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jmsaul
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response 115 of 326:
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May 25 18:33 UTC 2000 |
It's on the DVD. He made it when he was around 14. I can't remember the
name -- it's very short, but worth checking out if you've already rented
the DVD.
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otaking
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response 116 of 326:
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May 25 19:39 UTC 2000 |
Thanks Joe. I'll check it out. I haven't finished looking at all the bonus
stuff yet.
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johnnie
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response 117 of 326:
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May 26 16:24 UTC 2000 |
I wasn't particularly impressed by Sixth Sense. I thought it was rather
slow up until The Twist, which made it somewhat more interesting in
retrospect, but it was a long haul for the payoff. I suppose if I had
known The Twist to start with, it might have made the movie more
interesting, but then the whole exercise would be largely pointless.
I've never been much of a fan of "and then he was hit by a truck"
endings.
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otaking
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response 118 of 326:
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May 26 16:52 UTC 2000 |
I thought Jacob's Ladder was very compelling for the same reason as The Sixth
Sense. The Sixth Sense was far more sedate than the former film.
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md
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response 119 of 326:
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May 27 03:34 UTC 2000 |
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 2 (B+) -- Looking at this movie,
you know that someone spent a huge amount of money to
entertain you. M:I 2 carries the car chase/explosion/
acrobatic fistfight genre to its ultimate extreme.
It's all beautifully done. The plot and the characters
never try to be other than their totally preposterous
selves. It tries very hard to maintain its PG13 rating
by only implying the goriest things, letting them
happen offscreen. Definitely worth seeing if you need
some harmless escapist fun.
MYSTERY, ALASKA (B) -- The box promised "the Rocky of
Hockey," and that's just what the movie is. Simpleminded
and shamelessly manipulative, but fairly enjoyable.
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goose
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response 120 of 326:
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May 27 03:43 UTC 2000 |
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE II (A-) -- Action, action, action. See also #119 above.
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hhsrat
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response 121 of 326:
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May 27 19:40 UTC 2000 |
Saw bits and pieces of Armageddon last night. I didn't pay too much
attention to the movie, and I didn't see the whole thing (I was on the
Event Operations crew for Student Council Movie night, had more
important things to do, like find a working projector). Therefore, I
won't comment on it, although if the number of people we had in
attendance is any indication, it's a terrible movie.
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mooncat
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response 122 of 326:
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May 27 20:46 UTC 2000 |
Saw "Shanghai Noon" last night and I highly recommend it. It was very
funny, in addition to Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson it has Lucy Liu in it
(and she's just wonderful). Fun actions, amusing characters and is all
around fun. :)
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ric
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response 123 of 326:
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May 28 01:17 UTC 2000 |
Saw "Missing Impossible 2" today. Good flick. I think I enjoyed the first
one more because the plot was a little more twisted but this one was still
pretty good.
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krj
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response 124 of 326:
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May 28 04:58 UTC 2000 |
Leslie and I saw DINOSAUR last weekend. I liked it a lot, but I'm willing
to accept the Disneyesque BAMBI/LION KING plot conventions.
Visually, the computer-generated characters are very impressive.
I like movies which show me things I haven't seen before, and DINOSAUR
is a home run in that category.
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richard
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response 125 of 326:
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May 28 06:00 UTC 2000 |
MI2 is good escapist fare- lots of action. The girl in the picture is
really beautiful, not your typical bleach blonde Bond girl you always see
in action pics. Doesnt have much in common with the Mission Impossible
TV series though.
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sno
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response 126 of 326:
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May 28 13:05 UTC 2000 |
Mission Impossible: 2
I went in to this movie not expecting much. Perhaps something James
Bond-ish, but with some similarity to the Mission Impossible team
concept waved at in MI:I. No such luck.
What I got was an ode to Ethan Hunt, super-fixer. Yeah, there was a
small team concept, but one guy was a doorman and a helicopter pilot,
Luther came back as some laptop whiz, and a love interest that showed
some apparent skills early in the movie, but played the innocent waif
victim through the rest. Frankly, the guys were just props, and the
girl was eye candy that gave Ethan Hunt some emotional dilemma.
I found the movie to be totally cartoonish. A venue for Tom Cruise to
play a mortal super-hero. There's no real plot twist. They love the
face masks that turn one person into someone else and play it to
death, completely unrealistically at times.
Gunplay and explosions and chase scenes, mostly too long and too
super-human. A thin, see-it-coming-a-mile-away plot line where they
repeat lines like "Her record will be expunged. Her crimes will be
wiped clean." as if the audience has no brain. Fight/chase scenes
where you constantly say, "No, he can't do that!", and then they do
something else equally inanely super-human in the very next sequence
all detract from any thought that this movie has any basis in real
human world physics or ability. Purely a foil for Tom Cruise to look
the action-hero, make the impossible possible, and drive a movie on
pure guts, action, and emotion.
No way. It was poorly paced with long drawn out sequences both fast
and slow. Lots of weak emotional build-up. Poor stylistic play.
Completely improbable long event chains, not just single events. No
real plot twists of any value to the movie. All this conspired to
suck the escapist enjoyment out of the movie.
I read Rex Reed's review before the movie, figuring that he was
hunting for Hollywood style in a summer stock film. Actually, he was
looking for a movie. What we saw was two hours and 10 minutes of
implausibility, and after a while looking for the end of it all.
Take a favorite food, pizza for instance. Presume that whatever is
delivered, you have to eat it all. Early on, the pizza tastes great,
but they just keep delivering more with toppings that are starting to
taste funny. Soon, you wish the pizza would stop. You're full and
the pizza is tasting worse and worse. But, yet another pizza comes
to your door. When will it end?
Indeed. That's MI:2
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flem
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response 127 of 326:
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May 28 21:19 UTC 2000 |
The MI flicks are starting to go the way of the James Bond series.
Not much plot, just a venue for more and more spectacular special
effects and eye-candy babes. If you think of MI:2 as a realistic
depiction of the way intelligence agents actually work in real life,
you'll probably be disappointed. If you just relax and enjoy the
continuing adventures of SuperTom, you'll probably get a kick out of
it.
Personally, the rock climbing scene at the beginning just blew
me away, so I was disposed to think kindly of the rest of the
movie. Also, I have to say that seeing Tom Cruise clumsily
wading his way through a traditional Hong-Kong style martial
arts fight was one of the funniest things I've ever seen. :)
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ric
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response 128 of 326:
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May 28 23:53 UTC 2000 |
(She was only particularly beautiful when she SMILED)
If anyone saw this week's "Entertainment Weekly" .. look for the picture of
her in it. She looks like a total dog.
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jazz
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response 129 of 326:
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May 29 13:29 UTC 2000 |
She was beautiful in that "can I see your ID?" sort of way.
I didn't expect anything more than a John Woo film when I went to see
MI:2, which is to say, a fairly visually impressive film with little emotional
development or plot, and it delivered to my expectations exactly. If you're
not expecting anything else, it's quite an enjoyable ride, and as Steve
pointed out, it has some exceptional stunt sequences.
The plot holes are large enough to drive a double-wide trailer through,
and the characters rely more upon the fact that they're handsome or cute to
get the audience to like them, than they ever do upon their personalities or
development. Er, so?
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ric
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response 130 of 326:
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May 30 23:06 UTC 2000 |
Didn't Luthor say the laptop had to be fixed, but the it suddenly started
working again?
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scott
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response 131 of 326:
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May 31 00:59 UTC 2000 |
Good news!
I saw a commercial today for a feature-length Ardmann claymation movie! This
is the guy who did the "Wallace and Gromit" shorts.
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mcnally
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response 132 of 326:
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May 31 01:26 UTC 2000 |
I heard something about it on "All Things Considered's" summer movie
round-up the other day. They mentioned that it was "from the folks
who brought you 'Wallace and Gromit'" -- does that mean Nick Parks
specifically or just that it's produced by the Aardman studios?
I can't remember the title but it has something to do with chickens..
I really hope that they manage to successfully make the jump from
Parks' brilliant animated shorts to a full-length feature..
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edina
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response 133 of 326:
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May 31 02:05 UTC 2000 |
It's called Chicken Run and it is from Nick Parks' studio. I am a die-hard
W&G fan. It's all about Shaun the Sheep.
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ric
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response 134 of 326:
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May 31 02:54 UTC 2000 |
I'll be passing on "Chicken Run" :)
I do want to see "Hollow Man".
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tpryan
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response 135 of 326:
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May 31 16:25 UTC 2000 |
I saw the 7 minute trailer for Battlestar Gallatica: The Second Coming
at MarCon this past weekend. If they can get things done, this will be good
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jazz
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response 136 of 326:
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May 31 16:32 UTC 2000 |
Was that "Shaun" or "Shorn"? I'm not that good with British accents.
Does the Second Coming also feature a phallic "mothership"? :)
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aruba
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response 137 of 326:
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May 31 17:30 UTC 2000 |
Good Lord - I had no idea someone was bringing back Battlestar Galactica.
But - I mean - they got to Earth, right? So what gives?
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edina
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response 138 of 326:
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May 31 18:15 UTC 2000 |
It's Shaun the Sheep. I should know - I have tons of Shaun stuff hanging
around.
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otaking
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response 139 of 326:
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May 31 18:52 UTC 2000 |
They're assuming that Galactica 1980 never happened. After all, who would want
to acknowledge that show.
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