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Rational people.
Dirty Harry
The Enforcer
Magnum Force
Sudden Impact
The Dead Pool
I guess. The 3 in the middle are all about even. Dirty Harry is a little better, Dead Pool a little worse.
Then you watched with biased eyes.
Sure he did.
1. He drove 40 miles over the speed limit. That alone warrants arrest.
2. The officer was polite and formal with him, and he was disrespectful. He then disobeyed the police officer and refused to roll his window down. The officer could not see him behind the tinted window. He could easily have been pointing a gun at the officer. That definitely warrants him being asked to step out of the car.
3. When the door was opened and he was asked to step out, he sat there and didn't get out.
I'd say Hill got what was coming to him, but he didn't. He got off easy because of his wealth and fame. If you or I behaved like he did, we'd be in jail right now, and rightfully so.
Sad society that we live in if that's the case. Hill was treated with kid gloves because of his wealth. Had you or I done what he did we'd have arrested.
Disgusting is the right word. Hill's lucky he wasn't arrested for that behavior. Those cops were patient af
He's too tall.
It would be hard to translate that to film. Wolverine, in the comics, is 5'3. That's Pat Morita or Prince. Joe Pesci is taller than that. A 5'3, hirsute, unattractive character works in a comic book, but won't work in a film.
Random Instagram girl that a site-user is obsessed with. His constant posts keep pushing her to the top of the page, and now the rest of us are all chiming in asking "who?" and "why?"
My advice is to ignore the stalker, and let these threads die.
Your "evidence" is another post in you made saying the same thing? I'm not say she is or isn't, but you offer no reason to believe she's a he.
Pwinty looks 100% female, but who knows? There's no reason to assume she's a he, so unless evidence to the contrary surfaces, I think we're safe calling her her.
I can do a better Jimmy Stewart impersonation than that AI did.
How so?
Except at the end he didn't overcome anything. He knew when he got into the plane that the plan was for him to eject and save himself. If instead he *thought* he was sacrificing himself, only to learn after pulling the lever that it was an ejector rather than a detonator, THEN we'd have something.
Had they not showed us that Kochi knew it was an ejector, I'd have been fine with it. He'd have redeemed himself by making the tough choice he'd failed to make during the war, but survived because Tachibana came around and realized that suicide is not bravery, and what really matters is surviving.
Having Noriko survive is unforgivable. They may as well have had Koichi's parents recuperating in the hospital room next to hers.
I enjoyed it immensely, and think it's far, far better than the Pacific Rim films, which I think are terrible. I don't think it's as good as the 2014 Godzilla film. It's almost as good, but it makes a couple significant missteps, whereas the 2014 film makes none. What follows are spoilers, so anyone reading this who hasn't seen Minus One may want to stop reading now.
One of the most powerful scenes in the film comes when Noriko shoves Koichi to safety, and is then immediately blown away by the atomic blast from Godzilla's breath. She's basically vaporized in front of our eyes, and her death gives the film, and our protagonist, its most powerfully reflective moment. We see her death's effect on both Koichi and Akiko, and it's visceral.
When she later turns up alive, it feels really phony, and severely detracts from the movie's quality. Worse, it's telegraphed-- literally-- so we all see it coming. As soon as Sumiko received the telegram I knew Noriko was alive in a hospital somewhere, and sure enough, she was.
The other weak moment is the flashback where we see that Tachibana told Koichi in advance that the lever would eject him. I knew the moment he told Koichi to pull the lever before impact that it was an ejector, but it would have been far more effective had Koichi not known. That would have felt like a far more satisfying end to his character arc, with the cowardly kamikaze who failed to play his part in the war bravely flying to his death to kill Godzilla, only to be surprisingly saved by the man who most wants him dead.
Even though I knew he was going to eject, I'd have liked it better had Koichi not known. Having him know he'd live doesn't have the same closure effect as if he pulled it thinking it would kill him.
It does play into the movies message that what matters most is living, and sacrificing yourself needlessly is never the right thing to do, but I think you could still achieve that message without giving Koichi foresight into what the lever does.
In any event, beyond those two Hollywood (Tokyo?) endings, the film is great, and a very entertaining and thought-provoking story of Japan after the war, that happens to also include an atomic dinosaur on a rampage.
This is the 50th anniversary reboot with Ian McKellen and Tom Hanks. It mostly played the indie circuit so I'm not surprised you missed it.
He was fantastic. The makeup and costume rendered him unrecognizable, and he played the part so differently than any he has in the past. He's clearly capable of a lot more than he's been given to date.
It's like the prequels all over again!
Was it publicized at all? I'm a big fan of Dashiell Hammett and Sam Spade, and I knew nothing of this show until just now. Perhaps with publicity it may have done better? When did it air?