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Whether you like a movie or hate a movie, BE CRITICal, write about it 
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ETERNAL SUNSET OF THE SPOTLESS MIND-- This is the new movie from 
Charlie Kauffman, who wrote the wonderful movies "Being John Malkovich" 
and "Adaptation".  This one is just as offbeat and original.  Jim 
Carrey and Kate Winslet are this couple who have a two year romance and 
a really bad breakup.  Then she goes to this doctor's office that is 
offering this new procedure-- they can erase the memories of the person 
you broke up with from your mind.  So it can be as if they never 
existed.  So she has the procedure and all of a sudden can't remember 
Jim Carrey.  He can't handle that, so to get back at her, he decides to 
have the procedure too.  Much of the rest of the movie takes place 
inside Jim Carrey's head while he's having the procedure done, slowly 
having all the memories of Winslet and his romance with her erased one 
at a time.  He flashes back to different scenes in his romance with 
Winslet and watches them slowly disappear.  Finally confronting in his 
mind the question of whether he REALLY wants all memories of her to 
disappear from his mind.

I found this to be a very poignant and thought provoking movie.  Surely 
anyone that has had a relationship end really badly has fantasized at 
one time or another about, "I wish this person never existed!  I wish I 
never met this person"  

This flaw in this movie is that this, the central idea, is not 
workable.  Even if you can have this operation and have all your 
memories of a person you were in a failed relationship with erased, you 
can't erase the memories of the people around you of that person (i.e. 
your friends and family).    

Also I don't buy that the ending is realistic, but I won't give that 
away here.  But that aside, this is a really well directed and well 
acted film. I think it might be both Carrey and Winslet's best work.  I 
give Charlie Kauffman credit for again coming up with a really 
distinctiev idea for a movie.  On the whole, I recommend this movie.

oops, I mistyped the name of that movie!  The movie is called

"Eternal SUNSHINE of the Spotless Mind"   Now why when I typed it before it
came out sunset instead of sunshine I dunno, I hope it doesn't have deep
psychological signficance or anything  :)  

Creepy.

Agora 8 <-> Cinema 62

Yeah, I am looking forward to that movie. Hopefully I will have time to 
see it next weekend. 

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 Mix them all together and you could have a truly memorable scene where
 Julie Andrews and the Von Trapp children call down a napalm strike on a
 bunch of serial-killer zombies..  (Yo-de-lay, yo-de-lay, yo-de-lay-hee-hoo!)

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lol.

I haven't seen this version of DOTD yet, but from the trailers, it 
looks like nothing more than a gore-fest.  The '70s original version 
was much more suspenseful.  The saying, "Less is more," certainly 
applied here.  Particularly in regards to the pacing.  This new 
version moves very fast, the zombies are on you in a sec., there's no 
time for soaking in what's happening.  The original was just the 
opposite.  That's not to say there wasn't any action, there was.  But 
it happened on spurts, relying more on things moving slowly.  "Night 
of the Living Dead" was the same way.  This is the version I reccomend.

I am looking for the name of a movie, that mocks the Godfather movie 
genre.    According to a student I know; there is this one scene where 
some woman eats tons of gas producing foods ( eggs, broccoli, etc) and 
then lights a match lifts her leg and blows of the side of a building.  
Does that sound familiar to anyone?  If so, what is the name of that 
movie? 

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Thanks Tod :)

IAHB "Dawn of the DEad" beat "Bravechrist" at the boxoffice
last weekend.

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ROSIE PALM!

 The BBC is reporting
 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3563405.stm) that Monty Python's
 "Life of Brian" will enjoy a theatrical re-release this year and be marketed
 as an alternative to Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ."

 I find the idea to be in amusingly bad taste and support it for no better
 reason than that it's sure to offend a lot of people who could really stand
 to have their buttons pushed. 

What mcnally said.  (#17)

"The Passion of the Brian"

"The Passion of the Fruit"

"The Brian of the Fruit"

        And in Life of Brian, you do see the Full Monty Phyton.
(oh what a beautiful morning).

        And a thank you to George Harrison for coming to the 
financial rescue of the Phythons, who had fundig for "Brian"
cut days before filming was to begin.

The jewish suicide squad rocks!

YEAH


f*r

I picked up the "Ausstin Powers: Goldmember" DVD recently and I'm not
happy with it.  Not because of the movie itself, that was OK.  No, it's
because of the "Infinifilm" stuff.  It disabled my scan and pause
functions, which means I have to stop the disc, which means I have to
start watching from the beginning of the chapter I was in, which is
ANNOYING!  This is the only DVD I have that does does this so I'm
certain Infinifilm is the culprit.

Has anyone else had similar experiences with Infinifilm DVD's?

I had the same problem with that DVD.  I hope this kind of
control-freakery doesn't become more common.  It reminds me of when
Disney used to disable all the controls during the 'preview of coming
attractions' segment, so you had to watch it all the way through every time.

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From the story of Hanukah:

The family of Mattathias became known as the Maccabees, from the Hebrew 
word for "hammer," because they were said to strike hammer blows 
against their enemies.

Re. 27: Do U remember which Disney DVD's did that, so I can avoid them?

For those who want to avoid Infinifilm films, they include:

     Blow                Friday After Next
     13 Days           Goldmember
     Rush Hour 2     John Q
     15 Minutes       Destination 2

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Rather than derail the discussion of the content of what's showing
on the movie and video screen, I'll start the new incarnation of the 
copyright/napster items.

Snarkiness need not apply.

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Okay i just saw "Dawn of the dead" today and i thought it was pretty good.
I didn't see the original and before today i didn't even know there was an
original. I suggest that if anyone has interests in horror movies that you
go and check out this movie.

We stumbled over "What A Girl Wants" on HBO last night and watched 
it all the way through; then went out today and rented the DVD so we 
could see the first 20 minutes.  Rather a decent piece of Hollywood 
fluff, as a 17-year-old American goes off to Britain in search of 
her absent aristocrat father, played by Colin Firth.  Jeff would 
probably object to all the British stereotypes.

They oughtta make a film full of American stereotypes, and see if the people
who moan about Brits who moan about British stereotypes laugh on the other
side of their faces.

Just saw "Love, Actually." Quite good, actually.

Re resp:37: Aren't most films full of American stereotypes?

Re. 37: Actually, it's been done, sortof.  Martin Mull did a
"mockumentary" back in the '80s called "The History of White People in
America."  It was full of WASP stereotypical traits and such.  Quite
funny, as I recall.

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