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lelande
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response 258 of 326:
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Jun 14 20:39 UTC 2000 |
the best out-take on the dvd is rupert/chloe.
the first time i saw this flic it was a choice made for lack of anything
better, and to get some laffs out of it while killing time; i'd seen
only one preview and the impression i took away from that was that
_fight_club_ was an updated redaction of something like _bloodsport_.
gee was i stunned.
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otaking
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response 259 of 326:
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Jun 14 20:52 UTC 2000 |
Yeah, I had no idea what the movie was really about until I saw it. Someof
the best movies I've seen don't reveal what the movie's about in the trailers.
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lelande
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response 260 of 326:
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Jun 14 21:59 UTC 2000 |
and too many trailers reveal too much about the movie their trying to
entice me into, good or not. i suspect that movie directors usually have
little control over the advertising.
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otaking
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response 261 of 326:
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Jun 14 22:02 UTC 2000 |
Yeah, I always think T2 would've been MUCH better if I didn't know Ah-nold
was the good guy. The movie would've had a really neat twist if we didn't know
that from the trailers.
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ric
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response 262 of 326:
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Jun 14 23:00 UTC 2000 |
Good point
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janc
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response 263 of 326:
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Jun 15 00:07 UTC 2000 |
I've seen some great trailers which turned out to consist of every good scene
in the movie.
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richard
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response 264 of 326:
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Jun 15 01:15 UTC 2000 |
there's a new super deluxe dvd of T2 coming out (they shot so much extra
footage that you could make another movie, alternate beginnings, endings
and .etc-- the deluxe T2 dvd promises to include all versions of the movie
and all alternate scenes and running commentary tracks of Cameron and
Schwarzenegger among other things)
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remmers
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response 265 of 326:
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Jun 15 11:35 UTC 2000 |
I would like to see DVD's which give that treatment to the older
classic movies, to the extent possible. For example, a DVD with
both the released and recently-discovered "original" version of
the Bogart/Bacall "Big Sleep".
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richard
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response 266 of 326:
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Jun 15 18:44 UTC 2000 |
they do that with older films...the dvd re-release of the original
"Dracula" with Bela Lugosi featured restored version of both that
film *and* the spanish version filmed at the same time on the same
sets with spanish actors. the spanish version was filmed at night
and the english lugosi version in the daytime.
The "Big Slee'" DVD features not only the Bogart/Bacall film but
the little scene alternate version theyfilmed at the same time and
didnt use (same actors, slightly different script and scenes)
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lelande
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response 267 of 326:
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Jun 15 21:18 UTC 2000 |
there's a dvd of truffaut's _love at 20_, which is the 25 minute long 2nd part
of the 'antoine doinel cycle', consisting all-in-all of 5 flics, the first
of which is _the 400 blows_.
sorry -- _antoine & collette_ is the second movie. it was part of a longer
movie called _love at 20_ by several new wave directors.
it can't be obtained on vhs because the size of the film stock for _love at
20_ is wider than normal. i saw it at the dia theater once and they had to
open the curtains an extra 5 feet on each side to show it.
that movie alone is the only reason i'll have to get a dvd player until vhs
is rendered obsolete. i dread the idea of having to convert my entire vhs
collection to dvd.
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richard
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response 268 of 326:
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Jun 15 21:23 UTC 2000 |
yeah but lelande, with a dvd, you can play themovie on your
computer and watch it in one window while you are in grex party in
the other!
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mcnally
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response 269 of 326:
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Jun 15 21:29 UTC 2000 |
As long as you're not using Linux.. Because that would be illegal
and wrong..
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otaking
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response 270 of 326:
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Jun 15 21:50 UTC 2000 |
Re #269: Just out of curiosity, why?
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mcnally
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response 271 of 326:
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Jun 15 23:57 UTC 2000 |
I was mockingly referring to the ongoing saga of the DVD Content
Control Authority's court battle to suppress the "DeCSS" program,
a freeware utility for Linux which can decode DVD content and save
it in a viewable format, allowing Linux users to watch DVDs on their
machines. The MPAA claims that because DeCSS unscrambles the broken
encryption on the DVDs, that it is an illegal piracy tool which is
outlawed under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Supposedly there
are commercial DVD players being written for Linux that are licensed
by the DVD content control authorities, but I don't think any of them
have hit the market yet.
People who are interested in learning more about the issue are
encouraged to read the voluminous writings on the subject on various
free-software web pages (most of which can be found through links in
stories on Slashdot, http://slashdot.org ) or to begin an item on it
in one of the more technology-oriented cfs.. I don't want to hijack
the Agora movie item..
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jmsaul
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response 272 of 326:
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Jun 16 00:02 UTC 2000 |
(I don't either, but I have to say that the DMCA is terrible.)
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remmers
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response 273 of 326:
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Jun 16 13:53 UTC 2000 |
Re #266: I'll have to track down the "Big Sleep" DVD then. The
reason the original version was never released was that Lauren
Bacall's agent threatened to sue if her part wasn't made bigger
and more glamorous. So they went back and reshot some scenes
and filmed additional scenes. This held up release for over a
year. And to keep the film to two-hour length they cut out some
scenes, including a crucial long one that tied together loose
ends and explained what was going on. So I figure that if I
see the original version, maybe finally I'll understand the plot.
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ric
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response 274 of 326:
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Jun 17 00:23 UTC 2000 |
Adrienne and I watched "Dogma" last night. Excellent. Loved it. Most of
it was very amusing. It amused me that God was portrayed as an all-powerful
bimbo, and that just about every character from Kevin Smith's other 3 flicks
was in this - even the video store clerk from "Clerks" had a very very small
part in the beginning. So did the other Clerk, I think. I was kinda bummed
that Joey Lauren Adams didn't make an appearance <sighs wistfully>
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mcnally
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response 275 of 326:
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Jun 17 00:34 UTC 2000 |
I wanted to see more of the satanic hockey zombies, but otherwise thought
the movie was decent. Not great, but decent..
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kewy
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response 276 of 326:
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Jun 17 01:55 UTC 2000 |
It really pissed me off that Alanis was god.... ugh, she irks me.
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gelinas
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response 277 of 326:
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Jun 17 02:37 UTC 2000 |
Just watched "The Birds." This is a good weekend to watch AMC.
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janc
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response 278 of 326:
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Jun 17 03:49 UTC 2000 |
I thought the American Motor Company went broke or something.
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omni
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response 279 of 326:
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Jun 17 04:40 UTC 2000 |
American Motors went the way of Hudson, Packard and Stupidbaker.
(I feel it is my task in life to consistently diss those shitty
little cars from South Bend. They killed Packard.)
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other
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response 280 of 326:
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Jun 17 15:57 UTC 2000 |
i'd suggest adopting a new task lest you consign yourself to conversational
oblivion...
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bruin
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response 281 of 326:
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Jun 17 16:05 UTC 2000 |
Actually, American Motors was taken over by Chrysler, which has been
taken over by Daimler Benz.
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happyboy
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response 282 of 326:
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Jun 17 17:44 UTC 2000 |
which will be taken over by King Foods...
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