Originally Posted by rocket1312 (Post 14561035)

You sure you're not thinking of an antechamber?

Originally Posted by movieguru (Post 14561043)

Originally Posted by DJariya (Post 14561108)

Last night I revisited Crimson Tide. Stayed up until 1:30am. This is the Unrated Extended Cut DVD that I got from Best Buy 19 years ago and only watched once. Never upgraded to BD.

Such a great submarine thriller with lots of tension. Hackman was great as Ramsey and played well off Denzel.

Originally Posted by nickdawgy (Post 14560814)

Lol. Are you serious? How many times have you asked a question that can easily be Googled?

Originally Posted by rocket1312 (Post 14560956)

It's definitely a mudroom.

Originally Posted by DJariya (Post 14561108)

Last night I revisited Crimson Tide. Stayed up until 1:30am. This is the Unrated Extended Cut DVD that I got from Best Buy 19 years ago and only watched once. Never upgraded to BD.

Such a great submarine thriller with lots of tension. Hackman was great as Ramsey and played well off Denzel. I’m surprised this movie doesn’t get mentioned more from his filmography. It was part of the splashy Bruckheimer/Simpson productions from the 1990s and maybe is not regarded as a prestige film.

Originally Posted by JeffTheAlpaca (Post 14561049)

The garage is my mudroom

I leave my shoes there before I enter the house.

Originally Posted by Runaway (Post 14561301)

What I liked about the movie when I revisited it a couple of years back, that while the audience is rooting for Denzel as the hero, Gene Hackman isn't presented as the villain. Both of them have a good point for their reasoning, it's not a fight between good and evil, not even right or wrong, just between caution and action.

Originally Posted by rw2516 (Post 14561312)

It's a fight between free thinking and the drone military mentality.

Originally Posted by Count Dooku (Post 14561299)

I think that the idea of thinking a mudroom is for wealthy people is because a true mudroom is a room solely dedicated to being an intermediate room between coming in from the outdoors to entering the house proper.

That room does not contain the washer and dryer because such homes also have a separate room that is the laundry room.

So the idea is that it is wealthy people who have homes large enough to include all these rooms for specifically designated functions.

I must be pretty poor because I don't have an entry way, and my washer and dryer are in the kitchen.

Originally Posted by rocket1312 (Post 14561333)

Maybe it's a New England thing, but just about every house built around here in the last 40-50 years has a mudroom, with or without laundry. I can't think of many friends who don't have one.
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Originally Posted by rocket1312 (Post 14561333)

Maybe
But seriously, Gene Hackman was one of the greats and I hope, for his sake, his mudroom didn't have laundry.

Originally Posted by nickdawgy (Post 14560814)

Lol. Are you serious?

Originally Posted by rocket1312 (Post 14561333)

Maybe it's a New England thing, but just about every house built around here in the last 40-50 years has a mudroom, with or without laundry. I can't think of many friends who don't have one.

Originally Posted by movieguru (Post 14560885)

There's lots of possible scenarios of what could have happened. Police say there is no evidence of external trauma and no immediate signs of carbon monoxide or natural gas poisoning. He could have collapsed and died. Then his wife could have committed suicide which would match up with there being an empty pill bottle and some pills being scattered in the area. They had been dead for days, so the dog could have died of starvation of dehydration after a while. It says the dog died in the bathroom closet, but doesn't say it was intentionally locked in there, so it may have been staying close to its family member in an effort to "protect" it and eventually just died.

She could have died of natural cause first and Hackman may not have been well enough to take care of himself or get help and eventually collapsed in another part of the house and the dog died the same way as in the other scenario. I'm sure lots of pets die when their human dies unexpectantly in the house and doesn't have a way of getting help. That happened to the one child actor from ALF when he died in his car.