Movies (and occasionally face slaps) (Part 3)

It really is kind of infuriating to see a man just flatly rejecting Grace Kelly for most of a movie.

His Rear Window character is maybe more likable than his Vertigo character, but I largely disliked him in both. (Not in a way that makes the movies worse at all, to be clear.)

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At its core, Mortal Kombat: Annihilation is about the dangers of recasting.

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Yes, yes he is getting it.

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How many people did O’Leary’s drunk wife run over with a boat while filming the movie?

At its core, Wizard of Oz is about the rewards of murdering anyone who gets in your way.

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Not sure this is exactly right, but there is something there about how as soon as the world-traveling Chad has to start gleaning the world passively through a screen in his apartment, he immediately becomes a paranoid conspiracy-theorist and busybody.

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At its core, Cum Guzzlers 5 is about the beauty of persistence.

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At its core, Rear Window is about the perils of peeping on your neighbors while not being ambulatory.

A League of Their Own documents a multi-year field study to determine if groups of limber women could entertain crowds of rowdy men without talking off their clothes.

At its core, The Thing is about impostor syndrome.

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At its core, Rear Window is about why it’s best to always keep your drapes closed.

I knew Godfather II got it from somewhere.

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A Field of Dreams spotlights a delusional farmer who creates mass psychosis for fun and profit.

At its core, Field of Dreams is about someone who wishes he was someone he isn’t.

In the Heat of the Night is about police officers who manipulate a Black person into doing their jobs for them.

At its core, Field of Dreams is about a guy who misses playing with his imaginary friends.

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Pretty tough to visualize Leo in that role even though he’s roughly 51.2 billion times better at acting than Wahlberg is.

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The naive basis of the character is fundamental walberg. I don’t think Leo would have been believable.

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I fully agree. In most cases, I would prefer to take the 51,200,000,000x better actor for a role, but that one feels like a stretch.

But I guess we didn’t have a really defined Leo persona yet? That’s the Titanic year. I don’t know if somehow this regret involves wishing he did Boogie Nights instead of Titanic, which would seem odd.

At its core goodfellas is an anti-drug psa.

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