Comments on: Movies Seen Recently: Gentlemen Broncos, Samaritan, A Nightmare on Elm Street

By: Nathan

Nathan — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 14:18:15 +0000

In reply to Felicity. I have a fear that my life is actually one long parenthetical note -- that I somehow missed a closing parenthesis somewhere around third or fourth grade, and when I finally close it, everything I've written since will be contained in it.

By: Felicity

Felicity — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 05:01:22 +0000

As long as we’re crowd-editing, I ended up reading the sentence “This story of a young kid who becomes convinced that his garbage-man neighbor (Sylvester Stallone) is actually Samaritan, the superhero who disappeared decades ago after a battle with his twin brother nemesis (helpfully named Nemesis) is exactly the kind of discussion on heroism, obligation, duty, disillusionment, etc. that it seemed to be in the trailer” several times and getting lost. Finally I clued in that “This story” connects to “is exactly the kind of…” with the “of a young kid […] (helpfully named Nemesis)” part being a long parenthetical. IOW “This story [—] of a young kid who becomes convinced that his garbage-man neighbor (Sylvester Stallone) is actually Samaritan, the superhero who disappeared decades ago after a battle with his twin brother nemesis (helpfully named Nemesis) [—] is exactly the kind of discussion on heroism, obligation, duty, disillusionment, etc. that it seemed to be in the trailer.” 🙂

By: Nathan

Nathan — Sat, 10 Dec 2022 15:21:38 +0000

In reply to False Profiteer. Son of a motherless goat.

By: False Profiteer

False Profiteer — Sat, 10 Dec 2022 07:20:28 +0000

In reply to Nathan. Hate to do this to you, but as long as I'm being the editor you never asked for, it now reads, "...be the end of the opening credits."

By: Nathan

Nathan — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 19:29:24 +0000

Derp. You’re right. Corrected.

By: False Profiteer

False Profiteer — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 19:12:38 +0000

“In fact, I had figured out the climactic “twist” be the end of the closing credits.”

I’m guessing that’s supposed to read, “…by the end of the opening credits.” since you don’t get points for figuring out the twist by the end of the closing credits. Unless that’s some really deep twist dependent on knowing who was the film’s Best Boy.

I may have figured out the twist in Samaritan just by reading your short plot synopsis. Not sure it’s worth the two hours of my time to watch it, so maybe I’ll just check the wiki.