Yusuf Nasser speaks Arabic and works in an Egyptian restaurant, where peopl3 would speak Arabic. However, he efers to his cousin in Al Qaeda in Kabul.Aside from the point that al Qaeda would be rather scarce in Kabul, they would not be speaking Arabic, ... they would be speaking Farsi or Pashto!
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6 Reviews
Baby teeth
19 July 2020
Aside from getting very confused about parts of WV that I knew well, but seem to be in no rational geographical places, the baby (Andy) sometimes seems to have a lot more teeth than a baby of his age should, and sometimes he has none.
Lousy geography
12 July 2020
Sand Serpents
(2009 TV Movie)
Agree with all of the above but..
17 August 2012
Warning: Spoilers
Yep...Tremors vs. Dune but I think closer to Dune. What I would like to know is what language the "Afghans" were speaking. It was supposed to be Pushto, a language I do not know well, but the cadences were all wrong and it did not sound a bit like Pushto. Occasionally a Dari (Afghan Persian) word or short phrase would come up but embedded in pure gibberish. I was so annoyed by this that I almost did not bother to be annoyed about the rest of what was essentially an annoying film...although I could not stop watching it until the idiotic ending. Why didn't the guy at the end just throw a grenade or some such thing at the worm/serpent. Why did he throw himself into it's mouth. Also, since they seem to have dragged out a bunch of old worms from Dune, why did it not help to get to high ground. The soldier trapped under the truck seemed to know about "thumpers". I cannot imagine watching it again.
John Carter
(2012)
I had long forgotten
25 March 2012
I read the Edgar Rice Burroughs book on which the movie was based, when I was a 12 year old girl, about 60 years ago, in the attic of my grandparents farmhouse in Michigan. It was with a collection of Tarzan books which must have belonged to my father since he was a great Tarzan fan, I had pretty much forgotten the John Carter stories until I saw the movie advertised. I took my sister to see the movie for her 69th birthday and we both enjoyed it immensely. It was extremely difficult to not regress to childhood and kick the backs of the seats and throw popcorn as we did when watching Tarzan movies those many, many years ago. A thoroughly enjoyable movie. I have to insist my grandchildren (most of them are adults now) go and see it since I never could get them to read my Tarzan book collections. Can't wait for it to come out on DVD.
The Magus
(1968)
Book was much better
13 January 2007
I loved the gorgeous Greek scenery but the story, which is not something you can follow anyway, was even harder to follow in the movie. I cannot imagine how anyone watching the movie can get any kind of grip on it if they have not read the book, and then, like me, they would probably wonder why Australian Allison turned into French Anne, and many other seemingly pointless changes in the story. The mysteries in the book seemed to be chopped up or left out in the movie. I saw it when it first came out and had the same problems with it then, since I had read the book several times. I recently watched it with my granddaughter (very intelligent at 20 and usually into movies I like) who was mostly amazed at how young Michael Caine and Candace Bergen were in it, but otherwise could not imagine why one would watch it except for the scenery.
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