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Citizen Carrier
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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 Posted - 08/07/2006 : 10:34:29 PM
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Sean Bean was completely wasted in that movie. Somebody mentioned they put that female cop in there just so somebody could shoot at monsters for a couple of scenes.
Hey, give Sean Bean an over-under 12 gauge and a jacket pocket full of shells and you don't need the female cop. Movie would've been much better if it had actually starred him.
But then again, I'm something of a kook.
I think that "Drudge Dredd" would've rocked if it didn't have Stallone in it at all and just starred Max von Sydow taking down the baddies with with pump-action thing he carried. I love it when old people kick ass. |
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New Hinda
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Israel
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Posted - 08/08/2006 : 05:10:54 AM
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Which is amusing considering that the filmmakers made a deliberate choice to change the sex of the main character because it judged that to worry about a missing child to the extent that you actually search for them was more of a feminine characteristic.
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John Nowak
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
1017 Posts |
Posted - 08/08/2006 : 8:38:35 PM
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Originally posted by New Hinda
What PLANET are they from?
Hollywood.
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Renfield
Minister of the Sacraments of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 08/09/2006 : 02:33:29 AM
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They should have deleted all the scenes in Oliver Stone's JFK that depict "facts" contradicted by the actual record and/or actual forensic evidence. It would have been about 10 minues long after that, of course, but think of all the previews the theaters could have stuck in to fill the time.
--Joe "Renfield" Meadows
HORROR-WOOD Webzine
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New Hinda
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Israel
469 Posts |
Posted - 08/11/2006 : 02:00:19 AM
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Originally posted by John Nowak
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Originally posted by New Hinda
What PLANET are they from?
Hollywood.
They never read a single article about a missing child, missing and feared kidnapped, missing and feared lost in the woods, missing and feared lost in a cave, ANYWHERE, in a newspaper, in a magazine, on the Internet; they never saw a television newscast about such a child; they have no idea how many MEN take part in searches for such children? |
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John Nowak
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
1017 Posts |
Posted - 08/11/2006 : 5:49:56 PM
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Y'know, I'm reminded of an anecdote told by SLA Marshal, who was a US Army historian. He said that he liked to bring up Norman Mailer's book, _The Naked and the Dead_ when talking to junior officers. First, he'd ask if the characters in Mailer's book were realistic, and usually people would agree they were. He'd then ask if anyone in the had ever met anyone remotely resembling one of of Mailer's characters. Marshal claimed he'd never met anyone who would admit to that.
Now, I haven't read the book, so I can't really talk about that specifically, but I do think that Marshal brought up an interesting point: people tend to think that people in fiction are "realistic" when they're fictional.
In my opinion, characters in films behave like copies of other movie characters, and tend to have very little to do with the way people really act.
Heck, I started getting suspicious of Hurricane Katrina reportage when I noticed they sounded like the scripts to post-holocaust motorcycle mutant films. Most people in real life don't act that way in disasters.
With Hollywood, I think you have a large number of creative people who are so immersed in other films that they stopped noticing how people actually act. When was the last time you saw a film where you thought, "Yes, that reminds me of Bill when he was divorced," instead of "Gee, that's just what the Final Girl in Friday 13th MCM did?"
And isn't that sort of weird?
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Terrahawk
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 08/11/2006 : 8:06:12 PM
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Mr. Nowak, that is a good point. I think one area where it happens the most is the way women look at relationships. They expect these dashing, romantic men who somehow dote on them constantly while pulling down a large income.
The ROPe gives you three options, convert, submit, or die. There is a fourth, resist. |
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John Nowak
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
1017 Posts |
Posted - 08/11/2006 : 8:09:44 PM
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Yeah, or guys looking for teenaged models with implants...
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Renfield
Minister of the Sacraments of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 08/12/2006 : 4:35:29 PM
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an anecdote told by SLA Marshal, who was a US Army historian. He said that he liked to bring up Norman Mailer's book, _The Naked and the Dead_ when talking to junior officers. First, he'd ask if the characters in Mailer's book were realistic, and usually people would agree they were. He'd then ask if anyone in the had ever met anyone remotely resembling one of of Mailer's characters. Marshal claimed he'd never met anyone who would admit to that.
Excellent point. After well over a decade as a military officer, I will state that I never met junior officers that even remotely resembled Mailer's officers in The Naked and the Dead. There's a first for you.
--Joe "Renfield" Meadows
HORROR-WOOD Webzine
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emdub
Altar Boy of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 08/17/2006 : 12:53:18 AM
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| I can't believe I put as much thought into this as I did but watch Wolf Creek and then take the entire first half of the flick out. Same movie, more time for previews. Or hell, take the second half out and you basically have the modern equivalent of the first half of Manos, HoF. Yes, if you're just joining us this is Manos, the Hands of Fate on ESPN 8, the Ocho. |
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