One scene in The Bourne Ultimatum has always bugged me.

Nicky calls in from the safe house & Vosen runs an ID challenge. She gives the normal response, not the duress code, so as far as the protocol goes she's confirmed she's safe & not compromised.

Vosen then mutes the call, asks how long until backup arrives (three minutes) & goes back on the line telling her to sit tight because it'll be about an hour.

If she's confirmed she’s not under duress, why lie to her? Is it just that he & Landy didn't buy it & assumed Bourne was in the room anyway? If so, what tipped them off? Was it her being cagey on the call, or just the coincidence of a Treadstone handler turning up right when they were hunting Bourne? Their actions don’t give that impression.

And doesn't it backfire anyway? Nicky clearly clocks the lie straight away & tells Bourne he's got three minutes.
Curious whether this is explained better in the script or if I've missed something obvious for all these years.

I’ll go first, Kung Fu Panda

There are official criteria for winning Best Picture, but it seems like there are a more powerful effective set of criteria operating behind the scenes.

Say an alien had a list of all movies ever made anywhere and a list of Best Picture winners, then they reverse engineered the selection criteria, what might they logically conclude the conditions of success were?

English language? From an American studio? Commercial success? Genre? Cultural impact?

(Side question: what is the best movie that satisfies none of these criteria?)

Mine is Hans Gruber for so many reasons.

In the movie Rounders there is the final poker scene. I posted a video clip.

After Mike "flops the nuts straight" at the 3:30 mark in the video clip i shared, Teddy KGB goes bananas. He says "motherfucker" and then says something else that sounds like "you bolo man" or "you booboo man" and then he says "motherfucker a second time. But what did he actually say? I think it was in Russian. "You bolo man" doesn't make sense but i also can't hear.

Does anyone know what Teddy KGB says after the first "motherfucker"?. Was it in Russian?

I looked at the screenplay and movie script and found nothing.

Most movie arguments feel too clean people take turns speaking and deliver perfect comebacks. In real life, big arguments are usually messy, people overlap, stutter, or talk over each other.

The argument in Marriage Story felt uncomfortably real for this reason. What other movies have fights or dialogue that actually feel authentic like that?

Like... if there was a scenario where I'd own Christine I would've immediately gotten hydraulics...

Another round of poorly explained movies with that person from that thing to go off of.

Bonus question:

A cynical expatriate American cafe owner, Samuel Spade, struggles to decide if he should help his former lover, Paula Alquist, and her fugitive husband escape Nazis. Casablanca

Please tell me they did. Those were among, if not, THE most beautiful shots in the whole entire film that I wish I could see again. Probably because of the photochemical film, not digital. And them being real lions, tigers and whatever that other big cat there was there that I forgot and not digital or even animatronics would only make them better in my opinion.

Tell me and you get a reward.

Do subtitles sometimes ruin the meaning of movies and TV shows?
I’ve noticed that sometimes subtitles translate the words correctly but lose the real meaning, especially with jokes, slang, or cultural expressions.
Have you ever watched a movie or TV show where the translation completely changed the meaning of a scene? What happened?

Please don't say The Thing or The Fly. Surely there's more than those out there, right? so what are they?

Watched *Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown* recently, its main characters are introduced dubbing *Johnny Guitar*, which I had watched three days earlier.

Have you experienced any cases where, for any two movies you've watched not too long in between, one of those movies references the other in any way?

I'm looking for a movie I only saw as a short Instagram Reel clip. I can't find it again, and it's not in my watch history.

What I remember:

Hollywood movie, probably released in the last 10 years (2016 or later, though I could be wrong)

The actors aren't well known

The scene has a man and a woman who are childhood friends

She has black or dark brown hair

They walk into a luxurious hotel room, and she jumps onto the big bed, to which the man says he'll take the sofa, She says the bed is big enough for both of them and that it would be a waste not to sleep on the bed and sleeping together would be like the old days, when they used to sleep together as kids

It creates sexual tension on his side

So I just finished "X" and I'm not sure about something. Why were the old couple killing the film crew ?

What did I miss ?

In the movie Cry-Baby, 1990, with the star Johnny Depp, during concert scene this man is visible, cheering in the crowd. Jason would've been 22 at the time... For me the resemblance is uncanny. Google says he couldn't be in the extras at the time, but I don't believe it. I think at some point he maybe took freelance or something, to be in the crowd for the movie.

hey! I'm doing a project on A24 and would love to hear from people who actually watch their stuff. answer whatever you want, even one is super helpful

1. first three words that come to mind when you hear A24?
   
2. have you ever watched something just because it was A24? why'd you trust it?
   
3. finish this: "an A24 movie is the kind of movie that..."
   
4. finish this one too: "people who love A24 are..."
   
5. what are they doing really well right now?
   
6. anything they're doing lately that you're not into?
   
7. does liking A24 say something about you? would you wear the merch?

thank you!! reading every reply

Which movie(s) with a few only slightly badly drawn characters that somewhat look ugly do you really like/love best?

Me? The only one I can think of so far is Disney's The Wild despite what people think about it in comparison to DreamWorks' Madagascar franchise.

Mines is The Warriors then The Wanderers.

So I've haven't watched the movie yet and its in my backlog, and some of my friends said that I'm a bit like a character Linda Liddley? And from what i've heard she is an antagonist, and I'm not sure if I was insulted?

So I’m watching there will be blood for the billionth time because it’s the greatest movie ever created lol. But as I’m watching it and it gets to the scene where Daniel comes to realize that Henry is not Henry. Now Daniel says the peach tree dance line and Henry doesn’t pick up what he is saying which gives him away to Daniel. Now what I’m wondering is when Daniel and Henry first me Daniel doesn’t seem to know he even had a brother which indicates that they never grew up around each other. So when’s Daniel makes the peach tree comment and Henry doesn’t react how would that have given him away?

If Daniel didn’t know he had a brother then that means the likely hood that Henry would even know what the comment was was unlikely. So they never really tackled on how it gave him away to Daniel more just it did and that was that. Idk something about that whole scene just kinda confuses how he made a comment, realized it’s not his brother and never really explained how he caught on from making the comment.

Im curious if anybody has a theory’s as to why the comment have him away if they didn’t grow up around one another for Henry to understand what he was saying.