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From: gmark@cbnewse.cb.att.com (gilbert.m.stewart)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Upcoming movies (Malcolm X)
Date: 27 Aug 92 14:58:18 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: AT&T

In article <1992Aug27.134626.28122@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> jor1@hera.uucp (24315-rich) writes:
>
>Malcolm X is an A-hole.


Really?  How do you know him?

GMS
From: jm0i@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JOSEPH ALOYSIUS MCVEIGH)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Least women in movie!
Date: 29 Aug 92 17:21:06 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

hafner@ifi.unizh.ch (Michel Hafner) writes:
>Which movie has the least women in its cast?
>
>"Streamers" by Robert Altman: Zero! ( And many others.... )

I think an "Honorable Mention", based on the number of women relative to size
of cast, should go to "The Hunt For Red October". I counted three women:

Ryan's Wife
Ryan's Daughter
Flight Attendant (it was the same one for both flights)

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From: hist1261@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: Most Embarassing Movie
Date: 2 Sep 92 09:32:00 +1200
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

In article <1992Sep1.155303.12466@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>, bjbartlett@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (The Bart-Man) writes:
> In article <1992Aug31.215528.29891@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>, mlh@eddy.austin.ibm.com (Mike Haskell) writes:
>>  What is the most embarassing movie you have ever seen?  (What I mean by
>>  embarassing, is that you feel absolutely miniscule when the lights come
>>  up and you HAVE to walk out of the theater with every other bonehead
>>  who bought a ticket to this turkey).  Movies on video don't count as
>>  your stupidity is hidden by the walls of your house. :-)
> 
>   "Top Secret"!
> 
> -Bart
> 

I protest!  One of the great comedies of the 1980's!

Richard.

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From: boyajian@ruby.enet.dec.com (The Man from Another Place)
Subject: Re: Best War Movies?
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Distribution: usa
Date: 25 AUG 92 07:19:02 EDT

In article <1992Aug25.021913.16096@cos.com>, cooper@cos.com (Gary Cooper) writes...

} In <charlesk.713582734@sfu.ca> charlesk@fraser.sfu.ca (Charles Hak Kim) writes:

}} 4.  Das Boot            - Original 6 hour version.

} Is this on video?

Possibly in Germany, but not in the US.

-- 

	"She's my radiation baby.
	 She's my teenage fallout girl."

--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, "The Mill", Maynard, MA)

    boyajian@ruby.enet.dec.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Cast of Dracula
From: asr_2@dac.mdcbbs.com
Date: 1 Sep 92 15:43:05 PST
Organization: MDC - Douglas Aircraft, Long Beach, CA
Nntp-Posting-User: asr_2



> Jonathan Harker: Keanu Reeves
>    (_Point Break_, _Dangerous Liaisons_)
  They must have needed a moron, he will basically have to play himself.
  After such a stellar cast selection did they really need to this, I 
  can't recall his character, but I hope he is short lived.
 
  Asim
  ..looking forward to Dracula..and the woman who flamed me last time
  please reply I missed it, and would like the amusement of you trying
  to impress me with Keanu Reeves acting ability.  AN amoeba has more
  screen presence and can procreate faster than the delay when Mr.
  Reeves reads his lines.  If however Mr Reeves does begin to display
  cognizance in this movie I will retract any insult I delivered to his
  acting ability.  



> Greg Bole                                    "The ants in the grass, they
> bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu                  were just doing their thing."
>                                             Matt Dillon in _Drugstore Cowboy_
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,alt.horror
From: ahummel@ems.cdc.com (H. Austin Hummel)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: What is the name of this movie?
Date: 28 Aug 92 17:48:14 GMT
Reply-To: you@ems.cdc.com
Organization: Empros Systems International, a division of CDC

In article <1992Aug28.125934.4198@europa.asd.contel.com>, andy@rocky.gte.com (Andrew Busa) writes:
|> Does anyone know the name of a movie that starred Danny Devito and Bette
|> Midler in the 80's?
|> 
|> Andy


"Ruthless People"
From: ags@seaman.cc.purdue.edu (Dave Seaman)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Least women in movie!
Date: 2 Sep 92 17:45:49 GMT
Organization: Purdue University

In article <1992Sep1.210813.4198@sq.sq.com> msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader)  
writes:
> 
> There are no women in The Flight of the Phoenix.

There is a female dancer (Barrie Chase, I think) who appears as someone's  
fantasy (a mirage). Nevertheless, her image is quite real on screen.

--
Dave Seaman
ags@seaman.cc.purdue.edu
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From: uhschreg@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Ulrich Schreglmann)
Subject: Re: Highlander TV Show!
Organization: Student Pool, CSD, University of Erlangen, Germany
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 16:32:51 GMT

teexijd@ioe.ac.uk (IAN DAVENPORT) writes:


>So, will the Highlander TV series follow the continuity of the first film,
>or the second? :-)

The continuity of the second?
The continuity of the second?
Erm--


May the Cool Be with You!

(C)OOL mcmxcii
From: gbradley@uks197.Berkeley.EDU (Gary Bradley)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Linda Hunt (Was: Re: Mel Gibson really CAN act!)
Date: 28 Aug 92 15:40:25 GMT
Reply-To: gbradley@uks197.Berkeley.EDU (Gary Bradley)

In article <1992Aug28.000847.17162@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au>,
braca2@cspyr1.cs.adfa.oz.au (BRAY CHRISTOPHER) writes:
|>ann@hpmwtd.sr.hp.com (Ann Davis) writes:
|>
|>>Yes, and how come nobody has mentioned the Australian movie "Gallipoli".
|>>This is the first movie I ever saw Mel Gibson in . . . he was soooooo
|>>young.  He was also one of the few to survive that particular battle,
|>>even though he was not really the star of the movie.
|>
|>And how about 'Tommy'?
|>Where Mel plays a guy who is retarded in some aspect. very good
|>

    That's "Tim", not "Tommy". "Tommy" is the rock-opera by The Who
directed by Ken Russel.
|>
|>>*****  Time flies like an arrow  ****  Truitflies like a banana  *****
|>>.
|>>.
|>>.
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| Edinburgh, SCOTLAND |        - Frank Booth ("Blue Velvet")     |
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From: teshima@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (A. Lani Teshima)
Subject: Re: Cast of Dracula
Organization: University of Hawaii
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 06:01:00 GMT

In article <1992Sep1.154305.1@dac.mdcbbs.com> asr_2@dac.mdcbbs.com writes:
>> Jonathan Harker: Keanu Reeves
>>    (_Point Break_, _Dangerous Liaisons_)
>  They must have needed a moron, he will basically have to play himself.
>  After such a stellar cast selection did they really need to this, I 
>  can't recall his character, but I hope he is short lived.
> 
>  Asim
>  ..looking forward to Dracula..and the woman who flamed me last time
>  please reply I missed it, and would like the amusement of you trying
>  to impress me with Keanu Reeves acting ability.  
                                   ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^

Who says I watch him for his acting ability? :) He may be a moron, but
he makes me drool and want to tug at my clothes!

--
A. Lani Teshima (teshima@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.edu)       o | /_/_/ "Sea Hare"
Student, UH School of Library & Information Studies     o|<0_0>--------*
A small mind is easily filled with faith.                 \=^-| |____| | 
Blessed is a mind too small for doubt.                        \_}B   \_}B
From: hopkins@agora.rain.com (Scott Hopkins)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Timothy Hutton
Date: 31 Aug 92 04:51:22 GMT
Article-I.D.: agora.Btu05q.F2w
Organization: Open Communications Forum

In article <22843@sybase.sybase.com> wdw@sybase.com (Wayne Wong) writes:
>What ever happened to him?

I heard he was going to star as Thad Beumont/George Stark in the upcoming
Stephen King film _The Dark Half_ directed by George Romero!

			-Casey Hopkins
From: citrin@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Wayne Citrin)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: What is the name of this movie?
Date: 28 Aug 92 19:56:56 GMT
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder

In article <1992Aug28.175521.23150@cs.wisc.edu> michaili@blondie.cs.wisc.edu (Afroditi Michailidi) writes:
>In article <1992Aug28.125934.4198@europa.asd.contel.com> andy@rocky.gte.com (Andrew Busa) writes:
>>Does anyone know the name of a movie that starred Danny Devito and Bette
>>Midler in the 80's?
>
>  This must be "Ruthless People" directed by the Abrahams&Zucker&Zucker team
>before they split up. 
>
>  To tie this with the "inane title change" thread that run a while back,
>this was billed in Greece as "Please kill my wife". Must say this added to
>the film, though :-)
>

And on Swiss (or maybe it was German) TV, it was entitled "Die unglaubliche
Entfuehrung der verrueckten Mrs. Stone"  (The Unbelievable Abduction of the
Crazy Mrs. Stone).  I'm not sure that there's a good word for "ruthless" in
German.

Wayne



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Wayne Citrin   citrin@soglio.colorado.edu   citrin@cs.colorado.edu
From: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: most embarassing movi
Date: 3 Sep 92 06:59:47 EST
Reply-To: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
Distribution: rec
Organization: Channel 1 Communications

MH> What is the most embarassing movie you have ever seen?

     I actually paid money to see Lou Ferrigno in "Hercules."  Of course,
     I was only 12 years old or so, so I didn't know any better...
---
  SLMR 2.1a  Netnail Address: eric.walker@channel1.com
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Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,alt.cult-movies
From: howells@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (John Howells)
Subject: Re: 'Arthur' King of the Badly Dubbed Britons (was Re: Most Embarassing Movie)
Organization: NASA Ames Res. Ctr. Mtn Vw CA 94035
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 15:58:58 GMT

k206027@smog.DKRZ-Hamburg.DE (ce) writes:

<Talking about "Excalibur" got me to thinking about the actor who portrayed 
<Arthur. I can't recall seeing him in *anything* after that film came out.
<Admittedly, Excalibur was not a great calling-card for the man's acting
<skills but one would have thought he could have gotten a job *somewhere*
<(teenage-slasher, running around naked in a Greenaway film :). Can some
<wise TriviaLord out there fill us in on his career (and his name too)?

The great Shakespearian actor Nicol Williamson, famous for his stage
version of Hamlet, among others. Great actor, but has a reputation for
being very hard to get along with. He has appeared in many films, but I
believe he mostly confines his work to the stage.

--
                                        John Howells
                                        howells@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov 
                                        howells@earth.arc.nasa.gov
From: bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu (Greg Bole)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Most Embarassing Movie
Date: 3 Sep 92 19:33:58 GMT
Organization: HHMI/Human Genetics, Univ of Pa.

In article <1992Sep2.185733.10159@news2.cis.umn.edu>, 
donnell@shark.micro.umn.edu (Your Heinous) writes:

> What the heck was wrong with "Cool World"? I enjoyed it a LOT, and so did most
> of my friends. The general consensus among us was that not only did we like
> the movie, but we wanted to GO there!
> Come to think of it, we ALL liked it, and I never saw a review, so what
> is the problem?

You never read this group, and r.a.sf.movies right after it came out, did you?

It seemed to me that 9 outta 10 reviews said it was wretched.

Some (brief) personal gripes:
	Kim Basinger
	Gabriel Byrne was wasted by poor writing
	Kim Basinger
	Lots of loose threads and plot holes
        Kim Basinger
	Very poor live/cartoon interaction
	Kim Basinger

Greg Bole                                    "The ants in the grass, they
bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu                  were just doing their thing."
                                            Matt Dillon in _Drugstore Cowboy_
From: gharris@jade.tufts.edu (George W. Harris)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Film with the least actors
Date: 28 Aug 92 19:49:55 GMT
Organization: Tufts University - Medford, MA
Originator: gharris@jade.tufts.edu


	Well, if you want to count concert films, Swimming to Cambodia starring
Spaulding Grey and no one else is in an n-way tie for first place.  If not,
the best I can think of is Sleuth, with Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine and
noone else.

--
"If you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce, they taste more like
prunes than rhubarb does."              -Groucho Marx 

gharris@jade.tufts.edu          George Harris, Tufts Univ. Dept. of Mathematics
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies.reviews
From: rchao@well.sf.ca.us (Robert Chao)
Subject: REVIEW: TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME
Reply-To: rchao@well.sf.ca.us (Robert Chao)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 18:08:02 GMT
Followup-To: rec.arts.movies
Summary: r.a.m.r. #01509
Keywords: author=Chao

		      TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME
		       A film review by Robert Chao
			Copyright 1992 Robert Chao

     I saw TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME grudgingly, just because a
friend wanted to go.  I felt David Lynch had gotten carried away with
himself lately, as I didn't like WILD AT HEART or the pilot for the
second season of "Twin Peaks."

     I LOVED THIS FILM.

     I HAVE NO IDEA WHY.

     I was just speechless after I saw it.  I thought I would hate it.
But I was eating it up, every second of it.  It was extremely emotional.
I felt as though I knew all the characters, and to see them again, on
year earlier, just blew me away.  Especially when the familiar music
came back and you see the girls walking to school.

     What struck me the most was the style of photography.  I was not as
slick and polished as WILD AT HEART or the series.  The film was grainy
and the lighting was kind of naturalistic.  Like the scenes in the
Palmers' house or when Bobby is using the lay phone.  It seemed almost
low-budget at times.  Does anyone know if the film stock was unusual for
a theatrical release?

     I really appreciated the way Lynch didn't pander to people who
hadn't seen the series.  He just stuck to being faithful to his
creation.  And there were *so many* characters from the series in it, even
Leo and Shirley.  The ads are stupid because they mention Bowie.

     All throughout the film I was saying "This is a stupid movie, but
I'm loving every second."  I guess those Japanese are way ahead of us.
I was fascinated with the character of Laura and the emotional high
point was when she broke with James at the very end.  The most emotional
bit in any Lynch film.

     I once saw Lynch's earliest films, THE GRANDMOTHER and THE
ALPHABET, and the scene of Cooper playing with the TV monitors really
reminded me of those.  After the film my friend played me a laserdisc of
INDUSTRIAL SYMPHONY and I hated it.

     I guess a reason I liked this film is that it felt personal, that
Lynch is out to please "Twin Peaks" fans, that he isn't being Ridley
Scott or Oliver Stone, and to hell with everybody else anyway.  It may
sound ridiculous but I can't even remember the last time I enjoyed a
film so much as last night.

-- 
Robert Chao
Oakland, California

Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies.reviews
From: blj@mithrandir.cs.unh.edu (Brian L. Johnson)
Subject: REVIEW: BONNIE AND CLYDE: THE TRUE STORY
Reply-To: blj@mithrandir.cs.unh.edu (Brian L. Johnson)
Organization: ?
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 18:02:24 GMT
Followup-To: rec.arts.movies
Summary: r.a.m.r. #01502
Keywords: author=K.Johnson

                     BONNIE AND CLYDE: THE TRUE STORY
                       A film review by Ken Johnson
                        Copyright 1992 Ken Johnson

104 min., not rated, Drama/Action, 1992, made for television
Director: Gary Hoffman
Cast: Tracey Needham, Dana Ashbrook, Doug Savant, Betty Buckley,
      Billy Morrisette, Michael Bowen, Michelle Joyner,
      Louanne Stephens

     In the 1930's Clyde Barrow (Dana Ashbrook) meets Bonnie Parker
(Tracey Needham) in a small town.  The two join together with
W. D. Jones, Billy Morrisette.  They go around robbing stores and banks
becoming three of the most famous criminals in U. S. history.

     BONNIE AND CLYDE: THE TRUE STORY is a remake of the 1968 film
BONNIE AND CLYDE, starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway.  I didn't
think that it would be possible to make a television film that would be
as good as the '68 film, but FOX did.  I highly recommend that if you
missed this film that you try to see it if it comes on television again
or if it is released on video cassette.  On a scale of zero to five, I
give BONNIE AND CLYDE: THE TRUE STORY a five.  BONNIE AND CLYDE is
unrated and made for television but contains scenes not appropriate for
small children.

     I think that this is one of the best television films that I have
ever seen.  This film is based on a true story of the infamous
criminals.  I have always felt that the film has had a sad ending.  The
acting in this film is great, which raises it above standard televison
films.  The story is well written, which I have found to be rare in the
majority of television films that I have seen.

     Hopefully this film will be released on video cassette so that more
people can see it.  While television films that are useless, like
HARDHAT AND LEGS, have been released on video that haven't been worth
watching off television, it is a shame when good television films, like
BLOOD TIES (1991), are not.  I feel that this film would have done well
in the theaters, and, I feel, should have been released in the theaters
instead, then it could have gotten more exposure.

     For those of you who have seen the '68 version, some of the film
has been changed, so it is not like re-watching the original.  This
makes the film better, I feel, because then you don't know exactly what
is going to happen next.

*minor spoiler warning*

     The biggest let down in the film is the ending.  In the '68
version, you got to see the car shot up, which I thought was rather
cool.  In this film you don't see the car get shot up, and if I remember
correctly, you don't even hear a gun shot.  I just found this to be a
small disappointment.  Otherwise this the film is great.

Ken J.
blj@mithrandir.cs.unh.edu

Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies.reviews
From: blj@mithrandir.cs.unh.edu (Brian L. Johnson)
Subject: REVIEW: STAY TUNED
Reply-To: blj@mithrandir.cs.unh.edu (Brian L. Johnson)
Organization: ?
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 13:46:14 GMT
Followup-To: rec.arts.movies
Summary: r.a.m.r. #01511
Keywords: author=K.Johnson

                                STAY TUNED
                       A film review by Ken Johnson
                        Copyright 1992 Ken Johnson

90 min., PG, Comedy, 1992
Director: Peter Hayanas
Cast: John Ritter, Pam Dawber, Jeffrey Jones, Eugene Levy, Don Calfa,
      Salt-n-Pepper

     John Ritter is a tv-aholic.  Salesman Jeffrey Jones shows up at
Ritter's door one night and lets him have a free trial of a satellite
disk.  The disk eats Ritter and his wife, Pam Dawber.  They end up in a
television world, where if they survive for 24 hours, they get sent back
to their house.

     STAY TUNED is a very funny comedy, that makes up for Ritter's last
two mega-bombs PROBLEM CHILD and PROBLEM CHILD 2.  I recommend this
film to any fan of slapstick comedy or any movie buff.  On a scale of
zero to five, I give STAY TUNED a four.  STAY TUNED is rated PG for
adult situations.

     I think the thing I disliked the most about this film was the
beginning credits.  They tried to make fun of the opening credits of
some action and science fiction films.  I think that they could have
been better.  The beginning of the end credits was cute though.  The
names of upcoming television shows, like "Unmarried with Children" (one
of the lamer ones), are put on the screen, so you may want to stick
around.

     Some of the humor is Mel-Brookish in nature, especially the
Salt-n-Pepper video.  The film was constantly amusing and often
hilarious, but I doubt that it will do as well as similar films, like
HOT SHOTS! and THE NAKED GUN 2 1/2: THE SMELL OF FEAR, considering some
of the other films out in the theaters, like UNFORGIVEN, SINGLE WHITE
FEMALE, and TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME.  Most likely this film will
find its audience when it is released on video cassette (and laser
disk).  None of the film will be lost on video cassette, so if you want
to wait for the video and see other current hits your viewing of the
film won't be harmed.

     I suggest that if you are planning to watch this film, that you try
to avoid seeing any commercials for it because they spoil parts of it
(e.g., "Driving Over Miss Daisy").  If you plan to see the film, I
suggest that you go see it soon because it has just left the theaters in
my area, and will probably be doing the same in your area soon also.

Ken J.
blj@mithrandir.cs.unh.edu

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