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Which characters played the parts of the lineup discussed by Rusty and Daniel?
In planning the heist, Rusty names a number of roles that are going to be needed to pull off the job.
Off the top of my head, I'd say you're looking at a Boesky, a Jim Brown, a Miss Daisy, two Jethros, and a Leon Spinks. Not to mention the biggest…
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What is Superman's costume doing in a 20,000 year old ship?
In the movie Man of Steel Superman somehow finds his iconic costume in the 20,000 year old ship, which looks more modern than the dress that Jor-El wore. And it bears the symbol of his House. Can anyone explain what such a modern dress (by Krypton's…
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Winter is Coming
It's my understanding that the phrase "Winter is Coming" is the motto of the Stark house, when the story first reaches the wall it's implied that the winter is not a periodic season like it is in our world.
Does the winter refer to a particularly…
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Weird French in Prey?
Loved the movie Prey and I have a question about it.
French is not my first language and I'm not fluent in it, but the French that the poachers spoke seemed a little off to me.
Was it my imagination? If not, was there a reason to be off?
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Does Tony Stark really have PTSD or just a fear of things to come?
In Iron Man 3, Tony Stark seems to display what can be assumed as PTSD due to his dealings with the chitauri and the events surrounding New York that took place during The Avengers
However, is this really Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or could…
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If Sweden didn't have commercial TV channels until the late 1980s, how can these TV commercials from the 1960s and 1970s exist?
Lately, I've been watching a bunch of Swedish-language TV commercials from the late 1960s and 1970s. Here is an example from 1969:
What confuses me about this is that Sweden only had one TV channel (SVT) until 1969, and even after that, it was…
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Translating the Jive dialogue
In the 1980 movie Airplane, there are two memorable scenes in which two guys (and in the later scene, an older woman) speak "Jive" to each other. The transcripts of the scenes in question are below, from IMDB;
scene one
First Jive Dude: Shiiiiit,…
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How could Lt. Hicox fluently speak German and then give himself away by using the wrong gesture?
In Inglorious Basterds, Lt. Hicox is an English officer who speaks German fluently yet with a mild accent. Speaking a language fluently requires a lot of practice with native speakers and so spending a lot of time with them. So I'd expect that he…
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Who is Aslan in the Pevensies' world?
At the ending of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of The Dawn Treader (The Chronicles of Narnia 3), before Lucy and Edmund return to their world, the following dialogue happens:
Lucy: Will you visit us in our world?
Aslan: I shall be watching…
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In the end of Total Recall (2012), what does this number stand for?
What does the number "21" on this Rekall ad stand for?
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Why is there a head of a native American man on the early test screens?
In Pleasantville, after a few minutes, we see some ads running on an old TV screen.
At some point, the broadcast ends with a single constant frame showing some circles, lines, which I can tell is for testing the signal, but the image contains the…
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How does Hallmark guarantee such consistency between their Christmas movies?
I've seen a few Hallmark Christmas movies, specifically the kind that come in those 4-for-1 boxes that get sold around the holidays. What shocks me every year is how consistent the movies are despite not obviously sharing any crew members.
The…
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What was the earliest mass-release movie that used Matrix-like "bullet time"?
One of the things that The Matrix was famous for was "bullet time" cinematography.
I'm fairly sure that, while it was the first one to use the technique extensively and become famous for it, it wasn't the first to pioneer it.
So, which mass-released…
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Why didn’t Doctor Strange stay in the original winning timeline?
In Avengers: Infinity War, Doctor Strange experiences 14,000,605 timeline scenarios, one of which was a win. Why does he proceed to return back to his origin point so he can say he already did it once, just so he can do the same thing again? It…
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What's the point of this scene involving Flash Thompson at the airport?
At the end of Spider-Man: Far From Home, Flash Thompson arrives at the airport and there is someone waiting for him. He then asks:
Did mother not come?
And the scene changes. What is the point of this scene? Is this a reference I missed? Is it…
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