JackAustinCrawford

Well, I have never read the Warren Commission report, nor do I intend to. What I have gleaned from listening to and reading forty + years of analysis on this issue is that (a) Oswald was supposed to have been the lone assassin. and (b) he was supposed to have fired at least three (3) shots in a period of less than six seconds with a mail order bolt action rifle accurately from a not inconsiderable distance. Anyone who has ever fired a bolt action rifle knows that this is somewhere between difficult and impossible - a lot nearer to impossible.

Another thing: I have never heard a satisfactory explanation of why Ruby killed Oswald, not even one. So, the "realists" say that the conspiracy theories are a lot of nonsense. I say that they do not want to believe that there are/were entities powerful enough to get the truth hushed up for forty years.

This flick contains one of the best one liners in movie history for my money. The apprentice hit man asks Bronson why the call him the mechanic. He deadpans, "Because when I fix something, it never works again." The chemistry between Bronson and Vincent is not bad. (For those who care about that sort of thing, their astrological sun signs, Scorpio and Cancer, are supposed to mesh favorably). Otherwise, it is an above average diversion of the sort. The ending is considerably above average, though some might say it could be anticipated. I am surprised that the quote is not in the memorable quotes portion of the IMDb analysis. Go figure.

Many actors have played, or attempted to play, LBJ. Some have done quite well. But NONE will ever be better at playing LBJ during his early years than Randy Quaid, for several reasons. - No. 1: he does not have to fake a Texas accent. Many performers overdo it or try to use a generic southern accent. Quaid has it nailed - maybe because he is a Texas native himself. - No. 2: He has the look of a real rake. (Yes, LBJ was one. Let's face it.) When he is commenting to one of the Kennedys (JFK or RFK, I can't remember which one) he says, with a leer, "She'll take dictation any time!" He puts an unmistakable emphasis on the first syllable of the word 'dictation'. - No. 3: He displays convincing temper fits. LBJ was not known for being patient or suffering fools gladly...

As near as I can tell, no one has commented on the irony of the dialog by the Vietminh officer at the beginning of the movie. I have cut and pasted it as follows: - - "Viet Minh Sergeant: Do we take prisoners? Nguyen Huu An: No. Kill all they send... and they will stop coming. "

Kill all they send and they will stop coming. Hmm. They did and they did. Oh, it took only about twenty years, but they did stop coming. First the Japanese, then the French, and finally the Americans. But they did stop coming. There should never have been a North Viet Nam and a South Viet Nam in the first place. Had there been elections to begin with in 1954 after Dienbienphu, etc., Ho Chi Minh would have won and that would have been the end of it. But no. We had to butt in. Oh, well...

As near as I can tell, no one has commented on the irony of the dialog by the Vietminh officer at the beginning of the movie. I have cut and pasted it as follows: - - "Viet Minh Sergeant: Do we take prisoners? Nguyen Huu An: No. Kill all they send... and they will stop coming. "

Kill all they send and they will stop coming. Hmm. They did and they did. Oh, it took only about twenty years, but they did stop coming. First the Japanese, then the French, and finally the Americans. But they did stop coming. There should never have been a North Viet Nam and a South Viet Nam in the first place. Had there been elections to begin with in 1954 after Dienbienphu, etc., Ho Chi Minh would have won and that would have been the end of it. But no. We had to butt in. Oh, well...

This show is exceptionally funny. See it every chance you get. It beats the cheney out of everything else on network television and most of the things on cable. The casting could, perhaps, be better, but I do not really know how. And forget what complaints the blue nosed snot heads have about this comedy. They need to get a life and find something else to complain about. Okay, the vignette with Sheridan and the football player may have been over the top. But so what? Everybody goes too far once in a while. There was no reason to make such a meal of it, figuratively speaking. I must also say that the fact that the family values crowd gets offended by this show increases its appeal for me. I mean, if they want to watch family values, go to reruns of Ozzie and Harriet or Leave It to Beaver. Make no mistake about it, this show is not for chronological children, period. If you are offended by sexual innuendoes, go somewhere else.

It is a source of continual amazement to me that, if a person lives long enough, the opposite of Shakespeare's saying proves true. The bard said something like "The evil that men do lives after them. The good is oft interred with their bones." The opposite is all too often true. This appears to be the case with McCarthy. The longer he is dead, the more people forget about what a truly vile maggot he was. This movie does a reasonably good job of portraying McCarthy as he was and not as the new bunch of neo-conservatives want him to have been. His reckless disregard for the truth (often under the guise of looking for the truth) made him the functional equivalent of a twentieth century inquisitor. It also points out how Eisenhower stood by and did absolutely nothing to curb McCarthy. Of course, Eisenhower did virtually nothing for eight years, so this was nothing new...

This thing has been pilloried by greenhorns for being historically inaccurate. It probably is. But it is worth watching for several reasons: seeing Lancaster and Douglas in their prime for one thing, Seeing a young Dennis Hopper for another thing, and last but by no means least hearing Frankie Laine singing the title song. I can still hear him "Boot Hill, Boot Hill. So cold. So still. They lie side by side, the killers that died in the gunfight at OK Corral." Mr. Laine had (and probably still has) a memorable voice. You have to hear it to appreciate it. I am really not much on nostalgia, but they don't make them like this one any more. Or, at least, not that I have noticed. There: I have made their miserable ten lines.

If you are feeling good and you want your mood to change, watch this flick.

Maybe you're thinking "What did he expect?" Good question. That said, it is still the most depressing movie I have seen since "About Schmidt". It ranks right up there with "Hud", "Testament", "The Day After", and "Failsafe", as first downers.

Now, I do not know how accurate the movie's depiction of actual events was. But, if the woman played by Theron was treated by the first john the way the movie showed it, then he DESERVED to die, period.

As far as the death penalty goes, the only caveat I usually have is that the defendant must be guilty beyond doubt (not REASONABLE doubt, but doubt, period). This appears to have been the case with this movie's subject.

Some say that the death penalty is an 8th amendment violation. That may be true. But, understand this. A life sentence without the possibility of parole is arguably an 8th amendment violation as well. Anyone who doubts it has never been in or around a real prison. Of that I assure you.

Many have (and I HAVE seen this movie) stated and/or complained that Moore is biased against Bush. This implies that somehow or another he (Moore) is not telling the truth.

He IS telling the truth. No, not the truth as he wants it to be (that would be the province of allegedly objective sorts like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity), but the truth as it is.

The GOP ain't gonna like it; they have done their best to curtail its release (not a very smart move on their part), but it is out and they should know by now the more they complain about it, the more people are going to realize that nothing upsets people like the truth.

Those were the reputed words of Admiral Nagumo after he saw the fate of the fifteen crews of torpedo squadron eight from Midway. - This movie is not quite up to the standard of the classic Tora! Tora! Tora!, but it is not without redeeming value. As has been mentioned, the awkward love story could have been dispensed with entirely. Also, the Japanese should have spoken Japanese and used subtitles. Other than that, it is useful in keeping to (to some degree) the historical events. The part about Admiral Nimitz growing up in a "Texas prairie town" was a bit much, though typical of Hollywood's idea of Texas...

I watch this show quite a bit when I was a teenager. Most of it was entertaining, usually factual. There was one glaring exception. In one episode, Bridges' character, Mike Nelson, waxed at great length about the number of people butchered by killer whales and about how all killer whales should be eliminated from the earth's oceans.(!) No, I do not think that Peter Benchley wrote that episode...