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[quote]Does anyone know why that configuration? It made no sense, and doomed the ship. [/quote]
In retrospect, we do shake our heads that the top of the bulkheads weren't capped. But back in 1912, the Titanic was the safest design on the ocean by far, despite the uncapped bulkheads.
It was calculated that if the Titanic was broadsided, or hit an iceberg in a collision, the damage would be contained to one or two compartments out of the 16 that comprised the hull's bulkheads. It was known as fact that the Titanic could stay afloat with four or less compartments breached.
So, it would take an [b]enormous[/b] impact to breach 5 compartments... unless the ship had some sort of unusual scraping gash over a long distance that opened up 5 or more compartments to the sea...
The very unusual way that that the berg opened up a relatively small gash along a fairly long length of the hull is just one of the half dozen of odd circumstances that described the metric cluster fuck that was the Titanic.
It's much easier to fix a problem *after* it's known. For 70 years of air travel, the cockpit of an airplane was a door or even curtains. It wasn't until a group of assholes decided that they would meet their god and take a few hundred people with them by cutting the throats of pilots and flying those planes into buildings. Right after that: reinforced and locked cockpit doors..
After Titanic foundered, ship designers realized that a relatively small damage over a large area could doom a ship, something they either hadn't considered or thought that such an odd way of damaging the ship was such a long shot it wasn't worth mitigating with more steel. After the tragic less of Titanic's loss proved this type of damage was possible, ships were retrofitted when possible and new designs capped off the top of bulkheads.
When I die, I want Adam West's life to pass before my eyes..
Fair enough.
Bad supes is a rebel. No doubt about that.
According to the medical community, women who have borne children live longer by a measurable amount. Don't know why that is.
[quote] This wasn't a film that was meant to entertain.[/quote]
Which is why I didn't like it, why I'm sorry I paid money to see it, and why I recommend against seeing this to friends who ask me about it. Brilliant film makers like Hitchcock didn't need graphic exposition to convey horror.
The word "entertain" has many different connotations. I don't need a song and dance movie to be entertained. For instance, as grim as Schindler's List was, I was "entertained" by it. The story was compelling, the acting superb, and I learned a few things I did not know about an era that is a favorite subject of mine. Hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women, and children suffered as much during the Holocaust as Jesus did, and we all know about this horror - we just didn't need to see people graphically tortured to get the point. It's a movie I've seen several times.
The Passion of the Christ is more about the gruesomeness of a crucifixion and took great pains to make it as real as possible.
I'll continue to watch The King of Kings (1961) and recommend that film instead to anyone who asks me about Passion. Passions fails miserably against The King of Kings.
I've never seen a Terminator movie. Ever.
I learned nothing about the historical life of Jesus that I didn't already know. All I remember is two hours of a bloody beating.
When I learn something new, I find that "entertaining". I don't need a Mel Brooks version of the bible to be entertained. The movie was grim, and I learned nothing except how barbed wire rips skin off a human body.
No thanks.
You're right, Jack's personal life likely wasn't anything like Wood's. BUT, as Burk (above) said, the press was a different animal back then. It used to protect celebrities and politicians. For all we know, Jack may have cheated on his wife. Gut reaction is no, but it wouldn't shock me, certainly.
It seems Gary Hart was the first politician/celebrity the press really turned on. If Gary wasn't doinking that staffer, he would have been president of the U.S.
She came, she saw, she left..
Two and screw..
I also doubt it. My wife and I saw it in the theater. Three memories from the viewing:
1) It was two hours of a bloody beating. I learned nothing nor was I entertained (something all films should do).
2) Nobody walked out. Not one. Theater was packed. No one..
3) It was deathly silent as people shuffled out when the lights came up, presumably from the shock of what they saw.
She had plastic surgery years ago, and sometimes they don't age well.
Incredible body? Nice legs and backside but her chest is abysmal. Looks like she has two souvenir baseball helmets glued to her chest. No shape, no cleavage.
[quote]...they get mad when showing only nipples whilst in every second on TV hundreds of people are being shot,stabbed to death,tortured,raped.[/quote]
I think what this argument is missing is that those on screen being shot, stabbed, tortured, raped, etc. are not actually being so. I actually hate graphic violence and believe it's totally unnecessary for good film making, but everyone above the age of 13 knows the actors are not actually being shot or raped.
I would much prefer to see breasts instead of any graphic violence but I don't think one has anything to do with the other when it comes to rating films.
What everyone missed was that when Vinny grabbed Lisa to drag her into the courtroom, she was on the phone.
With whom? Judge Malloy, Vinny's friend and mentor. She called him so he would fax a letter to Judge Haller about Vinny's "qualifications" as a litigator.
Lisa was still pissed at Vinny, but was still helping.
Recall also when she was on the stand and Vinny asked Judge Haller for permission to treat her as a hostile witness. She said "you think I'm hostile now wait until tonight". Tonight means she wasn't leaving Vinny even if she was still angry with him.
[quote]Hell, you could even look at the three seashells as a solution to TP hoarding.[/quote]
Except the consumption of more Taco Bell would cause an increased need for TP and moist wipes..
[quote]The museum carry live ammunition along with the guns? Why would it have gunpowder anywhere near that cannon?[/quote]
So Simon Phoenix would have something to shoot!!!
Okay, playing writer, producer, and director here, I'm going to say that in Cocteau's world, no one would ever think of using a museum piece to commit murder/death/kill and ruin everyone's joy joy moments.
When I used to dates white womensis I taked dem to Mickey Ds den dancin and shit befoe bringin thems home fo mo funz.
LOL!!
Terrance Mann
[quote]I guess her first two aborted children would definitely NOT have been "perfect, loving,kind and inquisitive."[/quote]
Does she ever wonder about this I wonder?
A close friend of mine and his wife had an abortion while they were still in high school. They ended up getting married when they graduated three years later and are still married, have three kids now adults, and are very happy as a couple.
But my buddy is forever wistful when he wonders what his son or daughter would have been like, particularly when he held his son for the first time. The guilt is something they carried then and will until they die.
Adoption was not an "option" for them because it was the 1970s stigma of having a child out of wedlock that motivated their parents to "force" the situation. This happened three years before I met them. They are both firmly pro-life now.
There's enough ass for three women there.