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gull
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response 50 of 269:
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Apr 7 15:25 UTC 2003 |
Re #45: Tony Millionaire once did a Maakies comic strip in which the
Original Pooh beats the Disney Pooh senseless. It was pretty amusing.
I'd search for the link now, but I'm at work and that's probably not the
most appropriate setting to be viewing Maakies comics. ;)
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jaklumen
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response 51 of 269:
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Apr 7 22:29 UTC 2003 |
resp:45 No permanent smile, thankfully, but even Disney Eeyore smiles
now and then.
someone told me that a parody existed called "Pooh goes Apeshit." Any
confirmation to this? It sounded pretty ludicrous, especially where
he kills everyone..
"The Tao of Pooh" and "The Te of Piglet," however, I have heard of.
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gull
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response 52 of 269:
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Apr 8 02:29 UTC 2003 |
I watched _The Core_ tonight. I should have stayed home. (Word must
have gotten around fast -- I was literally the only one in the theater.)
It didn't have enough exciting bits to be a good action movie, or
enough plausible science to be a decent sci-fi movie. It utterly failed
to keep the tempo or suspense up, so you had plenty of time to think
about the problems.
I think part of the problem is that it's always dangerous to set a
science fiction movie on present-day Earth. If you set it in the
future, or on some other planet, it's not too hard to suspend disbelief
when all kinds of improbable technology turn up. But if the movie is
set in the world you've spent your whole life in, it becomes glaringly
obvious that these things could never actually happen.
On top of all that, a lot of the special effects just weren't all that
convincing. There was some good stuff (like the Golden Gate Bridge
sequence), but most of it was made-for-TV quality at best.
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slynne
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response 53 of 269:
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Apr 13 13:43 UTC 2003 |
I saw "Divine Intervention" on Friday at the Michigan Theater.
This movie was made by Palestinian filmmaker, Elia Suleiman. I found
the film to be brilliant at times with a somewhat subtle humor but also
slow at times too. There isnt much dialog. There is some beautiful
landscape shots that I found myself becoming absorbed with. There was a
scene at the end that disturbed me a little bit because of the hated
and violence of it but maybe that was the point *shrug*. All in all, I
would say this is a movie worth going to see.
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mynxcat
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response 54 of 269:
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Apr 14 14:24 UTC 2003 |
Over the weekend, I finally saw "BEnd it like Beckham" and I loved it. I'm
into "HInglish" movies, always curious to see how expatriate Indian/Pakistanis
are faring in the western world. very well made, very believable, and pretty
funny too.
Watched Howard's End. It was ok. Apart from a glimpse into Edwardian England
and a not so interesting plot of how the house that she's meant to be with
comes back t oher, the movie didn't really have much to offer me.
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other
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response 55 of 269:
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Apr 14 17:13 UTC 2003 |
Finally saw Sex, Lies and Videotape. I liked it, though some of the
characterization elements were a bit unsubtle.
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janc
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response 56 of 269:
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Apr 17 13:54 UTC 2003 |
Re 50: Did some web searching and found the strip to which you refer
http://www.maakies.com/archive/m84.gif
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scott
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response 57 of 269:
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Apr 19 00:47 UTC 2003 |
Looks like "The Two Towers" just started at the Village (discount) Theater.
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palesi
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response 58 of 269:
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Apr 20 01:49 UTC 2003 |
Teenage Caveman is a great movie. It has something, despite the poor acting
and the sucking plot, that makes it a great movie. It has some kind of visual
appeal, and the cinematography is excellent. Directed by Larry Clark. User
Rating at us.imdb.com is 2.9 out of 10. Well that sux. I would give a stark
8. I mean, cut off those prolonged sex scenes, the girl that explodes, and
the other extravaganzas, and you have a neat visual movie. Rent this, it
really deserves it. A great science fiction, anyone else agree?
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aruba
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response 59 of 269:
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Apr 20 03:08 UTC 2003 |
Do you mean the 1950's version of Teenage Caveman, or the recent remake?
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palesi
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response 60 of 269:
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Apr 20 10:50 UTC 2003 |
The recent remake, of coz.
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giry
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response 61 of 269:
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Apr 20 13:52 UTC 2003 |
Agora 25 <-> Cinema 55
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mynxcat
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response 62 of 269:
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Apr 20 14:23 UTC 2003 |
Anger Management had potential. Wasn't hjandled the best way.
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cs
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response 63 of 269:
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Apr 20 15:47 UTC 2003 |
i rented "Nine Queens" last night. this is a DAMN GOOD movie, aregentinian.
highly recommended.
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scott
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response 64 of 269:
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Apr 20 15:55 UTC 2003 |
"Cowboy BeBop" movie, the one currently in theaters in dubbed English. Pretty
cool! The voices are pretty decent, the weird humor intact.
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palesi
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response 65 of 269:
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Apr 20 17:34 UTC 2003 |
First i was a bit uncertain, now i think i know what makes Teenage Caveman
a superior movie. It is the special blend of sound and vision, that kind of
chemistry only a skilled director can pursue.
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palesi
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response 66 of 269:
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Apr 20 23:43 UTC 2003 |
Another seriously underrated movie, IMHO, is The Postman by Kevin Costner.
It is just great. I like it.
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jaklumen
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response 67 of 269:
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Apr 21 06:52 UTC 2003 |
*shrug* I haven't seen it, but speaking of the Kevin Costner movies I
have seen--
he can direct, but he can't act his way out of a wet paper bag.
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fitz
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response 68 of 269:
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Apr 21 13:33 UTC 2003 |
Well, his breakthrough performance was as a corpse. His deadpan delivery is
part of his charm, eh? Esquire's Dubious Achievement award gave Costner the
Best Performance by an Inanimate Object a few years back. (Maybe after Wyatt
Earp was released.)
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gull
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response 69 of 269:
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Apr 21 16:21 UTC 2003 |
I saw _Holes_ last week. I enjoyed it quite a bit. The acting by the
adult characters really makes it -- it's overblown in a really great,
Roald Dahl-ish sort of way. I don't think this would be a good movie to
take very young children to, though, because I think it would give them
nightmares. (And if it didn't, the preview for _Pirates of the
Carribean_ that runs before it certainly would.)
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palesi
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response 70 of 269:
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Apr 21 16:24 UTC 2003 |
Ok, Costner is no Gibson, and his acting requires some serious tuning (check
out the latest "Dragonfly", it is the triumph of boredom). But i think his
"deadpan delivery", as fitz named it, fits nicely with his role in The
Postman: a drifter, a solitary traveler. Rather, i think this is one of them
movies that "waxes too philosophical" for the general audience. Think about
this: i'm not american, but every time i watch this film, a patriotic felling
(usa-oriented) spreads in me, and i complain about the fact that this kind
of feeling DOESN'T EXIST in the country where i live (check out my name,
you'll guess what i'm talking about). When i watch the part when Costner takes
his ride among the woods with that "vehicle", and quotes Shakespeare ("once
more into the breach, dear friends..."), and i listen to the eroic background
music, i feel the lump in my throat, and i get hyped. It's so great. I think
most people aren't sensitive and cannot feel this, otherwise why such bad
critics for Costner and The Postman ?
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anderyn
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response 71 of 269:
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Apr 21 16:42 UTC 2003 |
My criticism for the Postman movie comes from the fact that I read the book,
which was/is a classic science fiction tale, and one which DOES leave that
lump in my throat, first. Well, it was written as a bunch of novellas, I
think, before being put together in a book, but Costner and the movie does
not do the themes and the ideas in those stories justice. And Costner does
have the problem of "look at me, look at my butt" syndrome, which doesn't help
when you've seen a lot of his movies (I've seen four or five, I think.
Waterworld was the end for me! That's a BAAAD movie.)
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glenda
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response 72 of 269:
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Apr 21 16:56 UTC 2003 |
I agree with Twila. I read the book, I think I made it through the first 1/2
hour of the moved before leaving in disgust (the kids were watching it on TV,
we were warned before paying money to see it, thank God). I hate it when they
take a wonderful book and make a movie based on a book where the only
resembalance to the book is the characters name.
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edina
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response 73 of 269:
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Apr 21 19:11 UTC 2003 |
Costner has never been in a good movie that did not involve sports. "The Big
Chill" doesn't count, as he wasn't ever on the screen.
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tod
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response 74 of 269:
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Apr 21 19:29 UTC 2003 |
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