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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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I wouldn't put this in the so bad it's good category of movies. It's not brilliant but it's one of those fun silly movies from the 80's and with an IMDB rating of 7.2, you must feel that is way too high if you consider this a bad movie? The theme tune is actually quite epic as well.
I'm from the UK, where we typically do not get to see many tornadoes, certainly nothing like in the midwest states of the USA, yet I'm still fascinated by tornadoes and is what I think led me to seeing Twister twice at the cinema at the time. One of only 2 movies I've done that with. That being said, I don't really rate the film that highly as I've grown up, it was more the excitement of having a big budget film about tornadoes come out, as a kid.
So yeah you don't have to be geographically connected to the area to be appealed by it and this applies to pretty much any film. People who have never been in space will be appealed by space films etc.
You needn't worry too much. If this was being remade today for an adult audience, chances are that they would choose to go with the black female lesbian sex scene angle over using the white man. In fact the white man may just be reserved for the bad guy parts, including replacing the hispanic thief for one.
Yes I'm aware of the mallet part but I wouldn't consider that murder. It's more assisted suicide. If they were killed against their will then I'd agree with you. It's what the two elderly members wanted and if anything it was merciful to that man's situation after the fall.
Our differences of opinion on the morality of what they did more or less reflects the reaction of the guests in the film to what they saw. So it goes to show that scene and what happened after wasn't wholly unrealistic.
While they had just witnessed the attempted suicides of 2 elderly members of the cult and would be right to feel shocked and alarmed by that, they had no immediate reason to feel their lives were under threat. The cult up to that point had shown no signs of hostility towards them. Some strange behaviour maybe but stuff that they could simply put down to cultural differences and traditions. They were otherwise welcoming and friendly towards the guests.
Once the suicides happened, I thought the mixed reactions that we saw from the guests seemed about fair enough. It garnered extreme reactions from some and less from others but I doubt any of them enjoyed what they saw or agreed with it. The extreme reaction came from the English couple, who were very vocal and wanted to leave like you are suggesting you would do. They were obviously then tricked into believing they would be taken away safely, although I have to admit my suspicions would be raised to the max if I was the girl, that my boyfriend had left without telling me.
That said, all this is in hindsight knowing they were all, barring one, killed by the cult by the end of the film. So it's easy to say what you would have done while already knowing the fates of these people, or going into this film knowing it's a horror and that it will more than likely turn out badly for everyone. Without this prior knowledge and being in their same shoes having witnessed that, I don't know if you'd automatically assume you'd be killed if you stuck around for much longer.
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.
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