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No it isn't. Halloween is prime rib, Friday the 13 is a cheeseburger. However, sometimes you're in the mood for a cheeseburger and there is nothing wrong with liking one.
Ginny.
I doubt anything like that occured to either John Wayne...a Midwesterner born in 1907...or real life Oklahoma cowboy Ben Johnson. Men of their particular time and place either would have died laughing at that theory or got pissed...with Johnson tending more to the died laughing side.
He was busy on another movie and simply wasn't available.
Largely because Donlevy would have made a more convincing unlikable prick than the Quatermass Nigel Kneale created.
She's good in KNIVES OUT...and as far as BLADE RUNNER 2049, she makes you give a damn about what happens to a hologram girl.
Rest assured, he survived. The director was John Ford, and he lived another thirty one years, dying of stomach cancer in 1973.
Slavery was A reason, but not THE reason. Much of the problem was that for the first several years that the Mexican government allowed Americans to settle in Texas, they were lax about enforcing their laws (including the slavery ban)They just looked the other way about Americans not joining the Catholic Church, and 90 year servitude contracts were legal. But even in 1828- 1832 the Mexicans were nervous about American expansionism and cracked down on the American colonists. The latter felt double crossed that the Mexicans suddenly decided to remind them that they were now Mexican, not American, citizens. Plus, illegal immigration from the U.S to Mexico was a thing at this point. Plus Mexico was wracked by incessant revolts and would be for a long time. Plus Texas was part of the Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas, and some of the settlers thought that Texas could be better run as a separate state. AND, you had certain types wanting Texas to break away and be a nation separate from the U.S AND Mexico. And you had a movement wanting Texas to join the United States (egged on by Andrew Jackson)...and yes, many of those types in that movement and the independent Republic movement were slave owners. But given the political and cultural differences between Mexicans and Americans (some race based), and Mexico's lack of political stability, a clash between the settlers (and many were also from the British Isles and Germany, among other places), some kind of revolt was inevitable.
Why? He was a high spirited young man obviously misunderstood by society but beloved by his fellow gang members, killed in his prime by a sadistic old man.
Rick Deckard wasn't the life of the party even in the original film. Take thirty more years of life, stir in the loss of Rachael and the fact he had to give away his own daughter, and Deckard is obviously going to be embittered.
"no one really gave a crap about Valance other than his cronies" is exactly the same as "no one cared.
Very true...his lifestyle did him no favors.
Well, either Ryan was being delusional or Peckinpah was talking crap because the two didn't get along. William Holden's glory days were behind him, but at this time he was still a bigger name than Ryan. And Dutch, the Borgnine character, is clearly the second lead, so I'll go with Peckinpah being full of crap.
Well, Carrie Fisher died, for one thing, robbing Leia of proper character closure. It's pretty obvious that there was no real plan on how the sequel trilogy would progress...The Last Jedi sets up that Kylo Ren is going to be the Big Bad in the next one, but I don't think J.J Abrams thought that Kylo was a strong villain. So...Palpatine is revived without much in-film explanation past a repeat line from Revenge of the Sith. And Rey, Kylo/Ben and Palpatine are also far more all-powerful than ANY Jedi or Sith from the previous two trilogies.
Naah....they were equally great. This movie got de Armas KNIVES OUT.
But K is a product too...the only difference between K and Joi other than the functions they serve is that K has a physical body and Joi doesn't.
A lot of the point of the book is that Rooster's left behind in the taming of the West and is reduced to reenacting his former deeds in a Wild West show, and that he was the product of violent times. And what was he supposed to do with Tom Chaney and Ned Pepper, sing "Kumbaya" to them?
Lots of cuckoos posting here!
For the time and under the circumstances, the Japanese as a people get a reasonable hearing...although Captain Higoto and Sugi are stereotypes by modern standards, Higoto never acts in a hostile way towards the Americans though he probably knows what's going on and even gives Rick Leland a heads up that he thinks Rick and Dr. Lorentz are probably headed for a clash. And you WON'T find a Japanese comic relief character in another wartime propaganda film, though you wouldn't find a character like Sugi in a modern movie.