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Exactly this.
They (wisely) made it quite comedic given the plot, it had bloody water like many shark movies, it didn't need a whole lot more. Higher-end shark movies have always been about thrills over grue.
It's been crappy since around season 4 or 5 though, when it moved away from case-of-the-week stuff to overarching plots and scenes that amounted to little more than Harvey saying "we're done!" and walking out of the room, or Mike calling someone a P.O.S. as he threw a file on to their desk, which they'd open, read one sentence of, and fully understand in its entirety.
Then Rachel would whine, Donna would solve everyone's problems, and Louis would screw up again.
Robin getting lost wasn't a woman's fault either. Get over yourself.
"should of"
Those in glass houses...
I don't mind that they've done this - the series was already screwed with beyond salvaging any coherence that captures all of the MM-featuring films.
I do wonder what happens when it rakes in trillions of dollars and their left thinking up new ways to carry on though.
Vince Vaughn's character abducted the baby Rex - everyone always seems to forget that and blame Sarah. She even tells him it was stupid to do, but I guess it's easier to blame the woman.
I see so many posts like this: it's Julianne Moore's fault everyone dies in The Lost World (even though Vince Vaughn is the one who abducts the baby T-Rex), Saffron Burrows' fault everyone dies in Deep Blue Sea (conveniently forgetting the male scientist); random female character's fault everyone dies in Rogue...
We get it, you like to blame women for stuff, even when it's clearly someone else's fault.
Because heaven forbid a smart woman with a British accent be worthy of survival - it would negate the pro-Christian subtexts littered throughout.
Carter should've died, his all-action, no-one-else-can-do-what-I-can heroics were annoying.
It’s that super deep voice. Studies show that people are more attracted to low husky voices.
She was the only Lois Lane to me and I loved her as Barb in Black Christmas.
There's an example of it on the 2nd page here. It went on, and on, and on for years with zero evidence Damien Cain ever existed.
Retro pop culture 'of your youth' is more to do with the age you were at the time rather than how good the movies, TV, and films were.
My 'era' was mid-80s to mid/late-90s, so I got to see the slasher movie revival, where people older than me complained like mad that the new films were rubbish, and people a little younger than me held up Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer etc as iconic cinema of their era, and thought the old Friday, Elm Streets, Halloweens, and Prom Nights were cheesy and stupid, whereas the age I was allowed me to enjoy it all.
It really comes down to what YOU and YOUR FRIENDS were into at the time, i.e. your point about 80s music being inferior to grunge - LOADS of people would contest that, not necessarily from a perspective of actual musical appreciation, but being the right age to consume it there and then; the first horror movies I saw as a kid hold a special place, but my parents thought they were awful, and in turn when my 12-year-old nephew tells me Saw XVIII is better than Friday the 13th I grimace - but it's about that first experience before you the shine wears off with time. I know most of the music that was popular with 10-12 year olds in 1989 was likely objectively without merit, but it doesn't detract from the nostalgia it conjures. People get too hung up on this stuff.
The kids in the theater watching this seemed strangely baffled by much of it, but I doubt they'll lap it up as their own, there's no present Back to the Future reboot/remake/reimagining for them to make that connection with, so they'll either forget that or get into 'old' movies.
Oh yeah, total load of crap!
It’s the least left wing film - non-white characters all obliterated in disasters confined to ethnic nations, British villain, all sorted out by straight white American guys!
"To even have to show homosexual relationship is shocking, to show it before even a normal heterosexual relationship is shocking and takes away from the story of the show and is a great disservice to all the actors and everyone involved. "
- How exactly?
- How does it take anything from the story, because you know you wouldn't be writing this if it were a straight relationship?
- How is it a disservice to the actors?
You're actively looking for ways to be offended. It's not like heterosexual relationships haven't been shown - it's the distant future, clearly people aren't hung up on who they love.
If you look at a TV show and see color/gender/orientation over and above story and character, then you're actively looking for things to go online and moan about.
Stop trying to intellectualise your blatant anti-gay preferences and go watch an Expendables movie.
People are too judgemental. She was the only one concerned for Chris's welfare after the car accident.
They just cast her into the 'annoying girl' mould a little too deeply, making it her who always gives their location away, lags behind, whines about things. I know plenty of men like this, but in film it's always a girl who has to be that character.
A 1978-set one would've been awesome, I agree.
Pretty sure Salva was tasked with reigniting the series before they'd release the big bucks for a 'proper' sequel. After all, it's a teen horror film and that demographic will have been toddlers when the first two were out. However, I'm not sure a 4th will ever spread its wings and fly based on the quality of this one.
It's literally 30 seconds on screen, if that. She provides a voice over, then is in precisely one shot.
I love this theory - it actually reminds me a little of how I always wanted the 'Final Destination' movies to unfold, with more theory about mortality and destiny rather than glitzy death sequences.
My initial understanding of the movie was that it was primarily about people who are connected/aware that there is more to our understanding of the universe (Donnie, the teachers, Cherita, Sparrow and those who are merely distracted by trivial things or accept everything they're fed (Sparkle Motion, the religious teacher) - a comment on how the less aware/educated somehow rule by bullish majority.