this movie was a remake of a french film based on a novel. a novel, something made up.
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jon-gwynne — 12 years ago(September 20, 2013 04:49 PM)
You may have heard the term "writer's construct" eavesdropping on a conversation while you were filling a writer's coffee cup or handing them their car keys at the valet parking stand but until you actually demonstrate some understanding of what it means (or "deus ex machina" for that matter) you should pipe down. Based on the quality of your writing here, getting coffee or parking cars is about all you're qualified to do.
How's that for condescension?
By the way, since you brought it up, the first time I got paid to write was 1977. But, as you said, summoning all the eloquence at your command: "sfw".
To quote George Carlin "If that's your 'best', maybe you'd better keep it to yourself.
Packing nitro in sand was pointless. If what was in those containers was actually nitroglycerin, it would have detonated before the trucks ha gone 50 yards. When I was in college, I knew a guy who made the stuff for fun. He would shatter bricks with an eyedropper loaded with nitroglycerin. As I said before, there was good reason for Nobel (and many others who tried to do the same thing but failed) to develop a method of stabilizing it. First dynamite and the gelignite. It is an interesting story - far more so than that pompous crap that called itself the "Sorcerer" screenplay.
There were a dozen different ways the same basic plot could have been played out - the idea of desperate men being Shanghaid into performing a likely suicide mission isn't particularly original. It wasn't necessary to resort to fantasy as well as cliche to make that film.Fox "News": We lie, you panic!
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chriskunselman — 12 years ago(September 20, 2013 08:41 PM)
by the way genius, i looked you up on google and if you're using your real name you haven't written anything of note, and if i'm wrong please give me titles. i've looked over your post blog and i realize you don't even really care about movies, you're a politics junkie, so i'm sorry i wasted my time on you.
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tstraton — 17 years ago(July 08, 2008 08:31 PM)
The process of making nitro is extremely dangerous (much more than transporting it) and requires special equipment to keep the reaction from "running away". Poisonous fumes are released throughout the process. So you can't simply make the nitro by mixing a few compounds together when you need it. Or you can try, and blow your butt into the next state.
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tali1 — 14 years ago(November 27, 2011 09:25 AM)
Other way around for me - boring start then picks ups
Strangely , this film reminds me of The Exorcist -where Friedkin could really do with a Editor who knew how to use a pair of scissors.Frequently.
Hey Witchdoctor, give us the magic words.
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lesabl2003 — 13 years ago(October 09, 2012 03:23 PM)
''They call this entertainment!?!'', synapse256 said. Who call that entertainment synapse256!?!
It's not ''Bad Boys''! Why would you watch this movie to enetrtain yourself?!
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Defenseman13 — 12 years ago(July 11, 2013 04:50 PM)
It's 2013 now, I'm hoping that the OP hasn't reproduced.
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ChazzJazz — 11 years ago(April 14, 2014 04:12 PM)
lol guess i have to watch it to see what the fuss is all about LOL
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fulci_fan2000 — 11 years ago(April 14, 2014 08:51 PM)
Sure, it's over rated like most things but stupid is a little harsh. I'd say the lack of character devlopment was the main draw back. Not sure why anyone would agree to do a job like this and maybe knowing more about the guys involved would have helped.
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Strangerhand — 11 years ago(March 15, 2015 11:59 PM)
How sad.
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Strangerhand — 11 years ago(March 15, 2015 11:57 PM)
This movie was boring and plain stupid.
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Strangerhand — 11 years ago(March 16, 2015 12:33 AM)
but this was almost unbearably boring
Not as boring as your trolling, and your endless second-rate rehashes of everything better than you, you clueless and empty-headed little diseased ADD-afflicted beep.
I honestly was rooting for the damn trucks to just blow up so the stupid movie could be over, and the characters could die like the dumbasses they were
You don't wanna know, exactly, what I think and feel about you and your kind and your parents.
They were asking to die the whole time, i wish they could've just got on with it
Cut yourself all over again, you little freak.
ploink!
No more of you, trolling n00blet! Now please tell your mother (if she's there, though I doubt that) to abort you. Then kick her in the ass for spawning an ugly troll like you.