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#2051 Post by Brian C » Fri Mar 02, 2012 5:11 pm

It's not Thief is it? Probably been 10-12 years since I've seen it, but looking at the trailer it looks like Caan wears a darker coat like that in several scenes.

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#2052 Post by jwd5275 » Fri Mar 02, 2012 5:18 pm

Is it something random from one of the Qatsi films?

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#2053 Post by Gregory » Fri Mar 02, 2012 5:20 pm

I'm pretty sure it's not The China Syndrome. I know those sets pretty well. The power plant control room doesn't have that type of computer, and the news room is more TV monitors, typewriters, and rotary-dial phones.

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#2054 Post by Brian C » Fri Mar 02, 2012 5:23 pm

So nevermind, I don't think it's Thief. The whole movie is up on YouTube and while I only skimmed through it, I don't see anything that matches that shot.

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#2055 Post by bainbridgezu » Fri Mar 02, 2012 5:31 pm

I think it might be the newspaper office where Ewan McGregor works in Shallow Grave. Anybody have a copy to confirm?

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#2056 Post by chrisandy » Fri Mar 02, 2012 5:32 pm

bainbridgezu wrote:I think it might be the newspaper office where Ewan McGregor works in Shallow Grave. Anybody have a copy to confirm?
Wasn't this hinted at recently? You might be right...

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#2057 Post by swo17 » Fri Mar 02, 2012 5:34 pm


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#2058 Post by jwd5275 » Fri Mar 02, 2012 5:45 pm

Think that is it. Haven't finished scanning it on YouTube to find the exact shot, but there is a big yellow something on one of the keyboards and the chairs are similar..

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#2059 Post by Feego » Fri Mar 02, 2012 6:01 pm

It's Shallow Grave.

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#2060 Post by chrisandy » Fri Mar 02, 2012 6:13 pm

Call me daft but.. b & w vs. color? Is it something that happens in the movie?

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#2061 Post by domino harvey » Fri Mar 02, 2012 6:16 pm

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#2062 Post by flyonthewall2983 » Fri Mar 02, 2012 11:44 pm

That movie isn't 2.35:1 though

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#2063 Post by CSM126 » Sat Mar 03, 2012 8:13 am

flyonthewall2983 wrote:That movie isn't 2.35:1 though
It's called zooming and cropping.

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#2064 Post by eerik » Sat Mar 03, 2012 8:18 am

flyonthewall2983 wrote:That movie isn't 2.35:1 though
Why should it be 2.35:1?

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#2065 Post by cdnchris » Sat Mar 03, 2012 12:12 pm

Why not? It seems to be throwing people off. And while I haven't seen the film in a while it looks like the frame would be a close-up so aspect ratio means nothing.

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#2066 Post by bugsy_pal » Sun Mar 04, 2012 9:13 pm

That's it! Well done...

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#2067 Post by duck duck » Mon Mar 05, 2012 1:14 pm

This discovery wasn't as impressive as it was hinted at on the New Years and the B&W still comes straight off the IMDb page... Didn't these used to be harder, like the umbrella that no one seemed to guess?

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#2068 Post by jwd5275 » Mon Mar 05, 2012 1:33 pm

duck duck wrote:This discovery wasn't as impressive as it was hinted at on the New Years and the B&W still comes straight off the IMDb page... Didn't these used to be harder, like the umbrella that no one seemed to guess?
The umbrella was guessed.

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#2069 Post by swo17 » Mon Mar 05, 2012 1:42 pm

They do lots of clues that are guessed within seconds. This one took over an hour for someone to figure out.

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#2070 Post by Drucker » Wed Mar 07, 2012 2:32 pm

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#2071 Post by Drucker » Wed Mar 07, 2012 2:32 pm

It does NOT perfectly match the peaks on the cover of Night Train to Munich...so Gold Rush?

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#2072 Post by Harmonov » Wed Mar 07, 2012 2:34 pm

No one has commented on how much they already hate the cover. You guys are getting soft...

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#2073 Post by Matt » Wed Mar 07, 2012 2:35 pm

Either Gold Rush or Nanook, which they've been hinting at for some time.

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#2074 Post by Drucker » Wed Mar 07, 2012 2:36 pm

I thought the supposed Nanook clue turned out to be Letter Never Sent?

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#2075 Post by Matt » Wed Mar 07, 2012 2:42 pm

Ah, so it was.

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