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My sense of it is that a lot of people hate Jews, but until recently it wasn't acceptable to express that hatred, so they kept it to themselves. In recent years, racism against white people has become normalized, and after the October 7th attacks, the usual pro-Palestine hate mongers came out to support their cause, and the rest of the anti-semites realized they no longer had to keep their hate to themselves. If it was okay to ridicule and hate white people, maybe it was okay to do the same to Jewish people, who are more or less white people anyway. They tested the waters, found that not only was there no pushback but instead there was support, and suddenly it was okay to be racist, as long as the object of your racism is Jewish people.
I think Gadot is the hardest of the heroes to recast. She was born to play Wonder Woman. Batman, Superman, Flash and the rest are fairly interchangeable, and are more or less the suit first with most any actor underneath. I cant think of multiple actors who'd be fine in those roles, but not one that can replace Gadot.
It's clever and funny, but the sort of movie that isn't made anymore, so it may feel foreign to younger viewers. This feels akin to some of the early Coen Bros. films, especially The Hudsucker Proxy, and in some ways like a Mel Brooks film. It's absurdist, surreal, and full of quick, witty banter.
Wow, in today's Hollywood that's the equivalent to a pre-Covid $300 million opening.
It doesn't look too different from the talk shows of that era.
It's hard to imagine any fan of film not being excited about this.
Nothing in this film says to me "check out how weird this place is." It felt like an accurate and reverential depiction of the country. Besides, it was nothing more than the backdrop for the story. They could just as well have been in Montana, Louisiana, or Tanzania. This was about three brothers coming to terms with their upbringing and their relationships with one another, and their mother. Never once do I feel like India is being mocked or demeaned. I see three city dwellers out of their element, trying to process the death of their father and absence of their mother.
I'm not optimistic. They've brought in millions of illegals and are now registering them all to vote in the swing states. 2016 will be the last fair election the U.S. ever had. They learned from their mistake then, and will never let another outsider win an election.
He's the best thing in the film, and maybe the only truly great movie. Even J. Johan Jameson was off in this one, and he stole the show in the first two. This really is the worst of the Spider-Man movies.
In America, it's very common. Nearly all couples are of mixed backgrounds to some extent.
Why does this bother you?
That'll never happen! ;)
Great film. I have it on blu-ray.
Thankfully for fans, they did. Instead of another terrible Sony film with Garfield, we've been given the three best Spider-Man films ever, with more on the way. With Venom, Carnage, Morbious, Madame Web, and two Spider-Man films all being complete garbage, there's no reason to expect they will ever get the franchise right. Best to keep Spidey in the MCU so we can continue to see great Spider-Man films.
I think you're being sarcastic, but War of the Gargantuas is actually a quality kaiju flick. Or maybe you aren't being sarcastic, though you so often are.
I think the original King Kong, if that qualifies as a kaiju flick, is probably my all-time favorite. The 2014 Godzilla might be second, with the '54 Gojira up there as well, likely in 3rd place.
Kurosawa's Throne of Blood is one of my favorite adaptations of Shakespeare. I don't care that the actors are Japanese and not Scottish anymore than I care if they adapt Romeo and Juliet to an interracial couple.
The aspects of the story you are focusing on are immaterial. The story is about star-crossed lovers, kept apart, trying to be together, and meeting an unfortunate end. Their race is irrelevant. If you want to stage a historically accurate version of the tale set in Renaissance Italy, go for it. Cast all Italian actors. Maybe even translate it into Italian. Shakespeare most certainly presented it with all English actors, despite the likelihood of two prominent families in Renaissance Verona being all Englishmen was less than the chances of winning the lottery ten times in a row.
You are fixated on race, but the story is not about race. It can be told in any setting, featuring people of any skin color.
I'd cast Seth MacFarlane in Rex Harrison's role.
Do you think Butch did it in the bar lot? That wouldn't be very smart, as it would, as you said, be obvious who did it. More likely he either waited and followed Vince and did it, or happened upon his car on other occasion.
The clear implication in the film is that Butch did it. When and how is up to the viewer, but even upon my first viewing I wondered if it wasn't the boxer who keyed the car.
That's what I wrote. By new car I meant new in the parking lot since Butch got there, not that it was a new car. It was a classic car. But it's also unclear whether or not the two have met. Vince clearly recognizes Butch as a boxer, and it's very possible that this isn't his first time meeting with Marsellus about the fight.
Also, a classic car like Vince's stands out, and it's probably common knowledge to everyone that it belongs to him. And, when Butch got there, there were probably just two cars there-- the bartender's and Marsellus', so the new car would have to be Vince's.