Again, thanks for spoilering, although this is starting to look like driving through patches of fog. 
What makes you think that? By the end of the film, he seems to be emerging from his state of withdrawal (implied when he stops the metronome, for example) and to be growing fond of Mills and his wife. I may have missed or misunderstood something in the film, but I don’t understand the basis of your conclusion.
Eh, it may have been up to a decade since I saw the movie and am just going to withdraw the comment.
Well, you may very well be right. I’ve seen it recently a couple of times on TV, but it was on in the background and I wasn’t hanging on every scene, as I’d seen it before.
One thing I’ve noticed about the film is that it might have benefited from a less modern form of filmmaking. There’s an outstanding shot of John Doe, before we know it’s him, standing over Mills after hitting him from above (he’s hiding on top of a truck). Remember that scene? He’s reflected in a pool of water on the ground. It’s incredibly ominous, but the shot lasts maybe a second, and I would have liked to see the camera linger.
I’m not a big fan of that movie, because as soon as we meet the Gwyneth character, I knew she was dead character walking…especially after she said she was pregnant. So, the contents of the box were obvious to me, and I couldn’t imagine why it wasn’t obvious to everyone else.
Which is difficult when people don’t give some indication as to what’s hidden in the spoiler so the rest of us have some idea if we want to click on it or not. (Not directed at you, it’s a gripe I’ve had for years)
Thanks for letting us know. We’re looking into it.
Seriously now, I agree with you.
@carrps: I know what you mean. I usually go into slow-and-dumb mode when watching films, just for my own benefit, but I had a girlfriend (the only one smarter than me, so far) who was analytical like that, and I think films should be made “airtight” in that sense. It must be very hard to write a good, solid screenplay.
I was an English major. I was trained!
He definitely threw away his shot. The “not throwing away my shot” line is intentional foreshadowing.
Just saw Heat for a first time in a while, it’s still awesome, but holy crap Al Pacino’s cop character is awful and should go to prison for the crap he pulls, failing that at the very least should get laid off on the spot with no pension.
I mean in the IRL LAPD this probably wouldn’t result in major repercussions but seriously in a just society a cop should not get away with:
from what ive read when the updated 90s version of that 70s show came out it was mentioned in interviews a lot of the adult actors didn’t know/realize that the original show was set in the 70s until the 3 or 4th episode …
I heard Debra Jo Rupp mention it here, but she also mentioned that it wasn’t called That 70’s Show yet.
I don’t remember there being a ton of references to the 70’s in the dialogue. Most of that was conveyed to us via the intro, the name, the clothing, home decor etc.
I could understand someone reading a script called The Kids Are Alright and, because they had no reason to assume it wasn’t set in the 90’s, might not have noticed the 70’s references.
But it kinda makes sense as the adults would have been in their 40’s. That would be like me, in my 40’s, reading a script and not being aware it was set in the 90’s until I get there and see everyone wearing JNCOs and flannel, all the appliances are white and the TV is the size of a small car. Even if there were clues in the script, 90’s references may not feel out of place enough to call my attention to it.
I read this before watching the video and thought you were talking about this show - which is kind of in the same situation. About the only thing in the script itself that would be a tip-off to the 70s would be the Irish-Catholic family with eight kids - there are still families with eight kids but they ae less likely to be Catholic than in the 70s.
I kinda look at like if I was handed a script, today, for Married With Children or Roseanne. It’s very possible I wouldn’t notice it was (mostly) set in the 90’s. I could easily miss, or dismiss, things in the script like a landline phone ringing or one of the kids lugging the textbooks around all day instead of having a laptop.
Way, way back in the 90’s I watched this completely bizarre movie called Motorama. It’s only even been mentioned on this board a handful of times, one of which was in a 21 year old thread I started trying to remember the name of it.
In any case, I just stumbled onto it’s imdb page and noticed the kid was Rusty from Full House.
It took me a long time to sort out that the song was “Sound of Silence” and album was “Sounds of Silence”
To get really nitpicky, the song was titled “The Sounds of Silence” on the first album it was on, but then it became “The Sound of Silence” for later albums:
I liked that show, and I was sorry it didn’t stick around longer. Partly because I like Mary McCormack, but I thought the premise and the kids were really entertaining.
I just found out that Dr. Evil from Austin Powers is a parody of Blofeld from James Bond.
I was watching youtube clips of The IT Crowd a while back and, even having watched the show multiple times, it was the first time I’d noticed the Flying Spaghetti Monster on the wall behind Moss.
It just hit me today that the band name “Nickelback” is probably a play on the word “quarterback”.