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I’ve always considered the last 10-15 minutes of August Rush to be perfect. He wrote the music to bring them together, and when the music ended they were together. Perfect timing, perfect ending.
I love both characters, but I’d go with Quint for two reasons. First, the scene with the piano wire shows Quint’s experience. Second, the scene with Hooper taking pictures of the shark shows his fascination with sharks, but he doesn’t seem to realize the danger with this particular beast. Quint has known from the beginning that this is a big, dangerous shark (city council scene). Quint’s hatred of sharks could certainly endanger everyone on board, but I’ll take his guts and experience.
In the book, a younger Ellen dated Hooper’s brother. She always dreamed of living the good life, and it’s implied that she settled by marrying Brody. (By the way, the book Brody and Ellen are nowhere near as likable as their movie versions.) In the book Ellen does have a one day fling with Hooper (it’s poorly written and out of place), but she does regret it afterwards.
The movie is superior in almost every way to the book. The only part of the book that equals the movie is the opening attack.
Ten years later and this comment made me laugh. Bravo!
Straight males aren’t homophobic, the correct term would homoabhorrent. The thought of another male touching them in a sexual, unnatural manner is abhorrent. Not everyone likes poo poo on their pee pee.
Wow, 2000+ years and Jesus is still intimidating people.
My wife and I just got back from the theater and we loved it. Just check your brain at the door, then sit back for a fast, suspenseful 90 minutes.
Agreed. My wife and I laughed our fool heads off. There are so many great scenes.
Wrong. Liberals use emotion, conservatives are more logic driven.
There was talk of people being afraid to take showers after Psycho came out. The Exorcist really frightened people and had the entire country talking. However, none of them had the power that JAWS had on moviegoers. It touched on something primal, and that fear is still there today.
Respectfully disagree. I think No Remorse is one of the best in the series. It allows for some much needed humor, let’s Jesse grow a bit in relation to his ex-wife, and takes a large part of the story outside Paradise (although I love that quaint little place).
Anyone looking for easy answers, fast editing, and always satisfying conclusions should look elsewhere. The Jesse Stone series is about a broken man, and that usually means messy.
The problem is the show became self aware after its hit first season. Once they began trying to be funny, it ceased to be funny. The producers should have realized what they had as they were doing the original filming, and then filmed enough to create a second and third season.
Wise move to have these on disc; I do, as well. Regarding the OP, there are lots of movies/TV shows the PC police will come after. These came to mind right away:
*Gone With the Wind
*Blazing Saddles
*The entire series of Charlie Chan movies
*All In the Family
Buy ‘em up now!
Agreed, it wasn’t short enough to be a mini-skirt. However, I did find it interesting that Sister Mary had a walk that really wiggled the bait. Check out the scene with her and Jesse as they walk down a hall toward the camera. Va va voom. Still, I think it adds extra shadings to the character.
Just wondering, why are you posting instead of watching the movie? Put the phone down, enjoy the movie, then post.
Hmmm, let’s see, the party of slavery, Jim Crow, KKK, segregation, abortion on demand, violence, looting, BLM, Antifa, and “mostly peaceful protests” is now the party that cares about people? Wake me when the number of COVID cases is equal to the number of people infected with TDS.
Getting....re-elected?
See you in November.
Very interesting. I’d never heard the story before about Carpenter making that comment.
I really like John Carpenter, and respect his filmmaking prowess, but I’ve often wondered if he WANTED Halloween II to fail. He’s been so dismissive of the idea of a sequel, and very negative about writing it. Add to that his interference with Rosenthal’s cut of the movie. (Carpenter claims it wasn’t scary, but that’s no reason to add in all the gore.) Maybe he felt a good sequel might take some shine from his original? As it stands, I love Halloween II, and consider it the best sequel by far.
I would say about 20 of the 60+ episodes could truly be called thrillers. Too many uninteresting crime dramas slow down the overall series.
I’ve always thought the joker statue scene was simply to frighten audiences. I remember seeing in on its initial run, and there was a quiet gasp, and then murmur that ran through the audience. I don’t know if people believed what they’d seen. I think it was brilliant on Blatty’s part, because the audience is busy thinking about what they MAY have just seen when he unloads the jump scare with Alice.
The hospital hallway scene is justifiably famous, but everything in the priest’s office, and leading up to the Alice jolt, is also very effective (and frightening).