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richard
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response 25 of 342:
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Dec 27 22:43 UTC 2005 |
whatever it might mean to some, I was just using that term to imply BIG
tears, WEEPY tears. Tears of agony at losing a dear friend.
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tod
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response 26 of 342:
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Dec 27 22:45 UTC 2005 |
Crocodile tears are fake ones.
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richard
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response 27 of 342:
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Dec 27 22:52 UTC 2005 |
Okay so that was a bad analogy though. Her tears were real. She loved
Kong.
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tod
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response 28 of 342:
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Dec 27 23:00 UTC 2005 |
Was she from Enumclaw?
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gull
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response 29 of 342:
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Dec 28 20:41 UTC 2005 |
LOL!
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marcvh
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response 30 of 342:
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Dec 28 20:54 UTC 2005 |
For the benefit of the geographically challenged, KONG is a Seattle TV
station (channel 16 OTA, channel 6 on most cable systems) run by the
same people who run the local NBC affiliate, KING (channel 5.) Their
call letters make words, get it? Ha ha! It's so clever!
KONG was created for the purpose of spectrum-squatting, mostly airing
old TV shows from the 70s and re-runs of locally produced garbage.
Today it has added more repeat sydnicated crap, encore airings of Conan
and local news and such. They don't air many movies.
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twenex
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response 31 of 342:
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Dec 28 20:57 UTC 2005 |
KONG and KING? GOD and GOOD.
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tod
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response 32 of 342:
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Dec 28 20:59 UTC 2005 |
Actually, the Enumclaw reference was referring to the "full service"
zoo/bathhouse.
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gull
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response 33 of 342:
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Dec 28 21:00 UTC 2005 |
Which is much funnier.
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marcvh
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response 34 of 342:
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Dec 28 21:07 UTC 2005 |
Fair enough, although I think it would require some yoga lessons first.
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tod
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response 35 of 342:
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Dec 28 21:19 UTC 2005 |
OUCH
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drew
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response 36 of 342:
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Dec 28 21:23 UTC 2005 |
I think Kroger has some on sale this week...
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richard
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response 37 of 342:
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Jan 14 21:30 UTC 2006 |
"GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK"-- Finally saw this last night, George
Clooney's movie tribute to legendary CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow, and
its really good, not to mention quite relevant to today's times. The
movie is about Edward R. Murrow's CBS news show in the 1950's and the
time when he used his program to take on Sen. Joe McCarthy over his
communist witch-hunt hearings. This was the dark period in recent
ameriacn history where McCarthy and his conservative cohorts, claiming
a communist conspiracy in this country, sought to seek out and destroy
all communists in the u.s. and in the process ruined the lives of a lot
of people. Murrow called him on it and the two had a famous feud.
This is a movie everyone should see who has an interest in recent
american history, and who wants perspective about the things going on
in the world now. After all, the McCarthy-era paranoia has re-surfaced
dramatically after 9/11. Today you just replace the word "commun"ist
with the word "terror"ist, and you really have the same kind of
hysteria among certain parts of the political spectrum.
The movie is well directed by Clooney and has a great performance by
David Straithhairn as Edward R. Murrow, which deserves Oscar
consideration. The cinematography and sets are terrific, bringing
alive the smoke-filled newsrooms of CBS in the mid 1950's.
The movie ends with Ed Murrow's famous speech before an industry
gathering, where he said that the executives running television had
become
"fat, comfortable, and complacent" and he blasted television for "being
used to detract, delude, amuse and insulate us" as opposed to educating
us to be better citizens. Everything Murrow said is more true today
than it was when he spoke the words. (Good Night and Good Luck...five
stars)
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scott
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response 38 of 342:
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Jan 14 22:43 UTC 2006 |
"League of Extraordinary Gentleman" (DVD from the local library)
Somewhat entertaining, somewhat cheesy. Notable in that everything about it
is completely implausible from any angle you can think of - political,
engineering, literary, logic, etc.
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nharmon
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response 39 of 342:
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Jan 15 00:06 UTC 2006 |
I found it comical in that movie that Quatermain implied that "American
style" shooting was more-or-less "spray and pray". The truth however,
was that the American military waited quite a long time before adopting
automatic weapons. The justification was that automatic weapons "wasted
ammunition".
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twenex
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response 40 of 342:
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Jan 15 01:30 UTC 2006 |
I don't think you'll find he was referring to the use of automatic weapons.
For one thing, they might well have not been out at the time the film was set,
if it was set in the time of H Rider Haggards Quartermain.
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scott
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response 41 of 342:
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Jan 15 01:35 UTC 2006 |
All sorts of things - a giant submarine finding enough depth to navigate
Venetian canals? Blowing up a building to keep it from being knocked down?
Somehow it's more efficient to build a huge factory in the remotest part of
China? Having to trump up a world war in order to find customers for weapons?
And don't get me started on the characters themselves...
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nharmon
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response 42 of 342:
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Jan 15 03:54 UTC 2006 |
Well, the implication seemed to be that "American style shooting" was to
lob as many bullets in some direction with the hope that one would find
its mark. However a look at the military weapons and tactics of the day
(as seen in use during the Spanish-American war which supposedly occured
the year before the movie takes place) contradicts that. Not that it
really matters anyway. A movie can't expect to go anywhere without
criticising something American, even if it is false.
As for things not being realistic, come on. Its a movie. A movie based
on a comic book no less. Or are we also going on about how you can't get
bitten by a spider and then leap from building to building?
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aruba
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response 43 of 342:
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Jan 15 17:35 UTC 2006 |
I saw "Good Night and Good Luck" last night. I thought it was good, but it
didn't blow me away. It gave me the feeling of being a small part of a
larger story. And it was very, very smoky. The idea of a newscaster
lighting up a cigarette just before the camera start to roll, and holding it
up by his ear, seems bizarre to me.
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scott
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response 44 of 342:
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Jan 15 18:29 UTC 2006 |
Re 42: Well, I can buy into a small number of "it's necessary for the movie"
types of thinsg, like getting super-powers. But what was interesting about
LoEG was that just about everything was a silly excuse to set up a car chase
or whatever.
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krj
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response 45 of 342:
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Jan 15 21:19 UTC 2006 |
DUMA -- A story about a South African boy and his cheetah. Cheetah cubs
are cute and cuddly, but they grow up into an animal that becomes a bit
of an issue to keep as a pet. The movie is about the journey to
return Duma, the cheetah, to his home territory.
We liked it a lot, but I will concede that the British reviewers
who found it excessively sentimental have a point.
Spectacular visuals, a few plot holes.
Overall we were very happy to see it. This makes three good
movies about wild animals in 2005, following MARCH OF THE PENGUINS
and GRIZZLY MAN.
According to Roger Ebert, the distributor has been trying to figure
out how to market this movie for many months. It's playing at the
Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor at the moment, and Ebert says it has
also just opened in Chicago. I wouldn't expect it to have a long
multiplex run; catch it when the opportunity presents, or wait for a
DVD. It should be an excellent film for families.
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richard
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response 46 of 342:
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Jan 15 22:10 UTC 2006 |
[b]The idea of a newscaster
lighting up a cigarette just before the camera start to roll, and
holding it up by his ear, seems bizarre to me. [/b]
Thats just the way it was back then, Murrow really did smoke through
all his broadcasts. George Clooney's father worked in the newsroom
with Murrow, and he had a lot of other firsthand memories to work by,
and he portrayed Murrow very accurately according to most reviews
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aruba
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response 47 of 342:
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Jan 16 00:57 UTC 2006 |
George Clooney's father was a local newscaster in Cincinnati, and did
influence George's feeling for the news. But he didn't work with Murrow, as
far as I've been able to determine.
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remmers
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response 48 of 342:
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Jan 16 14:14 UTC 2006 |
Hey, I'm old enough to remember Murrow's broadcasts from the 50s
firsthand. He really did the cigarette thing.
On the whole, I thought the rendering in "Good Night and Good Luck" was
amazingly accurate.
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naftee
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response 49 of 342:
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Jan 16 21:10 UTC 2006 |
i'm not old enough for that :(
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