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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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mcnally
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response 54 of 241:
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Oct 10 03:42 UTC 1999 |
Earlier this week I saw, and was impressed by (not totally sure I "liked")
"Three Kings"
Basic plot summary -- just after the Desert Storm cease-fire, four American
servicemen serving in the gulf take a map from a captured Iraqi soldier.
Deducing that the map shows the location of valuables looted from Kuwait,
the four decide to "liberate" some of the loot for themselves.
Sounds like a by-now standard caper-movie in a war-movie setting, right?
Well, there's more to it than that.. When things don't go exactly as
planned (do things ever go exactly as planned?) the protagonists are
quickly caught up in a situation for which they are totally unprepared
(in any number of ways.)
What's good about this film is the very fresh viewpoint it brings to a
very tired genre, and the surprisingly effective moral ambiguity that
suffuses every character's actions.
Viewers should be aware that the movie contains disturbing scenes of
graphic violence which, due to the fact that the movie doesn't break
down neatly into "good guys vs. bad guys" are made even more disturbing.
It also has a weak ending -- or perhaps it has a normal ending but has
such a strong beginning that the ending nevertheless feels like a cop-out..
Anyway, highly recommended to those who can take the violence.
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omni
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response 55 of 241:
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Oct 10 06:49 UTC 1999 |
I found a new sleeping aid-- Titanic. 30 minutes and you're out like a
light.
I *was* prepared to watch Titanic on HBO, since I had been avoiding it like
the plague until now. I flipped it on, started to get fascinated by the diving
tech and then WHAM! It turned slow and boring. I woke up 2 hours later
wondering what the hell happened. I decided that it was better to go upstairs
and take a bath.
Tonight's feature was a little better. The Bedford Incident with Richard
Widmark as a tightly wound, haunted captain of a frigate who is hunting a
Russian sub. Good performances by Martin Balsam, and Sidney Portier, as well
as a very young Donald Sutherland and James MacArthur. As an extra added bonus
was an appearance by Wally Cox, who gave a yet another stellar, steady
performance as a young sonarman. I won't spoil the ending, but it is a good
suspense flick. Black and White, made in 1965.
4 stars.
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bdh2
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response 56 of 241:
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Oct 10 07:18 UTC 1999 |
_The Spanish Prisoner_ Maybe I am just a conditioned fan of Mahmet's
films but this one was way kewl. I know/knew enough about his style to
predict many of the plot twists as we watched but it was still very much
enjoyable to watch how the plot played out. Well worth the 7.99 OSCOS's
pre-viewed video price for the VHS cassete. It is just so kewl. We
know its a 'con job' because we know his films, but we don't 'know' what
the 'conjob' is until----well....Besides, you know the character actors
he likes to use. (Here are some new ones sure to show up in future
offerings) About the only complaint I have about the film is I still
want to know what 'the process' is. Is it a synthetic gasoline (from a
much earlier film involving George C. Scott)? Is it a 'wonderdrug'? We
never find out. And his awsome touch of throwing in that 'cameo'
appearance of a well known actor of his films who is in fact NOT who we
see him as is blissfully well done. I woulda payed full price to see it
in a movie theater and still woulda bought the video. ITs still not
_The Usual Suspects_ type of quality, but it is damn close.
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bdh2
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response 57 of 241:
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Oct 10 07:26 UTC 1999 |
re#55: Second the praise for _The Bedford Incident_. A well done flick
of how WW-III just might happen. Very very realistic at the time and
yet today. Things have not changed all that much and it is the
technology portrayed in the film that is the actual very real threat
that is 'wargamed' today in the 'War Colleges' even though the cast may
be slightly different. Well worth the rent or buy.
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drewmike
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response 58 of 241:
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Oct 10 19:36 UTC 1999 |
I saw "Crash" last night. (Yeah, Independent Film Channel. That's just what
you want to be showing people who can't sleep.)
The short version: Until I saw "Crash", I always thought that no matter how
bad the movie was, it could be redeemed by a scene of Holly Hunter and Rosanna
Arquette getting extrafriendly with each other.
Okay, I was wrong.
The version that puts any of my film classes to work: "Crash" seemed to be
a softporn movie that had aspirations of psychological drama (the desier to
return to zero blah blah.) Or maybe it was the other way around. In either
case, it took itself way too seriously, and at any given moment was always
too much of both and not enough of either. Now if they had really gone all
out and played it for camp, I might have enjoyed it more.
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