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That's a great point. T'Challa shouldn't have even taken the challenge. He didn't need to.
He was brilliantly menacing...the accent, the manic mannerisms. Serkis really should have several Oscars by now. He is great in everything he does. And he has been the genius behind the CGI acting in everything from Lord of the Rings, to Planet of the Apes, Star Wars, etc.....
Be sure to stick around for the coda after the closing credits. An extra nice touch...
Foebane, how old are you?
"I fondly remember it from the 70's as a kid..."
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That's exactly why it's still so fantastic NOW. And the other reason....is because it absolutely IS "dated", in the bext possible way. For starters, the whole magic and mystique of Jaws could never happen today. Jaws was the first summer blockbuster--there had never been anything like it before. If you're right around my age, you vaguely remember (as a little kid in the 70's)....the excitement and pop culture craze that Jaws generated. The t-shirts....the pinball game...the trading cards....that iconic score ("Donnn-da.....donnnda don-da don-da donda.....). My first taste of Jaws was getting to "stay up late" and watch it on the ABC Friday Night Movie (remember those?). I was at an age where it captivated me in every way. The music....the scariness....Quint was larger than life....Brody was cool and Hooper was their best hope. And the shark, in all its imperfections (by today's standards)....was PERFECT. Watching it was, for me, pure movie magic. Only a few movies in your lifetime will have that kind of impact. And today, it RARELY happens (but that's a different topic I could spend an hour on).
And Jaws was definitely a movie of its time. It was a perfect storm of time, era, place, tone, story, sound, look & feel, etc. And it captured the 70's, in the New England area, so perfectly. Back when everything was still so simple. You couldn't recapture that tone, mood and setting today, with everyone so connected with cell phones and the Internet. A "shark problem" wouldn't be as big of a deal...and by the second attack, everyone from Lester Holt to TMZ would be all over it.
Ahhh, the 70's. Just the perfect setting. One of my favorite scenes that really captures it is...the beginning of the scene where all the local fishermen set out to catch the shark. You see an old fisherman coming out of a bait shop with a sailor cap on, smoking a pipe. Pure 70's! Even Mayor Vaugn's leisure jacket with the anchors on it: perfect. The scene on the beach right before Alex Kintner gets attacked...with the baseball game on in the background on a transistor radio, and the faint sound of Olivia Newton John on someone's nearby radio....pure 70's.
Nowadays....movies are too polished, CGI'd and hip to have any character or soul. Much of what makes Jaws so perfect was....its imperfections. And the rest of what makes it so perfect is...it was set in the perfect place, and at the perfect time. You can't reproduce that magic. BUT....you CAN recapture it, every time it comes on. It's always a treat for me to catch it on a random cable station at 11:30 at night....because it takes me back to being that 8 year old kid, "staying up late" on a Friday night, sitting in my bean-bag chair, with a huge batch of popcorn and some Faygo......watching tensely as those first few tugs click away at Quint's fishing line, and he slowly straps-in. When you can watch a movie and have it take you back in time to the captivated 8 year old that still lives inside you, that's movie magic.
He's probably autistic. Trying to figure out what he's saying has become a unique niche about the show. It just is what it is.
Rick's a scrapper. In many of the fights he has been in, people have gotten the jump on him, or had some kind of advantage, weapon, numbers, etc. But Rick is tough and can take a beating, yet find a way to win when it counts. Example....that doctor/husband he fought in Alexandria a couple seasons back....started to get the better of Rick, but then he throws the guy out his own living room window, and out on the street, he managed to turn the tables back in his favor. That's how cops train to fight...they train to subdue people and get an upper hand when attacked.
When Rick fought Shane at the gas station, Shane was bigger and stronger than Rick, but Rick eventually managed to crack Shane in the jaw with his own rifle and get him on his knees. It's never pretty...but Rick finds a way.
How about when that group of 3-4 hicks had a weapon on Rick, and made him watch while one of them made sick advances on Carl. Rick bit his captor's throat out...and then advanced on the guy attacking Carl, and killed him badly.
How about the guy who had him at gunpoint in the bus 2 seasons back? Rick disarmed him, killed him....and then proceeded to saw the other 2 down outside the bus with his gun.
Rick got the better of Daryl in season one, when Daryl attacked him after finding out what happened to his brother. And heck....even in this last episode, Negan had the jump on Rick...the element of surprise, and a baseball bat. Rick found a way to crack Negan in the head, get him on his ass, get his gun back and elude Negan. (Granted, he probably should have gone back inside and shot him....)
How about when he was forced to fight the walker at the trash heap (with all the blades sticking out of him?) He took a knife stab straight through his hand, and managed to kill that wicked-ass walker with his bare hands and some cunning. He even disarmed the head heapster chick two episodes back....with his hands tied, using a speer and the severed head of a walker he just killed.
Not a fighter? How about the night Carl got shot in the eye?? Rick grabs a machete, steps outside in the middle of a herd of walkers....and proceeds to deliver the biggest singlehanded walker ass-kicking in the history of the show.
Rick's no spring chicken, and he's not particularly big. He hasn't been 100% since season one....and fighting in itself is exhausting. But he's a pitbull, and he finds ways to win.
He even kicked Tyrese's ass.