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From: donnell@shark.micro.umn.edu (Your Heinous)
Subject: Re: Most Embarassing Movie
Organization: none
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 18:57:33 GMT

In article <1992Sep2.131629.1@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu (Greg Bole) writes:
>In article <Btww7A.n3J@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu 
>(Steve Stelter) writes:
>
>>> What is the most embarassing movie you have ever seen?  
>
>> "Cool World."  'Nuff said.
>
>DAMN!!!
>
>Did you *have* to remind me?
>
><sigh>
>
>Greg Bole                                    "The ants in the grass, they
>bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu                  were just doing their thing."
>                                            Matt Dillon in _Drugstore Cowboy_

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?
No flames, please. I am just curious...

					--Judex--

Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
From: frank@snooks.isri.unlv.edu (Frank Jenkins)
Subject: Re: great voices 
Reply-To: frank@snooks.isri.unlv.edu (Frank Jenkins)
Organization: UNLV Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 15:14:10 GMT

Gene Shalitt once had Richard Burton read from a page in the Manhattan phone directory. It was a spellbinding performance.
From: eric@npri6.npri.com (Eric Williams)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me"
Summary: not quite a lynching?
Date: 31 Aug 92 20:28:26 GMT
Organization: NPRI, Alexandria VA

In article <1992Aug29.184753.95798@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>, jm0i@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JOSEPH ALOYSIUS MCVEIGH) writes:
> According to the New York Times, "This may not be the worst movie ever. But it
> sure seems that way."
[stuff deleted]
> David lynched his own creation......is he mocking himself by mocking Leland?

I saw the movie and I liked it. A LOT. I can see why critics and the
general public would hate it: Unless you're a diehard PEAKS fan and
have pretty much seen all of the TV series, there are just too many
symbolic, unexplained (within the context of the movie) gaps for
it to work independently. As a thematic review SLASH companion piece
SLASH art film derivation, I thought it was darned amazing. Sent chills
up spines I didn't know I had.

Did anyone think that the whole Banks sequence with the dynamic FBI duo was
originally intended for Cooper? (In the AUTOBIOGRAPHY, he is the one
who performs the autopsy and finds the letter.) Maybe when Kyle M.
was playing hard-to-get they changed history and threw in that Bowie 
business to boot. (I didn't think Bowie's ghostly intrusion added anything
to the TP legend, apart from underscore the fact that Coop is not
all good.)

-------- eric@npri.com ---------- or ---------- ...uunet!uupsi!npri6!eric -----
                       "What's it going to be then, eh?"                        
Eric C. Williams/ NPRI/ Alexandria, VA/ USA/ (703) 683-9090/ Usual disclaimers.
From: rlw@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Rich West)
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 17:09:18 GMT
Subject: Re: The Potion with the Poison...
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies

In rec.arts.movies, marks@castle.ed.ac.uk (Mark Steyn) writes:

> I while back there was a big discussion which I barely glanced at
> involving the line:
> 
> "The potion with the poison is in the flagon with the dragon"
> 
> Or something similar.  At the time I could have sworn that the line came
> from "The Princess Bride" (Great film!) but having actually seen the
> film I was surprised to find the line absent.  
> 
> Where then did this line originate?
> 
> Mail me if you know!
> 
> 	Mark
> 
> -- 
 

It's from The Court Jester with Danny Kay.

                                    Rich West
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From: ddebry@itchy.dsd.es.com (David DeBry)
Subject: Re: Buckaroo Banzai 
Description: Tall, skinny, kinda goofy looking
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Reply-To: David DeBry <ddebry@dsd.es.com> 
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp., Design Systems Division 
Date:  3 Sep 92 02:08:32 GMT
Irc: Z-Grue (Zorkian Grue) 
Detailed-Info: finger ddebry@cc.utah.edu 
Day-Phone: (801) 582-5847 x4721 
Internet: ddebry@dsd.es.com 

In <SYNTH.92Sep2175858@deepthought.unm.edu> synth@deepthought.unm.edu (Synth F. Oberheim) writes:
>defon@yoyodine.edu writes:
>defon> Does anybody out there know if a soundtrack was ever released
>defon> for the film "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai"?
>
>Not in this dimension.  The anal-retentive studio exec who wields exclusive
>rights never allowed a soundtrack to be produced.  It's for the same reason
>no sequel was ever made, either.


	I remember asking this question.  I also remember a billion
(ok, maybe HALF a billion) other people asking this question.
Perchance, is it in the FAQ?  The bandwidth used to talk about BB is
probably somewhere near the amount used to talk about Blade Runner,
which is considerable.

	Maybe it's worth a mailing list... or an 'alt' group.  What
the hell, let's have an RFD and CFV for
rec.arts.movies.the.adventures.of.buckaroo.banzai.across.the.eigth.dimension!

	:)


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Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Date: Tue,  1 Sep 1992 23:45:41 -0400 
From: Anish Bharat Bhimani <ab4n+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Film with the least actors
	<1992Sep1.152627.15893@jade.tufts.edu>

Excerpts from netnews.rec.arts.movies: 1-Sep-92 Re: Film with the least
actors George W. Harris@jade.tu (805)


>From: gharris@jade.tufts.edu (George W. Harris)
>Subject: Re: Film with the least actors
>Date: 1 Sep 92 15:26:27 GMT
>
>In article <1992Sep1.023905.2926@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu>
>bchurch@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Robert Church) writes:
>>In article <1992Aug31.192352.21160@pony.Ingres.COM> >cathys@ingres.com
(Cathy Savino) writes:
>>
>>>I'm sorry about the sketchy details, but the one thing I do remember
is >>>that there where only 2 actors in the entire film, and Micheal
Kane >>>was one of them.
>
>>>Was the other one Christopher Reeves?
>
>	That's Reeve, and no it wasn't.  That one had two women and a host >of
 extras in it.
>
>>*    bob church                             *
>>*    bchurch@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu           *
>--
>"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

The movie with Michael Caine and Christopher Reeve is "Deathtrap", and
includes a few women, including Dyan Cannon.

The movie you are thinking of is "Sleuth", a two-character production
starring Laurence Olivier (excuse me, Lord Olivier) and Michael Caine.
It's based on a play, but I can't remember the playwright's name.

- Anish

Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
From: schuck@fraser.sfu.ca (Bruce Jonathan Schuck)
Subject: Carry on Columbus and Columbus 1492
Reply-To: Bruce_Schuck@sfu.ca
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 19:21:52 GMT

ccx020@cch.coventry.ac.uk (James Nash) writes:

>In article <schuck.715278705@sfu.ca> Bruce_Schuck@sfu.ca writes:
>>buccb@after.math.uiuc.edu (Carlos Dragonslayer Butler) writes:
>>>I thought 1492 was the Columbus flick. R there 2 Columbus
>>>flicks coming out this year? If not, was the hell is 1492
>>>about?
>>Yes...there are *two* Columbus flicks.

>WRONG!!! There are **Three** Columbus flicks. The two mentioned
>below and the one which will obviously be the best...

>	Carry on Columbus.

My Mistake. :)

How could I forget that one. :)

>Currently in (post-) production (?), starring Jim Davidson and
>Julian Clary and many others; though not many of the original
>Carry On team members as they are nearly all dead now.

Pity.

>P.S. For those of you who really don't know: Carry On were/are a
>loose ensemble of many great British comic actors (Sid James, Charles
>Hawtrey, Kenneth Williams, Kenneth Conor, Barabara Williams, etc. etc.)
>who made 20+ films from the 50s onwards until they all started dying.
>Carry on Screaming was probably the best IMHO. Carry on Up the Khyber
>was probably the best title.

I loved the raising of the kilts as a secret weapon.

"Company.......Raise Kilts!" [or something to that effect]

I hope Carry on Columbus comes close to the classic "Carry on..."
films.
From: hughes@dogwood.botany.uga.edu (Wayne Hughes)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Best shots wanted
Date: 26 Aug 92 01:32:52 GMT
Organization: Botany Department - U of Georgia, Athens

In article <94554@bu.edu> abw@natchez.bu.edu (Al Wesolowsky) writes:
>In article <1992Aug25.231547.22171@rigel.econ.uga.edu> hughes@dogwood.botany.uga.edu (Wayne Hughes) writes:
>+In article <1992Aug25.033137.176068@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> dfk0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (David F. Keppel) writes:
>+>   Hitchcock is "loaded" with some superb shots.
>+
>+In _Frenzy_, the camera moving backwards out of the apartment,
>+down the stairs, and out of the building, all in silence, until
>+we reach the street.  We *know* what's going to happen.
>
>And that's just the last half of a fascinating shot. First, as I recall,
>the camera follows the woman from the street, into the house, up the
>stairs, around a corner on a landing, and into her flat (or at least to
>the door). *Then* the camera 'backs up' as Wayne describes.
>
>-- 
    Right, but I was afraid that was getting too close to being a
    spoiler (can you *spoil* a 20-year-old movie?).  The way you
    describe it though omits the spoiling feature.  Good.

    I'll have to admit that shot left me with a totally bleak feeling.
    We had gotten to *know* that woman.

    Wayne
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
From: ren@Turing.ORG (Karen Prestemon)
Subject: Re: Film with the least actors
Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia.
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 13:08:12 GMT

In article <1992Aug28.140323.1@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu (Greg Bole) writes:
>In article <Bto047.MAs@acsu.buffalo.edu>, v118jxyk@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu 
>(Live Fast, Die Young!) writes:
>
>> 	Sleuth had only two characters in the whole movie....
>> 
>> 	Michael Caine and Lawrence Olivier
>
>This is also the first film I thought of...but it is also a spoiler.
>In the future be a little more considerate.
>

Yes, this is a spoiler, but it is a better answer to the question than any
I've seen so far.  In a news group dedicated to dicussion of films, shouldn't
it be expected that more than a few plot points are going to slip out?
What is the priority here?  Gathering information, or protecting the
"virginity" of people who may not have seen the movie Sleuth?  I would also
like to point out that people who haven't seen the movie wouldn't have known
that this information was a spoiler until you had the consideration to
post it.

--Karen
 


Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
From: jwp@panix.com (JongWoo Park)
Subject: Re: Films with no females
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 04:56:23 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC

I am not too sure, but "Ninth Configuration" did not have any
female cast.......
-----
Jongwoo Park                                                  jwp@panix.com
From: jjdti@usho77.hou281.chevron.com (J.D.Tilander)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: What are those Negroes doing with guns?
Date: 2 Sep 92 21:42:21 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Chevron

In article <1992Sep2.113813.744@calmasd.prime.com> wwr@calmasd.prime.com writes:
>
>Yeah, I rambled.  Got a burr up my butt & couldn't dig it out.  Got bored,
>whatever... go ahead - toast me.  I got my undies all set to slip on.
>
>walter

Yowza, Walter, sounds like you're angry.  Just one thing...one adult female is
called a woman.  More than one and you use women.  Made your speech a trifle
disconcerting to read.  Don't know about other women, but I sure don't like 
being compared to movie characters.  I don't hate men either.

Janet
-- 
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Chevron Exploration and Production Services Co.
San Ramon, CA
From: gharris@jade.tufts.edu (George W. Harris)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Cast of Dracula
Date: 1 Sep 92 14:50:21 GMT
Organization: Tufts University - Medford, MA
Originator: gharris@jade.tufts.edu

In article <1992Aug31.171237.1@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu (Greg Bole) writes:
> 
>I've put together a _Dracula_ FAQ from various posts.  Thanks to all who
>contributed!  I'll post it periodically.  This looks like it's shaping up to be
>the movie of the year...
>
>
>Count Dracula/Vlad Dracul: Gary Oldman  
>   (_JFK_, _Rozencrantz and Guildensten Are Dead_)

	Except Vlad Dracul is *not* Vlad the Impaler/Vlad Tepes.  Vlad Dracul
was Vlad the Impaler's father.  Dracul is from the Romanian (I believe) word 
for dragon, and is appended to Vlad Pere's name as an honorific bestowed on
him by one of those Teutonic orders of knights that were always going off on
crusades.  Vlad Tepes then had the right to call himself Vlad Dracula, but not
Vlad Dracul. 
 
>Greg Bole                                    "The ants in the grass, they
>bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu                  were just doing their thing."
--
"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
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From: mgq@inel.gov (Michael G McKellar)
Subject: Re: Film with the least actors
Organization: Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Idaho Falls, Idaho
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 19:41:12 GMT

In article <1992Aug31.192352.21160@pony.Ingres.COM> cathys@ingres.com (Cathy Savino) writes:
>I can't think of the name of it, but there was a mystery with Micheal Kane that
>took place solely in a house. There was only one other actor in the film. The
>premise of the film (I can't remember it too weel) was that he had murdered a woman,
>and I believe he had framed the other gentleman in the film. The other gentlemen
>had t figure out where the body was, or how he killed her before the police arrived.
>I'm sorry about the sketchy details, but the one thing I do remember is that there 
>where only 2 actors in the entire film, and Micheal Kane was one of them.
>
The film is called "Sleuth" with Michael Caine and Sir Lawrence Olivier.
A great film (IMHO of course).

Mike McKellar (mgq@inel.gov)
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From: k206027@smog.DKRZ-Hamburg.DE (ce)
Subject: Re: Most Embarassing Movie
Organization: Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum GmbH, Hamburg
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 07:08:17 GMT

In article <BALDWIN.92Sep1133552@csservera.scs.usna.navy.mil> baldwin@csservera.scs.usna.navy.mil (J.D. Baldwin) writes:
>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. :-)
>
Without a doubt it was "Hook". I went with two friends and we sat utterly
dumbfounded by the complete and total shamelessness of this colossal 
turkey. Manipulative and fake in it's entirety. A complete sleepwalk by
Spielbore. Time after time we would utter, "Oh *come* on!" in unison
when confronted by this film's hopeless and lame plot devices. When the
little girl sang we all had to suppress our gag reflexes. The only good
part of the film was seeing David Crosby get whacked in the balls by a
large wooden plank. I've made half-hearted promises to quit giving my
money to Stephen before but this movie turned my resolve into concrete.
I can't wait to hear about how he completely ruins Jurassic Park.

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From: cooper@cos.com (Gary Cooper)
Subject: Re: Best War Movies?
Organization: Corporation for Open Systems
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 19:36:11 GMT

In <1992Aug10.192837.23429@dgbt.doc.ca> serge@dgbt.doc.ca (Serge Ah Hee) writes:

>I was just wondering if anybody saw 'The Beast' and any comments. I have
>the soundtrack by Mark Isham, but can't seem to find the movie around here.
>The movie is about the Afghan war.

OOOOOhhhhhhh! Glad you reminded me of this one.  A great movie (starring
Jason Patric) about a Soviet tank crew in Afganistan.  I used to teach
Soviet Airborne tactics to the US military, and know a little about Sov
arms and equipment - and the stuff in this flick is highly accurate.

I wish a Laserdisc version would come out.....

gary cooper (not the dead one) 
Xref: sparky rec.arts.movies:26772 alt.cult-movies:7458
From: bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu (Greg Bole)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: Most Embarassing Movie
Date: 2 Sep 92 18:16:29 GMT
Followup-To: rec.arts.movies
Organization: HHMI/Human Genetics, Univ of Pa.

In article <Btww7A.n3J@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu 
(Steve Stelter) writes:

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

> "Cool World."  'Nuff said.

DAMN!!!

Did you *have* to remind me?

<sigh>

Greg Bole                                    "The ants in the grass, they
bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu                  were just doing their thing."
                                            Matt Dillon in _Drugstore Cowboy_
From: hughes@dogwood.botany.uga.edu (Wayne Hughes)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: TREMORS
Date: 1 Sep 92 00:19:17 GMT
Organization: Botany Department - U of Georgia, Athens

In article <1992Aug31.234201.5320@rigel.econ.uga.edu> hughes@dogwood.botany.uga.edu (Wayne Hughes) writes:
>
 Weird stuff.  I have no idea what happened in Pnews to get what you
 saw in a previous post.
 The posting should have read:


  It's been a few months since I remember this movie being
  discussed on this group.  I just saw it again last night
  and was struck by how *good* it is.  Imagine, an intelligent
  sf/horror movie!  If you want to see such a thing, run out
  and rent _Tremors_ and encourage the director (Ron Underwood?)
  to make more of this stuff.  Does anyone know if he's made
  anything else?  My guide lists only this movie.  Is he still
  alive?  Does anyone know of any similarly intelligent movies
  of the genre?  (I'm not requesting plugs for Alien or Terminator
  types.)
  
  Wayne
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Is "Heavy Metal" a bootleg?
From: bjbartlett@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (The Bart-Man)
Date: 1 Sep 92 16:06:55 -0500
Organization: Miami University Academic Computer Service"

  I copied "Heavy Metal" off of Showtime (or was it Cinemax) this summer 
and was wondering if it could be considered a bootleg.  I haven't seen it 
available on tape or anywhere else since it first came out, and I don't 
think anything was cut out of it (as far as I can remember.)

-Bart

Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,alt.cult-movies
From: howells@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (John Howells)
Subject: Re: Most Embarassing Movie
Organization: NASA Ames Res. Ctr. Mtn Vw CA 94035
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 16:57:35 GMT

donnell@shark.micro.umn.edu (Your Heinous) writes:

<I just remembered attending a showing of what was easily the worst comedy of
<the 80's. Buck Henry's "First Family". Despite the presence of Bob Newhart,
<Buck Henry, Gilda Radner, Madeline Kahn and others, it sucked rhino.
<I was alone in the theatre for the entire showing, and it was easy to see
<why. Awful, unfunny, and stupid. Basically, as bad as it gets.

God, I had forgotten all about this movie! Have you noticed that Buck
Henry has never directed another movie since? This movie killed his once
promising career!

--
                                        John Howells
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                                        howells@earth.arc.nasa.gov
From: mnor1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Mark Hiro           Norman         )
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: great voices
Date: 30 Aug 92 05:04:48 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept. University of Auckland

In <1992Aug27.194441.23129@twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com> mccreary@sword.eng.hou.compaq.com (Ed McCreary) writes:

>In article <1992Aug27.140352.25712@ms.uky.edu> fehr@ms.uky.edu (Jeff Davis) writes:
>>   the story thus far:
>>
>>> James Earl Jones
>>> Burt Lancaster
>>> Jack Palance
>>> Clu Gulager [????]
>>> June Allison
>>> Gregory Peck
>>
>>Jean Arthur : the best
>>Candy Clark : "Do you think you can get us some broooooo?"

>John Huston
>Brad Dourif (especially in Exorcist III)

I thought Brad Dourif, as Piter de Vries, was excellent in Dune.
The other Mentat, Freddie Jones as Thufir Hawat, was great as well.
Freddie Jones had an interesting voice in Wild at Heart too. Squeak!

>Eartha Kitt (purr!)


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