film but Jack finds a scrapbook earlier which has photos and stories of the hotel which he learns a lot of the back story, plus he's possessed by the hotel 


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In Taken Lian Neeson goes to visit that French Interior guy at his apartment late int he evening. The scene starts with the French lad coming int he door and announcing he is home and kissing his kids.  The next scene is he, his wife and Neeson are having dinner in a tense conversation whereby Neeson asks if yer man is involved in trafficking girls.

Yer man pulls a gun on Neeson only for there to be no bullets.  Neeson shoots his wife.  Yet there is no sign of the kids running around screaming.
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Also in Taken how is he able to fly home?   He has murdered about 30 lads Ermm
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The Thing.

The alien is able to construct a space-ship in a couple of days using parts laying about the base!

Makes MacGyver look like an amateur!
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So in Die Hard after the cop crashes his car hes walking back bloodied and beat up talking to Willis. We then see another cop attempting to dab his cut with a dressing of some sort. Cut to the next scene and hes miraculously brand new looking. Not a scratch or a drop of blood anywhere. Spic and span. Shoddy Ted Shoddy
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Originally posted by doherty doherty wrote:

So in Die Hard after the cop crashes his car hes walking back bloodied and beat up talking to Willis. We then see another cop attempting to dab his cut with a dressing of some sort. Cut to the next scene and hes miraculously brand new looking. Not a scratch or a drop of blood anywhere. Spic and span. Shoddy Ted Shoddy


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Best continuity error was the yellow Porsche in Commando.
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Pretty sure I posted in here before but how in Rocky does the ref not stop the fights.

He literally does not defend himself at times and is just getting punched in the face, any competent ref calls tko
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I love how about 80-90% of this thread is about Halloween LOL
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The McAllisters were supposed to get up at 8am for their flight in Home Alone. Given that they leave their house with just 45 minutes before the flight would suggest they slept in by quite a bit. Let's be kind and assume their flight was at, let's say, 2pm 

A flight from Chicago to Paris is around 8 hours.

When they realise they forgot Kevin over the Atlantic it's dark outside, which is a nice detail

When they get to Paris, however, it's broad daylight 

2pm Chicago time plus 8 hours is 10pm which means they would land in Paris at 5am in the morning 

John Hughes has dropped the ball big time here 
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In Forest Gump how did a lad who lost both legs get discharged before a lad shot in the ass.

Also when he was running where did he leave his clothes when he changed them? 
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In Die Hard in the final scene when Hans Guber is shot and then falls against the window smashing it and falling through it,  Surely to God the glass would have been super strong to prevent such an eventuality of someone in an office block falling against a window many stories up?  Flimsy shoddy glass!


Also what was Hans Grubers original plan when he took over the Nakatomi?  Say John McClane was never there.

The Jap lad wouldnt or couldnt give him the codes for the vault which they needed.  Had John McClane not been there there would never have been cop involvement.  Hans it appears needed the cops to cut the power to the building to open the vault.  The film suggests this was his masterplan all along.  Yet why when McClane originally calls the cops and also pulls the fire alarm Hans gets his cronies to call up and cancel the fire engines and cops??  If he needed to make this a terrorist incident surely he would have called the cops immediately himself declaring his demands upon taking the hostages?
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Originally posted by Trap junior Trap junior wrote:

In Die Hard in the final scene when Hans Guber is shot and then falls against the window smashing it and falling through it,  Surely to God the glass would have been super strong to prevent such an eventuality of someone in an office block falling against a window many stories up?  Flimsy shoddy glass!


Also what was Hans Grubers original plan when he took over the Nakatomi?  Say John McClane was never there.

The Jap lad wouldnt or couldnt give him the codes for the vault which they needed.  Had John McClane not been there there would never have been cop involvement.  Hans it appears needed the cops to cut the power to the building to open the vault.  The film suggests this was his masterplan all along.  Yet why when McClane originally calls the cops and also pulls the fire alarm Hans gets his cronies to call up and cancel the fire engines and cops??  If he needed to make this a terrorist incident surely he would have called the cops immediately himself declaring his demands upon taking the hostages?

The bullet he shoots Hans with hits the glass (you can can see it splinter after the shot)

He always planned for the police to get involved,  just not as possibly quick as they did hence why he cancelledthealarm (He even says it )

 "let Heinrich plant the detonators and Theo prepare the vault! After we call the police, they'll waste hours trying to negotiate then you can tear the building apart looking for this man, but until then, we DO NOT ALTER THE PLAN!"

So the plan was always to get the police involved,  asking for international groups to be released would make it an international incident hence why they would involve the FBI, who would in turn cut the power 


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Originally posted by lassassinblanc lassassinblanc wrote:

Originally posted by Trap junior Trap junior wrote:

In Die Hard in the final scene when Hans Guber is shot and then falls against the window smashing it and falling through it,  Surely to God the glass would have been super strong to prevent such an eventuality of someone in an office block falling against a window many stories up?  Flimsy shoddy glass!


Also what was Hans Grubers original plan when he took over the Nakatomi?  Say John McClane was never there.

The Jap lad wouldnt or couldnt give him the codes for the vault which they needed.  Had John McClane not been there there would never have been cop involvement.  Hans it appears needed the cops to cut the power to the building to open the vault.  The film suggests this was his masterplan all along.  Yet why when McClane originally calls the cops and also pulls the fire alarm Hans gets his cronies to call up and cancel the fire engines and cops??  If he needed to make this a terrorist incident surely he would have called the cops immediately himself declaring his demands upon taking the hostages?

The bullet he shoots Hans with hits the glass (you can can see it splinter after the shot)

He always planned for the police to get involved,  just not as possibly quick as they did hence why he cancelledthealarm (He even says it )

 "let Heinrich plant the detonators and Theo prepare the vault! After we call the police, they'll waste hours trying to negotiate then you can tear the building apart looking for this man, but until then, we DO NOT ALTER THE PLAN!"

So the plan was always to get the police involved,  asking for international groups to be released would make it an international incident hence why they would involve the FBI, who would in turn cut the power 




I see.  Thats plausable.  So they just hadnt put the detonators ont he roof was that it?   Ok.

Why didn't they just turn off the power in the building themselves to open the vault?  For a crack team just bring an expert electrician.  I'm sure there's a master switch in every building.
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Originally posted by Trap junior Trap junior wrote:

Originally posted by lassassinblanc lassassinblanc wrote:

Originally posted by Trap junior Trap junior wrote:

In Die Hard in the final scene when Hans Guber is shot and then falls against the window smashing it and falling through it,  Surely to God the glass would have been super strong to prevent such an eventuality of someone in an office block falling against a window many stories up?  Flimsy shoddy glass!


Also what was Hans Grubers original plan when he took over the Nakatomi?  Say John McClane was never there.

The Jap lad wouldnt or couldnt give him the codes for the vault which they needed.  Had John McClane not been there there would never have been cop involvement.  Hans it appears needed the cops to cut the power to the building to open the vault.  The film suggests this was his masterplan all along.  Yet why when McClane originally calls the cops and also pulls the fire alarm Hans gets his cronies to call up and cancel the fire engines and cops??  If he needed to make this a terrorist incident surely he would have called the cops immediately himself declaring his demands upon taking the hostages?

The bullet he shoots Hans with hits the glass (you can can see it splinter after the shot)

He always planned for the police to get involved,  just not as possibly quick as they did hence why he cancelledthealarm (He even says it )

 "let Heinrich plant the detonators and Theo prepare the vault! After we call the police, they'll waste hours trying to negotiate then you can tear the building apart looking for this man, but until then, we DO NOT ALTER THE PLAN!"

So the plan was always to get the police involved,  asking for international groups to be released would make it an international incident hence why they would involve the FBI, who would in turn cut the power 




I see.  Thats plausable.  So they just hadnt put the detonators ont he roof was that it?   Ok.

Why didn't they just turn off the power in the building themselves to open the vault?  For a crack team just bring an expert electrician.  I'm sure there's a master switch in every building.

Yep, they needed the explosives set up.

In terms of the lock, there is another quote were Theo explained that the last lock was out of his control as it was controlled off site hence why they needed it cut from outside.

The circuits that cannot be cut are cut automatically in response to a terrorist incident. You asked for miracles, Theo, I give you the F.B.I.

It is true though why they didn't have a guy outside to do it when needed but that would have probably been too risky as they used open signal radios, if they rang some lad saying "hey cut the power " the police would have been on him in a flash
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