Sarin 699 11
01/11/2005 10:43 PM

Tis a shame how much they miss while editing these things they call movies.

Declan McManus 131,874 36
01/11/2005 10:45 PM

You might want to take up a hobby.



It appears as though you have much too much time to contemplate.

Paranoia 34 8
01/11/2005 10:46 PM

I remember wondering about that. Did he possibly unframe it? And they forgot that? Who knows. The movie was entertaining though.

Futuristic Filly 39,193 20
01/11/2005 10:48 PM

I agree with you, Gabe. That stuff drives me absolutely apeShakespeare. Can't think of any examples off the top of my head, but wow.

Everett, a.k.a. Sy the Photo Guy 6,547 10
01/11/2005 10:53 PM

Sounds to me like I made the right decision when I opted to remember the Steve McQueen original and skip Pierce's 2nd rate remake...

Fluorescent Sombrero 91,274 10
01/11/2005 10:56 PM

I almost gave a click for the word 'yoink', which I use daily, buuuuuut... the WTF lost it for ya, bud.

millie 116,988 28
01/11/2005 10:57 PM

Sy, you read my mind.



I was just about to post that I much prefer Steve McQueen to Pierce Brosnan--a million times cooler.

Sarin 699 11
01/11/2005 11:02 PM

Dont forget that in movies they dont film it in the order you see it. So they probably filmed him with the frame at home before he dismantled the frame and put the canvas in the briefcase.

Paranoia 34 8
01/12/2005 12:51 AM

Could the frame have been a replica? Remember. He needed to give it back to the museum. He could have made a duplicate that way everything is back to normal at the end...

Boots at the Boar 2,305 11
01/12/2005 02:20 AM

These are the same people who make computers with no speakers, but beep at every dialog box that pops up, where two lines of text take up the entire screen, and 55 year old cops know how to type 95 words per minute. Oh, and you have to hit the enter key at least three times to get a response, but accesses to photographic databases are instananeous. Mistakes are so common because scenes are shot out of order and it might be months, possibly a year or more, between one scene and another.



One of my pet peeves is when an actress's weight bounces around during a movie between chunkster and twiggy, or an actor goes from semi-buff to hulk to sissy boy in all of 45 minutes. I 'loved' watching Tom Hanks weight bounce between the two extremes at the end of Cast Away.

Boots at the Boar 2,305 11
01/12/2005 02:23 AM

And what's with the crappy greenish-yellow pictures? Did you photograph your 1970's television screen?

Gabosaurus Rex 9,232 13
01/12/2005 03:27 AM

WTF? No clickie? Would it have been better if I'd said "double-you tee eff mate?" in a cheesy Australian accent?



I actually retooled the ending of this a bit to make it wrap up a little better, but it got posted before I could send it.



I'm not sure why the color was funny. Probably because I was watching it on this and had to take about a one second exposure. The other shots I've taken have turned out pretty good.



Well, all except this one. That one is really bad.



But then again, I'm color blind. So they could be totally Frosted up and I wouldn't know. I'd expect my wife to complain, though.

Frogpop 173,153 25
01/12/2005 03:40 AM

touchy much?

WickedWedgieWoman 15,741 12
01/12/2005 02:20 PM

Somehow I just can't icture Piere Brosnan as anyone other than Remington Steele.

SheCabbage 5,200 13
01/12/2005 04:11 PM

What actually irritates me about that sequence is they show the painting and the subject is taller vertically, yet when he's admiring the painting in the last frame he's holding it horizontally.



And Tubgirl. That made me really mad.

Hammerhead 59,399 14
01/12/2005 05:02 PM

Not the point, dipShakespeare. The point is that he folds a solid wooden frame into a briefcase without so much as a snap, crackle or pop.



But I still love seeing Renee Russo nekkid.

Gabe 9,232 13
01/12/2005 05:20 PM

Don't you love it when people try to wax intellectual and sound all hoity toity but fall flat on their face because they don't know what the Frost they're talking about?



And yet, Renee Russo and nekkid is great. I like her in that see through black dress, too.

Gabe 9,232 13
01/12/2005 05:21 PM

Don't you love it when people try to wax intellectual and sound all hoity toity but fall flat on their face because they don't know what the Frost they're talking about?



And yes, Renee Russo nekkid is great. I like her in that see through black dress, too.

Gabe 9,232 13
01/12/2005 05:24 PM

Don't you hate it when some Froster posts twice?

SheCabbage 5,200 13
01/12/2005 05:47 PM

I've never seen the movie...I was just looking at the grainy pictures accompanying the article.

Dead Robot 67,630 16
01/12/2005 05:51 PM

In the movie version of Phantom, when Raoul is trapped underwater, you can see bubbles float down.



They rolled the film backwards to make up time, that or Raoul's farts are lead based.

SheCabbage 5,200 13
01/12/2005 05:52 PM

Heh









































Yeah, this was a useless affirmation post.

FlyingNun 1,412 10
01/12/2005 06:02 PM

Where's the rest of the article? 1 movie problem? You could've posted that.

SheCabbage 5,200 13
01/12/2005 06:11 PM

Not RUBBER MOVIE PAINT!

Gabe 9,232 13
01/12/2005 06:14 PM

Point being "dipShakespeare" try watching the movie again!!!!! You never see the original painting out of the brief case to know if it broke or not!!!!!!!!!



Do you need to have this spelled out for you assmaster?



Firstly, the point of this article is, and will continue to be, that Remington Steele pulls a painting with a rigid frame out of a briefcase half its size. It doesn't matter if it's real or fake or a velvet Elvis. IT WOULDN'T FIT IN THAT Frost-ing BRIEFCASE.



And as for it being real or fake. Let's look at what happened. He went to the museum and stole the ORIGINAL painting. He put it in his briefcase and takes off. Next we see him at home with the SAME briefcase, which he opens and pulls out the ORIGINAL painting. He's all happy with himself for pulling off such a magnificent theft and he takes a moment to admire what he just swiped. They show the nifty little nook hidden in his study to set up the switch later.



So at some point later on (which we don't get to see) his underwear-model Punky Brewster-esque forger almost-daughter does two things:



1) Paints another painting on top of the ORIGINAL painting



2) Paints a copy of the ORIGINAL painting on top of the dogs playing poker.



#1 gets handed to the museum to take the place of the painting which got swiped (putting the ORIGINAL back in the museum), and #2 gets stuck in the nook in his study to Frost with Renee Russo's head.



The painting you see in the pictures above has to be the original because at that point in the film, the copy wasn't made yet. Punky the Forger needed the original to make the copy from, and he just Frost-ing stole it.



So don't try acting all high and mighty when you don't have a clue what you're talking about.

SheCabbage 5,200 13
01/12/2005 06:16 PM

(Monet?)

SheCabbage 5,200 13
01/12/2005 06:19 PM

I get a cookie!



<a href="http://www.intermonet.com/oeuvre/venise.htm">

SheCabbage 5,200 13
01/12/2005 06:19 PM

...though not for HTML mastery today, it seems.



phear my mad interWeb skillz

millie 116,988 28
01/12/2005 08:36 PM

I never saw the movie either.



Paintings not only have frames, but they are stretched on wood. From what it looks like in the picture, it's the stretcher bars that are cut in half, not the frame. If he removed the frame (which is around the perimeter of the painting) he still should not have been able to fold solid pieces of wood in half!



I thought art thieves usually cut the paintings off the stretcher bars and rolled them up, anyway.



As someone pointed out, the paint would have cracked. Not only is it old, but it probably has varnish on top of the paint, as well.

Gabosaurus Rex 9,232 13
01/12/2005 08:56 PM

I stand corrected. It's the stretcher bars I've been talking about. He did in fact yank off the frame in the museum.

millie 116,988 28
01/12/2005 09:27 PM

I'm glad I didn't see the movie. That would have really irritated me.



Even more than Pierce Brosnan trying to be as cool as Steve McQueen, which he is NOT.

jacket potatoes for all 140 8
01/12/2005 09:54 PM

blasts, ive almost avoided being tubgirl my whole life. you pigdog.



good article. its true.

Gabosaurus Rex 9,232 13
01/13/2005 01:21 AM

I do my best.



I bet you could write a little program like pop up stopping software that would run in the background and its only purpose would be to stop from loading the tubgirl site.

Frogpop 173,153 25
01/13/2005 01:38 AM

So he's angry because movies lie to us... And this is an article?



Why didn't ChiChi say so? Shakespeare, I'll make it to 15 in no time! Care for a preview?



You know in Braveheart..? Well, there's this one scene where he's running in the woods and he doesn't have his claymore, and then the next scene he gets to a clearing and he throws his claymore into the ground!! I mean, WTF! You can't fold a claymore up and hide it in your kilt! It would bend or splinter or something! LMAO!

Frogpop 173,153 25
01/13/2005 01:41 AM

Also, shame on you who clickied it. It's 300 words and 3 pictures and it borders on Seinfeldian observational humor. Overall, D minus minus minus plus.

Humphrey B 51,764 12
01/13/2005 02:12 AM

I likey your home theatre. Can I come over and play?





Also, I just read 'A BRIEF HISTORY OF GABE'. You've had a lot of jobs there Gabe.

Humphrey B 51,764 12
01/13/2005 02:13 AM

I likey your home theatre. Can I come over and play?





A BRIEF HISTORY OF GABE'. You've had a lot of jobs there Gabe.

Humphrey B 51,764 12
01/13/2005 02:13 AM

bugger

Gabosaurus Rex 9,232 13
01/13/2005 02:35 AM

Overall, D minus minus minus plus.



That means there's hope.



And the fact that this is an article is to make up for the fact that I didn't get the chance to make the spiderfight thread into an article.

Frogpop 173,153 25
01/13/2005 02:47 AM

yeah, but think of all the extra pee bars you got from spiderfight (which was like an A plus minus).



No makeups, no do-overs, no whining, and less sucking. Thems the rooz.

Hammerhead 59,399 14
01/13/2005 03:20 AM

On the issue of the briefcase being weird looking, you have to realize that it's a tri-fold. He opens the right side up, and folds it back, I'm guessing to protect the painting from itself so it wouldn't be face to face when folded. Another flaw with it, is that the left side has the "heater" unit in it, making it impossible to close anyway, as the left side of the painting would be sticking out and not laying flat against the bottom of the case, like the empty right side.



Oh, and the dress Renee Russo was wearing was red. She went to a black and white ball in red. See through red with no bra. Sounds like typical Hollywood party to me.

Gabosaurus Rex 9,232 13
01/13/2005 04:14 AM

Aha. So that's why he makes a point to mention that it's a black and white ball.



Being color blind kinda sucks.

Trixxie 65,026 15
01/13/2005 01:39 PM

A full pee tube for a pointing out a movie bloober, Jeesh, this place has become easier than Trae on a Pina Vicodan Colida.

robous 0 8
01/13/2005 02:28 PM

I thought I was the only one who was thrown by the folding of the painting with a wooden frame. I kept trying to give myself some rationalization how he could have folded it -- in like 2 seconds -- without the frame breaking. I was even at the point of accepting that there might be hinges on the frame for just such an occassion as this. Dumb, I know, but. there. must. be. an. explanation.