Bones08 said:
Not to completely derail, but I still find it weird that of all the interesting true stories out there that Sully was chosen to be made into a film. Sully?!? The true story isn't the least bit interesting to me.
We don't know. There's been plenty in the Bermuda triangle, but the aliens intercept them and take them to their underwater base before we even know what happened.tk for tu juan said:Bones08 said:
Not to completely derail, but I still find it weird that of all the interesting true stories out there that Sully was chosen to be made into a film. Sully?!? The true story isn't the least bit interesting to me.
When was the last time a commercial airplane suffered a complete engine failure and performed a water landing with zero deaths (float planes excluded)?
brucoh said:I think this guy getting completely railroaded by the media and the FBI is a very compelling story. I remember all this unfolding too.nai06 said:
Maybe its just me, but I don't find the story all that compelling. I remember when it all unfolded and it was a big deal in the news. I just don't see how that translates into an interesting movie.. That being said I'll probably see it because of the casting
Why does every thread have to be turned into a Trump thread?brucoh said:I think this guy getting completely railroaded by the media and the FBI is a very compelling story. I remember all this unfolding too.nai06 said:
Maybe its just me, but I don't find the story all that compelling. I remember when it all unfolded and it was a big deal in the news. I just don't see how that translates into an interesting movie.. That being said I'll probably see it because of the casting
nai06 said:
Maybe its just me, but I don't find the story all that compelling. I remember when it all unfolded and it was a big deal in the news. I just don't see how that translates into an interesting movie.. That being said I'll probably see it because of the casting
Hated him in Cobra Kai. Hopefully he wins the Oscar for Jewell and decides not to appear in Season 3.LHIOB said:Beware of Doug said:
Guy playing RJ was great in I, Toyna.
He was amazing in I, Tonya
Redstone said:
I was 16 for these Olympics and followed the controversy in real time.
Redstone said:
IIRC, I believe I remember hearing about this. Glad the police quickly did their job.
TCTTS said:Redstone said:
I was 16 for these Olympics and followed the controversy in real time.
We're the same age.
Did you actually do it, or did the cops and media force you to admit to it because the kids on the bikes were actually Lance Armstrong and his mates and they had to be protected, you can tell us.TCTTS said:
When I was 16, a friend and I were bored and stupidly decided to shoot cars with a BB gun from my second story bedroom window one weekend when my parents were out of town. The cops eventually showed up and immediately separated us. We both maintained our lies (that we saw some kids on bikes shooting the cars) but after a few minutes they lied in return and told each of us, separately, that "your buddy just cracked and told us everything." The idiots we were (on multiple levels), we believed them, and I finally showed them the BB gun, hidden in the attic. We got arrested, had our mugshots and fingerprints taken, and then I had to work on a trash truck for a week to pay off my half of the damages to the car (a dinged windshield and a new paint job on the back), do 15 hours of community service, and then attend four "Positive Steps" classes with fellow juvenile delinquents, one of which was a Hispanic kid everyone called "Chicken Nugget" because that's exactly what he was shaped like. Come to think of it, this was either the last or second to last weekend of July 1996. So this might have very well been the same weekend as the bombing, which would explain why I have almost no recollection of it happening in real time (though I vividly remember watching Michael Johnson break the 200m record days later).
TCTTS said:
I don't want to start a whole thing, but Dark Waters was hardly about "environmentalism." DuPont was literally and knowingly *poisoning* the city's water. They weren't just cutting down trees and some people got mad. That, and it wasn't anti-capitalism at all. It was anti-making-money-off-of-killing-people. I didn't sense a political or cultural slant/bias in that movie in any way.
But yeah, I'll give you anti-Republican and anti-war to an extent in The Report, though it was more anti-lying and anti-torcher than anything.
As for Richard Jewell, I think it balanced the two "sides" well. It was absolutely anti-media, as it should have been in that situation (if not a bit too over the top in Olivia Wilde's representation), and definitely anti-FBI (or, at least, anti-assh*les in the FBI). But while it was clearly on Jewell's side, it also took a couple of justifiable digs at him, being the gun-obsessed, law-obsessed weirdo that he was. His arc, in that sense, was really well done.
