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But he only fought the assassin once with a sword, and beat her in the first attempt. Someone who can do swordplay while dodging a machine gun, got dominated by a guy who took 2 months of classes.
The majority of white characters are racist and evil because the majority of characters are white.
The only good characters in the movie are also white.
When she said 'find me', she probably thought the situation at hand was temporary. How many of us thought the same when the pandemic started almost 2 years ago.
It is natural for both of them to move on over 7 years. The only reason the guy didn't was because he couldn't get with anyone else in 7 years. So he pinned all his hopes on the one girl who had ever shown any interest in him. He would be the creepy villain if this was a different genre of post-apocalyptic movies.
I never saw the first movie, as it had bad word of mouth.
Watched this one, and found it meh.
Maybe the people who loved it had pretty low expectations after the first movie, or from DC in general.
Aquaman was painfully mediocre but even that got good reviews.
Putting his life in danger for the unlikely event of getting with a girl who liked him 7 years ago when they were both children is the definition of simping.The guy literally admitted that he should have told her he's coming.
The girl also did nothing wrong. She wasn't in a relationship that she should have told him about. And she wasn't going to unload some heavy duty stuff about a dead boyfriend to this guy (now that would have been leading on).
They both should have just stayed where they are and done the radio version of sexting.
Same movie, but from the POV of one of the victims.
Also, her big plan at the end is to lead him to her mother's house.
Her best friend dies.
Her brother gets set on fire.
Her brother's fiancee dies.
A guy she asks for help gets runover.
A cop she asks for help from her car window gets runover, and causes a pileup.
The movie plays it all off like a happy ending
I was thinking the same thing, that Unhinged and Falling Down are the same story told from opposing perspectives. Kind of like Letters from Iwo Jima and Flags of Our Fathers.
That's what happens when the crazy guy is smart and relatable, while the protagonist is insufferable and stupid. She could have put an end to her whole ordeal and put Crow behind bars in at least 5 different points in the 90 minute film, but she kept digging herself in. Nobody wants to root for an idiot.
George either drowned in the ocean, or has to spend his entire life on the run. Either way, he is trapped in his own personal hell.
Agreed. Anything above 100 minutes is too long for this genre.
Add Hereditary to the list. The ending was straight out of that movie.
The only loose end here is Steve. What's his role in all this? Well, the movie gives an EXTREMELY subtle hint here, that I caught only by accident. Right when the car pulls up outside, Paul immediately reaches for something on the counter, and is very distressed to find it missing. I didn't know what he was reaching for, so I rewatched the movie from the start.
When Steve first enters the bar in a mask, Paul almost attacks him with a baseball bat. On recognizing Steve, he puts the bat on the counter, and they make conversation for the next 5 minutes. Then Paul goes into the backroom to fetch the dad's ashes, leaving Steve completely alone in the bar. As Paul exits, the bat is still seen on the counter, but you have to look for it to spot it. The scene then cuts away to the driver in the snowstorm. When we come back to the bar, Steve is still alone and waiting, but the baseball bat is nowhere to be seen! We then see Steve try to suppress a smile, before Paul returns. This is the baseball bat that Paul looks to arm himself with when Michael shows up.
Clearly, Steve was running recon on Paul for Michael/Jimmy. He deliberately wears a mask to enter the bar, tricking Paul into defense mode. Once Paul's defense was exposed, Steve quietly neutralized it, making Michael's job easy.
Steve's motive? He held Paul responsible for his dad's death ("It was the bottle that killed him, and we both know who is responsible for that") and maybe he wanted revenge. Or maybe he wanted to be free of his debt to Paul and Stelly. This part of the movie is a little weak and unsatisfying, since Paul is really nice to Steve considering the circumstances, and helped out with the funeral and everything. So I don't know why Steve would want Paul dead.
When Steve first walks into the bar, Paul the bartender calls up some guy named Stelli to come to the bar. Through the rest of the movie, we see a car driving through the snowstorm, and assume it is Stelli. But the driver is revealed to be Michael when we see his gold watch on the driver's wrist right at the end.
Michael arrived at the bar to kill Paul. We know this from Paul's reaction to hearing Jimmy Thompson's name. He clearly knows and fears Jimmy Thompson, and is aware of his own approaching death. As for why Jimmy wants him dead, there's a tiny clue. Right before Michael kills Ken the Oak Room bartender (who he mistakenly identifies as Paul), he calls him a "fucking rat". So maybe Jimmy is a gang lord and Paul ratted him to the police? Anyway, that's really not what the movie is about, so the audience are left to fill in the blanks with their own theories.
The movie, just like Steve's story, tells us the ending before the beginning. The first scene of the movie is the end of the story - 2 men brawling behind the bar counter, as a bottle of Elk Lake Ale sits on the countertop. In the last scene of the movie, we see Steve place a bottle of Elk Lake Ale on a countertop in a bar. It's the same bar in both scenes as the background elements are identical - same overhead lampshade, fridge with polaroids, cash machine. The end of the story that we're shown at the beginning is Michael and Paul fighting, and one of them overpowering the other. Most likely Michael killing Paul, though the movie doesn't explicitly say this. But if Michael could easily kill the big guy from earlier, then an old man like Paul wouldn't be much trouble.
You also don't remember that it's a minseries.
Yes, since Petey was under Freddie's protection but still raped. Freddie had to kill the guy to maintain his authority.
You have an interesting take but the end of the show is literally advocating forgiveness, when Mare finally forgives herself and enters the attic for the first time.
While your theory about wrongs being forgiven too easily is interesting, I don't think that's what the writers were going for.
Add statutory rape to the list.
She's literally playing a grandmother, what did you expect?