That was a fun summer movie back then. One quibble about the dialogue when the hero asks if NotErrolFlynn* is paying in dollars or Deutsche Marks: before the end of WW2 they were Reichsmarks.
And man was Jennifer Connelly magnificent.
*BTW apparently Errol Flynn’s rumored Nazi connections were never substantiated, unlike those of the ol’ Duke of Windsor after the war.
Holy cow you’re not wrong. I’m still sad the movie was a flop. I saw it like four times in the theater at least.
CraigM
5221
I wore out a VHS tape of it.
Jennifer Connelly in Rocketeer and Dark City was peak Jennifer Connelly. Even non peak Jennifer Connelly is peak.
I still hate Paul Bettany so much. (Not really, but GUH…)
Lol, I had the opposite reaction when I saw the first pictures of the KKK in a movie (why on Earth are they wearing procession clothes?)
Timex
5227
1940’s Jennifer Connelly was amazing.
You’re not wrong. She wasn’t bad in Career Opportunities or A Beautiful Mind either. And while I never watched it, I’m confident that she was great in House of Sand and Fog as well. How was that movie BTW?
This is getting rather far afield of the main topic, I realize. ;-)
None
5230
We just celebrated the 75th anniversary of a day where the Allies killed a whole lot of motherfucking nazis and these stupid fucks just didn’t get the message, did they? Stupid motherfucking nazis.
Tman
5231
That article I feel contains too many quotes / Twitters of negative reaction to the police.
If you read the DetroitNews article, I think it’s more balanced.
I don’t understand this part:
I’m guessing it’s illegal to light anything on fire on a public street because of some safety ordinance or something?
Yeah you can’t just go starting fires willy nilly. Even in your own back yard you have to do it right and for specific purposes or you can get in trouble.
It’s fairly likely that any protest that plans to use pyrotechnics or torches or whatever would have to get that approved beforehand, so an impromptu flag-burning would give the police an excuse to declare them in vilolation of their permit and round them up.
RichVR
5235
Dude pissed on it. Fuckers.
I effing hate Open Carry laws for precisely this reason.
“When (the Nazis) arrived, five of their members were armed; two with long guns and three with handguns,” Craig said. "They were open-carrying.
“I’m told through our intelligence sources (the Nazis) wanted (Charlottesville 2.0),” Craig said. "We knew we wanted to be properly staffed, and we were.
Tman
5237
Open Carry is just a problem waiting to happen. I have a bar in our town where several people have open carried (and been almost falling down drunk!) and I have talked with the owner saying it makes me less likely to frequent his establishment. Shortly after that I haven’t seen them again.
In this case, they are just using open carry to antagonize others. It sucks.
ShivaX
5238
Depends on the state. In Iowa you cannot carry in a bar if you have a single drink or while intoxicated.
I’m fairly sure you can’t even carry if you’ve had one drink (or at least that was the law, they changed a bunch of weird shit in 2017).
But most Open Carry people do it to intimidate people and/or be an asshole. I don’t open carry because it puts people on edge. The upside of OC is that if someone sees your gun for some reason (it prints or you move your jacket or whatever) then you can’t be arrested for it. That part is a good thing imo, but naturally people abuse it to try to make some sort of statement.
Like the Texas OC things actually made sense. It was legal to OC long guns, but not pistols. That’s kind of dumb. So gun people in TX decided to just long carry guns all over the place. Of course the result wasn’t that people said, “man that pistol law is dumb”. The result was people said, “these people are crazy carrying AR-15s in Walmart”. The latter were right, even if the former idea was a good point.
