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How exactly was V.K. Konovalov sunk?
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This movie felt like an overlong season-finale episode of Grimm (2011-2017).
It merely used name recognition for its marketing.
I'm glad you recognize how much of a hack JJ Abrams is.
This was not even a sequel to Stanley Kubrick's the Shining, but felt like an overlong season-finale episode of Grimm (2011-2017).
LOL sure bud.
The golden era of the Simpsons was S01E01-S09E01.
If one consults ratingraph.com to peruse people's ratings of individual episodes, there is a clear dropoff.
A youtuber, Nerdstalgic, has a video, "The Moment The Simpsons Ruined Homer Simpson", watch?v=iKhQYYSqhgc which notes:
Season 5 and after: much of the humor came from one-upping Homer's stupidity.
Season 6: much of the original team was no longer working on the Simpsons.
Season 8: the writer's staff got significantly larger.
Seasons 9-12 were executive produced by Mike Scully, with Ian Maxtone Graham as one of the writers. Nerdstalgic notes a quick decline here, with Homer being self-obsessed, idiotic and completely inept, lacking no self-awareness, never experiences consequences, and is mean. The Homer, especially before season 5 may have been inept in many cases, but he wasn't emotionally brainless and he cared. That made people forgive him for his self-appointed hero status.
S12E05, where Homer maybe gets raped by a panda, is when many people turned it off.
I was a kid who grew up watching the Simpsons every weekday at 18:00, perfectly before dinner being served at 18:30. Immediately before it, at 17:30, was King of the Hill. Around the time of me being a preteen to becoming a teen, I grew to enjoy King of the Hill far more than the Simpsons. The last time I watched the Simpsons, I turned it off at the Ke$ha Tik Tok couch gag.
The empty set that is Val Kilmer's house is an homage to the painting "Pacific" by Alex Colville.
I wouldn't call it bromance, so much as professional adversarialness. Watch Point Break for that trope to be pushed to its most extreme bromantic tension.
"HER GREAT ASS" is De Niro at his coked-out finest.
A lot of guys came out of multiple tours in Vietnam as casual killers. I recall that interview with the guy who kept 36 one-sided ears on a shower curtain hook as a keychain, where he said something to the effect of at some point it doesn't feel like there's much any difference between doing right or wrong. I remember that part of the interview in one video played over footage of guys pumping poisonous gas into a tunnel complex, like they were exterminators.
Maybe DeNiro and the tower was between those detectives and the sun. I'd have to rewatch and scrutinize the shadows.
Yeah, if we're talking advantages, Pacino would likely have a kill any time he had ammo for that shotgun, and then with the light of the plane DeNiro had the advantage. Pacino, as an aforementioned marine multiple Vietnam vet, probably was just a more instinctive shooter.
I liked Waingro the most too.
I hated Rollins the most. I hate Rollins in general however for possibly being complicit in his boyfriend's murder though.
Edit: I forgot to mention, Pacino's position with the light coming on and DeNiro coming out is a lot like one specific segment of Rex Applegate's original World War II-era 1911 point-shooting course's live-fire final exam log shoot-house.
Most of the pistol manipulation in Mann's movies (after HEAT, less so for Thief, don't know about Manhunter,) seem somewhat based on Gunsite Academy/Jeff Cooper's pistol training. That last shooting possibly being an homage to Rex Applegate, Fairbairn et al. could be yet another way to depict Pacino's character as an O.G..
Thank you.
I understand that many movies and shows are made with close cooperation with the military's media liaison office. I can still enjoy movies and shows like "Generation Kill", just like how I can enjoy "Stargate SG-1" as examples of shows that made no vs the max (read: not "free & independent") amount of military propaganda involvement.
Bingo.
He's homeless so he's cleaning up in the bathroom.
You notice how the restaurant staff express some exasperation at him getting yet another refill, implying he's gotten many? Typical homeless person behavior.
When the Wind Blows (1986).
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