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TheeBarkKnight t1_ja6jnvd wrote

Reply to comment by A_Gent_4Tseven in Anna Faris Joins Dave Bautista in ‘My Spy: The Eternal City’ by Bennett1984

Right. I'm a big MCU fan, but Drax has no depth and is written like an imbecile. I think Barista just wants to do things that are different, and this is different while still being studio and probably getting him a nice check. Just look at Arnold: Kindergarten Cop is one of my absolute favorites of his.

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Weedsmoker4hunnid20 t1_ja6j9o7 wrote

Reply to Official Discussion - Emily [SPOILERS] by LiteraryBoner

This is such a great film for a debut from Frances O’Connor and although I found out afterward that it wasn’t “accurate”, it doesn’t change my perception of the film. I thought it was fantastic and one of those movies where I just have to sit in silence for a while to take it all in afterwards

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BackwardsMarathon t1_ja6h97n wrote

Reply to Is it just be that found the trailer for "In Bruges" to be deceitful? by notoliberals

Here's the thing, they had no idea how to really market In Bruges. McDonagh's next film Seven Psychopath's even makes fun of the movie that In Bruges' trailer tries to sell, but yes, in reality, it is much different. I think it's a beautiful haunting and meditative dark comedy, and that's not what the trailer sells at all. It sells a hitman dark comedy that's quick, snappy, and breezy. Sometimes PR people just have no idea how to sell the movie.

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PanicParty325 t1_ja6fmy7 wrote

Reply to Questions about Knock at the Cabin. SPOILERS by Fstr21

I've read the book that Knock at the Cabin is based on so I'll try to fill in what Shyamalan didn't.

  1. The visions described exactly what kinds of weapons that each person would have with them. As you saw in the film, they wanted to follow everything that the visions showed them to prevent the apocalypse. If I remember correctly, in the book, Redmond is the one that builds all of the weapons and that provides them to the other three once they meet.
  2. This is just M. Night hammering home the central allegory in case the audience didn't get it. The book does not straight up tell you that the four visitors are supposed to be like the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. I suppose assigning each person one of the four titles further drives home the metaphor?
  3. It blurs our understanding of why the visitors are there and why Andrew, Eric, and Wen were chosen. If the four of them were chosen by some high power and the selection of the family was random, isn't it weird that Redmond was involved? I mean, it definitely could still happen, but it's an odd coincidence. The book has more little details like this so we as readers (or with the movie, as the audience) are never certain as to what lead these parties together.
  4. See Point 3, but also, it's looping news footage the way that any cable news footage would be so nothing out of the ordinary. All of the events already happened hours or days prior to the deaths of the visitors, so it's not like they were triggered by the deaths, but they're happening just as the visitors described.
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