Posts by Richard Hernandez13

So, this guy mentioned that his libido just isn't what it used to be, and honestly, looking at Jack Nicholson in About Schmidt, he really does look quite old—like, incredibly old.

Honestly, looking back, Titanic was such an absolute phenomenon.

In a league of their own: those movies by Cameron Crowe.

analogwolf2 said:Thanks so much, really!

I mean, just look at me—if it weren't for Mel Gibson, I wouldn't have a clue about half the stuff out there (either they skipped it in my school days or I was just too busy living my life when it was actually making headlines).
Nothing

Etto, honestly, without Mel Gibson, I probably wouldn't even know that aliens are afraid of water!

Okay, all jokes aside.

For me, I’ve always looked at movies primarily as a spark to get me interested in learning something new, rather than seeing them as a direct source of information. Film simply isn't a medium designed for raw facts. Sure, a movie can be based on true events and reconstruct a moment in history with an incredible amount of loyalty and authenticity, but we really shouldn't take every single "fact" served up on screen as gospel. It's all too common for directors to exercise a bit of "poetic license," twisting things even in those scenes where viewers naturally assume everything being shown is strictly factual rather than fiction.

Alright, alright!

It feels like we've drifted a little bit off track here.

The whole idea from analogwolf2 was for us to chat about what we've "learned about life, history, culture, nature... through all the movies we binge."

And obviously, the first thing anyone notices in movies are the clichés, the ridiculous tropes, and all that nonsense...

But still...

I think we should approach this topic much like a round of trivia from "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" based entirely on stuff you picked up from watching films!

For instance, I was recently watching the musical "1776" on TV and actually learned a thing or two about the founding of the USA and the signing of the Declaration of Independence!
(Though I'm not quite buying that Adams, Jefferson, Franklin, and the rest were actually singing and dancing their way through the whole process)

In action movies, the Bad Guy never just gets slapped with handcuffs, dragged before a judge, or sentenced to a standard prison term. Instead, they always have to face some kind of "poetic justice," which usually manifests as a spectacularly violent and creative death—think being ripped apart, shredded, blown to bits, crushed, dissolved in acid, or burned alive. Honestly, sometimes it’s a terrifying combination of all of them at once.

In Hollywood movies, hacking into any computer system looks incredibly easy; you can usually crack a secret password in just three or four tries before the screen flashes "Access Granted."

In those typical teen movies you see on Netflix, women are always portrayed as being unattractive if they’re just wearing glasses, have their hair pulled back in a ponytail, or haven't spent an hour getting their eyebrows perfectly groomed.

It seems like whenever you watch those gritty war movies—especially the ones set during the Vietnam War—there’s always that one Black soldier who gets handed the biggest gun available, usually some heavy-duty machine gun.
And I swear, in almost every single one of those films, there’s inevitably a scene where he just goes absolutely wild, emptying an entire magazine in one manic burst of gunfire.

Planning a big dinner for Thanksgiving Day is honestly such a stressful ordeal. No matter how meticulously I try to map everything out, it always seems to end in a total disaster, and somehow, the turkey always ends up being a complete mess.

Yeah, it was called Bugsy Malone, and I believe Steven Spielberg directed it.
Wait, they used whipped cream as weapons in that one, right?