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Yeah, unfortunately, I think you're right.
The packaging is terrible! Overlapping discs that rotate against the disc below, potentially scuffing the playing surface. It frustrates me to no end when they package discs in a way the makes them virtually impossible to keep in good condition.
I like this interpretation. Watching Mr. Death get swept up in Bookman's pitch was impossibly stupid to me and kind of ruined the episode. I much prefer to believe he was just pretending
I guessed you missed the part where he advocates spending nearly 60% of the proposed budget on combating climate change ($100 billion on green energy R&D, $1 billion on geo engineering R&D, $30 billion combating sea level rise, $6 billion dealing with inland flooding, and $12 billion to engineer cooler cities (combat urban heat islands)).
Me too! Well, not a documentary, per se, but more some kind of comedy involving Big Tobacco. Imagine my surprise at that first gay sex scene. It was at that point that I realized this might not be quite what I thought it was.
This is really interesting to see the women's responses here. I never considered this before. I wonder how straight women feel about seeing two women making out.
Guy's an understated monster. That voice just hits the nail so squarely on the head.
The DVD has some deleted scenes that include additional performances, including Sister Sledge. It's all so good I can't imagine why they cut them out.
The old man was someone who helped get her elected (most likely some business tycoon) and thus expected her to be beholden to him and implement policy to favor his business interests. (This, by the way, is exactly what goes on throughout our political system and is generally the root of all of our problems in this country.) According to the dialogue, she didn't do this and instead ran her office according to her own ideology. She wouldn't do these people's bidding and thus they felt they had to do away with her. Hope that clears up the matter.
As for the acting, I thought Johnny Depp was a little wooden. I think he could have displayed more panic, desperation, anxiety, etc. given the predicament he was in. I thought Christopher Walken stole the show. He was perfectly evil and savage.
It was the doctor who was blackmailing Evelyn. Remember, her sister Julie confided Evelyn's crime to the doctor during her therapy. It was the doctor who then decided to blackmail Evelyn. Mr. Murray was supposed to pick up the hush money for the doctor (that's who Julie was waiting for), but Evelyn's killer got to her first. When Mr. Murray arrived, Julie was dead and took her body back to the doctor. At that point, they started scheming to trick Evelyn into thinking Julie was still alive, and thus, get the money. What I don't understand is why Julie was the one delivering the hush money. Obviously, that's necessary for the plot, but I don't see a logical reason for it otherwise.
I got so irritated by Fritz's tormenting. I think he did it because he was so used to being mistreated by Frankenstein that he saw the monster as someone who was even lesser than he and that he could take out his frustration on.
Even if it wasn't supposed to be in the '30s and they didn't have guns, they could have just waited him out. I hated seeing them destroy a perfectly good windmill like that.
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I don't remember that. He banged on the floor?
Yeah, I did, in spite of the fact that she's a sociopathic, manipulative murderer. Jennifer Jason Leigh played the character in an impressively complex and nuanced way that allowed you to see through the cracks of her psychosis to the very damaged, needy child underneath. I couldn't help but feel heartbroken by her portrayal.
What about Graham, her upstairs neighbor? How did he harm Allie?
What about the way she eyed the food and drank from the glass at the end of that scene. I wasn't sure what to make of that. If Chloe were sick, it's almost as if she wanted to catch it...or something? I don't know. I'd be curious to get others' thoughts on this.
MTulliver: "She wanted everything that Catherine had. Remember her looking at all the stuff in Catherine's bedroom as she's screwing her son in her bed?"
I interpreted this as her looking at Catherine's belongings in order to get turned on. Notice how she climaxes right after she starts looking at them. And I don't think she's getting turned on by the material aspect of her belongings, but because it represents Catherine to her.
It was intense and disturbing. Plus, the way it just abruptly ends makes it even more disturbing.
Hear hear!