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Yes, this is a variation of a movie cliche. You know the one...
A secondary character walks out into the middle of the street, turns to talk to the main character and seconds later is cannonballed by a bus, truck, etc.
Amazingly, the bus or truck never applies brakes, even though they've had seconds to react. (Humans can react in about 0.25 seconds).
More bizarrely, we never hear the sound of brakes after they smoke the character. Did they not slow down or decide to stop after killing the pedestrian?
"I guess I just didn't get that from the pilot - maybe it was a chemistry that developed as the series went on?"
Yes, it was this. A lot of it came down to the "will they/won't they" sex thing. Once they got down to it, the ratings started to decline. The showrunners didn't really know where to go with it. The actual investigation stuff started to take a back seat to melodrama with Maddie's running off, getting involved with Mark Harmon, etc.
There were a lot of tabloid stories of the tension on set too. Willis' star was eclipsing Sheppard's. It started to show up in the on screen stuff. The showrunners tried to focus on some of the secondary characters to reduce the screen time of the two principals. It only had the effect of accelerating the declining ratings.
I think it depends on whether you are an optimist or a pessimist.
I once read a review about the difference between the characters. "If Rocky is about finding victory in defeat, Rambo is about finding defeat in victory."
I always thought that summed up the characters pretty well.
Thanks for that.
It's not for me to judge the balance on his karmic ledger, but at least he has entries in both columns.
Not a single obit that I read mentioned a single act of charity, a single accomplishment that improved the human condition, no compliments from others, or observations about him being a kind and decent man...
That's a sad legacy.
I see the problem here.
I thought you were being obtuse, when you were just wrong with the facts.
Your post needs more melodrama and exclamation points. It adds that little bit of theatrical super-villainy.
e.g. "Death to all liberals!!! May they rot in hell!!!"
Such a weird vibe... Tim Burton-ish.
The "flaming dress" ballroom scene came off like some sort of masked super-villain revealing herself to Gotham's elite, just before Michael Keaton's Batman drops from the ceiling.
And that bit where she quotes in deadpan sarcasm: "I am woman. Hear me roar."?
Very similar to Michelle Pfieffer's Catwoman (Batman Returns) who does a bunch of acrobatics before coming to a stop to sardonically announce in a similar manner, "Meow."
I don't know a lot of their stuff, but what I've heard doesn't sound much like them.
I used to think Simple Minds sounded like U2, mostly in the way that they tried to make socially conscious music. They were often accused of being U2 wannabes.
Most people in North America knew them only for two 80s pop hits from movies, but a lot of their home grown stuff was very U2-ish. Belfast Child is pretty much a U2 anthem song. Replace Jim Kerr with Bono and Mandela Day would be right at home on a U2 album.
Thinking about it... who WOULD win in a match between Maximus and King Leonidas, both in their prime?
I didn't read your review, but your two-line synopsis is almost word for word how I would describe it too.
Educate us with some details of your understanding of a bot...
No, I guess being obtuse isn't a talent I have.
But I'm always willing to learn. Please share how it connects and contributes to this thread.
Brosnan did a Western with Liam Neeson -- Seraphim Falls although he's in buckskins for most (all?) of it iirc.
Timothy Dalton. No strict Westerns that I know of but he's appeared in some period stuff so you might be able to fake it.
A very young Roger Moore was in Maverick, the tv series.
Ha! Let me know if you do... would love to see that.
Give it a whole back story... the side of the Bond family that emigrated to the US in the early 1800s to seek land and fortune.
The "little things" are the things that misled the cops into thinking he was the killer. However, we -- the audience -- saw/knew "big things" that they didn't that clearly, to my mind, told us he wasn't the killer.
The obvious one was the opening scene. The second one big one was the fact Leto's character didn't recognize the girl when he came out of the washroom.
At the end, when Washington's character DIDN'T find the red barrette in the box, he knew in that moment that Leto's character wasn't the killer and that Malik's cop had killed an innocent man.
I would say no. All the 'little things' pointed to someone other than Sparma being the killer, although Sparma was clearly some sort of psycho himself.
And, it does leave the end with a dangling plotline... if the killer continues, Jim will realize that Joe lied to him with the barrette.
Normally, in these situations, I try to think like a scriptwriter and 'find' a solution for the problem. I can think of a few weak ways to get around the problem, but they are so weak and improbable that I couldn't defend them.
Thunderball by Johnny Cash?! Who knew?
Yes, it has a very "Ghost Riders in the Sky" vibe to it.
Someone with more time than me needs to apply to to scenes with Daniel "Cowboy" Craig from Aliens Vs Cowboys.
1. I'm not sure if #1 on your Worst list is the worst of the worst, or the least worst of the worst.
The worst of the worst for me would be Madonna.
2. Billie Eilish' song suffers from her little-girl breathy/ croaky vocals. I like the composition though. This mash-up of Skyfall and No Time to Die with vocals by Sorah sounds pretty good in lieu of.
[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNhW9rlLGsI[/url]
Oh man, I can see why she wanted that version of Thunderball dead and buried. Sounds like a electronic organ set to "accordian".
Dance Into the Fire... not terrible. I think if it had been more orchestral and less 80s-sounding, it might have worked for her specifically.
You Only Live Twice... some sort of breezy 60s Hollywood romantic comedy, probably starring David Niven.