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Everyone had reddish hair, didja notice ?
Good stuff (for its era) 8/10.
I love her. She's a fighter. 9 quid for 2 ice creams is like, what 6-7 bucks apiece ?
limited, but effective. 6/10
The fact that Newman, being Jewish, should nonetheless point out a double-standard involving the treatment of an Israeli atrocity vs a Russian atrocity shouldn't be surprising.
Is/was every Irish American an IRA supporter ? I'm also sure Newman had a different view of Israel in the early 60s than he had evolved almost 30 years later, for reasons clear to many - mainly their treatment of the occupied territories, and emergent aggression as they became militarily dominant in the region, Sharon's incitements, their incursions into Lebanon and complicity in the slaughter of refugees. Not to minimize the hostilities in the region, but shooting down civilian aircraft is just never cool.
His larger point was that the US, esp. during the 80s, was pumping up the Soviet threat with the not-coincidental feature of bolstering the MIC.
The bombastic soundtracks are super annoying, reliance upon absurd spectacle, obnoxious characters presented as heroes. We have come so far away from anything like a cinema verite, at least in the mainstream offerings - I gravitate to indy / art / foreign films for intelligent content, treatment.
Jimmy Fallon is a guy I've always hated, from the first time I saw his smug, fake puss. Truly an example of the peter principle. But, yaknow, some people like him. But then again, yaknow, some people are stupid.
check this out :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i44KCoK55s
No worries. It wasn't subtle. But neither was Dr. Strangelove - its funny, I've read the contemporaneous NYT review of that and what the reviewer didn't get was how actually rickety & vulnerable the US & Russia were to nuclear exchange.
Sure. They also shot/burnt/starved millions of slavs - throw in the gays, roma, socialists/communists, disabled.
Just imagine how many more would have been slaughtered if they HAD WON. sheesh.
They weren't stuttering.
Moon was tremendous. Agreed.
I think 'Don't Look Up' will become a cult classic. Its a wonderful farce. Good farces sometimes have staying power.
Aves and raptors derive, ultimately, from the theropod clade - they are relatively closely related, having many common characteristics, due to synapomorphy (shared characteristics derived from a common ancestor) :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theropoda
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dromaeosauridae
https://evolution.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/bird_evo.jpg
Pterosaurs, Raptors
The ancient crocodilians (archosaurs, not dinosaurs) are brilliant too - major terrestrial predators prior to the age of the dinosaurs.
https://a-z-animals.com/media/2022/03/shutterstock_2052627056-1024x614.jpg
6/10
Exactly. I don't even understand the question - it couldn't be clearer. in their obnoxious sense of entitlement/evasion/self-justification weaponizing/scape-goating the adverse consequence against their son and, ultimately, his teacher.
The larger resonating question was left only subtly stated - the vast difference between the rich & the poor regarding service in Vietnam. The affluent gave their own, safe harbor in college, while leaving to the working class/poor the chore of 'defending democracy'. Not so benign neglect, either.
I'm an Eagleheart guy, meself...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZjBf513nsE
Yes, I think the main dramatic point to be made was, more in the aggregate, the vast distinction in the selection made on who got sent into combat, the easy escape for the affluent, the large racial/economic disparity in those who served.
Even if the plot was a bit simplistic on that point, the larger point was made. Reinforced by Hunman's conflict with his roomate, where he was finessed out of his college career to avoid scandal attaching to his rich schoolmate, all contrasted against the parents' entitled self-serving neglect, making a scapegoat, again, of the teacher and potentially son, rather than facing their own abandonment of the father and the son.
The tests of character (Hunman's sacrifice at the end, their mutual vouching for one another throughout, dancing around the theme of truth) and class conflict were the major themes.
A charming insightful film. It went a little heavy-handed on the class warfare, but those were/are the realities.
I'd give it an 8.5.
Mr. Green, a previous headmaster, hired Hunman. The current headmaster had been one of Hunman's students in his first year teaching. It was all covered in the film.
H. That takes in so many of the other categories.
Musical - The King & I
Slasher - Hostel
Teen Horror Comedy - Scary Movie II
Jane Austin - latest version of Emma
Martial Arts - Hero