Aw, crud. Forgot that there are bare boobies at that link. Could a mod please break it?
Really? I thought Demi Moore told him that he had a reputation as a hot-shot who plays it safe, but not necessarily a loser. And Kevin Bacon at one point says that Tom Cruise will take a deal for his clients because he (Cruise) is a smart lawyer.
As for being a lawyer outside the Navy, what effect would a court martial and (presumably) a dishonorable discharge have on his prospects?
ETA: Furthering the theme of Tom Cruise playing dummies, what about Jerry MacGuire? The sheer work that went into preparing his manifesto, but no calls to his clients beforehand just in case he would (foreseeably) get canned?
I liked the movie Wag the Dog but I’ve always had a problem with its last five minutes. Dustin Hoffman’s producer character tells Robert De Niro’s political fixer he’s going to inform the world on how they put together a phony war to distract the public from a presidential sex scandal. Aside from the questionable need to blab to everybody about the plot for reasons only having to do with pure ego, Hoffman’s act is especially stupid since he’s supposed to be fully aware that De Niro’s character can have–and has had–troublesome people “taken care of” with the flick of an eyebrow. And yet, for no other reason aside from the fact his character has suddenly lost 100 IQ points, THIS IS THE ONE GUY HE HAS TO TELL. Of course, it’s no surprise when it’s revealed at the end that Hoffman’s character has died under suspicious circumstances.
I don’t believe the fifth is an option in a military court.
I don’t read a lot of comics, but that is probably the dumbest comic I have ever read.
Jessup didn’t think he’d done anything wrong. Plus, he’s facing this snot-nose little punk in his faggoty uniform who dragged him away from his mission for bullshit.
In keeping with the theme of Tom Cruise movies with bad decisions, Craig T. Nelson as the coach in “All the Right Moves” made a bad decision in the final moments of the big game when he told Cruise to make a play instead of taking a knee with a few seconds left on the clock. Of course he later admits it was a bad decision.
Hold your fire? What, are we paying by the laser now?
Albert Wilmarth, from Lovecraft’s The Whisperer in Darkness. I’d say…well, pretty much everything from the last quarter to half of the story.
I’d just say that the man was danged lucky that he managed to reach adulthood without anyone ever telling him to douse himself with A-1 sauce and climb inside a comically oversized cauldron.
I think the One More Day storyline from Spiderman comes a close second.
Cliff’s Notes version:
Spiderman’s Aunt May gets shot. Rather than getting help from one of the many do-gooders who could save her, he makes a deal with the devil. And when I say “the devil”, I mean he literally sold his marriage with Mary Jane to Mephisto, to save his elderly aunt’s life.
Just to make it official…how many characters, exactly, would have been willing and able to save her life? Even excluding the ones who’d only be able to cut off her head and put it on a robot body, or turn her into a form of undead that has only a middling chance of resisting murderous anthropophagic urges?
Even if I agreed with this (and I don’t necessarily do), who was going to kill Adrian? Nite Owl, Rorschach and Silk Spectre were all clearly outclassed by him. Jon was the only one capable of doing so, and he clearly didn’t give a damn about much of anything by then. He killed Rorschach to prevent him from screwing up Adrian’s plan, but killing Adrian wouldn’t have changed matters either way.
Hey! You don’t make the budget Terry!
I was exaggerating, but just among the X-Men I know of Angel and Elixir - compared to saving someone whose heart was ripped out, a gunshot wound shouldn’t be that much more difficult.
Even if she couldn’t be saved, there’s a reason that making deals with the devil is seen as a bad thing.
In his - sort of - defense, Spidey went to both Iron Man and Dr. Strange to try and save Aunt May before resorting to the Mephisto option. And Iron Man at least totally funded May’s medical care. Also, Spidey was an outlaw at the time, and he couldn’t just approach anyone in the hero community with any assurance that they wouldn’t just knock him out and hand him over to S.H.I.E.L.D…
It was an extremely stupid story, and it was of course an idiotic decision on Spidey’s part, but he did at least try to get some outside help before going straight to the Devil.
Moreover, the story could have been made to make more sense by having Mary Jane be the one to be shot, and having her die instantly. The shooting would have had to take place later in the arc, of course, but I can easily see Peter agreeing to give up his marriage–even the existence of his marriage–to bring MJ back.
Oh hey, don’t get me wrong, I’m with you all the way on the life-saving plan…I was just curious if the number of potential Marvel-U healers was actually small enough that I could count them without using my toes.
Ditto too the whole devil angle. I guess the Parkers hoping heaven looks kindly on a deal like that, even if it “works,” instead of playing whatever awful hand fate dealt them? 'Cause, y’know, there’s so much case precedent in their favor. :smack:
At the end of Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee one of the main characters moves out to the Eastern Cape of South Africa. Her farm helper/fix it man wants her farm, she refuses to leave, he is indirectly involved in her rape.
At the end of the book she decides to live on the farm she’s given up ownership of and do chores with the man that raped her.
Sure there’s tons of symbolism and complexity but at some point you just have to say “bullshit” and throw the book…and I did.
Which is particularly idiotic because, not to be too cold-blooded about this, Aunt May is something like 90 years old and, if I recall correctly, has been in failing health forever. She could be carried off by a summer cold.
I’ll bring up one just because it epitomized the whole spirit of the movie – in Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull of Connect-the-Dot-Fight-Sequences, Indy and the kid are chased through College Town, USA by evil Russian agents. After they make their daring escape (and cause thousands of dollars in property damage), they go … to Indy’s home for a nice cup of tea and some research. Which is * certainly * not the first place that the evil Russian agents would look for them.
Of course not. They’d have to be complete idiots to go there, and the Russians surely know Indy isn’t an idiot. It’s all reverse psychology, see?
One of Asimov’s two pure mystery novels, Murder at the ABA: Halfway through the book, shortly after the murder, the protagonist discovers incontrovertibly that One of the two security guards in the building who are supposedly investigating the murder, is covering up evidence of an extensive heroin-smuggling scheme that’s centered in the hotel, by hiding the fact that heroin was found in the murder victim’s room. But he simply discards this fact, because of course, there’s no chance whatsoever that a heroin-smuggling network could in any way be possibly connected to the murder, and even if it was, the security guard is probably just covering it up because he doesn’t want bad PR for the hotel.
OK, so you still need some more clues to put everything together, but still, a murder mystery gets a lot less interesting when you’ve reduced it to only two plausible suspects.
What exactly does “indirectly involved with her rape” mean? And does the character in question actually cohabit with the direct,physical rapist?