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I haven't enjoyed any of the recent Pixar (or Disney) movies as much as I enjoyed this. Good animation, good humor, and a good message.
While some pointed out that it has some similarities to "The Mitchells vs. the Machines," I think that's really just superficial and tenuous; they both have morals involving relationships and involve very intelligent machines, but that's it.
Good point
A) Because he's a kid
but probably
B) because they wouldn't have been out playing (Peter was supposed to be doing schoolwork) if Peter hadn't guilt-tripped him into going to the boat once his brother had told him he was leaving for school.
It looked like he fell in the water, and then a chance storm struck and he was electrocuted. Freak accident.
Odd, but weirder things have happened I guess.
Probably not on your DVR anymore....
But it is better quality than CW, both in acting and in plot. Refreshingly focused on its plot and not trying to harp on current issues or bring in extra drama. It can be a bit slow, though. I just finished it (free on the CW app) and enjoyed it.
No problem!
When I read "The Secret History" AFTER seeing season 3, I kinda wished I had read it beforehand. It really serves as a bridge, reminding you of how things ended for everybody in Season 2 and then giving some information on a tiny bit of where things lie since then.
"The Final Dossier" was a bit disappointing for me... but mostly because one of things I like best about Twin Peaks is NOT knowing everything. There are so many odd things, and the more you watch, the more questions you have. Some get answered, some don't. But TFD is a definitive answer to almost everything, and it's written by the show's writer. It definitely clears up some things if you were confused, but I found I liked the mystery.
I can't help you on that one since I never read it, but I would assume it can be read after Seasons 1 and 2 and FWWM, but I can tell you that "The Secret History of Twin Peaks" could be read before Season 3 (it has no spoilers) or after if you prefer to have more questions, while "The final Dossier" should ONLY be read after Season 3.
I enjoyed it too. My favorite thing is how this is almost more of Rusty's movie and plotline. In Ocean's 11, it's pretty clear that it's called "Ocean's 11" because Danny is the one with the ideas, but Rusty is the guy who can put them into reality. But you need both for a con to work.
What I notice about "12" is that this time, Rusty is the one planning the heists, often hiding details from Danny, and it all falls apart, proving 1) why Danny has top billing, 2) why you need an idea man, and 3) what happens when the gang, especially Danny, is not in control of the situation (first they are forced to take a very difficult job to make it up to Benedict, and then they are stymied by the Night Fox's ego challenge. Unlike in 11 and 13, they are not running the show.) Of the three movies, this is really the only one where they aren't in control and are trying to deal with it, for a short while at least.
(When you watch the whole movie, you know that the gang went to LeMarque and got help after the whole Amsterdam thing, but until that point, they were struggling to get through this)
As someone mentioned above, she very clearly admired great thieves (like LeMarque, the guy who lifted the house, etc.) even while she viewed herself as on the side of the law. (It could be pointed out that it takes a lot of cleverness to catch a thief, too, so she probably considered it a match of wits.)
She also was mad at Rusty (and his thief friends, by extension) because he had left without telling her who he really was, assuming that she wouldn't love him any more. She did still love Rusty, and her father, even though they were thieves, but she had been hurt by them. Trying to catch Rusty was kind of a "getting even" thing.
However, in her pursuit of catching Rusty, she was totally okay with bending the rules herself, which shows that she was no straight arrow herself. In the end, her love of her father, and the fact that, because she had ruined her career by forging documents while the thieves still got away, led her to stay with Rusty.
It's not perfect, but the lines are all there.
I feel that Superman Returns is the better of the two.
Man of Steel goes out on a limb, trying to reinvent the Superman character for a new story, a new age, and a new director, reinterpreting him to go with a darker, more cynical world.
But, in my opinion, that's not Superman. Superman lifts people up, inspires people, and puts others' needs before his own. Otherwise, he'd just be Zod, right?
I love Superman Returns, but even looking at it in an unbiased way, I think the film itself is better quality and better displays the character of Superman and who he is.
No idea. I loved it and thought it was great. It wasn't until a few days after I saw it that I realized it wasn't doing well with audiences, and I was shocked. I thought it was fantastic. It seems to me, though, that even though people complain when the finale of a superhero movie is "a CGI hero fighting a CGI monster," they complain even louder when it's not. I thought this movie presented a good lesson ("Appreciate what you have while you have it," and "you can't cheat to get ahead, because it's just a lie") through layered story plots with three characters.
Sure, it wasn't perfect, but I thought it was fantastic.
I wouldn't have minded...
The only thing I didn't like about Carl was that he kinda seemed to presume she would say "yes." He acted like he already lived there, called the Christmas tree "his tree" and making plans before she'd even really answered ((okay, he had probably bought the tree, but it was for her apartment, and it was IN her apartment.)
For Connie, though, I think the fact that Carl had been around for two years and she'd been avoiding the question kinda is a red flag that Carl should've listened to. I don't think Steve is better than Carl for Connie, but she obviously wasn't really interested in Carl as a person.
Get real.
There were, at the very least, equal # of bad guys to good guys in this movie.
Which, if you think about it, is the same as the gals in the movie.
I don't feel it does, because Inception has that deep emotional, cathartic core about forgiveness, grief, guilt, and love. This one, I feel, lacks that emotion. There is an attempt at "love," (I think?) but since the characters barely know each other, it comes off as "I'm a nice person so I don't want others to die, including her" at best.
Interstellar came close to the emotion of Inception, probably the closest so far.
I think time-travel movies always have flaws. You just have to decide if you go with it or not.
Yup, if no one had pointed it out, I wouldn't have even noticed.
1. Like a Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan ... https://youtu.be/IwOfCgkyEj0
2. Stoned Love - The Supremes ... https://youtu.be/D2ce7FWOAM8
3. "Meet the Flintstones" - Hoyt Curtain, Joseph Barbera and William Hanna ... https://youtu.be/2PPf3aaZmUw
4. Kicking Stones - The Monkees ... https://youtu.be/gb2dAUNPQkQ
5. Papa Was a Rolling Stone - The Temptations ... https://youtu.be/221RUEa0TSk
6. Stoned Soul Picnic - Laura Nyro ... https"//youtu.be/N1CfSgsvqJE
7. Stone Cold Crazy - Queen ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0kTkxhyWNo
8. Stone - Stabilo ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGDk_UHp2Kw
I've wondered about that too- that's the funny thing about comics. As we get farther and farther away from the "Golden Age" when many of these characters were created, their beginnings make less and less sense. X-men is such a product of the 60s thematically, I don't know what they'd do. At some point, some of these stories could almost be "period pieces" like First Class. I think they've already had to re-write Captain America, since eventually he was too old to have been a WWII vet, so they invented the "frozen" explanation for why he's still around.
The problem with Magneto is that the Holocaust has so much in common with Magneto's POV on mutants... in that he feels mutants will be exterminated as the Third Reich wanted to do to Jews... and I don't know if anything lines up with that. Looking up other examples of genocide, I found Rwanda and Bosnia, so one of those might work, although neither was on the scale of the Holocaust.
In short, I don't know HOW it could possibly work, but I'm sure they'll do it eventually. The most "realistic" idea (and the one that wouldn't tie him down to a time period) would be simply that he was experimented on, but honestly, so many mutants are experimented on that he'd have to go through something really unique for him to turn out as Magneto.
Why is Scott in charge?
Aren't both John and Virgil older than he is?
I think the main problem, more than Jessica Alba, was just the way Sue was written. I don't know about her personality in the comics, but she was really rude, impatient, unsympathetic, and overly emotional in this movie. I can bear with it, but honestly, half the time, I'm wondering why Reed even likes her.
She mellows out in the second one a bit, but is only a little bit better.