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60th anniversary airing on Doctor Who Day SPOILERS
US version maybe coming in 2019
Season 9 so far
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I just saw it on telly, and ‘Everything I Do’ plays at the beginning of the closing titles, right after the wedding scene, so the confusion is entirely understandable. The music video is very memorable as well.
Whoah, dude, samesies, radical!
I'll get my coat.
The basic plot is written as "A civil war has erupted between an authoritarian United States government and various regional forces." You linked that authoritarian government with Trump on your own. But it's telling, certainly, a confession, if you will.
On May 21st it'll be 20 years since this was released. It's still talked about, just not on this site. Accuracy doesn't seem to be the point of it, but a peek into the psyche of mr. Sellers. The book was nasty, the film is rather interesting, if narrow.
How did you reply... with no mouth? <smirk>
Oh gee wiz, O Brother Where Art Thou has it's charms.
This one, I'm not sure. It's such a generic thriller piece that the actors seem out of place, like a parody of the genre.
Her condition, as you so inelegantly put it, is to have a name in common with The Princess of Wales.
Yep, I try not to be rude, but a very large percentage of OP's posts are unusual in their thought processes. Or to put it another way, avortac4 makes no sense.
I have to disagree with the face thing, he doesn't seem so vain that losing half his original face would drive him insane by itself. The step is too steep to be relatable. He also does not need his face unblemished to work as a DA. Plastic surgery exists, skin grafts, and face transplants. He could get his face back to a very high degree within a few years at most.
Rachel's death and the loss of a future life together must be traumatic, but he knows the police and Batman were doing everything they could. There's no reason for an intelligent man to turn on them. He doesn't seem so unstable to accept the world view of the very person who did those things, and that's another step to far. I certainly would not flip my world view so casually, and I sense that it would be difficult for so many others as well. Dent would need to have that bitterness, yearning for violence and misanthropy somewhere within him, and that simply is not shown or foreshadowed in any significant way.
Sure, he was ambitious and confident, but not a narcissist or psychopath to any degree. So the psychology does not work in TDK, certainly not in this very short descent into madness. The comics having an already unstable and in later versions abused man coping with his pain his whole adult life go insane makes a whole lot more sense.
So, in conclusion, it happened too fast and there were very few storytelling cues and details shown for it to be believable. If it had been slower, shown more and the 3rd film would have been about Dent, that would have been so much more enjoyable.
He's vulnerable and needs armor. Might as well look like it as well, so opponents might be deterred from attacking. Also, as has been pointed out, he's trying not to be noticed from a distance. His targets see him at the last moment, if ever.
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