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You may be forgetting Rising Sun or Ender's Game. "I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes" | |||
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Eye on the Silver Lining |
Cloud atlas. I think it might be one of the only movies I liked where they change the ending from the book - or at least made it such that I could make sense out of it. __________________________ "Trust, but verify." | |||
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Lighthouse Keeper |
The Remington character was fabricated for the film, inspired partly by a real person who is barely mentioned in books on the subject. Douglas was a producer on the film and had the script re-written to make the amalgamation “Remington” role much bigger, took the role for himself, then forced edits to make his part bigger. He’s a tool, and the character very nearly ruined an otherwise good movie. I loved the story before the film was released, and I loved the film in spite of Michael Douglas. | |||
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So let it be written, so let it be done... ![]() |
The Return Of The King No Scouring of the Shire... ![]() 'veritas non verba magistri' | |||
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In high school kids often chose to watch the movie rather than read the book. You looked pretty stupid whent the teacher called you out on it, | |||
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Evil Asian Member |
I thought Leland survived—he was being wheeled into the ambulance at the end. And, the terrorist is named Gruber: Anton Gruber. He's not named Hans. This was all influenced by The Towering Inferno. Roderick Thorp saw that movie, and that night he had a nightmare about being chased through a burning skyscraper by bad guys. He woke up and wrote the follow-up to his The Detective novel. John McTiernen didn't want to direct the Nothing Lasts Forever movie because it was too dark and cynical. They changed the dynamics to make it more crowd-pleasing, such as making the terrorists into bond thieves. I liked those cynical aspects. For instance, the daughter dies because of the fancy watch she got, signifying her corporate greed is what got her killed, unlike the watch falling off in the movie. Also, at the end, Sgt. Powell throws the a-hole deputy police chief into the line of fire, killing the chief and shielding Leland from Karl's gunfire. Then he states, "Well, he died a hero." That's a hilariously twisted scene that wouldn't have flown if enacted by Reginald VelJohnson's character. | |||
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