I found the two-second topless scene featuring Charlize Theron in Reindeer Games to be unappetizing.
It doesn’t advance the plot (or the scene), it doesn’t fit in with a pattern of her character’s behavior in the movie, it is not a counterpoint to the violence in the movie, it doesn’t add any information to the relationship between her and her scene-sharer, and, worse, it’s the only bit of nudity in the movie!
That said, I had to have been unhappy with the scene, if I am bitching about any shot of Ms Theron’s nude upper torso.
I don’t think this is a spoiler, since it has nothing to do with the plot.
Someone mentioned the video game to movie Super Mario Brothers, and i have to agree. I LOVED SUPER MARIO when i was younger. The movie is not true to any of the material and it is crap. But…(there’s that BUT again)…it wasn’t given a chance to be made into a good movie. I seriously think that if it would have stayed truer to the source material, it would be a classic.
They make a big deal about finding the identity of Dennis Hopper’s character later in the film when they realize he is behind the bus incident. You mean they wouldn’t have done this earlier when he supposedely blew himself up after messing with that elevator? Of course they would have. They would have investigated the entire incident.
Then later when the bus is going through the airport and a big jet comes rolling out right in front of it? They forgot to shut down the airport and stop all flights? UNBELIEVABLE. Yet everyone was raving about this piece of hollywood shit.
Oh and I would go off on “Shawshank” again (another thread) but everyone gets upset because it was so inspiring. You know, the one where the accountant is brutally attacked over and over but tunnels out and lives happily ever after and this black guy is named “red” and the white guys dont fuck with him…etc etc
But it was a “masterpiece” so I’ll leave it alone…
He also described the bible. So i’m expecting God to show up with a plagarism lawsuit sometime after Jesus comes back and bankrupts every movie and tv and book publisher. Devine vengance at its finest!!
Jack@ss, did you catch the Ray Liotta movie “Phoenix”? They brought up this very point, and it’s the first time it occurred to me. It went right over my head when I first saw it at a very young age.
There are some movies, like “King Kong,” that I’m willing to forgive an awful lot for because they’re worth it, including the wooden acting, the carnivorous brontosaurus, the absurdity of sending a dozen men into an unexplored and viscious jungle hoping to rescue just one person, and the stupidity of flying your biplane within arm’s reach of a giant gorilla. And many CGI-animated movies today have effects that put Kong’s jerky animation to shame. But Kong still is the better story.
Hoosiers…1950’s basketball in Indiana. The final played against a larger school made up of intergrated high school students and coached by a black coach. 1950’s in Indiana I don’t think so, anywhere in the US for that matter. Jeeze!
Technically, it was some wierd mineral (I’m trying to think of the name, but the only word that keeps coming to mind is Tiberium, which is definatly not the right now), not ice. However, your point still stands.
Someone obviously quit reading the thread when became apparent few agreed with him. As someone else explained, Shawshank is based on a short story written by Stephen King. In the short story, Red was a white, red-haired Irish kid. By casting Morgan Freeman as Red, the filmmakers instantly made his nickname seem odd and added a racial element to the story. Silly move, sure, but it is hardly an insult to anyone’s intelligence.
Re: Titanic and Jack not hopping up on the floating door-- IIRC, when they first come up to the door, they both try to hop on it. Doing so, they realize that their combined weight is enough to submerge the door. Since it’s clear that only one of them can sit atop it and not drown or freeze, Jack has Rose sit on it. This all happens quickly and involves gestures but no lines, so the exchange is not obvious.
AudreyK, I had always seen the Titanic “floating door” situation as slightly different. When I was watching, it looked like both of them tried to get on the door, but in such a way that it was gonna tip over, so only one got on. It looked to me like if they had tried a few different ways of getting on the damn door, it would’ve been fine.
I don’t see what’s so farfetched about a black man with the nickname of ‘Red’.
I knew of at least two people, in two different parts of the country (both of them black people–one male, and one female) who were nicknamed ‘Red’. Both because of their light skin.
Or when the hero “knocks out” someone by hitting them on the back of the head so as not to kill them, but just to keep them quiet for a while. I have been hit by rocks, by a bat after I hit a basketball like a baseball and the bat bounced back, fell and slammed my head snowboarding and never lost consciousness.
Hollywood has completely distorted violence. Very few films ever show the real effects of violence and the ones that even try usually fall short. People would quit going if they became too realistic so we get fantasy.
Silent Goldfish, intentional or not, that was pretty funny.