Watching television is not an activity.
That's one I never thought of in Home Alone. Others:
1. Kevin is 8 in Home Alone, in Home Alone 2, which is a year later, Kevin is 10
2. After booby trapping the house for the bad guys, and knowing they will be there at 9 pm, Kevin makes his Mac and Cheese dinner at 8:57, and then lights candles, pours a glass of milk, and sits down to eat it at like 8:59.
3. It is cold enough at night to ice down the sidewalk and steps so the bad guys fall, yet the next morning when Mom gets there, the sidewalk isn't icy at all.
4. The old man tells Kevin in Church that he hasn't spoke to his son in years. Its like 7 p.m. on Christmas Eve. Kevin tells him to call his son. On Christmas morning, his son and family show up with gifts. Where did they shop at - a gas station for some 5W30 and some donuts?
5. Kevin basically destroys the house, yet gets it all cleaned up perfectly with the exception of Harry's gold tooth and Buzz's room?
6. Kevin's mom barters for tickets, yells at airport personnel, and rides all night in the back of a Ryder truck with a polka band, just to arrive home 3 minutes sooner than she would of if she waited to take the early flight the rest of the clan took.
Last edited by chachi; 03-03-2020 at 09:11 PM.
555 phone numbers take me out of the movie or TV show. It's like, at that moment, the characters turn to the camera and say none of this is real. I have a hard time getting back to suspending my disbelief. They should find another way of obscuring the full phone number. Nowadays, people don't even say their phone number most of the time--and I wonder if people remember it even (there are times when I give the wrong number by accident because I'm spacing on what it actually is)--it shouldn't be hard to write the scene differently so the number doesn't have to be spoken or displayed.
Back before cell phones and everyone used land phones, most people had a phone in the living room, bedroom, and maybe the kitchen.
But on tv and movies, people would have phones wherever they were - the hallway, the patio, the dining room, the nursery(!), etc...
Everybody in American movies and TV shows is wealthy. Even the poor people, judging by their standard of living on screen, are well off. It gives people in other countries an unrealistic image of the USA.
It annoys me that so many of the commercials represent an income level that I could never attain. Who is their market? Why do I get so many ads for how to improve my business and run my office? It seems like they only want to sell products to the type of people who have so much money they're not likely to be sat in front of the tube eating Kraft Dinner.
No drug is effective unless you can ride a bike after you take it. (Drug commercials)
There came a time when the Old Gods died! The Brave died with the Cunning! The Noble perished locked in battle with unleashed Evil! It was the last day for them! An ancient era was passing in fiery holocaust!
Another thing. People who are trained fighters, but out of the game for years. No matter how long they have been inactive, they automatically are still a killing machines without peer. Anybody who has seen sports figures comeback after a long injury or a retirement know that it takes a lot of work to get back any skill level.
There came a time when the Old Gods died! The Brave died with the Cunning! The Noble perished locked in battle with unleashed Evil! It was the last day for them! An ancient era was passing in fiery holocaust!
Another goofy thing about Nemesis is the picture of young Picard being Tom Hardy, but complete with the baldness as well(!) I know that they were trying to show off the whole Shinzon is a clone thing, and yes, Patrick Stewart has been bald since his teens, but various other flashbacks and other things have had Picard with hair. So I guess he just went through a phrase during his academy days to just shave his hair off....
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Floyd Mayweather jr can retire for a couple years and come back and beat just about anyone I'm sure. George Foreman came back as an old man and was dropping dudes. GSP came back after retirement and took out Michale Bisping. McGregor took a long break and KO'd Cowboy in seconds. Mayweather and GSP train everyday like they arent retired but the point is it happens. Tyson fury made a huge comeback after retiring , doing truck loads of Coke and weighing over 400lbs. Other then Mayweather none of these people are without peers but there are only killing machines without peers in movies anyway.
Pretty much all depictions of guns, gun fights and bullet wounds in almost every regard.
Outer space being depicted with giant brightly coloured gas clouds and great dazzling swirling clusters.
All the cast are gorgeous.
Everyone is especially dumb to make the slueth appear smarter.
Character has a menial job until 2 episodes after being brought into the heroes confidence and now runs their state of the art, highly complex, technical and scientific base of operations without any apparent training.