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It's a really great film. One of my favourite superhero flicks. I love Burton's blend of comic book fantasy with the psychological truth of the outsiders and freaks. He does this so well in his Batman pictures.
My favourite scene is at the Christmas ball with Bruce and Selina dancing together and that big, hammerblow revelation comes along and knocks them both for a loop. Great scene, brilliant performances.
I agree that there's no hero, but I would argue that Abigail is the protagonist. We, as the audience, follow her story the most. She moves the plot.
It's very even in terms of screen time, power, dynamics, etc., but Abigail's storyline seems to me to be the focus. Sarah is usually the antagonist.
That's not to say that Abigail isn't villainous, Sarah isn't sympathetic, or that Anne never affects anything, but just that the story revolves around Abigail the most.
I think Isaacs' performance is fantastic, but the character isn't really great - it's too one-note. Again: Isaacs makes great use of what he's given, but it's just not that wonderful a character.
In the National Film Registry and anywhere else classic cinema is valued.
Star Trek or Wars? I only ask because you typed in Trek, but you're on a Star Wars forum.
If Trek:
I like the Motion Picture, most people think it's too slow.
Wrath of Khan is gangbusters (awesome)
Voyage Home is funny
Undiscovered Country is really good, too.
First Contact is a quasi-zombie picture in space - worth checking out - good action
I kinda liked Insurrection...most didn't.
Star Trek (JJ Abrams') is great fun.
If Wars:
Star Wars (Episode IV: A New Hope) is my favourite
Empire Strikes Back is most people's favourite (I love it, too!)
Return of the Jedi is good fun, gets a little silly at times, but has a pretty epic climax between Luke and Vader.
The Force Awakens is a killer action picture.
Mr. Gravedigger from his first album is a masterpiece.
We Are Hungry Men from the first album is also great, and an early sci-fi Bowie song.
Saviour Machine is another sci-fi great.
His cover of the Pixie's Cactus always grabbed me on Heathen
Everyone Says Hi, also off of Heathen, has always seemed so, so very sad to me. It's really touching.
For my money, the best ever is From Russia with Love. Goldfinger has always been a little overrated for me, although a lot of that has to do with how much hype it gets.
Too many to count! From top to bottom, I thought this was a wonderful film. I loved its innocence and charm, but I was surprised by how really, really funny it was.
Favourite gag that springs to mind is Mr. Brown on the phone with Curry: "It's Mr. Curry doing a silly voice!"
While I doubt he expected her death, Bond lives in a world filled with death and carnage. He's always prepared for the worst and uses assets, like Jill, to complete his missions. Not that he's completely unfeeling and uncaring, but he can be quite inured and cruel. It's likely he knew that harm or death were probabilities and took the chance anyway.
I'm a big fan of a bunch of Batman films already. I feel like Batman, Batman Returns, Mask of the Phantasm, Batman Begins, and The Dark Knight all accomplished what they set out to do. They're pretty top-notch. I can't think of anything that the filmmakers could have done which would have earned an R rating and that might have made the movies better.
Logan and Deadpool earned R ratings and were worth it. Would watching the Joker get much more sadistic be any better? I doubt it.
By Revenge of the Sith, I didn't care. The first two of the prequel trilogy were so uninteresting to me that I didn't bother going to see the third one in theatres.
Now it's deja vu, because I'm seriously weighing the pros and cons of seeing the ninth one when it comes out.
Emmy's the main star of the show. She's also entitled to ask for whatever money she thinks she can get. That's how contract negotiations work.
You're right, Macy's turning in a brilliant performance, and he's the biggest name attached, but after so many seasons, it's safe to say that people are probably tuning in to watch Emmy's Fiona as much (or more) than Macy's Frank.
I haven't watched a *lot* of the show, but from what I've seen, Frank is kinda like Jack Sparrow. He's killer funny, and a big draw, but you couldn't watch a show *about* Frank. That's what the Pirates sequels never worked: comic relief isn't main character.
But, the bottom line is that it's all negotiation: get what you can get. If you deserve a raise, ask for it. More power to ya'.
It shows the desperate and squalid conditions on the trip. It shows the edge she's being pushed to so that when she gets to New York, we understand how psychologically blasted she is. This informs her homesickness, speaks to her inexperience at travel, and shows the ordeals she endures.
Do we need specifically to hear that sound effect? No. But the fact that the movie unblinkingly shows these conditions is important to understand the immigrant's mind, psyche, and emotional state, and to show the world that the protagonist inhabits.
I think Sarah had love for Anne, but also craved political power and was certainly abusive; it looked like an abusive relationship to me. She gaslit Anne, belittled her, bullied her, and was generally very mean-spirited. So, while I agree: Sarah was in love with Anne, I think she was still an awful person.
Abigail, on the other hand, was motivated by personal social ladder-climbing, but once at the peak, I don't think she would have continued to bully Anne in the same way.
So: bullying with love, or manipulation with indifference/ spite? Who's worse?
Anne, remember, could also be petty, selfish, and horrid. But she evoked sympathy because she was being used and abused (plus a lot of her selfishness came from her upbringing).
Sarah also was wielding political power she wasn't supposed to have by birth or election. Abigail was spiteful, too (the rabbit's neck).
One of the things I love about the film is its ability to present a balanced triangle, people who behave badly but who aren't unsympathetic, either. It's a wonderful film.
Lack of political subtext? Iron Man was about a capitalist arms dealer learning the error of his money-seeking, murder-profiting ways. Politics, messages, etc., can be put into film without it being a bad thing. It's how it's done that breaks it.
That's a plothole problem with the prequel trilogy. One of many.
The dialogue is very good, but I would't say the film is, overall, a Coen-quality film.
I liked the movie a lot. I think it's got some great twists, but I think it's also a bit uneven in terms of tone and the subplots meander a touch.
It's like a B+/A- kinda range.
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Yeah, I can find a bunch of Seinfeld scripts online, but not Curb. I was just curious what they look like because this kind of outline-only scripting is pretty rare.
Yeah, it doesn't seem real. According to the cast, Larry David doesn't write that much dialogue. They say he'll only write a couple lines per episode (at most) and the rest of what he writes is just the scenario.