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brenner
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Movies
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Jun 11 13:34 UTC 1995 |
Johnny Mnemonic
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jemart
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response 1 of 33:
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Jun 11 16:55 UTC 1995 |
I haven`t seen it would you recommend it? The previews on the telly make it
look like it would be good....
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brighn
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response 2 of 33:
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Jun 11 19:06 UTC 1995 |
It's a bit gory and intense in parts.
The writing, in typically Gibson style, is atrocious.
The specail effects are cool, but over-the-top in spots (e.g., when a
laser whip cuts a person in half, and you can see his sliced internal
organs for an interval of a second -- in short, on a par with Interview
with a Vampire).
The vision of the future is grim, unrealistic, hackneyed, and overdone.
The acting's excellent. The casting's excellent, with Henry Rollins as
an anti-science underground medico and Dolph Lundgren as a psychotic
evangelist hitman (among others).
The soundtrack is loud.
I give it a tentative thumbs-up. It's worth seeing once, unless extreme
violence bothers you, or strobe lights induce seizures (I can easily
see people having neurological problems with it, from the motion...
considering two of the five people I was with felt seriously ill-at-ease
afterwards).
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nephi
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response 3 of 33:
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Jun 11 22:27 UTC 1995 |
This movie was kinda like _Jurassic Park_. The special effects were
phenomenal, but the plot was lacking (to be nice 8*).
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vsclyne
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response 4 of 33:
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Jun 12 03:13 UTC 1995 |
Re #2: Great review! I was planning to see that movie, but
now I don't think I'll bother. Informed indifference.
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brighn
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response 5 of 33:
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Jun 12 06:59 UTC 1995 |
Thanks, although don't decide entirely on my opinion. I've heard raves
about Stargate, but was rather indifferent (actually, ambivalent) to it
myself. Good acting, lousy science (in almost every field: math,
physics, linguistics, anthropology, ...).
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jemart
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response 6 of 33:
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Jun 13 00:26 UTC 1995 |
hummmmm..... I liked Stargate...
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thanne
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response 7 of 33:
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Jun 16 05:54 UTC 1995 |
Stargate didn't deserve raves, in my opinion. It promised a *lot* more
than it delivered. I was quite disappointed.
I've been reluctant to see Johnny Mnemonic because I can see from
the trailors that serious liberties were taken with the original
story, despite the fact that Gibson (whose writing I *like*) wrote
the screenplay. Hmmph. What's Johnny Mnemonic without *Molly* I
ask you? I didn't see no mirror implants on Jane or whatever the chick's
name is. Hmmph I say again.
The original story is most excellent, however.
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cloud
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response 8 of 33:
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Apr 8 00:37 UTC 1998 |
<Sigh> where did all these cool people go?
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snowth
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response 9 of 33:
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Apr 8 00:40 UTC 1998 |
to a gallaxy far far away, too another set...
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font
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response 10 of 33:
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Apr 8 02:07 UTC 1998 |
The River. The River.
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cloud
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response 11 of 33:
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Apr 10 15:45 UTC 1998 |
The River Styx, I take it?
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snowth
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response 12 of 33:
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Apr 11 02:24 UTC 1998 |
Smelly rivers?! That doesn't sound like fun at all!
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raven
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response 13 of 33:
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Apr 11 16:35 UTC 1998 |
The river where speech & dreams are commodities to be bought & sold like
so much wheat or automobile tires.
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cloud
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response 14 of 33:
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Apr 12 23:19 UTC 1998 |
What about quomquats?
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orinoco
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response 15 of 33:
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Apr 12 23:58 UTC 1998 |
They're in aisle 5, right next to the llamas.
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font
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response 16 of 33:
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Apr 13 06:23 UTC 1998 |
Comquats are juggled here...funny...the well is deep and the river ran through
it, but grex is forever, if tenuous. :-P
hrm. it occurs to me that these individuals may think that free speech is
worth more if you pay more for it.
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cloud
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response 17 of 33:
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Apr 13 21:48 UTC 1998 |
Well, no, you see, what they have is paid speach, we on the other hand, have
free speach, and, well, you get what you pay for...
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orinoco
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response 18 of 33:
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Apr 14 01:07 UTC 1998 |
Isn't Tenuous a great word?
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cloud
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response 19 of 33:
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Apr 15 19:42 UTC 1998 |
Only on alternate Monday's and special holidays.
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orinoco
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response 20 of 33:
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Apr 16 15:10 UTC 1998 |
WHat would count as a non-special holiday?
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cloud
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response 21 of 33:
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Apr 16 16:19 UTC 1998 |
The ones that happen every year, like New Years, or Thanksgiving, of Labor
Day. Special holidays usually involve things like all of Jupiters moons
aligning, don't ch'ya know?
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font
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response 22 of 33:
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Apr 17 13:08 UTC 1998 |
Well, I'ddn't that Special? :-)
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cloud
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response 23 of 33:
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Apr 17 14:14 UTC 1998 |
I'm sorry. What were you trying to say there?
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orinoco
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response 24 of 33:
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Apr 18 01:53 UTC 1998 |
She was trying to say "Well, I'ddn't that Special?"
It seems she has succee'dded.
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