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1. The people who eat McDonalds the most are those who are EXTEREMELY fussy about food. They just want meat/bread/potatoes/soft drinks, and they view everything else as too hot/spicy/high-falutin'/foreign. I know people like this, and they just want to spend the rest of their life eating the same simple foods they ate as kids. They are AFRAID of trying anything new.
2. There's also the nostalgia factor. So many people's first experience of eating in a restaurant is with family in a McDonalds, and they never stop going because they endlessly want to recreate/recapture a childhood that has long since vanished. What the food actually tastes like is irrelevant to them: they're holding on to an experience.
Will wonders ever cease - who knew Beaumont, TX has a "really seedy section"?
(Never been there, natch)
Spielberg's classroom scenes were merely comic relief. Have you ever seen a real-life archeology/ancient history professor with "enraptured" students? I realize these movies are over-the-top, exaggerated fantasies, but unless perhaps the professor looks like Harrison Ford, I can't imagine it happening very often.
Dial of Destiny's classroom scene is by far the best, because it puts Indy in a real-life situation with 1960s summer school students who'd rather be anywhere else than with a 70-year-old professor who's ready to retire. (Believe me, I actually had one.) The point of the scene is not to make Indy look bad, but simply to show what an absurd situation he's found himself in.
While I am reasonably sure AreYouWetYet is no longer with us (after all, how many times can one "freakin the frell out"?), I could not help but wonder if it is even remotely possible that he is still watching this movie twice a day every day since 2002. Let's look at the numbers, and we'll forget about February 29th every four years just to keep it simpler:
365 days X twice a day = watching 730 times a year.
730 times a year for the last 22 years = 16,060 viewings! (Can DVD's wear out from over-use?)
I'm sure even Kowalski would find that impressive - have you seen this Kowalski?
Makes one wonder what AreYouWetYet did to earn a living, and when he had time to do so!
After all, we're educated about reality by watching movies!
If you had read the book, you would have known he openly admits that his motive for writing was not the game itself, but the MONEY that comes along with it. Michael Lewis is unabashedly, blatantly ONLY interested in MONEY.
Inside Out 2 in June!!!
There were probably enough profits to merit a sequel, but I think the creators realized they had done everything they could do with these characters in one movie. If they made a sequel, they would be accused of doubling down and repeating what they already did in the first movie (Rio II, anyone?). This is why most (but not all) animated sequels are not as financially successful or as beloved by audiences.
Epic is a perfect example of a stand-alone masterpiece that doesn't require "re-visiting" or updating. It's one of those films that never gets old.
I wouldn't describe the title as "bad", but rather UNFORTUNATE, as it tells the potential viewer absolutely nothing about it. This vastly underrated movie is now over 10 years old, and I can't help but wonder how many people saw and enjoyed it, but now can't remember the title.
Of course, it's based on a book entitled The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs, which also wouldn't have worked as a movie title, so what do you call it?
As the events of 2020 recede further and further into the hazy past, the filmmakers need to cash in now before he is completely forgotten. Get ready for today's stories in a theater near you in 2028!
No love for "Let's Dance"?
Inside Out 2!
Arkin!
You have to remember this was released to theaters before the original movie had been shown on TV/cable or released on VHS video cassettes. The average viewer just wouldn't remember the exact details of the original scenes, and there was no way to instantly re-view and compare the two scenes the way viewers today can. No matter how high profile/budget the movie/TV show was, in those days almost EVERYBODY reused existing footage whenever they could because they just assumed, "No one will ever notice/find out". So they saved a few bucks on those scenes to give us the big battle at the end.
If you mean healthcare organizations, they will do what they are doing now:
1) kiss up to Democratic Party agendas, in the hope of delaying/stalling the eventual arrival of universal healthcare and protecting their obscene profits for as long as possible, and...
2) desperately wishing they can be a part of the implementation of universal healthcare, which they will justify with, "We already have the structures and systems in place", and once again, protect their jobs/profits.
Blue Shield is currently doing this in California right now.
Season Five has more than its share of duds, but anything is better than Season Four, which has no redeeming value whatsoever. Maybe I just need to watch them again, but as I remember them, the hour-long episodes ALL felt far too drawn out with time-consuming "filler" and were without any new or interesting ideas to add to the series.
Definitely one of the best episodes, if only to see William Shatner in his 20s!
"By Grabthar's hammer, by the suns of Warvan, you shall be AVENGED!!!"
Shortly after "Video Killed the radio Star"!
ORANGE!