response 64 of 278:

Apr 8 20:30 UTC 2004

<Bruce walks past a girl wearing a skirt and turns round and blows a huge wind
in her dirextion, blowing up said skirt and showing her panties>

"He saw it and it was GOOD!"

rotfl.

response 66 of 278:

Apr 9 04:05 UTC 2004

re #62-- "Ben Kingsley is overrated"  You obviously don't know much about
acting.  SIR Ben Kingsley was for many years, well before he did "Gandhi",
considered one of the great Shakespearean stage actors in the world.  He
was one of the stars of the Royal Shakespeare Company for two decades.

When Kingsley did "Gandhi", he famously starved himself and subjected
himself to the same conditions that Gandhi endured when he did his fasts.
He also as I recall refused payment for acting in Gandhi, believing that
being of Indian descent, it would be wrong to play a role that important--
Gandhi being a holy figure there-- for material gain.  Similarly when he
did "Schindler's List", Kingsley, as did Steven Spielberg and some of the
other cast-- donated his salary to help fund The Shoah Foundation.

Go see "House of Sand and Fog" sometime if you think Kingsley is
overrated.  Or better yet, fly to England the next time Kingsley is on
stage playing the title role in "Othello" or as Ariel in "The Tempest"
That is if you can get tickets.

response 68 of 278:

Apr 9 13:45 UTC 2004

Yeah, I too agree that Kingsley is amazing.  I still think of him looking at
Neeson in Schindler's List saying "The list is life" and get chills.

response 70 of 278:

Apr 11 15:43 UTC 2004

I do not consider Ben Kingsley over-rated, but none of the arguments in 
post 66 prove that he isn't.

Being Sir Ben doesn't mean he's a good actor.  Donating his salary 
doesn't mean he's a good actor.  Even being a star doesn't mean he's a 
good actor.  Mind you, I do think he's a good actor, but none of those 
things demonstrate it.

And being a good actor doesn't mean he isn't an over-rated actor.  Mind 
you, I don't think he is an over-rated actor, but one can be both good 
and over-rated at the same time.

response 72 of 278:

Apr 14 15:19 UTC 2004

Seems to me whether an acter/actress is good/bad over/under-rated is 
purely an individual perception.  Same with most anything.  That's why 
I never listen to critics.

response 76 of 278:

Apr 15 23:29 UTC 2004

Re resp:75: Really?  What reference?  It would have gone straight past
me, of course...

response 78 of 278:

Apr 16 16:56 UTC 2004

Does "Space Truckers" have anything to do with Deep Purple's "Space Trucking"
or vice versa?

response 80 of 278:

May 7 02:13 UTC 2004

"Dogville" is a masterpiece.  Doing more with less the director (with the
help of an amazing cast) takes a look at the nature of power.  Or at least
that's my take on it.  I'm still thinking about the film days later.

I had delayed reading Richard's review of the movie until after
I'd had a chance to see it.  But I think the title is a tribute
to the community's dog.  Richard, consider the opening scene about
the meaty bone and, of course, the very end.  The dog was a significant
character.

And for something totally different but delightful, "Bubba Ho-Tep"
is now available for rent.  Lordy, it's too good.   

response 82 of 278:

May 8 11:22 UTC 2004

You give away far too much information in your reviews, Richard.

response 84 of 278:

May 8 20:37 UTC 2004

I like spoiler reviews, myself. (I was very happy to read what happens in
Dogville at one review site, since it means I will NEVER go see it. Don't need
to go and be traumatized if there's enough spoilers.)

response 86 of 278:

May 9 02:04 UTC 2004

yeah but twila you went and saw "passion of the christ", even though you knew
what was going to happen and you knew it would be traumatizing to watch it...

response 88 of 278:

May 9 03:03 UTC 2004

SUPERSIZE ME--  This is the new documentary by New York filmmaker 
Morgan Spurlock, about the epidemic of unhealthy eating habits in the 
U.S.  The specific targert of Spurlock's investigation is McDonald's.  
It is pointed out that McDonald's says its food is healthy.  So 
Spurlock decides to test that claim himself.  He decides that for one 
month, thirty days, he will eat nothing BUT McDonald's food.  For 
breakfast, lunch and dinner every day for a month, he will eat only 
super sized McDonald's meals.  

So we watch as every day, Spurlock eats double quarter pounder value 
meals and big mac value meals, and big n'tasty value meals, and filet 
o'fish value meals and .etc  We see him going in for breakfast and 
having the McGriddles and the Egg McMuffins.  And always the giant 
sodas and giant fries.  

As the month goes by, he gains twenty five pounds, suffers depression 
and sickness, starts to smell, loses his sex drive, and starts to 
seriuosly gross out his strict vegan girlfriend.  Three weeks in, his 
girlfriend and his doctor are looking at his health stats and begging 
him to quit.  But he vows to keep going for the whole month, because 
this is McDonalds and McD's says their food is healthy and everyone can 
eat their food.

In true Michael Moore style, Spurlock tries to call McDonalds 
management, and tries to get an interview, to confront them with the 
stats and ask why they continue to offer super sizes and say their food 
is healthy.  But of course, the corporate McD's people won't return his 
calls.

We also are shown some of the history of super sizing.  How what we now 
know as the small sizes at McD's used to be the large sizes, and how 
companies like McD's have spent billions in advertising to manipulate 
people-- mostly kids-- to eat larger and larger sized portions.  We see 
obese kids eating huge portions of fries and quarts of Coke.  We see 
fat kids coming out of 7-11 with Double Big Gulp 64-oz cokes.

We are shown some alarming stats about the rising levels of obesity 
among kids under the age of 18 in the U.S.  The U.S. is the fattest 
country in the world and is getting fatter.  And it is all a result of 
manipulative advertising, and the use of high levels of salt and sugar 
in fast food.  We see a group of kids shown pictures of famous people-- 
George Washington, Jesus Christ, George Bush-- and not recognizing any 
of them.  But they all immediately recognize the picture of Ronald 
McDonald.  They can't recite the pledge of allegiance from memory, but 
they can recite various fast food ad jingles.

Spurlock, in between his McD's meals, visits school cafeterias, where 
we see that the kids are often being fed pre-packaged sugary, starchy 
food because its much cheaper than to cook anything fresh.  And how 
many schools are cutting back on P.E. classes because the principals 
would rather have the kids in class studying for those standardized 
tests that determine funding, than being out getting exercise.

We even get to see how they make Chicken McNuggets.  After seeing this 
movie, I never want to eat Chicken McNuggets again.  In fact after 
seeing this film, you won't want to eat at McD's again, or even eat 
agalin at all.  You certainly won't be able to eat without thinking 
long and hard about your food and what is actually in it again.  This 
film is a eye-opener, a fine documentary.  It is pointed out that 
after "Super Size Me" showed at the Sundance film festival, McDonald's 
did announce that they are phasing out super sizes)  It is opening 
nationally and I recommend "Supersize Me"

(p.s. Morgan Spurlock, the director/star, showed up when the credits 
were rolling in the theater to answer questions.  It wasn't any kind of 
special screening, but he lives a couple of blocks away and he said he 
wanted the exercise, as he's been trying to lose weight ever since 
filming ended.  He talked of how his vegan girlfriend put him on a de-
tox vegan diet after he'd gotten so fat from eating nothing but big 
macs for a month.  He looks a lot better in person than he did at the 
end of the film when he was all bloated, so that diet must have worked. 
He says he wants kids to start being educated to eat better and to eat 
smaller portions.)