I found Womack physically tearing up the pardon overdone.
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digitalrep — 9 years ago(July 31, 2016 07:17 AM)
I found Womack physically tearing up the pardon overdone.
Earlier on another man (Carrie's gay friend from Sex and the City) holds his hand out and says something to the effect of, "Shall I send this straight to the warden of the prison (or whoever it was, maybe a politician)?" And Womack replies no, and the man leaves. Then he tears up the pardon and Stanley confirms with Womack that he isn't going to allow Mason his freedom after all.
It would have been sufficient for Womack just to say no, don't send the pardon, and to hold onto it. I believe Stanley, being so well-educated in the field of biochemistry, would have been able to put two and two together and realise that a pardon was not on the cards for Mason without having to verbally confirm it.
Then in the bathroom when Stanley realises he's going to have to go to The Rock himself, the moustached guy comes in and asks him if he's okay, and Stanley tells him no because his pregnant girlfriend is coming to San Francisco and he's worried about her skin being melted off by a highly dangerous bioweapon, I expected the guy to say oh don't worry, we'll send someone to pick her up and put her on a plane straight back home. But no. He wants to bring her further into harm's way, closer to all the action with a window seat. Good for the pregnancy! And how comforting for poor old Stanley! Just before a big mission too!
I found the tram floating in mid air for several seconds a little disconcerting. Those things are supposed to be fairly heavy and while we're on the subject I'm not sure a car such as the one Mason was driving would be able to de-rail it, either. Then again I'm not an expert on trams. They do look rather heavy though
And concerning that scene, why did Michael Bay choose to destroy a perfectly good Ferrari? Just for one fairly obvious joke? It was almost as if he was boasting to the audience about the fact that he gets handed such huge budgets to work with that he can go around destroying trams and Ferraris at will. It was a bit tacky.
When they finally get to the island, and the SEALs are slaughtered almost instantly, and Mason and Stanley are walking in the underground tunnels arguing very loudly so that Hummel hears them and orders his men to 'smoke them out' I couldn't help but think how convenient that was Why not actually go down there and shoot them and confirm the kill? Why just 'smoke them out' with a couple of pissy bombs (that seemed to be made all of fire, in a place that contained more than enough water to provide more than enough safety from the fire) and then just go on about your business as if that were that? It doesn't make sense.
The rest of the movie I'm okay with; I found it odd that men would shoot at a man that they know is disarming a bomb containing biochemical weaponry, though
And I'm not sure why Mason would give Stanley the microfilm apart from to prove to the audience that he had it all along Which we knew anyway from the earlier scene when Stanley and Mason are 'behind bars'.
But yeah good movie. Really enjoyed it. Apart from Nicholas Cage's random violent outbursts I thought he was supposed to be 'mild-mannered'? He seemed to be afflicted with intermittent explosive disorder and that is far from mild-mannered. -
antony-69 — 9 years ago(August 01, 2016 01:18 PM)
Ripping up the pardon, handing over the microfilm, etc. These are simply tools used to emphasise plot points to less intelligent audience members. Most films do it.
As for the Ferrari? Watch it again, or just read the trivia on here, it wasn't a Ferrari rather it was a prop. Not many films choose to destroy cars like that unless they were cheap or donated by the manufacturer like the Aston Martins in Casino Royale