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gelinas
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Movies, movies, movies, movies, movies, movies, movies
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Sep 24 06:36 UTC 2000 |
Seen a good movie you want everyone else to see? Seen a bad one you want
no one else to see? Tell us about it here.
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gelinas
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Sep 24 06:38 UTC 2000 |
the Scifi channel is advertising the Blair Witch Project. Apparently, they
will be broadcasting it later today ("tomorrow" to most folks, I guess). Is
it worth watching this for the first time on the small screen?
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bdh3
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response 2 of 323:
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Sep 24 12:27 UTC 2000 |
_ConAir_. Folk had a lot of fun making this movie. Geography jokes,
-"Love your work" is a nice line. Plenty of action scenes little of it
plausible. Lots of professional actors -some of them not well known -
all give very good performances. Lots of humor, violence, no sex, and
when its all done a truely 'bad guy' is on the loose- or is he now
'reformed'? A good do for the 7.99 cost to own the video, or a good do
for a rental but I think I'd have felt ripped off if I payed to see it
in a theatre. Lots of factual errors and I suspect they tried to get
official USAF approval but failed and so had to shoot scenes elsewhere
but still evoke the ambiance of Davis-Montham AFB, Arizona...
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jerryr
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response 3 of 323:
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Sep 24 12:38 UTC 2000 |
i watched the "seven ups" last nite. altho the usual thing happened - the
geography of nyc is toyed with (characters heading south to go north, etc etc)
it was fun seeing the neighborhood i grew up in on film. this is the fourth
major motion picture i am aware of that was filmed on the bronx streets i
spent my boyhood on (the others - the awakening, the wanderers and marty)
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bru
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response 4 of 323:
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Sep 24 13:36 UTC 2000 |
SciFi will also be showing Babylon 5 in wide screen.
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remmers
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response 5 of 323:
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Sep 24 17:12 UTC 2000 |
Re #1: I saw "Blair Witch" for the first time on the the small
screen, and found it satisfying creepy and well worth the time
spent. This was a rented DVD, however. On the SciFi channel
no doubt there will be commercial interruptions, which could
seriously dilute the intensity necessary for the film to work.
Saw "The Watcher" and realized afterwards that I'd rather not
have watched it.
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tod
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response 6 of 323:
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Sep 24 19:42 UTC 2000 |
Saw "The Cell" with Jennifer Lopez and Vincent D'Onofrio.
Lopez played this social worker that works with a secret government
science team that enables her to enter the dreams of a comatose
child via a body suit and some gadgets. D'Onofrio plays
the typical freak serial killer that turns his female victims into
dolls by drowning them in bleach. D'Onofrio is tracked down
due to his sidekick being the only albino dog in the state..and
a dog hair on a victim...bingo..typical SWAT invasion of his
house and they find him in coma..turns out he's going through some
mental breakdown..only they don't know where his last victim is
being held hostage...thus enter Lopez and the suit...she enters
his messed up mind and the rest I'll save for your viewing pleasure.
I give it two thumbs down, though Lopez is a babe so I wouldn't
say it's a complete waste if you can ignore the dialog, plot,
bad acting, and horrible sound effects.
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willard
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response 7 of 323:
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Sep 24 20:55 UTC 2000 |
I just watched "The Hunt for Red October" again.
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gelinas
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response 8 of 323:
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Sep 25 04:52 UTC 2000 |
I ended up not watching Blair Witch. The tennis match between Williams and
Seles wasn't quite over, so we watched a repeat of The Practice when it did
end. Another time.
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gelinas
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response 9 of 323:
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Sep 25 08:05 UTC 2000 |
TCM is showing "Gallipoli" right now! Decent.
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ashke
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response 10 of 323:
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Sep 25 14:18 UTC 2000 |
I was in a mood this weekend for things blowing up with men spouting cool
jokes and one liners.
So I watched Die Hard 1-3 and Lethal Weapon 1-2 (3-4 are for tonite, hee hee).
I love the Die Hard movies, and I forgot how much until I watched them again.
I still think the first is the best because Alan Rickman is such a good
villian, and I love his voice. But I was amazed that I still liked 2 and 3
as much as I did. As for Lethal Weapon, well, how can you beat the team of
Glover and Gibson? Hmm? Can't. Just....can't.
I still have Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead, Darkman, Red Corner, and
another one to watch. Movie mania. Free rentals at blockbuster. Woo Hoo.
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polygon
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Sep 25 15:26 UTC 2000 |
The other day, I finally saw the movie "Dick" on rented video. It was
pretty funny, and the actor who plays the title role looks a lot more
like Nixon than Anthony Hopkins did.
It's a bit like Forrest Gump in that two teenage girls take part in, or
cause, every major event during Watergate. The inside jokes (including
many allusions to the movie "All the President's Men") the are never
explained, which makes them all the more amusing.
Nixon, Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Dean, Kissinger, Brezhnev, Woodward,
Bernstein, etc., are all nastily caricatured.
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jerryr
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Sep 25 16:27 UTC 2000 |
i watched "the guns at batasi" one of my favs from my youth. it features mia
farrow in her screen debut (forgettable) and dicky attenborough as the sgt.
major, before he started swishing about in rl.
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flem
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response 13 of 323:
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Sep 25 16:43 UTC 2000 |
The best part of "The Watcher" was when the gun Keanu was walking around with
suddenly went off, and he says "Whoa, it's loaded." :)
Other than that, the movie is distinctly forgettable.
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ashke
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response 14 of 323:
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Sep 25 17:02 UTC 2000 |
Damn. I was hoping that it would have been a good movie. Want to go see
Urban Legends II, but haven't seen ANY previews, so I don't know how bad/good
it'd be
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janc
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Sep 25 17:12 UTC 2000 |
Valerie took Arlo out of town a while ago, and I did my usual thing of renting
a mess of movies that I'd been wanting to see and watching them en mass. Most
of these were old enough that I don't see much point in reviewing them but
I do want to say that watching "Being John Malkovich", "Eyes Wide Shut" and
"12 Monkeys" back to back in one sitting is a bit much if you want to maintain
something like normal though processes in your head.
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jazz
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Sep 25 17:33 UTC 2000 |
If you enjoyed any of them, I wouldn't hesitate to recommend anything
by David Cronenberg (with the possible exception of _The Fly_, which was
fairly realistic). _Eistenz_, _Crash_ and _Videodrome_ are personal
favourites. They are all a bit violent and disturbing, however.
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mcnally
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Sep 25 20:00 UTC 2000 |
Hmmm.. I've never liked *anything* I've seen by David Cronenburg
(I'd pick "Dead Ringers" as the all-time Cronenburg low..)
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jazz
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response 18 of 323:
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Sep 25 20:06 UTC 2000 |
Okay, I'll concur there. _Dead Ringers_ was awful.
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polygon
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response 19 of 323:
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Sep 25 20:34 UTC 2000 |
Hmmm -- was that the one starring Bette Davis? I thought it was "Dead
Ringer."
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remmers
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response 20 of 323:
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Sep 25 22:12 UTC 2000 |
"Dead Ringer" (1964) starred Bette Davis but was not a Cronenberg
film. "Dead Ringers" (1988) was directed by Cronenberg and starred
Jeremy Irons in a dual role as twin gynecologists. Maltin's Movie
and Video Guide describes it as "extremely unpleasant." I can't
say, since I haven't seen it.
I liked Cronenberg's "Dead Zone" and "Existenz". Haven't seen much
else of his.
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wyrefall
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Sep 25 23:49 UTC 2000 |
I recently saw _It_ for the first time. _It_ wasn't so scary as I remember
my friends talking about it. One of the lost treasures of childhood, I guess.
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scott
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Sep 25 23:51 UTC 2000 |
(I'm considering starting a group of people to watch bad sci-fi movies...
Panarama Video on Stadium has a wonderful collection)
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mooncat
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response 23 of 323:
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Sep 26 18:35 UTC 2000 |
Saw Tombstone recently. I love that movie, especially Val Kilmer.
Also, Hotel New Hampshire (Rob Lowe, Beau Bridges, Jodie Foster, Seth
Green)- very... odd, but good. :)
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remmers
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Sep 26 20:08 UTC 2000 |
Re #21: Scary movies don't usually scare me anymore, but _It_ had
a few satisfying chills in it. I was hardly a child when I saw it,
either.
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