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Ridiculous entry in Trivia section


I had to laugh when I read this entry in the Trivia section for this movie:

The sniper calls himself "Scorpio" which is the Zodiac sign for people born between October 24th and November 22nd. November 22nd 1963 is the date that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by a sniper in Dallas, Texas, a killing that the Clint Eastwood character in In the Line of Fire would be directly involved in.

That's not trivia, that's trivial. That's quite the reach, trying to link any of that information together as a bit of interesting trivia. Only one step away from somebody who thinks "backwards masking" is an actual process that produces real words, that your brain can then subconsciously interpret backwards. Ridiculous.

Regardless, "Dirty Harry" is one of the classics, along with "Taxi Driver", "The Deer Hunter", and "The Terminator". "Magnum Force" was a quality film but the rest of the DH franchise got progressively more ridiculous.

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Wow, whoever submitted that was really reaching. I can't believe it was actually accepted.

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And to think I've had some pretty interesting trivia that hasn't been accepted on other boards

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I couldn't believe that either. When I read your title, I knew it would be this one.

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Wow that is tenuous.

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