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I realize the OP was just kidding, but as to your point, stevewzard, a more basic flaw with invisible people is this:
They are invisible, presumably, because light rays pass right through their bodies, right? Then it would stand to reason that the light rays also pass right through the cornea and are not "stopped" by retina, but freely travel "through" it. The retina, then, wouldn't send signals to the nerve endings, and the brain wouldn't "see" anything. An Invisible Man WOULD BE BLIND! (This would, in fact, be a fun Twilight Zone surprise ending type story!)
Of course, I haven't seen this movie yet (;P), so it's possible the writers created some other cockamamie "scientific" theory of invisibility.
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if you think about it, there were only a handful of mobsters of that era who were famous, so it would seem most of the others were possibly doing maybe a bit better than "just getting by." Think of Bobby "Bacala" or Silvio on the Sopranos. They never seemed to be "working class" mobsters.
And pardon me for going a bit off-topic, but...
This discussion reminded me of a discussion I tried to get going years ago on the IMDB boards about "cowboy money." I've always been fascinated by scenes in cowboy movies when they're gambling in some dinky saloon in a dusty little town. They bet hundreds of dollars, which always seemed way out of line, when you consider a meal might cost 25ยข and a new hat might be $2 or so. But I guess it would seem a little comical to see rough and tough gunslingers sweating over a $3 bet.
The hideous hairy head on an otherwise hairless body.
Thanks, Devilman
I just found an article saying that the January pilot broadcast was a "preview" of the series, which will actually debut in February.
There is no single "southern" accent, any more than there is one "northern" accent. His was a New Orleans accent. (And there are a couple of those, in fact.)
When a well-known actor attempts a role outside his/her comfort zone or persona, I feel it's up to the audience to view the performance as if you knew nothing about the actor. If you didn't know Craig was British would you have enjoyed the show? If the accent seemed fake, could you be sure it wasn't a dialect you were unfamiliar with? That said, I have seen some films where an accent was wildly out of place or poorly performed, but not this one. At least for me.
And after the first few moments of hearing it, I was able to completely enjoy his performance.
For the same reason you wouldn't go into a Taco Bell and order a Big Mac. There's another place for that.
Star Wars is so f*cking into itself. What started as a fun space opera has become so artificially "spiritual" and "deep" it gives fan boys a hard on.
This is the kinda racist sh*t I come here to get away from. Don't seem to hear anyone complaining about all the perfectly wonderful white people in the vast majority of all other movies.
"...it provides insight into the strengths/weaknesses of the storytelling."
That's fair.
In fact, I do feel that when no one can figure it out, it almost always means the author hasn't played fair with the audience.
Nice. :)
Good to know that my complete adoration of the 1931 classic wasn't unreasonably coloring my perceptions.
This is like going to a restaurant, ordering the salmon, eating it, then saying "that was awful! And I hate fish!"
(I know the OP IGNORED me, but I just had to say it! Please, don't quote and reply; the OP may see it! ;)
Then why do you (apparently) watch them and even go to the trouble of hopping online to tell everyone that you do not like gangster movies?
Geez, I think one good thing about the dial-up modem days is people would think twice about going through all that just to make inane posts.
Kids are smarter than some people give them credit for. Throughout the film, she suspected her father and his associates were not honest people.
Literate parents can sometimes be "inattentive." They may see a trailer for what looks like a cute movie with kids and assume it's a cute move FOR kids. Next thing you know, their 6 or 7-year-olds are going around saying "f*ck this" and "f*ck that." This makes me sound like a prude, I know, but I am abso-fuckin'-lutley not!
I know this is an old thread, but...
I went to see it when I was a kid. I went to dozens and dozens of Saturday matinee; two feature films, 5 "selected short subjects"
This film did, indeed, have a gimmick, but it wasn't an electric shock. It was a simple buzzer connected to the bottom of selected seats...maybe every 3rd or 4th seat...something like that. I knew about it ahead of time and made sure I got one of the wired seats. It was a blast! Especially when the tingler gets loose in the movie theater and the screen goes black; "Scream! Scream for your lives!" (In fact, that's the only time I remember it going off.)
Every time I see a scene in a movie set in some odd location, like the moon, for example, with set pieces like those trains, or corridors made of concrete block with pipes and ladders and electrical fixtures...I try to imagine the builders at some point in the story's past constructing those facilities. I agree that the sets occasionally took me out of the movie.
Also, in dungeons with hundreds of candles, I think "who lights those candles every night?"
agreed