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scott
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response 50 of 225:
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Oct 23 17:45 UTC 2003 |
Dammit, already doing stuff tomorrow.
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remmers
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response 51 of 225:
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Oct 25 12:09 UTC 2003 |
"Bubba Ho-Tep" did not disappoint. The story is beyond far-fetched
of course. Some very funny lines. Bruce Campbell really gets into
his role as an elderly Elvis Presley, living in obscurity in a rest
home in east Texas and wallowing in self-pity until... (See, the
guy who died back in 1977 was actually a Presley impersonator with
whom the real Elvis had switched roles.)
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mary
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response 52 of 225:
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Oct 25 12:45 UTC 2003 |
The first few lines spoken set the tone for all that follows. It's
probably one of the most outrageously funny setups I've seen.
Again, stay until the credits have finished. There is more.
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janc
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response 53 of 225:
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Oct 27 04:28 UTC 2003 |
"Price of Milk" - This is a New Zealand fairy tale romance set on an
isolated dairy farm. Lucinda and Rob are in love. Rob has 117 cows
and an agoraphobic dog. Lucinda has a collection of baby shoes and
inexplicable doubts. Does Rob really love her? How can she test his
love? By trading away all 117 cows to get back a blanket that was
stolen from her by a team of Maori golfers to keep their auntie warm,
of course. Now she just has to win him back again.
The film is full of lots of bits of delightful weirdness. The dog and
the bath on the hill and the upsidedown pickup trucks and the Hindi
wedding dress are worth the price of admission. Which is all great,
but the characters don't entirely make emotional sense, which kind of
makes the whole thing feel a bit pointless.
Apparantly the director/writer made up the film day by day as he was
filming it.
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mary
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response 54 of 225:
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Oct 27 11:26 UTC 2003 |
It's now in my queue. Thanks!
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aruba
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response 55 of 225:
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Oct 27 15:22 UTC 2003 |
We went to see another New Zealand film the other night, "Whale Rider",
which is now at the Village Theater. It was fabulous - best movie I've seen
all year.
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mcnally
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response 56 of 225:
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Oct 27 18:39 UTC 2003 |
I should've caught "Whale Rider" when it came through Ketchikan a
week or two ago. We've got pretty limited choice in new movies so
it's worth going when something decent comes to town.
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tod
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response 57 of 225:
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Oct 27 18:48 UTC 2003 |
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mcnally
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response 58 of 225:
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Oct 27 19:26 UTC 2003 |
Yeah.. I give the carvers in the carving shed out at Saxman major credit
for their patience with the tourists. I've stood and watched while groups
of tourists shuffle through, every five minutes asking the same alarmingly
stupid questions. It would drive me mad by the time the first bus got out
of the parking lot.
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tod
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response 59 of 225:
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Oct 27 20:08 UTC 2003 |
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mcnally
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response 60 of 225:
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Oct 27 23:38 UTC 2003 |
When they've got someone carving at the exhibition room in the Southeast
Alaska Discovery Center they take that approach (though they're a little
friendlier about it.) When you enter they hand you a FAQ list and ask
that you read it before asking the carvers any questions.
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iandude
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response 61 of 225:
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Oct 29 02:33 UTC 2003 |
i think the best movie i've ever seen was The Boondock Saints. I heard a new
one is coming out soon.
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aruba
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response 62 of 225:
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Oct 29 02:35 UTC 2003 |
I haven't heard of that one - what's it about?
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richard
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response 63 of 225:
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Oct 29 06:47 UTC 2003 |
"ELEPHANT"-- This is the powerful new movie by Gus Van Sant (director
of Good Will Hunting, Drugstore Cowboy, My Own Private Idaho .etc) The
movie is essentially the film version of the Columbine tragedy. The
high school in Colorado where two alienated students showed up on
campus one and and shot up the school. The movie covers in detail the
two hours or so leading up to the events, and the events themselves.
Since you see all these innocent kids, and you know what is going to
happen, the tension builds and it is quite intense. Van Sant didn't
use trained actors, but unknown real high school kids to make the movie
as real as possible. This movie is intense, disturbing and real. So
real that I think I'd find it difficult to sit through twice. It won
the grand prize at Cannes and is a well made movie that will have you
thinking about it for some time. "Elephant" is highly recommended.
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bhelliom
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response 64 of 225:
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Oct 29 14:49 UTC 2003 |
resp:62 Is that in response to The Boondocks Saints sequel?
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krj
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response 65 of 225:
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Oct 29 20:20 UTC 2003 |
Ridley Scott's slightly revised version of ALIEN comes out this
weekend. I expect its theatrical run to be very short, as reissue
runs generally are.
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glenda
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response 66 of 225:
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Oct 29 20:32 UTC 2003 |
I somehow don't think that adding 50-60 minutes to the running time is
"slightly" revised. ;-) STeve and the kids are looking forward to it. I
am looking forward to the quiet, alone time them going to see it will give
me (provided they go together rather than at different times).
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edina
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response 67 of 225:
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Oct 29 21:26 UTC 2003 |
I'd insist on father/child parenting time.
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scott
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response 68 of 225:
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Oct 30 02:29 UTC 2003 |
"Bubba Ho-Tep". Brilliant! Scary, too. The only thing that bugged me was
the score by Brian Tyler; a little too similar to the score he did for "Six
String Samurai" (a fair amount of stuff aside from the Red Elvises songs)
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richard
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response 69 of 225:
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Oct 30 03:52 UTC 2003 |
Alien is one of those movies that SHOULD be seen on the big screen....I
remember seeing it for the first time during its original release...REALLY
scary...I will definitely see the re-release
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krj
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response 70 of 225:
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Oct 30 20:45 UTC 2003 |
Glenda in resp:66 -- where did you hear about adding nearly an hour
to the revised ALIEN? The review I saw indicated that the major addition
is one key scene near the end -- a scene whose existance was generally
known about for years -- and a few tweaks and trims here and there.
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glenda
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response 71 of 225:
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Oct 31 01:07 UTC 2003 |
There is a re-release of a movie coming out very soon that STeve is waiting
to see. He told me about an added hour. Maybe it isn't Alien, I just got
things mixed up. But the only movie I can remember him saying he is waiting
for is Alien.
And maybe shoveling all this computer science and math stuff into my poor
little brain is making it go over the edge and mis-remember things all
together.
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krj
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response 72 of 225:
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Nov 1 15:33 UTC 2003 |
Alas, it appears that the ALIEN reissue is only with a limited number
of prints, so who knows when one of the prints will wander by Ann Arbor?
Not this week.
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jep
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response 73 of 225:
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Nov 3 01:02 UTC 2003 |
My son and I went to see "Brother Bear" yesterday. It was pretty
good. Three Inuit (Eskimo) brothers, and a side story of two very
funny moose who were the characters Bob and Doug McKenzie. John liked
it a lot. We will probably see it again.
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richard
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response 74 of 225:
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Nov 10 02:06 UTC 2003 |
28 DAYS LATER-- rented this last week. I enjoyed it, although the people
I was watching it with didn't like it at all. It is a post-apocalyptic
tale in a sense, of a world ravaged by a highly contagious virus and the
few healthy people left trying to survive. If you get the virus, you go
mad and turn into a zombie. Obviously the director and writers were fans
of George Romero's "Dead" series (Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the
Dead) I found the movie well made, well acted and enjoyable, although the
writing stretched things at times. It was filmed and set in Britain, no
doubt playing off mad cow disease hysteria and speculating on what the
world might be like if a really deadly virus ravaged it.
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