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So he supported Peck?!?!?!?!?
Weird thing that drives me nuts
The Brain Scans! WOW
Weird thing that bugged me...
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Say WHAT?!?!? XXL has the greatest scene - the convenience store: It is just such a fun, funny, uplifting scene.
XXL Is actually a great Road Trip movie. And honestly - and it portrayed male friendships realistically.
'There is NO Universe where I am not NOT doing that fireman routine!'
I think you capped my favorites...but Dalton coming back with the flamethrower just made my summer!
One of my all time favorites: Being from the Midwest, it nails the mentality. The charm is just seeped into it...some parts just kill me -- John C. Reilly kills it....Ed Helms makes me love Tim Lippe...I just adore this film.
No -- it's not a laugh a minute. No...it's not a spanning story....it's a lovely little story with interesting, relatable characters, and some great comedy bits.
A movie doesn't have to hit you over the head with FX or Comedy every minute to be worthy of praise...and this is a nice little story told through terrific characters.
Nothing about it not to love!
When Phillip and Elizabeth are getting ready to leave and walking down the stairs, he clearly says the stag wandered over to one of the neighboring estates and was shot on the estate.
In some instances -- it's quite necessary -- Mercury is one of those people it would have been a horrible film if Mercury's singing was attempted and failed.
Mercury's voice and vocal range are not only signature to the band, but unique only to him. (in no small part due to his extra teeth. He cited it in many interviews as a reason he would never get them fixed -- it would have changed his signature vocal style. Same reason Barbara Streisand never got her nose fixed, despite studio people and former managers urging her to do so. She and Mercury knew their meal ticket also hinged on their 'oddities' that, if 'fixed', would have broken their careers.)
I, too, prefer it when singers are portrayed where the actor can actually do the singing. However...in some instances, when the performer has such a signature sound that any attempt to mimic it would have a 90% chance of failure, it would detract from the whole film. This was a smart choice by both Malik and the director. If he had failed, Mercury's voice is so distinct that, had he failed, no one would be talking about how great the film was, but only how Malik blew the vocals.
Malik absolutely nailed Mercury's showmanship, and his lip syncing was on point, I wasn't the least bit bothered by it -- because I was captivated by his performance, and not distracted by the vocals not being perfect (as they likely would have been had the songs not been lip synched.) Also -- Mercury's voice was partially due to his physical differences with having extra teeth -- you just could not mimic that.
I fear you're vastly overestimating Trump's ability for critical thinking and advanced problem solving.
If anything....he's pilfering what he can, while he can -- and his pardon's touch nothing on a state level...his attorneys have to have gotten it through his thick skull Manafort's flip gives him borrowed time.
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