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md
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response 150 of 225:
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Dec 8 23:32 UTC 2003 |
"Swimming Pool" (A-) -- A slightly pretentious French production with
a "Sixth Sense"-like twist at the end. It's worth seeing mainly for
the gorgeous French scenery and a gorgeous French actress named
Ludivine Sagnier.
(After traipsing around topless and humping any pair of pants that
walks by in this movie, Mlle Sagnier went on to play the role of -- I
kid you not -- Tinkerbell in the new live action remake of Peter Pan,
which opens in a couple of weeks. One of those twists of fate you just
have to smile and shrug at.)
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mary
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response 151 of 225:
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Dec 8 23:42 UTC 2003 |
I left that movie wondering what it means when you're
more turned on by the villa than the steamy sex.
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jmsaul
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response 152 of 225:
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Dec 9 01:23 UTC 2003 |
This webpage may provide some insight:
http://www.algonet.se/~giljotin/explan.html
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md
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response 153 of 225:
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Dec 9 03:14 UTC 2003 |
This one, courtesy of good old Altavista, might provide even more
insight:
http://jpg.adult.pornparks.com/totty_net/ludivines/ludivine_sagnier001.j
pg
Now I've got to go find "Drops of Water on the Boiling Rocks."
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md
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response 154 of 225:
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Dec 9 03:15 UTC 2003 |
[Sorry, that link probably won't work unless you add "pg" to the end.]
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bru
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response 155 of 225:
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Dec 9 04:42 UTC 2003 |
I also thought The Last Samurai might have been a better movie if it had been
shown from the point of view of Katumoto instead of from Cruises character.
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tod
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response 156 of 225:
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Dec 9 18:42 UTC 2003 |
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bru
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response 157 of 225:
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Dec 9 19:52 UTC 2003 |
The Japanese did indeed have guns early, but they caused so much devistation
among the Samurai class, that teh Shogun banned them. I mean, we can't have
the peasant class being able to kill samurai with such ease, and from beyond
sword reach, mind you.
Guns were outlawed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi in 1588, for the general population.
They remained in the armory or relegated to shooting clubs.
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tod
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response 158 of 225:
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Dec 9 21:48 UTC 2003 |
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scott
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response 159 of 225:
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Dec 10 00:32 UTC 2003 |
I've heard that the Cruise movie has ninjas... how much more silly could you
get?
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richard
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response 160 of 225:
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Dec 11 20:26 UTC 2003 |
Cruise doesn't have custody of his kids, Kidman does. And she doesn't live
in australia now, she lives here in nyc, she and her kids share a
brownstone in Greenwich Village with Lenny Kravitz, her significant other.
Cruise and Kidman got divorced
because of religious reasons not geographic, he's a Scientologist and
she's a catholic and she wanted her kids raised catholic and he didn't.
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tod
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response 161 of 225:
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Dec 11 20:35 UTC 2003 |
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bru
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response 162 of 225:
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Dec 12 05:49 UTC 2003 |
his stae of existence doesn't matter. His attitude does.
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remmers
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response 163 of 225:
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Dec 12 15:10 UTC 2003 |
Re #159: Why silly to have ninjas? Historically inaccurate?
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edina
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response 164 of 225:
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Dec 12 15:12 UTC 2003 |
Because Tom Cruise cares what you think.
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scott
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response 165 of 225:
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Dec 12 15:29 UTC 2003 |
Because ninjas never actually dressed like ninjas... they were undercover
types, so they'd dress exactly like whatever army/people they were going to
infiltrate.
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gull
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response 166 of 225:
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Dec 12 15:31 UTC 2003 |
Right now he's thinking, 'Damn, I'm not going to get that $8.50 from bru
next time.'
Although I can't say much, since I'm conducting a personal boycott of my
own against Symantec.
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gelinas
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response 167 of 225:
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Dec 12 15:47 UTC 2003 |
(Which is why the Japanese convention is to put them in Noh (I think it is)
costumes.)
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anderyn
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response 168 of 225:
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Dec 12 17:00 UTC 2003 |
The ninjas were ninjas. I didn't think of them as historically accurate (since
the movie itself was not 100% accurate -- though it was better than usual)
but as a plot element put in to cement the trust between Cruise's character
and Katsumoto. Nothing says bonding better than a fight with ninjas and saving
the other guy's life.
I'm personally not anti-Cruise but I thought it would have been a better movie
had the producers been able to make it without the Western viewpoint
character. And of course Tom has the problem of always being Tom. He doesn't
disappear into his parts the way some other actors do. I believed, for
example, in Russell Crowe's portrayal of Jack Aubrey far more than I did in
Tom Cruise being someone called Nathan Algren. OTOH, Tom at least doesn't have
Costner disease -- aka "Look at me! Look at my butt!" -- he was *willing* to
try to be less center of attention than Costner.
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tod
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response 169 of 225:
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Dec 12 17:42 UTC 2003 |
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willcome
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response 170 of 225:
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Dec 12 19:11 UTC 2003 |
Why do people have such a fetish with fictional movies being historcally
accurate?
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bru
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response 171 of 225:
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Dec 12 19:17 UTC 2003 |
because the movies are where we americans tend to learn our history. I don't,
but I do not know why they cannot be historically accuratge and still tell
a good story other than the script writers are lazy.
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tod
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response 172 of 225:
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Dec 12 19:24 UTC 2003 |
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gull
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response 173 of 225:
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Dec 12 20:12 UTC 2003 |
I've always wondered how much is edited out of Cops.
Like, one episode they stop a random black guy on a bike and he turns
out to have a warrant against him. Was it luck, did they recognize him,
or did they spend all night stopping random black guys and we were only
shown the time it paid off?
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tod
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response 174 of 225:
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Dec 12 20:40 UTC 2003 |
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