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I think you're exactly right. He was good, and could have done great things, but instead just kept telling the same jokes with the same characters in the same places over and over.
I remember thinking that while watching Clerks 2. The whole film is about how these loser characters have achieved nothing with their lives, and are still working the same dead-end jobs in the same place they were in the '90s. And that's exactly what Kevin Smith was doing, too. It made me sad. Also, that film sucked compared to Clerks.
Braveheart is not a documentary.
Yeah, then he made a fake profile on a dating website and doxxed trans people.
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/21/graham-linehan-women-her-dating-app-trans-transphobia-backlash/?fbclid=IwAR3sOHeUFNOCN4pdFDvXrQXAQqtnUolo89e2lKQ_P5NTDe9uZyxDu3CXRkU
Poor guy.
"It would take years just to produce the means to make modern steel."
They were perfectly capable of making modern steel in 1941.
"I'm a sniper. Just get me close"
This is a problem with George Lucas' writing. In the Orig Trig™, even galaxy-weary smuggler Han Solo had never so much as heard of the Force, or a Jedi knight. They were described as an all-but extinct ancient religion. It was impled they were few in number, secretive.
But old Georgieboy wanted spectacle, he wanted razzamatazz! So in waltz the prequels, showing us the Jedi Order at the height of its power, a mere [1x Luke Skywalker's age] prior to the Orig Trig™. A galaxy in which even a little slave child on the remote planet Tatooine could not only identify a Jedi knight by his trademark weapon, but also knew the terminology 'Jedi knight'.
The two trilogies do not add up to a coherent arc. George Lucas is a hack and a fraud.
Well, some of that tea was scaldingly hot. A man deserves a medal for burning his upper lip, what?
So was Schindler's List.
It's true.
Earlier in her career, Bo Derek played the sexy woman in the film '10'.
The line about her being a 10 in this film is a reference to that.
It's just the responsible thing to do.
Aww, but don’t you want to find out if they get married in the end?
She probably lost the baby due to living in Pripyat during and after the accident. I wouldn't say it's impossible that she got some extra dose from radiation coming out of her husband (not OFF her husband. He wasn't radioactive, but may have contained radioactive material he breathed in), but it would be trivial compared to the exposure she got in Pripyat.
I absolutely wouldn't blame her. No-one at the time or now could know how much risk they actually posed to those treating them. I'd just assume the worst case scenario, and take appropriate precautions. But that's easier for the nurses and doctors to act on than a wife watching her husband slowly die in agony.
Same reason I never watched Titanic. Yawn.
No, but being surrounded by smoke from burning fuel rods and graphite, breathing in particles of radioactive dust so it fills your lungs, gets into your blood stream, is absorbed into your skin... THAT can make you dangerous to be around.
Soviet radiation is best radiation.
I read it like this:
They're talking to politicians, trying to put scientific concepts into terms they understand. A steam explosion underneath a nuclear reactor would be bad. Like, really really bad. Not a nuclear explosion, and the explosion itself wouldn't be anything like as large as 3 megatons. But it would scatter radiactive fuel into the atmosphere in a way that would make the previous explosion look trivial. Effectively, it would be a huge dirty bomb.
Calling it a 3 megaton bomb is just a shorthand way of saying it would be bad, in a way those politicians would understand. Also a way the audience would understand.
This is purely conjecture on my part.
Water can act as a decent radiation shield, if there's enough of it. Also, people are weird. Biology is weird. Some humans demonstrate remarkable resilience to radiation, showing little or no effects from doses that would seriously impair or kill others.
A little from column A, a little from column B?
We'll never know for sure.
The Soviet authorities hushed up as much as they could about the disaster, and as part of this, no-one at the time knew what happened to these men. It was reported then that they had died, and been buried in zinc-lined coffins. This was not true, but a perfectly plausible assumption.
Many years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, their stories were uncovered, and the remaining two survivors were awarded medals. The other was awarded his posthumously, having lived until 2005.