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El Knid
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In the case of Clear and Present Danger, the title of the movie is the operative phrase a landmark decision delivered by the supreme court, one that, in the film (and book), the President delivering the line was citing, in non-extemporaneous speech, as justification for his intended actions.

In the case of Clear and Present Danger, the title of the movie is the operative phrase a landmark decision delivered by the supreme court, one that, in the film (and book), the President delivering the line was citing, in non-extemporaneous speech, as justification for his intended actions.

Odd Mindset
Going to the movies and demanding a refund because you thought the film was bad is kind of like going to a baseball game and asking for your money back because your team lost.

"No less than a masterpiece" my ass.
I think most critics are far too generous with the benefit of the doubt they give Terrence Malick in assuming that all of the "challenging" narrative oddities in his films are part of a greater experimental vision. With a handful of story-lines 75% pruned from the Thin Red Line

Lions and Tadpoles and Cars, Oh My!
I humbly posit this line from Led Zeppelin's Dancing Days as the apotheosis of awkward stupid rhymes in pop music: "I told your mamma I'd get you home but I didn't tell her I had no car/I saw a lion he was standing alone with a tadpole in a jar."