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As I scroll down imdb/rottentomatoes I see Steven Spielberg is listed as executive producer for the Back to the Future movies, even though he didn't direct them. Also in a lot of modern movies, Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt are listed as "executive producers" for a lot of movies they're not even in.

What exactly so executive producers actually do? Do Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt have any say in these movies that they don't direct, aren't cast in, or otherwise have no relation to the movies itself?

It always amazes me how the same two actors can play very different roles with each other. Bruce Willis and Samuel L Jackson in Die Hard working together as unlikely heroes, and then in the year 2000 only 5 years later, playing the roles in Unbreakable where Bruce Willis played a superhero and Samuel L Jackson was the wheelchair bound villain.

I always love when unrelated movies use the same two lead actors and they're playing completely unrecognizable roles from their previous dynamic.

Only the oldest people will remember this, but Anne Hathaway was disliked immensely in the early 2000's. People used to rage every time she got cast in a movie. People used to say she was "fake" or "not a good actress." I even remember when she was cast as Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises there was some backlash and that was as late as 2012!

What exactly was all the dislike of her about? She's now been an actress for what...almost 30 years? So I think she's done well for herself.

Finished the game for the first time but there's a lot I didn't care for:

1. Way too much "walk and talk," during the cutscenes, particular the "down-time" missions. I know you can skip these later, but the first time around walking through MI6 and Q's Lab or your apartment, it's all a bit of a slog. I hate when other games do this because you can't breeze through the dialogue either.
2. The final boss was awful, I'd honestly say terrible. All you do is run around the pipes hacking his phone/armor, then you just use your little gadgets on the pipes to blow him up 4 times so his life bar goes down. Then after that a bunch of QTE button presses straight out of the PS3 era...I couldn't believe that was the final boss of the game.
3. You can't swim in the pools/water during the resort level, WTF. That area is gorgeous and I wanted to take a dip in the water!
4. The driving was kind of...pointless? There's about two nice car chases in the game (I'm not sure if you count the huge crane/garbage truck as one), and the boat in the arctic level but that's about it. Even then the boat part was short too.
5. The NPC's/enemies are dumb as hell. You can distract them so easily. Press a button on a computer, put the fax machine on, turn on a fan, press a button on a vaccume. I know Hitman is like this but it doesn't work well in this game.
6. Last but not least, barely any replayability. The game doesn't compel me to replay levels multiple times like Hitman. The challenges just seem generic/boring. In Hitman I replayed every level hundreds of times doing everything. Here it just does not feel that different or varied in the levels. It almost seems nothing special.

Lastly for now the Tactical sim stuff is underbaked, I know they'll add more in the future but there's barely anything there now. Why only two missions outside the escalations? Why only 7 escalations? Meh.

A lot of people feel Bill Murray faded from the spotlight after the 90's (aside from Lost in Translation), but I feel the only thing that kept him going was Wes Anderson movies. The first one he was in was "Rushmore" in 1998, and was a very good movie but could have been his only work with him.

If you look at the 2000's Bill Murray is in a ton of Wes Anderson movies, almost one after another. So I was thinking if Bill Murray never befriended Wes Anderson after Rushmore, would Billy Murray's career in the 2000's (and 2010's) be completely forgettable? He was just getting small bit roles in Space Jam, Wild Things, Get Smart (2008), etc. otherwise and very few starring roles like he used to outside Lost in Translation and Broken Flowers.

The movie came out in 2000 (filmed in 1999), and Guy was just taking polaroids of his entire life and writing 1-2 small lines on the back of them to remember his life.

If modern cell phones existed back then, he could not only take endless pictures with his phone and not have to worry about running out of film. On top of that he could type in notepad or make entire long posts on his phone exactly who he is, what he was doing, where he was yesterday, and what he had to do.

On top of that he could have filmed himself with videos and selfies actually talking to himself and recording it reminding him of what he had to do. Good thing the movie was made 25 years ago because I don't see how Nolan could make it work in the modern day.

I always wondered why Samuel L. Jackson had such minor cameo roles in Coming To America, Jurassic Park, Goodfellas, True Romance, Do the Right Thing, Patriot Games etc. where he's only in a few scenes. Was Pulp Fiction his first big breakout role? Because before this he just had minor supporting roles and this is in late 80's and early 90's movies.

He was already in his 40's in the 1990's, which surprises me that he was already middle age before he got his first big breakout role in Pulp Fiction. It feels like he's been around forever but he really didn't even become big till halfway into his life.

Something that really surprises me about Michael Keaton is that despite how old he is now, he never "feels" old in any of his roles. He still shows literally the same amount of energy as he did in any of his 80's and 90's movies. He's 74 now, and compared to other 70+ year old actors he seems 10-15 years younger than he is.

Michael Keaton has some really great movies in the 2020's that people overlook, and some in the late 2010's (Birdman, The Founder, etc.), aside from his roles in Spider-man and Flash.

I hope he can keep this up till he's over 80.

I can't tell if this movie is meant to be a fever dream. The surfer gang (?) on the beach harass Nicolas Cage throughout the whole movie, making him think he's a homeless bum, and generally treat him like dirt. At first you think it's only Nicolas Cages' character they're doing this too, but late on we see a couple from France come to the beach and Nic Cage warns them about some local hostility. We then see the male punched in the nose and the French couple is harrassed the same way, and we see them leave by car later.

So why was this group allowed to harass anyone at this beach, destroy their cars and beat people up? Even the police guy we see in the movie wasn't arresting these people.

Nic believes he is the bum, but then we see the homeless bum in the movie (who shoots the guy in the head when he's kneeling at the end on the beach), so are we to believe Nic Cage and the homeless guy are one and the same? Or the homeless guy actually IS Nic Cage and that's his current self (a bum living there for 40+ years?) while Nic is in his current form thinking about his past?

The more I think about this movie, none of it makes sense at all.

Man, I have done a complete 180 on the new dialogue/voice acting since the remake came out.I just recently replayed every planet on the N64/3DS versions (yes both), and what I noticed the most is how much shorter the dialogue is, and how brief it is.

Fox himself feels like he has no real personality in the original game now, he just states generic leadership stuff and one-word sentences (especially in the General Pepper briefings), but even during the stages themselves. He barely talks and when Fox does it's just generic stuff, "All-range mode," or "Where are you going, Falco?" in Corneria. Where is Fox's personality? The remake finally gave Fox an actual character which I appreciate, like talking back to Peppy about his fathers instincts on Zoness "Shows a lot of good it did him!"

Slippy's dialogue is also awful in the original. In Meteos he says, "Whoa, that's a big one!" whereas in the remake he says, "A sizeable asteroid is coming through," and no lame "Yipeeeeee! You did it!" like he used to say. Almost all of Slippy's dialogue is horrible as hell when you look back on it now in the original games. Slippy is also a LOT smarter in the remake, like talking about how the circular Meteos asteroids look man-made, talking about the laser-tech of the ship designs, he's much better in Sector X and on Aquas too.

Peppy is also a lot more generic than I remembered. He's basically just a tutorial for the game itself, "Use the boost to get through!" "Use bombs wisely" "Use the brakes!" "Do a barrel roll," "Your father helped me like that too," "Trust your instincts." He barely says much else outside a few levels. He's like a tutorial machine the whole way through.

Falco probably aged the best, he still has some fun lines in the original, but even then I feel all his remake lines are far better. And no stupid, "Geez laweez what is that?" when approaching the Venom temple, the original made that really lame. And some of the good lines from the original they kept in the remake and only changed a word or two.

I do feel most people think the bosses had more memorable lines in the original, I do agree to an extent. But they really do just sound like Saturday Morning cartoon villains in the original. Sort of like, "I'll get you for this!" type of stuff. But I can see the point here, I do still prefer Macbeths' train boss in the original, and to a lesser extent the Shogun Sector Y boss.

But man in terms of everything else, the original dialogue is so generic and quiet. There's also large stretches of the levels where nobody even talks at all, I do not even remember the original game being this quiet. They definitely added way more back and forth in the remake.

Any thoughts on this going back to the originals after extensive time with the remake?

As much as I like the N64 voices, they were a product of their time. They really do resemble the Americanized anime dubs of the 90's like Pokemon, the Ocean Dragoball Z dub, the old Dic Sailor Moon dub, etc.

Characters were intentionally given goofy voices, voice deliveries were over the top, and a lot of the more serious lines what changed to goofy ones. While I do still like some of the old voices (Macbeth's train boss I agree was better), every single voice is better in the new game.

Even the lines are better. Falco no longer says, "Geez laweez!" when approaching the temple on Venom like a 90's cartoon character. Slippy no longer says, "Whoa that's a big one!" just because of the huge meteors in Meteos. Katt no longer says, "I can kiss you for that!" like some lame 90's female character making flirty lines for no reason. Bill no longer cheers like a surfer.

Every single voice and dialogue is more professional in the remake, and if we all didn't have nostalgia for the original game, everyone would agree.

In the first movie when George punches Biff to save Loraine in the car that was the last we saw of him when he was knocked out. So back in the present when Biff is working for George and submissive to him you assume it's because of the punch that knocked him out.

However in the second movie we then see Biff knocked out a second time by Marty, and then Biff just gets back up and drives his car and tries to scrape Marty off the road with the sports almanac in his pocket. So as we see now, the punch from George didn't change Biff at all because he's the same asshole when he woke up as he was before. So eventually Marty escapes with the hoverboard and Biff crashes into the horse manure truck again.

So why would Biff be so submissive to George in the present when the second movie now showed him getting knocked out didn't change anything about him? Are we just to assume George knocked him out again at some point off screen in the following days or something? George is still frail and weak and Biff is twice his size, so one lucky unexpected punch wouldn't work a second time.

Also this movie has other time paradoxes that don't quite work with the lore established either and Marty just leaves the 2015 hoverboard back in 1955 too.

At this point Scott is now an aging hipster. A 52+ year old middle age man. If they ever make a fourth movie they need to play into this, with Scott now being double the age Dr. Evil was when he tried to take over the world.

Joe versus the Volcano in 1990

Sleepless in Seattle in 1992

You've got Mail in 1998

They play people who fall in love in all 3 movies, and the funny thing is You've Got Mail is almost the same exact movie as Sleepless in Seattle, they just changed the technology of how they met from the radio to AOL e-mail since we went from the early 90's to the late 90's. The last two movies really are a time capsule of how people met from radio shows to the very first e-mail chats on AOL.

I don't believe the two were dating in real life at the time (unless they were?) so why were they cast in the same films together 3 different times in 8 years?

If you look through her imdb page, her last movie was in 1994 and she didn't act again until a one-off in the early 2000's. And even then a lot of her movies after Gremlins 2 in 1990 weren't well known or popular. I'm honestly surprised how quickly she fell out of the spotlight, it feels like she should of been like Meryl Streep, Jamie Lee Curtis or Sigourney Weaver where she remained popular and acted as she aged through the decades like they did.

I know she had a modeling career but I'm surprised she dropped acting only like a decade after she rose to fame in Fast Times in Ridgement High in 1982. She barely lasted a decade before stopping in the early 90's.

For example at work I have to do a certain number of cases with different number documents by the end of the day and it's all logged in a specific column. I basically have to do at minimum 600 images worth of documents logged, and its tracted on the sheet.

How do I add an extra number to the columns, (like for example if I put in a "5" I want to say include an addition "10" to make that column add up to 15, but still only show 5), and that way the autosum feature at the bottom will count 15 and not 5 (in addition to all the other documents I do adding up to the 600 minimum)

I know some people say to simply change the font color of the number to "white" so it blends in with the background, but that doesn't really work for me because the first number still needs to be shown. So how do you "hide" a second number in the column so it gets counted by autosum?