miriel68 wrote:

.....One thing that is baffling me, is that almost every (exaggerating, but only slightly) review is reiterating the idea that "dr Strange is basically a variant of Tony Stark". ....

I wouldn't mind Dr. Strange being a variant of Tony Stark (though apart from the beard I don't see it) - after all, they come from the same publisher. I'm a lot more bothered by the similarities between Dr. Strange and Sherlock, because a) I don't see any reason for it (well, apart from getting Sherlock fangirls to join the Marvel Hero fanboys) and b) I'd really love to see Benedict Cumberbatch play somebody else for a change.

Change of topic: Is anybody else wondering what became of the driver of the car Dr. Strange bumped into? As he or she was apparently unable to call for help (or why did it take hours for the rescue team to find Dr. Strange?) I'm assuming they were dead or severely injured...

Yitzock wrote:

I had no idea he had appearance in the film.

I thought Dr. Strange made that clear (you know that you need to watch the end credits in Marvel movies, don't you?), actually, from what I saw I would have expected more than only a cameo...

Besleybean, would you let me in on the Sherlock joke (in spoiler tags so as not to kill the fun for anybody else). I'm curious, but not curious enough to go to  the cinema...
 

"SusiGo" wrote:

4. How can anyone still believe anything in this show?

I think most people don't. Actually, I think most people have left the fandom, going by the lack of activity here.

But I could forgive the plaque (and all other faults that I only see in screenshots) if the rest made more sense. I'm a lot more upset about Sherlock's "predictions" being "true" over several weeks, John suddenly making genius deductions and Sherlock reading John's thoughts...

What I do not understand is why countless people over the years have written something like "considering how carefully the details are planned I don't understand how they could get ...... wrong". Once I add up all these comments, I get the feeling that Sherlock's production designers are doing what they can to get things right (somebody did look up - or happen to know - what type of gun John would have used in Afghanistan), but sometimes they do get things wrong. Probably due to time or budget limitations. It's "only" tv after all - and not U.S. pay tv either...

And hey, wasn't there a brand sticker on the apple thrown in The Fellowship of the Ring when it first appeared on screen and some cars in the background somewhere? (Just a rumour, the SEE DVD doesn't show them).

I'm afraid it's wishful thinking!

I remember two rather desperate kisses (a drunk maybe straight woman kisses a lesbian, and a gay man on his "farewell party tour" kisses his gay friend), Gethin curling up with Jonathan in Bed groaning "don't these women ever sleep" (while the miners' wives are giggling and shrieking over a dildo and some naked men in porn magazines (which are not shown all that much)) and Joe and Steph (i. e. a homosexual man and woman) lying in bed together, holding hands (after Steph said something like "if we were normal, we'd be kissing now").

That the U.S. distributors felt the need to change the DVD cover shows that there's something seriously wrong with the country - the French version (which seems to be very similar to the British one) is very discreet and just provides necessary information (for once it's even a correct representation of the contents) - I mean, if you are homophobic enough to be put off by the cover, you'd want to know what the film is about before buying it, wouldn't you? In France the film is "tous publics", by the way, i. e. no age restrictions whatsoever.

Yitzok, if you've seen the movie only in the cinema, I'd recommend you get the DVD so you can see the extras as well - I was happy to see the real Jonathan alive and well in 2014

So, now I've watched the movie three times and really thought I had understood everything - but where is the sex scene that "earned" it the R-rating in the U.S.?

Watched it yesterday, and it's a really, really, great "little" movie. I loved that the DVD bonus material shows some of the actual members of both groups - and that they were happy with the movie Now I'll watch first the commentary, and then I'll have to watch the movie a few more times to really get all the dialogue - it's sooo worth it!

(Another movie along the same lines is Made in Dagenham - more in the Rupert Graves thread)

Thanks for clarifying that, Meretricious.

Was it ever mentioned in the movie that the blackout was due to an EMP? The movie was certainly long enough to give all the explanations anybody could wish for... Though I probably would have forgiven the blackout if I hadn't been bored to the point of considering walking out altogether or at least getting a bag of M & Ms to sweeten things. 

So I've watched the original Blade Runner, and I still like it. It's a well-made, visually interesting and entertaining movie, with a fascinating production history  (I just love bonus materials!) - and all that in under two hours! By now I'm firmly convinced that two important requirements for a good film are runtime and budget limits...

After only one viewing, and there won't be a second one:

The first thing that struck me was that American values seem to have changed quite a bit: Not so long ago, the guy who rode into a place to kill the people living there  - people who just went about their work and never did anybody any harm - that would have been the bad guy!

Then the whole scenario is completely illogical: An overpopulated, underfed world doesn't need  human-identical beings, even if they are a stronger and more resistant - they still need air, food and water - all in short supply on earth and even more so in space and on other planets. But okay, the replicants were invented (1982)  before human-looking cyborgs (1984), so I'll accept them. I can't accept that breeding them - i. e. 9 months of gestation, 20 years of growing up - would be quicker than having them fall out of a plastic bag fully formed. There the film either showed too much, or much too little: It's quite possible that the production needs some incredibly rare element, or huge amounts of energy, or whatever - but I want to know what! As the film stands, the bad guy doesn't make sense.

So, I don't believe in either the hero or the bad guy - but the film should still be saveable, it has Harrison Ford in it. Unfortunately, no, not really... He appears much too late, and has too little to do.

As for the rest of the protagonists: I rather liked the police commander (even if I don't understand why she believed K had killed the Child without bringing the eye as proof), but maybe she should have pushed an alarm button or grabbed a weapon instead of chucking back a last drink when Luv appeared in her office (and how come a civilian just walks into the morgue and a police office to kill people? And walks out again?) And could somebody clarify: Wasn't it Luv who set the prostitutes on K/Joe - so why did the one who hooked up with him and slipped the tracker into his pocket not report back to her, but instead brought other p

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Rache wrote:

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@Kittyhawk: Interesting, how you see this scene:

In Appledore he shoots Magnussen in front of armed police (and fully expects them to shoot him, which is why he asks John to stay away from him)

I must admit, I have never interpreted it that way. Sherlock surrenderes immediately and visibly dropped the gun. I don't think he expected to be shot by police on the spot. To be on the safe side however, he demanded John to stay back. Possibly he said it to prevent escalaion of the situation. If Sherlock and John keep a visible distance, it is less likely for the police to suspect any lingering danger or unclear situation where they might have to shoot.

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Actually I don't think Sherlock actively tries to commit suicide here (just like he didn't try to kill himself jumping off Bart's, or when scratching his head with a gun without a safety lever in TGG - another one to add under "not valueing his own life"). But I do think that he was aware of the risk. But for the grace of the writers Sherlock should have been shot while he was raising his arm with the pistol, before he got to kill CAM (that's the point of employing snipers in these situations, isn't it? But maybe they weren't in place yet...)

(And what a waste of a great villain...)

Apollo XIII - still as good as 20 years ago...