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Whatever good will this film creates — and it does create quite a lot — it squanders as soon as it gets into the courtroom. The trial proceedings are preposterous:
• all of the dramatic cross-examination scenes just consist of an attorney making a loud speech full of accusations impugning the character or business practices of the witness. The attorney doesn’t even let the witness answer a question. But if the witness doesn’t admit to the accusations, the evidence doesn’t…
Here is my Her challenge. Take the 230-word dialogue excerpt below from Her, which is fairly representative of the film's dialogue in general, and count the number of concrete nouns. If you get a total greater than zero, redo this step because you did it wrong. Then do the same count with the 90-word love poem which follows, which I found at the first link that popped up when I googled "bad teenage poetry". Again you should get a total…
Fun FROGS fact: just as you have a school of fish, a colony of ants, a gaggle of geese or a plague of locusts, the correct term for a collection of frogs is an army. So perhaps frogs can form an organized attack force after all, though you'd never guess it from this movie.
About a third of the footage in this film is National Geographic style closeups of iguanas, bullfrogs and vipers trying to look as threatening as possible.…