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He was an idiot for wanting a trophy wife and not caring that she didn't love him and not caring at all how she felt. And thinking that by showering her with expensive gifts she would change and become the perfect wife.
But you are 100% correct, all those things she did, she was one of the worst characters in the film ... He was a successful, powerful, intelligent businessman. He could have found an attractive woman who actually loved him as opposed to just grabbing the first hot girl that he was attracted to.
The unrated Robocop when you find out how Alex Murphy became Robocop.
Earl was supposed to show up to film Mr. Stone murder Mrs. Stone, but of course that never happened because Barbara got kidnapped. Instead, the police chief just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. It was hilarious coincidence.
Roger Ebert seemed to understand films at a deep level and provide interesting insights OR sometimes write a review that made it seem he didn't even see the movie!
I enjoyed the film, it certainly wasn't bad IMHO. It also shows you how subjective movie criticism is.
The most respected movie reviewer AFAIK, Roger Ebert, gave The Phantom Menace 3 1/2 stars, which I thought was one of the worst films I've ever sit through in a movie theater (slightly edged out by the even worse Attack of the Clones).
He gave the original Blade Runner 3 stars, A Clockwork Orange 2 stars, Donnie Darko 2 1/2 stars, Dead Poets Society 2 stars, Fight Club 2 stars, Reservoir Dogs 2 1/2 stars, Full Metal Jacket 2 1/2 stars, Blue Velvet 1 star, Harold and Maude 1 1/2 stars, Leon: The Professional 2 1/2 stars.
So all of those films, which are widely considered excellent films, are, according to Ebert, not as good as The Phantom Menace.
Another question: since light is photons hitting light sensitive regions inside our eyes, and the more photons per second the brighter something appears, wouldn't everything look very dark when Quicksilver slows down time?
Say he is slowing down time so it appears 1/10,000 as slowly to him. Wouldn't everything be 1/10,000th as dim as well?
Liberal reviewers are walking on eggshells criticizing this movie for obvious reasons.
Theonion.com, as usual, captures this perfectly:
Negative Review Of ‘A Wrinkle In Time’ Peppered With Critic Assuring Readers He Still Totally Supports Diversity
I was going to even point out how people want something new and different, and people are flocking to 'Black Panther' which is actually an entertaining film.
I was thinking the same thing during that scene. They were flying for a while, but I guess they didn't go anywhere? Why were they flying in the first place? To go nowhere?
1) People may not have noticed, but Taron Egerton is very hot. The moment this innocent princess laid her eyes on him, her panties became soaked and she wanted to get him out of that suit as soon as possible. She figured playing damsel in distress would work, and she was right.
2) Hundreds of people are violently killed in this movie in every way imaginable but *implied* (not shown) anal sex is what is offensive to people?
3) This scene is obviously a parody of the "oh James" sex scene at the end of most James Bond movies.
One of the many scenes where Kevin Kline fully earned his Oscar statue.
The look on his face when he discovers the "burglar" is Archie himself and the way his character reacts -- brilliant performance. He does such a good job.
His entire character is book-stupid and street-smart, the polar opposite of Archie (John Cleese) who is book-smart and street-clueless.
Bringing Kane into the ship and breaking quarantine was a major plot point in Alien.
From Alien Anthology Wiki:
Special Order 937 was a classified retrieval order given by Weyland-Yutani to Science Officer Ash aboard the USCSS Nostromo. The order's main priority was to preserve the Xenomorph specimen that was encountered by the Nostromo in the Zeta II Reticuli system and bring it back alive for analysis. All other priorities are considered secondary and all of the Nostromo's crew members are deemed expendable.