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"The elephant in the room with the story of Frozen 2 is that Disney made a movie with the same story two years earlier: Thor: Ragnarok. The big, thematic ideas of Frozen 2 are about the sins of your ancestors (Thor’s father Odin in Ragnarok, Elsa and Anna’s grandfather Runeard in Frozen 2), building a legacy through conquest and deception. There’s even the same basic resolution: the only way out is to destroy Asgard/Arendelle, though Frozen 2 lets Elsa save the kingdom at the last minute. These parallels aren’t subtle. While it’s hard to blame a movie for not nailing its premise as well as another, it’s also hard not to see when the parallels are so obvious."
Cool story, bro.
Perhaps there's also some symbolism of the fact that it refracts. Everything looks distorted though a glass of water.
Who knows?
Nevertheless it doesn't actually follow the book much.
I doubt it does now!
I don't know about that, but I did write "more affected" not "more infected".
That's one of the problems with this movie as well as "Outbreak". They use a fast acting virus for cinematic purposes, but a fast acting virus is one which is easy to contain, especially if it has a high mortality rate. This real world virus is the opposite - it is not very deadly, it has a (relatively) long incubation period and it is very contagious. The latter is what matters most.
In addition, it can be carried by younger people who often have almost no symptoms, and thereby it is easily carried among other people. It is mostly deadly for people who are already weak, especially older people. However, also some supposedly healthy people have died, and for some reason people who smoke are sometimes more affected as well.
It most definitely will now, probably tomorrow!
It had an inexplicably strong international week/end - or it seems so, because it's now at over 912 million international, so it made 36 million since last update(!) the BO run is not finished at all for this movie.
Not any more!
Wrong movie!
So sad, didn't expect that, but apparently she was ill for a while. RIP
Some of us cannot access that article!
You may have had a point, but you just included the opinion of two non-scientist politicians among the "opinions" by scientists who potentially could be wrong.
That's one thing I don't get, why For a Few Dollars More is so revered. Both that movie and A Fistful of Dollars quite more primitive than tGtB&tU, which seems far more perfected in both story and cinematography.
I guess For a Few Dollars More is more of a true western, while tGtB&tU is is an epic Odyssey and a war movie, quite different from the previous films - in many ways it has more in common with Apocalypse Now.
In a way, it is a lot more similar to the Snow Queen than the first, due to the quest to the north.
When she met him in the train, I just expected it to be him, it reminded me of Charade. As it moved along I got more and more certain.
It should be pretty straightforward, but let me translate: "In the movie "You Were Never Really Here ", he looked like Mel Gibson."
I dunno if this was written on IMDB or not, but anyway:
"That's too imaginative a interpretation."
No it is not, it's a perfectly sound interpretation and was also what I thought pretty early on in the movie, especially when we hear the press clip about an insane criminal hitting people with a wrench.
All it asks is: what would happen if a person really did this, how would he be seen, how would it act out?
As the OP wrote:"the whole point of the movie was to juxtapose your typical fantasy superhero movie with what it would actually look like if someone dressed up in a silly costume and tried to fight crime"
See, he didn't say anything like "what it would actually look like if some comic book fan got inspired by their obsession and dressed up in a silly costume and tried to fight crime".
"Who is Batman? He's a criminal. He's outside the law. He beats down people (like Arthur) who are just tired of being ignored. Maybe he's doing some kind of right, some kind of good, but..."
I'd say this is far more of a theme in the movie "Super" from 2010.
Well, maybe Carnival of Souls is a bit similar, but actually Jacob's Ladder was inspired by a much older story, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, which is a very short story in comparison. There are a lot of other themes in Jacobs Ladder, it is not a straight copy of An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, and certainly not Carnival of Souls.
This could partially be because new countries opened, as international markets don't always have the same opening weekend as the US. For example, the potentially big markets of Germany and France opened 10 & 9 October, respectively. However that remains to be seen when BO Mojo update the international numbers for individual countries.