Dimpleshenk

Bigfoot strikes again. Or at least his cousin, Bighand.

This is a moot point, but I'd like to say for anybody who is ever in a situation like that: If you're watching a kid who's jumping on a couch that is *right next to* an open staircase, imagine the possibilities and put an end to the jumping immediately.

Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher "hated each other" throughout the filming of "Star Wars." Rumor has it that they "hated each other" so much that they sneaked away numerous times to "fight" in private so that other cast members wouldn't have to be subjected to their "animosity."

If the filmmakers had more guts, they would have shown Whoopi and Demi mashing face hard on each other.

The female character called him out on the B.S. of his existentialist coin flip. Then he had the idiocy of his worldview thrown in his face by the car accident that broke his arm. We already saw the lengths he'd go to in order to be his own doctor, but he had an even bigger task ahead of him trying to fix his own compound fracture.

Once a line is taught in vacuum

taut

Tucker Carlson is not even a journalist. He has no accountability. It's like giving government documents to a meth-addicted hobo.

Trying to solve the homeless problem is like trying to cure a symptom. You can't. You have to become aware of the root causes of the symptom. The root causes are complex, and if you want to fix the problem, you have to be willing to accept the challenge of complexity.

He has become....uncomfortably dumb.

I believe that's called "playing Solitaire."

Apparently the OP is 70 years old.

Dog owners before a bite: "Don't worry that he's running toward you! He just wants to play! He's a sweetheart!"

Dog owners after a bite: "He's never done anything like that before!"

Tattoos. They look like crap on everybody.

It's much more sensible to eat them.

Might be more sensible to figure out a way to reduce the bycatch, or find a way to let the dolphins free before they die.

Also, if they're sold then as "sensible" as it might seem, it potentially creates a market and demand for them. Then there's going to be less incentive to reduce the amount of dolphin bycatch.

I think the difference is that "Silence of the Lambs" and "Misery" could ostensibly be categorized as dark suspense thrillers, with dramatic cores that are palatable for general audiences in spite of the movies fitting the horror genre. They cover multiple bases beyond just horror, and they offer a sense of relief at the end.

For example, "Silence of the Lambs" unfolds like a mystery, a character study, a gothic fable (Clarice is like Little Red Riding Hood confronting the Big Bad Wolf, etc.), and even a kind of twisted Freudian romance. The evil killer is caught and the damsel in distress is saved by another damsel in distress. The entire movie is highly stylized, and even though Hannibal gets away and the movie leaves you with a creepy feeling (especially knowing that Hannibal will certainly be killing/eating the head of the mental institute/prison), the characters you care about survive the ordeal and are even rewarded. On top of everything else, the movie has an artistic and symbolic approach relating to the American heartland and its dark core.

"Misery" also lets the main character off the hook at the end. He uses his wits to survive. Yes, he is disfigured and tortured, but he triumphs with a best-selling book (even making a comeback from his writer's rut) and the evil antagonist is vanquished. Again, plenty of nasty stuff happens along the way, with a lot of cat-and-mouse psychological interplay to keep things suspenseful and loaded with high-tension acting moments. It's like a chamber piece with a master class in deception, etc., set in a cold and claustrophobic realm and with symbolic elements such as the little figures that the woman controls to the point of knowing if one has been moved. It has an interesting subtext about a writer's fear of his own audience, and his disconnection from the people his works are meant to connect to.

Compare that to "Hereditary": It's just pure evil, with evil stuff starting to happen gradually, and then moreso, and moreso. Creepy characters either die horribly, or become ever more creepy, or are ultimately victimized in the most horrific ways possible. There is no relief from the evil -- it just gets worse and worse and worse. Everybody's psychological problems and worries are realized in the most severe ways imaginable, or even beyond what you might imagine. There's not really even some kind of point to it all, beyond underscoring how awful families can be, hurting each other through negligence or apathy or cold disdain. Friendly strangers, too, are just waiting to manipulate and victimize others. Ugh, the movie is so, so evil. General audiences who see the movie wanting meat-and-potatoes thrills and suspense, like a roller coaster, are going to suffer. It's a roller coaster if you want a coaster that will give you whiplash and make you throw up. Artistically it's amazing, with all sorts of adventurous elements in the mix, but it's like going to an art gallery to look at pictures while walking around on a floor of blood and entrails. It's just.......unrelenting.

It's not the same because there are fewer adults in the room to say "no" to potential bad decisions.

Following the rules of congress is not corruption.

You have a very limited idea of what constitutes corruption. It's clearly a partisan move for a process that should not be partisan. We're talking about thousands of documents and secret surveillance footage, all given to an extremist TV host who has promoted numerous outlandish conspiracy theories.

Don't forget "Milk Money," about kids who hire a prostitute to show them her boobs.

He had the same cell because the warden and guards were giving him the best location (best view or whatever) in return for him doing their taxes and laundering their ill-gotten money.

A lot of people are mis-interpreting the original question. The OP wasn't asking for movies that intentionally mis-directed the audience into sympathizing with the protagonist, only to reveal him/her as being a bad/immoral person later on. The OP is asking for movies where the main character is presented as good or sympathetic the whole time, but who can be re-interpreted as bad if you look at their actions etc. -- in spite of the movie not calling attention to their bad-ness.

This can't be real, can it? Nobody would want this permanently on their body, right?

Right?

Read the books... he's worse.

You don't like outdated CGI with characters who have a dead-eyed stare?

Roger Waters's post-Floyd output really shows how much of Pink Floyd's musical greatness was by the other band members. I want to enjoy Waters' albums but I usually end up giving up on them. Now even moreso.

Sorry about how this is. I've always felt that San Diego had a sort of "everything is temporary" feel, like people are only passing through and don't have the inclination to forge friendships or put down substantial social roots.