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From: cew2w@Virginia.EDU ("Chris Wrike")
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: let's start a personals column!
Date: 15 Dec 92 05:05:28 GMT
Organization: University of Virginia

bme2e@Virginia.EDU  writes:
> hello everyone! since this is my first time (oohhhhh!) using
> pcnews, i thought it might be a good idea to start some
> discussion. being a single male, perhaps therewould be some
> people out there who might want to start a personals column,
> since dating sucks around. and to be multicultural, let's
> include everyone! anyway, write if you are interested
> 
> format --  subject: WANTED ....
> 
 	What a generic idea, IMHO.

	-- Chris Wrike
Organization: Psychology, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 14:20:05 -0500 
From: "James A. Lane" <jl3a+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: DieHard(n) Problems
	<1992Dec14.193815.7730@Virginia.EDU>
Distribution: usa

I've always thought that the most intrinsic problem with the second
movie was that it had to work to get the 'trapped' feel of the first.
Let's face it- an airport is a lot harder to 'trap' people and action
in than a high rise building with those kind of security systems.
The suspense came more naturally to the first movie, and it was 
a lot simpler.  Occam's razor and all that.

Just a thought.

jim
From: nina@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Shenina Louise Jones)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Top Ten movies
Date: 17 Dec 1992 16:47:51 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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Originator: nina@csd4.csd.uwm.edu

         My favorite Top 10:
      ------------------------

      1) The Jerk
      2) The Man with Two Brains
      3) Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
      4) The Lonely Guy
      5) The Blues Brothers
      6) Uncle Buck
      7) Grand Canyon
      8) L.A. Story
      9) Leap of Faith
     10) Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

( As you can see, I'm a Steve Martin Fan, but there were some bombs: i.e.
  Parenthood and Roxanne!)

P.S.   Some more favorites:

       1)All of Me
       2)Who's Harry Crumb


----- Any comments?  

----Nina
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From: dombart@muli.saar.de (John Raoul Dombart)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,alt.postmodern,alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: Peter Greenaway
Keywords: macabre, michael nyman, dutch baroque, kim wertens, wim mertens
Date: 11 Dec 92 22:41:32 GMT

davidw@aifh.ed.ac.uk (David Wren @ Dept of AI,
University of Edinburgh, Scotland) wrote...

>No, the music is definitely NOT Nyman. It is by someone called something like
>"Kim Wertens" - or close to that - and has a rather different feel to it, in

I think the name you heard was Wim Mertens, a belgian solo musician.

R.D.

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From: lsnow@ncrclm.ClemsonSC.NCR.COM (Linda Snow)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Movies you loved, but couldn't see more than once.
Date: 18 Dec 92 21:16:20 GMT
Reply-To: lsnow@ncrclm.ClemsonSC.NCR.COM (Linda Snow)
Organization: NCR E&M CLEMSON Liberty, SC

Sophie's Choice
From: csroc@dime.prime.com (Charles Sroczynski x4014 5-2)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: 9 1/2 Weeks
Date: 10 Dec 92 18:41:21 GMT
Reply-To: csroc@dime.UUCP (Charles Sroczynski x4014 5-2)
Organization: Prime Computervision, Bedford MA

>It's simply one of the worst movies in history and it's
>completely beyond me what people see in it.
>All it says is that women actually enjoy being raped, and


RAPE??????  You mean (Carrie Otis?) was raped?
I don't think so.  She didn't seem to be forced
into anything she didn't want in this movie. At
least that's what I remember.  Anyone else
recall what was going on?
From: helgeb@admin.uio.no (Helge J. Bj|rnhaug)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: The aria in Room with a View????
Date: 15 Dec 92 11:34:48 GMT
Organization: University of Oslo, Norway

In article <asale.724360587@sfu.ca> asale@fraser.sfu.ca (Antonina Sale) writes:

 Hi, maybe someone can help me with this question, it's driving me INSANE!!!!!
 WHAT is the name of the operatic piece (aria, I think) featured in _A Room
 With a View_???????? It's been in a lot of movies, it's a woman singing, and
 it sticks in my head because of it's expressive style that emphasizes emotion 
 over trilly formal stuff. I'm dying to find out what it's called and what 
 opera it's from... PLEASE HELP!!!

O Mio Bambino Cara - or something like that. Composed by either Puccini or
Rossini, i think.

Helge
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From: flip@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Phillip D. Russell)
Subject: Re: Toys Trailer Music?
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 04:52:37 GMT

In article <1992Dec16.095340.16460@u.washington.edu> redrum@carson.u.washington.edu (Joe Stremick) writes:
>	Does anyone know what music is featured in the second
>_Toys_ trailer (the one with shots from the film, not the "biggest
>sound stage in the world/wheat field one)_?  Is it from another
>film, or is it on the soundtrack to _Toys_?
>	I really like that music.

The only music I've noticed on the commercials is the theme to
BACK TO SCHOOL by Danny Elfman.

Flip


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From: firestar@leland.Stanford.EDU (Lipton Ann Meredith)
Subject: Christmas Holiday
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 07:40:31 GMT




I've just heard a bit about the movie Christmas Holiday, with Gene Kelly, and
it sounds interesting -- anyone know if it's any good?  I don't want spoilers,
I'd just like opinions.


Thanks in advance,

Firestar
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From: yousten@atlantis.CS.ORST.EDU (Ken Yousten)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Help find "M", The 1950's American Version
Date: 13 Dec 92 15:46:16 GMT
Article-I.D.: leela.1992Dec13.154616.18471
Organization: Computer Science Outreach Services - Oregon State University

treinen@dfki.uni-sb.de (Ralf Treinen) writes:
> peterme@ocf.berkeley.edu (Peter Merholz) writes:
>|> I'm looking for "M", the American version, on film or video, preferably the
>|> latter. Please e-mail any pertinent information. Thanks.
>
>If anyone should know something about this (I dont), please post, such that we all
>learn the names of the shameless people daring to remake "M".

I am a great fan of the original who has never seen the re-make either.
Names, I can give though.

D: Joseph Losey.  David Wayne, Howard da Silva, Luther Adler, Karen
Morley, Jorja Curtright, Martin Gabel.

Maltin calls the re-make "tepid" and gives it 2.5 stars out of four 
(the original gets all 4).  Halliwell's Filmgoers Companion says it is
an "almost scene-for-scene re-make" and "generates no particular
atmosphere."

In general though, I don't find the idea of a re-make insulting, as you
apparently do.  As this board has shown, many (most) Americans will
not see a movie simply because it is foreign.  Maybe they'll see an 
American version and be inspired to look for the original.  Doubt
that works here, since the re-make apparently sucks, but I can sympathise
with the idea.
--
Ken Yousten			"The Wendigo, the Wendigo!
Blacksburg, VA			 I saw it just a friend ago"
kay@radford.vak12ed.edu			-from Ogden Nash, "The Wendigo"
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From: monitn@rebecca.its.rpi.edu (Nicholas Monitto)
Subject: Re: A Few Good Men:a comedy?
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 08:54:35 GMT

whan@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:

>I saw A Few Good Men at a free college preview and quite frankly I thought that
>it was hilarious.  Unfortunately, the movie fails as a drama but succeeds as a
>comedy.  The gross melodrama and overacting sent me as well as the whole
>theatre into hysterics.  Nicholson was okay but watching and standoff between
>at the end was just ridiculous especially when Tom Cruise starts screaming "I
>want the truth!"  The opening sequence when the marines were showing off their
>rifle twirling skills also sent people laughing.  Other people may feel
>different but I left the theatre with a big grin on my face.  If this movie
>wins any Oscars, it would be a gross crime.

>WHAN@eagle.wesleyan.edu

Well hopefully I won't end up starting a war with this... :)

I disagree with you to some extent, I thought the movie was great. I also saw
it at a free college preview in a packed showing. We all thought the rifle
twirling was funny (gee, there's an agreement :) ) and there were quite a few
laughs through the film. I (and several of my friends) were very impressed when
we left.
I don't know if you'd necessarily call it a comedy. I only ask that it not be
called a "dramedy" (I hate that word!)
To each their own..

Nick (monitn@rpi.edu)
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From: pejulaju@wolverine.cs.hut.fi (Pentti Lajunen)
Subject: Re: Problems with DieHard 2
Reply-To: pejulaju@niksula.hut.fi (Pentti Lajunen)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 14:36:46 GMT

In article <1992Dec14.212425.1@eagle.wesleyan.edu> whan@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:
>There are some other problems with Die Hard 2 that bothered me.  For instance,
>the airplane that does crash (British?) explodes into a huge flaming fireball
>despite the fact that just before the crash the pilot says that they've nearly
>run out of all there fuel.

The tanks of the plane were FULL of easily exploding fumes.
The plane will propably explode more easily that way than with full tanks.
From: ballerup@diku.dk (Per Goetterup)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Black Holes of Cinema
Date: 18 Dec 92 08:53:35 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

mgrimes@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Michael Grimes) writes:

>This may be a controversial or flame-baiting topic, but it relates to the 
>"overrated" thread.  Black holes are cinema are people with no talent who keep 
>making movies!

>    Nominees:
>Andrew McCarthy        Major black hole
>Molly Ringwold  <<== NO talent??? She was sooo good in "Pretty in Pink"!!!
            ^
	    a
>Julia Roberts   <<== do.          Dare I mention "Pretty Woman" & "Flatliners"?
				   She did those perfectly!!!!! IMHO!
>Dolph Lundgren
>Keanu Reeves !! Major black hole! Can he walk and chew gum as anyone other than
>                 Ted or Bill ?!?
>Demi Moore
>Bruce Willis !!  Major <<== BZZZT! Wrong! - This guy sure has talent, or did you miss
                             the "Die Hard" movies? - especially no. 1.	
>Jim Belushi
>Patrick Swayze Major major black hole!!!! <<== He was really good in "North & South"!
>Tom Selleck !  Major bh
>Meg Tilly!!   inactive lately, thank god!
>Jean-Claude Van Damme !
>Sylvester Stallone   (enough Rocky and Rambo black holes!!)
 ^^^
 I very much agree on this one! MAJOR MAJOR black hole!

>  Any more nominees......?

Try Cher... Major black hole!
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Subject: Re: Problems with DieHard 2
From: whan@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Date: 14 Dec 92 21:24:25 EST
Organization: Wesleyan University

There are some other problems with Die Hard 2 that bothered me.  For instance,
the airplane that does crash (British?) explodes into a huge flaming fireball
despite the fact that just before the crash the pilot says that they've nearly
run out of all there fuel.  Also, I think everyone noticed or knows about the
Pacific Bell logo on a phone presumably located within Dulles International
(Washington).  In fact the whole movie is filled with so many implausibilities
that I really can't watch the movie without going off about them.

Winfield S. Han
WHAN@eagle.wesleyan.edu

"These are not the droids you're looking for."
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From: mccreary@sword.eng.hou.compaq.com (Ed McCreary)
Subject: Re: More Stephen King movies
Organization: Compaq Computer Corp.
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 18:54:05 GMT

In article <1992Dec11.230545.16422@hou.amoco.com> zklf0b@gs144.hou.amoco.com (Fergason) writes:
>Wasn't Rawhead Rex also one of the Bachman books?
>It was a pretty good short film.  At least, i remember
>it being only a little over an hour.
>

Nope, it's short story by Clive Barker.

--
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From: k206027@smog.DKRZ-Hamburg.DE (Bakayaroo Banzai)
Subject: Re: Oliver Stone's  THE BIBLE
Organization: Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum GmbH, Hamburg
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 07:02:33 GMT

In article <1992Dec17.113132.12846@waikato.ac.nz> hist1261@waikato.ac.nz writes:
>In article <1992Dec16.205511.29172@Virginia.EDU>, wht3a@Virginia.EDU (William Harmon Thompson) writes:
>> No, Jesus couldn't be cast as a present day politically
>> correctoid.  PC people generally don't like to be held
>> accountable to any standard of moral behavior or believe that
>> there are consequences for actions.  Nor do they see too
>> straight.  The Christ was unconditionally loving, compassionate
>> and fair, but he held no illusions about one's behavior and the
>> the consequences it engendered.  He`d insist on moral behavior.
>
>Vote for George Bush did you?  Family Values forever.
>
I'm not quite sure what provoked this statement. William's take on 
Christ is quite correct. All you have to do is read the New Testament
to confirm it. Are you objecting to the characterization of PC people?
Should I make a left-field comment here about New Zealanders, sheep, 
and nuclear warships just to provoke a reaction? If you have a valid
argument to what he posted why don't you share it rather than insult
him for what you assume his political affiliation to be? Otherwise,
please take it to the pol or religion groups.

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From: pmoloney@maths.tcd.ie (Paul Moloney)
Subject: Re: Oliver Stone's THE BIBLE
Keywords: Oliver Stone
Organization: Somewhere in the Twentieth Century
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 10:51:35 GMT

rjk@world.std.com (robert j kolker) writes:

>Would anyone like to speculate what the outcome would be if Oliver Stone
>did THE BIBLE?.  Given his penchant for re-writting *real* history, how
>would he rewrite biblical history?

He's probably base it on Vidal's LIVE FROM GOLGOLTHA.

No bad thing - more realistic than the Bible anyway.

P.
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From: uhschreg@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Ulrich Schreglmann)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Jurassic Park
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 13:04:59 GMT
Organization: Student Pool, CSD, University of Erlangen, Germany
NNTP-Posting-Host: faui09.informatik.uni-erlangen.de

spongebo@cithara.login.qc.ca (THE EYE-BALL KID) writes:

>I mean, didn't Kubrick and Clarke work on the Film and THE Book (of 2001)
>simultaneously?

>I'm sure I'll be corrected if I wrong...

You're right, and being censored by Kubrik did the book obviously good.
I mean comparing to the sequel. They simply ain't got no style, they
ain't, those sf-authors.
So it doesn't always downgrade the thing, if it's a novelization.


May the Cool Be with You!

(C)OOL mcmxcii
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From: reiher@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (Peter Reiher)
Subject: Re: Most Underrated Actor/Actress
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 17:32:27 GMT

In article <724646797@danube.cs.duke.edu> malhotra@duke.cs.duke.edu (Manish Malhotra) writes:
>In article <1633@ncrclm.ClemsonSC.NCR.COM> lsnow@ncrclm.ClemsonSC.NCR.COM (Linda Snow) writes:
>>>
>>Hackman's one of my all-time
>>favorites, maybe The favorite 
>
>I think he would be nominated for the best supporting actor in 
>"Unforgiven" this year. IMHO, he should be.  

He's probably the favorite to win.  He not only got the LA Critics Award
for Best Supporting Actor, but also the New York Film Critics Award for
that category.  The only other major award they agreed on was Emma
Thompson as Best Actress.  Given that the film was a somewhat unexpected
financial success, and Hackman got uniformly excellent reviews in it,
I'd say he's a shoo-in for a nomination, at least.

To anticipate requests for the rest of the New York Film Critics Awards,
basically, just like "Unforgiven" won the LA awards, "The Player" won
the New York awards.  It got Best Picture and Best Director.  I forget
who got the best actor award, but it wasn't Clint Eastwood, who won the
LA award.  "The Player" also got Best Cinematography, and was a runner
up in best original screenplay.  "Raise the Red Lantern" was chosen
as best foreign film.  Best Supporting Actress went to Miranda Richardson,
for her combined work in "The Crying Game" and "Enchanted April".  
"Unforgiven" was the runner up in many of the categories it didn't win,
and apparently voting was close.  

-- 
		Peter Reiher
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From: cpriest@pearl.tufts.edu (Curt Priest)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Dracula, Lost Thread
Keywords: dracula,culture,american experience, aids
Date: 11 Dec 92 21:09:00 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Tufts University - Medford, MA
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

I've lost the thread on this discussion.

Wanted to point out most well considered review I've seen on the film.
By Frank Rich, appearing in the Sunday NYT's Dec. 6, Section 9, entitled
"The New Blood Culture: Fantasizing of sex and death, America sees its
enemy: AIDS.  Enter Dracula.

Astoundingly astute piece!!!
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From: ssc@nwu.edu (Steven Chung)
Subject: wings of desire sequel
Originator: schung@casbah.acns.nwu.edu
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 08:29:26 GMT


There was some recent discussion of this film, I think, but I seem to have
missed it.  At any rate:

Is there a US release date for the sequel?  Is Peter Falk going to be in
this one also?

thanks

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From: pfleury@ddsw1.mcs.com (Patrick J. Fleury)
Subject: Re: universities
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 02:37:46 GMT
Organization: ddsw1.MCS.COM Contributor, Chicago, IL

In article <1992Dec18.004918.28451@twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com> mccreary@sword.eng.hou.compaq.com (Ed McCreary) writes:
>In article <1992Dec17.125155.25788@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu> bchurch@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Robert Church) writes:
>>In article <1992Dec16.043438.8612@Virginia.EDU> jlj5a@Virginia.EDU (Joseph Lee Jackson) writes:
>>>ARE WHITE SCHOOLS ANY BETTER THAN BLACK SCHOOLS?
>>
>>I don't know. I've always attended red brick ones.
>
>And he admits it in public no less...
>
>--
>Ed McCreary                                               ,__o
>mccreary@sword.eng.hou.compaq.com                       _-\_<,
>"If it were not for laughter, there would be no Tao."  (*)/'(*)

Actually I went to Brown and that was a terrific one.  

(Sorry, the devil made me do it. :) )

--Pat F.
From: ed@wente.llnl.gov (Ed Suranyi)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: What makes us pick a film ? was -Re: Top Five Movies of All Time
Date: 11 Dec 92 19:06:45 GMT
Organization: UC Davis Dept of Applied Science at LLNL

In article <1992Dec9.164043.22180@spider.co.uk> colint@spider.co.uk (Colin Tinto) writes:
>Anyone else had similar childhood experiences that have influenced their
>choice of films ?

Yes! Yes!  In fact, I think it's true of everybody.

In my case, the first movie that I ever saw that I can remember by name
was "The Sound of Music".  I was perhaps five years old, and according
to my mother, I had shown some interest in music.  So she thought it
would be an appropriate movie to take me to.  Over the next several
years I saw "Mary Poppins", "My Fair Lady", and "West Side Story".
The result is that those musicals of the early sixties are among my
favorites of all time, especially "West Side Story", which made a HUGE
impression on me.

Ed
ed@wente.llnl.gov


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From: denton@ssd.comm.mot.com (Perry Denton)
Subject: Re: Stephen King Movies
Organization: Motorola LMPS
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 11:33:55 GMT
Keywords: n

In article <1992Dec11.134731.1@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu (Greg Bole) writes:
>In article <1992Dec11.020330.12912@bsu-ucs>, 01mbmccabe@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu:
>
>
>>>> The Running man
>
>> TRM was Stephen King?  Kinda out of his stly isn't it?  I'm surprised he'd
>> bother, as much $$ he makes per horror story!  :)
>
>Early in his career (I believe before he made a big name for himself in 
>horror) King wrote a number of short stories using the name Richard Bachman.
>
>One of them was "The Running Man".  It was an excellent short story, and
>it did involve a man on a TV show running from trained killers.  But that's
>about where the similarity ends. 
>
>The killers in the story were commandos with conventional weapons, the whole
>story had a "1984" feel to it.  Very moody, and the man who was running
>was not a hulking body-builder type, and used his wits to stay alive.

If I remember correctly, they originally casted Christopher Reeves as the 
Running Man instead of Arnold.  I'm not sure how Arnie got the part though.

I do recommend picking up the "Bachman Books".

Perry

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