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iirc ed harris was furious at james cameron because that scene where he breathes water wasn't safe, and harris refused to ever work with cameron again

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08-02-2014 , 04:03 PM

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During the rigorous and problematic shoot, the cast and crew began calling the film by various derogatory names such as "Son Of Abyss", "The Abuse" and "Life's Abyss And Then You Dive". Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio reportedly suffered a physical and emotional breakdown because she was pushed so hard on the set, and Ed Harris had to pull over his car at one time while driving home, because he burst into spontaneous crying.

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08-02-2014 , 04:06 PM

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Didn't he also "demand" that the cast piss in their suits because of the time it took to take them off and put them back on?

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08-02-2014 , 05:04 PM

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i heard cameron was getting some flack for leaving his family for a year or whatever to go film avatar, and supposedly he said "any guy can be a dad. only i can make avatar"

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08-02-2014 , 06:11 PM

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Lol...he's such a dick

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08-02-2014 , 06:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Dominic

Lol...he's such a dick

But not for being a bad father.

It's like Michael Bay saying "only I can make Transformers".

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08-02-2014 , 08:17 PM

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He's always seemed like an awkward tool. "Let's party 'til dawn!" or whatever he said to end the 1998 Oscars was made fun of quite a bit back then.

Oh yeah he also yelled "I'm the king of the world" after winning his best director Oscar for Titanic. lol.

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08-02-2014 , 08:31 PM

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I give him a pass for the king of the world thing. It is a quote from the movie, after all

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08-03-2014 , 02:38 AM

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Not a "great" film but something that has always bugged me about Oceans 11.

When they are robbing the vault. Rusty is on the phone with Benedict and explains that they will be sending bags full of money marked with X's up in the elevator. The security guards are suppose to load it into the back of the remote controlled van. They show the guards transferring the money to the van and then they start to follow it. The "swat" team then shows up and lowers down the elevator shaft to "take" the vault. The "swat" team then takes the actual money out in bags they are carrying. How did they get the large bags of "money" (turned out to be advertisements for hookers) into the vault to send up to the guards to put in the van? It wouldn't all fit in the container Yen was hiding in and the swat team could not have carried it down to the vault as they arrive after the van left the casino.

Drives me crazy.

Oceans eleven is a great film lol. But I have another small plot hole that bugged me. When Danny ocean and Linus descend down the elevator shaft to the vault, they hook up wires to the top and drop down. When they get to the bottom they cut the wires and the security system immediately turns back on and you can see the lasers shooting across the shaft in every direction. What happened to the hanging wires? Why don't they set the alarm off?

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08-03-2014 , 06:31 AM

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The only thing I remember about Avatar was the way the bad guy died at the end.

Wasn't it something like "I'm dead mwhahahahaha"?

What a terrible film.

Don't know if you have seen this the guys page on youtube is CinemaSins makes loads for different movies pretty funny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq00mCqBMY8

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08-03-2014 , 09:51 AM

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Also, not a plothole but it's super dumb when Clooney reveals himself to Linus and Linus is freaked out b/c he thought Clooney was out based on what Brad Pitt told him. Clooney gives his patented ****-eating smarmy grin to Linus, like "We got ya!"

No way in hell an operation like this goes on without all parties knowing what's going on. Why the hell would they withhold this from Linus in some elaborate scheme to "get him" with a lame joke. HAHA THEY GOT HIM. BRAD AND GEORGE ARE SO SMARMY AND CLEVER HAHA.

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08-03-2014 , 10:04 AM

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Eh, it was just to **** with him since he's the new guy. They did it in the 2nd one too.

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08-03-2014 , 10:41 AM

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Obviously. Still think it was dumb. And Oceans 12 sucked bigtime. No surprise they'd re-use this "joke".

Only thing I remember about 12 was like a 20 minute scene about how Julia Roberts looks like Julia Roberts. Uggg. I think that's when America finally was done with her. Looks like that's about when her career died, too.

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08-03-2014 , 11:55 AM

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Rewatched 12 Angry Men for the umpteenth time yesterday. The knife? They said he claimed the he had lost his knife through a hole in his pocket. They said the wound was made with a knife "similar" to this knife. Where in the hell did they get the knife in evidence?

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Hmmmmmmmmmmm

Sticking out of the chest of the kid's dead father, lol.

Your memory is a bit faulty; they didn't say the wound was made by a similar knife, they said police found the body with the knife sticking out of it.

If I remember correctly, it was supposed to be a very distinct-looking switchbade that belonged to the son. However, he claimed that it wasn't his knife and that he had lost his through a hole in his pocket. The whole point of this bit of circumstantial evidence was that it must have been the kid's knife because it was so unique. Henry Fonda blew this out of the water by finding and purchasing an identical knife in some store.

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08-04-2014 , 09:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Shuffle

Also in Star Wars, there aren't any seat belts in the Millenium Falcon, but it always seems to spin and flip upside down.

In the middle of space, how would you define "up", "down", and "upside down"?

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08-04-2014 , 09:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Barcalounger

In the middle of space, how would you define "up", "down", and "upside down"?

the enemy's gate is down

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08-04-2014 , 03:07 PM

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Originally Posted by amplify

the enemy's gate is down

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08-04-2014 , 10:17 PM

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Originally Posted by KennyJPowers

Just watched Abyss again found another plot hole. how does that guy breath the water stuff when he goes really deep at the end. think about it thats drowning when your lungs fill up with fluid and you cant push it out

This is real, although it's still just experimental http://gizmodo.com/can-humans-breathe-liquid-1156138301

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08-08-2014 , 02:22 PM

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It's surprising how many gaping plot holes could be eliminated by one tiny little insignificant change.

In "Raiders of the Lost Ark", it made no sense that the Wehrmacht was running around the desert outside Cairo like they owned the place, when Egypt was a British protectorate in the 1930s.

All they had to do was simply change it to Libya (run by Italy) and there's no plot hole.

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08-08-2014 , 03:54 PM

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I don't know if this qualifies as a great movie (I didn't care for it) but in Inception they could think up weapons and they would appear but everybody needed an object to let them know if they were in a dream or not.

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08-08-2014 , 07:26 PM

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that's not a plot hole, just a weird function of the universe they were operating in.

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08-08-2014 , 08:28 PM

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Originally Posted by riverboatking

that's not a plot hole, just a weird function of the universe they were operating in.

Its not considered a plot hole? I haven't seen the movie in a long time, but I thought they made a big deal about making sure they knew if they're in a dream or not, and something about a woman, but since they can do things in a dream they can't do in reality it made the whole toys and everything moot.

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08-08-2014 , 09:56 PM

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lol'd

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08-09-2014 , 04:32 AM

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I have no idea why you lol'd.

If it had been under German control, then having the Wehrmacht run around would make sense.

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08-09-2014 , 10:03 AM

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I lol'd because what %age of people recognized that plot hole?

I thought you were going out of your way to find a really elaborate plot hole and describe it like it was clear as day, in an attempt to be funny.

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