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brighn
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response 75 of 323:
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Oct 3 14:18 UTC 2000 |
Well, it was a very intellectual anti-intellectual movie.
Self-deconstructing, even more so than American Psycho.
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jazz
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response 76 of 323:
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Oct 3 14:20 UTC 2000 |
There I disagree. _Fight Club_ doesn't steep it's message in metaphor,
nor does it expect to convey a deep meaning about human existence by the
mise-en-scene of random rubbish about the condemned house the central
character(s) inhabit, but it doesn't stop at the end and absolutely spell out
the moral of the story, either, as several recent American films from _Do the
Right Thing_ to _American Beauty_ have.
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jazz
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response 77 of 323:
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Oct 3 14:20 UTC 2000 |
#75 slipped in.
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tod
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response 78 of 323:
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Oct 3 15:11 UTC 2000 |
I thought "Fight Club" was a place for gay men to meet each other at the
theater.
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jazz
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response 79 of 323:
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Oct 3 15:30 UTC 2000 |
Well, since they can't meet at the Boy Scouts meetings anymore ...
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tod
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response 80 of 323:
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Oct 3 17:11 UTC 2000 |
I know there's a Young Gay Republicans(or something like that).
Is there a gay NRA association? If there isn't, there should be.
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brighn
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response 81 of 323:
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Oct 3 17:16 UTC 2000 |
Damn, I knew I should've seen Fight Club at the theater instead of renting
it...
No wonder the Blockbuster clerk winked at me. And he'd been fired by the time
I returned it.
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tod
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response 82 of 323:
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Oct 3 17:18 UTC 2000 |
He was at the NRA meeting. You should've rented "Hang em High", too.
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bru
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response 83 of 323:
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Oct 4 00:36 UTC 2000 |
There are gay people who are members of the NRA, Republican, and have
concealed carry permits.
There are even some NRA members who are liberals!
The NRA is everywhere!
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tod
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response 84 of 323:
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Oct 4 15:03 UTC 2000 |
There are even Pro-Choice NRA Members!
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tpryan
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response 85 of 323:
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Oct 4 16:11 UTC 2000 |
Rocky Horror DVD Show is great! Amazing amount of extra goodies
on this two disc set.
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edina
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response 86 of 323:
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Oct 4 21:07 UTC 2000 |
Yesterday was Chick Flick Film Fest at the Edmunds household.
28 Days - A very good movie - love, love, love Sandra Bullock
Hanging Up - Annoying - could Meg Ryan please try to stretch herself as an
actress please
Where the Heart Is - Very much kept to the book - well cast - Stockard
Channing was awesome
I am partly through Snow Falls on Cedars - so far it is very slow and a bit
to artsy for its own good.
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mcnally
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response 87 of 323:
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Oct 4 22:22 UTC 2000 |
I found the narrative style used in "Snow Falling on Cedars" to be very
annoying. People who have read the book and seen the movie tell me that
the movie is very faithful to the book but I think that faithfulness is
not necessarily a virtue here -- movies and novels tell stories in
different ways and what works in a novel may not work in a movie.
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wyrefall
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response 88 of 323:
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Oct 5 03:03 UTC 2000 |
re86 If you love Sandra Bullock, have you seen _The Net_ or _Forces of
Nature_? I was just wondering about what you thought about her roles in those
movies.
Also, regarding _Fight Club_, One of the reasons I like(d) it so much is
because it seems to be a breathing contradiction (if that makes any sense).
The characters are all very multi-faceted, like the real people I know, and
not all glossed over and perfect-ish with only minor surface impurities. It
illustrates a thought process, a 'what-if' scenario very aptly. I would write
more, and make comments about some others, but I have to go do my laundry.
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edina
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response 89 of 323:
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Oct 5 03:16 UTC 2000 |
I have not seen either of the Sandra Bullock movies - but the one I liked her
in before this was "Hope Floats" - which I hated in the beginning, but now
I really like. I think she is a pretty good actress and has a lot of
character.
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aruba
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response 90 of 323:
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Oct 5 03:57 UTC 2000 |
I liked "While You Were Sleeping" a lot.
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mary
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response 91 of 323:
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Oct 5 11:48 UTC 2000 |
Bullock plays one-dimensional victims very well.
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jerryr
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response 92 of 323:
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Oct 5 12:51 UTC 2000 |
i'd watch sandra bullock do a one act play based on the yellow pages.
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ric
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response 93 of 323:
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Oct 5 13:17 UTC 2000 |
I don't think it's possible for Meg Ryan to be anything but herself.
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mooncat
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response 94 of 323:
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Oct 5 13:39 UTC 2000 |
But Meg acts herself very well.
I rather like Sandra Bullock, though I didn't like _Hope Floats_, _The
Net_ was fairly entertaining, and _Forces of Nature_ was a lot of fun
actually- and although *I* didn't particularly like the ending- it made
a lot of sense.
I actually think one of her better roles was the scientist in _Love
Potion #9_ which is a vastly funny movie (and has Adrian Paul in it for
the Highlander fans). Ms. Bullock was also a lot of fun in _Speed_.
She seems to actually have some character of her own, unlike some other
actresses out there.
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jazz
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response 95 of 323:
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Oct 5 13:56 UTC 2000 |
Most actors and actresses seem to be unable to play anything but facets
of themselves, though I'm not sure in any particular case if that's because
they've been thoroughly typecast and are now expected by their directors to
act true to their type.
Some of the actors that I've seen break the rule: John Malkovitch,
Paul Reubens, Eric Schaeffer (Fall, If Lucy Fell), Renee Zellwegger (though
only in A Price Above Rubies_), Dustin Hoffmann. There're more, of course,
but that's all I can think of off the top of my head.
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brighn
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response 96 of 323:
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Oct 5 14:14 UTC 2000 |
Kevin Spacey, although now that he's got that Oscar, he's been typecast too.
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edina
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response 97 of 323:
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Oct 5 15:08 UTC 2000 |
Actually, when I think of truly versatile actors, I think of Kevin Kline.
I think he is amazing at drama (The Ice Storm) and and comedy as well (A Fish
Called Wanda).
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mooncat
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response 98 of 323:
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Oct 5 17:44 UTC 2000 |
Kevin Kline really is amazing... hmm, reminds me that I need to see
_The January Man_ again...
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mcnally
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response 99 of 323:
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Oct 5 19:48 UTC 2000 |
re #98: some sort of penance?
re #94: even giving it the charitably light scrutiny I give to movies
that are supposedly about computer use, I still found the plot of "the Web"
unenjoyably moronic.
Sandra Bullock generally plays likable characters and I've enjoyed her
performances in a few movies but she really needs to learn to say "No" to
some of the scripts that come her way. If she's not in a position to
demand better parts (perhaps because directors have a pretty accurate
notion of her dramatic range) she still needs to avoid making any grade-B
movie that comes here way.
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