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Because she was annoying AF.
She really was incredible for a debut performance. So much poise and the camera loved her. There was no indication that she'd never acted before. She was a natural. I just watched this on cable, and was very impressed.
I adore this comment, because this sums it up for me. I *FINALLY* got through this movie, last time I attempted to was 25 years ago. I fell asleep several times back then during it, enough to see the end, but today I decided to bite the bullet and see it. Get this effer out of the way. Guess what, I fell asleep AGAIN. Determined beyond belief, I started again from the beginning, forced myself to stay awake, take in all the details I could and just watched. And watched. And watched. And then the sled was burning.
Okey-dokey. Got it done. Still didn't "get" it. I was looking for the camera angles and maybe because I've seen thousands of films after CK was made, I just didn't see anything terribly groundbreaking. The cinematography was good, most definitely. But, I still don't understand why so many people regard this is THE best movie of all time. Maybe I'll take a film class at our local university. This still leaves me going "Huh?"
Yes, I see that. Just continuing the convo.
As Nikki Haley has pronounced, America has NEVER been racist. See the problem?
For one, that was not a jury of his peers. Two, do you really think if the defendant was black that he'd get an unbiased verdict? I don't. It showed the problem with the jury system at the time. This film is very progressive, and that's why it's a classic.
Bingo
I agree, if I liquidated everything I have I'd be a millionaire many times over. But I live a basically middle class life and would feel uncomfortable spending money on $200K cars and that lifestyle because it wouldn't last. My idea of a "millionaire" these days is having $2M cash at your disposal, while having no debt (all houses, cars, jewelry, everything paid for) and not including your IRA. A nice-ish house in my area is a million dollars and I would not say that makes me a millionaire especially if I was carrying a mortgage on it. Some of these "millionaires" are really not.
My opinion was that she was turning a trick in her room. She didn't seem that drunk, possibly other drugs. But I think she was enticed by the money she "won" and when she didn't get any of it, she made her own money by tricking with another highroller for $$. Which was probably her main source of income at that time. I wonder what she's up to ten years later, if she's even alive.
Yeah, that was so stupid. I hated the last episodes of Season 3. Almost made me stop watching the series altogether. But now I'm into three episodes of Season 4 and the tone has changed, thank goddess.
You didn't already know that the main character was traumatized by a fan committing suicide in front of them? You gotta see the movie. It was the whole reason for Gaga's tragic downfall. I highly recommend the movie! It was sadder than young Rose's death when the Titanic sunk.
I saw the hotdog scene and didn't find it funny, just weird. The score was okay, but I didn't find it funny. lol
Yarrite. That's an old joke in which you forgot the punchline: "But nowadays, I have to worry about those damn security cameras!"
Just thought I'd finish the joke for you.
You are talking about two different things. Your mom bought jeans too long for you and you rolled them up (I hope) to normal level. Others are saying that they were rolled up past their socks to show their bird legs. I hope you never left the house like that in the 60s, or you'd have been the laughingstock of the school and beat up on the regular.
Enough already liscarkat, okay? You don't whether he is or isn't. We are discussing a movie. You sound like you are autistic and just take everything literally. Or are just plain hard-headed or unintelligent.
I think it was heavily edited, hence the 69 minute run time. I was confused when Vera started calling him Roberts. I was like "WHAT? He told her his real name?!?!? Wtf?" He left all his identiying information on the side of the road with Haskell's dead body, so why would he tell this woman who has already threatened to turn him into the cops his true identity? I figured he would be dumb enough to hold onto something that would identify his true identity, but maybe they cut that scene. They certainly cut all the Sue scenes where she was actually a casting couch cum prostitute aspiring actress.
I like the idea of an unreliable narrator. It makes more sense than to think he is the unluckiest person on the planet. I started not buying his story when he kept saying he didn't know if Haskell died falling out of the car. Huh? He was dead already. And the whole cord situation, when all he had to do was unplug it from the wall in the room he was in? Yet he pulls so strongly that he actually strangles Vera who is locked in an adjacent room? Not buying it.
I know, IT'S JUST A MOVIE. But deeper thinkers see things beyond Mary Had a Little Lamb. It's not just having an active imagination. When things don't make sense, intelligent deep thinkers try to figure things out. Sure, Al might have been the most unlucky person in the world. But it makes more sense to me to believe he wasn't being totally honest in his narration.
And no one knows if they are correct or not. That makes it such a compelling film.
If Nellie hadn't given birth, I'd have accepted her as a transperson or a drag queen in the series.
Probably an off-off-off-off-Broadway version, like in someone's garage. I mean, if your producer thinks your decades-older mother can fill in for your part on a soap opera, darling Christina was probably not much of an actress.