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Training Day

Gordian BladeGordian Blade Member Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited April 2002 in General Discussion
I rented the movie this weekend just to see what the big deal was about Denzel Washington. I think he was good, but I thought Russell Crowe was better in A Beautiful Mind. But that isn't why I'm starting the topic. What I want to know is, was anyone else who saw this movie as disturbed by the plot as I was? Yes, you can say it is just about a few bad cops and good triumphs over evil in the end, but without giving the plot away, that was mostly luck. The good cops in the movie are the exception, the bad ones the rule. The theme of the movie seemed to be that there is no difference between police and criminals except police can legally use lethal force -- or at least mostly get away with it; the sub-theme seemed to be that gun violence is totally out of control in Los Angeles. It struck me that the writers and producers of this movie must really hate police and guns, but of course like true liberal hypocrites they aren't above profiting from using guns and police as movie themes again and again.

[Some of the same thoughts are in the "Im Tired of this" thread so I know I'm not alone in my thinking on this.]
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  • Gordian BladeGordian Blade Member Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    for the colts anyways [:p]

    have the cremello sold so having to train her to load.
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  • Evil ATFEvil ATF Member Posts: 1,195 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It bothered me, as well. Everything you've said was right on the money, so I'll just nod my head and agree.

    :)

    Stand And Be Counted
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  • mudgemudge Member Posts: 4,225 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Saw it. Didn't see anything that was Oscar material,though. The script was pretty thin so they filled it out with F--- this and MF that.
    That gets really old after the first 75 times. Which was about 10 minutes into the movie.

    Mudge the prude

    I can't come to work today. The voices said, STAY HOME AND CLEAN THE GUNS!
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  • thesupermonkeythesupermonkey Member Posts: 3,905 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Training Day was utterly unbearable. The gun handling practices of the so-called 'police officers' is laughable. Ethan Hawk's character seems to have been born handicapped of all common sense. The plot was weak and foolish. The writer must have been stoned to actually expect the audience to believe a group of murderous crooked cops would reveal their entire operation to someone they've met for the first time. I particularly enjoyed the seen where an officer takes a bullet to the chest thinking the bullet proof vest will stop it, and only wish the director could have done the same with the script when it was first handed to him. Washington is a great actor, but IMHO he has played the well-versed good guy to many times to be taken seriously as a slang talking crooked cop.

    Speaking of trash, has anyone seen Monster's Ball?
    I wasn't able to sit through the whole movie because I found it so disgusting. The acting is first rate, but the story is sickeningly morbid. Your head will spin as the director attempts to decide whether he wants to make a porno or a dark drama. The characters are terribly inhuman and unfeeling, and this might have made for a great turn around ending. Whether the movie takes advantage of this opportunity still remains a mystery to me since the movie again changes gears and collapses into a repugnant sex flick that made me feel that the ending, no matter how good, isn't worth the trash and filth you have to subject yourself to in order to see it.
    There's my rant...


    Don't worry about the bullet with your name on it, worry about the fragmentation grenade addressed 'To Occupant'.
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  • pikeal1pikeal1 Member Posts: 2,707
    edited November -1
    Munkey, I saw that piece of trash monsters ball. I was with a group of friends and I expressed my disgust after the movie. I was embarrassed for the people I was with during the sex scenes, and thought the movie was just a big waste of film.
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  • Gordian BladeGordian Blade Member Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Speaking of Monsters Ball, did anyone chance to hear the Phil Hendrie Show on radio where he had a "black reverend" as his "guest" praising Halle Berry for taking off her clothes and going at it with a white guy for the sake of "her people"? It was hilarious. Normally I would feel a little sorry for Ms. Berry being made fun of, but after all she agreed to be in it and made a big deal of how wonderful it was for all black people that she won. I think I won't bother to rent it unless I feel like punishing myself for something.
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  • TOOLS1TOOLS1 Member Posts: 6,133
    edited November -1
    Halle Berry Is 1/2 White. So whats the big deal?
    TOOLS
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  • thesupermonkeythesupermonkey Member Posts: 3,905 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Is that counting the half Billy Bob contributed?

    Don't worry about the bullet with your name on it, worry about the fragmentation grenade addressed 'To Occupant'.
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