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slynne
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response 64 of 112:
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Jul 26 12:49 UTC 2003 |
I saw Pirates of the Caribbean last night. It was a lot better than I
thought it would be. Johnny Depp did a great job. Even Aaron, who isnt
a Johnny Depp fan by any means, thought so.
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giry
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response 65 of 112:
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Jul 27 18:22 UTC 2003 |
Agora 62 <-> Cinema 57
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albaugh
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response 66 of 112:
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Jul 31 16:57 UTC 2003 |
"The Natural" was on Bravo last night. That reminded me to ask this question
(I never read the book): At the party at Memo's, after Gus was unable to
bribe Roy to help throw the last 3 games of the regular season, Memo at one
point put something in Roy's mouth to eat ("Try this."). Later, Roy has to
leave the party in pain with some kind of stomach ailment, gets admitted to
the hospital. Did Memo in fact poison Roy?
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mooncat
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response 67 of 112:
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Aug 1 18:20 UTC 2003 |
re #62 and 63- isn't he though? He's right up there with Jason
Statham. :)
It's pretty much been proposed that Shane West's character was only
there to serve as sort of a living reminder of Quartermaine's dead son.
And yeah, the Mina and Dorian scenes were oh so much fun. :) Dorian
just oozed attitude and arrogance- such fun!
Haven't seen The Hulk, but I'll take your word on that, Brooke. We seem
to have so many similar movie tastes anyhow. ;)
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pvn
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response 68 of 112:
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Aug 9 08:16 UTC 2003 |
Seen _Catch me if you can_ tonight on DVD. Funny flick with a nice
ending. It would have been a lot better if the titanic dude wasn't cast
opposite Hanks but, details. IT was part of a haul of DVD rentals that
were purchased from a major chain for 10$US each. Gonna rip the DVD and
post the ISO VCD images on the SHazBat p2p network so my posse can enjoy
it if they want to. Fuck the RIAA et al, it it were so good in the
first place folk would have paid to see it live or in the theater in the
first place. The fact that it is "rented out" along with the other
"direct to video" stinkers means that hundreds of people "share" the DVD
one person at a time and each one could have duped it. And finally the
original owner sold the DVD to me for a flat fee - probably because
nobody wanted to borrow it anymore - for anywhere from half to one tenth
the "retail cost" on which the Industry bases its claim for "damages".
Its a dollar they never would have collected in the first place so its
hard to figure how they are damaged.
"SHazBat p2p network" operates out of Nauru Island and offers byte for
byte downloads of stuff. You upload stuff and you get credit for the
same number of bytes of stuff downloaded.
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dcat
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response 69 of 112:
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Aug 9 16:24 UTC 2003 |
Actually, I enjoyed diCaprio; I thought it made a nice proof he was actually
capable of acting, but I hadn't seen any of his pre-Titanic work, either.
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remmers
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response 70 of 112:
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Aug 9 20:12 UTC 2003 |
DiCaprio was excellent in "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" and Woody Allen's
"Celebrity". I thought he was okay in "Catch Me If You Can" too.
Although I enjoyed "Catch Me If You Can", I thought the ending was typical
Spielberg sentimental hokiness.
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mary
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response 71 of 112:
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Aug 9 21:47 UTC 2003 |
"The Swimming Pool" might be worth seeing just for the French country home
and surroundings. But the ending was not at all worth the slow ramp-up.
Bleh.
"Adaptation" played with the same concept and pulled it off way
better.
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dcat
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response 72 of 112:
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Aug 9 22:16 UTC 2003 |
The Michigan Theatre will be showing Easy Rider this Sunday at 4pm and Tuesday
at 7pm. As I work Sunday, I am planning to go Tuesday. Anyone like to join
me?
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lynne
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response 73 of 112:
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Aug 11 18:16 UTC 2003 |
Saw American Wedding last night--pretty much exactly what you'd expect.
Laughed my ass off, and spent about the same amount of time hiding my face
because I couldn't bear to watch.
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dcat
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response 74 of 112:
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Aug 11 19:29 UTC 2003 |
Unfortunately, I won't be attending Easy Rider after all; dinner arrangements
with my parents.
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gregb
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response 75 of 112:
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Aug 13 16:37 UTC 2003 |
Caught Hulk at the dollar theater last Sat. Not much plot to speak
of. Just Hulkster bouncing 'round the country with the military in
persuit. Eye candy, nothing more.
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mary
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response 76 of 112:
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Aug 13 18:41 UTC 2003 |
"Northfork" is a sparse film where the landscape is the lead
character. Odd, in a fascinating way. A valley is about to
die and be reborn and this process is mirrored in a few of
the last to leave inhabitants. I can't say enough about the
cinematography. It's stunning.
Showing at the Michigan. This is most certainly one you'll
want to catch on the big screen if possible.
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mynxcat
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response 77 of 112:
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Aug 14 16:27 UTC 2003 |
Watched "Emma" on video. Quite enjoyble. Though they did rush Emma's
feelings for Knightley toward the end.
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remmers
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response 78 of 112:
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Aug 14 17:23 UTC 2003 |
Have you seen "Clueless", the updated version of "Emma"? Highly
recommended.
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mynxcat
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response 79 of 112:
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Aug 14 17:31 UTC 2003 |
Yup, I've watched that. I'd read the book earlier, but somehow hadn't
made the connection. It's only when I watched the movie "Emma" that
the parallels became much clearer.
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scott
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response 80 of 112:
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Aug 18 02:57 UTC 2003 |
"The Third Man", from the library's small-but-growing DVD collection. Pretty
cool, although not the most interesting movie from that era I've seen. Mostly
I wanted to be able to comment intelligently on the "Pinky & the Brain"
episode which spoofed this movie. :)
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krj
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response 81 of 112:
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Aug 18 17:50 UTC 2003 |
Leslie and I did a double-feature Saturday, so we could stay cool while
helping DTE out by not running our air conditioning. WHALE RIDER was
possibly even better the second time I saw it; certainly the picture and
sound were better at the Q16. A MIGHTY WIND was funny, not as
funny as SPINAL TAP, and very much focused on The Great Folk Scare of
40 years ago.
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scott
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response 82 of 112:
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Aug 19 15:23 UTC 2003 |
THe Time Machine (2002):
Better than I thought it would, and at 93 minutes it was easily watchable.
I'm certainly glad they didn't try to stretch it out to 2 hours, though.
The storyline changes were actually OK, too. Some things were hokey, others
cool - I especially liked the library computer character. The fake tribal
pop music during the Eloi scenes just about gagged me.
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anderyn
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response 83 of 112:
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Aug 19 17:02 UTC 2003 |
We went to see the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen at the cheap theater
yesterday. It was pretty good, given that the critics had trashed it nearly
as badly as Gigli, and I was surprised that I had a good time. The storyline
was more coherent than I'd expected, and the characterizations were fun, wiht
lots of one-liners and interesting/unexpected interactions that got missed
in the reviews I'd seen (at rottentomatoes.com, I think I saw a hundred, and
maybe 20 gave it grudgingly good marks). I would give it a six, I think.
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jaklumen
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response 84 of 112:
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Aug 20 07:00 UTC 2003 |
Six out of what?
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anderyn
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response 85 of 112:
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Aug 20 12:37 UTC 2003 |
Out of ten.
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pvn
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response 86 of 112:
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Aug 21 05:03 UTC 2003 |
Ten what?
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richard
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response 87 of 112:
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Aug 23 04:46 UTC 2003 |
SEABISCUIT-- saw this tonight and was pretty disappointed. The acting
is wonderful and the cinematography on the horse racing scenes is
awesome, but the screenplay left out a lot of what happened and took
the edge off the three main characters and "disneyfied" them (made them
more wholesome than they really were) This is a case where you are
better off reading the book than seeing the movie. In the book, a
great book "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand, you
see that the three main characters-- Seabiscuit's owner, trainer and
jockey, are dark lonely figures, corrupted by life, who are each in
their own way redeemed for their past failures in their lives by the
success of the underdog horse they come to love.
The movie makes the three characters all wholesome and sweet. You see
Seabiscuit's owner, Jeff Bridges, meeting and romancing his new young
Mexican wife. You aren't told that the woman is his grown son's sister
in law. In fact you don't even see the grown son, because the film's
screenwriter I guess wants you to think the jockey, is the surrogate
son. They cleaned up the character. And the jockey is played as young
and wide-eyed innocent by Tobey McGuire, and yet if you read the book
you read that the jockey was a hard edged man beaten down by life who
looked older, a hard drinker and womanizer who looked older than fifty
when he was thirty. Again they cleaned up the character.
There's a key scene in the movie where the trainer, well played by
Chris Cooper, tells the owner (Jeff Bridges) that Seabiscuit lost a big
race because it turns out the jockey was blind in one eye and never
told them. And Jeff Bridges, all big hearted and sweet, says he
doesn't care and people need to be able to overcome their handicaps, or
something like that. Didn't happen. If you read the book, it clearly
says that Seabiscuit's jockey kept the fact of his being blind in one
eye a secret all his life, because it would have ended his career.
Horse racing is a business and Seabiscuit's owner would have fired the
jockey on the spot if he'd found out he was blind in one eye.
But this is the Disneyfied version of the Seabiscuit tale, where the
characters are wholesome and nobody keeps secrets and everybody's
reedemable and there are no skeletons in anybody's closets. The story
of Seabiscuit is amazing, its a lot more real and moving than what they
show in the movie. Save the money on "Seabiscuit" the movie, and use
it to buy Laura Hillenbrand's book that its based on instead.
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tod
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response 88 of 112:
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Aug 23 13:11 UTC 2003 |
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