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edina
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response 280 of 342:
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Feb 21 18:36 UTC 2006 |
I *love* "Under the Tuscan Sun".
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jadecat
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response 281 of 342:
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Feb 21 19:03 UTC 2006 |
Watched "The Cell" over the weekend. The hubby said it was an art
director's movie... and he was right. The concept of entering another's
mind was interesting, the plot- eh, acting... well it wasn't horrible.
The visuals? Absolutely stunning! So for that I give it a B-.
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tod
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response 282 of 342:
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Feb 21 19:07 UTC 2006 |
I think it should've been named "Menopause with Vodka Marinara"
I didn't like the WASP broad digging into everyone's private business. Had
she been a loyal neighbor, she would have put the father of Chiara into the
loop. Instead, she meddled and lied. No, no..I didn't like that movie.
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tod
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response 283 of 342:
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Feb 21 19:08 UTC 2006 |
re #281 slipped
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mcnally
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response 284 of 342:
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Feb 21 20:13 UTC 2006 |
re #279:
> Under the Tuscan Sun had some subtle references to that movie.
"subtle references"? It's mentioned several times by name. One of
the characters re-enacts a scene from the earlier movie, for goodness'
sake. What part of that is "subtle"?
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tod
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response 285 of 342:
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Feb 21 20:20 UTC 2006 |
The subtleties(sp?) are the bored socialite and the "serious" writer/deep
thinker similarities in both films. The sad difference is that nobody dies
in the end of Tuscan Sun. I'd had preferred if they all went off a cliff in
Marcello's Porsche.
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albaugh
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response 286 of 342:
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Feb 21 20:48 UTC 2006 |
> Society would not accept the relationship of Romeo and Juliet
Uh, wrong: It was about what the Montagues and Capulets wouldn't accept,
not "society". West Side Story was about inter-racial/cultural,
BM is about intra-gender.
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tod
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response 287 of 342:
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Feb 21 20:52 UTC 2006 |
BM is about cornholing
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happyboy
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response 288 of 342:
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Feb 21 23:24 UTC 2006 |
ooh raw!
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richard
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response 289 of 342:
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Feb 22 15:41 UTC 2006 |
the Montagues and Capulets REPRESENTED society
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jadecat
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response 290 of 342:
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Feb 22 16:08 UTC 2006 |
No, they were two dueling families- had either married anyone else it
would have been perfectly fine.
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tod
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response 291 of 342:
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Feb 22 17:16 UTC 2006 |
re #289
Did benvolio represent Jesus?
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richard
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response 292 of 342:
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Feb 22 18:45 UTC 2006 |
re #290 I was talking about metaphorically
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jadecat
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response 293 of 342:
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Feb 22 18:50 UTC 2006 |
resp:292 I know you were- but it's not an apt metaphor.
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gull
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response 294 of 342:
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Feb 23 03:40 UTC 2006 |
I rented Peewee's Playhouse Season 1 from Netflix. My GOD this is a
trippy show. When I originally saw it as a nine-year-old kid I didn't
really appreciate that.
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krj
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response 295 of 342:
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Feb 26 04:53 UTC 2006 |
News flash via charcat in party: GRIZZLY MAN, my favorite film of
2005, is airing on the Discovery Channel. Remaining showings this
weekend are 8 & 11 pm USA Eastern Time on Sunday.
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/grizzlyman/grizzlyman.html
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/grizzlyman/about/about.html
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eprom
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response 296 of 342:
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Feb 26 11:40 UTC 2006 |
too bad they interupt the movie ever 5 minutes for a commercial
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krj
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response 297 of 342:
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Feb 26 18:20 UTC 2006 |
Well, get the DVD then, which contains 50 minutes on the making of
the movie soundtrack, by my long-time fave Richard Thompson.
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jep
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response 298 of 342:
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Feb 27 00:23 UTC 2006 |
I just got back from "Eight Below", the movie about abandoned dogs in
Antarctica. I thought it was amazingly badly made. There was not one
character who had the slightest shred of personality. Half of the movie
is devoted to the dogs themselves who were left behind, who did such
interesting things as chasing birds and whining at each other.
My wife has been waiting for this movie since last summer when she saw
an ad. I guess she liked it. (She wants to buy it when it comes out on
DVD.) The two 13 year olds (my stepson and his friend) said they liked
it "okay". My 10 year old stepdaughter didn't like it at all because it
wasn't realistic enough for her.
It wasn't realistic enough for me, either. Or well enough put together,
or interesting enough.
It's the first movie I've seen not starring Tommy Lee Jones which had
this little character development.
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jadecat
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response 299 of 342:
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Feb 27 14:11 UTC 2006 |
Last night the hubby and I were in the mood for a brainless shoot-em-up.
So the natural choice was the recently released to DVD- Doom. It was
precisely that, a brainless shoot-em-up. But it was fun. Far less
monster killing than I would have suspected, but eh, what can you do? ;)
The conflict between one of the male leads and the female lead wasn't
the stereotypical 'ex-lovers who hate each other- but must learn to get
along again' but rather twins who had a severe difference of opinion. So
that was a lot of fun. Plus- Karl Urban. :)
Watching the special feature about the training the actors went through-
Aussie (I think) former military training them so that they can at least
kinda look like special forces was funny. Hearing the differences in
accent among several of the actors just blew me away. Perhaps it's all
my America-centric viewpoint, but I'm used to Americans donning fake
accents and doing fairly well. Having non-Americans do the same always
takes me by surprise.
Overall- lots of gun fire, some screaming, monsters dying. Fun! :)
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edina
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response 300 of 342:
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Feb 27 17:43 UTC 2006 |
I caught "In Her Shoes" this weekend, which I had bought because I love
Jennifer Weiner's books. I thought they had the casting dead on in most of
the cases (Cameron Diaz, Shirley MacLaine), but though that Toni Collette was
just, well, too thin. They stuck to the book about 60% of the time, which
I liked, and the scene at the wedding where Diaz reads the e.e. cummings poem
was incredible. The basic premise of one good sister, one bad sister, mom
killing self when they were young, family dysfunction - well, it's really best
described as a chick flick of the highest degree.
I also saw "Alexander", as interpreted by Oliver Stone. What does it say when
the best thing I can say is that Colin Farrel has nice thighs? I have to
wonder how an actor of Johnathan Rhys-Myers' caliber looks at that film and
wonders if it was what he envisioned.
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remmers
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response 301 of 342:
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Feb 28 14:16 UTC 2006 |
Watched Wes Craven's recent suspense thriller "Red Eye" on DVD. Unlike
most of Craven's output, this is not a horror or slasher movie.
Interesting premise, a bit of suspense, an appealing self-reliant and
resourceful heroine, but the resolution packs in all the usual cliches
of the genre.
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jadecat
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response 302 of 342:
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Feb 28 14:43 UTC 2006 |
Oh, and over the weekend the hubby and I watched "Zathura" which was a
lot of fun, and quite funny.
Zathura is the story of two squabbling brothers who begin to play this
'space game' called Zathura. The boys quickly find that the game has
some unexpected repercussions and they have to keep playing.
The casting of the two young boys was well done. The squabbled nicely
and, I dunno, just worked well together. Having been a younger sibling
myself I just kept wanting to hug the little one. ;)
There was action, there was humor, a lot of humor, and a lot of fun.
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richard
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response 303 of 342:
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Mar 9 00:40 UTC 2006 |
There's a new alternative to Netflix for non-cable users called Movie
Beam, from Walt Disney Co.. Basically you get a hard drive that you
attach to your tv, and the hard drive has an antenna on it and one
hundred movies are beamed into the hard drive for you to choose from.
You rent each movie at the click of the remote, just like cable ppv,
and pay $2 or $3 for each 24-hour rental. The product was reviewed in
today's Wall Street Journal and got pretty good marks. The reviewer
complained that they don't let you choose which 100 movies are beamed
into your hard drive, but that option may soon be available.
Its an alternative to netflix, where you'd never have to worry about
receiving or sending discs, or getting a disc in the mail that stops
playing a third of the way through because there is the tiniest little
scratch on it. It will be interesting to see if Movie Beam succeeds
in taking down Netflix.
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tod
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response 304 of 342:
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Mar 9 00:44 UTC 2006 |
We watched Walk the Line this weekend using Netflix. Brand spankin new DVD
release with no fuss. I think Netflix is a piece of cake cuz there's no
late fee.
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