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Your question about the lack of adults is very common. It's important to understand that the movie isn't mean to be taken literally but rather is symbolic, likening the killing of those three bullies and the subsequent chaos to a political revolution in which the oppressed become as bad as their ...

@Houseofthe7gayboys That's what the late, great John Belushi said when playing Vito in a SNL skit. And another piece of trivia, the late, great John Mowery, who played Woltz, didn't know it was going to be a real horse's head, so when he screams, he's not acting!

@Jazzirhino I don't know if he KNEW, but some of the fans who were at the event said that they could tell Owen was dead before he was wheeled out. And the appearance of Jerry Lawler when he returned to the commentator's table says it all. Owen's death was so senseless and as far as I'm concerned ...

Wow, I felt sentimental watching this. It's a great reminder of the good old days of college basketball, which I miss greatly.

@sneak108 Yes, experience is right. Alford and Daryl Thomas were seniors, Rick Calloway was a sophomore but already in his second season as a starter, and though Keith Smart and Dean Garrett were in their first year with the team, they were juniors, having played two seasons of JuCo ball. Iowa's ...

@UpStraightGee I just read about him, thanks to your post! And indeed, he was a major disaster! I remember when UNT had some conference championships! Oh well, it's not realistic to expect a long time high school coach to do well on the collegiate level. It's apples to oranges, to say the least!

I'm not crazy about this scene, as Burt Young's doesn't strike me as being real, but one thing I love about "Rocky Balboa" is that it brought Paulie back to being an important character, rather than a mere comic relief sidekick, as in III-V.

Paulie has two great scenes that did make the final cu...

@WoolyOmpus Great point! Gore is a crutch used in horror movies when the creators fail to think of anything scary. Think about it. In 2 hours and 26 minutes, there is exactly one one screen killing, yet this is one of the scariest movies of all time. Much scarier than many movies with much higher...

@ghanasoul I was thinking the same thing! And I've noticed that a lot of black people get a kick out of that line! I'm white but married to an Astian woman, so my kids are mixed. I think the reason it's so powerful in the Kubrick version is that it's so unexpected to begin with and then the way t...