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Well it still is tied to Amityville II in that the demon in III that comes out of the well and grabs Robert Joy is the same demon that emerges from Sonny during the exorcism at the end of II.
You can't tell how a movie is going to turn out. The "Howling II" we got was not the "Howling II" that Lee signed up for. The producers kept asking Gary Brandner to re-write the script every other week because the circumstances of making the film kept changing. When he quit, they got Robert Sarno to finish the script. He then threw away everything Brandner wrote and converted a vampire movie that didn't get made into the new "Howling" film.
Hell, the "Howling II" we got wasn't even the "Howling II" they shot. It was shot as a silly tongue-in-cheek movie. Then at the last moment, the producers decided they wanted a scary movie, and the film was completely re-edited without Phillipe Mora's input.
Lee just signed on because he had never made a werewolf movie before and they offered him the second "Howling" movie. "The Howling" had been a huge success, so of course, he'd sign on. There's no way he could know what would befall the film as they went along.
I'm about as liberal as they come and I love "Last Man Standing." I liked it better in its first season, but I still enjoy the show since that change. Fiction is for everyone. You can enjoy something that revolves around beliefs or values maybe you don't agree with.
"but within my circle of friends and family"
Well, look outside your circle of friends and family, cause there's a whole, big world out there. And some of us love Godfather III.
"When he collapses into a diabetic seizure"
I'm pretty sure that's exactly the same.
Where's the lie?
Coppola probably doesn't want you to think about any of that. But somebody ought to confront him with these facts.
Completely agreed about Michael's death.
I can say this-- since "Godfather Coda" was meant to be Coppola's *original* vision, I'm not surprised. This is what producer Gray Frederickson told me about shooting the end of Godfather III:
"You want to know how he got that ending? Originally, Michael was just supposed to be sitting there looking sad like the end of Godfather II. Francis sets that up, shoots it, then calls a wrap. People start moving the equipment and all that, thinking we'd finally finished the film. Suddenly, Francis turns around and goes, 'Goddammit, I don't want to do 'Godfather IV'... Al, fall over'!"
So, I've never ever heard Coppola cop to this but Gray was there for shooting the whole time. I believe him.
They meant for Michael to look 62, not prematurely aged by diabetes.
If I explained, unfortunately, it would spoil it. It is bleaker, though.
Dude, you just don't like opera. Neither do I, but I don't go around saying it "ruined" the movie.
The incest thing is still there and everybody is still more okay with it than they should be.
When Michael tells Mary to stop seeing Vincent, she barks "No!" and then it cuts to Mary in Vincent's room listening to the Elvis Costello song.
There is a little bit cut out of the "am I a front" scene, but not much.
Alright, calm down there edgelord.
Considering that's how the movie crescendos, it would've been impossible to remove that sequence. And it is not.
Michael was born in 1917. He is 62 during the main action of "Godfather III" and 80 when he dies in 1997.
Yes, my favorite of the three is "The Godfather, Part III" (the best one is probably the first). It's my favorite because I identify with Michael Corleone in this movie whereas I did not in the other two. And the ending is extremely powerful.
Yes, he did, but we weren't talking about the music.
"Just out of curiousity, where in Freddy vs Jason is it referenced that Freddy has become a demon himself?"
Freddy's appearance transforms into a demon three times in the movie. When we are first introduced to him, although there, we just see his new bloodshot eyes. Secondly, when Jason poaches Katharine Isabelle from him. Look carefully and you'll see his face change form (they do point this out in the audio commentary as well). Lastly, when Lori saves Jason from Freddy drowning him, he transforms into his demonic form because he's become so pissed off with her.
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Re: Rocky Junior-- Rocky Krakoff (from "Rocky IV") was planned to play Rocky Junior at the beginning of the movie and as the film progressed, Sage Stallone would play him toward the end. However, when Krakoff proved unavailable, they just decided to have Sage play the character for the whole movie. If you pay attention, you'll notice Sage is far more fresh-faced and youthful looking at the beginning than he is at the end.
"and that means Rocky Junior would have spent 5 years trying a get his jacket back from those bullies"
No. The passage of time is during the Tommy fighting montage, which is after the point Junior gets his coat back.
"the final scene was at some point in mid 1987 (Rocky and Tommy's fight was probably early 1987)."
1.) The street fight takes place on Christmas, or somewhere thereabouts.
B.) The final scene of the movie is Rocky and Junior at the Philadelphia Art Museum, where there is a huge banner on the museum saying it's 1990. That's not some mistake; they meant that to be there, if they didn't put it on the museum themselves.
"you just have to accept it"
Uh, no, YOU have to accept it. You don't get to say "I don't like how poorly they conveyed this so it isn't so." The prop department had specially-made magazines made up that say "December, 1990" on them and the Art Museum says it's 1990. The end of the movie takes place in 1990, whether you like it or not.
He put them on so they wouldn't have to bother applying rotten hand prosthetics to Jason for the whole movie.
No, really, that's why.
"Was it because Freddy was in the real world this time?"
Yes.
In "Freddy vs. Jason," Freddy has become a demon himself and is on his own without the dream demons.
"Nancy had him in the real world in the original, and that didn't finally end him."
No, not quite. "A Nightmare on Elm Street" is entirely a dream that the movie doesn't wake up from. And then the events of the movie take place some time just after the movie itself ends. So, Freddy is entirely within a dream in the first movie.
Whether you buy that or not, that's New Line's official stance on the first movie.