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Spider-Man: Across the Di-Verse
Aliens: "We don't understand the concept of lying and therefore you can't be trusted"
Would the First Order have tolerated homosexuality?
What could go wrong?
How does the finger clicking to make people disappear work exactly?
Old man death and the mallet
The kids
Will the tornadoes increase in size and power as the film goes on?
The Thing facing Kurt Russell at the end
Two seasons of Jack Reacher fighting all sorts of big tough guys
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Maybe for some people. Obviously in the 2000's is where his popularity really started growing with commercial and critical hit film, one after the other. That's where you'd point to a specific moment if there was one. If I had to pick one myself, then The Departed. By the time you get to the early 2010s, he's got enough hit films and performances for you to look back on and determine him a modern day acting legend.
I don't know if you become a legend with just one moment. Titanic certainly will have raised his profile but he was still I think thought of as more sort of just a heartthrob then. His films and performances during the 2000s is when people started to really take note of him as a lead actor with universal appeal. Let's just say by the start of the 2000s he probably wasn't considered a legend, and by the end of it, he was.
I don't think the character is supposed to be transexual in the series, at least I don't remember that being referenced anywhere. I think they just expected you to believe that this obviously female born actor, is an adult male character. Of course it wasn't very convincing as it looked like a woman or young boy pretending to be a guy. It did hint at him being homosexual though with the mention of him staying in Naples with Max.
Because Dickie was breaking off their friendship. Tom was clearly upset about it and snapped when Dickie started taunting him. It didn't really come out of nowhere, at least not in the sense that it wasn't believable. He then subdued him by striking him with the oar to stop Dickie from killing him. The series had Dickie tell Tom he should spend more time by himself in a friendly way and Tom then suddenly kills him. That was less believable. If they wanted the intention to be that Tom offed him because he was jealous of the opulent lifestyle and didn't really care for Dickie, they could have played it up more. It seemed to me like Tom liked being around Dickie enough that that wouldn't have been his first thought. Dickie was so passive as well, he even asked Tom to help him while Tom was beating him to death. It made me laugh.
I thought they should have made more effort to have Tom look and sound different when he was interviewed by the inspector, pretending to be himself. He just sounded and acted the same way he does when pretending to be Dickie. I haven't read the books but isn't he supposed to be quite good at that sort of thing? At least make it more realistic that the inspector, who seemed pretty clued up, would fall for it. Instead he may as well have been interviewed by Inspector Clouseau at that moment.
As for the photo thing, the whole scenario just seemed so implausible. They even have a very vague, blurry picture of Dickie from the back in the newspaper. How do they not have a good picture of him by that stage from the front? It doesn't add up.
It was a woke choice and it backfired. It pulled me out of my viewing experience seeing someone looking like a boy dressed up as a man playing Freddie and expecting me to believe they are good friends with Dickie.
It was quite noticeably woke. As someone pointed out earlier on this post, they made sure to hit the quotas for POC compared to white people and it led to too many main characters in the film. This was one of many problems. I mean the script for this film really was dreadful and I get the impression they were so busy ticking boxes they neglected some of the more important aspects.
The Simpsons doesn't need reviving it just needs to be ended. With each new inferior additional series the legacy dies that little bit more. Enough damage has already been done, nothing can change that now. The only thing that can change is how much more damage.
Yes I seem to want to compare to the 1999 film as well. I haven't read the novel or seen any other adaptation but to me the movie more clearly outlines the characters' motivations and they come across a bit more believable and make for a more enthralling story.
In the show, the killing of Dickie by Tom comes across as a bit sudden and jarring because he is neither shown to be particularly infatuated with Dickie, nor shown to be especially psychotic up to that point that he would decide on the spot he was going to kill him. Obviously the film's Tom is infatuated with Dickie, so the killing is somewhat justified as he is upset Dickie doesn't want to be around him anymore and they get into a row.
I don't know, there are quite a few things in this show I don't really buy in terms of the characters. Marge doesn't like Tom from nearly the get go but then seems to warm to him towards the end when there is even more reason to be suspicious of him, due to Dickie having disappeared. The character of Freddie was badly cast and with the way he's portrayed I just don't buy that Dickie would even hang out with him. At least in the film you can see why Dickie and Freddie would hang out together. They encapsulate that rich playboy, self-entitled attitude.
The whole thing with Tom evading capture was also a big suspension of belief. They seem to want to put everybody's picture in the papers relating to the murder of Freddie Miles, apart from the person most closely connected to it, who has also gone missing. I mean really? It would have foiled Tom's plans immediately if they had. Then dressing up differently to the inspector to pretend to be someone else, while acting the same, talking the same, and still looking a bit the same, and getting away with it. OK.
Great cinematography and production values but the writing and storytelling a bit hit and miss.
I'm not a homophobe by any means but our entry was just too much in your face gayness and yes, sleazy.
Let's be honest with SCD, is its audience going to be predominantly straight males? Cause I don't know any who willingly watch it.
The BBC's target audience seem to be gay people now. Strictly, Doctor Who...just look at who they sent for the UK's Eurovision entry last night. Luckily I've never been a big fan of Doctor Who so they can't ruin the experience for me by woking it up to the extreme.
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