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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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jmsaul
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response 75 of 269:
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Apr 21 20:19 UTC 2003 |
Re #73: "No Way Out" counts, though. And it doesn't involve sports, even
though there's a scene on a basketball court.
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tod
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response 76 of 269:
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Apr 21 20:29 UTC 2003 |
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palesi
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response 77 of 269:
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Apr 21 21:08 UTC 2003 |
I haven't read the book for The Postman, so i can't make a comparison. But
i still think that some people have this stigma towards Costner, and i cannot
understand why. Maybe it's just envy?
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tod
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response 78 of 269:
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Apr 21 21:30 UTC 2003 |
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scott
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response 79 of 269:
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Apr 21 21:52 UTC 2003 |
"A Perfect World" was pretty good, although most of the credit goes to the
kid actor.
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scott
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response 80 of 269:
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Apr 21 21:55 UTC 2003 |
(moments later, on further reflection)
Actually it's kind of cool that Costner at least tries to some of the sci-fi
stuff, even if the execution isn't especially good. You'd have to go back
to James Caan or Charlton Heston to come up with somebody who doesn't seem
like the SF type but keeps showing up in SF movies.
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tod
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response 81 of 269:
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Apr 21 22:00 UTC 2003 |
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scott
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response 82 of 269:
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Apr 21 22:09 UTC 2003 |
Er, yeah. Although now that my memory has been jogged I'd add Sylvester
Stallone (even if just for "Demolition Man", because it's so funny) to that
list. But even Arnie tends to depend on his co-stars to make the movie really
happen (see Richard Dawson in "The Running Man" for proof), while Caan and
Heston were the main attraction.
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