Did you....just call him..... "Mace Window"?

When Natasha Romanov says she's a monster I only ever thought she meant because she's an assassin, who are these people that thought anything else different? Natasha isn't self deprecating. She's matter of fact, which is shown off gloriously with her one liners for her entire stint on screen. That's her personality. If you thought anything different than she was implying that she's an assassin, then you clearly don't understand the character.

I used to work at this telemarketing place that tried to some questionable tactics to "inspire" us to sell & close sales. OK, the tactics weren't the only thing questionable since they probably broke some laws as well, most likely scamming customers. They gave rousing "testimony" about how some of the workers had nothing, but NOW HAD CELLPHONES (later, found out from the person that it was a free, government provided-cell phone). MOST of the people who worked there, except this one other lady and me, were either ex-cons or people with serious substance abuse issues, so they tried to play it off like "LOOK, we are SAVIORS here! Do well and you can TURN YOUR LIFE AROUND!!" It had a weird cult-wanna-be-like atmosphere (though no one there actually bought it). And what film clips did they play to try to INSPIRE us?? One of them was a few scenes from "Wolf of Wall Street." The other was from "Boiler Room." I found neither of them in the least bit inspiring. That they thought we would find them to be POSITIVE ROLE MODELS made me realize just how little they thought of is. Horrible place.

And it's foreshadowed since Autumn comes after Summer. It would also be safe to assume 500 days later he will meet a woman named Winter.

I knew #10 from watching Drummer reactions to that scene. They all say "he's on time".

how the hell did anyone think blackwidow was calling herself a monster for not being able to have children?? that never crossed my mind, i always took it to mean assassin and all the death she's inflicted on the world. i mean FFS she spends half the first avengers movie talking about red in her ledger..... was that her talking about being sterile? of course it fucking isn't! i swear people look for reasons to be upset.

I think what a lot of people don't realise, with regard to Upham's reaction in Saving Private Ryan, is that not all the soldiers who were conscripted into World War 2 joined the army voluntarily - at least, certainly not in the UK. By the time it got to 1943-44, and many young men had already died, ALL men of 'fighting age' without disabilities or other medical restrictions were being sent letters by the government pretty much ORDERING them to join up, or have a couple of officers show up at their house to 'escort' them to the nearest military training camp personally. This meant that men who were *completely unsuited* to being soldiers were being shoved into a uniform, handed a gun and given only the most basic of combat training, and then sent off to war zones and told to get on with it. (Spike Milligan's war memoirs are a very accurate, brilliantly funny and heartbreakingly tragic account of what life was really like for these unwilling 'volunteers.') Upham was a writer and a poet before he wound up fighting in combat - if the war wasn't happening, there's no way he would've chosen to be a soldier for his career. Damn right he reacted EXACTLY the way ANYONE who would never choose to join the military if they didn't have to would react. Any 'armchair soldiers' trying to claim they would've Done The Heroic Thing in those circumstances are deluding themselves, frankly.

Another good one is The Mist. Everyone thinks that it's tragic that the main character shoots his son and all he had to do was wait like 30 more seconds. But that's not the twist. The twist is that the religious woman in the grocery store was actually correct when she prophesized that sacrificing the boy would end the horror.

Upham is very authentic. Someone who has not been faced with charging into a life and death situation cannot understand the crippling fear, he is literally the deer in the headlights. Love that the German soldier elected not to simply kill a helpless Upham out of chivalry but literally at the end he single handedly took a squad of Germans prisoner showing he was in fact quite brave.

In Whiplash….i felt that was obvious…he was a bastard and jealous.

I’m more optimistic about Tom at the end of 500 days of summer. For JGL to call him the villain is a bit extreme. Even Summer herself said that Tom was right about romance but that it just wasn’t her he was right about. So the right woman is out there for him, and maybe from his experience with Summer, he’ll be able to see more clearly which one fits him better and his yearnings for the couple life. There’s nothing wrong with being optimistic about who you meet, what becomes a problem is being optimistic near to the point of delusional where you don’t ever see the flaws in your relationship until it’s over.

With Superman, I know it's easily missed while watching the scene due to the inevitable eye-rolls, but he almost immediately starts flying around it a second time to fix the spin afterwards.

One I see go under peoole's radar all the time is: KHHAAAAANNNNN! Is not Shatner overacting Kirk's anger at Khan leaving him stuck in a cave on Regulus while promising to blow up the Enterprise with Kirk powerless to stop him. What that shout is really is Kirk playing up his anger and outrage to stroke Khan's ego, to make the genetically engineered superintelect human, under-estimate Kirk and the Enterprise. One scene later it is revealed thst the Enterptise was not as damaged as Spock said, because his repair estimates were coded to be exaggerated. Kirk knew this the whole time Khan was bragging to him. So that iconic scene is a lot more clever than generally given credit for. And then "Into Darkness" missed the entire flipping point.

But people forget 78 superman is silver age superman, so he could do both if he wanted to

This was a great episode, thank you!

Superman still falls prey to the Time paradox. His reason to go back in time is to save Lois, but by saving her he negates the reason to do the time leap in the first place...also the carnage still happened.

I literally never took black widows words in that manner. I can see how someone can reach that conclusion, but not when you actually listen to words and story.

While you may not be able to blame young Bonnie for souring the perfect ending of Toy Story 3, I sure as hell can blame the writers and Disney execs

About the Superman entry, my memory may be flawed but doesn't Superman did other spins around tghe Earth after going back to make the rotation in the right way again??? If so, doesn't it contradict the theory?

Not for one minute though that Black widow called herself a monster for not having children.

Did people actually not understand the whole ‘I am monster’ quote??

Tom in 500 days of summer's cycle was obvious

Had me fooled….damn! 😂

Nice one

even that description of the superman time travel ending - its still completely unbelievable.

Who is Mace Window?

I never saw whiplash any other way. Fletcher is an abuser, a calculating psychological manipulator. The point of the exercise for him is to bully the kid and break his will by telling him he got wrong, regardless of whether he did or not. Fletcher is one of movies’ best, most authentic screen villains. That’s supported by the way he flips between nice and nasty, holding out the carrot and then using the stick. A technique common to abusers called, “gaslighting,” where he can flatly deny the events preceding the current moment, like they never happened. The final scene represents the kid breaking free of his abuser, doing his own thing, regardless when Fletcher is, for the first time, powerless to prevent him.

Video feedback: Lookup twin paradox and delete the superman portion.

Yeah, even at the age of 10 (when I saw it), the Superman thing never made sense to me. Everyone told me that Superman reversed the rotation of the earth to turn back time but that made no sense to me. Reversing the rotation of the earth wouldn't turn back time, BUT flying at the speed of light would, relatively speaking (sort of, I was 10 and knew there was a relation between the speed of light and time travel). But everyone told me otherwise so, what do I know.

There's a similar scene in 'Fury' as in 'Saving Private Ryan'.

I always thought Black Widow was talking about her assassin history, not that she couldn’t have kids. WHO THE HELL THOUGHT THAT???

I love Mace, but I prefer his brothers 'Bay' and 'Patio' .

Breaking the speed of light does not mean you travel back in time. it only appeares that you travel back in time. Light takes about eight minutes twenty seconds to reach the Earth from the Sun, this includes visible light, or what we can see. If a ship travelled from the Sun to the Earth at eight times the speed of light, it'd complete the journey in about 62.5 seconds. If an observer on that ship had the means to view their point of departure at the sun they'd notice that a "visual echo" can still be seen of the ship for about seven minutes at the sun because that is how long light takes to travel that distance, and what we see is limited to the speed of light. This gets even more complex because they'd also see themselves in reverse until the travelling visible light catches up with the faster than light ship. the closer light would be the most upto date, while the further light would be further back in time. Therefore you don't actually travel in time it just appears that way. If Superman was to travel at the speed of light he'd complete about 7.5 circuits of the Earth every second. He's not going back in time he's just covering a vast amount of distance every second. Backspinning the Earth to reset time, as stupid as that sounds, is actually more believable than Suoerman travelling back in time. Plus after he puts things back in time he then reverses his spin attempt to reset the correct spin of the planet and therefore allow time to flow all normal again.

The immediate reaction I had after watching the end of 500 Days of Summer was.. Yep.. he didn't learn a thing. I believe that was probably the director's intend too. Come on! the girl was named 'Autumn'! If Summer was bad, then Autumn is gonna be worse, and 'Winter' is gonna be the worst.

Question: What is wrong with your title ? If everyone gets it always wrong, that includes you and that makes it impossible for you to get it right

Mace Window? XD

This is Your interpretation of these scenes.

Wait, some people thought that Natasha said she was a monster because she's been sterilised? That's stupid. She's a monster because she's an assassin. Nobody ever thought the other thing.

Mace WINDOW????

Mace Window?

….why would we assume you could go back in time by moving faster than the speed of light?

Mace who?????😩😩😩

I always figured the speed of light thing with Superman... but it would be 100% clearer if the visual was scientifically accurate. We can't humanly detect something moving at SOL so the proper visual would be Earth inside a seemingly static mesh of light trails. If we can see the head of the trail (e.g. Supes) then it can't be SOL.

Tom is not a villain in 500 Days of Summer. Yep, I said it! I like Joseph Gordon-Levitt, but when he said that, was he sucking up to a , "modern audience?"

In light of our updated understanding of quantum theory and the "many worlds" hypothesis, even if you buy the ridiculous premise of Superman 'reversing time' by traveling at the speed of light, he'd only be reversing time for HIM, making him a bit of a selfish wanker. Superman has branched reality to create the ending he wants, while Lois is still fully dead in her timeline.

Superman - The impression that Superman is causing the Earth to spin backwards isn't helped by the fact that when he stops and then reverses direction, the Earth begins rotating forward again, as if he is reversing what he's just done. To me a much bigger problem is that he goes back in time, and doesn't actually appear to do anything to prevent the disasters that lead to him wanting to go back in time in the first place. He time travels and everything is now fine.

#2 yea, Scarlett complained about objectification in Iron Man 2. Hopefully no one with a say in the Ultron script would have allowed such criticism of infertile women by then.

Idk about the Upham take

I understood 6 of these

never seen the film but maybe the actor playing the young drummer was suppose to drag but messed up

(sigh) I miss Jules on these lists.

Healthy debate. lol. Yeah sure.

The last movie's ending is a direct rip off from Harold and Maud.

Summer was such a jerk for leading Tom on. 😢

A possible continuity mistake & *not a big deal* in Quadrophenia. Jimmy is first shown riding a a Lambretta scooter. Later it's a Vespa. Neither company ever owned the other, maybe Jimmy just switched brands. I've seen worse.

any stargate?

YES! As any Superman comic book fan would know, he was traveling back in time NOT making the Earth spin backwards. Hearing this stupid take on Superman for over 45 years has been one of the most irritating entertainment take ever.

Your Superman explanation is one of the silliest things I’ve ever heard. Time dilation simply doesn’t work like that.

RIP Christopher Reeves. Cursed, like his father before him.

Algorithm 👍🏾

Yeah, Upham is still a coward in the context of every other soldier in that company giving everything they had and him just allowing the German past him twice before shooting him down, while he was surrendering, afterwards to make himself feel better about it

Traveling at the speed of light is impossible. Also, traveling at a significant fraction of the speed of light will only result in you traveling forward in time, not backwards. Your explanation makes no sense, and I don’t believe it that was the intent. It’s fine though, because it’s a movie about an alien who has superpowers that defy many laws of physics.

Are you aware of the concept of 'Intentional Fallacy'? The intent does not matter. It is how it is received that is important. Read some Barthes for a greater insight.

I don’t know who started that pseudo-intellectual take on Saving Private Ryan, but it needs to stop.

But why would Boba go to the empty helmet. (Also, that shadow of the head could be a later addition. George does that sometimes.)

Sorry I have been in combat and you are wrong. We do not abandon our fellow soldiers.

THANK YOU for the Superman/Earth rotation thing. It was always obvious to me, even as a kid, and I could never understand how people thought he reversed the rotation of the planet. 👍🏻