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I have been doing a rewatch after seeing season 11 which put me in the mood to watch the old episodes again. It's made me appreciate the first few seasons (especially the first 2) more comparatively and it's interesting to see the characters in their early stages before they became "heroes" sort of when they were just trying to figure out how to navigate the "new world". Some things I have forgotten and others I was anticipating to watch again (mostly the episodes leading up to the arrival of Negan and the infamous first episode of season 7). After season 7 it gets a bit tedious, I'd say. Season 8 is pretty good and the first half of S9. After Rick's departure, the show really started to suffer. Season 10 is really the low point of the series with the exception of the last episode (Here's Negan) which is ironically one of the best episodes of the show following arguably the worst episode of the entire series.
The problem is how do you sling it around the pole from the platform they were standing on? They both would have to be standing beneath it in order to wrap it around and that was just physically impossible.
It really did a good job of making you feel like you were up there with them. What I liked about it is that the majority of the movie takes place up there and you constantly feel it until the very end on top of wondering if they'll ever be able to get down. Most movies like this have moments of relief before the main characters have to overcome another challenge/obstacle but in this one the tension never stops.
Well, the movie was about facing your fears and appreciating life again so it makes sense to have Becky be the protagonist. Hunter was the driving force for Becky to motivate her to change her outlook on life. Had the twist been Hunter surviving it would have been a tragedy rather than a movie about hope. Even taking this into consideration, the movie doesn't pretend that Becky was more heroic than Hunter. Without Hunter, Becky might have never changed and continued to drown in her sorrows so you could see it as Hunter sacrificing her life to save Becky (even if it's unintentional) and that can be seen as heroic.
I think the difference here is the height. The tower would likely have been the highest peak she's ever climbed at that point on top of everything she went through I think, at the very least, mentally (if not also physically) would be more challenging than what she had done previously.
Maybe an unpopular opinion but it seemed a little far fetched that someone like Carol would become one of the strongest characters on the show when in the first season she was shown to be a pretty weak and dependent person. She had to rely on Daryl to protect her and help her find her daughter whereas in the later seasons she was very independent and fearless. Her change didn't really seem very realistic IMO. I think Andrea and Daryl would have been a better and more realistic team.
No. Daryl mentions in the last episode that the problem with the Commonwealth was exactly that they wanted to recreate the old world (with all the old problems of greed, power and corruption) and that they had to move on from that and create a new world.
Well my opinion is that there was no vision. The movie makes it nuanced enough to either think she saw something or she was hallucinating or neither of those. It's left to interpretation but based on the actions of the cult leader (Mademoiselle) at the end I lean more towards that even if she saw something she lied to her in order to end the cult. She could have seen the afterlife for all we know but told her that she saw that there was nothing to prevent future potential young girls from becoming "martyrs".
I guess people come to different conclusions based on their own tastes. To me what makes the movie powerful and therefore has more of an impact on me is the moral element. It's not about necessarily having a hero and a villain but the inner conflict the main character is going through. That makes it more interesting to me. But, then again, I can see why some prefer to view it literally. It still makes for an entertaining experience and can at the same time leave the viewer questioning the same moral elements as if viewed metaphorically. I get where you are coming from when you mention that when viewed as the latter it diminishes the impact of the film if you see it as a tragedy that he didn't successfully kill Milton and it was all a ruse to make him believe he did. Having Kevin die at the end (as in he literally died for his sins to save humanity) would have been a noble ending but would have made his character more sympathetic rather than tragic IMO. I prefer to view it as it was originally intended by the filmmakers that evil can't be rid of, that it's on us to make the right choice.
Apart from the accent (which I can get over) I thought this was some of his best acting. Especially the scene in the hospital when he wants to stop Charlize Theron's character from killing herself and afterwards. The entire scene with Pacino at the end was incredibly well acted (I'm a lawyer, I don't lose, I win, that's my job!) is just one of those scenes that always grabs me from beginning to end.
I think the ending is brilliant as I don't take the movie literally but metaphorically. To me, Milton is not real only a manifestation of the evil that lives in all of us. Kevin probably saw the devil as his father who he never knew and resented him for this. So he made up this character of Milton as his father who represents his "evil" part that makes him greedy for success no matter the harm that will result in others as a consequence of his actions. I understand that if you take the movie literally it doesn't make sense as Kevin effectively kills Milton at the end but I don't see it that way.
It just shows that the devil (Milton) is always there to tempt Kevin. Although he can't force him to do anything he lays out the sins for him (in this case vanity) to either grab or ignore. Although Kevin kills Milton at the end it's only metaphorically that he kills that part of him who wants to go on doing the "devil's work". Milton (or the devil) can't be killed but can be defeated at any time by doing what's right. Obviously, Kevin can't get rid of his vanity when he accepts Larry's offer showing that although he did the right thing by not longer representing his client he is still tempted by the sin of vanity thus resurrecting Milton (the devil) for another "test".
I mean that she couldn't possibly see the afterlife by having gone through what she went through. The cult believed that you could see it by being tortured excessively and on the brink of death which is just an irrational belief as you can't know what's on "the other side" if you are not dead. The lie is that she didn't have an answer but lied to the cult leader that she knew there was nothing to destroy the cult.
I'm pretty sure she ends up dying at the end. The point was that she was the most resilient out of all the experiments they did so according to them she had the answer to the afterlife which was obviously a lie.
It's probably a combination of guilt and curiosity on top of being in a remote location that lead her to take the actions she took. Also, the shock at what she witnessed afterwards when discovering the woman being held captive. She obviously wanted to help her and didn't think the cops would have acted appropriately faced with this situation. There's also no point in making the movie if she called the cops and it ended there. We needed to have her become the ultimate martyr (according to the cult) to have the movie come to its conclusion about the cult's irrationality and effectively destroying it so no further "martyrs" could exist in the future.