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Deadlock Clock: Jan 25th 2013 at 11:59:00 PM
Leaper Since: May, 2009
#1: Dec 31st 2012 at 12:40:00 PM

Way too dark, which makes it hard to figure out what's going on. Since it's obviously a "created" image, perhaps we can create a better quality one?

ShadowHog from Earth Since: May, 2009 Relationship Status: Healthy, deeply-felt respect for this here Shotgun
#2: Dec 31st 2012 at 12:47:10 PM

Seems fine to me. Might be because I'm familiar with that scene from The Dark Knight, but it's not too much of a stretch to assume the guy in the mask from the first shot and the gagged guy in roughly the same pose in the second shot are the same guy.

edited 31st Dec '12 12:47:30 PM by ShadowHog

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Willbyr Hi (Y2K) Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
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#3: Dec 31st 2012 at 1:59:26 PM

Keep Until Better Image Suggested

Leaper Since: May, 2009
#4: Jan 1st 2013 at 2:52:27 AM

Uh... I'm not complaining about the image content. I'm complaining that I literally have a difficult time making out what's going on in the image. That's what "Poor Image" means, doesn't it?

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#5: Jan 1st 2013 at 3:23:56 AM

I can't tell if the image is OK, partially because the caption is completely confusing.

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#6: Jan 1st 2013 at 3:25:52 AM

I don't really like it, and I've The Dark Knight. I don't think it helps the page much.

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AnotherDuck No, the other one. from Stockholm Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: Mu
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#7: Jan 1st 2013 at 4:05:04 AM

I don't think it helps much either. I'm not sure it hurts, though.

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ShadowHog from Earth Since: May, 2009 Relationship Status: Healthy, deeply-felt respect for this here Shotgun
#8: Jan 1st 2013 at 8:24:49 AM

If visibility issues are your only concern, then one Auto-Contrast later:

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AnotherDuck No, the other one. from Stockholm Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: Mu
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#9: Jan 1st 2013 at 11:15:27 AM

That would be a quality swap for the better. Just do it, or wait and see if something else comes along?

Edit: I Niked it.

edited 1st Jan '13 11:22:54 AM by AnotherDuck

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m8e from Sweden Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: Wanna dance with somebody
#10: Jan 1st 2013 at 12:36:53 PM

Maybe something from Inside Man?

There's a scene where the hostages are half naked and the bankrobbers hands out blue painters coveralls to them. This is in front of an open bank vault and the robbers have weapons, so it's clearly a bank robbery/hostage situation. The problem is that the bank robbers is wearing white coveralls and changes to blue ones later.

There is also a scene where everybody(hostage and robbers) is running out of the bank wearing the same thing and the police shoots some of them with riot guns(rubber bullets) and points real guns at them.

Would something like that work?

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#11: Jan 22nd 2013 at 6:07:40 AM

Clock is set.

edited 22nd Jan '13 6:08:03 AM by Willbyr

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#12: Jan 26th 2013 at 6:42:36 AM

Clock's up; locking for inactivity. No further action is to be taken based on this thread.

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