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It's NOT a tumor! Love it.
There are so many - Jingle All The Way was wonderful. But it has deep sentimental value for me too. My daughter was just at the perfect age for that movie when it came out. I even bought her a Turbo-man doll.
That was an oh so creepy sad movie - but I loved it. Fantastic movie.
AND THEN SOME! Great performance.
Oh, and it was known as the "God's Hands" case because Fenton the demon was trying to lure Adam into a showdown by leaving the notes. "God's Hands" applied only to the human victims killed - not the demons that were destroyed. No one seemed to be looking for those "people".
Yes, Fenton was a boy demon who did later on become a serial murderer. Watch it again and pay attention to Fenton - everything he says and does (especially facial expressions) is congruent with a demon wanting a demon killer stopped. As directed, Fenton couldn't be killed until he appeared on the list.
Doyle's quasi "confession" to killing his mother and that Adam knew it even before he touched Doyle shows Adam was right - and by extrapolation, his dad had been right too. Adam even tells Doyle that their dad didn't want to believe it about Fenton.
You have to remember the story is not being told by Fenton but by Adam - who is trying to make demon boy Fenton sympathetic turned murderer to lure demon Doyle into his trap. That adds a hitch to the scene were the father tells Fenton he is afraid of him - Adam wouldn't have been privy to that conversation to be able to relay it.
And as for that scene - the father asking Fenton if he scares him? When Fenton says yes the father says the irony is that he is scared of Fenton. He also said the angel had told him that "you are a demon" but he didn't want to believe it. He knew he still couldn't kill Fenton until he was on the list [that would be murder] and was going to have to survive living with Fenton until he does appear on it. He didn't survive.
As he was dying the father could have easily told Adam to kill Fenton but only told him to kill the demon instead. He may have said someday you will have to destroy Fenton too.
My take on it anyway.
"healthy, clean, life"? Really? You do know her cause of death? I'm not even sure I can say what form of cancer here without being flagged for the word. It is caused by HPV. I know people don't like to believe there are consequences to promiscuous sex beyond unwanted pregnancy - but there are. This cancer is one of those. If you want to say I sound like a prude - so be it. You'd be wrong. This comes from being a microbiologist.
I was never a fan of Charlie's Angels but I did love her dramatic acting.
"Age" or "Mature"?
Look at year books from the 40's and 50's. Some of those teens look middle age.
Vern has a long history of being a drug dealer. Any drug dealer knows far better to create the customer than to be the customer. Vern didn't seem to be the type to want to live at peak performance. He was rocking what would easily be a multi million dollar apartment in NYC.
Vern had Attwood addicted and at his mercy. Attwood's crew was trying to get to the drug - but why? Attwood obviously had access to a vast amount of money - couldn't he just buy more of the drug from Vern? Maybe the price to Attwood was $1,000,000 [whatever astronomical amount Atwood would refuse to pay]. Maybe Vern already knew his customers were dying and by denying Atwood the drug he was just speeding that process along to get Atwood out of his hair.
I seemed to me that Vern was probably setting up Eddie to get hooked to do the very same thing to him.
As for the martial arts thing - it would only have worked had Vern watched the same [or similar] nerd films on self-defense that Eddie had seen. Remember Vern's line: "It works better if you're already smart." He didn't strike me as that smart - or motivated. Remember Eddie's line before the dive in the cove? "If I wasn't moving forward I felt like I would explode." I think Vern knew that and it wouldn't be a feeling he would desire.
And it makes perfect sense since the movie is based on Jordan's own book.
Take it to the political forum. It's people like you who mucked up the IMdb chat room.
The next two lines were great too
[Ned] .... what else do you like lazy, horny, ugly? I got 'em all.
[Matty] You don't look lazy.
She simply referred to them a "the creator". It seemed to me, for all intents and purposes, she could have simply been a robot off an automobile assembly line. The crux is she became sentient and created the entire doomsday scheme to destroy mankind and repopulate the planet with her stored babies. The purpose was to create a perfect world where humans are self sacrificing for one another. Now, what I didn't understand is she said she "must" do this to "be like her creator." Humans who are self-sacrificing are few and far between but seems there was an inference to Jesus in how she taught religion to Hillary Swank when she was raising her to test the new girl. To me it came across very strong that the destruction and re population of humans was a self imposed directive instead of one given to her by her creator. She proved her devotion to self-sacrifice at the end - it made sense - the girl had passed her test and the world could be trusted to her.
All I had to read was "even when a black girl is literally magic, she’s still not as powerful as a decently tall white man with a full head of hair in America." to know where this show was going.
The ending - I didn't understand why he didn't hide an explosive device "up there" to blow away all the bad men in the car since that had been set up earlier in the movie.
Leave it to Beaver, Father Knows Best, etc were far from "bland".
A sequel should also deal with how Sean Fentress is sharing the body with Colter.
I struggled with the parallel reality thing myself. Think about the time he got her off the train and she lived. How could she be in an alternate reality? That version of her was still part of the "reality-reality" of the people sending him back. Yet, they told him that she had been killed in the blast even though they insisted that she died. In the "alternate reality" ending he proved that people in the alternate reality can communicate with the reality-reality. Email is capable of travel from one reality to another? Way too much of a stretch without any bother of an explanation how it is accomplished - or at least an acknowledgement that the laws of physics would somehow permit it. Without an explanation the two realities would be running concurrent to each other. To me this meant there were now two copies of her walking around and they would both try to conduct the one life.
It's a little like the remake of Stepford Wives. The wives flip flopped from being robots to being real women with brain implants. In one scene they would be doing total robot things such as the ATM and boob inflation scene. Then they ended up being still alive without so much as a modicum of attempt to explain it.
Fatal Attraction is another movie with a changed ending based on test audience reaction ... why? Because, originally, he was arrested for the murder of Alex and everyone thinks the poor man has already been through enough already. So, they shot another ending where Beth gets to blow Alex away.
I wondered that too. And how did the boy get a burn mask?
Hamilton was also obsessed with Toby at the office. The DA didn't think there was any connection to him and the bank robberies. His blood evidence of him being attached to the last robbery was destroyed when the Bronco exploded and burned. His DNA/fingerprints could have possibly been on the tip to the waitress - but it was already stated they believed the robber acted alone in the robbery across from the diner and the other person didn't know what he was doing.