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katie
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response 200 of 290:
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Aug 16 06:06 UTC 1998 |
I very much enjoyed "Something About Mary."
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senna
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response 201 of 290:
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Aug 16 07:50 UTC 1998 |
Sets? Have to see that movie.
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maeve
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response 202 of 290:
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Aug 16 20:26 UTC 1998 |
see it steve..you must..
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fitz
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response 203 of 290:
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Aug 23 17:22 UTC 1998 |
Well, sure, there is a lot to like about "Something about Mary." Good
production values, sound, ok lighting, actors that can say their lines and
smooth editing. The concept of the story is sweet, but the writers kept it
buried under crude situation jokes that had all the cleverness of a
Saturday Night Live skit. I like SNL skits, but I don't want to pay a
movie admission for jokes of that caliber. I can enjoy a good joke about
drugged pets and ejaculate hair dressing, but they don't really seem to
work here--except to make me squirm in my seat.
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beeswing
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response 204 of 290:
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Aug 23 19:11 UTC 1998 |
Ohhh so THAT is what makes her hair stand up? Yeep!
(Haven't seen the movie, just bits on TV)
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eieio
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response 205 of 290:
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Aug 23 20:09 UTC 1998 |
<moderate spoiler>
I still don't understand how it is that his looper ended up where it did. That
would take some kind of contortionist.
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gjharb
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response 206 of 290:
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Aug 23 23:49 UTC 1998 |
Just saw Evita on one of the cable stations - very impressive. A tragic story
of ambition on the personal level and class struggle on the national level.
Madonna's voice was strong and up to the role. Antonio Banderas was excellent
as the Cynic. Andrew Lloyd Weber's music is haunting. Well worth seeing
again.
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senna
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response 207 of 290:
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Aug 24 00:09 UTC 1998 |
I think it had to do with what he was doing with his "action hand" after he,
um, finished plumbing, but I haven't gone back to check.
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beeswing
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response 208 of 290:
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Aug 24 03:35 UTC 1998 |
Re: Evita.... I have not seen it but heard it was good. Madonna always
irriated me with her lack of acting ability, but supposedly she pulls
it off in this one.
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eieio
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response 209 of 290:
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Aug 24 03:37 UTC 1998 |
Andrew Lloyd Webber's music "haunting"? That's a charitable way of phrasing
it. I'd be more apt to characterize it as "moribund".
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scg
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response 210 of 290:
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Aug 24 04:07 UTC 1998 |
I thought Something About Mary was hillarious.
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omni
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response 211 of 290:
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Aug 24 05:53 UTC 1998 |
As I said in an earlier response, Evita was boffo, I loved it.
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mooncat
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response 212 of 290:
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Aug 24 13:00 UTC 1998 |
I was really impressed when I saw "Evita" as well. :) I think Madonna
did a great job as Eva Peron.
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eieio
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response 213 of 290:
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Aug 24 15:21 UTC 1998 |
There's talk that Final Cut will be shown at the State Theater, likely
September 17.
I did graphics and titles for it, and I even have a brief scene with the
slasher--come see me in all my 16mm glory!
Just this morning, I got a still from the film. It doesn't reveal a lot
about the film, but you can have a first glimpse at
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~asmithee/fcut.jpg
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altreal
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response 214 of 290:
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Aug 24 20:13 UTC 1998 |
hey! i was in a film this summer with several crew who worked on the final
cut. neat!
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eieio
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response 215 of 290:
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Aug 25 00:27 UTC 1998 |
Hey, who! Was it Gordon Eick's Starcatcher film, or whatever it's called? I
get the impression I'm going to be called into service to work on the
chromakey effects for that one.
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tpryan
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response 216 of 290:
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Aug 25 03:22 UTC 1998 |
Sometimes you just don't know the effects on the ecosystem
from a film festival.
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md
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response 217 of 290:
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Aug 25 23:01 UTC 1998 |
EVEREST (B) -- This IMAX movie is showing at the Detroit Science
Center. It's only about 45 minutes long and the story it tells,
of the great mountian and the people who died in a storm on it
in 1996, has been told better elsewhere. But the IMAX technology
was made for something like this. Spell-binding scenery and some
vertiginous effects. My favorites were the avalanche they somehow
got to thunder straight down into the camera, and the scene where
a climber hangs suspended over a mountain abyss from a slowly
twirling line and the camera twirls with her, looking down. I'm
told some of the climbing closeups were shot in the Rockies, and
some of the severe weather scenes were shot on Mt Washington in
New Hampshire.
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maeve
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response 218 of 290:
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Aug 26 04:05 UTC 1998 |
Clockwatchers: cute, a little odd, characature enough to be funny, but not
enough not to be real people at the same time..worth seeing..
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scott
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response 219 of 290:
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Aug 26 10:48 UTC 1998 |
"Austin Powers International Man of Mystery". Rented, after having had it
come up in conversation at Grexstock (I'd seen it in the theater when it came
out). I'm starting to develop a little different mental filter for Mike Myers
films; with that in place "Austin Powers" is very funny.
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iggy
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response 220 of 290:
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Aug 26 19:26 UTC 1998 |
i finally got around to renting "pink flamingoes"
he heh holy crap! not for the faint of heart.
lots of full frontal nudity (mostly male).
very bizzare..somewhat shocking.. and a bit gross.
the version i rented had a bunch of scenes that were originally
cut from the movie by john waters..
it is rated 'nc-17'...
i cant grade it.. it was just too bizarre.
well.. ok. iggy gives it 4 involuntary open mouth gasps with a hand
slapped across the mouth for good measure.
(it s true.. really. my mouth was sore)
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mcnally
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response 221 of 290:
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Aug 26 21:34 UTC 1998 |
Did the video-store rental version come with the Odorama* card?
(* or whatever it was called..)
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iggy
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response 222 of 290:
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Aug 26 23:07 UTC 1998 |
i believe you are thinking of 'polyester'.
i used to have one of those cards, but after 15 years, it came
up missing. not that i ever keptclose track of it in the first place.
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beeswing
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response 223 of 290:
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Aug 27 03:05 UTC 1998 |
I highly reccommend his _Hairspray_ film, with the then-pudgy Ricki
Lake. I love it when Penny's parents give her shock therapy for liking
black boys :)
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omni
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response 224 of 290:
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Aug 27 08:22 UTC 1998 |
I agree. Hairspray was fun, especially the music. Divine plays a dual role,
as the station owner, and Ricki Lake's mom. I loved the whole thing.
However....
the other night I went and saw Wag the Dog.
Every time I think about it I burst out laughing. DeNiro was exactly on
target as the fixer. I don't know what it is about him, but he is one of the
greatest actors of all time. Hoffman was priceless, and was perfectly cast
in the role of the hollywood guy.
I was a little put off about the fact that there are people who could
actually do this, and that worried me, but then I got over it, and remembered
that it was a movie and that kind of thing really doesn't happen in the real
world, or does it?
Being it was a Barry Levinson thing, it was good to play "Spot Ralph".
There is an actor named Ralph Taboken. He is a little old, and he is a kindly
type man, and Barry Levinson gives him a small walk role in every one of his
movies. In Avalon, Ralph was the school principal. In Tin Men he played a
deadbeat who gets a supposed free siding job, and in Good Morning Vietnam he
played the chaplian. He also has a recurring role in Homicide as Dr. Schiener,
and usually has something witty to say to the cops. It's like trying to spot
Clint Howard in Ron Howard's films.
Wag the Dog was fun, and I enjoyed it. That's the bottom line. I'll probably
go and buy a used copy from the rental place. I give it 4 stars. It was
refreshing to see a movie of this quality, shot in 20 days, and with a small
budget.
<please omit the word "walk", it doesn't belong there.>
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