Rover_Wow
12-29-2003, 08:05 PM
OK, so Dagget Beaver's catchphrase might not really fit the topic of this thread, but it sounds nice.
Anyhow, yesterday I was watching this dreary (made-for-TV) flick called Home Invasion, and there's a scene just before an act break (or what is obviously meant to be one), where some mother secretly unlocks a door, and hustles 3 young ladies out the door (one of them her daughter). Two of them have the sense to run into the arms of the SWAT team. The other (guess who?!) for some odd reason walks straight back in, in plain sight of their captors, where she's told to shut/lock the door (and after the ad break, mother's told to set an alarm). To paraphrase Dagget: "That was nuts!"
But as his brother Norbert once said, "No, this is nuts":
There's a scene in the early Michael J Fox film The Frighteners, where, well, you'll have to understand the context first. Fox's being wanted for many mysterious murders since he happened to be in the immediate area of the murder at the time. Anyhow, later on, he's passing (from a far distance) this museum (I think), and there's this ray poking out of the sky onto it.
Since he's being wanted for murder, it would be a wise thing for him to just carry along on his merry way. In fact, that's what I thought would happen.
Next thing you knew though, he's in the museum, seeing who got murdered, and even sees the next victim (his warning could easily be interpreted as a threat, in fact it is).
What's even funnier is, Tom Cruise does practically the same thing in Minority Report, IMO, the Waiting for Godot of cop flicks, because
like Godot, it's named for something that ends up not even existing in the context of the story. I mean, he even has this oracle lady practically channeling to him the viewers' thoughts... and he still does it.
Anyhow, yesterday I was watching this dreary (made-for-TV) flick called Home Invasion, and there's a scene just before an act break (or what is obviously meant to be one), where some mother secretly unlocks a door, and hustles 3 young ladies out the door (one of them her daughter). Two of them have the sense to run into the arms of the SWAT team. The other (guess who?!) for some odd reason walks straight back in, in plain sight of their captors, where she's told to shut/lock the door (and after the ad break, mother's told to set an alarm). To paraphrase Dagget: "That was nuts!"
But as his brother Norbert once said, "No, this is nuts":
There's a scene in the early Michael J Fox film The Frighteners, where, well, you'll have to understand the context first. Fox's being wanted for many mysterious murders since he happened to be in the immediate area of the murder at the time. Anyhow, later on, he's passing (from a far distance) this museum (I think), and there's this ray poking out of the sky onto it.
Since he's being wanted for murder, it would be a wise thing for him to just carry along on his merry way. In fact, that's what I thought would happen.
Next thing you knew though, he's in the museum, seeing who got murdered, and even sees the next victim (his warning could easily be interpreted as a threat, in fact it is).
What's even funnier is, Tom Cruise does practically the same thing in Minority Report, IMO, the Waiting for Godot of cop flicks, because
like Godot, it's named for something that ends up not even existing in the context of the story. I mean, he even has this oracle lady practically channeling to him the viewers' thoughts... and he still does it.