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And some democrats too, let's be real. There's a reason people compare Tracey to Hillary Clinton. Because Clinton, like Tracey, acted like she was entitled to the presidency (I say this as someone who didn't care for Trump either btw).
Did anyone else find Wichita annoying? If Columbus saw she wasn’t serious about ever settling down then I don’t really blame him for trying to move on either. And yet she and her sister weirdly resented him for it when they both opted to leave? It made no sense.
Having seen the bluray release, correct aspect ration is wide screen. Troma release is forced full screen for some reason...
Lots of the data has been preliminary though...it's safer to assume that anyone can be a risk than just one particular group, especially since so many Americans are in piss poor shape.
True that those with pre-existing conditions are the most vulnerable, but there are healthy people dying as well. This virus doesn't really seem to discriminate, that's what makes it so unpredictable.
This is the only response that aged well in this thread :( We've surpassed the Vietnam war in deaths.
Go to the UCLA Film and Television Archive. They have Free Admission.
I thought it immediately! I'm not gunna lie, it was my favorite song in the movie for that reason explicitly.
We really ought to bring back Power Ballads.
The only explanation I can come up with is that they didn't want to go up against Disney's Maleficent. But it was a very odd move.
I pretty much agree with all these points. The first point being the most important. I told someone recently that this movie's curse was that it had only 4 showings throughout the day because of its length. A film that long should have a short run in theaters and then be shown on Netflix.
This movie does not put Ford in a good light imo. So maybe the Europeans will like the film for that aspect alone.
It was amazing. This has to be (imo) up there with Vanishing Point as one of the best car movies.
Oh GOD I agree! I had absolutely glee watching <spoiler> Rose the Hat get her hand mutilated and watching all her friends get taken out by Danny. And the way they tied him up, it made my blood boil...</spoiler>ughhhh, really fucked up and disturbing.
Nope. The carpet was a Native American print, and while the shirt is definitely an Apollo 11, it serves more of a motif towards the benchmark achievements of the "Empire", and how the Empire often establishes itself on a global platform through scientific achievements (Apollo), events of mass genocide (The colonization of America and the Slaughtering of the Native Americans) and war (White Man's Burden, which is a poem about the Philippine–American War). In fact, a big thing about the original is that in order for the ruling class to thrive, innocent blood always needs to be shed, and how this penchant for evil is in all of us. This is why every century, someone has to be sacrificed for the hotel to survive.
Yep, exactly. It's become very obvious to people that critic reviews are just meaningless marketing now, and don't mean anything in terms of whether a film is enjoyable or not. When you have Indie movies like Parasite making serious bank, people recognize that they can get better movies outside the formal "Hollywood" system. Hollywood is just apart of a global industry, The 5 Studios are not the only film studios in the world.
See this is where the confusion was in terms of marketing. They really tried to make it seem like a sequel and marketing it that way but...having King's seal meant that there was obviously going to be a "compromise", which meant that lots of the subtle imagery and messaging in Kubrick's version would just get lost in this sequel. I guess they were trying to follow the Kubrick movie somewhat loosely based on the subtleties it's become popular for...but they had no choice but give the movie a King style ending<spoiler>(ex: Halloran is dead and consults Danny from time to time, the hotel is out of business but still standing structurally, but they need to pacify King and it HAS to be destroyed in the end and Danny HAS to be sacrificed, so that's why we get that ending)</spoiler>. I think Mike Flanagan tried to have it both ways, but there are things in this movie that desperately try to tie in both the King novel and the Kubrick movie and tbh I don't think it really works.
The best answer is it's more of a sequel to the 97 Mini-series, with some Kubrick references sprinkled in here and there.
People forget that the Shining took a while to make a profit too. Its appeal is largely cult based and I think part of the problem is that people who are fans of the Shining are not necessarily Stephen King fans but Kubrick fans, and that's a huge distinction. Critics were not as favorable to The Shining when it debuted in theaters as they were towards this one either. All the marketing and press might have worked in its favor but the better question is whether this will age as well as the Shining did. I'm a bit skeptical on that front...
Celeste took a gamble that in betraying Dave and trusting Jimmy, she and her son would be given mercy, acceptance, and more importantly protection by Jimmy and his wife for life, especially as Jimmy is about to restart his criminal empire and be a "King". But the ending proves that her gamble doesn't pay off, and she is left alone on that sidewalk, hated by her son, wondering when her "King" will come home as she meekly looks at Kevin Bacon and is ultimately viewed as a weak spirited woman with no integrity by the community. Meanwhile, Jimmy's violence is rationalized as justified grief masquerading as misguided justice, but it doesn't really matter because all that is expected of men like Jimmy is that they go on these violent sprees every once in a while when they are crossed, so just get out of their way. This one time, he is spared mercy, but the next time he goes off, justice won't be so gracious.
(Sidenote) Notice the shot of that Celtic tattoo when Laura Linney walks into the bedroom when Jimmy tells her what he's done. I think it was interesting that they went with a design that has a clover with 3 leafs instead of 4, like you normally see with Irish Celtic drawings. My impression is that the 3 leaves represents the paths each friend takes, and the rod going down the leaf in the middle could be representative of Dave's fate, how lines in the sands are drawn when there is betrayal.
Dave was too broken and weak to go on, and he was an easy person to make an "example" of to the rest of the community. You come for a man's child, especially a "made" man, and there will be hell to pay, and it doesn't matter whether you are guilty or not.
I definitely think, from the way the son wouldn't acknowledge the Mom and seemed disengaged, that Jimmy will meet his end at the hands of Dave's son. The way that Kevin first looks at the baseball float, then looks at Jimmy as he comes down the stairs and then puts his glasses on, and then he gestures...there's a strong implication there.
But anyway, lots of regal imagery, like when Jimmy talks about Katie's mom almost being like royalty.
In the book, Dave is a pedophile in secret, and killed the child molestor both to "kill" his emerging urges but also out of a weird, perverse jealousy. His murder is turned into a mercy killing of sorts towards the end of the book. I think this is why people often assume he too was a pedophile in the movie, even though Eastwood leaves it purposely ambiguous. I have to wonder what Clint's mentality is for omitting this detail from the film, but I can respect it, so I think people need to judge this movie for its own merits.
The use of water imagery in this movie provides a great motif for the flow of familial violence. It flows like a river, from one generation to the other, and depending on the choices each character makes, maps out their future and the choices that their spawns will make on their behalf, leading them towards different and lone detours. In a way, it's almost like a feudal hierarchy. I pretty much agree with everything written here.
My apologies for misunderstanding then.