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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
The scene with Oppenheimer's wife being interrogated
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I would say the one thing he does well most of all is his ability to create very good scenes of dialogue driven tension - Jules' and Ringo's confrontation at the diner in PF, Jules' and Brett's scene, the scenes in IB of the protagonists being interrogated, Candie at the dinner table in DU, and maybe the best of all which he didn't direct but still wrote, the scene between Walken and Hopper in True Romance. This is something that seems to be more absent in his recent films and from the sounds of this movie idea I'm not sure where they would fit in there either, so maybe just as well he plumps for another idea. You can bet your life savings that he would have fitted some close up shots of women's feet into it though.
Maybe he can play a trans character? It would be fitting considering his stance on the matter and I expect there will be enough wokeness to allow such a character to exist.
You can never properly tell from a trailer but I suppose when I saw that I did think there was at least some interesting imagery going on, so slightly more hope raised than when I saw the Exorcist: Believer trailer, which looked a bit more generic and reliant on fan service. That said, it's still surprising it's rated as high as it is.
The whole part about the aliens not understanding the concept of lying and fantasy really is rather stupid, not just considering how intelligent they're supposed to be and how observant of the human race they've been, but also because they've actually been tricking humans to see things that aren't actually there, basically masking the truth themselves.
It doesn't but it certainly helps paint an image of someone being more accepting of different people and cultures and therefore more likely to be good. Already we can say that the First Order aren't guilty of racism or misogyny. It makes it harder to buy that they are an evil organisation. They may as well just be evil for the sake of being evil.
The flitting between happy and unhappy in Dickie alludes more to his personality than anything. It's as Marge says on the boat that one minute Dickie can give you all the attention and the other give you the cold shoulder. However, towards the end I don't think there is much ambiguity in Dickie having lost some of that earlier warmth towards Tom, as a result of Tom's behaviour, the difference in their personalities, and the dependence on Dickie. Dickie is still happy to go with Tom for one last trip and appears to be in good spirits around Tom, probably more as a result of going to a new place and experiencing the music, but the underlying feeling is that he has grown tired of Tom and will be relieved when he goes, which he practically admits before getting killed. You can tell when you compare how Dickie acts around Tom at the station before their last trip to when they are at the station previously.
It must boil your blood to see all these Brit actors infiltrate Hollywood and take the roles of archetypal American superheroes - Batman, Superman, Spiderman. Kind of funny really, those are like your 3 most popular and beloved comic book heroes.
The film was pretty plotless and boring apart from the scene at the ranch and the ending. Arguably Tarantino's weakest for me. If the next film is his last it might be good timing.
I agree I don't think it happened and was just imagined in Bateman's head, at least a large chunk of it was. Straight off the bat, the whole section from the card machine to the call to his lawyer was obviously a fantasy. The machine saying to feed it the stray cat is already a dead giveaway and he couldn't create that sort of mess and not face the repercussions. Similar to the killing of the prostitute with the chainsaw. He can't magically make all that go away. The only thing that could really remotely suggest some might be real, and probably why the director put it in here, is the reaction of the estate agent at Paul Allen's apartment. She seems a little too disturbed by Bateman's presence, like more than from his acting all paranoid and almost as if she's seen something or is aware of something. Doubtful she would have seen bodies or body parts but could have been something else.
The Walking Dead ran out of steam by about the third season. I gave up at about season 5 when they couldn't find anything else in the story to do than for the main group of survivors to bump into another group of survivors in their protected little sanctuary, until all hell breaks loose and they are on the road again looking for another group of survivors to bump into. Hard to believe they dragged it out for so long and with spin offs that are presumably more of the same.
Honestly, zombie apocalypse shows and films are boring now and can't offer anything we haven't seen tonnes of times before. The Last of Us was the same, just with higher production values.
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