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omni
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response 29 of 241:
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Oct 2 08:03 UTC 1999 |
I caught "Rocky" on TCM last nite, and it was like seeing it for the first
time. I have seen Rocky at least 30 times on venues from WGN to TNT, but
seeing uncut made it more soulful. I mean, after a while you start to see how
hopeless his world is, yet here he is happy to be doing collecting work, and
fighting the occasional club fight.
I think Rocky was well written, and of course the fight scenes were
terrific. Burgess Merideth was stellar as Mickey, as was Burt Young and Talia
Shire.
4 stars. See it uncut and where you can watch it and concentrate on it.
It is a wonderful experience.
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scott
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response 30 of 241:
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Oct 3 13:17 UTC 1999 |
Good news for Ann Arbor folks:
The Michigan will be showing both "Stop Making Sense" and the newly restored
"Yellow Submarine" during October. Consult your Observer for when...
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mcnally
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response 31 of 241:
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Oct 3 13:20 UTC 1999 |
Cool.. I'll have to make an effort to make it to both..
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gull
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response 32 of 241:
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Oct 3 18:19 UTC 1999 |
Wish I knew of somewhere within a few hours of Houghton that was showing
Yellow Submarine...
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scott
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response 33 of 241:
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Oct 3 18:24 UTC 1999 |
You are in the lower peninsula, right? Ann Arbor is at most 5-6 hours away
from anything in the LP. Plus some local Grexers would probably be happy to
have dinner with you....
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mooncat
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response 34 of 241:
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Oct 3 19:13 UTC 1999 |
(Umm, Scott... Hough-ton the Ice Planet is definitely not in the LP. ;) )
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gull
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response 35 of 241:
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Oct 3 19:30 UTC 1999 |
I'm about a 10 hour drive from Ann Arbor. Unfold the other part of your
map. ;>
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mcnally
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response 36 of 241:
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Oct 3 19:37 UTC 1999 |
Scott's probably thinking of Houghton Lake, which is nowhere near Houghton
(except in global or perhaps astronomic terms..)
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gull
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response 37 of 241:
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Oct 3 21:30 UTC 1999 |
I don't suppose it's showing anywhere in Green Bay, Duluth, or Wasau?
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scott
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response 38 of 241:
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Oct 3 22:43 UTC 1999 |
(#36 is correct)
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aruba
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response 39 of 241:
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Oct 4 13:11 UTC 1999 |
Caught Mystery Men at the Fox on Saturday. It was fun.
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gull
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response 40 of 241:
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Oct 4 15:13 UTC 1999 |
I loved the comic-book-ish cars in that movie, especially the
stretched-Vette limo and the hot-rod Charger police cars.
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flem
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response 41 of 241:
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Oct 4 15:14 UTC 1999 |
I saw Better Than Chocolate at the Michigan the other day. It was
enjoyable, but I wasn't all that impressed. All of the characters, not
just the skinheads, seemed to me to be cookie-cutter stereotypes.
Positive ones, perhaps, but still... they weren't individuals to me,
they were personified labels.
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bruin
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response 42 of 241:
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Oct 5 01:06 UTC 1999 |
RE #39 & #40 I was also fascinated in a bizarre way how the signs in Champion
City (site of the "Mystery Men" movie) had Roman, Russian, Japanese, and
Hebrew alphabet words intermixed.
And while the villians had the Corvette limo, our heroes' mode of transport
was a 1959 Rambler Station Wagon!
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mcnally
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response 43 of 241:
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Oct 5 02:23 UTC 1999 |
I really liked "Mystery Men".. definitely a high nerd factor, and you
probably will hate it if you never liked superhero comic books, but for
a certain population segment (to which I just happen to belong) it's a
good movie.
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katie
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response 44 of 241:
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Oct 5 04:42 UTC 1999 |
Spike & Mike's Classic festival of Animation *sucked*. Not usual for them.
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gull
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response 45 of 241:
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Oct 5 14:48 UTC 1999 |
Re #42: I think, basically, if you think "The Tick" is funny, you'll like
_Mystery Men_.
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mooncat
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response 46 of 241:
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Oct 5 15:57 UTC 1999 |
re #45- yeah... I never watched "The Tick" much, but I always thought
it was funny, and I liked "Mystery Men"
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orinoco
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response 47 of 241:
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Oct 5 17:13 UTC 1999 |
I never liked superhero comic books, but I payed just enough attention to them
to get the jokes in "Mystery Men". And I _love_ the tick.
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jazz
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response 48 of 241:
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Oct 5 18:27 UTC 1999 |
You just liked the idea of JG as a superheroine. :)
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otaking
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response 49 of 241:
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Oct 5 18:55 UTC 1999 |
Re #48: Admittedly, that was part of the appeal of the movie for me as well.
^_^
I also loved Mystery Men because it's the only movie I've seen where someone
has a dysfunctional family relationship with an inanimate object. That was
truly bizarre.
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mooncat
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response 50 of 241:
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Oct 5 19:12 UTC 1999 |
<laughs> It was great!! "Now can I go back to grad school?"
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aruba
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response 51 of 241:
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Oct 5 19:15 UTC 1999 |
I liked the part where they were trying to get Mr. Furious angry, but
everything they said just made him more depressed. "You dress in the manner
of a male prostitute!"
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drewmike
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response 52 of 241:
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Oct 5 20:58 UTC 1999 |
Here's all I need to know about "The Tick": If a guy with as many
alimony payments as Micky Dolenz has to make decides that there are
other things he can do with his time, that tells me something.
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richard
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response 53 of 241:
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Oct 10 00:59 UTC 1999 |
BOYS DONT CRY--
This is the terrific new movie based on the true story about a Nebraska
teenager named Teena Brandon, who chose to live her life as a guy named
Brandon Teena, and was ultimately brutally raped and later murdered a
couple of years back by people who didnt understand her sexual
identification struggle. Brandon Teena was, in her mind and heart, a guy
trapped in a female's body and was living in the only way that seemed real
to her, and few people understood. She was raped and murdered by the
ex-boyfriend of a girl she was dating.
This movie does a wonderful job of chronicling Brandon's life and
struggles, and the heinous crimes that took her life and dignity. In our
own way, we all struggle with the issue of identity, finding out who we
are and accepting reality. This movie raises the question: do we have the
right to choose our own identities, even if it is in conflict with what
nature has dictated? This is an explicit and unsettling movie in that it
goes to great lengths to portray accurately everything that happened.
Brandon is played in a great performance by Hillary Swank, who is a
shoo-in for a best actress nomination.
"BOYS DONT CRY" **** (four stars) one of the best movies of the year.
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