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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Pendragon" data-source="post: 2447552" data-attributes="member: 707">It may be because I really like this movie and watch it whenever it comes on TV, but I have to point out that O'Connell doesn't outrun the sunrise in The Mummy Returns.  The sunrise is clearly faster than he's running.  What he does do is beat the sunrise to the temple, thereby preventing his son from being killed by the magic bracelet.  But the sunrise had much more distance to travel, and still almost overcame him by the time he dove into the temple entrance.Merlion, I'm a straight guy.  I don't have a problem with homosexuality politically or socially.  But--and I hope this doesn't offend you, but it's the truth--watching a gay sexual scene would disgust me.  (Perhaps watching a straight sexual scene provokes the same sensation in you?)  I would walk out of a movie that had a gay sex scene in it.  I wouldn't watch the movie in the first place if I knew there was one in there to begin with.It's my guess that this is why you don't see this sort of thing in more movies.  Unfortunately, the majority of the viewing populace simply doesn't want to see it.As to why lesbians seem to be more acceptable, well, straight folks don't have the same visceral reaction to a lesbian scene.  It's not fair, but it's true.Regarding "shaky cam" I don't mind it.  In fact, I'll go on the record as saying I liked it in Batman Begins.  Batman's fights seemed sudden, brutal, and unexpected.  They didn't feel like the well-choreographed scenes of Blade.  But they did feel dangerous.  It added a lot to the mood for me.Edit to add:  And my own pet peeve, though you don't see it much anymore unless you're renting old Steven Seagal or Jean Claude Van Damme movies, is when they edit in the same fight footage into the same sequence.  So you'll see the exact same footage of the exact same punch several times in the same "fight."  Even worse when they repeat the punch three times in quick succession to simulate three quick punches, instead of getting the guy to actually punch three times.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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