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chelsea
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***<<<< AT THE MOVIES >>>>***
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Jun 28 22:45 UTC 1993 |
See any movies lately? How were they?
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tnt
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response 1 of 179:
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Jun 28 22:47 UTC 1993 |
They were OK.
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chelsea
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response 2 of 179:
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Jun 28 22:59 UTC 1993 |
"Sleepless in Seattle" There is one very clever scene playing on
the differences between "girl's" and "boy's" movies. Overall
entertaining even though it reminded me of fake lemonade - sweeter
than it needs to be to hide the fact there's not much else there.
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vidar
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response 3 of 179:
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Jun 28 23:55 UTC 1993 |
Haven't seen any lately. I'm going to go see "Robin Hood: Men In Tights"
sometime soon. Oh Damn. I hate trying to remember when to hit ENTER.
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jeffk
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response 4 of 179:
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Jun 29 02:39 UTC 1993 |
If you use vi, just do a
set wrapmargin=56
from the : prompt. Or, put the line in your .exrc file.
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polygon
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response 5 of 179:
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Jun 29 02:53 UTC 1993 |
"Jurassic Park" was interesting but, overall, a bit disappointing.
Contrary to the critics' appraisal, it is not the scariest movie ever
made. It's no scarier than your average plain vanilla action/adventure
movie, with lots of narrow escapes, and all the good guys survive.
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rcurl
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response 6 of 179:
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Jun 29 03:47 UTC 1993 |
Cliffhanger:
Nice rocks. Alice observed that the only gasp she heard from the audience
was in the "bat scene". I've been in that position (middle of a bat
flight in a cave), and I thought it was marvelous. All the blood, gore,
mayhem, sadism, etc didn't stir a murmur.
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aaron
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response 7 of 179:
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Jun 29 06:23 UTC 1993 |
re #5: It is interesting to compare the movie and the book, although
neither is a masterpiece.
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danr
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response 8 of 179:
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Jun 29 11:09 UTC 1993 |
Silvia and I saw "Like Water for Chocolatet(" a couple of weeks ago.
We both thought it was a pretty good movie. It managed to be both
funny and dramatic.
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sensei
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response 9 of 179:
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Jun 29 11:44 UTC 1993 |
The scariest movie ever made? Jurassic Park? <laughs> Who uttered that
tripe? Sheesh...
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hawkeye
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response 10 of 179:
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Jun 29 13:04 UTC 1993 |
I thought "JP" was the scariest -- or, rather, "most tensest"{ -0-
movie *I've* seen since "Aliens". And I've seen a *lot* of movies.
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griz
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response 11 of 179:
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Jun 29 17:41 UTC 1993 |
Chris went to see "Jurassic Park" and told me I'd hate it.
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polygon
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response 12 of 179:
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Jun 29 19:15 UTC 1993 |
Why?
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jdg
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response 13 of 179:
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Jun 29 23:42 UTC 1993 |
I haven't seen it, but to paraphrase a number of bad reviews, "Great special
effects, terribly preachy, poor script, bad characterization."
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gregc
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response 14 of 179:
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Jun 29 23:55 UTC 1993 |
If you want to see a movie that defines the word "Intense" see:
_Dead Ringers_ starring Jeremy Irons. Don't see it if you are emotionally
unbalanced or in a depressed mode however.....
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krishna
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response 15 of 179:
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Jun 30 02:25 UTC 1993 |
Jurassic Park was a pretty good movie, but it had it's faults. I thought the
plot ended up to be too "happily ever after" concerning numerous narrow
escapes.
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sensei
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response 16 of 179:
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Jun 30 02:55 UTC 1993 |
You'd probably hate it, Jennie. :)
gregc: Dead Ringers is -- uh -- interesting. Yeah, uh-huh.
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ecl
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response 17 of 179:
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Jun 30 04:44 UTC 1993 |
last night I rented and watched:
Housesitter, this was some of the funniest work I've ever
seen by either Steve Martin or Goldie Hawn.
Toys, This was okay, but the ending wasn't as upbeat as I felt it
should have been.
The Player, this was very enjoyable, reminded me quite a bit of Slacker
in the way the camera was handled.
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chelsea
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response 18 of 179:
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Jun 30 11:45 UTC 1993 |
I really liked "Toys". A creative, non-formula film, I was shocked
Hollywood could make it. In my top-ten of '92 list I place it number
three behind only "Reservoir Dogs" and "Howards End".
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md
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response 19 of 179:
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Jun 30 13:05 UTC 1993 |
I saw Howard's End for the first time last week and actually liked it,
despite the nonexistent special effects and the complete lack of
chase scenes and nudity. It had something different -- I think it's
called a "plot" -- that I liked very much.
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robh
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response 20 of 179:
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Jun 30 13:05 UTC 1993 |
I finally got to see the original director's cut of _Blade_Runner_.
This is a must-see. If you liked the ogirinal, you will *love* this
one.
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kentn
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response 21 of 179:
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Jun 30 13:51 UTC 1993 |
What's so different about it (compared to the original theatre release)?
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remmers
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response 22 of 179:
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Jun 30 14:13 UTC 1993 |
Re #19: Indeed. "Howard's End" also has characters that aren't
cardboard cutouts.
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pegasus
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response 23 of 179:
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Jun 30 15:20 UTC 1993 |
Bill and I liked Last Action Hero much better th
an Jurassic Park. We were both disappointed with JP. The ending was too
contrived and implausible.
Last Action Hero, on the other hand, is a movie for movie-goers.
"Don't trust him! He killed Mozart!"
Pattie
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arabella
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response 24 of 179:
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Jun 30 17:08 UTC 1993 |
Gee, I found "Housesitter" to be surprisingly flat and unfunny
when I saw it last year. I was quite disappointed, since I've
enjoyed both Martin's and Hall's work a great deal in the past.
I saw "Jurassic Park" a couple of weeks ago. I found it to be
*very* scary. Can't compare it to much, since I usually avoid
scary movies. (I didn't see any of the Alien movies.) The
dinosaurs were great. The story and characters were not so
great. Gee, with all the money they spent on the film, you'd think
they could have gotten a better script.
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