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md
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response 53 of 292:
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Mar 28 17:29 UTC 1999 |
Recent rentals:
DEAD MAN ON CAMPUS (D) -- Pretty bad.
PECKER (A) -- This movie can't have been very popular with the
cineastes who've been chuckling knowingly over Waters' work
for 25 years only to find out in this movie that they never
knew anything and the chuckle's been on them all along. But a
chuckle is a chuckle, and I'm not about to spoil it by questioning
Waters' sincerity, which is the only defense the art house crowd
can have. Highly recommended.
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jazz
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response 54 of 292:
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Mar 28 17:58 UTC 1999 |
I'm really surprised to find anyone reviewed _Pecker_ positively - I'd
found it both achingly obsessed with the most ugly and banal moments in
everyday life and a comedy that only had at best a chuckle or two to offer.
It's one of those films that honestly begs - to me, at least - the question
of whether those who laughed laughed because they genuinely enjoyed the film,
or because it's a Waters piece and they know it's something they're supposed
to laugh at. I turned the movie off a little after half-way through.
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md
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response 55 of 292:
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Mar 28 21:18 UTC 1999 |
You missed all the good parts! ;-)
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armand
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response 56 of 292:
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Mar 28 21:53 UTC 1999 |
I don't know..."all the good parts" are in the end? heh Yeah, right.
It's just about the same all the way through, I had to watch the whole thing
just because I have this thing about watching whole movies, but it was
a waste of time.
I also rented the Governess...waste of time..boring. I just don't know what
more to say about it. BORING
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md
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response 57 of 292:
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Mar 28 22:03 UTC 1999 |
I checked out the IMDB viewer rating of PECKER
(7.5 -- not so bad) and reviews. Lots of good
reviews, but a few seem to be by the ones jazz
talks about, who think they're supposed to laugh
because it's a Waters movie. Most seemed
sincere, though. No accounting for tastes, and
please remember that I liked Beavis & Butthead
Do America.
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drewmike
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response 58 of 292:
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Mar 29 15:19 UTC 1999 |
Just swerved into the website for "10 Things I Hate About You".
May I say... ugh.
The advertising only alludes to it in the most oblique way: trying to fix up
someone's sister who is, for some reason, undesirable.
Figured out the plot yet?
Perhaps the characters' names will help you. The sweet sister is named Bianca,
the "unpleasant" one is named Kat Stratford (again, ugh) and she's wooed by,
brace yourself... Pat Verona.
Okay. This modern retelling crap got's to end, yeah.
I can only assume that Joseph Gordon-Levitt's "Cameron" is supposed to be
Cambio... which of course completely loses the pun in the name.
And just when you thought they were trying to keep as much as one whole iota
of Shakespearean integrity, the tag-line is "How do I loathe thee? Let me
count the ways". WHICH ISN'T EVEN FROM THE RIGHT PLAY!
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jazz
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response 59 of 292:
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Mar 29 15:58 UTC 1999 |
So, md, you genuinely enjoyed _Pecker_ and found it humorous and
insightful? It's really hard to be able to achieve an understanding of
someone else's perspective through mere words, but I'm willing to try ...
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md
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response 60 of 292:
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Mar 29 16:53 UTC 1999 |
I genuinely enjoyed it. Humorous and insightful are your words, but I
did get a chuckle or two out of it. It's the only Waters movie I've ever
liked. It's Waters' esthetic autobiography, I think.
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remmers
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response 61 of 292:
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Mar 29 17:59 UTC 1999 |
(Haven't had much experience with Waters films, though I liked
"Hairspray" a LOT. That man knows early '60's American pop culture...)
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md
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response 62 of 292:
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Mar 29 20:28 UTC 1999 |
I didn't like Hairspray much at the time. Maybe I should go back
and watch it again.
Btw, the previews of the new Midsummer Night's Dream look
wonderful. I hope the movie is that good. Stanley Tucci as Puck
is inspired casting. Also, this will be the big breakthrough (or
fallflatonyourface) for Callista Flockhart.
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aaron
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response 63 of 292:
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Mar 29 22:04 UTC 1999 |
I was hoping for a Mickey Rooney redux.
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richard
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response 64 of 292:
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Mar 29 23:23 UTC 1999 |
I finally saw "There's Something about Mary" on ppv last week (I had been
refusing to see it simply because everyone I know was telling me I
*should* see it which tells me normally that the film is way too
mainstream and unhip to be worthwhile) Turns out I got a kick out of
it, its a real howler. Ben Stiller is a terrific comedic actor (this
is by far his best work) And I like anything Matt Dillon does.
Cameron Diaz is okay too, though she looks almost anorexically skinny.
"I got it stuck!!" "You got what stuck?" "IT!!!!!!!"
**ouch!!!** There's Something About Mary (3.5 stars)
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drewmike
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response 65 of 292:
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Mar 29 23:30 UTC 1999 |
Incidentally, on the topic of this erstwhile-Siskel and Ebert, it should be
noted that Buena Vista hasn't yet retired the name "Siskel and Ebert" for the
show, nor have they changed siskel-ebert.com.
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md
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response 66 of 292:
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Mar 29 23:35 UTC 1999 |
Aaron, have you *seen* Mickey Rooney lately?
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mcnally
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response 67 of 292:
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Mar 30 06:08 UTC 1999 |
re #58: what play *is* the 'right' play for "how do I loathe thee?"
the thing that line brings to mind for me is Browning sonnets..
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md
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response 68 of 292:
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Mar 30 11:26 UTC 1999 |
No play. It's a sonnet by E.B. Browning. I think the
author of #58 was making a joke, as evidence the caps at
the end. (It isn't from the wrong play. It is from any
play. It isn't even by Shakespeare.)
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aaron
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response 69 of 292:
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Mar 31 15:09 UTC 1999 |
re #66: Um... I was kidding. It would be funny, though....
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jazz
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response 70 of 292:
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Mar 31 15:47 UTC 1999 |
If Cameron Diaz ever makes a pass at you, Richard, please defer her
to me. I'd be perfectly happy with her "anorexically skinny" form, which
doesn't even have any ribs showing.
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richard
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response 71 of 292:
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Apr 1 00:24 UTC 1999 |
re: back there, even though gene siskel died, for legal reasons they
cant change the name of the show until after the current season ends.
In the fall, presuming Buena Vista renews it, thename will be changed.
They no longer show the opening sequence anymore though, just flash
the name and a couple notes of theme music and start the show.
This is like a few years back when actress Valerie Harper had a show
called "Valerie" The producers fired her and replaced her with
Sandy Duncan at the beginning of the (I think) second season. They
had to continue calling it "Valerie" (or Valerie's Family) until the
following fall when it was retitled "The Hogan Family"
When tv stations buy a show, they dont just buy the content, they buy
the title, and the rights to advertise that title. You change the title
and you change what they are selling. Its all legal stuff.
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senna
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response 72 of 292:
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Apr 1 07:18 UTC 1999 |
Not so fast. They changed the name of "These Friends of Mine" to
"Ellen" (which is far better known) in the middle of the season.
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mooncat
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response 73 of 292:
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Apr 1 14:36 UTC 1999 |
Saw "The Matrix" last night, and was highly impressed. I mean, I
love Keanu Reeves anyway, but this movie had an interesting plot,
wonderful action secquences, combined with great special effects.
Two highly enthusiastic thumbs up. :) I plan to see it at least once
more, and probably buy the movie when it comes out on video.
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jazz
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response 74 of 292:
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Apr 1 14:40 UTC 1999 |
Definitely.
I love nothing more than to find plot holes in movies and pick them
apart afterwards, and I wasn't able to find more than one. Either it wasn't
there, or I was so bedazzled by the storyline that I didn't have time to spot
them. Which is one of the higher recommendations I can give.
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aaron
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response 75 of 292:
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Apr 1 15:02 UTC 1999 |
re #71: You are confusing two very different issues -- continuity, and
legal obligations. There is likely a contractual reason why the
name of S&E can't be changed, which did not include a contingency
for the death of one of the stars during the season. Or, perhaps,
it was with that possibility in mind, that a deal was negotiated
that the name and royalties would stay the same, regardless of how
much sick leave Siskel took.
Networks can cancel, reformulate, retitle, and otherwise change
the names of shows. Sometimes, when a star leaves, it makes sense
to maintain some continuity in the name of the show, so people
can find it in the schedule -- as in the case of Valerie's Family.
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krj
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response 76 of 292:
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Apr 1 19:32 UTC 1999 |
The rules could well be different for syndication ("Siskel and Ebert")
and network ("These Friends of Mine," "Valerie.")
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aaron
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response 77 of 292:
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Apr 1 19:36 UTC 1999 |
It's a matter of contract.
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