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No, she deserved that in the barn too, that was karmic payback for how she treated animals, they deserved to give some back, it's not like they killed her
Oh lord no, I'd spend each of his scenes waiting for him to make a joke
That's a wonderful suggestion and I'd love it, he's great. But I feel like since he's been so vocal about his bad experiences filming Star Wars, he'd probably be reluctant to join here
Disagree about Laurie putting herself in danger. She literally runs next door screaming for help and is ignored. She tries to call for help but the phone line is seemingly cut. She's also trying to balance this with keeping close enough to the kids to know what's going on with them. Wouldn't it be a shame if she ran a block away for help and returned with police 15 minutes later to find the kids murdered?
That's probably what they're going for. But they'll stretch it out too long. And during it, we'll meet new characters who will get their own spin-offs
You're presuming to know a lot about someone else's mindset.
I read that he wanted to be remembered for helping addicts *first and foremost*. Which I can understand, that's important work, especially if you've been there yourself. So I'm not sneezing at that. But I don't recall him saying it as "other than that show," or anything so reductive.
Now I'm not presuming to know his mindset, just generalizing here. But he, along with the other 5, repeatedly renewed his contract on that show. Meaning that no one *made* him stay. 10 years of steady work is a gift when you're an actor. And knowing that you spend a decade bringing laughter and comfort to people is an accomplishment. No, Friends isn't perfect. It was a sitcom with canned laughter and corny moments. And, like many things, some jokes that didn't age well under the scrutiny of today's eye. Personally, I think it's dumb when we try to demand that something from 30 years ago fit today's standards. People change, evolve, grow. That goes for Matthew Perry same as anybody. But that doesn't magically change the show's dialogue. It is what it is, live with it.
As for me, I'll always love Friends. Two years ago, my dad died after an illness. My memory for the first few months after is mostly blank, because grief is weird. But something I remember is that I marathon watched all 10 seasons of Friends, because it was comfortable, and something I could handle. And Matthew Perry was 1/6th of that. Not that I meant anything to Matthew Perry. But if I could work 10 years on a project that would decades later comfort someone in a dark hour, well, worse could be said.
Severely underused.
Always assumed that there's a bit more to Hawkins's backstory in that regard, like after '78 he was viewed as too unstable to be in charge? That's not actually what I think, just sort of a random example as I type.
Barker seemed to exist primarily to remind us that Hawkins wasn't the only/top cop
Meh, MCU has recast plenty before, and had various iterations of Thanos before they finally stuck with Brolin. Just recast and be done.
Comments like this make me wish there was a 'like' button a la facebook
Even so, a mention or two won't be the same as Niles reciting a recent adventure of hers nearly episode
And I was right. This only bore the vaguest of similarities to the book. A few things from the book made it but even those were changed a lot.
I don't really have much to add, but I think this is a well thought-out post, the kind of which we don't see here often, so thank you.
Also I think this movie is destined to go down as one that people will always wonder about. Like if George Lucas had done his Sequel Trilogy. Or if Joel Schumacher had gotten to do another Batman movie.
Feels like Disney did it as revenge for the strikes
They get kicked out for some sort of religious differences, always seemed to me that they may have somehow been overzealous. And the witch targeted them because they were there, they moved nearby her.
I think the subtlety actually works in the story's favor. Shows how back then, a few things went wrong and your imagination and paranoia ran away with you, and you'd easily believe things were caused by witches, hence the trials.
I get what you mean, but it's also not necessary to not have that word either. And bear in mind the time and place, perfect wording wasn't of greatest concern, that guy wasn't Diane Sawyer, he was local yokel Jim who you also knew from bowling league.
He's just specifying that it's today. Look at it this way. The whole quote I posted, remove the last word, which is 'today.' He's a reporter, right? So if he simply says "For the fourth time on his journey across America, Forrest Gump, a gardener from Greenbow, Alabama, is about to cross the Mississippi River again" and then someone asks "When?" he says "Today." So he's just filling in that blank like a good reporter. And having just watched it, his tone and delivery were fine. You're overthinking it ;)
Okay I just checked it because of your post, I'm using the movie to guide me, have my dvd in as I type, so this is verbatim what the reporter says:
"For the fourth time on his journey across America, Forrest Gump, a gardener from Greenbow, Alabama, is about to cross the Mississippi River again today."
He's not saying it's the fourth (or second) time *today*, it's the fourth time *overall*
Lmao. Because straight people never think about sex? Which answers for the planet's general over-population lmao. Gay people, just like straight people, are allowed to be sexual without it being deviant and obsessive, you douche nozzle. Now go get in the kitchen and make your wife a sandwich for what would probably be the first time.
^You make a fair point, but I would argue it's just as much on society and Hollywood itself. Give us an unhappy ending and so many get up in arms about it and can't handle it.
I can PM you about it if you like