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I agree, it was really distracting. I get that her natural accent wouldn't have made any sense with the plot, but they should've gotten someone else for the role once they saw how bad she was at hiding it.
Oh wow, that's odd lol I was born in 1991, but I think I'd heard the song a lot as a kid or something.
You didn't know that that was an actual song?
It will always be a favourite. They just don't make 'em like they used to, that's for sure.
Thank you-- best explanation on here.
"How do ya know the fairy isn't a crazy glue-sniffer? 'Build a model airplane,' says the little fairy. Well, we're not buyin' it."
The fairy isn't caught with glue and lying about it lol The fairy, being a glue-sniffer, wants to build a model airplane <i>because they require glue</i>. That way, he can huff all the glue he wants, under the guise of just building something.
In the "Trivia" part on IMDb, it says this:
"On the DVD commentary, director Peter Segal reveals that they used James Newton Howard's score to Dave and George Fenton's score to Groundhog Day (1993) as temp-track music. The Groundhog Day music was used as temp score in the airplane scene."
I named my dog Callahan because Tommy Boy is the best movie ever.
My uncle first introduced me to it when I was 11 or so, and I was immediately hooked.
As Tommy would say, "Gahh, I've seen it a hundred times..."
But seriously, it's my Marriage Movie: I watch it in sickness and in health, through poor and poorer, 'til death do we part.
It's one of those movies that I can quote word-for-word entire scenes at random lol
I named my dog Callahan after that movie. And I'm from Ohio originally, so that's just a bonus.
It really is underrated though. Whenever I meet someone who's never seen it, even now in 2021, I'm astounded.
On the back of the picture of the little boy, the killer had written "218" along with a message. The agent guy says he's tried thinking of things that 218 could mean, one of them being February 18th, which was just a day or two away. And then yeah, Glover had circled "February" and "18" on the calendar at the mechanic shop when he killed the guy there.
But then later someone mentions that the 218 train is the last one of the night, and that ended up being the one Glover and Leto were on.
I don't think that he was abused as a child.
I think that he was just trying to use that as an excuse (only after seeing Alec's face and realizing who he was), thinking that maybe Alec would feel sympathy for him and show him mercy because he's been through that hell himself.
Before he saw Alec's face, he was saying stuff like "No, <i>you and your friend</i> took those boys," blah blah blah. But once Alec stepped out of the shadows, Bad Guy's whole demeanor changed and he tried to go for the sympathy thing.
I mean maybe he was abused as a child, but I don't think that that's why he did what he did.
As for the green pocket knives, I just figured they were his particular calling card, though it's never explained why.
I watched this for the first time last night, and then I watched it again tonight to better understand certain parts.
<spoiler>The kids that were kidnapped and escaped 16 years ago didn't concoct any sort of "future revenge plan."
And they didn't dodge the police or make up some story. As Devotee said, the "magical treehouse" that disappears is just the child's recollection of the camper trailer thing that the guy kept them in. And Detective Rizner(?) said that he interviewed the kids extensively back then.
Upon first watch: When they go talk to grown-up Tommy and he looks at them and starts screaming "no" uncontrollably, I assumed it was because he saw Detective Rizner(?) and all of those horrible memories came flooding back. (I assume that that's what the parents and Det. Rizner thought, too.)
Upon second watch, knowing who the Bad Guy is: The camera pans to Det. BadGuy, and you can see him look kind of worried for a second, like <i>Shit, am I busted?</i>, but then his look seems to relax a little bit, like, <i>Okay, I'm safe, he's just mental.</i>
As far as Tommy scarring up his face, I assume that that's there to show the depths of his psychological scars from the ordeal (mentally/emotionally). Which is why him screaming "no" uncontrollably (and that it didn't surprise the parents) is understandable.
Anyway, I'm not positive here, but I'm assuming that Alec must've somewhat recently found out where the real Bad Guy lived, and that's why he chose that house to "phrog" with Mindy (and why he asked to come along on one of her "phrogging" missions in the first place).
However, as someone else pointed out in a different thread, Alec presumably would've known that the cops got the wrong guy 16 years ago. So that part doesn't make sense to me...
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Thank you, and I agree-- that was just the child's explanation of the motorhome/camper thing.
I feel like something's happened to her chin and nose, too. I could be wrong, but her whole face just seems really angular in this movie.
And her face still has "normal" wrinkles, which makes the facelift aspect somehow creepier, if that makes sense?
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That was my thought, too. I can understand them wanting her based on merit, but how did they still say "yes" after seeing her looking like this?
And I hate to even think/say that, but it's true; her face was the most frightening part of this movie.
I've scoured the internets to find this exact discussion. (And I'm happy to have found this site in doing so!)
I love the woman dearly, so I hate to even <i>think</i> such things, but yeah, it was incredibly distracting, and, honestly, quite frightening to look at.
The odd part, though, is that her face still had wrinkles... Like, okay, clearly she's no stranger to a facelift, but up close, the skin isn't stretched tight like it appears from a distance. You can clearly see "natural" wrinkles.
I've looked at some pictures on her IMDb page, pictures taken at the movie's premiere, and she looks pretty decent. You can tell she's had some work done, but she still looks like Helen Hunt. Yet in the movie itself, you're right, she looks like an alien or like she's wearing a creepy mask.
The sad thing is that I'm sure she would've aged beautifully had she aged naturally.
I'm surprised <spoiler>the frog-mask guy didn't yelp when she peeked under the bed</spoiler> lol