MovieChat Forums > AmeriGirl26 > Replies
AmeriGirl26's Replies
Amen to that! I still have good memories from when that came out.
It does bring up some interesting questions, and my instructor (who made us watch this in medical class recently) claimed it was all karma, because that bulldozer belonged to the deforestation company the blond woman worked for, and the series of events that followed was like the universe punishing her, but also making 26 million other humans pay for the greed of her company.
I would also like to point out that it was an ugly stereotype to show a professional cook working in a high-class casino, in a city, wiping his pork-slimed hands on his already dirty apron, like a common street vendor after handling a raw, dead pig. No cook in a professional setting like that would be so disgusting and lazy. China is famous for having very well-trained cooks when it comes to high-class cuisine, and to have him act so carelessly in the film is insulting towards China's best cooks. Not everyone in China cooks like an uneducated, dirty, street butcher.
It was a Rancor.
Despite the prequels not being as good as the original Trilogy, at least Lucas was in charge of the story-telling for Eps 1-3. I have no faith in Episodes 7 and 8 at all.
It's Episode I all over again.
No, and it bothers me that they had her dressed in the most impractical desert setup in TFA. I didn't mind the top, the wrapped sleeves, or the long flowing scarf she wrapped around herself, but the lower half was poorly thought out.
I remember reading the visual dictionary for Episode I, and a common practical fashion the people of Tattooine wore to keep sand out of their pants, was to wear long pants made of materials that could breathe and absorb moisture, knee-high boots, and then wrap their pants with rags or strips of cloth to keep the sand out.
And yet here is Rey, wearing knickers, with her lower legs exposed, and little booties, not only begging to get her legs sunburned or her skin peeled off by flying sand (from riding around on her speeder?), but with that setup, she would be dumping buckets of sand out of her booties every night after her daily scavenge.
Not the most intelligent setup, and it makes no sense for someone who spent years on Jakku to dress in such an impractical manner. It would have made more sense for her to do something similar to Tattooine natives (without knowing it, of course) and wearing longer pants in addition to binding them shut with strips of cloth.
The costume designer obviously thought more about making her look cool than having her outfit make sense.
I thought it was a fun summer movie. Not something to take seriously, but it's good entertainment for a summer afternoon. Plus, Benedict Cumberbatch was perfect for the role :)
I'm afraid the "get a magic curing serum from a naturally immune person's blood" is more of a sci-fi trope than a realistic one.
Not sure *shrugs*
I think the actress is tall enough for the role, and has the right look, despite not being the prettiest they could have chosen, but the Scottish brogue and the "wild, untamed Scot" look does not work well for her.
What I also find ridiculous are the clothes and overall look they gave her. They have her running around with her hair wild and messy, with a fake, heart-shaped hairpiece on the top of her head. They also have Mary wearing dresses made of DENIM, of all things, (when such a fabric didn't exist back then, and she's wearing a lot of styles that can only be described as "steampunk." It gets even better. She wears six hooped earrings in her right ear, which the real Mary DID NOT. Now there is a famous portrait of an Italian noble from that time period wearing six hooped earrings in their right ear, but that does not mean Mary did, or someone would have mentioned it.
To show favor towards Queen Mary, they choose a slightly less attractive actress for Elizabeth, and have her wear even worse clothing and hair pieces. And of course, once again, they give history the middle finger and have Elizabeth and Mary meet each other face to face in secret, when that NEVER happened in real life. They only ever communicated through letters and intermediaries.
Oh it gets even better. They cast a CHINESE WOMAN to play Queen Mary's governess and best friend! Talk about an anachronism.
I saw it about 2 hours ago while decorating our Christmas tree :)
I love this story :) It's sweet, innocent, perfectly clean for children, and teaches kids a nice lesson about being yourself.
My money's on the arcade. Many kids were like that in the 80s and 90s with their allowances.
Too early, pal. This film came out in '89, and the Dragon Ball Z crap didn't become popular until the late 90s.
And many of the reboots suck. This one will probably be no different. There's a reason you shouldn't mess with success when it happens the first time around.
I think because the concept is too brainy for the LMCD (Lowest Mental Common Denominator, AKA, idiots) crowd. Plus, most people have forgotten it in the past 25 years. Not to mention that the sequels they made afterwards stunk.
Just the commercials looked bad. I can suspend my belief of cities floating in the sky, or hanging in a canyon on another planet, but giant mobile ones on huge tank treads that "eat" other cities? Give me a break! And the constant shots of a girl with a red face cover got annoying because you don't know who she is, they don't give any hint of what she looks like without the mask, and there's nothing about her that makes you interested in her or her story.
Someone smoked some really good dope to write those books, because their bad-writing factor is kind of on par with Dr. Who and Douglass Adams' stories.
My 4th grade teacher played it for us at school. I had never heard of that movie before then, and then asked my parents why they had never told me about it. I learned later way: they both hated it and dismissed it.
4 I was bored, irritated, didn't like the dad, didn't like the way everyone treated Ralphie, didn't like seeing what the 1940s was like for a kid in elementary school, and it did not make me feel happy.