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Horror movie where people get drunk on and forced to drink blood
This is a horror movie that I can't remember the title of. All I can remember is that the action happened in a castle or mansion. The people of this place got seemingly drunk on blood for some reason. ...
3
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1answer
498 views
Why does Dan feed and play with the monkeys?
In Zero Dark Thirty, the audience observes Dan playfully interacting with monkeys in a cage on the base in Pakistan. He jokes with them and feeds them ice cream.
While I think this may be character ...
8
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2answers
360 views
Where was the Hulk during the events of Iron Man 3?
After the Avengers, Tony Stark drives off with the Hulk, hinting at them working together. There were references in between the movie where Stark offers Bruce Banner a chance to work with him. Also ...
6
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1answer
177 views
What happened to Agent K to make him so grumpy and emotionless?
After seeing Men in Black III, I still don't understand why K became such a cranky, stoical figure. It is a question even Agent J was puzzled about!
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1answer
605 views
Explanation of the ending of Frozen Day
I recently watched Frozen Day, an Israel movie where a woman survives a suicide bombing. She later visits the hospital and identified her friend who is in a coma. She started living in his apartment ...
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1answer
901 views
Does Bane's voice change in this scene because of plot?
There's a part in The Dark Knight Rises that's stumped me - it sounds like Bane's voice is suddenly and significantly changed (beyond his normal post-production mask-speak). It sticks out to me so ...
8
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276 views
Why is a casino token used as payment in Skyfall?
In Skyfall movie Bond fights an assassin and captures a casino token in the assassin's stuff which he later cashes out. Clearly the token is used as payment for the assassination. Note that ...
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53 views
Did McGee and Abby ever get into a relationship?
In season two of NCIS, there seems to be a "thing" between Abby and McGee although this is never specifically stated.
In the season two episode "Twilight", Abby says that "McGee didn't just sleep in ...
6
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2answers
180 views
Why was SHIELD noticeably missing from Iron Man 3?
I thought Iron Man 3 'felt' a little odd without any presence from SHIELD (Director Nick Fury and company). The US President is kidnapped and they're not concerned? So why didn't they appear?
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423 views
Why did the pipe explode in The Shawshank Redemption?
I have a question regarding the end of The Shawshank Redemption when Red is narrating Andy's escape - can some one explain why the pipe erupts when Andy breaks it when he is escaping from Shawshank?
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95 views
In Primer, did they really need to do the time travelling themselves?
Is there any reason given either in the movie, or by any of its many analysts, why Abe and Aaron must make the 6 hour trip backwards themselves?
Could they not have designed an intelligent device, ...
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207 views
Daniel Day Lewis Quote in Last of the Mohicans
In The Last of the Mohicans, Hawkeye, played by Daniel Day Lewis, appears out of the forest to save the Major from a raiding party of Indians. When the Major grabs a gun and is about to fire at one of ...
16
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456 views
Help identifying a very old children's VHS?
I don't have a whole lot to go on here, but I am trying to identify a very old children's VHS. I would have seen the VHS in the very early 90's, but I believe the actual short films were from the 50's ...
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273 views
Movie where jury gets swapped just before a trial begins?
I was having a chat this morning about jury duty and I thought of a scene from a film.
The set up is that whoever is being tried in this case has the jury paid off, and the prosecutor or cops ...
4
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2answers
163 views
Movie with word play in the beginning?
I have seen this clip a very long time ago and I think it was actually from the beginning of a comedy.
There is a man (called Jack) sitting in a car and a few guys walk by saying "hi". Then another ...
4
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1answer
787 views
Did Adam Sandler name the film 'Little Nicky' after the character in Twin Peaks?
In the year 2000, Adam Sandler, Tim Hirlihy an Steven Brill wrote the film 'Little Nicky', in which the title character was the son of the Devil.
A character in the TV series Twin Peaks was also ...
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1answer
827 views
In 10000 BC, is the Persian-like civilization connected to any real history?
I have watched 10,000BC and have understood the story. But I am curious as to whether the Persian-like Pyramid-building civilization has any link to a real civilization that have existed during those ...
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2answers
435 views
Are there different endings to Cloverfield?
In particular, I'm talking about the scene at the very end, where the camera is on the happy couple in the ferris wheel. The first time I watched it, my friend pointed out the faint streak that ...
8
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1answer
181 views
Why doesn't Joey move back to the bigger apartment in Friends?
In the very popular TV Series Friends, the character Joey Tribbiani moves out from his small apartment (where he lived with Chandler) to a very big and expensive place when he gets a role in the soap ...
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2answers
363 views
Is John Keating to blame for Neil's suicide?
At the end of the movie John Keating is accused of making Neil come up against his father and outing his own dreams ("Carpe diem!") which ultimately leads to him commiting suicide.
Was Keating really ...
10
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2answers
246 views
What is the science behind making actors appear different?
Captain America, Lord of The Rings and The Social Network have each used a technique where an actor has either been shrunk down (Captain America & LoTR) or completely replaced by a face (Captain ...
3
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2answers
280 views
Is the brain sequence similar to reality or not?
In Saw 3 a sequence is shown where Dr. Lynn Denlon performs a operation on John (Jigsaw) using a drill and other similar tools.
My first question is, how can they perform an operation where hardware ...
4
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2answers
181 views
Which episodes of Twin Peaks mention the concept of 'tulpa'?
I'm pretty sure the concept of a 'tulpa' from Tibetan mysticism appeared in the TV series 'Twin Peaks' and I'm trying to find references and if possible the exact quote.
I think it was Agent Cooper ...
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2answers
342 views
What were the sea shells for in Demolition Man?
The three shells used in the toilets even confused poor ol' Sylvester, how were they used?
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1answer
214 views
Ending of Half Light
At the end of Half Light (2006), Angus commits suicide by jumping from the top of the lighthouse. Is he the ghost Angus McCulloch, or the real person who pretended to be the ghost? I got a bit ...
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0answers
121 views
Ending of Chrysalis
At the end of Chrysalis (2007), it turns out that the real daughter of Professor Brügen, Manon Brügen, lies on the bed in a coma at her mother's clinic. So who is the healthy girl? Is she another ...
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2answers
289 views
TV series about a suburban town digging up a space ship?
It was on TV in the US about 10 years ago, it is a mystery with some sci-fi/horror elements.
The people in a suburban city start acting weird (possessed/influenced). They would go out at night and ...
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2answers
330 views
Walking around someone who is moving in Slow Motion?
In the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" series musical episode, "Once More With Feeling", during the Giles and Buffy fight montage (Song: 'Standing in the Way') there is a scene where Buffy is hitting a ...
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2answers
708 views
Killing them softly: explanation of the allegory
The Brad Pitt film, Killing them softly, is an allegory of 2008's subprime economic crisis. I'd like to know who each of the characters in the film is supposed to represent in relation to the crisis. ...
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1answer
105 views
Was the Silence Prophecy fulfilled in The Name of the Doctor?
On the fields of Trenzalore, at the fall of the Eleventh, when no
living creature may speak falsely or fail to give answer, a question
will be asked. A question that must never, ever be ...
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2answers
131 views
Why was this movie called 'The Brothers Bloom'?
This has bugged me since I saw the movie. Why was the movie called 'The Brothers Bloom'?
The brothers are Stephen and Bloom. We are never given their last names and the credits don't show a last ...
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2answers
280 views
English puns in OSS 117, Cairo Nest of Spies?
In the movie, OSS 117, Cairo Nest of Spies, the spy defeats two Russians and the subtitles say something along the lines of
They were "Russian" at me
This makes sense in English, but the movie ...
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1answer
506 views
Was Transformers 3 once named “Dark Side of the Moon”?
I just noticed that Transformers 3 is named: "Dark of the Moon". I've never seen the movie, but I firmly believe that the trailers named it "Dark Side of the Moon".
Was it renamed at a later date, ...
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199 views
Is Dogville inspired from Hitchcock's Rear Window?
Watching these 2 movies I found similarities between them. The visual city in Dogville reminds me of Rear Window, where the hero is watching to everything from his window.
Is this a case of an ...
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3answers
421 views
What weighs toward the decision to ignore gravity in Melancholia?
Melancholia is a realistic "what-if" science fiction, set in roughly the time we live in. The whole plot is centered around the concept of this planet approaching. Being what it is, why would they ...
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3answers
227 views
Identify these plot elements from Tarzan movies
I recently re-watched Tarzan and his Mate (1934), and the surprisingly violent content in it reminded me of a couple of fragmented images that I would like to track down from other Tarzan films.
The ...
7
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2answers
231 views
First movie that collaborated with fast-food outlets?
In 1984, the movie Gremlins teamed up with Hardees to sell a set of LPs that came along with the movie:
Each week a different record would be sold, thus, each week, parents had to take their ...
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1answer
452 views
Why cutting an 'X' into ammunition?
I have seen this in a lot of movies and noticed it again now in "Taxi Driver". There is a scene where Robert De Niro cuts an 'X' into his pistol rounds with a knife.
I don't know much about weapons, ...
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1answer
459 views
A movie about a bank robbery?
I remember watching this movie at least 12 years ago.
It involves a guy sending letters to his criminal associates detailing a planned robbery. After he has posted them, he gets arrested.
Then the ...
7
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1answer
410 views
Disney movie with a teenage android?
I remember watching a movie on TV when I was a kid, so in the mid- to late-80's. I expect it was a Disney movie, as at that age the majority of movies I watched were on the "Sunday Night Disney Movie" ...
10
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1answer
506 views
Kids that fight troll-like monsters with water guns filled with milk?
I remember watching this kids movie where they are being attacked by some sort of trollish type monsters/creatures and they could only be defeated by using water guns filled with milk to shoot them ...
10
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2answers
351 views
Are movie production companies hiring people to rate their movies on IMDB?
I noticed that older movies with a 7 - 7.5 rating are really good, while 2012 movies with that rating are quite bad, and they would most likely be rated 4 - 5.5 in 2004 for example :)
Also newer ...
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4answers
381 views
Why does James Bond use his real name?
In the James Bond universe most characters go by a code name M, Q, the various 00s, In Skyfall Silva is a made up name. Others such as Tanner, Robinson and Moneypenny, Trevelyan we're not so sure but ...
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When did each Horcrux get destroyed in the Harry Potter movies?
I have just watched the last of the Harry Potter movies for the second time on a long flight and my brain was addled through lack of sleep. As far as I remember, three of the eight horcruxes were ...
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1answer
275 views
Did James May, Richard Hammond and Jeremy Clarkson really find out the source of the river Nile in BBC TopGear?
Did they?
In season 19, the African Special, they go on to find the true source of the river Nile theorizing that Lake Victoria isn't the actual source as experts suggest but even farther east ...
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1answer
60 views
The Simpsons - Episode Identification
What was that episode where we hear Bart's thoughts as a man about Homer in voice over while the camera starts taking a close up of Bart as a kid, just before the voice is interrupted by Homer, asking ...
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1answer
112 views
Why did Frodo need to go it alone, leaving Aragorn and Legolas behind?
Why does Frodo have to fly solo without the others at the end of The Fellowship of the Ring? Especially Aragorn and Legolas both seem like incredible assassins/bodyguards and basically immune to the ...
2
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1answer
58 views
Who is the Lady of the Wood, and what's her relationship to the rest of the elves?
In The Fellowship of the Ring the group meets the Lady of the Woods during their trip. But who is she and what's her relationship with the rest of the elves. For example Legolas didn't look like he ...
6
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1answer
211 views
Why doesn't the restaurant resemble an actual Cheesecake Factory?
Since the early days of the Big Bang Theory, Penny's character (and later Bernadette for a time) has worked at The Cheesecake Factory. Clearly, this chain of restaurants has some sort of advertising ...
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Tree of Life: How does the son (R.L.?) die?
In the beginning of the movie 'Tree of Life', Mrs. O'Brien (Jessica Chastain) receives a telegram (or was it a regular piece of mail?) notifying her that her son has died. According to Wikipedia, it ...
