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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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mcnally
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response 305 of 342:
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Mar 9 00:53 UTC 2006 |
I'm working on something like this for the telephone company I work
for except that the video-on-demand servers live here at the phone
company and not in your living room. The Disney gadget sounds
interesting..
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nharmon
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response 306 of 342:
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Mar 9 00:58 UTC 2006 |
The disney gadget sounds like it would be better suited for the one-way
communications that you typically find with satellite TV. My cable
company uses video-on-demand and the videos are kept on the cable
company's servers.
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marcvh
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response 307 of 342:
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Mar 9 00:59 UTC 2006 |
So, you buy a $200 box, then pay a $30 activation fee, for the privilege
of paying $2-5 per title.
There is absolutely no chance that Moviebeam could succeed in taking down
Netflix. At best it looks comparable to the VOD offerings from many cable
companies. Personally I don't think VOD will threaten Netflix any time
soon, not for technological reasons but for business reasons.
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nharmon
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response 308 of 342:
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Mar 9 01:02 UTC 2006 |
My digital cable box is owned by the cable company, and I didn't pay a
dime to activate it. VOD movies are $3.95/ea and I can watch one for 24
hours after purchasing it.
VOD is better suited for people like me who will only pay to watch 1 or
2 movies a month (if that). And my cable company throws in 4 free VOD
movie passes around Christmas time.
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slynne
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response 309 of 342:
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Mar 9 03:23 UTC 2006 |
I think VOD movies would have to get down to around $1-$2 to have a
chance at competing with Netflix.
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remmers
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response 310 of 342:
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Mar 9 13:01 UTC 2006 |
And they'd have to offer something comparable to Netflix's huge catalog.
Movie Beam restricts you to 100 current offerings, Netflix offers
thousands of movies. They're simply not comparable services.
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jep
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response 311 of 342:
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Mar 9 13:30 UTC 2006 |
I wonder when Netflix will go to distribution by Internet? It would
seem that eliminating shipping costs would be worth a lot to them.
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jadecat
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response 312 of 342:
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Mar 9 15:03 UTC 2006 |
This weekend (+ 2 vacatgion days) was busy for movies... Saw a tv-aired
version of 'Gone in 60 Seconds' (when visiting someone with cable) and
it was okay. The cars were awfully pretty.
Also saw 'Unleashed' with Jet Li, Morgan Freeman and Bob Hoskins. The
story is that a small time Godfather (Hoskins) raised Li's character to
be a weapon- a dog to be unleased on those who didn't pay their debts.
Li even wears a collar and when it is removed he goes straight to
ass-kisking mode, until his 'Uncle' calls him off and replaces the
collar. This goes well until Danny (Li) meets up with a blind piano
tuner (Freeman). That meeting begins Danny's journey down the path of
redemption and discovery- of course. It's an entertaining movie, though
nothing particularly new in plot or dialogue. The fight scenes are fun
to watch- especially when remembering that Jet Li alters his fighting
style for every role, to work with the personality of the character he's
playing. That was fun to watch in The One wherein he played two
characters and both fought differently due to their personality
differences. Anyway, 'Unleashed' was entertaining with some fun fight
scenes.
Oh, actually went to the theater and saw 'Chronicles of Narnia.' As the
hubby put it 'It was better than I expected.' I really enjoyed it, and
as one reviewer put it- the humans looked almost as real as the animals!
Aslan was fabulous! Oh, and I discovered that my new eyeliner is indeed
tear proof. ;) The characters were a great deal of fun, even when I
wanted to smack one or two- or just hurry them up. Tilda Swinton was, as
usual, wonderful. I love the story as well, the concept of having a
wardrobe that can take you to a magic land, and they did a wonderful job
in making the movie.
My brain did hurt though... First watched 'Domino' with Kiera Knightly.
It was more twisted than I expected, though not more violent (however, I
had better warning about that part). I'm not really sure I could say if
I liked it or not, but there were some aspects that I really liked.
Watching someone on screen with a wicked right jab- used on people many
in real life would like to hit- was fun. That said, I wouldn't want to
know that person in real life.
Then I watched the newly made 'Pride and Prejudice'- also staring Kiera
Knightly. The brain went ow. This adaptation... there were bits that I
really enjoyed- the casting for Mr Collins, as well as his
characterization decisions, was excellent. The giggliness of the Bennets
was nice to see, and Kiera Knightly did a fine job as Elizabeth Bennet.
Wickham... had the look, but he didn't come across as sympathetic enough
to me. Plus so much of it felt rushed to me in the beginning, even the
speed at which the characters spoke seemed rushed. From the middle to
the end it was better in terms of pacing. There were some extractions-
Mr & Mrs Hurst were no where to be seen, nor was Kitty Lucas. Those I
could live with. Overall I DID enjoy this version quite a bit. Matthew
MacFadyen did an admirable job as Mr. Darcy, even if he is no Colin
Firth. ;) Rosamund Pike as Jane was very well cast, though I spent much
of the movie trying to figure out where I'd seen her before (as the
hubby did when I made him watch a few snippets). Turns out she was in
'Doom.' That probably would have hurt my brain more, but as I didn't
realize this while watching the movie I was okay. Jena Malone, seen in
'Saved' did very well as Lydia. Judi Dench as Lady Catherine was just a
fabulous choice.
And that I believe sums up the weekend. I'm sure others may like doing
more exciting things on their vacations- but I'm a fan of snuggling on
the couch with my hubby and watching movies. :)
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