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mary
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Sep 24 13:35 UTC 1998 |
This is the movie review item. It doesn't matter if you saw
it at the theatre, through you VCR, or on television. If
you'd care to share your opinion just join in.
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mary
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response 1 of 146:
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Sep 24 13:48 UTC 1998 |
"One True Thing" is an excellent effort. I started reading this
book when it first came out, which was while my mother was dying.
I had to postpone reading it then and I never got back to it,
not sure why exactly. The film has some powerful emotions packed
into scenes where not a word is spoken. Hurt and Streep are
perfect in every scene.
This is an emotional film but not in a manipulative way. It's
very real.
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toking
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response 2 of 146:
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Sep 24 19:36 UTC 1998 |
I finally saw "Fire Walk With Me" the Twin Peaks movie...
My god...I think if you watch that and "Lost Highway" one after the
other your brain will simply explode!
Very very cool...
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mcnally
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Sep 24 20:08 UTC 1998 |
"very very cool"?
I'll offer a contrasting view.. Didn't like either of them..
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aruba
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Sep 25 04:14 UTC 1998 |
Seeing FWWM in the theater was one of the times when I really felt awful
about paying $6.50 (or whatever it was) for a ticket. I thought it was
dreadful.
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remmers
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Sep 25 11:12 UTC 1998 |
As long as we're voting, I'll put in that I liked both "Fire Walk with
Me" and "Lost Highway". For the former, I think it helps to be
acquainted with the "Twin Peaks" TV series (which I was).
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aruba
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Sep 25 13:23 UTC 1998 |
I'd seen and enjoyed the entire Twin Peaks series before seeing FWWM, but I
still couldn't deal. I thought about it afterward and decided that what I
really liked about Twin Peaks was the humor in it, but there was absolutely
no humor at all in the movie. I noticed that while David Lynch and Mark
Frost co-produced the series, Lynch did the molvie by himself. I wonder if
perhaps the humor was all coming from Frost.
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toking
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Sep 25 18:02 UTC 1998 |
Last night I was subjected to what is possibly the worst movie ever
made. Worse than "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" without audience
participation, worse than "Bimbo Movie Bash", worse than an ice cube
enima.
A friend of my roommates cajoled all of us into watching "Castle Freak"
say that it was an al time classic horror flick. If I can overcome my
nausea <not at the gore or violenence, but the stupidity> anytime within
the next year I"m going to be forced to strap him down and subject him
to hours and hours of Lambchops Play Along.
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richard
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Sep 25 22:01 UTC 1998 |
I saw "Rounders'-- sort of a remake of "The Hustler" with Matt Damon as Paul
Newman and the game being poker instead of pool. I found it fascinating
because I used to play in a regular weekly poker game for years. Wish that
movie would've come out a few years back.
Damon is a law school student/poker hustler who loses his life savings on one
hand of poker to a devious Russian, and retires, only to be forced into playing
again months later at the behest of a loser friend in need (Edward Norton)
So what do you think? Does Damon get the big rematch with the devious Russian
to win back his mafia savings? Well if you ever saw the "Hustler" (a *great*
movie btw) you know the answer already. *** (three stars)
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mcnally
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Sep 26 04:54 UTC 1998 |
re #5,6: Like Mark, I too had seen and enjoyed the Twin Peaks television
series before seeing "Fire Walk With Me". Also like Mark, I felt really
annoyed at having paid full movie price for it..
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omni
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Sep 26 08:32 UTC 1998 |
I saw Woodstock-3 days of Peace and Love tonight and I was very impressed
at the way the crowd was behaving, that is, civilized. The music was awesome.
I enjoyed seeing Ritchie Havens, Jimi Hendrix, Crosby Stills Nash and Young,
The Who, and a lot of others. The movie is powerful. The images of people
interacting with the music and one another.
Martin Scorsese was an assistant director, and editor of the film, and I
think he did an excellent job of editing. This is a must see.
(Of course, I recorded it.)
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senna
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Sep 26 10:12 UTC 1998 |
Wait, did you see the *big documentary* or the *average sized film?*
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omni
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response 12 of 146:
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Sep 26 16:39 UTC 1998 |
The big documentary-- It lasted 4 hours.
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happyboy
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response 13 of 146:
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Sep 26 18:07 UTC 1998 |
is that the one where they show them taking out the three od'd people
in bodybags by chopper? coo-ell!
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