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Danny Glover For President!!
Merrick here...
Danny Glover, Thandie Newton, and Oliver Platt are joining the cast of 2012, Roland Emmerich's most recent end-of-the-world happytime jamboree.
Glover will play the President of the United States - Newton his daughter, and Platt his Chief of Staff. The trio join the already cast John Cusack and Chiwetel Ejiofor.
"2012" centers on a global cataclysm and tells the heroic struggle of the survivors.
...says THIS ARTICLE in Hollywood Reporter.
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Oh, yes
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Felt so good.
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Not bad for a newbie. Movie, great, yada yada
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1st and second! Oh, happy day.
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shit.
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Will he move the White House to Cuba?
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we might see a change this yr,as the dems are shooting themselves in the foot, but the only time hollywood gives us a black or female president the world is in danger
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Someone please let me know!
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Come on, you can't have a Glover Administration without ol' Hewie in there, who's also able to smell the sulfur trail left by El Diablo which will lead to the 2012 apocalypse.
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congrats.
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Danny, you have a Talkback made special just for you.
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i think it was circa 1998, when Morgan Freeman let the world through Deep Impact.
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...that's a fairly respectable contingent of actors for an Emmerich film. Are they all getting paid upfront?!
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he's got my vote.
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I'd vote for the Glover. We need more men that have fought the Predator on office.
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because of course, a black president is a sign of the end of the world.
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And I was getting news stories from october 1997!! What the fuck??
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Will Mel Gibson be appointed ambassador in Israel?
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i liked it when i was a kid. does it hold up?and no, you're not going to convince me to buy the DVDs of the SciFi show. i don't care how badass MacGyver is.
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is DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD?
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President of Vice!
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IF THERE ARE ANY SURVIVORS.
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"Deep Impact", Morgan Freeman was president, end of the world asteroid & tsunami chaos, people struggling to survive it, some woman on a beach with her dad getting smacked by a CGI wave.
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That will let you know what life will REALLY be like in 2012! haha
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That whenever there's a black President, there's some disaster? Both Palmers in 24, Morgan Freeman in Deep Impact, that guy with the fucked up eye in The Fifth Element, are the writers of thing Hillary supporters?
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CAUSE HE SUCKS!
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coming out nov 26th, two days before my b-day. i can't wait.
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Can I make a request and ask Aint it cool NOT to cover anything Roland Emmerick unless it's another stargate, or ID4 film. Do we really need another disaster film from this hack? let alone one that has the president saving the day. seriously.
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I guess Danny Glover is playing Barack Obama in his second term. No wonder the world comes to an end.
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It might be true, no shit -
http://www.survive2012.com/
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thandie newton could ever come out of danny glovers penis...he's blacker than wesley snipes and she's way too light skinned and hot.
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I hope they never make a woman president. women will never make a bomb that will kill you. they'll make bombs that just make you feel bad.
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in some other unrelated thread.
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And I thought the CGI wave in Deep Impact was great
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Glover is a good actor, but he also was in Saw and Operation Dumbo Drop.
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not a fucking thing. mark my words. place your bets. money upfront please.
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And artvanderlay, I laughed at your post. Sadly there will never be a Slone13 talkback either...
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But I'm afraid this movie will suck because it is directed by a talentless hack.
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...they thought they had enough time to finish it later. They were wrong. That's it.
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Because God hates me and he would rather destroy the world than see me happy, which might happen in 2012.
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they ran out of rocks to chisel out new ones. seriously, they were pretty freaking prolific. we don't pre-print calendars a thousand years in advance. we can't even sell a calendar past january.
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...that thing about God hating me. I hope everything is okay with my girlfriend.
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Would love to see you over here!Goddamn it!
And the only Spud TB there will ever be will either be (a) Due to my untimely murder at the hands of Smashing or Tegujai Batir, or (b) TRAINSPOTTING 2. Be sure to call me out if THAT ever happens.
Oh, and I totally believe in the "black prez= = end of the world" thing. Tiny Lister Jr in FIFTH ELEMENT. Morgan Freeman in DEEP IMPACT. Barack Obama in 2008. We'll all be left on hell to suffer the Tribulation - all us ungodly AICN TB sinners!!!
If they wanted to make a REALLY good post-apocalyptic movie, they should make THEREFORE REPENT!, a brilliant post-Rapture graphic novel that fucks with your mind when the act III reversal happens. Fucking outstanding GN. Get it made! -
DannyGloversDickBlood's name just became relevant again...
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I remember seeing him in SAW. and thinking yikes. Danny What happened...
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pretty optomistic, considering their world is now nothing but historical recollection
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yeah i said it
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he's standing over the desk in the Oval Office, nodding his in disbelief, as he says "I'm gettin' too old for this shit!"
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if barack and mccain had a baby.
a delicious, sweaty, crotchety, bitter black baby. -
Daniel Richard Blood - where are you?
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dick blood. Seriously were is he?
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Was Morgan Freeman busy?
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Bill Pullman, bishes! Come one, you can't say you didn't get choked up when he declared "we will not go quietly into the night". Reminiscent of the GWB "wanted: dead or alive" speech, eh?
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2012 is an emmerICK film....is there any reason to it other than for the SFX???
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is actually Danny Glover, much like MCMLXXVI is actually Mike Bay. dude doesn't want to toot his own horn. you guys know how low key DGDB is.
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ID4 was a illogical, albeit, fun mess, The Day After Tomorrow was OK, I didn't see 10,000 BC but did not hear much good about it. So more end of the world stuff? I don't know if I should be excited or bored. I'm sure I will go see this, i'm just not sure what to expect.
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i love how that follows up my calling you low key, DGDB.that worked out well.
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Morgan Freeman, Dennis Haysbert, Danny Glover.
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Why is this movie being made? Danny Glover nuked the fridge when he supported Hugo.
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He was great in Serenity.
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for real?
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Why do Presidents have to be black in the future when the world ends? Is the apocalypse always the black mans fault?
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"I mean when's the last time we had a viable candidate for President who was not only Black but inspired the whole nation that change for the better is possible?"
Since never. But hows about "half honkey, all donkey", and inspiring false, unspecified hope while representing only more of the same? Can you settle for half of everything you mentioned above? Hey, as long as it feels good right?
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I laughted
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Hopefully we, Venezuelans, won't pay for this piece of shit to happen, like the movie about that haitian president Glover is making as payment to kiss Chavez ass...
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as apposed to our options, who hold up perfectly when looked at under a microscope?
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he brings back that lisp from shooter.
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John Cusack, Limo Driver and Scientist, finds his twin in a portal and together he and himself collect the Thirteen Alien Crystal Skulls to prevent the Mayan Calendar's Doomsday Prediction.
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another dystopian black prez. we really need to make a list.
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..."George W. Bush: The LAST President" routine. It has to be heard to be believed. Sample: The sky raining menstrual blood from a gigantic Britney Spears, books shooting out flying typefaces with razor edges, bats with human skulls for bodies. Hilarious shit! ...but somehow, a little scary, too.
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or quasi-political TB in..well at least the last couple years. This is a stealth politics thread.Meanwhile...where's my god damn Laserblast remake! Fucking Hollywood!
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will never catch on so stop fucking saying it you knuckle dragging cunt
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people watched Shooter?
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aw feck. i had heard that 'myth' before, but i didn't know that was the plot of 2012
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Because 2012 is when the EArth is suppose to just end if the skulls aren't lined up.
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In cinema I mean....
I'm not a racist.
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While watching "Shooter". He had problems talking I had not seen in any other film.
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shia lebouf is the lead in the reboot of "GOTCHA!"damn that kid is GOLDEN
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THey'll be no point to watch it on late night tv after that date.
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10,000 BC
2012 (AD)
The Day After Tomorrow (AD)
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people watched Shooter?
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i was going to say, they've shown us how the world began AND ends. the only anomaly is stargate. 10,000 bc should have had Ra come down and build the pyramids & start civilization.
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now Danny Glover...At least Dennis Haysbert only attracted terrorists. These guys bring on the End Of Days.
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The point at which the new Indian Jones movie "jumped the shark."
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And it was fantastic.
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He gave his speech, took off his suit and tie and got into a flight jacket to kick some alien ass. This is for those of you old enough to remembering this happening before Dubya got in in his flight suit.
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The phrase just ain't gonna catch on. Let it go. You can't force that kind of thing. While it was mildly amusing for afew minutes in an Indy 4 talkback, it's just not gonna ever be used by a non-geek (i.e. any normal person) the way "jump the shark" is.
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...remember, not remembering.
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DGDB is cool, but Danny Glover can kiss my ass. I despise him as a person and do not care for his acting.
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But then again, I got no problem willingly suspending my disbelief. I was watching an Indiana Jones movie, after all, not "Munich".
Then again, I didn't have a problem when the Head Piece to the Staff of Ra turning a sunbeam into a lazer in the map room during Raiders, either. Or when the the wrath of God got released from a golden box and killed anyone who wasn't tied to a poll with their eyes closed. I could go on... -
Is Obama gonna look like DG in four years? Is that why they cast him? Is that an insult? I would prefer Dennis Haysbert.
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and look how that has entered the lexicon.
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really.
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...Ever notice how in science fiction movies there's always a black president? How else will we know it's the future?
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died with McCain in the movie Sniper where Markie Mark killed them. Maybe I was wrong. I agree with whoever posted this movie will become dated real quick. Watching T2 is pretty funny since the robot take over was suppose to happen a while ago now... I'm still waiting for it btw...
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were Katt Williams or Eddie Griffin. Trouble of laughin' our asses off!!....harharhar...
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Worse than the fridge scene or the waterfall scene. I've never been so dissapoinnted in a scene in my life.
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It doesn't mean they thought the world would end then. That's a speculation. But it's a fun myth nevertheless.
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is playing his daughter in this...Danny Glover gave her the business in Beloved...and HARD
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Al Sharpton not great. If they went that route we wouldn't need the Mayan calendar. It would be the end of the world.
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Now that was just ridiculous. Really, just had to toss that in there because of the fridge comments. I love how Indy 4 threads into every talkback on this site too.I actually love TOD, but when it comes down to it, surviving two falls in an inflatable raft (one from the plane, one from the cliff) from a few hundred feet is no more ridiculous than surviving a nuked fridge, or going over a waterfall three times.Argue all you like about what's a better movie, but in terms of the action itself, I just don't see any difference among the Indy films.
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How many different reasons are they going to give us not to go see this movie?
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Seriously
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Jun 02, 2008 4:58:18 PM CDT
Why is this hack still allowed to direct big budget films?
by ganymede3010
This is a disgrace. This 2012 bullshit reminds of the y2k bullshit.
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Jun 02, 2008 4:59:18 PM CDT
Mother Teresa: The Bad Years... Mr Saxon... your a fucking geniu
by gabba-uk
With Gary Busey in the lead role. That fucker needs to get made ASA fucking P!!!
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Barack: The Movie?
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Gets his throat slit and not even that can stop him. It just gives him an excuse to have an even more badass, raspier voice.
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Is when Danny Glover and everyone eles will kneel!!!!!!!!!!
or die hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
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One hell of a party. Would have to be rated NC-17.
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It does fit into the supernatural storyline of INdy litterally falling from the sky because of the gods to get the stones back. The fridge scene, waterfall scene and "Tarzan" scene added up to seconds that were completely uneccesarry. I can't believe a scene like the Tarzan one made it into the film. It's just shocking.
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Zool protected him.
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and thanks DGDB for the name of the 5th element president, saved me the lookup.
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...almost forgot he was in that, though he had maybe 10 lines.
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..come to think of it, Maverick was a lot better than it had a right to be. I guess thats got a lot to do with Jodie and James "How 'bout your sister's..." Garner.
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when Quint said that it was like watching Spielberg and Lucas fight back and forth. The Tarzan scene had to be a Lucas moment.
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They even played the Lethal Weapon music in that scene. Anybody else notice that?
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As if SHOOTER wasn't a big enough piece of shit, Glover's dialogue was made almost incomprehensible because of his Sylvester the Cat speech impediment. It made the movie seem like even more of a cartoon.
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What the fuck are you talking about?
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I'm sure I don't give enough of a fuck about Jurassic Park 2 to remember that scene.
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So what if he's made a couple of corny missteps in an otherwise amazing career? The guy is a master.
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Shooter was a bad motherfucker. Best line "I don't think you understand - these boys killed my dog."
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He's been in a lot of under rated roles.
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Munich wasn't that long ago. Lost World sucked because his heart wasn't in it (it was in Amistad), and Crystal Skull's flaws were all Lucas. Just wait for Lincoln.
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I have to agree with little gotham. How do you fuck a movie like that up so bad?
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...has the power of Shiva behind it. The old shaman tells Indy that Shiva brought them there to save the village, and is even waiting by the river when Indy & Co. show up. The power of Shiva is shown to be real when Indy invokes it against Mola Ram, so, I can buy that Shiva made sure Indy made it to Pankot. We don't have any reason to believe that the dead aliens saved five idiots in a boat from three deadly waterfalls. And, besides, the effect was shot using an actual raft with a bunch of life-size dummies in it. It didn't look like a scene from one of those LIBRARIAN movies.
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Jun 02, 2008 6:19:06 PM CDT
Ugh!!! I forgot the Black daughter gymnast in LOST WORLD...
by big dumb ape
...And that scene of her using the pipes in the shed to swing around and prove (in as hammy and as heavy-handed a movie moment as you could imagine) that she didn't deserve to be cut from the team. Anchorite is right: you can't blame Lucas for that one, and it's touches like that which are sooooo Spielberg contrived that you just want to grab a pair of scissors, cut it from the original negative, and burn that thing up so that future generations of viewers will be spared SUCH a groan-inducing moment.On the other hand, THE LOST WORLD was written by David Koepp who also wrote INDY & THE CRYSTAL SKULL, which had Shia's Tarzan moment. Coincidence for a truly shitty movie moment? I think not!
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Shouldn't there be a thread on his passing? Isn't that what AICN is about now? Movie rumors and obituary blogs?
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I was speaking in terms of the plausibility of the action scenes, not the techniques used to pull them off. The raft falling from the sky was just as silly (conceptually) as the nuked fridge, or any number of Indy action scenes.
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Jun 02, 2008 6:29:31 PM CDT
Spielberg just doesn't give a shit about popcorn movies, anymore
by mosquito march
I think he looks at these movies as tools for the financing of his "serious" post-Oscar films, and nothing more. It doesn't matter to him if things are even remotely logical anymore. He works set-piece-to-set-piece, without even considering the connective tissue that holds them together. Because, why bother? The people will buy tickets in droves to see CG aliens blow shit up for a couple of hours. That's why he hashes out claptrap like WOTW and INDY 4, without any regard for actual storytelling.
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...After all, I learned to be extra, extra careful about these "dire prediction" things after that damn Millennium Virus suddenly emerged from hiding inside all Microsoft software, and subsequently spread like a wildfire and wiped out all computers at the stroke of midnight back in 2000.But that's okay. If the Mayans were wrong...if the virus turned out to be non-existent...we still get hit by that comet in 2029. Oh yeah, and again in 2036.
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...if what Lucas and Spielberg are doing comes from the same place that Andy Warhol's distaste for HIS audience came from. When you have so many people kissing your ass for so long, it must be enticing to stop worrying about any kind of artistic integrity, and even start fucking with your audience. Warhol put out artwork that was empty and meaningless and laughed with his friends about all the sycophants that treated it like real art. Lucas's adversarial relationship with his fans would seem to fit in with that mentality - just fucking with an audience he doesn't respect.
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I hate to be cynical, but I think you have a point there.
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I've actually thought the same thing about Lucas myself. I think he was saying "Fuck you, fanboys" with the gopher hill shot. I also think he modeled Anakin in AOTC after every pissy fanboy that dumped on him for TPM.
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...too bad the actual movie is going to run the entire gamut between suck and blow. I'm stockpiling shoulderpads and crossbows for 2012, though, just in case.
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Yeah, I think we can all agree that the gopher shit was pure Lucas.
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Damn You Michael Bay
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Who else is fucking crazy enough to give him money? The man is a hack with one good idea he dragged through six movies (Star Wars) and a top-of-his game Spielberg and Lawrence Kasdan saving his ass in Raiders. Lucas is that geek who one day throws out a random idea that makes no sense and then has cool friends who put it together for him.
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Or is this the usual AICN TB know-it-all rectal blowout? There's a lot of interesting coincidences and theories out there, at the very least. Long-form Mesoamerican calendar, the I-Ching, buncha astronomy crap about rare solar system alignments and intense solar flares stripping away the atmosphere... personally, I'm hoping for something like the intro to Thundarr the Barbarian. I know this is a talkback for an Emmerich movie, not the most conducive venue available for thoughtful discussion among strangers, but anyone got any actual thoughts/ideas about the concept behind this movie beyond the usual sardonic fanboy condescension?
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And yet we endure though it's been ending for untold millenia!!! Did you know that literally over half a million people die every day?!?! That can't be normal! It must be some... sign! HAAAAYYYYALLLLP!!!! Quick! Run to the hills! THE INEVITABLE END IS PERPETUALLY NIGH!!! AIEEEEEEEE!!!!!!
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For people who think Barry Obama is not far enough to the left.
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Always has been
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With his ghetto blaster playing Peter Gabriel. World ends. Fade to black.
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http://tinyurl.com/3qxz9c I'm not sure what it is. It says something about Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull or something. You guys might want to check it out. *Piracy, it's a crime*
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With your new found power, please be sure to spread the CoC gospel. That's all I ask.
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whenever a black man or woman is president, a meteor is sure to hit the Statue of Liberty! :P
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Danny Glover will say that in 2012! Guaranteed! :)
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MCFLY!!!!!!
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Your request for original thought regarding the alleged 2012 eschaton intrigued me. So I logged on to the Series of Tubes in search of Knowledge.But three precious minutes of research came to a screeching halt when, on the main page of the 2012 Wiki, I read the phrase "Crystal Skull".That pretty much nuked the gopher for me right there.
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its the end of a wobble
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I liked your phrase "rectal blowout". That's a pretty apt description of what goes on around here.
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He'll report you to his friend Fidel. It'll be the Cuban gulag for you.
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He overacts and hams it up in everything. As if he hadn't read the script prior to the director yelling "Action!" Pass.
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Surprising the World and destroying erm... some calendars I think.
Though Theoreticaly (if by theoretically we mean making shit up) Planes could fall out of the Sky, Nuclear Plants explode, Power stations malfunction, Nuclear missiles Launch, clock alarms go apeshit and, well all the things that happened the last time the world ended. -
Jun 02, 2008 9:38:50 PM CDT
"WOTW, by the way, was a superb film" -- you're kidding, right?
by big dumb ape
Any time the martians -- oops, I meant to say "inter-dimensional aliens", since Spielberg and Koepp were so fucking lazy that they couldn't even be bothered to explain for 2 lousy seconds WHO the hell was attaching the Earth -- but any time they actually DID something, the film was basically fine. But WOTW was FAR from a superb film. In fact, it was a major disappointment and a film that is barely watchable on repeat viewings unless you really DO fastforward through major chunks of it.TomBodet is right -- the second half of WOTW is a complete implosion and a mess, and it's stunning to realize that freakin' Emmerich and Devlin and ID4 and its ending outdid and outplayed Spielberg at his own game nearly 10 years earlier. WOTW is almost teeth-grating to sit through, highlighted by Dakota Fanning's performance as the world's most ultra whiny spoiled bitch child, one who never showed even the slightest sign of redemption even after her Dad saved her life repeatedly. Fanning was SUCH a low point in that movie that I prayed Spielberg would actually be ballsy enough to let her get fried by a martian death ray. Or let her be ground up into red weed mulch. And don't even get me started on Tim Robbins and the whole basement section of the film, which brought everything to a screeching halt. Worst of all, it's where Spielberg (and Koepp) were so creatively lazy that they said "Hey, I got an idea! We can kill even more running time by simply digging up the alternate storyboards to the "kids in the kitchen hunted by raptors" sequence in JURASSIC PARK and use that for these guys hiding from aliens in the basement!" Which was only pushed over the top by the truly vomit hurling scene of Cruise having to sing LITTLE DUECE COUPE -- you know, just to show in truly over the top, overly hammy Spielberg way that he's "reaching out" to his daughter now.I love WAR OF THE WORLDS as a creative property. I like the HG Welles book...I love the Orson Welles radio show...I think the George Pal version is a sci fi classic. And when I heard that no less than Steven Fucking Speilberg was going to be doing a remake of WAR OF THE WORLDS, I thought to myself "Man, this is going to be the ULTIMATE summer blockbuster. Spielberg doing an all-out alien invasion flick and destroying the world." Instead I got one of the lamest movies of his personal film library, and worst of all...as if this is even possible...I got a BORING summer alien invasion movie. I mean seriously, how do you fuck THAT up THAT bad?
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I'm confused.
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had a chance of being good?
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Monday - Thursday = stab a shitheelYour presidency will rock Danny.
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The Tripod surfacing setpiece IS superb and the alien foghorn was a great moment. Also some of the rest of the Tripod stuff including the destruction of one.
Not really bothered about the rst TBH. It sort of have had something in common with War of the Worlds but not THAT much.
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Hello Miss Hayek....
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Spielberg should do Interstellar. Oh, and I always love a good apocalypse movie. :)
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Too bad his son was annoying as all hell and I really think his part was totally unnecessary. That and the Tim Robbins part. It really slowed down the movie too much, and while I see what he was going for with that scene, I think the movie would have been much better to either exclude that part or shorten it up more.
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no way.
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I'm sorry, Octagonproplex. I was going to try and answer your latest reply, but unfortunately it put me right to sleep since your cinematic reasoning (translation: your excuse-making for a crappy and disappointing summer movie) was even MORE pretentious and boring than WAR OF THE WORLDS managed to be.Oh, and by the way: trying to look smart and coming off as "holier than thou" by picking on someone else's nickname right from the start only goes to show that your not really interested in discussing a topic in a polite way. But hey, that's just a tip for you in both manners and civility from us so-called "dumb" people whose asses aren't as tightly plugged as yours and who can actually display a sense of humor about ourselves...
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From the Jeff Wayne Album a.k.a the curate from the original.
Sadly in the setting and at that point in the film he just doesn't work and is used to set up viewing the real martians and a hide and seek movie moment.
The ferry is the Thunderchild and the feeding is faithfull to the original so Spielberg does at least try I'll give him that.
As for the underlying metaphor, well no. H.G. Wells was having a pop at Imperialism in the original and Spielberg does the same albiet less overtly with a reference to The Battle of Algiers, Suicide Bombings and Tim Robbins on insurgencies. The 9/11 fear of Terrorism is only raised by the son (who IS just annoying) after the destruction of the overpass. -
I realize you were just trying to defend Spielberg (and the film) and got lost in the moment, so no prob at all.However, you also said: "If I'm a Spielberg apologist, then so be it. Someone ought to be." And that brings up another point entirely: since when does Spielberg need an apologist to defend his body of work? I mean, let's be honest here. The man is box office gold (generally speaking), he's an Oscar-winning director, and (for all intents and purposes) is a household name and is considered the most successful director in the history of movies. So there's no need for an apologist, as if his directorial work somehow needs defending because it's not getting the respect that it ought to be. Frankly, he gets any and all the respect that there is. That said, however, that also doesn't mean he's God and completely infallible, nor does it mean that some of his films...or certainly PARTS of them...can't be scrutinized or outright criticized for what they are. And that's all that I was trying to say earlier, too -- and not to put words in his mouth, I suspect TomBodet as well. Namely, that we have problems with WOTW structurally, and no matter how much you try to discuss "thematic elements" or "insightful philosophical analogies" that you supposedly see incorporated into the final film, that still doesn't save it from some intense scrutiny and criticism.Hey, trust me, I'm a lifelong Spielberg fan. I grew up on the man's stuff, and JAWS...alongside STAR WARS...is what made me enroll in film school and is what eventually got my ass out here to Hollywood. Spielberg and his films were a total inspiration to me, and overall I love his style. So don't mistake my criticisms of WOTW as a criticism of him overall.
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Just why in the hell did he waste 30 minutes of War of the Worlds with Tim Robbins doing a re-enactment of Shawshank Redemption? That movie sucked a big donkey dick. Oh yeah and Indy's refrigerator stunt was utter BULLSHIT!! That and the movie did not need LeBeouf at all. Seriously.
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Is already part of my everyday vernacular. Just try to stop me a-holes.
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Since you're such the Spielberg fan...and since you were naming a few directors and their works...I'd recommend that you check out the work of someone who very much influenced Spielberg's sensibilities, which he's admitted himself. So go rent some movies by Michael Curtiz, who for example directed the triumvirate of Errol Flynn swashbuckler classics: CAPTAIN BLOOD, THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD and THE SEA HAWK...as well as directing Bogart in PASSAGE TO MARSEILLE and the immortal CASABLANCA...and even directed the King himself, Elvis, in KING CREOLE where he got a great dramatic performance out of him.
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Jun 03, 2008 1:17:34 AM CDT
Flames on Optimus = Termie-ater in John Connor
by stereotypical evil archer
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...when I checked the wiki entry on the mesoamerican calendar someone had edited it to say, "WE ALL GONNA DIE!!!" Even following the links from the 2012 entry probably got me on some federal watch list or a cameo on a Dateline spin-off. Oh well, I'm sure Emmerich's writers have consulted with anthropologists and futurists and chaos mathematicians to figure out the most plausible theory for a prophetic global catastrophe.
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Jun 03, 2008 2:26:44 AM CDT
How come the black presidents always get the watch during the bi
by babba-booey
See; Morgan Freeman in Deep Impact.
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Jun 03, 2008 3:25:22 AM CDT
Roland Emmerich is the sexiest tomboy beanpole on the planet!
by kampbell-kid
Seriously, if he isn't doing ID4 2 featuring a re-engineered air force that can take battles into space then I could give a shit what Roland Emmerich has next for us.
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No, but seriously it's good to see Danny G playing the prez!
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The difference between the Pre-Jurrasic Park/ SL Spielberg and the modern one is that the early version produced films that I love unreservedly. Whereas the modern one produces ones I want to love and just can't. Even supposed highlights like SPR or Minority Report are, being kind, heavily flawed. In the future people will look at Spielbergs films and recognise an unparaleled career. But they'll wonder about the creative decline.
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the White House to watch this together as Clinton and Pullman did for ID4.
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All we need is Chris Rock for prez next. Oh wait...
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If they gave the plot outline to a handful of directors and let them each relase thier own version over the course of a yr- lets see what Emmerich,Bay,Ratner,Spielberg,Smith, Favrue , ETC could do....let each cast,script and budget there own projetc and compare the end results...then we'd see who could deliver...
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Stop going to the cinema, stop renting and/or buying and stop supporting websites who make, sell or write about - CRAP. 'You do it to yourself, you do, and that's what really hurts' - Thom Yorke You won't be respected as an audience unless you give the studios a reason to respect you. Well, not that the 14-30 year old target market will ever be respected except as something to be taken advantage of and exploited, but I digress... Seriously, look at the message 'we' sent with Gigli, or Swept Away! These were clear messages people - no crap allowed in the highly competitive spacetime of multiplexs! It'll work for blockbusters too, they're really expensive remember?! What we need is a really big FUCK MICHAEL BAY quilt, or something. Then light it on fire, on a Universal lot. Wait a minute, did someone else alreay think of this???
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Alba Varda's a ship, not a person.
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I'd rather eat dynamite and lit matches than watch this propaganda.
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If so, he's got my vote. Is DannyGlovers Dick Blood his campaign manager? Will Danny have DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY!?!
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before you sit down, and look at the toilet paper for any clues, you know, subtle shit like BOOM! YOU'RE DEAD
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Hhhh h h hhey ri ri ri riggs!
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Hollywood seems to think so.
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In defense of the stutter, if I had bad guys shooting at me all the time or extraterrestrial alien hunters on my ass, I'd stutter too!
Lethal Weapon 2 = AWESOME POOL!! AWESOME CLIFF HOUSE!! AWESOME AQUARIUM!! AWESOME CARGO LOADER!! AWESOME TOILET!! -
instead of the world ending with an "ELE" catastrophe under a black president, I would prefer an "ELO" event, so we can all dance to "Sweet Talkin Woman" and "Turn to Stone."
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Rev Jeremiah Wright in the role of President Glover's spiritual mentor.Not God Bless Hollywood. God DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM Hollywood.
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AWESOME BLONDE
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We simply disagree, dude, that's cool. All I know is when I watched that raft falling in TOD, I actually thought that's very Looney Tunes. I laughed at it just as I did the fridge being nuked, which is the idea. They're just gags, and I had to suspend the same amount of disbelief in each instance.
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Gawd, that flick sucked royal monkey dick.
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you ain't kidding. She was smoking, and I was sad to see her get, you know, drowned and chained to a pier. That made Riggs mad! Didn't they know they'd only piss him and his shoulder off?
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You are aware that bad things happen to good people, right? Not that religious people are necessarily good, but disasters don't discriminate, and decent people are victims to natural disasters all the time - religious people too. Churches are not immune to hurricanes, earthquakes, and floods. In such instances, that is when people are really thrown and questioning all their beliefs, and I think that was what Spielberg captured in WOTW.
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"I thought he was too old for this shitby messi; Jun 2nd, 2008; 04:01:53 PM
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I am curious.
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Yeah, I agree - it's a bit of a big omission to miss having people praying in some form - I'd have just had it in one insignificant corner of the frame, just to show that faith intensifies in such circumstances. Hell, in both versions of THE BLOB ended with a vicar who went insane and thought the Blob was a demigod or something. But in the Pal WOTW, the religion was there to show (a) that faith is present in disaster scenarios, and (b) it doesn't do any good when the tripods come and make your church explode!!!
And I also agree that WOTW was awful on many, many more levels than just the omission of a representation of religion. How can the 'Berg make a boring summer alien invasion movie?!?!?
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The door swings both ways.
**goes out and makes the worst PREDATOR movie in the history of the franchise. Yep, worse than AVP2** -
Are the reason 275lb Black men like myself are so violent towards you small pricked white boys. And before you reply with A Hole biyatch comments ask yourself would you say them to a Black man's face? See that's what seperates us because I would say what I think of you to your faces and be ready to back it up. And this ONLY is directed to the biggots who posted on here and could have easily not said anything. Pussies!
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Let's not forget white men have been in charge of this country since forever and have done a FUCKED up job running it!
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Can't even understand him these days.
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Does HG Wells really come across as the praying type? Science was his religion. The lack of spirituality in War of the Worlds was intended by Wells and it's one of the things which made the movie less hokey and ropey than Signs.
I get that Spielberg based the movie as much on George Pal's version as the book, but it seems strangely fitting that a movie whose big baddie is germs eschews the usual Christian tropes that you'll find in almost every other big budget movie of this sort.
And octagon: "But look man leave poor "anchorite" alone..." You have no idea who you're defending! A guy who flits between posting fake obituaries of left-wingers he can't stand, trolling talkbacks and occasionally making some very funny posts. In general though, he's 95% douche, 5% hilarious. Still, "Poor anchorite" HAHAHAHA! -
RIGGS!
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Really? I mean the story was basically told from the perspective of 3 family members. If I recall, there was never a single moment where we left their story (or their presence on screen) to focus on anything else whatsoever, much less people praying for mercy.I suppose they could have walked by a group of people praying or even a more "Mist"-like take on religion perhaps but that didn't happen. Just like it might occur in reality if such an insane "reality" ever took place. Cruise's character and the 2 kids were, apparently, the product of secular upbringing and thus didn't pray. It was consistent within their storyline. I'm not saying it was a great movie (I do think its far from boring tho) and I agree it is a silly thing to argue over (not my intent to argue) but if the movie is the story of 3 people told through *their* specific reaction to the absurdity of an actual alien invasion and their ensuing struggle for survival, and they happen to be non-religious from outward appearances, wouldn't it have seemed inauthentic to have them pray?I had far more trouble with Cruise's character not dragging his asshole son kicking and screaming away from what should have been a firery death and to at least assist him in protecting the little girl until they reached comparative safety. That is far more of a reason to question the movie then those particular characters lack of praying or outward religion. to me, anyway.
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I meant, a movie where the saviour of mankind is germs!
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in 2012 i bust a fart so noxious that civilization ceases to exist.
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