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Yes, he realizes it by the hands, and then the ribs. It's a poignant scene.
At 6.9 on iMDB... yes, I agree it's underrated. One of the best adventure movies of the 80s. It doesn't reach Indiana Jones level, but then again no other movie does.
I know where you are coming from but I don't really agree. I loved it as a kid, and after rewatching it as an adult I agree is not in the same league as the original three Indiana Jones movies. Those have a deeper lore, and they capture the imagination more. However, it's a bit unfair to condemn a movie just for not being as good as the best pulp adventure movies ever. This is fun, fast-paced, exotic, with a bit of romance... Not the best ever, but it's a good adventure film.
Yes, the movie implies that he killed the crocodile. He had the crocodile skin boots and the money to buy the ship. It had already been established that Jack did not like the drug trade...
It's to keep a fast pace, they don't always need to show every word that was spoken. It was already established that the drug lord guy was a fan of her and was in the mood to help her. The bad guys were in the village. We saw them mistreating an old lady to get information and a little boy running to raise the alarm... is it that difficult to understand how they get from there to running away in the "mule"?
Another example is when the two leads get separated after falling into the waterfall. We do not get to see how each of them got to Cartagena. The movie just skipped forward to that part.
It makes more sense in the book, where the Russians are behind the plot, but it's a great title.
Not for me. They are very similar, following the same formula, but I find the first one more relatable. It's the struggle of a bunch of kids from a poor neighborhood to regain their self-esteem and compete against a strong team from a richer neighborhood, with more opportunities and material. Here we have the national team and we are supposed to sympathize that one of them doesn't know how to hockey stop. Also, why is the national team the coach's peewee team and a few extra players from all over the country? And why is the shirt of the national team not good enough for them to play their best?
I find this one still fun, but less relatable.
In real life it would be absurd, of course, but this is a movie for kids and they wanted to maintain the cast of the first movie.
My take is that we don't know for sure.
The Terminator obviously had to follow its programming, so its free will was limited. However, it was also intelligent. Could it have feelings and preferences? We don't know, but I prefer to believe that it could. Why would it develop a bond with John, otherwise?
But it could be argued that the John from the future did. Not explicitly, but in a "do everything you can to protect my younger self" way. Once the T-1000 was terminated, the next step for the T-800 to protect John would be to terminate itself in a way theat left no remains.
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They could have done it if they had wanted. At the end they had the other half of the ticket and Slater was dying from a gunshot, so they went back to the movie so that it would only be a flesh wound. Slater remained there, where he belonged, and Danny went back to the real world.
They could have gone instead to the previous Slater movie, and there save Slater's son. It would have made a more feel-good ending.
I agree. I was waiting for Slater to remain in the real world and marry Danny's mom, or if he was going back, then find a way to save his son.
Interesting article. You can see the creative process, how many hands it went through, so it makes sense that the result was somewhat patchy, as if it never decides what it wants to be.
That would be too expensive, since you would need new sets and everything for each episode.
I really liked this movie when I first watched it (I was about Danny's age), and rewatching it as an adult I still find it enjoyable. I like how Schwarzenegger doesn't take himself too seriously, and he is good in these half-comedy half-action movies.
I partially agree. The cartoon character and some of the most over-the-top elements were not necessary. The rest is actually quite a good parody of action movies, I think.
I disagree. The good thing about this movie is that it doesn't take itself seriously.
I watched Amadeus when i was a bit younger than Danny in the movie, and I enjoyed it a lot. It's an appealing story about the jealousy of a hard-working person towards a genius who does everything better and without effort. Made me sympathize a bit with Salieri, and I also found Mozart funny, with that silly laugh. I don't know, Amadeus was a popular movie, and I watched it at home with my family. It's certainly not the kind of action blockbuster that Danny loves, but I did not find it strange that he would have watched it. He didn't even need to have liked it, just to have watched at least part of it, maybe when his mom watched it on TV.
<blockquote>Terminator: Dark Fate is the sequel to T1 and T2 that fans have been long waiting for</blockquote>
Question: The first two movies (the ones that people actually like) were all about making it possible for John Connor to exist and reach adulthood. So how can Dark Fate be the sequel that fans have been waiting for, when it completely negates the leitmotif of the first two movies? If one were to accept Dark Fate, then T1 and T2 would become pointless. That's no way to build a narrative arc.
Agreed. He seemed a good guy, and I felt sorry for him.