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richard
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Grex goes to the movies!
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Jun 22 22:30 UTC 1999 |
This is the Grex movie reviews item-- seen any good movies lately? renting
anything interesting? Want to vent about Jar-Jar Binks in Star Wars?
Post away!
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richard
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response 1 of 348:
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Jun 22 22:42 UTC 1999 |
just this past weekend got the new dvd collector's edition of "Taxi
Driver" Comes with a nice hour-long making of documentary, artwork and
publicity stills from the film, the movie trailer, and nicest of all the
script. It has a cool feature that lets you watch the movie and jump back
and forth to the original movie script, so you can read the dialogue and
also see how scenes were changed or modified during filming. you can even
leave the script up on your tv and play the sound of the movie, so you can
scroll down.
Also rented (but didnt buy) the new dVD's of "Alien" and "Aliens", both of
which are excellent. The audio and video quality of both are exceptional.
On the "Alien" disc, it has a number of deleted scenes including a bizzare
one where Sigourney Weaver enters the Alien nest and encounters her crew
members entombed in the webbing. I cant figure out why they didnt leave
that in the movie. Also has alternate soundtrack featuring running
commentary by director Ridley Scott, explaining each scene and how/why it
was filmed. most interesting. The "Aliens" DVD comes with James Cameron
commentary, and features the uncut version of the movie which is some
twenty minutes longer. It also has a cool screensaver that comes with it.
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mcnally
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response 2 of 348:
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Jun 23 02:15 UTC 1999 |
re #1: Is it just me or does anyone else think that the people who
put together the "Taxi Driver" collector's edition missed a bet when
they neglected to include footage of the Hinckley/Reagan assassination
attempt as a "bonus"?
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tpryan
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response 3 of 348:
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Jun 23 02:42 UTC 1999 |
re 2: I don't get the connection. Can you explain?
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drewmike
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response 4 of 348:
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Jun 23 04:26 UTC 1999 |
Um, okay. Whoa?
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scg
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response 5 of 348:
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Jun 23 05:15 UTC 1999 |
John Hinckley shot Ronald Reagan in an effort to get the attention of Jodi
Foster, who he had seen in Taxi Driver and become obsessed with.
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mcnally
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response 6 of 348:
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Jun 23 05:43 UTC 1999 |
re #3: Are you talkin' to me?
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aruba
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response 7 of 348:
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Jun 23 15:03 UTC 1999 |
Re #2: I don't know, Mike, I've seen that footage so many times, I really
wouldn't want to see it again. Then again, I'm not going to rent Taxi Driver,
either.
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richard
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Jun 23 21:57 UTC 1999 |
#3-- the connection is that John Hinckley, who shot President Reagan,
was absolutely obsessed with the movie "Taxi Driver", having taken to
watching it over and over again. He claims to have seen it at least 75
times. In the movie Robert Deniro's character, goes
psychotic after he cant win the heart of Cybil Shepherd, and decides to
assassinate the Presidential candidate her character was working for.
Hinckley apparently became mentally imbalanced and started to imagine
himself as actually being IN the movie, and decided to shoot President
Reagan to impress Jodie Foster.
This is brought up in the "making of" documentary, where writer Paul
Schraeder mentions that both he and director Martin Scorcese were grilled
by the FBI after the shooting. Hinckley was apparently one of a number of
men who too strongly identified with the main character in this movie.
eerie in a way.
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richard
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Jun 23 22:00 UTC 1999 |
#7...but Aruba, why wouldnt you want to rent "Taxi Driver"? After all,
it routinely makes the top ten lists of the greatest american films
ever made. Siskel and Ebert have it in their top five.
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