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gull
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response 69 of 269:
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Apr 21 16:21 UTC 2003 |
I saw _Holes_ last week. I enjoyed it quite a bit. The acting by the
adult characters really makes it -- it's overblown in a really great,
Roald Dahl-ish sort of way. I don't think this would be a good movie to
take very young children to, though, because I think it would give them
nightmares. (And if it didn't, the preview for _Pirates of the
Carribean_ that runs before it certainly would.)
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palesi
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response 70 of 269:
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Apr 21 16:24 UTC 2003 |
Ok, Costner is no Gibson, and his acting requires some serious tuning (check
out the latest "Dragonfly", it is the triumph of boredom). But i think his
"deadpan delivery", as fitz named it, fits nicely with his role in The
Postman: a drifter, a solitary traveler. Rather, i think this is one of them
movies that "waxes too philosophical" for the general audience. Think about
this: i'm not american, but every time i watch this film, a patriotic felling
(usa-oriented) spreads in me, and i complain about the fact that this kind
of feeling DOESN'T EXIST in the country where i live (check out my name,
you'll guess what i'm talking about). When i watch the part when Costner takes
his ride among the woods with that "vehicle", and quotes Shakespeare ("once
more into the breach, dear friends..."), and i listen to the eroic background
music, i feel the lump in my throat, and i get hyped. It's so great. I think
most people aren't sensitive and cannot feel this, otherwise why such bad
critics for Costner and The Postman ?
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anderyn
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response 71 of 269:
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Apr 21 16:42 UTC 2003 |
My criticism for the Postman movie comes from the fact that I read the book,
which was/is a classic science fiction tale, and one which DOES leave that
lump in my throat, first. Well, it was written as a bunch of novellas, I
think, before being put together in a book, but Costner and the movie does
not do the themes and the ideas in those stories justice. And Costner does
have the problem of "look at me, look at my butt" syndrome, which doesn't help
when you've seen a lot of his movies (I've seen four or five, I think.
Waterworld was the end for me! That's a BAAAD movie.)
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glenda
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response 72 of 269:
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Apr 21 16:56 UTC 2003 |
I agree with Twila. I read the book, I think I made it through the first 1/2
hour of the moved before leaving in disgust (the kids were watching it on TV,
we were warned before paying money to see it, thank God). I hate it when they
take a wonderful book and make a movie based on a book where the only
resembalance to the book is the characters name.
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edina
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response 73 of 269:
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Apr 21 19:11 UTC 2003 |
Costner has never been in a good movie that did not involve sports. "The Big
Chill" doesn't count, as he wasn't ever on the screen.
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tod
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response 74 of 269:
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Apr 21 19:29 UTC 2003 |
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jmsaul
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response 75 of 269:
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Apr 21 20:19 UTC 2003 |
Re #73: "No Way Out" counts, though. And it doesn't involve sports, even
though there's a scene on a basketball court.
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tod
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response 76 of 269:
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Apr 21 20:29 UTC 2003 |
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palesi
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response 77 of 269:
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Apr 21 21:08 UTC 2003 |
I haven't read the book for The Postman, so i can't make a comparison. But
i still think that some people have this stigma towards Costner, and i cannot
understand why. Maybe it's just envy?
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tod
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response 78 of 269:
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Apr 21 21:30 UTC 2003 |
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scott
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response 79 of 269:
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Apr 21 21:52 UTC 2003 |
"A Perfect World" was pretty good, although most of the credit goes to the
kid actor.
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scott
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response 80 of 269:
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Apr 21 21:55 UTC 2003 |
(moments later, on further reflection)
Actually it's kind of cool that Costner at least tries to some of the sci-fi
stuff, even if the execution isn't especially good. You'd have to go back
to James Caan or Charlton Heston to come up with somebody who doesn't seem
like the SF type but keeps showing up in SF movies.
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tod
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response 81 of 269:
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Apr 21 22:00 UTC 2003 |
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scott
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response 82 of 269:
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Apr 21 22:09 UTC 2003 |
Er, yeah. Although now that my memory has been jogged I'd add Sylvester
Stallone (even if just for "Demolition Man", because it's so funny) to that
list. But even Arnie tends to depend on his co-stars to make the movie really
happen (see Richard Dawson in "The Running Man" for proof), while Caan and
Heston were the main attraction.
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mcnally
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response 83 of 269:
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Apr 21 22:22 UTC 2003 |
(a lot of action-movie heroes seem to wind up in big-budget science fiction
movies. Another example would be Bruce Willis in "The Fifth Element" and/or
"Deep Armageddon" (or whatever that meteor movie was named..))
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palesi
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response 84 of 269:
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Apr 21 22:57 UTC 2003 |
It's Deep Armageddon Impact :)
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gull
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response 85 of 269:
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Apr 22 12:38 UTC 2003 |
I think he was in _Armageddon_, but not _Deep Impact_. I didn't like
either particularly well. I liked _The Fifth Element_, though.
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palesi
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response 86 of 269:
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Apr 22 22:14 UTC 2003 |
What do you think of the upcoming Terminator 3, starring Arnie, as usual? The
previous terminators were jolly good, i just hope this one will live up to
them.
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remmers
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response 87 of 269:
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Apr 22 23:06 UTC 2003 |
Is James Cameron directing the next Terminator?
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palesi
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response 88 of 269:
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Apr 22 23:31 UTC 2003 |
I don't think so.
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gull
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response 89 of 269:
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Apr 23 12:59 UTC 2003 |
I think it's going to be pretty funny to see Arnie having to fake his
own accent.
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palesi
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response 90 of 269:
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Apr 25 00:02 UTC 2003 |
What do you mean, gull?
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jep
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response 91 of 269:
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Apr 25 15:45 UTC 2003 |
With a lot of Clint Eastwood's later movies, it was kind of funny
watching him, obviously aged, trying to act in an action role. In
the "Every Which Way But Loose" series, he was in his 50's or 60's but
in the role of a prize fighter. Why wasn't he torn right in half by
some of those 30-ish guys?
Arnold Schwarzenneger's character (I don't know how to spell his name),
as a robot from the future, should be ageless. In Terminator 2, he
already looked out of place because of his age, and that must have been
15 years ago. What are they going to do for this movie, have him
hobbling around with a cane and attacking people with his shuffleboard
stick? I dread his return in Terminator 4 in the year 2020, when the
robot character will have to be built into a wheelchair and probably in
company of a geriatric attendant.
It's an old circumstance for Hollywood, who had John Wayne slugging it
out and shooting it out on equal terms with much younger men. At least
John Wayne played the role of a grandfather in some of his later
movies. (A derring-do grandfather, but a grandfather.) "Rocky" got
older as the series continued. James Bond goes through cycles, getting
older then rejuvenated.
How can the Terminator get older, though?
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gull
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response 92 of 269:
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Apr 25 16:26 UTC 2003 |
Re #90: His accent is a lot less strong now than it was in the early
films. He'll have to force the stronger accent or it won't seem the same.
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tod
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response 93 of 269:
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Apr 25 16:30 UTC 2003 |
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