But it seemed like his usefulness was in the past, yet there they were pushing papers and being busy in their paneled offices.
In the ending of The Mist, I’d have the army show up just a couple of minutes earlier. They are all in the car, they hear ominous noises approaching, and it’s the army. T.h.e. E.n.d.
Oh god no - the ending of The Mist is one of the best endings of all time!
There should have been a much longer time between running out of gas and using the pop gun. A couple of uncomfortable days?
The behemoth should have been bigger. Much bigger.
Likewise, I want Keanu Reeves replaced in The Devil’s Advocate with someone better at acting. Brad Pitt, maybe. Keanu is an awesome person IRL by all accounts, but his acting range is not broad.
Chekhov’s Forcefield?
A really minor one - at the end of Despicable Me when they’re all dancing, we should have gotten a Boogie Robot callback cameo. I mean, the joke was right there.
Or, Keanu can lose the southern accent.
In the beginning of the movie, he’s practicing in Gainesville, Florida (I recall this because that’s where I was when I saw the movie in the theater: there was an audible laugh from the audience when he held up a paper talking about the local sports scene).
Gainesville, although located in a part of north central Florida where southern accents aren’t uncommon, is also home to the University of Florida. So, it attracts people from all over the state, and the country. It’s entirely typical of people from that location to not speak with a drawl; I mean, Keanu’s character could have been a kid from Miami who came there for law school and decided to stay.
Speaking of accents, Young Guns.
Dick Brewer was born in Vermont, and grew up in Wisconsin and Missouri. He almost certainly did NOT have the pseudo-Texas drawl that Charlie Sheen gave him.
He portrayed a fine piece of wood in Much Ado about Nothing, though.
Near the end of Saving Private Ryan, the squad is saved by some USAAF P-51 Mustangs. And Private Ryan very clearly calls them tank busters. Now the P-51 was many things, but never anything close to a tank buster. And any soldier who could identify the aircraft type by sight, would never call them that. I want that line gone.
Or even better, the P-51s replaced with RAF Typhoons, the kind of aircraft that would actually have come to the rescue in France at that time.
If only it was clearer who shot Nice Guy Eddie at the end of Reservoir Dogs. Tarantino has admitted that he and the actors didn’t pull off that shot as it was written, but he’s fine leaving all the speculation around. Can we get one more take before calling it a day?
Speaking of QT, in From Dusk 'til Dawn, after he’s made his full transformation into a vampire, there’s one odd insert shot in which his face is mostly normal but for some fangs, and then he’s back to full-on monster. I never understood that cut, if it’s an editing flub or what. Excising that one shot would solve a flow issue in that scene.
I know the debate, but I still say that is an amazing scene and ending of a movie. I still remember seeing it for the first time and having to pick my jaw up off the ground.
The ending of Avengers:Endgame.
Cap goes back in the time-machine to give back all the stuff they …borrowed…to beat Thanos. He doesn’t come back with the machine, anguish augment, and then ! surprise! he took the long path of living the last 60 years with his true love! Awwh ! But that contradict ALL the film that stated that if you changed the past, you changed the future in another timeline.
The change:
He step out the machine, take of his helmet and, surprise! he’s old! Hulk freaks out and think something went wrong (as it had in the montage with Antman) but Cap explain that he he lived the last 60 years with his true (in another timeline) and came back with the machine (in the original timeline) after her death. Aaawwh! And internal logic respected.
I dont get it- bad memory- how did killing them save them?
Yep. Didnt make sense. But time travel never makes sense. Back and forth, at least.
It didn’t - they died a pointless death. But as an ending, it was a heart wrenching, desperate impossible choice that was incredibly realistic and empathetic.
Why would you kill someone who was about to(as you thought) die anyway? How is that “realistic”? To me is was just plain stupid.
To save them from horrible agony and pain. Is that a stupid reason?
Nope. Maybe. [no joke intended tho] The cite on Wikipedia goes to a 404 error page on the Hollywood Reporter website, and digging into half a dozen Google pages reveals a ton of forum discussions, but nothing more substantive. shrug
Yeah, wiki sometimes get a weird “editor” that adds something that isnt true, but isnt obviously false. Like the “lost” verse of Rock Candy Mountain.
I mean, there’s changing the past, and there’s changing the past; I kind of figured that, so long as he refrained from making changes that’d contradict the events of ENDGAME, no harm done?
Forget it, Jake. It’s the multiverse.