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Leithan Donating Member (222 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-11 02:06 PM
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I'm SICK and TIRED of movie characters turning their backs on explosions!
You know what I'm talking about: They keep on walking as a HUGE explosion occurs right behind them. They never look back.

Maybe I'm just being paranoid, but, when I watch one of these physically (and physiologically) ridiculous scenes, I cannot help but think of neocon wingnuts fucking up a situation, or a whole damn COUNTRY, and then blithely walking away as though nothing had happened. End of rant.
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-11 02:07 PM
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1. neocons have been allowed to walk away, no one has confronted them
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Codeine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-11 02:09 PM
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2. But,
Cool Guys Don't Look at Explosions!
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-11 02:17 PM
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Hannah Bell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-11 02:21 PM
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17. funny
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SidDithers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-11 02:34 PM
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22. You're quick...
was just going link hunting :)

Sid
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ProdigalJunkMail Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-11 02:09 PM
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3. What a fucking thing to get wound up about...
or make an association out of...

sP
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sufrommich Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-11 02:09 PM
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4. ............
Welcome to DU. :eyes:
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-11 02:10 PM
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5. It's as bad a cliché as "Nooooooo!" from a crane shot
If you see it in the trailer, you can be sure you're not missing anything.
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kenny blankenship Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-11 02:10 PM
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6. I'm tired of pregnant silences
Learn to keep your legs CLOSED, silence!
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sufrommich Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-11 02:12 PM
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8. And Jumbo Shrimp! What the hell,man? nt
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Oldtimeralso Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-11 02:17 PM
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13. And Giant Sales
Who In the hell could afford to feed a giant with the price of food now!
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uppityperson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-11 06:46 PM
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40. And Free Gifts. I mean, wtf?
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Hello_Kitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-11 02:18 PM
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15. LOL!
:spray:
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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-11 02:11 PM
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7. How else are you going to get that killer shot...
Where the hero winces whilst he's being hurled forward a few hundred feet.
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slackmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-11 02:12 PM
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9. Real people usually react to explosions in one of two ways, depending on the situation
They laugh at harmless ones, and have a fight-or-flight reaction from ones that cause damage.
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Warren DeMontague Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-11 02:12 PM
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10. I think you're reading too much into it.
It's a visual, albeit a cliched one. That's all.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-11 07:09 PM
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KansDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-11 02:14 PM
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11. I agree...
I like drama as much as the next person, but melodrama is a different matter...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqz5dbs5zmo
...such stoic faces.
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villager Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-11 02:17 PM
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14. your good analogy mysteriously unrecc'd (by an "arsonist sympathizer" of neocons?)
n/t
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sufrommich Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-11 02:21 PM
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18. Although I don't consider myself an "arsonist sympathizer",
I unrecced it because it makes DU look stupid.
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villager Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-11 02:39 PM
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25. point taken, but as someone who writes about special effects, trust me, it was a good analogy
n/t
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-11 03:06 PM
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28. I thought it was a clever simile about political events.
:shrug:
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sufrommich Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-11 04:47 PM
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32. Perhaps if Leithan wouldn't have posted and ran we'd know .
The "guy in movie runs from explosion and doesn't get hurt" has been an internet joke for some time.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NonFatalExplosions
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-11 05:28 PM
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33. I judge each post by the content not what I know or don't know about the poster.
But I see your point. Hmm.
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Gold Metal Flake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-11 02:20 PM
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16. Your concern is noted.
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elias49 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-11 02:22 PM
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19. Lots of funny stuff in the movies. Like always fastening seatbelts..
doesn't matter if Jason w/the hockey mask is on their trail.
cars making squealing-rubber sounds as they tear up a dirt driveway
drivers turning to look at their passenger for 5 or 6 seconds as they drive a (sometimes) busy road.
What a gas! I can't tell you how many times I reminded my kids, as young drivers, that YOU DON'T make eye contact and stare into your lover's eyes when you're driving.
Jeez...movies!
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UnrepentantLiberal Donating Member (747 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-11 06:31 PM
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37. Or hitting a hidden ramp and flipping over
sideways. Is that a stunt man union requirement for all action movies?

And automobiles don't explode unless hit from behind. (Which is the one time cars never explode in the movies. Like when 10 cop cars pile up when chasing the Blues Brothers or Burt Reynolds.)
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Tesha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-11 06:40 PM
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39. Hey! What about that Pinto in "Top Secret"?
Edited on Tue Feb-08-11 06:42 PM by Tesha
"Ping."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT0J0rcJTLo

Tesha
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UnrepentantLiberal Donating Member (747 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-11 06:48 PM
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41. Doesn't apply.
Nicolas Cage and Bruce Willis aren't in the movie.
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-11 02:24 PM
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20. Uh, turn off the TeeVee maybe?
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cayanne Donating Member (682 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-11 02:32 PM
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21. Why is this in GD?
It should be in the lounge or the Entertainment thread. For those of us who come here to find out what is going on don't care that this makes you sick and tired. So, why waste my time?
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-11 03:04 PM
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27. Oh Hell, it's the Forum Cops!! Eat your stash, everyone!!11!!
:P

Like 90% of the stuff in GD isn't meaningless whining, too. :rofl:
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cayanne Donating Member (682 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-11 03:10 PM
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29. That's true AND
why my donations to DU aren't as high as they used to be. It takes way too long to read through all this crap now.

Very childish, kinda like you.
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-11 03:35 PM
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30. Gee, up until that last line I was in agreement with you.
The last line made made me know you were right! Nothing says mature like posting that a thread should be moved because it bothers you. Most immature people would just ignore what they didn't like, or click on the X, or something childish like that. :applause: to you, sir! Or madame! I could check but I have to go clean my play pen.
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UnrepentantLiberal Donating Member (747 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-11 09:16 AM
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45. Like, Kicked and Reced,
Man.
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Obamanaut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-11 05:51 PM
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36. The subject line itself suggested a thread of little substance, so why did
you even click on it? Just pass on by.

No offense meant to the OP, just an observation with a question.

'Hide thread' feature, that little x in the box on the subject line works well also.
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yawnmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-11 02:35 PM
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23. it's to protect their eyes from small pieces of blast stuff. eom
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WiffenPoof Donating Member (676 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-11 02:36 PM
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24. LOLOLOLOLOL
I noticed an increase in this phenomenon about two weeks ago. I didn't think anyone else saw this.

-PLA
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On the Road Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-11 02:40 PM
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26. If the Character in Question Caused the Explosion,
there is a certain place for that sort of scene, but it is way overused for dramatic effect. If you want to act innocent, don't react like you expected things to blow up.
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-11 03:37 PM
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31. Bush and Reagan were media creations, so it's appropriate for them to turn their backs. nt
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booley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-11 05:35 PM
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34. isn't this also physically impossible?
O rat least unlikely?

Huge explosion means huge shock wave.

And here the hero is, standing all tall, providing a nice big target for that shock wave ot hit and push around like a paper doll.
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Maru Kitteh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-11 05:36 PM
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35. Dude. Sometimes a cigar is JUST A CIGAR.
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butterfly77 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-11 06:35 PM
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38. Like gov rick perry...
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quinnox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-11 07:10 PM
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43. LOL
I know, its like its a mandatory requirement to have that scene in any movie with an action scene these days..
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snot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-09-11 04:17 AM
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44. Hey. When we're immersed in media-based brainwashing, deconstruction helps!
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