Movies; Collateral Damage & Sexism

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So I just watched the second half of The Fugitive and it annoyed me. At the end HF & TLJ are (almost) buddies in the back of the police car & HF can have a smirk because he has been vindicated. The fact that his wife is still dead doesn’t seem to enter into the ‘moment’ – because that would spoil it! Am I just pissed off with Hollywood not caring about the collateral damage in their movies or am I pissed of with the sexism of it?

― lepanto seconded (lesbo leones), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 21:39 (twenty-two years ago)

OJ will find the real killers, just like The Fugitive. Watch the TV show, David Janssen is more likeable than Harrison Ford anyway.

― andy, Tuesday, 22 June 2004 21:58 (twenty-two years ago)

This is why, after many many years, I finally had my fill of superhero comics and can hardly stand to look at one now. (At least it's one of the reasons.)

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 23:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh come on, when you've just proven your innocence/found your wife's killer after spending weeks forging identities and running everywhere while helping the unfortunate and end up sitting in the back of a car with the guy who previously announced his disinterest and inspired you to do a swan dive off a giant waterfall I think you get to smirk.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 23:40 (twenty-two years ago)

You also have to remember that the time from the wife's death and the smirk was probably pretty long figuring that the trial of a doctor came in between.

This isn't to say that movies aren't bullshit, just that there have to be better examples then this. Like the climax of Speed 2 where the cruiser massacres a beachfront village to save six people on the goddamn boat.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 23:42 (twenty-two years ago)

there's even a shot of a random guy driving his truck and smashing headfirst into the boat as it crashes through the massive pier. It's a fucking national headline atrocity and they're like WE'RE ALIVE!

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 23:43 (twenty-two years ago)

It's just too bad that's Harrison's only other emotion besides looking generally under the gun about something. What happened to Han Solo? The affable charm?

Dude on a compeltely unrelated tangent, I saw "Fear X" and it was TERRIBLE. Half a movie. I heard it compared to (The?) Conversation which is just ludicrous. Oh that's the connection. Harrison Ford was in that, too. The Conversation, I mean. He wasn't very affable in that. But he played a stooge, a company man. He'd never take that kind of role now. He started out by playing bad boys, and he's just gotten gooder and gooder.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 23:48 (twenty-two years ago)

He's always only had three kinds of roles. Smirk (Indiana Jones, Han Solo, Working Girl), no smirk (Air Force One, Witness, Fugitive) and Painfully Miscast (Regarding Henry, K-19).

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 23:50 (twenty-two years ago)

This reminds me of that movie 3000 Miles to graceland where a bunch of badass Elvis impersonators massacre a bunch of security guards and cops in highly stylized, kick-ass fashion with no afterthought, and Howie Long as one of their buddies is given a protracted, what-seems-like five minute long death scene/speech.

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 23:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Howie Long as one of their buddies is given a protracted, what-seems-like five minute long death scene/speech.

Gear, thank you for making sure that I never, ever, ever, ever see this movie.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 23:59 (twenty-two years ago)

word

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 00:17 (twenty-one years ago)

That movie sounds amazing, I want a copy. Who is Howie Long btw?

― Menelaus Darcy (Menelaus Darcy), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 03:57 (twenty-one years ago)

ex-lineman for the Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders, current pitchman for Radio Shack, top-billed action star supported by the "wtf happened to us" character actors William Forsythe and Scott Glenn in the firefighting action thriller Firestorm.

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 04:19 (twenty-one years ago)

http://espn-i.starwave.com/media/pg2/2001/1121/photo/i_firestorm_i.jpg

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 04:19 (twenty-one years ago)

He looks rather surprised to be in that poster.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 04:30 (twenty-one years ago)

my friend calls the jack ryan/air force one movies "frowny fascist ford" flicks

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 04:32 (twenty-one years ago)

http://photos.friendster.com/photos/90/38/6718309/4519127784442l.jpg

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 04:53 (twenty-one years ago)

http://photos.friendster.com/photos/90/38/6718309/4519127784442l.jpg

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 04:53 (twenty-one years ago)

If something's not relevant to the main plot and theme of a big Hollywood action movie, it's not going to be depicted. Looking to such movies to provide realistic and sensitive treatment of such matters seems silly.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 04:56 (twenty-one years ago)

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