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White people, wtf? No. Well-off people, yes. It was a fun fantasy story and the setting being obviously California and successful professional people therein, it was outside of my personal experience, despite me being a white person as well. That family wasn't dysfunctional enough to match anything I've seen or heard in my experience of life. But no problem - it was a delightful comedy and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Yeah, the whole surviving the desert AND snow, overnight, yet, AND then finding a sled at the top of the mountain, I was just going "WTF jumped the shark" over and over. Not that the first scenario from the start was believable either, but at least it was a futuristic high-tech world, one where you can control the number of occupants and kill of unsuitable infants. But the wild natural world isn't so convenient.
What satirical jokes are you t hinking of? Like the racist character at the beginning? He was cringe, but the response from the troupe of black workers was brilliant and the satire was clear.
Then again, when it got to the governor scene with his seminaked orange-clad redhead who was basically treated as a set of boobs as he addressed them personally without looking at her, it was just a bit paintful to realize that the two women so far in the film had essentially been treated as bit parts and butts of jokes. There aren't going to be any strong women in this film. I went and watched Kids in the Hall with it's many good female characters (played by males, of course, and very well.)
The songs were funny, but their production was a bit rough - except the black troupe again, with excellent musicianship.
I wanted to like it, but frankly the geographic setting was more engaging to me than the movie content.
Yeah, it was not someone from the restaurant or any 'real' person - just imagination of either Perry or Lydia. Yes, it could be another crazy street person who puts tinfoil all over his bike, but more likely a figment of imagination.
Not everyone likes Ethyl Merman. Her voice is pretty harsh and brassy - and his singing was a take-off of hers.
She won an Oscar for this, why? She played a stereotypical girlfriend who overdresses and is oversexy and smoking inappropriately, and no one else is smoking. She's a caricature. Maybe she did it well and certainly she was very watchable.
Not criticizing her or her acting skills. Not qualified to do that. I see that she was as emotionally expressive as possible for this role. I jsut don't get what's so special about this performance.
Recently I tried watching Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid. The sexism was even worse and less funny. At least Veronica got a couple punches in, early on. But now that she's perversely "attracted" to Burgundy because he's cute, there is no hope for this movie.
Plus Oliver was ... Oliver Cromwell, ROFL.
I agree with you that became clear throughout the film, especially at the end, but the earlier melodies sound like the Vanessa Williams song. Neither really suits the subject matter, in my view.
To me it sounds like a song that came out five years after the movie, 'Save the best for last," sung by Vanessa Williams. Bugs the hell out of me.
I have no idea if it's part of the real story, but either way it's ridiculous. River gold has nothing to do with hard rock mining. The only interesting part of that, ironically, is in the Bre-X story, the crushed ore was salted with river gold as an essential element of the fraud.
>once he has a conflict with his client Haller should quit the case
Realistic, and that's what I was thinking, too. But it would have cut the movie short, so they had to do the implausible. It was fantasy after that.
1. Doesn't matter. Clearly she has no scruples. She may know how to pick a lock or have a shady locksmith working for her.
2. Did they meet for sex? I thought she said in court she had seen him meet other people, but it was her first time with him.
3. I didn't get the impression she did. Maybe I missed it, but I got the impression Roulet has spies...which is easy if you have money that he does.
4. And beat them up? Apparently.
5. There was evidence against him for the murder that the innocent guy got life for. As the assistant said, there was a parking ticket for Roulet outside the earlier murder victim's house on the day she was murdered.
6. He didn't. That was not an antique collectible. That was a new gun off the street.
7. It was there, it was distinctive, and it tied him to the location. It didn't play a part in the attack, but it played an important part in the story, linking back to real estate as well as the mother and the earlier murder.
8. Because it's not worth it for Mick to lay charges on him for that. That woudl be like poking a sleeping pitbull. Mick needed to get him for something more substantial.
Good to see I'm not the only person who sometimes doesn't get the obvious things.
He didn't remember they don't grow in dirt, though. There's a reason they're found clinging to bark and rocks. You need to plant them in bark and rocks, not dirt.
Why did Eddie Murphy, one of the producers of the film, have to play the role of the petty criminal? Maybe ask him.
They were all petty building staff, not just the hispanic and the black woman. Guess you didn't notice all the white building staff.
"Fear of a black planet" -- hahahahah.
it was a funny portrayal. I doubt he would care.
Yeah, there was that implication that he looks like Adrian, but still we are told it's the mother's child, so... what... did the mother have a go at Adrian, too, not just Tony? If so, I'd think we'd have seen some hostility for her mother to make that clear.
I assume Tony was the father because of his evident attraction when watching the mother, her waving at him in that strange way, his comment on liking her, and the husband's comment that the daughter has competition (ie the mother.) But I came here to see what other people think, since I'm not certain.
Why would the boy be named Adrian? As a cover-up to the general public. Implies Veronica would have had to pretend it was her son all this time, when it was really her mother's. She wasn't maybe angry at her mother for screwing around, but angry at Tony for his nasty letter which I'm inferring may have tipped Adrian over the edge.