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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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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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edina
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response 37 of 289:
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Oct 19 15:40 UTC 2002 |
Ditto. I watched it again recently because Costco was selling it for like
$11. Worth every cent. And I have a big jones for William Petersen.
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jep
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response 38 of 289:
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Oct 19 23:53 UTC 2002 |
"Spiderman" was good but it didn't match "X Men" in my opinion.
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richard
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response 39 of 289:
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Oct 21 01:00 UTC 2002 |
AUTO FOCUS-- This is another dark character study by writer/director
Paul Schraeder, who wrote Taxi Driver, and directed Affliction, among
others. It is a biopic on the life of actor Bob Crane, a well known
Los Angeles disk jockey in the fifties/sixties who achieved even
greater fame as Colonel Hogan in the tv series Hogan's Heroes. This
movie picks up right before Crane gets the part in Hogan's Heroes and
takes you through the run of the series and the years afterward,
showing in the process the benefits of and dangers of celebrity, and
the rise and fall of a lonely man caught up in the web of his own
success. Crane had a serious sex addiction problem that he lost
control of when he became a big tv star, and suddenly could get sex
whenever and wherever he wanted. He is portrayed as a deeply insecure
man with low self esteem, who changed as a result of his celebrity and
went from being insecure to the flip side of that, which is
narcissism.
As Hogan's Heroes ends, Crane deals with the pressures of his career
suddenly flaming out, by overindulging and becoming addicted to his
formerly closeted interests of pornography and sex. He befriends a man
who is an expert at audio/visual technology, such as it was in those
days, and they both end up totally into the early seventies swinger
scene, bringing home unknown women and filming themselves having sex
with them. Crane descends into more and more behaviour he has little
ability or puts little effort into controlling-- he is a lonely man
whose one big asset, his tv celebrity, means many women will sleep him
and this enables him to deal with his loneliness with sexual
encounters. Encounters that he tapes, and later feeds his own
narcissism by watching those tapes over and over. It is not any secret
how this movie ends, because it is well known that Bob Crane was
brutally murdered in an Arizona apartment in 1978. But this movie
attempts to portray who Bob Crane was and what he had become, without
being too judgemental.
This is an excellent, riveting movie, but if you aren't into dark
movies, or explicit sexual scenes, you probably won't like this. Bob
Crane is played by Greg Kinnear, in a great performance that is likely
to make him a best actor favorite come Academy Award time. Kinnear is
wonderful playing a character who goes through a serious emotional
rollercoaster during the movie. This is the performance of Kinnear's
career. Crane's best friend, the audio/video expert who becomes
his "manager" and club-hopping buddy, is played by Willem Dafoe (one of
my favorite actors who is great in virtually everything he does)
AUTO FOCUS (the Bob Crane story), opens nationally this coming week. I
give it a full four stars without question
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lynne
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response 40 of 289:
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Oct 21 02:05 UTC 2002 |
Scooby Doo: Pure dumb fun :) Well worth the $3 at the campus 2nd run.
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mynxcat
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response 41 of 289:
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Oct 21 14:34 UTC 2002 |
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slynne
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response 42 of 289:
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Oct 21 14:47 UTC 2002 |
Heh, re b) I like old fashioned names, FWIW. I would be the type to
give a kid a really old fashioned name like Hannah or Emma or something
like that.
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mcnally
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Oct 21 17:07 UTC 2002 |
The name "Hannah" seems to be enjoying a resurgence in popularity recently.
I've run across a number of couples who have chosen it for their daughters.
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mynxcat
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response 44 of 289:
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Oct 22 01:03 UTC 2002 |
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mdw
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response 45 of 289:
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Oct 22 01:43 UTC 2002 |
Sure. I can't see how it's any worse than "Sapna".
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mynxcat
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response 46 of 289:
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Oct 22 02:39 UTC 2002 |
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giffofwh
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response 47 of 289:
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Oct 22 02:41 UTC 2002 |
I am a newuser in the syetem. Harry Potter is a good film for children or
Adults of fatastiy dream.
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remmers
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response 48 of 289:
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Oct 22 02:45 UTC 2002 |
Re #46: Nobody seemed to think that Ginger Rogers' name was weird.
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gelinas
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response 49 of 289:
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Oct 22 02:52 UTC 2002 |
The English have long named their daughters for flowers and herbs.
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orinoco
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response 50 of 289:
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Oct 22 02:57 UTC 2002 |
Malorie, I'm told, means "misfortune" in French (malheurie). People name
their kids all sorts of seemingly-odd things.
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jmsaul
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response 51 of 289:
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Oct 22 03:26 UTC 2002 |
Names like that were traditionally to keep evil influences away from the
kid by convincing them that the kid is already accursed, or something like
that.
Re #48: Names go in and out of style. Nobody thought it was weird to
name a child Prudence once upon a time either. Or Mildred.
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mdw
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response 52 of 289:
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Oct 22 03:27 UTC 2002 |
The major problem with Ginger would be getting confused with a certain
bunch of castaways in TV-land. "Dream" on the other hand, would be a
definitely unusual name that does not have completely positive
attributes in English. "He's a dream" may be considered complimentary
when uttered by 50's girls, but "he's a dreamer not a doer" is
distinctly less complimentary. I'm sorry to say that Sapna, itself,
would have other unfortunate near-ringers in sound or spelling, such as
saponify, to convert into soap (often a smelly and somewhat grisly
process), or "sappy" - which itself is unreasonably close to "dreamy" in
meaning.
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