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P2 (2007) - 5/10 (Didn't like or dislike it)

Thomas (Wes Bentley) is a lonely parking garage security guard who has to work on Christmas Eve and could use a friend. Angela (Rachel Nichols) is a pretty businesswoman who works in the building above and doesn't know that Thomas exists. Thomas has had his eye on her for a while and would love to have her company for the evening, so he does what any lonely psychopath would do in his position: he abducts her, chains her to the table in his office (on Parking Level 2) and forces her to have Christmas Eve dinner with him. Not flattered by his advances or his cooking, she periodically stabs him with sharp objects, but he remains undeterred, as hopeless romantic psychopaths tend to be. This is a low budget horror/thriller that takes place mostly in a parking garage with a small cast that gets smaller by the minute. Bentley makes for a darkly humorous psycho whose bad behavior is justified by him simply wanting to be friends with Angela. Nichols doesn't do much but be attractive while looking disgustingly at her co-star and trying to run away. It tries to be suspenseful and doesn't really succeed, but I was interested enough to see what happens next. That usually ended up being exactly what I expected, so it's pretty predictable and cliched, but it's decently made and I found it watchable. Also, not since the classic Die Hard has there been a better movie set partly in a parking garage at Christmas, so it has that going for it.
 
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Away from Her
(2006) Directed by Sarah Polley 8A

Grant (Gordon Pinsent) is several years older than his wife Fiona (Julie Christie), but it is Fiona who is succumbing to Alzheimer’s Disease. With great reluctance Grant moves her, at her urging, into a nursing home in Kitchener. Away from Her deals with Fiona’s deterioration but also with the adjustments that Grant has to make as she slips further away from him. This includes Grant learning to deal with the fact that as he fades from her memory another man, a fellow Alzheimer’s patient, begins to take his place in Fiona’s eyes. Basically, Away from Her is a love story and its greatest virtue is its calmness. First time director and scriptwriter Sarah Polley has no interest in tugging at our heart strings or going for easy sentimentality. The movie is more a collection of moments of people coping as best they can with realities that are inescapable anyway. Away from Her is almost shocking given that a 26-year-old first time director could come up with a work of such maturity and compassion about this subject. The still beautiful Christie is superb, and national treasure Pinsent, his usual downeast twinkle replaced with a look of guarded concern, matches her every moment of the way. Away from Her is among the best Canadian films of the century.

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I ended up watching 166 films this year which is my most ever so a good time to look at the 5 best I saw:

Best:
Die Hard
Palm Springs
Breaker Morant
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974 original)
Love On The Run (L'Amour en fuite)

Next tier:
Thief
The Conformist
The Lost Weekend
Elevator To The Gallows
Gattaca
The Manchurian Candidate (original)
Repo Man
Primal Fear
Stalag 17
12 Monkeys
Le Havre
Fracture
Sleuth
Ford v Ferrari
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
 

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Promising Young Woman
3.25 out of 4stars

A surprisingly effective revenge thriller with sprinkles of dark comedy about the topic of rape, led by an equally impressive turn from Carey Mulligan. It's kind of way too easy to spoil things about this movie given the domino effect and connectedness, so this review is hard to go in-depth about without ruining any events or messages as they come about. I'll just leave you with, there is a lot of social commentary about rape on this movie, albeit I kind of wish 1 of those many angles was more in-depthly shown and drawn out (rather than just touched upon here and there through rather broad 2nd hand mentions. You'll know what I'm talking about if you see the movie). That I thought would have made the movie even more powerful. But that's a minor nitpick.
 

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Another Round (2020), directed by Thomas Vinterberg
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Four middle-age friends (and teachers at a high school), led by Martin (Mads Mikkelsen) are all going through some varying level of a mid-life crisis. After reading about one psychiatrist's theory that humans naturally have a 0.05% blood-alcohol deficiency, they decide to test the theory that they would see more success/enhancement in their life if they make up that deficit.

Definitely really enjoyed this one. It transitions from light/comedic moments to darker/depressing ones wonderfully, and Vinterberg does well in not making it a preachy indictment of the subject matter-- for or against, instead keeps it on a more personal and relatable plane. I wouldn't quite put it up to the same level as The Hunt (2012), Vinterberg and Mikkelsen's previous collaboration, but it's among my favourites from 2020 so far.

4/5
 

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Another Round (2020), directed by Thomas Vinterberg
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Four middle-age friends (and teachers at a high school), led by Martin (Mads Mikkelsen) are all going through some varying level of a mid-life crisis. After reading about one psychiatrist's theory that humans naturally have a 0.05% blood-alcohol deficiency, they decide to test the theory that they would see more success/enhancement in their life if they make up that deficit.

Definitely really enjoyed this one. It transitions from light/comedic moments to darker/depressing ones wonderfully, and Vinterberg does well in not making it a preachy indictment of the subject matter-- for or against, instead keeps it on a more personal and relatable plane. I wouldn't quite put it up to the same level as The Hunt (2012), Vinterberg and Mikkelsen's previous collaboration, but it's among my favourites from 2020 so far.

4/5

I have been too lazy to write detailed reviews, but I actually wanted to recommend this one. It is not top-tier work, as I have it at 6.5/10, but it is rather fun. Of course, since it is still a Scandinavian movie, it is not actually laugh-out-loud funny that we in North America are accustomed to, and it still has rather dark and serious undertones, but it is the most optimistic work I can remember from up there. Mads Mikkelsen continues to be one of my favourite actors, because he is great as usual. Frankly, he made the movie better than it probably is.

On a sadder note, Vinterberg's daughter died from a car accident a couple of days before filming for this movie started, so that may have been the reason why the tone is rather hopeful. Honestly, 2020 is just a terrible year, for everything. I hope this year will be much, much better.
 
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I know most people are probably not interested in history lessons, but I have to add to my reply to kihei. When I wrote about how influential A Better Tomorrow is, I forgot to mention that it is also extremely popular in South Korea. Leslie Cheung, who played the little brother, was huge there after the movie came out. In fact, when Cheung's later movie, All's Well, Ends Well, was released in 1992, South Korean distributors asked the producers to add in a gun fight scene, even though it is a Lunar New Year movie, which is akin to holiday movies in Western society and thus are usually lighthearted affairs, and that scene is absolutely out of place, plot wise. Nevertheless, the producers acquiesced, and that gun scene is only in the Korean edition, but that just proves the popularity of Woo's movie. That influence is extended even today, because a sample of A Better Tomorrow's theme song played near the end of Extreme Job, released in 2019. It had been 30 plus years, but Koreans still remember the movie.

Of course, the South Korean film industry has become the beacon of Asian cinema today, but even they will acknowledge the influence of Hong Kong cinema. The idea of brotherhood in thrillers is lifted straight from Hong Kong gangster films.
 
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The Midnight Sky (2020) - 6/10 (Liked it)

In 2049, after a planetwide cataclysm, a terminally ill scientist (George Clooney) refuses evacuation and remains at an Arctic base to warn incoming spaceships, alone, until he discovers a young girl who was left behind. Meanwhile, an exploration ship with a small crew (including Felicity Jones) returns home from Jupiter's moons, unaware of what's occurred on Earth. This sci-fi drama alternates between the two storylines and settings: Clooney in the Arctic, trying to establish radio contact and interacting with the girl, and the crew of the ship trying to return to Earth. It's mostly a slow and somber story, but has good visuals, a little bit of lightheartedness and a few action scenes. It reminded me in several ways of Gravity, particularly during an eerily similar space walk portion. Clooney (who also directed this) must've learned from and been inspired by Alfonso Cuarón. In fact, even the plot is somewhat similar if you imagine Clooney in the role of the Inuit with the radio and the dogs, but expanded to half of the film. That starts to get at one of the issues with the film, though, IMO.

Whereas Gravity was nice and lean at only 90 minutes, this felt quite long at two hours with how slow paced it is. Some people will find it boring and I think that the reviews (including mine) would've been more favorable if 20 minutes of the slower sections had been cut. There's a pretty good movie hiding in there, I think. The acting is strong (including from Clooney, whose usual mannerisms are missing), the cinematography and CGI are excellent and the story has poignancy, even if some of the plot developments are predictable. Overall, the film wasn't as good as Clooney was seemingly going for, but I still liked it. If a poignant and potentially boring sci-fi with very good visuals sounds up your alley, then I wholeheartedly echo kihei's "lukewarm recommendation." It's on Netflix.
 
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Death to 2020
(2020) Directed by Al Campbell and Alice Mathias 3A

Death to 2020
is an attempt to put an awful year to rest by poking fun at it. Given that the movie is the dream child of Black Mirror creators, I had high hopes for this one. Alas I was disappointed. Samuel L. Jackson is fun, there are a few laugh out loud moments early on, but as the year and commentary progresses and the body count and political lunacy increase, Death to 2020 tries hard but falls flat. Too many actors, including Hugh Grant, Lisa Kudrow and virtually everyone not named Jackson, fare badly given dialogue that thuds rather than sparkles. A missed opportunity.

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Girl with Hyacinths/Flicka och hyacinter (1950) - 7.5/10

First non-Bergman classic Swedish film I saw and to be honest, it's far more entertaining than any Bergman film I saw outside of maybe Wild Strawberries. Has a noir look but theme is mostly drama about a lonely girl who commits suicide and her neighbours who ask around to get a better idea of why. Maybe the feel is a bit too small in scale for it to be truly good and the main character is too un-expressive to be fully interesting but it's a nice little film.
 

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Four to watch

Soul, Pixar film, 8.0
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A musician who has lost his passion for music is transported out of his body and must find his way back with the help of an infant soul learning about herself.
Oscar winner for animated feature film hands down. Better than Inside out. A must see for 2021. Nuff said.

Nomadland, Directed by Chloe Zhao, 8.0
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After losing everything in the Great Recession, a woman embarks on a journey through the American West, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.
An introspective look at 'van culture'. Another must see for 2021. Wow. Just wow. Another Oscar for Frances McDormand.

Death to 2020, Directed by Al Campbell, Alice Mathias, 7.0
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Take a look back at the mad glory of the year 2020 in this comedic retrospective.
A sarcastic look at 2020. Loved it. (Sorry Kihei you must have had a bad day) On Netflix. Another must see.

Extraction, Directed by Sam Hargrave, 7.0
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The plotline in this is weak but great action, good chase scenes, great fight choreography. Reminded me of John Wick as a gaming style Third Person Shooter. Violent but John Wick style. One of the Russo brothers wrote this (Marvel universe). Netflix. (not that great but decent action flick in a bad year)

Why didn't anyone tell me about this one? ;)

(if you did I missed it)
 
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The Midnight Sky (2020) - 6/10 (Liked it)

In 2049, after a planetwide cataclysm, a terminally ill scientist (George Clooney) refuses evacuation and remains at an Arctic base to warn incoming spaceships, alone, until he discovers a young girl who was left behind. Meanwhile, an exploration ship with a small crew (including Felicity Jones) returns home from Jupiter's moons, unaware of what's occurred on Earth. This sci-fi drama alternates between the two storylines and settings: Clooney in the Arctic, trying to establish radio contact and interacting with the girl, and the crew of the ship trying to return to Earth. It's mostly a slow and somber story, but has good visuals, a little bit of lightheartedness and a few action scenes. It reminded me in several ways of Gravity, particularly during an eerily similar space walk portion. Clooney (who also directed this) must've learned from and been inspired by Alfonso Cuarón. In fact, even the plot is somewhat similar if you imagine Clooney in the role of the Inuit with the radio and the dogs, but expanded to half of the film. That starts to get at one of the issues with the film, though, IMO.

Whereas Gravity was nice and lean at only 90 minutes, this felt quite long at two hours with how slow paced it is. Some people will find it boring and I think that the reviews (including mine) would've been more favorable if 20 minutes of the slower sections had been cut. There's a pretty good movie hiding in there, I think. The acting is strong (including from Clooney, whose usual mannerisms are missing), the cinematography and CGI are excellent and the story has poignancy, even if some of the plot developments are predictable. Overall, the film wasn't as good as Clooney was seemingly going for, but I still liked it. If a poignant and potentially boring sci-fi with very good visuals sounds up your alley, then I wholeheartedly echo kihei's "lukewarm recommendation." It's on Netflix.


The movie had me until he fell through the frozen lake and was soaked head to toe... then kept his clothes on, out in the Arctic, no fire... then kept walking to the outpost.

Uh... that would literally never happen. He would have been dead within an hour. Take it from someone who fell into water in sub zero temps once...

Hypothermia would have set in within about five minutes at that temperature.

That scene was quite mind boggling, given all of the tedious work to make the film realistic until that point.
 
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Why didn't anyone tell me about this one? ;)

(if you did I missed it)

A few of us reviewed Extraction when it came out last Spring. I think that kihei and I both gave it a 6 or 7/10. It's your own fault that you missed our reviews. ;)

The movie had me until he fell through the frozen lake and was soaked head to toe... then kept his clothes on, out in the Arctic, no fire... then kept walking to the outpost.

Uh... that would literally never happen. He would have been dead within an hour. Take it from someone who fell into water in sub zero temps once...

Hypothermia would have set in within about five minutes at that temperature.

That scene was quite mind boggling, given all of the tedious work to make the film realistic until that point.

Yeah, that bothered me, as well. Besides what you noted, I was surprised that he chased after the pack as long as he did and, then, once he surfaced, bobbed there calmly for 5 seconds instead of scrambling to get out of the water.

I was also confused about...
...how a piece of space debris managed to injure the woman enough to kill her without causing a large enough hole in her space suit that she would've died from decompression before getting back inside the ship.
 
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The Midnight Sky

with George Clooney and people.

2049. Earth has been severely messed up, and now George Clooney is the last man alive, although terminally ill and stuck at an observation post at the North Pole (or thereabouts). Big downer setting; George can barely be arsed to eat cereal and hook up his blood transfusion machines. The loneliness and hopelessness is palpable...and contrasts with the professional enthusiasm of the spaceship Aether, whose crew has been to Jupiter and back and now relishes the idea of heading home. How will George break the news...or even can he? Technical problems abound, and there's a mute little girl who turns up in George's camp. Uh...? Don't worry, you'll guess who she is long before he does. Drama ensues.

Yawn. Zzzzzzsnorezzzzzz...yawn. George dons the crazy old man beard and eyebrows of a ruffled Mel Gibson...but doesn't manage to be a tenth as interesting. Literally within seconds of the little girl showing up I called who she was. Special effects were decent; soundtrack was obnoxious and obvious. I've had cellos ringing dramatically in my ears for the last two hours. George Clooney sucks as a director. His movies remind me of songs I wrote when I was a teenager; they plod along set routes that you can see coming a mile away. Yawn.

On Netflix. With many, many better movies that you should watch instead of this.

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"...and if you look at the numbers in the tweet metadata, you'll see Biden and Barr totally will be arrested tomorrow! WWG1WGA!!"
 

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News of the World
2.75 out of 4stars

Is this Tom Hanks first western? Western adventure drama about Hanks(a traveling newsreader for crowds for pay) finding a lost child (that was raised by indians) and needing to return her to her rightful designated guardians. Good 'warm' acting alongside good writing/dialogue make this an above average heartfelt western with some words of wisdom to spread.

Leave No Trace
3.20 out of 4stars

A very human film about a man and his daughter, and their relationship, that live illegally but self-sufficiently in an Oregon national park. They are found and forced into rural communal 'captivity' by local authorities. Definitely uses a less is more approach and let's it's actors acting/expressive abilities and cinematography tell it's story, which works but at the end of the film I still felt like something was missing or incomplete that I couldn't put my hand on. Foster and McKenzie take the movie to another level, and I wonder if Ben Foster is one of those "non-household name" actors whose talents haven't fully been seen or shown yet, or maybe in other words, I think he's an oscar nominated worthy actor but has yet to been given the right "hollywood" role to receive that acclaim.
 
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Babyteeth
(2020) Directed by Shannon Murphy 8A

Mila (Eliza Scanlen), a 15-year-old with cancer, meets Moses (Toby Wallace), a 23-year-old drug dealer, still pretty much a wasted child himself. Inexplicably Mila falls for Moses and Moses, basically still a kid but with a good heart, reciprocates in his offhand, druggy way. Henry (Ben Mendelsohn, who is great), a psychiatrist who has become a little uncomfortable in his own skin, and Anna (Essie Davis), a former classical pianist barely able to deal with her own distress, are first appalled at the relationship that their daughter is developing with this guy, platonic though it seems to be. However, they soften toward Moses when they realize he might be the only thing keeping their daughter alive. Henry and Anna have a complicated relationship, too, one that seems to be held together by string and sealing wax. That their love is fragile doesn’t make it any the less genuine, though. Babyteeth is a four-way, beautifully acted character study that walks a tightrope between melodrama and something far deeper and genuinely touching. I haven’t quite figured out why I like this movie so much--likely it has to do with the way the director draws out the emotions of her characters--but I really, really do.

Netflix


Best of 2020 so far

1) First Cow, Reichardt, US
2) Small Axe: Lovers Rock, McQueen, UK
3) Never Rarely Sometimes Always, Hittman, US
4) Dick Johnson Is Dead, Johnson, US
5) Babyteeth, Murphy, Australia
6) Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Wolfe, US
7) Small Axe: Mangrove, McQueen, UK
8) Corpus Christi, Komasa, Poland
9) His House, Weekes, UK
10) Swallow, Mirabella-Davis, US
 
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Ooh gonna watch Extraction. A 7/10 on an action film these days is like a 8 or 9/10 on a regular movie.
 

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A few of us reviewed it when it came out last Spring. I think that kihei and I both gave it a 6 or 7/10. It's your own fault that you missed our reviews. ;)



Yeah, that bothered me, as well. Besides what you noted, I was surprised that he chased after the pack as long as he did and, then, once he surfaced, bobbed there calmly for 5 seconds instead of scrambling to get out of the water.

I was also confused about...
...how a piece of space debris managed to injure the woman enough to kill her without causing a large enough hole in her space suit that she would've died from decompression before getting back inside the ship.

I assume the pack was his lifeline and he would have died without it, so I guess you could make a case for that.

What came afterwards was pure silliness and I again I know this from first hand experience.

As for the other scene:

Maybe it was internal bleeding?

I was honestly happy they didn’t give her the cliched death with space debris knocking her into oblivion, never to be seen again.

That scene with the blood was at least a little different and unexpected.
 

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News of the World
2.75 out of 4stars

Is this Tom Hanks first western? Western adventure drama about Hanks(a traveling newsreader for crowds for pay) finding a lost child (that was raised by indians) and needing to return her to her rightful designated guardians. Good 'warm' acting alongside good writing/dialogue make this an above average heartfelt western with some words of wisdom to spread.

Leave No Trace
3.20 out of 4stars

A very human film about a man and his daughter, and their relationship, that live illegally but self-sufficiently in an Oregon national park. They are found and forced into rural communal 'captivity' by local authorities. Definitely uses a less is more approach and let's it's actors acting/expressive abilities and cinematography tell it's story, which works but at the end of the film I still felt like something was missing or incomplete that I couldn't put my hand on. Foster and McKenzie take the movie to another level, and I wonder if Ben Foster is one of those "non-household name" actors whose talents haven't fully been seen or shown yet, or maybe in other words, I think he's an oscar nominated worthy actor but has yet to been given the right "hollywood" role to receive that acclaim.

Where did you see News of the World? I just want to see if I can stream it anywhere.

I really liked Leave No Trace. Ben Foster is a great talent, but I find that he tends to overact, mainly because he is just so intense in every role. At any moment, I feel he will just fly off the handle. For this one, he really dialed it back, and it helped.
 

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Soul, Pixar film, 8.0
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A musician who has lost his passion for music is transported out of his body and must find his way back with the help of an infant soul learning about herself.
Oscar winner for animated feature film hands down. Better than Inside out. A must see for 2021. Nuff said.

Nomadland, Directed by Chloe Zhao, 8.0
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After losing everything in the Great Recession, a woman embarks on a journey through the American West, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.
An introspective look at 'van culture'. Another must see for 2021. Wow. Just wow. Another Oscar for Frances McDormand.

Death to 2020, Directed by Al Campbell, Alice Mathias, 7.0
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Take a look back at the mad glory of the year 2020 in this comedic retrospective.
A sarcastic look at 2020. Loved it. (Sorry Kihei you must have had a bad day) On Netflix. Another must see.

Extraction, Directed by Sam Hargrave, 7.0
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The plotline in this is weak but great action, good chase scenes, great fight choreography. Reminded me of John Wick as a gaming style Third Person Shooter. Violent but John Wick style. One of the Russo brothers wrote this (Marvel universe). Netflix. (not that great but decent action flick in a bad year)

Why didn't anyone tell me about this one? ;)

(if you did I missed it)

Extraction is so much fun. That one take, 30 minutes action sequence is damn impressive. That alone got it to a 6.5 for me.

Where did you see Nomadland? I have failed to find it thus far.
 
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I assume the pack was his lifeline and he would have died without it, so I guess you could make a case for that.

There you go. It must've been a portable dialysis machine. I didn't really understand what it was while I was watching. Still, I think that self preservation in the moment would've overruled it in the near future, but I suppose that that was the least of the scene's problems.
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Maybe it was internal bleeding?
It had to be external bleeding because all of that blood came from her suit.
 
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There you go. It must've been a portable dialysis machine. I didn't really understand what it was while I was watching. Still, I think that self preservation in the moment would've overruled it in the near future, but I suppose that that was the least of the scene's problems.

I fell through a lake in temps around -5 F and my entire brain shut off, and all I could do was thrash around until my buddies pulled me out (thankfully I was near the shore line).

I’d imagine the temps were much colder in the Arctic... but maybe because he slowly got wet instead of being dunked like me... I dunno I guess it could happen.

What happened afterwards I think we both agree was beyond silly and all I can assume is the writers were all high when they wrote that part.


It had to be external bleeding because all of that blood came from her suit.

I remember the blood dot on her mask... and I guess the rest of the blood rose up from her suit so... you are probably right.

I’ve had hockey/football injuries when I took off my gear and I was bleeding, yet there were no holes in anything.

Many times I had no clue what happened TBTH.

So I guess it’s possible, especially with a suit that shouldn’t tear easily?

That’s all I really got...
 

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Total Recall (1990) - 5/10

Arnold gets chased around by bad guys on some very fake looking boxy sets, beats some of them up, some explosions follow, gets chased again, people call it a cult classic....listen to those classic one-liners, repeat.

I need to sit for a bit and eat a sandwich and watch something in black and white for a bit that's less stupid.
 
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