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otter
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response 157 of 290:
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Aug 2 04:35 UTC 1998 |
ref #155: Then maybe the one I'm looking for is an earlier remake, circa
1985-88.
<shrug> How old is the French one?
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remmers
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response 158 of 290:
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Aug 2 13:05 UTC 1998 |
The original French "Diabolique" dates from 1955. There was a
made-for-TV remake in 1974 called "Reflections of Murder" that
starred Tuesday Weld. Perhaps that's the one you saw?
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otter
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response 159 of 290:
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Aug 3 22:35 UTC 1998 |
Hmmm. Thanks, I'll check into that. The title "Dead of Winter" comes to mind,
too.
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remmers
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response 160 of 290:
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Aug 4 00:51 UTC 1998 |
"Dead of Winter" was a 1987 thriller starring Mary Steenburgen
and Roddy McDowall. It was about a woman being held prisoner in
an eerie old mansion. Not really the same story as "Diabolique",
but somewhat similar ambience perhaps.
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mystik
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response 161 of 290:
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Aug 5 17:13 UTC 1998 |
The Best movie of the entire summer is SAVING PRIVATE RYAN The movie is just
flat out great!Spielberg once again shows why hes the best...The acting was
tremendous and the movie didnt get boring for even a minuite ...(exept for
maybe the last 1 min or so...Youls see what I mean(ie the future)..The movie
is an A++...!!!
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omni
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response 162 of 290:
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Aug 8 04:08 UTC 1998 |
Evita 3 stars.
I didn't see the stage play, but it was very well staged, and acted by
both Antonio Bandares, and Madonna, who was suprisingly good as Eva. In many
respects it was typical Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice in style. It reminded
me a lot of Jesus Christ, Superstar. The songs by Madonna were excellent, and
Banderes is a good singer as well. I didn't know that about him.
I highly suggest that if you have the chance to see it, see it.
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kittie
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response 163 of 290:
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Aug 8 08:35 UTC 1998 |
I saw "Halloween: H20"
One word....
Wow
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scott
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response 164 of 290:
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Aug 8 11:42 UTC 1998 |
"Yojimbo", a Japanese film from 1961 directed by Akira Kurasawa and starring
Toshiro Mifune. If you ever wondered where John Belushi got his samurai
character from, you must see this film. Very funny!
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tpryan
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response 165 of 290:
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Aug 8 12:20 UTC 1998 |
A freind of mine said Evita reminded him of Joseph & his Amazing
Techinicolr Dreamcoat. Musically.
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scott
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response 166 of 290:
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Aug 8 12:41 UTC 1998 |
Oh, the other important thing about Yojimbo: It was remade as a western
starring Clint Eastwood, as "A Fistfull of Dollars", and appears to be the
inspiration for the classic Clint "man with no name" character that appeared
in a number of films.
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e4808mc
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response 167 of 290:
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Aug 8 16:40 UTC 1998 |
Another interesting thing about Yojimbo: the sequi "Sanjuro" is playing on
Friday Aug 14 at the UM Center for Japanese STudies at 7 pm.
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e4808mc
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response 168 of 290:
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Aug 8 17:01 UTC 1998 |
Location is actually Lorch Hall for "Sanjuro"
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krj
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response 169 of 290:
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Aug 8 17:50 UTC 1998 |
Right, Center for Japanese Studies is the sponsor of the films,
not the location. I'm glad someone is getting to see these.
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omni
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response 170 of 290:
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Aug 9 04:05 UTC 1998 |
I think Evita was written just after Jesus Christ, Superstar. I remember
buying the sountrack and libretto in 1981. I really fell in love with it, and
I was pissed when some jerk stole it along with all my other tapes.
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kittie
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response 171 of 290:
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Aug 9 04:43 UTC 1998 |
I just got back from watching "Ever After"... yet another grrreat Drew
Barrymore film :)
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scg
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response 172 of 290:
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Aug 9 05:06 UTC 1998 |
I saw Ever After last night. It was pretty nice.
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daimon
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response 173 of 290:
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Aug 11 12:56 UTC 1998 |
I saw SAVING PRIVATE RYAN last Saturday. That's a film I have no
problem recommending. The best word to describe it is "relentless" -
the killing and the mayhem just never seems to end. It was a good up
close and personal look at some real dying and death during a war. A+,
go see it, yadda yadda yadda.
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jep
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response 174 of 290:
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Aug 11 14:49 UTC 1998 |
We rented The Full Monty over the weekend. I thought it was tedious and
boring, with very little to recommend it.
We also rented Men in Black. While I enjoyed this one (as I knew, I've
seen it before) I found myself wondering, as I have with other Tommy Lee
Jones movies: if they replaced Tommy Lee Jones with a cardboard cutout,
would anyone notice the difference? He seems like an "insert generic
actor here" kind of guy.
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senna
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response 175 of 290:
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Aug 11 16:06 UTC 1998 |
Somehow I find the critiques of Saving Private Ryan, including mine, to be
amusing--"relentless, nonstop gore. Excellent movie, A+." Is that just me,
or is this really a unique issue? :)
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bjorn
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response 176 of 290:
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Aug 11 17:19 UTC 1998 |
on August 8th, scg, Dave Warner, and I saw "Snake Eyes". We thought it was,
um, interesting.
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coyote
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response 177 of 290:
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Aug 11 23:07 UTC 1998 |
Re 174:
Really? I though The Full Monty was a really funny, cute movie.
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maeve
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response 178 of 290:
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Aug 11 23:27 UTC 1998 |
I liked the Full Monty, but then I was biased..a lot...
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happyboy
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response 179 of 290:
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Aug 12 01:35 UTC 1998 |
you have a think for chubby nekkid guys?
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md
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response 180 of 290:
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Aug 12 12:48 UTC 1998 |
LOLITA (A) -- Somebody read the novel on which this movie is based
and then crafted an amazingly detailed visual representation of it.
Not much of Nabokov's language brilliance remains, but the scenes
are so beautifully detailed that many of them came close to matching
the mental images I've always had of the book's people and places.
An awful lot of stuff has been left out that Kubrick managed to
include in his version 35 years ago, such as John and Jean Farlow,
Frederick Beale, etc. These were wonderful Nabokovian comic
characters, whose absence is more than made up for, imho, by the
loving, almost obsessive, detail paid to other things, such as the
various motels, Beardsley school, and the Kasbeam barber. Above
all, the movie captures the rich, inescapable horror of Nabokov's
novel. Hubert's sexual paradise had skies the color of hell-flames,
he said, and it's all there. The screenwriter added a couple of
years to Dolores's age (making her 14 instead of 12) and also to
Humbert's age (40ish instead of mid-thirties), but the shame and
horror are still there. Now if we can talk Adrian Lyne into doing
Pale Fire .. .
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md
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response 181 of 290:
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Aug 12 13:03 UTC 1998 |
LETHAL WEAPON 4 (D) -- I was hoping that Chris Rock might inject
some new life into this tired old franchise. No such luck.
SPHERE (C) -- One of those movies you hate because of all the cool
things it could have done and didn't. The three main actors, Dustin
Hoffman, Samuel L. Jackson and Sharon Stone, are three of my
all-time favorites, though, so just seeing them trying to keep
straight faces was worth the price of the rental.
JACKIE BROWN (B) -- Not bad at all. Extremely well-cast, especially
Samuel L. Jackson as a not-very-bright but very vicious villian.
(Jackson is turing into the male version of Anne Heche -- he seems
to be in every other movie I see.)
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