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That's the weird part. Kevin's parents never seemed to hear a word about the Wet Bandits, not in this movie, or in the sequel, and there's no evidence that Kevin told them. On the other hand, they probably wouldn't have believed him if he told them he held off two cat burglars using nothing but his wits and traps in his own house. Chances of believing an 8-year-old telling you that are low without solid evidence, and it looks as if he cleaned up the mess before his family showed up.
No wonder Kevin said "Woof!" when he saw the photo.
1.) They're not the sharpest crayons in the box.
2.) It was a running comedic gag throughout this movie and the next one.
Honestly, the parents were idiots in letting the dad's brother get away with everything, and a lot of people in the room were feeling that way about Kevin because he was the family scapegoat. It's like, Buzz gets away with everything, but Kevin is always being blamed for all the problems in the family. It's a very unfair setup, and no wonder Kevin acts out all the time.
Dear Dummies,
For those of you who didn't study Star Wars Lore enough to actually find out, here's the math for you:
In episode I, Anakin was 9 years old, and Padme was 14. Episode II takes place 10 years later, meaning by that time, Anakin was 19, and Padme was 24. So by then, Anakin was [physically] an adult, while Padme had already been an adult for several years (I'm actually wondering if she even had a childhood, considering she was already in politics by the time she was 12). I would like to point out that there isn't much of a changeover in appearance for a most people when they pass from their teens into their 20s. This is especially true for young-looking people. The only things that change really, are hair and clothes fashions. Aging doesn't really become noticeable until they're in their late 30s/eary 40s. In Padme's case, she just got a tiny bit taller and had a more mature look about her, as well as a slightly lower voice. That's it.
She is technically 5 years older than Anakin. It made things awkward for them as kids. However, once he was 19, it was okay to pursue her as a love interest because he was old enough.
For those of you who are curious, in Episode III, Anakin was 22, and Padme was 27.
Signed,
an annoyed fan that had to answer that dumb question twice now.
It's all about popularity, rather than royal lineage.
He also should have never hired Hayden Christensen to play Anakin. His acting was so bad, that they now have named that particular form of bad acting after him! All he was good at was doing his own stunts when fighting, that's it. So many people have now called him "Whine-akin Skywalker," and pretend he never existed in the prequels.
I even went so far as to call Kristen Stewart in the "Twilight" movies "Hayden Christensen with boobs."
It's so ironic, considering how crazy everyone was to have new Star Wars movies after a 17 year drought. The craze kept on going until several years after "Revenge of the Sith" came out, and then a lot of purists started whining like spoiled brats about continuity and problems with the movies. Then everyone started jumping on the bandwagon.
I'll tell you right now that this film was greatly beloved when it came out, and it was part of one of my fondest memories of early teen-hood. It was so exciting to have our own generation of Star Wars movies come out during the millennium and I wouldn't trade them for any of the new crap Disney is pooping out every few years.
No, you want a [shitty] fan-made movie? Try TLJ. THAT looks like a really expensive, bad fanfic someone wrote and turned into a film.
Anyone who thinks that shitty A.I. movie is better than this has terrible taste in film. Hope you like crying and being depressed all the time. It's no wonder you're angry.
Frankly, I think a lot of ancient British medieval lore has been done to death. Why can't we try something else for a change? Like some of the lesser known stuff?
That's why we have had names for them in the past. "Dumbasses" is the most popular. "Cause Heads" was an older version of what some of them are called today: "Social Justice Warriors." Social Justice my ass. "The Mob" also works (not the mafia mob, but the kind that does lynchings). Another good name for them is "whiner babies," and "party poopers." "Attention whores" also works. If you want to make them angry, call them an NPC.
They really can't take a joke unless it's at their supposed "enemies'" expense.
It wasn't meant to be serious in this film, and if you listen to the entire scene, the moron/criminal being interviewed by Headley Lamarr listed "rape" twice on crimes he'd committed.
I should think you'd find "Stampeding the people and the cattle raped" more offensive. Those were good quality cows in that town, and it's a crime [on several levels] to violate such good beef stock.
I don't know why they included the Kansas City part. Heck, they didn't even CALL homosexuals that in those days. They used words like "mandrake," "Nancy-boy," "sissy," and "sodomite." The women were sometimes called "Sapphists," referencing the ancient Greek poet Sappho from the island of Lesbos.
However, this film was made in the 1970s, had a lot of 70s culture in it, and wasn't exactly historically accurate, and everyone KNEW they were in a movie, so it's not a surprise they'd use a 70s slur for gay guys.
Of course, Taggert was insulting the manhood of his underlings in that scene, so it's not clear if the white guys overseeing the railroad construction were gay or not.
It's called apathy, and frankly, we've had too much in this country these days.
A pity, it was one of the scenes that had me in stitches. Plus, it sounds like the language from your average Democratic convention! Or even your average Hollywood script-writing conversation these days!
Actually, every time I've seen it broadcast on tv in recent years, they always had a sound void when someone said the "n-word." It's silly because they left in a lot of cuss words.
Mel Brooks actually stated that this film couldn't have been made at all today. He said Political Correctness will be the death of comedy, and you'll note, there haven't been many good comedies to come out of the theaters lately, because a lot of idiots on the Left can't take a joke, and their jokes aren't funny.
Um, this movie has absolutely no connection to the newest Star Wars films. It was inspired purely by Lucas's "A New Hope." Whatever connection you guys got between them is totally imagined.