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bhelliom
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response 12 of 289:
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Sep 26 13:14 UTC 2002 |
resp:11 - Have you seen 'Tampopo' or 'The Taxing Woman'? Both are
pretty good, especially the latter.
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senna
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response 13 of 289:
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Sep 26 21:49 UTC 2002 |
#10: Don't blame Ronnie for the sequel, blame NASA :)
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jaklumen
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response 14 of 289:
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Sep 27 10:21 UTC 2002 |
resp:2 My understanding, from the sources I've read, is that EpII
comes out both to DVD and IMAX in November.
I'm trucking my butt over to Spokane as fast as I can when that
happens. Riverside Park and Star Wars, here I come!
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richard
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response 15 of 289:
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Sep 28 05:17 UTC 2002 |
MOONLIGHT MILE-- This is a movie about grieving. Dustin Hoffman and
Susan Sarandon play an average couple in a small town who had an only
child, a college-age daughter, who was killed in a senseless, meaningless
shooting in a bar (this all happens before the movie begins so it is not
giving away anything) Their daughter was engaged to be married, and the
movie details the weeks and months following her death, and how the
parents and the young man who was her fiancee deal with their loss. This
young man did not marry Hoffman and Sarandon's daughter, so never became
officially part of their family. But the daughter was the glue that kept
this couple together, so they in their grief cling on to him as something
of a "replacement" for their lost child. And he lets them, because he is
dealing with his own grief and needs to be close to her parents, the only
ones who can truly share his loss. What happens to the relationship
between someone and their in-laws, when the link in that relationship goes
away? This is a pretty moving, emotional movie. Has some script issues
but featurs strong performances from Hoffman, Sarandon, and Jake
Gyllenhaal as the young widowed fiancee. It is directed by Brad
Silberling, who directed "Election", a wonderful movie from a couple years
back.
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danr
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response 16 of 289:
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Sep 28 18:52 UTC 2002 |
BANGER SISTERS. This movie has a great premise and two great actresses.
Too bad they didn't hire any good writers. It's so boring, I almost
fell asleep watching it.
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ric
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response 17 of 289:
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Sep 29 12:49 UTC 2002 |
Saw "Sweet Home Alabama" last night. It was tolerable. Adrienne liked it
more than I did (of course). Personally, I don't think she deserved the guy
she ended up with.
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mynxcat
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response 18 of 289:
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Sep 29 13:04 UTC 2002 |
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ric
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response 19 of 289:
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Sep 29 13:06 UTC 2002 |
re 18 - was it classy the way she treated him? What about the way she treated
his (and her) friends? Or the way she treated her parents?
She was a selfish snob.
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lynne
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Sep 29 21:38 UTC 2002 |
<haven't seen it...but from previews would have to agree with ric>
Saw MIB II last night. Wonderful fun, for a two-hour $3 break from lab at
the campus movie program.
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mynxcat
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response 21 of 289:
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Sep 30 14:16 UTC 2002 |
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edina
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response 22 of 289:
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Sep 30 14:18 UTC 2002 |
You know, some of us havent' seen the movie and might want to. Can you plese
cork it for a few weeks?
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mynxcat
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response 23 of 289:
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Sep 30 14:23 UTC 2002 |
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omni
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response 24 of 289:
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Oct 2 13:58 UTC 2002 |
I dont do first run movies anymore. Wait. I did see Simone. It stunk.
On a brighter note, Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Time Bandits are
now on DVD, as is Wallace and Gromit.
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jep
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response 25 of 289:
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Oct 2 16:39 UTC 2002 |
The Holy Grail is one of the first DVDs I bought.
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giry
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response 26 of 289:
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Oct 7 20:14 UTC 2002 |
Agora 7 <-> Cinema 51
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krj
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response 27 of 289:
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Oct 13 04:16 UTC 2002 |
Six hours ago I'd never heard of the new German movie "Mostly Martha;"
I stumbled across it in the Michigan Theater listings and the
reviews looked promising, and Leslie has been wanting to see some
movies to refresh her German language skills, so we went.
It's a wonderfully warm, sad and funny story; in some ways a
resetting of "About A Boy." Martha, the protagonist, doesn't
deal with anything in life except cooking, and then an 8-year-old
girl gets dropped into her life... the cooking framework of the
story is portrayed lushly, and I expect foodies will get a kick out
of that too.
Highly recommended to European cinema fans. I think it runs at the
Michigan at least through Thursday.
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slynne
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response 28 of 289:
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Oct 13 13:47 UTC 2002 |
Hmm I will have to check that one out.
I saw Igby Goes Down on friday at the Madstone theater in Briarwood. I
was never especially fond of the theater there and I found that
everything I really disliked about it is the same. The A/C was on to
high so it was freezing and the seats are not the most comfortable
(although they werent actually UNcomfortable either.)
Igby Goes Down was a very enjoyable movie though. It is about a boy who
gets kicked out of a bunch of fancy prep schools and then, instead of
going to another one, runs away to NYC. A lot of reviewers compared it
with Catcher in the Rye and I could see why. It is, however, not a
retelling of Catcher in the Rye so one shouldnt expect that.
Igby is played by Kiran McCaulkin. It took me about 10 minutes or so to
get over his resemblence to his brother. He is a fine actor and did
well as the poor little rich boy. Susan Sarandon played Igby's mother.
She was fabulous, as usual. If she had had a bigger part, she would
have stolen the show.
The movie got kind of sappy at times but I like that. Anyone who doesnt
like sappy, though, should watch out. There is a fine line between a
brilliant emotional scene and overly sweet trying-to-hard to be
touching. Unfortunately, this film crossed the line a few times. If it
hadnt, it would have been a brilliant film. It's pretty good though
even with the sappy parts. I cried during some of them.
Also there were some details that troubled me. For example, there is a
character in the story who ends up as a heroin junkie. Her appearance
gets progressively worse throughout the film. In the last scene where
she is portrayed, she looks terrible. Her hair is unkept. Her lips are
chapped and yet...her eyebrows are still perfectly manicured. Puh-leez!
If she doesnt have it together enough to comb her hair or put on
chapstick, she doesnt have it together enough to pluck her eyebrows.
And if she is a junkie, she probably doesnt have the money to go have
them done.
There arent a lot of movies out in the theaters right now so Igby Goes
Down is definately worth checking out.
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pvn
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response 29 of 289:
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Oct 16 08:35 UTC 2002 |
Got _Murder by the Numbers_ in the six dollar bin at _Sam's Club_
and I wonder how I missed it when it was released. And I wonder
how it falls to the six buck bin at _Sam's Club_ so fast. Sandra
Bullock (is that her true name?) is as usual quirky and excellent
but we still don't get to see her tittys. Sort of a Leopold and
Loeb meets Columbine HS meets CourtTV it is still a good do at six
bucks and probably was a good do in the theater - well, at the
matinee price. There are no twists and turns, you know everything
that is going on as it is going on but still somehow its well worth
the six bucks at the _Sam's Club' bargain bin and you could do a
lot worse. It even has sophmoric pretensions of visual allusions
to even more boring british liturature without a clue that they
are boring, superficial, and contrived. So crontrived in the film
they have to be deliberate.
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slynne
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response 30 of 289:
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Oct 16 12:55 UTC 2002 |
Hmmm. Maybe I'll try to see if it is the bargain bin at the Sam's Club
around here.
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omni
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response 31 of 289:
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Oct 16 16:35 UTC 2002 |
Big Trouble
Just came out on DVD/Video, and it's pretty close to the book, although
the book *WAS* way funnier. What's it about? Rent it or read the book. It's
almost undescribable.
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albaugh
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response 32 of 289:
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Oct 18 21:48 UTC 2002 |
One thing I liked about Spiderman was that the "secret identity" character
was not "perfect" - he had plenty of human flaws to make him more "normal".
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mynxcat
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response 33 of 289:
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Oct 18 21:52 UTC 2002 |
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lelande
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response 34 of 289:
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Oct 19 03:13 UTC 2002 |
Igby Goes Down. it may not be Catcher in the Rye, but i bet if you scrape off
all the extra Rushmore and Royal Tenenbaums from its reels, what you'll be
left with is Catcher in the Rye.
I loved Spiderman (except for the barely tolerable costume-designing montage),
and i will be front and center for every sequel.
Red Dragon sucked fat asses. I assume it was a different director. crappy
sets, completely uninteresting performances by everyone EXCEPT (oddly) Ralph
Fiennes... and i thought the blind girl was a good actor. I did not see
hannibal, because the story sounded from way out in the wilderness of
stupidity, and Silence of the Lambs is a first-rate creepy movie. Why the
let-down? why even bother if you're not going to do it right?
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mcnally
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response 35 of 289:
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Oct 19 13:28 UTC 2002 |
More to the point, why even bother if its been done pretty decently already?
I've not read one review of "Red Dragon" that failed to offer the reviewer's
opinion that "Manhunter" was a better movie..
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jmsaul
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response 36 of 289:
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Oct 19 13:48 UTC 2002 |
Manhunter is just great.
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