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I agree somewhat like working as a janitor in heels or going to a coffee shop when she's dirty and with no money instead of going to her friends apartment. And btw missing a day's meal isn't enough to steal bacon from another person's plate in front of everyone.
I didn't like her or her friends tbh, very shallow and superficial.
Lol. Pine was great and at his most gorgeous in Hell or High Water too.
I too was thinking he must've gained weight for the role. Did he shave his hairline back to look like he's balding?
Sunday school session? The main character is a Mormon, Gibson's a Catholic. They had to show his faith because he was a very religious man, it would've been disingenuous to portray him as an atheist when he wasn't. You're just clearly biased.
I disagree, Foster is not as hot as Pine was here an I think Pine was meant to be the attractive brother, I mean look at that last shot on his porch!
I agree, he should do more of these types of films, this film surprised me an he surprised me as well - all positives!
Pine has never looked better in any of his films. His looks here were at his peak, especially near the end - the tan, the unbuttoned black shirt, the groomed mustache, the combed back longer hair, & the sweaty glean - he looked like a model for some outdoors/cowboy magazine!
I like this film actually and just rewatched it. But I first saw this back in 2004, 13 years ago. And it was the scariest film I ever saw, more so than The Ring, The Conjuring, or any other scary film since then (it was similar to the fear I had over the film IT). The fear I had for this was tremendous. I immediately had my mom watch it and she doesn't scare easily either. And she couldn't even finish the film, she woke me up because she was too scared to go back and turn off the tv, lol!
And I've held off watching it since then as I was too scared to do so but I wanted my friend who doesn't get fazed by any horror flick, especially ghost type films, so we just finished watching it today. And I have to admit it wasn't as scary or atmospheric as I remembered it to be. Maybe scary films have changed since then and our tastes have now changed. My friend was not scared at all, in fact she was trying not to fall asleep.
When you say Americanized, what do you mean?
He was referring to the spelling actually.
Me too, I enjoyed his villainous comedic scenes actually!
There an excellent video quality on Internet Archive, it has the best quality from online sources but I hate the artocious soundtrack though:
https://archive.org/details/Cobra_784
It's on youtube, Veehd, & internet archive but the best picture quality is the one in internet archive, unfortunately, it has an atrocious soundtrack!
I sort of want to look for other copies online with better soundtracks and splice that with this better quality on internet archive.
ok. Well clearly others were not distracted by it like you. And it is a fact that it was the fashion in the 20s, protesting won't make it less so.
No skinny downward sloped eyebrows like Weisz had in this is a throwback to the 1920s which is meant to emphasize and make the eyes look innocent and doe-like. The 1930s also had thin eyebrows but it was slanted upward giving a more sophisticated sterner look compared to the 1920s.
Weisz is still as beautiful as ever but they lightened her hair here, gave her curls for bangs, and obviously thinned her eyebrows which softened her features, that is why she looked different after. She had her natural darker black hair and thicker black eyebrows after this film and before it.
Her Mary Pickford hair and 1920s thin doe-eyed eyebrows really suited her. i liked her quirky, bookish, clumsy demeanor, she was very cute indeed!
I think his over-the-top animated threatrical acting fits the film and its time period, he was probably directed to act as such as opposed to the cool Bogart-esque calm demeanor of Harrison Ford in the Indiana Jones films set in late 30s to 40s. Also if you watch some films from the 20s, quite a few actors were overly dramatic so i think Brendan's acting suits just fine.
1. First, King Tut's tomb was discovered in the 20s (& so the supposed myth of the curse was set on that date),
2. also the 20s although part of the modern world as opposed to the long skirted previous century of the 1900 has an enigmatic quality setting to it,
3. third the whole treasure hunters and Arabian romanticism really was at its height in the 20s (even Lawrence of Arabia is in that time period),
4. 4th this was meant as a throwback to the genre like Indiana Jones which was set in the 40s & 50s, so the setting and time period was a necessity to evoke the feeling of such adventure films,
5. and last, the highly controversial and best selling book The Sheik came out in 1919, was made into a popular box office hit in 1921 with Rudolph Valentino & its sequel came out in 1926 - so 1920s it is.