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tpryan
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response 118 of 278:
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May 11 16:55 UTC 2004 |
Now if they end that weather movie Day after Tommorrow with
a view of the Great Nebraska Sea, they are not looking for the
happy ending.
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rcurl
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response 119 of 278:
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May 11 17:18 UTC 2004 |
There probably is a nice sunrise.....
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gull
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response 120 of 278:
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May 11 20:45 UTC 2004 |
A friend of mine described it as an "Earth snuff film." ;>
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gregb
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response 121 of 278:
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May 12 18:20 UTC 2004 |
I watched "A Wrinkle In Time" Monday. Not bad, but a little too close
to "The Neverending Story" in theme. I read the book when I was a kid.
It might'ov been the first sci-fi novel I read, I'm not sure. From
what I remember, the movie was fairly close to the book, but as in all
Disney flicks, there were notable differences, too.
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mcnally
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response 122 of 278:
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May 12 19:55 UTC 2004 |
re #121: "A Wrinkle in Time" was a much beloved book from my childhood,
so I watched the Disney version of it the other night, too (or at least
the tail end of it..) I thought it was awful, particularly the alteration
of the ending so that Meg manages to destroy "It" and liberate the people
of Camazotz. Part of what was interesting about L'Engle's books was the
idea that a character can be heroic without saving the universe; that life
and death and success and failure can play out on a more familiar scale.
Changing the protagonist from someone who manages (barely) to save her baby
brother into someone who liberates a whole planet messes things up
substantially in my opinion.
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otter
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response 123 of 278:
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May 16 22:38 UTC 2004 |
resp:118 Ads for that movie have made me remember a bit from Robin
Williams "Reality, What a Concept", in which he's a very old man
talking about past events.
"I remember the Great Quake of '88, when everybody in California surfed
to Denver".
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gull
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response 124 of 278:
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May 17 13:11 UTC 2004 |
"Remember World War Three? All six seconds of it?"
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krj
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response 125 of 278:
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May 17 16:56 UTC 2004 |
"Laws of Attraction": Decent romantic comedy; not the best movie ever
made, and the ending is a bit flimsy, but it delivers on its promises
and it's nice to see Pierce Brosnan in a movie where he's not killing
people. Brosnan and Julianne Moore are two high-powered divorce
lawyers, on opposite sides of cases, and Brosnan takes a liking to
Moore. Nice to see SNL's Nora Dunn (remember her?) as a judge.
Speaking of Brosnan's franchise role: I hadn't heard this before
until Leslie mentioned it, but it's confirmed surfing the web:
it's not at all certain that Brosnan will appear in the next
James Bond movie, the 21st. It had seemed set, but according to
Brosnan the producers have become indecisive. Brosnan says he
would be happy to play the mythological secret agent one last time,
which would be his fifth, but there are plenty of other fine actors
who could also assume the role.
There is some speculation that the producers were floating a
trial balloon and might back away from it, given the audience's
general satisfaction with Brosnan's incarnation of Bond
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drew
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response 126 of 278:
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May 17 20:29 UTC 2004 |
James Bond should *definitely* be getting long in the tooth by now.
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twenex
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response 127 of 278:
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May 17 20:36 UTC 2004 |
Er, he is?
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mcnally
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response 128 of 278:
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May 17 20:50 UTC 2004 |
According to IMDB, Roger Moore is 77 and Sean Connery is 74
(or thereabouts.. I only checked birth year, not date within
the year..) if that gives any indication..
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gelinas
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response 129 of 278:
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May 17 22:42 UTC 2004 |
For a brief burst of 'reality': the Bond books were written in the Fifties
and early Sixties, when Bond was in his thirties.
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gelinas
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response 130 of 278:
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May 18 04:36 UTC 2004 |
I stumbled across the "Case of the Lucky Legs" on TCM this evening.
(It's on right now.) A very different Perry Mason: we meet him sleeping
off the night before on his office floor.
BTW, a web-search on Perry Mason led to
http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/P/htmlP/perrymason/perrymason.htm
which mentioned a Perry Mason radio show. The radio show was re-titled,
and its cast members' names changed, when the television series started,
to avoid 'competition.' I knew that "The Edge of Night" had started on
radio, but I hadn't known that it started as "Perry Mason."
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achu
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response 131 of 278:
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May 20 00:34 UTC 2004 |
did you know there is some evidence that ancient china had radio around the
year 100BC? it was mechanical instead of electrical, but it did exist.
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twenex
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response 132 of 278:
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May 20 00:58 UTC 2004 |
Suuuure.
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richard
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response 133 of 278:
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May 20 03:13 UTC 2004 |
I read that the actor that the producers most want to replace Brosnan as James
Bond is Russell Crowe. Crowe would command a lot more money than Brosnan,
and wouldn't be available as often, but if the price is right he'd do it as
he's a self admitted huge Bond fan
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furs
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response 134 of 278:
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May 21 15:42 UTC 2004 |
Has anyone seen Troy?
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twenex
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response 135 of 278:
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May 21 15:47 UTC 2004 |
I'm off to see it tonite.
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gull
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response 136 of 278:
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May 21 16:19 UTC 2004 |
I haven't. I did get a good chuckle out of one reviewer that commented
that Diane Kruger "has a face that could launch 250 ships, maybe 500 at
most."
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gull
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response 137 of 278:
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May 21 16:19 UTC 2004 |
I saw _Shrek 2_. Loved it. If you liked the first one, you'll like
this one too. It's more of the same, only better.
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mcnally
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response 138 of 278:
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May 21 17:02 UTC 2004 |
re #136: I thought that line was moderately amusing in the first
review in which I read it, but by the time I'd gotten to the fourth
or fifth review its charms had completely disappeared..
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twenex
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response 139 of 278:
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May 21 17:04 UTC 2004 |
Heh.
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twenex
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response 140 of 278:
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May 22 15:56 UTC 2004 |
Troy: Excellent.
Saddle my horse, the epic is back!
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md
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response 141 of 278:
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May 23 14:47 UTC 2004 |
Two recent rentals we missed in the theaters:
RUSSIAN ARK (A) - A Russian director's loving homage to Russian culture
and The Hermitage, the big museum in Leningrad (St. Petersburg to you
capitalist pigs). The camera travels from room to room -- 37 of them
in all -- following a European snob (Russian actor doing what I suppose
sounds to Russian ears like a French accent) and his invisible Russian
companion (the voice of the director, from whose POV the movie is
seen). There we see personages and incidents from 300 years of Russian
history. The movie is 90 minutes long, and although it took four years
to prepare, the actual shooting was done in one single 90-minute-long
take. I knew beforehand that that's how the movie had been shot, but I
didn't beieve it until I actually saw it. The final 15 minutes, in
which about a thousand actors dressed in period costumes dance the last
dance at a grand ball then make their way down the huge double-
staircase and off the stage of history forever, is one of the most
beautiful things I've ever seen in a movie. (This is one movie where
the interviews and "making of" documentary in the Special Features are
just as interestng as the movie itself.)
CALENDAR GIRLS (B) - A trying-not-to-look-exploitive movie about the
middle-aged English garden club ladies who made a nude calendar of
themselves to raise money for a good cause. Helen Mirren is excellent
as the ageing egotistical wild child whose idea the whole thing is.
Lots of false sentimentality and other commercial phoniness, but really
no worse than most other movies. Plus, the Brit's eye view of American
glitz is priceless.
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rcurl
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response 142 of 278:
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May 23 15:24 UTC 2004 |
Troy was pretty well done, especially if you like mass (and individual)
slauterings. Also, the book was better (having survived for a couple of
millenia-plus, which I doubt the movie will). But it was moderately
faithful to the book(s) - except for omitting Cassandra, who killed
Agamemnon *after* he took her back to Greece.
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