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[–] solsangraal 150 points 3 months ago (7 children)

wait till this kid learns about sound effects libraries

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I still chuckle every time I hear the Wilhelm scream.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Once I knew to listen for it, I find it jarring and cringeworthy tbh. Really takes me out of a movie

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Buzz Lightyear makes that sound when he’s knocked out of Andy’s window.

I think a Nazi or two also scream Wilhelm-like when Indiana Jones punches them off a car.

In TLOTR: The Two Towers, some dude is falling at Helm’s Deep and does a Wilhelm. I think it’s after a scary flying beast that’s naughty picks him up and drops him from really high up.

In Spidey Into the Spiderverse, Spidey punches a crook and the crook Wilhelms about the audacity to be hit by Spidey.

When Luke Skywalker gets his hand chopped off by a sharp light blade that’s burning hot and stuff, he screams Mark Hamilly, and not Wilhelmly. Thank you, Luke.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

Man, a comic book speech bubble in a Spiderverse movie that just says "Wilhelm Scream" would be hilarious

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

This comment could've kept going for another thousand paragraphs.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Same. It breaks the immersion and reminds people that they’re watching a movie.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

They used it perfectly in The Hangover. I never listen for it, but they made it painfully obvious and got a surprised chuckle out of me.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago

That one rusty door opening sound.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

Noooo! Those are the real sounds of Aquaman swimming through the ocean at 90 mph!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Foley artistry is really cool to learn about

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

It was my dream job, when it was actually a guy making sounds. Now it's all digital and on a computer. That's no fun. I wanna smash fruit with weapons and make weird noises for movies

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Good ol' General Series 6000

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Or Turbosquid.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Wilhelm intensifies

[–] [email protected] 77 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I swear some comic movie fans are the stupidest people alive

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I swear some ~~comic movie~~ fans are the stupidest people alive

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Touché, seems like every fandom has its mouth breathers.

Well, except for Our Flag Means Death fans at least as far as the folks I've interacted with. Figures that a queer pirate rom-com would generally have a pretty wholesome fandom (although there's probably shitty OMFD fans too, heh)

[–] [email protected] 67 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I mean I still find it funny, I find it entertaining when it's found out that an extremely high cost production used something that I have access to

[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 months ago

It's more common than you think

[–] [email protected] 54 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Just a crumb of media literacy for an old seppo?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

He is responsible for making me the way I am…

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

A clever folk hero, right?

Right?

[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 months ago (2 children)

If a movie isn't brave enough to put their main actor into deep water with no breathing equipment with a ton of sharks just for the poster picture, then I'm not watching it

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Finally, someone said it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

The movie would have made more money if someone was mauled by a shark and it led to a boycott

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That last Aquaman movie is genuinely one of the worst things I have ever watched.

I stole it and I still wanted a refund.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

That reminds me of the time Beavis and Butt-Head tried to get free popcorn and otherwise annoy girls during a Twilight movie, got thrown out, and demanded a refund after sneaking in.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I think I made it halfway through. On 4 tries.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I thought at first they had left the watermark in (no pun intended). That would've been a big fuckup.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Are you saying that mofo can't breathe under water? Cause if so, I want my money back.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

To be fair I would have expected a tiny bit more effort.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago (1 children)

For the poster? Nah. They're right, that's what stock photos are for. What, you want them to whip up a unique CGI model for no discernable improvement in quality in a still picture?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No. I want them to photograph real sharks. No CGI.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago

Good news! Someone already did and is selling that photo in stock photo services!