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Reforming the UK House of Commons to be like the Banana Splits Club mettings
Union soldiers dressed differently from other Union soldiers in first battle scene
Planet of the Amazon Women
I did have the merest modicum of sympathy for the brother and sister
Was the flying saucer at the beginning the Thing's or had it hijacked it?
Jack Carter's hypocrisy
Spectrum around before discovering the Mysterons
Pip not getting tried for Helping Abel Magwitch to escape.
Basil Rathbone
Sydney Carton and other peoples' opinion of him
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Not that she did not look nice dressed like that, but I did think that if the worse did come to the worst, you would not want to be found half undressed: bad form.
Lorrie. She seemed like a nice person who acted very bravely under the circumstances. Then she either burns and/or falls to her death. Bad sh*t happens to nice people.
Shnorky
Yes you could. My dad was in the army stationed at nearby Lark Hill in 1952 and you could then. They even saw some druids there once or twice.
Years later in the early seventies they used to have army days with displays nearby (Rushmore Arena) which we used to go to. Often we went to Stonehenge afterwards. From memory the road went right past it. There was a layby, with an AA telephone box, and you just went through a pedestrian, metal gate yo get to it. You could walk right up to it. There was just a watchman on duty to make sure nobody harmed them at all and a Ministry of Works Ancient Monument sign.
Well put. What he did to Margaret (the one whom he injects with a heroin overdose) I found particularly evil. The way that he kidnaps her and almost casually keeps her captive for what must have been an hour or more (she must have been terrified during that time), even stopping to make a phone call on the way to where he is going to murder her. Then he quite calmly and almost casually injects her with that drugs overdose as if he is just carrying out an everyday chore (to me certainly the act of a psychopath).
Any sympathy which I might have had for him evaporated after that.
I remember reading an obituary to the author of the novel, one weekend in the nineties. So when I saw it advertised on TV shortly afterwards I videoed and watched it.
Lots of things. There was a united humanity (pretty much) and sex and racial equality had been attained. So that humanity could concentrate on getting to the stars. With sex equality, I liked the way that the female crew members dressed. They looked very chic and feminine, and had just as important jobs as their male counterparts.
I did not feel that sorry for him. True, he had not exactly had a conventional upbringing, so he deserved sympathy for that. Then when he started to use his powers to harm people, part of you thought that although it was not right what he did, he was involuntarily lashing out. Then that woman, who was concerned about him, he changed into a lizard. You just saw him smirking. After that I thought what, a nasty, sadistic, little ****. So I was not sorry at all when he got taken away.
They are both good films in slightly different ways. I do have a lot more sympathy for the character of Harry Brown though. He was dealing with out and out bad guys so that the area where he lived would be safer for ordinary, law abiding people to live (as well as avenging his murdered friend).
Whereas with Jack Carter's character I found myself initially sympathising with him: he was avenging his law abiding brother's murder. However although I sympathised with him killing Eric (he was directly involved in the murder) and Peter the Dutchman (self defence), most of the other people whom he murders are only indirectly involved at worst. Albert Swift, whom he murders outside the bookies, Carter admits that he knows that he did not kill him. Also the long, drawn out way that he kidnaps Margaret and almost casually murders her, partly to drop Kinnear in it was when I lost any sympathy for him. To say nothing of the people in the car, when that bloke whom he chucks off the top of that building, lands on their car. They looked badly injured at best. He was pissed off that his illegitimate daughter/niece had gone into making that porno film. The firm which he worked for seemed to be involved in vice. He did not seem to be bothered that he was involved in the same kind of racket, which involved other people's nieces/daughters. So no, I ended up not liking him and thought that he got his just deserts.
Or the police in the story! Thanks for your reply.
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