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Funniest character you've seen in documentaries
Question about uncle Bill
Did I enjoy this movie?
How would you try to rationalise the very first repeat?
An ironic thing I noticed
Are they really supposed to be old?
Something funny about the unemployment story arc.
Why was she blind at the end?
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One of my favourite scenes. There's a bit in it where the music playing at the disco and the ambient soundtrack mesh for a moment. It's right where Kyle Reese and Sarah Conner lock eyes across the dancefloor. Full body goosebumps.
Burning in the 3rd Degree is a pretty catchy song, too.
I did, but I think it was in about 3 or 4 sittings. It's not bad if you watch it like it's little vignettes, but it's hard to stomach as a full feature.
Probably Begbie is the more intimidating. Begbie wouldn't back down from a fight with anyone, whereas Larry strikes me as more of a chancer and opportunist who'd turn and run if someone bigger put it up to him.
It didn't take up much screen time. Besides, most guys watching this probably end up living vicariously through this group of teens for the runtime of the movie. Idyllic, nostalgic 80s Summer. Tight knit group of friends. Why not throw in the pretty neighbour girl who wants the protagonist for no particular reason? It's pretty common in teen movies. Why would the smoking hot eastern European girl in American Pie want dorky Jim? No real reason, but it's a fun fantasy. Wouldn't really sweat it.
She saw him as possibly the love of her life and was into the whole building a nest and having the pitter-patter of tiny feet in the near future. He saw her more as a woman he likes hanging around with, and was kind of just going along with her notions while planning towards his next climb. Clearly, there was an emotional imbalance in the relationship.
Although I find the idea of free solo climbing completely mental, it was/is obviously this guy's raison d'etre, and the thing that put him on this girl's radar in the first place and the thing that made him interesting to her. It's a catch-22. Convince him to give it up and he might live a long life, but he'd be dead inside.
Cage is one of those guys who bounces between really bats**t roles that you think will sink his career, then to making some brilliant serious movie that gets all the wreaths. You can't ever count him out. Unless he seriously p***es off the powers-that-be in Hollywood, that is.
Rick Dyer and Tom Biscardi are real-life comedy characters.
Dyer's five year old daughter knowing he was full of s**t was so funny, as was Biscardi's insistence on Snapple even when balls deep in the woods.
As I think was said in the film, the abortion debate strikes right into the heart of the human condition. Human beings whose brains are wired correctly will naturally feel a certain amount of empathy toward their fellows, or even things in which we find a sense of humanity, like a pet animal. And this sense of empathy makes it very hard for us to want to do harm to those things. Not that this sense of empathy cannot be overcome, but it usually starts with convincing ourselves that the thing is less than human. We see this in genocides - the people being eradicated are not human, they are vermin who must be destroyed. And it is often the case in abortion, too - it is not a person until it is born. Therefore, killing it is OK.
It's never going to be totally settled as an issue. I'm not totally anti-abortion - I can understand that there are times when it's medically advisable, but out my sense of empathy, I'd much rather it be done when the pregnancy is at the stage where it is little more than a clump of flesh that has not yet attained anything you could call consciousness. After that stage, it's a lot harder to condone it.
To say to the pro-lifers 'Oh, but do you kill flies' is to really ignore the fact that humans are walking contradictions, too. You could just as easily ask a pro-choice person if they'd ever kill their pet dog if it ever became inconvenient to have around. I'm sure you know what the answer would be.
That band were a bunch of posers. When I want authenticity, I listen to Joe Bonamassa.
It's a fun theory, but I don't think it is in any way what the filmmakers were going for. If you look at the mythology surrounding the film, it has no legs whatsoever.
"Their tapes, film reels, and cameras, along with Donahue's journal, were discovered a year later by a University of Maryland anthropology class on a trip to the area, buried beneath the foundation of a hundred-year-old house. Forensic examination of the site indicated that the soil and rocks above and around the site of the discovery had not been disturbed previously, making the equipment an out-of-place artifact whose presence at the site could not be explained by conventional scientific and forensic knowledge."
If Mike and Josh were the killers, how did that bag get there? There's nothing to suggest that Josh or Mike were forensics prodigies, or nothing to suggest they even studied it. They were both film guys.
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