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Frodo saw the effect the ring had on Boromir (Sean Bean), and knew that eventually it would corrupt the rest of the Fellowship. No one is immune to the ring. Even, Gandalf and Galadriel refused to touch it. Frodo as a hobbit, is a bit resistant to the ring, but not completely impervious to it's influence. This is something that Lady Galadriel had foretold ...
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Two reasons come to mind:
In Star Trek: Generations, the engines were hot because of the just completed Battle of Veridian III. In Star Trek: First Contact, the Enterprise had been quietly orbiting Earth for some time. Cold engines are presumably in less need of coolant.
The Enterprise-E was an upgraded ship compared to the Enterprise-D; it is not ...
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Quoting from Wikipedia:
The son of Arathorn II and his wife Gilraen, Aragorn was born on 1 March, T.A. 2931.1 Through his ancestor Elendil (whom he closely resembled)[2] Aragorn was a descendant of the first king of Númenor, Elros Tar-Minyatur; the twin brother of Elrond.
When Aragorn was two years old, his father was killed while pursuing orcs. ...
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Khan's character was cool, collected and methodical throughout the entire film, until he captured the new battleship built by the admiral.
Once that happen his true personality appears. He no longer needs Kirk's help to save his frozen crew. He starts by crushing the admiral's head with his bare hands, he breaks the leg of the admiral's daughter and then ...
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While he may not be the main antagonist in the scheme of the film. That role belongs to the Admiral for all his misdeeds during the flow of events.
Khan is still an antagonist no matter how you look at it.
Back in the 1990's, the Eugenics War occurred where it was a battle for superiority of normal humans vs these seemingly indestructible genetically ...
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They hadn't mentioned it before because they didn't know about it. The molester's body wasn't found until the morning that Sean went to talk to Jimmy. Sean says "Look at me. I got a call from Celeste Boyle. She was hysterical. She said Dave's missing. Said you might know where he is. We need to talk to him. Boston police found the body of a guy this morning. ...
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Contrary to other answers, I believe the high-value chip from the exclusive casino would not be a "safe" way to compensate a hit man. If the police found the chip on the hit man, they would know to investigate the casino.
Indeed, as soon as Bond found the chip, he went to the casino, to try to find out who ordered the hit.
Of course, in Skyfall, it turns ...
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Liotta is Jimmy Cayne, former CEO of Bear Stearns, who refused to participate in the bailout of LTCM years ago (heist #1 when Liotta really did do it), and so was allowed to die by the other bosses(Bear was the first to go down, before Lehman).
The card games are the financial system itself - trading and investing being gambling in this case. Once ...
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I can think of two different reasons why Aragorn was called an Exile:
A King without a Kingdom
Aragorn's forebear Elendil founded the Kingdom of Arnor in the North. Arnor was the sister realm of Gondor in the South. When Elendil died, the Crown of Arnor passed to Isildur, his son.
Arnor eventually suffered from civil war and split up in smaller ...
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They never implicated Carol Marcus during the film. She had the full trust of Spock, because she was the Admiral's daughter.
Kirk knew before anyone else that it was sabotage. When they are about to regain warp power and Chekov says "I take full responsibility for the failure". Kirk says "I don't think it was your fault." Or something like that.
The film ...
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I thought the motivation to switch to Ferris' side was pretty clear. Her mind was changed while she was in the police station chatting with the cool and laid back character played by Charlie Sheen (see it here). He professes a philosophy of live and let live and tells her that she is the problem—not Ferris. She rejects the advice several times, but ...
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For a more definitive answer to your question I suggest you view the Original Star Trek Series, more specifically Season 1, Episode 22: "Space Seed". In this episode you will see that the "Bad Guy" isn't as much a bad guy as he is self-serving, but becomes a "Bad Guy" in the Original Star Trek 2 movie.
Clearly, the character "Harrison" (in STID) follows ...
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There are many discussions of this on the web (Google: "Top Gear" source Nile), but I think the one on Reddit covers the main points solidly. In short, the "Top Gear" team redefined the phrase "source of the Nile" by first redefining "Nile" to include the Mediterranean Sea, thus moving the mouth of the Nile from Egypt to the Strait of Gibraltar. That ...
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Firstly, they left her behind in the middle of a battle. There's a chance that in the midst of the chaos, Snow White will get hurt - whether it's deliberate or accidental. Being a child, it wouldn't take much to deal her a fatal blow. Think about it - someone shoves her out of the way, her head hits a rock and she's probably dead. I'd say the immediate odds ...
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I had the same question when I watched the movie. I guess they copied her and Chuck (the other reporter) a little too well.
They each knew the others thoughts simultaneously. They both admitted that they were lousy shots. (Chuck and his robot had a similar conversation)
From the book:
Then the real Tracy suddenly realized something: no duplicate, no
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