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This movie came out right before 1999, which was her breakout year (Election, Cruel Intentions, Pleasantville) and 3 years before Legal Blond made her an A-list star. She was probably hoping staring opposite Gene Hackman, and doing a smoking hot nude scene would launch her career. When that didn't happen as a result of this movie, but she still became a huge star anyways, she became embarrassed by it, as many young actresses are by their early work.
Ironically, the movie did get the attention she was hoping for, but only after she became a star from other work. So instead of an gaining fame from an amazing nude scene (it is!!!), the nude scene gained fame from her star power.
Not frequenting a brothel would have also helped his position. Especially when he obviously made no attempt to know who owned the place, and made sure they kept his patronage discreet.
Not necessarily. In a small town where there isn't really any crime, who knows what kind of authority the Chief of police would have as opposed to the Mayor.
Also, there was evidence that Brody knew about the girl before Alex Kitner was killed, and still let people in the water. Whereas the Mayor had plausible deniability. The only people who would know that the Mayor knew before hand were the guy from the newspaper (in the Mayors pocket), the Coroner (ditto), Brody (who the Mayor would just say is lying to cover his own butt), and the Deputy (The Mayor would say he's lying for the Chief).
And lastly, Brody was an Outsider, the Mayor was probably an Islander. Assuming Mrs. Kitner is an Islander, then it would be easier for her to believe the story that puts the blame on a cop from the mainland.
Keep in mind that they didn't pull Marion's car out of the swamp until after the meeting in the police station. So Lila already knew that her sister had been murdered by Norman Bates. And the Psychologist had already kind of explained the mental state of Norman Bates's mind and his motives for killing. How much of that she believed is unknown, but she did see Norman dressed as Mother, with a wig and knife.
My question was more about whether the police tell her that Marion was stabbed multiple times while in the shower? I never thought about the sexual assault possibility, but I suppose if she asked you would assure her that there's no signs of that.
Weren't they discussing the rebuilding of Kings Landing during the final small council meeting? I always thought they were in the rebuilt Red Keep.
Yes he did overestimate his power. He thought he had Cersei cornered into a position where she would have to show up to her trial and face further punishment. But like all her enemies to that point, he underestimated her ruthlessness.
Even if the High Sparrow was told about The Mountain, what could he do about it at that point? Send 50 more FM's to arrest the Mountain and Cersei??? Not only would the Mountain tear through them, but the rest of the Kingsguard would protect her too. If she showed up to her trail at the Septon then he would have her trapped and could have her arrested.
Temple of Doom and Gremlins are both very heavy PG movies, and were the reason for the creation of PG-13. I think both are kind of heavy even for that rating.
The Matrix is a great example of a light R. I wonder what they could have toned down to get down to a PG-13, and if it would have been an even bigger hit?
Major League is a light R. Handful of F-bombs, and cardboard cutout of a topless woman.
Tombstone could have been PG-13.
Forest Gump is kind of a heavy PG-13.
While many people, including Harold Ramis, would have agreed with that description of Bill for a large portion of his career, he seems to be in a much better state of mind the last 10-15 years.
10. Not only were they fine with their adult house keeper having sex with their teenage son, but they celebrated it.
Yes IV does make 2 references too part II and III. But lets all agree that this movie works a lot better when we ignore that and just consider this a direct sequel to the original.
Might be one of rare times were filmmakers were wise enough to quit while they were ahead.
I remember the massive amount of hype for this movie, and I'm sure it was expected to be a huge summer blockbuster, and with sequels to follow. And I'm sure most of its success came from the opening weekends, before word spread about how bad it was not only from critics but audiences as well who for the most part hated it. I'm actually surprised at how well it did end up doing, but it was definitely supposed to be bigger. Armageddon beat it by $180 million in the same summer, including by $180 million internationally.
While they may have made money on this movie, despite its poor reception, a sequel would not have anywhere near the same level of anticipation, and wouldn't have the big opening weekend.
Did they send you to spelling and grammar school instead?
CLICK BAIT ALERT!!!!!!
So when you actually read the article, she doesn't hate the movie, or what it was about. She just hated her acting performance in it, and the perceived difference in how people treated her when she was in the obese suit.
Also I couldn't help but wonder, did people treat her differently in the fat suit because they didn't recognize her, whereas when she wasn't in it, people were like "OH MY GOD, its Gwyneth Paltrow!!!" so of course they were nicer to her.
It's possible that the machines just simply weren't programmed to even consider biological weapons. And even when they got AI, they still just didn't register that option. For them, bullets and bombs were how they accomplished their missions.
Or like other people have said, we don't know what the machines intended to do with the planet once they eradicated it of humans. Gassing the planet may make it uninhabitable for them too.
O'Bannon would have eventually gotten him. The paddling went on all summer, they the seniors didn't stop looking for you until they got you.
Though it would be interesting his O'Bannon kept giving him shit throughout the year. Perhaps dumping his books when he saw him in the hallways or occasionally stuffing him in a locker.
So to recap this curse:
- An actor whose biggest asset was being morbidly obese, went thru a series of experimental and dangerous surgeries and lost a dramatic amount of weight. He later admitted that he wasn't happy and he regretted it, and it ended his career. A few years later he died of kidney and liver failure at 45 years old.
- A young action star, whose biggest career success was in movies centered around fast cars, gets killed riding in a Porsche at high speeds.
- A child actor goes missing, is presumed to have committed suicide, despite no one finding his body.
Meanwhile the rest of the cast.
While he hasn't been able to top Dawson's Creek, Van Der Beek is still around and doing fine.
Ali Larter and Amy Smart have had success since then.
Jon Voight has had a tremendous 3rd act to his career since then. Now he's semi-retired.
Scott Caan had the Ocean's 11 movies, and is finishing a 10 year run on Hawaii 5-O.
Off the top of my head the ones I can remember:
Don't take other peoples prescribed pills, especially your parents.
Stay away from down power lines, even if they don't appear to have an electric flow in them.
Use sunscreen at the beach.
How you stop a bloody nose.
In '97 he did Air Force one, which was a huge hit. Then Six Days, Seven Nights and Random Hearts had moderate success. What Lies Beneath was a big hit in 2000, and a shocking role for a guy who was legendary for being the reluctant hero. But the back to back duds of K-19 and Hollywood Homicide in 02 and 03 were probably the end of his run. And not just that they didn't bring in much money, but his weird Russian accent and being with Josh Harnett when he was huge and still not having success made it even worse. But considering that his run was from 1977-2000 is an amazing feat that not many have even come close too.
Also consider that he doesn't work nearly as much as he used too. When he does do movies, its rare that he is one of the leads. Most of his roles are special appearances, cameos, or voice over work. Even in Episode VII he's not in the first act, and is kind part of an ensemble. I think at this point in his life he's happier spending more time on his ranch, and considers himself semi-retired.
If at 1:01:50 is what you're talking about, then yes it is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WlyXHp6F90
Or why even bother with the huge door? Why not just have a solid wall, and a 10 foot door on the bottom that you can carry the sacrifice out, then quickly get back in.