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Rogue One kind of explained this. The man in charge of designing the weapons system quit and went into hiding. Then they found him and basically made him work at gun point. He admitted in his message to Jen that he was intentionally working slow, and sabotaging things as much as he could without being caught.
A lot less trial and error the 2nd time around, and they knew how to do it already.
And one other possible thing. When the Empire built the first one, it was during "peace time" and they still had the Senate, and they probably were trying to not scare systems into joining an Alliance against them. Even though the Senate had little actual power at that point, they still could get upset if the Emperor spent all the Galaxies resources into a space station meant to squash any resistance. So the Emperor could only budget so much per year toward the Death Star.
By the time they built the 2nd one, they were at war, and there was no Senate to interfere. So if the Emperor just wanted to blow all the money into this project, nobody could stop him, and if anyone questioned it he could just say "We are at war, we must take extreme measures to win."
Or how about just calling 911 when you said you were going too. Instead we get this exchange:
Casey: I am about 2 seconds away from calling the police.
Killer: They'll never make it time. We're out in the middle of nowhere.
Casey: Yeah I guess you're right. Why even bother.
Probably doesn't save Steve, might not even save her, although it does become possible for her to barricade herself in a room to buy time. And it does make it possible the police arrive and see the killers there, and possibly catch them.
Randy called them rules, but there're really more like clichés. They don't have to be true, but more offen than not they are.
When Sydney at the end says "not in MY movie." she was speaking to the whole "self aware horror movie" that this movie was. Since she was aware that she was in a horror movie, she could avoid the common pitfalls.
I think I twist was pretty good. The idea that there was two killers was pretty ground breaking at the time. I don't recall another movie like this doing that, without tipping off the audience sooner.
Also the faking of Billy's death, as well as the Billy's motives were pretty good twist that weren't predictable.
The guy in bed, may be the worst actor ever. He doesn't even try to react to anything that's going on around them. The girl at least screams and tries to looked shocked.
For Ending A/B: Mr. Body was using the "Trust the Devil you know" philosophy. Meaning if they turn him in to the police, he will expose them. If they kill him, then they risk their informants telling someone worse, or even Wadsworth deciding too blackmail them. This was before they knew about his wife. But if they kill Wadsworth, then they can just go back to the status quo. They will continue paying Mr. Body what they were, and he would keep their secrets. He even turned off the lights so no one would know for sure who killed Wadsworth.
Ending C: He was obviously ordered to pretend to be Mr. Body as part of his blackmail. Obviously Wadsworth didn't tell him that he would probably be killed, but it's unknown what he was told would happen. Maybe Wadworth told him that they would call the police and he would be arrested, but by the time the police realized he wasn't Mr. Body, then the real guy would be lone gone. However the butler knew not to trust his employer and brought the weapons as a back up plan. When he got there, saw the glares he got and realized how much danger he was in, he tried to warn them and escape himself. When that failed he got the weapons and desperately tried the same logic as the other endings, hoping one would buy it and kill the real Mr. Body by mistake, and then revealing himself and they would all leave, free of their blackmailer.
The Indians and Yankees were tied at the end of the regular season. Only one team could be the AL East Champion and move on to the playoffs. So in the rare situations where this happened, they had a 1 game playoff, with the winner going to the playoffs, and the loser being done for the season. So as a coach you would want to start the pitcher who gave you the best chance to win that game.
While Vaughn may have been the better pitcher, and it was his turn in the rotation, he had struggled every time he faced the Yankees, and he was a young guy who could have gotten rattled by being in such a big spot. So he chose to go with the veteran Harris for the start.
From the Clonus Horror, the whole part with the smoke looking like it was coming from the guys groin.
"Whoa, I got to a little easier next time!"
"She really was on top of old smokey!"
"Only you can prevent groin fires."
From This Island Earth
Servo: WHAT KIND OF SHIT HOLE PLANET IS THIS!!!!???
Cal: I'm gonna step out for some air.
Crow: He's gonna get high.Woooooooo
The mail man walks to the door
Mike: Sort this, deliver that, I'll make'em all pay!!!!
Terror from the Year 5000
Scientist: What is it???!!
Mike: IT'S TERRIFYING!!!!!!
Hamlet
Crow: She's trying to section 8 her way out of the movie.
When Arnold and Bill Duke burst through the door, the guy in on all fours facing away from the girl, and she is on her knees behind him. What were they doing? What kind of position is that??
Got to give them credit though. Gunshots in the next room didn't even phase them.
Aside from how much of it was a clip show, I think a main reason many people hate the final is that it pointed out to us that we had spent all this time rooting for 4 terrible people. This was kind of like a major twist, except it wasn't because we should have realized that in most other shows, these people would have been considered the bad guys, even Jerry.
Just rewatched this movie. There are some good moments and features in this movie. But it's just to difficult to get past Jar Jar and Jake Lloyd. And unfortunately, at least one of them is in 80% of the scenes of this movie. Then it's not really clear what is going on at the start. Why are they attacking Naboo? Why can't anybody including Naboo or any of their allies stop it?
Lucas really needed write a script, then hand it off to someone else to fill in the dialog and direct.
Has a 6th sense for knowing which high school girls "put out".
It cracks me up how in the middle of all the endless sentiments Norman put on his mothers headstone he just slips "wife" somewhere in the middle, as if someone reminded him that she was married at the time of her death, and he begrudgingly acknowledged it.
I don't think anyone ever really knew what happened, but there would definitely be those close to the situation with suspicions. I took Emma to mean she was sorry for leaving Norma alone with Norman, and not being there to help her.
LOL ,I do that too. Sometimes I say it out loud, but leave out the F*** if there's other people around.
I love the last one where we learn that not only do they know the bear by name, but they are bummed out that she is now "bald on both ends."
Tony was already suspicious. But other things helped confirm it for him.
Patsy telling him about the FBI.
Jack asking to many questions, especially about specific people and places.
Also Jack always wearing the same ugly hat.
Then finally the weight comment. Jack asking if he lost weight, when it was clearly visible that he hadn't, and then the bathroom scale confirmed it not to be true. Jack was trying way to hard to butter Tony up.
1) During "Kill'em All" When all the Romans are inside and Batitus is trying to calm everyone and assuring them that they are safe inside and the guards are handling everything outside, then we see the Gladiators rushing thru the gate that Mira unlocked, and storming the house, killing everyone in their path.
2) Burning down the Arena is season 2 was an awesome sequence. Great seeing the Gladiators get revenge not only on their captures, but on the people who cheered their deaths.
3) For Crixus!!!!!
Of course Cindy was worse. Tia was just a disillusioned teen, who was lonely and angry at her mostly absentee parents who not only were hardly around, but then uprooted their family to another state, away from their friends and relatives. Then on top of that, she had to come right home after school to watch her younger siblings, instead of going places or doing activities thru school that could help her make friends at her new school.
Since it was a small town, everyone probably already knew that Mox was really smart and looking to go to an Ivy League school. Since they don't offer athletic scholarships, it's obvious that Mox is not thinking about the NFL. The town is so obsessed with football that once he became a star player, they all assumed he would naturally continue playing in the Ivy league. It's made very clear in the movie that Mox loves football, but its not the most important thing in his life, and he has no aspirations to play beyond high school.
Texas produces so many great high school players every year that even if they all did want to play for Texas schools, there would not be enough scholarships for them. Probably every major program all over the country has at least a few kids from Texas. It's completely logical for Lance to be looking to go to Florida State. Its a big time program that is always in the National Title mix, and produces a lot of pros. Or maybe he just really wanted to leave Texas, or he went there on a recruiting visit and loved it and loved Bobby Bowden. And maybe he looked at their QB situation and thought that he could be starting by his Sophmore year.