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I am not a fan of Trump, his divisive rhetoric and poor character is bad for America.
I am also not a fan of divisive language that people on the left use. 'White privilege' is one of these words. Many poor white people are flummoxed at this use. Just go to a trailer park in Mississippi and ask a white person about 'white privilege' and what it means.
Those words also connote that people who are white and work hard to improve their station don't really deserve it.
It reminds me of an old Eddie Murphy SNL sketch where he uses NBC makeup artist to turn himself into a white businessman.Murphy found out a startling secret...white men ... Give things to each other!
Did you watch the 2019 Oscars? It definitely had a anti white male vibe going on.
I agree that diversity is a great thing! However, Hollywood is forgetting to include political diverse viewpoints in it's movies.
Conservative script writers
don't get much work these days. But writers that can take a dump on white males in power do. I say that because I feel that what happened to Prof X was unjust. In fact in the Marvel universe, Prof X was NEVER kicked out of the academy he founded! But it fit perfectly in to the left leaning narrative of today's Hollywood. The script was deemed 'correct'.
According to the bureau of prison stats, suicide is mostly likely in the first few weeks of incarceration, even before a conviction, the psychological shock of being incarcerated is too much for some to handle.
The FBI has successfully cracked open many a computer
and would not place a bet against them that they won't find it.
Remember the Apple case not to long ago where the company refused to give out the encryption key to the phone of the mass murderer in CA to the FBI? Well the FBI farmed out the problem and accessed the guys phone.
Also wouldn't Epstein use these 'files' to keep him alive? Many a movie a man uses such blackmail to do so. That is why killing him made no sense to me, how could the people who ordered the killing know that he did not have some sort of failsafe? In a article in the New Yorker, the women were questioned by Epstein about the sexual 'tastes' of some of his quests after they slept with them. The way the women were questioned by Epstein, they thought likely that the act was videotaped.
As for knowing his state mind, any person with half a brain would know that all hope was lost for him. Beating the rap today, with the harsher climate toward pedos, the metoo movement that can deify women...
But the possiblity of that he was off'd is by no means remote. Even after a through investigation, people will always have doubts.
I disagree that Prof x did the wrong thing. At what point do you tell a young child with incredible powers that her father is afraid her? At what point do you tell a child that her father blames her for his wife's death? It is a classic case of where the right thing to do might not be the best thing to do.
It is a very tricky thing, made even more difficult knowing the powers that Jean Grey has.
Prof X has a larger responsibility, making sure that she can control her powers and the safety of the public at large.
A reunion of the two could be a wonderful moment, but Prof X could not be sure how it would go.
I would be suprised if X did not try to talk to Jeans father throughout the years.
I don't think this guy had any leverage to give...HE HAD HIS OWN WHORE ISLAND!!
The disgust from the public would not abate even if he gave up high profile names.
He was toast and he knew it. Suicide is perfectly reasonable for a man who was living the highlife one day and now has to worry about getting raped for the next 20 years.
The logic of having him
'knocked off' by the rich and powerful who were mixed up with him really does not make much sense if you look at it closely.
Sure dead men don't talk, but they still have secrets to tell. Videotape, pictures taken, hidden in some vault somewhere. After he is 'offed'...that evidence won't just distinigrate. The FBI will probably find it.
Capitalism and the US criminal justice system are a bad mix.
I don't know how you fix it. Lawyers will usually go for what pays the most. Should some sort of limits be placed on $$$ spend on a defendant?
The Senate and the house are mostly full of lawyers, so I don't see that passing anytime soon.
You would rather live in Russia than USA?
Not too many people would make that statement.
Russia is full of smart people, I have played chess against many who start the game without a queen.
But they are also a people without hope, for they live in a kleptocracy where the media is state run and rivals are poisoned.
No, but I have seen people locked up for years for doing nothing more than being critical of their leaders.
Why don't you go to Russia or Egypt or China or North Korea where the government turns people into sheep for fear of being tortured.
Only then will you appreciate what America has.
If America locked up all the people who were critical of Trump...It would spawn a new industry.
I think you are looking at the ending in the wrong way. You need to appreciate just how unique the ending is. THE BAD GUY GETS AWAY IN THE END!, and the hero just fades away. Not many a film ends like this! 'Silence of the Lambs' and 'The Usual Suspects' are the only two that come to mind.
That is is true in Russia, Turkey, Egypt,China and other countries with a strongman who has the ability to silence the press, and ability to keep their cronies out of prison But the USA has freedom of speech and rule of law.
Most of 'mainstream media' is listed on the stock exchange, this where the bottom dollar is King. If a CEO kills a story because it involves powerful friend, a rival network will be sure to pick it up and let the viewers know of it.
However if you are putting forth the argument that investigative reporting is on decline, I couldn't agree with you more.
A new book that I almost finished is called 10 percent human. It is about the power of the multitude of bacteria in our gut and how we are just now grasping on how it shapes us.
She wrote a chapter on obesity. One factor which cites how the size of chickens has increased since 1940 by using growth hormones. It is now believed that these hormones survive and live on in our guts, affecting our micro gut bacteria that in turn makes humans 'grow' also.
? Naive back then? Audiences today seem to buy every model thin kick-ass 120 pound female action movie ever made w/o question.
Naive is a bad word to use...I think the audience was transfixed on the Lector character with his combination of ruthlessness, sophistication and intelligence, he was such a uniquely written character that we were all beguiled and looked past the semi-implausible escape attempt.
Do we know how much time went by? 20 -30 min is reasonable For Lector to accomplish these tasks. Pullys make lifting heavy objects easy.
You also have to remember that Lector was written as smarter than 99 percent of the population, which means that he had this pre-planned and knew that time was a issue, Lector had time in his cell to think of ways of optomal efficiency for preforming these tasks.
The Lector characters intelligence was best displayed in the original Red Dragon where he was given a phone in his cell and in quick order obtained the home address of an advasary.
Putting Lector in the middle of a gym in a cage with a platoon of guards/policemen is more strange to me than the escape.
But then I remember this is Hollywood and dramatic affect trumps pragmatism.
Thank God! Manson loved the fame and notority. There SHOULD be some sort of satisfaction that gen y and z
don't know much about him!
And we are slowly becoming just as weird as Carrey's cable guy.
Thnks I missed the wetsuit.
The question that needs to be asked is 'Why does he have a SPEAR GUN???'
It is somewhat bizarre item to have on a small boat. I guess he might fit the type of man to hunter-fish but there is no reference to it in
the film. Unless you are planning on a 'accidental murder'.... 'I tripped over it and it went off'.. I could hear Cliff testify.
I like to think that he DID murder his wife, it gives his character more depth. While he is no doubt the 'Champion' of this film (I love the shirt btw). It shows you how even a man who committed a horrific crime is capable of redemption of sorts.
'Runaway Train' 1985 w/ Jon Voight
A good and intense movie of a two escape convicts stuck on a runaway train in the frozen Alasken north.
This movie also kind of shows you how the experts really don't know what the audience will latch onto. Nobody inside Hollywood predicted this would be a mega-hit, including Lucas. It was too new and strange, studio exces gave him a long leash because of his success with 'American Graffiti'
It is much different nowadays, movies are EXPECTED to have sequals. There was no expectation of one when Lucas wrote this script.
? Lucas thought the movie would flop big time. He was suprised at the audience reaction
f this were a stand alone movie..the statement would not have raised eyebrows.
You shouldn't judge poor writing in a 1977 film based on writing years in the furture...follow?