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[quote]“I do feel really bad that this person was so impacted by this,” Dove told TheWrap of Argento. “But they should have told the truth. A lot of harm could have been done if they had gotten away with that.”[/quote]
Why feel bad that Asia was impacted by her own crime?? She's the predator here. Save your sympathy for the victim.
[quote]Hmm, would stem kill her though? She is no threat, he had no qualms about being seen as he was, once he was free. I dunno, but perhaps, as she is now the only remaining one who knows what is what, but it would also ruin his 'human' visage.[/quote]
He'd definitely kill her. He had no qualms about the policewoman knowing what he was because he was about to kill her anyway. If Grey's mother realized he wasn't her son (and she definitely would; his flat-affect and robotic voice were very noticeable) it would blow his cover. And he has no conscience, so he wouldn't hesitate to eliminate her.
I'm definitely in the "I like both" camp.
It works for me because they spend a good amount of time developing the more vulnerable characters (Miles, Teri, Ralphie, etc.) so that we can imagine ourselves in their shoes, using them as a way to mentally enter the world of the film. McCall is basically functioning as their guardian angel; that's the true story.
If it weren't for the focus given to these more relatable characters, the films really would feel shallow and one-dimensional.
I think a sequel would ruin it. It's more interesting to leave it with the dark(?) ending of Grey being trapped in a phony happy ending forever.
I feel bad for his poor mother, though. STEM will likely kill her as soon as he gets home. :(
That's the problem with equating the Equalizer to these other movie franchises: The hero here doesn't serve the same purpose in the story as they did. He's not supposed to represent how the audience members would actually struggle and endure weaknesses in the face of similar adversity; he's supposed to be an idealistic "balancer" of all of life's wrongs, to represent a perfect world where evil is always punished and the vulnerable are protected.
You're mistaking the intention of the movie and what the target audience is getting from it. We're not supposed to see ourselves in the Equalizer, but in the ordinary people he defends. The wish fulfillment that this character represents is that of some powerful, moral harbinger of justice swooping into your life to make things right.
You can't criticize this movie for not being like other movies when that wasn't even its intention to begin with.
We could easily say he was blown out of an airlock during the fighting and had been clinging to the outside of the ship, only just managing to make his way back in at the time Loki announced him. Half of the vessel [i]was[/i] missing after all.
Because "Earth hates Hulk", remember? So as soon as Banner got back to Earth, Hulk became pouty and uncooperative.
Exactly. He is a wish-fulfillment character.
I think it works for the Equalizer franchise. Your sense of fear is for other, more vulnerable characters, such as Susan, Miles, the co-workers at the hardware store, Susan's husband, etc. The suspense is in whether or not they will be harmed or whether McCall will be able to protect them.
McCall, on the other hand, is an agent of catharsis. His role is to even the score and to satisfy the audience that the victims have been avenged and the evil have been punished. If he becomes a victim himself, the franchise is no longer delivering the "equalization" that is its trademark.
Surprisingly good! Watch it as just a fun popcorn flick, though. Not something to be taken too seriously.
I think her hair is supposed to have darkened with moisture?
Anyway, don't think too hard about the wound if you want this movie to make any kind of sense. Just accept that it's set in a universe where internal bleeding doesn't exist.
I'm with you.
Whiplash was a marvelous depiction of the suffering some are willing to undergo in dedication to their art.
La La Land was basically just Hollywood masturbating to its own image.
It was all unnecessary. That was the point. He was a giant asshole.
Mine too. Brilliant and original. It's a classic.
Juno had a lot of marks against her: Killing Sarah's friend, sleeping with her husband, tricking her into going into a cave full of monsters.
I can't even blame Sarah for her reaction.
He went from being looked down on as less than human by everyone except the little girl, to proving himself a hero in the end by sacrificing his life to save the girl and the pregnant woman.
The audience underestimated him, the same way the characters in the movie did, and then he proved everyone wrong by showing his worth in a shocking display of courage and selflessness at the very end.
The character was effectively used to send a message that every human life has value, and that people may be capable of more than you might think.
I got the impression from her little goodbye scene with Tully in the hospital room that she was saying goodbye to her old self. I don't think she has to necessarily like her [i]chores[/i], but she no longer seems like she can't handle the stresses of daily life.
I liked the twist.
It transformed the movie from being about an annoying Manic Pixie Dream Girl who loosens up a middle-aged mom (an overused and forgettable comedic formula) to being about a woman who must say good-bye to an earlier period in her life and fully embrace where she is now.
Way more interesting and relatable.
39? Why not make it an even 40?
She was down inside the hole in the lighthouse. She was the one who dissolved into a burst of light.