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From: malcolm@wrs.com (Malcolm Humes)
Subject: Re: Street Trash
Organization: Wind River Systems, Inc.
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 16:34:44 GMT

rwyatt@niji.claremont.edu (Robert Wyatt) writes:

>In truth, the film is very well made, sporting some excellent camera  
>work.  The writing is pretty good (given the subject matter...), and  
>the performances are, well, interesting...  Ever seen Frankenhooker ?   
>The "mad scientist" guy plays a mafia boss's doorman in Street Trash.

>Check it out !  Watch it once and be disgusted....Then watch it again  
>for its interesting, albeit warped, social commentary !

I used to hang out with the guys who edited this film when I was in college. 
They were both pretty warped too. 

I liked this film a lot, but to be honest I thought that the women in the film
were really abused and relegated to pretty minimal roles. Something about the
women in this film bothered me, but it sort of reflected the attitudes of the
guys I knew who worked on the film anyway.                       

A somewhat slicker but similar film is C.H.U.D., but it's not nearly as 
sleazy as Street Trash. 

 - Malcolm
From: bg1g+@andrew.cmu.edu (Benjamin E Griffin)
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: The Man Who Fell to Earth
Date: 11 Apr 92 19:38:14 GMT
Organization: The society to annoy K-I-B-O (bet he still finds it).

I recently watched "The Man Who fell to Earth" a second time, and I
noticed when I borrowed that it was listed as "edited". I think it was
the same version that I saw when a first watched the movie, so can
anyone tell me what I am missing by watching this version as opposed to
the uncut version?

Thanks!

--
Benjamin Elijah Griffin
mankind+@cmu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
From: orson@bluemoon.rn.com (Craig Smith)
Subject: Re: aka???
Organization: Blue Moon BBS ((614) 868-998[024])
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 20:26:32 EDT

phygod72@nic.gac.edu (Phil ) writes:

> Phil aka just seeing what I can start

Are you trying to start something?

 This is from
     orson@bluemoon.rn.com
who doesn't have their own obnoxious signature yet
From: rsopicki@pro-amber.cts.com (System Administrator)
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: Terminator - what an awful movie...
Date: 12 Apr 92 15:16:34 GMT
Article-I.D.: crash.1992Apr12.151634.16690
Organization: Crash TimeSharing, El Cajon, CA

In <1992Apr11.202131.802@gacvx2.gac.edu> phygod72@nic.gac.edu (Phil ) writes:

>
>Hi there all you Terminator fans!  Just wanted to say that Arnold ought to get  
>off drugs, and Sarah should _really_ see a shrink.
>

Hey! Are you trying to start something here or what? :-)
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From: bchurch@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Robert Church)
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Movie drug, was Re: More about T2
Date: 5 Apr 92 05:13:59 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: Ohio University School of Art. Athens

In article <92095.204711TJS107@psuvm.psu.edu> TJS107@psuvm.psu.edu (Sime) writes:
>It would have been interesting to go into T2 w/o knowing that Arnie was the
>good guy...If only I'd get temporary amnesia and go see it again...

They need to invent a drug or technique which wipes out all memory of
the movies you've seen from your memory. You keep a written list of the
movies you liked and then watch them over and over.


-- 
*********************************************
*    bob church                             *
*    bchurch.oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu           *
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From: sasso@flounder.phy.anl.gov (John F. Sasso)
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: comfort and joy
Date: 13 Apr 92 18:47:19 GMT
Article-I.D.: mcs.1992Apr13.184719.28563
Organization: Argonne National Laboratory

In article <1992Apr13.105755.11037@husc3.harvard.edu> fenick1@husc8.harvard.edu (Sharon Fenick) writes:
>
>	one fine winter night some months ago, i was sitting in
>my room and watching tv, when out of nowhere this excellent movie
>appeared on my telly.  has anyone else seen "comfort and joy" or 
>does anyone know if it is out on video anywhere, or even if there
>are any other movies of this ilk out there?
>	it was an incredibly funny movie, with all sorts of under-
>played and really awesome scenes.  it was a scottish film, i think,
>though i'm not sure exactly, and it involved a radio show host named
>dickie bird, his women, and the ice cream mafia.
>
>	please, assurances that i didn't dream the whole thing on 
>my couch?
>
>	sharon


Momories:
The kleptomaniac ex-girlfriend
The ice-cream thugs
The fried ice cream dish

Gee, i think we had the same dream! ;-)

							JFS



-- 
"The only way to true inspiration is the study of TedDo.  And lots
of MauMau, of course."  The Elvis Lectures
"I am not the False Bob, I am a free man."  The Book of FalseBobs
"Since the introduction of MauMau, HP sales have skyrocketed." Book of MauMau
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
From: antonp@woods.ulowell.edu
Subject: Re: Akira:deepest animated movie out.
Organization: University of Lowell
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 16:20:05 GMT

>If anyone out there see's the movie AKIRA in video stores, rent it and
>watch it.  It has to be one of the best animated movies ever made. 
>
>the "managers choice" shelf).  If any one else is the AKIRA guru, mail
>me because I have some questions.
>
>1) what is the whole amoeba thing that tetsuo turns into at the end of
>the movie?  I have always wondered about that.  Guess it has something
>to do with the Japanese philosophy of total consumption.(I don't know)
>
>2)  At the end of the movie, after every thing is over, you hear this
>voice say, "I am tetsuo!" and these wild colors.  Was he supposed to
>be the hero?  I hope not
>
>Thomas Tatum  tatum@cs.unc.edu

I am by no means an Akira expert, but I've seen it a fe times now...

Yes it is certainly one of the best animated films of all time.
In fact, the two second shot of all the glass from the 
skyscraper shattering and falling down is probably
the best animated shot of all time.

The short people throughout the movie are mutations
of people, gentically altered/created to unleash
powers untapped/untappable by regular humans. They're
kids, but are very old because of the power's drain on
life force. They are also not the "final product" of this
genetic experiment, but merely a step on the way, of
sorts. At the beginning of the movie, Tetsuo comes in contact
with one of these "children," and in so doing,
gains the powers they possess (from the motorcycle
accident). But because he gains this power natrally,
he is not harmed by it, and eventually
gains the full force of this mutation.

The mutation turns him into (by unleashing) pure energy,
basically making him into a God. Hence the embryo,
pure in form, substance. Those colors you see at the end
are the new "world," the new dimension he is a part of 
in his new form.

This all comes from the comic book series, which I 
have (too few) parts of, and a friend who has
been a fanatic of the series/movie for quite
some time.


So it's out on Video now? Tell me...
1) Is only the English version available? I hate it. The Japanese
	is MUCH better, even if I can't understand a damn thing.
	The English voices are comparable to a bad Kung Fu
	translation in accuracy and characterization.
	Too many sound efects were lost, too.
2) Is it in letter box form (as was the Japanese Laser Disk
	released oh so long ago and in so few numbers- wasn't it
	only 100 in the US? a friend has a copy...)? I would 
	greatly prefer the letter box, as each frame in that
	movie is a work of art in composition... I would
	hate for some lab tech in the US to have 
	re-framed the whole thing for that US appitite
	for the little screen...


peter anton
antonp@woods.ulowell.edu
From: john@beaudin.UUCP (John Beaudin)
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: into the realm of the senses
Date: 8 Apr 92 13:46:57 GMT
Distribution: world

danec@cns.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu (Dane Chetkovich) writes:

 > could anyone suggest where a copy of "into the realm of the senses" can be obtained.
 > it is a japanese film, though i can not remember by whom it was directed...
 > it may also be known by another title. any help?

I saw 'In the Realm of the Senses' (Ai No Koriida). It's sometimes
titled as 'In the Empire of the Senses'.

The director is Nagisa Oshima.

I was lucky enough to view it at the Art Gallery of Ontario during a
showing of the 'Eros + Massacre: Sex and Death in Japanese Cinema'
program, last July.

-- 
"The Battle of the Gulf was won on the playing fields of Atari" - J. Beaudin
My preferable .signature is awaiting apropriate display technology.
From: pierce@navo.navy.mil (Jim M. Pierce)
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: T1000 sampled the kid too.
Date: 12 Apr 92 08:55:14 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.1992Apr12.085514.18639
Reply-To: pierce@navo.navy.mil (Jim M. Pierce)
Organization: POPS Operations
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-17498]: spop.navo.navy.mil

In article <ragnarok.702722114@cs1.bradley.edu>, ragnarok@cs1.bradley.edu (Matthew Lathrum) writes:
|> In <1992Apr6.095747.17624@aber.ac.uk> dmf@aber.ac.uk (Darren Michael Forbes) writes:
|> 
|> 
|> >This theory assumes that sampling is a passive process.  I believe that
|> >the T-1000 has to actively try to sample something to be able to
|> >imitate it.  I don't think that cutting Sarah in the lift counts as
|> >a sampling process, and I don't think that John touching a chunk
|> >counts either.
|> 
|> I don't understand how the T-1000 could shape into that guard that was getting
|> a cup of coffee if the only contact he had with him was the guard's shoes
|> walking on top of him.  Any comments?
|> --

     Howabout the tiny microscopic flakes of skin that fall onto the
  floor from all humans. If the guard took the same path around his
  patrol are, there would be these normal fallen skin flakes on the
  bottom of the guards shoes. DNA material...

-- 
     pierce@navo.navy.mil  Jim Pierce aka Nick D.

    "I want a new duck...." Weird Al Yankovic
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: Straight To Hell
From: olson@husc8.harvard.edu (Chip Olson)
Date: 9 Apr 92 21:56:00
Organization: Spam-On-A-Rope Inc.
In-reply-to: zaphod@spinner.gac.edu's message of 9 Apr 92 00:38:03 GMT

In article <1992Apr8.183805.713@gacvx2.gac.edu> zaphod@spinner.gac.edu (William Voelker) writes:

>Anyone see this movie?
>
>It is one of the most bizzare movies I have yet seen, and is screamingly  
>funny at some points.  It is sort of like a western-psychedelic-madhouse  
>film.  Dennis Hopper and Grace Jones make cameo appearances in it.

Oh yes, saw it on video one otherwise boring afternoon.  Any movie that
stars the Pogues has to be a blast... 

"and there's always plenty of COFFEE!"

--
-Chip Olson. | olson@husc.harvard.edu | ceo@gnu.ai.mit.edu (seldom used)
"So come all ye lovers of the Good Life, your children playing in the sun,
And set a sympathetic flag a-flying, and be there when the Dutchman comes..."
                                      -Jethro Tull, "Flying Dutchman"
From: morjens@vipunen.hut.fi (Jens B von Weissenberg)
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Fishies!
Date: 14 Apr 92 08:01:26 GMT
Distribution: alt.cult-movies
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

Well, now, don't get all exited there, folks. I's just gone tell all of 
yous a little story 'bout them fishies.
See, them fishies' jus' swimmin around, all day long, they ain't doin'
nuthin' but swimmin', and then, all surprisingly, there comes a fisher.
Now dat fisher, he want's to get some of them fishies, for food, so he
takes that ceg o'gunpowder, and he lights dat fuse, and throws dat ceg
smack in the middle of the lake. And, waddya now, BOOOM, and he's caught
himself a mighty fine fish. And all of the other fishies too.

Ain't dat somthin'?

Morjens aka see you 'round folks!
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: aka
From: mitch@nic.gac.edu(The Madman)
Date: 14 Apr 92 14:17:35 -0600
Reply-To: mitch@nic.gac.edu

In article <1992Apr13.180203.852@gacvx2.gac.edu>  writes:
%In article <1992Apr13.160120.850@gacvx2.gac.edu>  writes:
%} In article <44897@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>  writes:
%} %>The Madman aka Well, let's have some fun!
%} %Jester aka I`m sorry, but you didn`t ask permission to use aka!!!
%} The Madman aka Well, isn't that just too bad!?
%Phil aka Mitch, you just don't know proper aka protocol!
The Madman aka But that's what makes it so fun! :)
--
I do not claim to know everything.  I do not claim to know anything.
I claim to know that I do not know everything or anything.
				-- The Madman
From: cn09+@andrew.cmu.edu (Christopher Kalevi Nuuja)
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: Kindred Spirits+AstroZombies Spoiled!
Date: 6 Apr 92 20:12:32 GMT
Organization: Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

> I think you and "CK Nuuja" were made for each other!  :-) ;-) ;_)
>--danny

I think you were made for "Charles in Charge".


ObCM:  Astro Zombies (or was it Attack of the Astro Zombies)

     The plot is quite sorry.  Tedious, in fact.  High points:

1.  Evil villian is the woman who was the gang leader in "Faster Pussycat,
    Kill, Kill".  Most of her scenes involve her showing off her amazing
    eyeliner, and looking cat like.  She's fantastic.  Any other movies with
    her?

    2.  "experts" spend ridiculous amounts of time in a cheesey office
        looking at evidence, like a rubber brain under glass.  The brain's
        got radiowaverecievers implanted in it and tuned to the astro-zombie
        frequency.  When the zombie control transmitter is activated, rubber
        brain vibrates like one of those massage beds in a hotel, proving
        science can be used to control dead people.  There's what appears
        to be rubber large intenstines and maybe a liver on the table too,
        but no one ever explains those.
    3.  Head of the experts' slur gets worse as movie goes on, I presume from
     hootchin' it up between shots.
    4.  Astro zombie's get they're energy from solar cells in the forehead,
        and an optional battery adapter for nightime.  When one of the
        zombies looses his battery in a fight, he steals the good guy's
        flashlight and makes a break for it, stumbling around holding this
        flashlight to his head.
    5.  Amazingly bad evil scientist + a very greasy Egor set.

This movie would be very entertaining if edited down to 15 minutes.  I don't
think there would be any plot holes, either.
Very few zombie scenes.  Amazingly under exposed shot at beggining and end
of film.  I think its of wind up toy robots on a black background, but its
really hard to tell.

A tedious watch with moments of quality cheese.  Rent it for cheap,
and utilize the fast forward.
From: sue%miracle@merk.com (The Dragon Queen)
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: aka?
Date: 15 Apr 92 11:18:31 GMT
Article-I.D.: miracle.15Apr92061831
Organization: Miracle Computer Consultants

>> }>}|]|.|].|>|}>|>>>>}}>-enrique aka juggler
>> }>}|]|.|].|>|}>|>>>>}}Eccles aka What?
>> }>}|]|.|].|>|}>|>>>>}Phil aka this is how this whole long aka starts..
>> }>}|]|.|].|>|}>|>>>>Jester aka it is?????
>> }>}|]|.|].|>|}>|>>>Tia aka it is!!!!!!!!!!!
>> }>}|]|.|].|>|}>|>>MSNOI!! aka I refuse to add to this list. (oh, shit!)
>> }>}|]|.|].|>|}>|>Tia aka silly boy, you just did (giggle  ;) )!!
>> }>}|]|.|].|>|}>|Dougger aka So What??
>> }>}|]|.|].|>|}>Jos aka Probably Cause He Ain't Got No List-Adding-Aka License! *Laarg*!
>> }>}|]|.|].|>|}Phil aka not the other Phil!
>> }>}|]|.|].|>|Jester aka this looks like fun
>> }>}|]|.|].|>Jos aka Yes It Does, But Do We Allow Non-Aka-Members To Participate?
>> }>}|]|.|].|Tia aka no, cos they may be members of the bogus Nnne!
>> }>}|]|.|].Jos aka AAaarghHh! No! Not The Members Of The Nnnnne Gang! Help! Help! Help!
>> }>}|]|.|]. Morjens aka I still think we should sic the bishop on them!
>> }>}|]|.|]Dan aka Why stop at that?  Lets cut their arms off and make them eat Jester in a Hollandaise sauce!
>> }>}|]|.|Jester aka eat me??? but I'm not kosher
>> }>}|]|.Jos aka Not Kosher You Say? What's Wrong With Your Hoofs Then?
>> }>}|]|Dan aka Ya' know Jes'.  I think it really depends on how we kill you.
>> }>}|]|(AGG!!!  I just had a near miss with a real MP quote!  Whew.)
>> }>}|]Jos aka I hope Little Jester's A Ruminant, 'Cause I'm Not Gonna Chew His Cud
>> }>}|Jester aka I taste like grass, trust me
>> }>}Jos aka Siberian Steppe Grass Or Mongolian Tundra Grass?
>> }>Jester aka Spanish Flossing Grass I believe......
>> }Sue aka Does that mean if we eat you, we can use what's left to clean our
>> }teeth?
>> Jester aka good question, Jos can you field this one?
>> --
>> sig on strike until further notice due to union complaints......
>
>
>What is all of this stuff, when did it get here, and what is it doing
>in alt.cult-movies?????!!!!!!!???????!!!!!!!


Hmmm.....I think it came from alt.fan.monty-python.....they're raiding
this newsgroup, or something silly and immature like that.....

:-)






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Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies,rec.arts.sf.movies
From: mitchell@seas.smu.edu (Gary Mitchell)
Subject: Re: T2 is *so* full of holes - Here's another one!
Organization: Brute Force Productions
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 21:20:51 GMT

domalley@unix1.tcd.ie (Slartibartfast (alias Daniel O'Malley)) writes:
>
>I just noticed: when the T1000 arrives in Los Angeles in
>1995, he is buck naked. So he nicks a set of clothes from a passing
>police officer. Therefore, the clothes are not part of the T1000 itself,
>but real fabric. However, later scenes in the film have T1000 being
>shot, and the uniform miraculously reforming over the bullet-holes.
>Also: in the asylum, where he walks through the barred doors, the
>uniform passes straight through (Unlike the gun he was carrying).
>These scenes would suggest that the clothes _are_ part of the T1000
>himself, in contrast to the opening scene.
>
You never SEE him steal the clothes... all we know for sure is that he
stole the police car. So he probably did fashion the uniform from the
alloy. 

MY question is: why the hell didn't he turn into the cop he offed?
Look carefully... he doesn't. It'd have been perfect cover, but he
decided to remain the way he was... ???

Also, in the first movie, only flesh could go through time... now a
chunk of metal (albeit a sophisticated chunk) goes through. What gives?

Gary Mitchell -- mitchell@star0.seas.smu.edu
Brute Force Productions -- just like the pros, only less so!
From: dfi@specklec.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Daniel Fischer)
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: "North by Northwest" - Why the title?
Date: 13 Apr 92 12:46:22 GMT
Organization: Max Planck Institut fuer Radioastronomie

Having just seen Hitchcock's brilliant 'North by Northwest' again, I still
can't figure out what this title means. Where's the connection to the plot?
(This is one of the rare cases where the German title, Der unsichtbare Dritte =
the invisible 3rd man, seems to make more sense.)

Two other comments: in one early scene, Thornhill's mother tells him to stop
searching for his kidnappers and simply 'pay the $2 to the police' for his
DUI. Can that be true that in 1959 you could drive on a road completely drunk
and be fined just $2.- ??? Or did the folks doing the dubbing loose some zero's
here?

And finally: how many Academy Awards did Hitch's movies collect over the years?
Did he get one himself?
From: v113np2v@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (George D Emmons)
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: This Summer...
Date: 7 Apr 92 01:27:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: acsu.1992Apr7.002807.10737
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <LIGHTNIN.92Apr6143318@realsoon.WPI.EDU>, lightnin@realsoon.WPI.EDU (...And it Hardly Ever Blows Up Anymore) writes...
>If anyone's interested, I will mail or post the final list.  
Bad Taste!!!!! One of the worst (but funniest!) films ever!
The Perils of Gwendolin in the Valley of the Yik-Yak- I think this
was in 3-D...yeccccchhhhh. Awful film.
Phantom of the Paradise- Paul Williams and lots of disco freaks
do a play on "Faust".
and my top recommendation...
I'll need some help on the title, 'cause it was on USA Up All
Night about three years ago, but I think it was "Dynaman versus
Flipper." Dreadful...
From: clg308@vaxa.strath.ac.uk
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: name this movie
Date: 13 Apr 92 13:54:59 GMT
Organization: Strathclyde University VAX Cluster

In article <bahn.63@edit.mndly.umn.edu>, bahn@edit.mndly.umn.edu (Christopher Bahn) writes:
> There was this flick i saw a while back, it was made in about 1975 or 6. It 
> was about this evil galactic empire that had built an enormous space station 
> that could destroy whole planets, and the leader was this tall guy in a 
> black helmet who had asthma. Alec guinness was in it, and he played this old 
> guy named Ben, or maybe Bob, I can't remember, who knew all about this 
> mystic thing called The Force. There were also some robots in it.


Just a wild guess here, but i get the feeling your taking the piss here.However
if your not I'll but your mind at rest the film was called[deleted section].
hope this helps,and next time don,t ask such a stupid question,because it
was'nt even remotely funny.
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
From: fovsutt@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (VINCENT SUTTMILLER)
Subject: Re: T1000 sampled the kid too.
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Date:  8 Apr 1992 12:44 EST  

In article <ragnarok.702722114@cs1.bradley.edu>, ragnarok@cs1.bradley.edu (Matthew Lathrum) writes...
>In <1992Apr6.095747.17624@aber.ac.uk> dmf@aber.ac.uk (Darren Michael Forbes) writes:
> 
> 
>>This theory assumes that sampling is a passive process.  I believe that
>>the T-1000 has to actively try to sample something to be able to
>>imitate it.  I don't think that cutting Sarah in the lift counts as
>>a sampling process, and I don't think that John touching a chunk
>>counts either.
> 
>I don't understand how the T-1000 could shape into that guard that was getting
>a cup of coffee if the only contact he had with him was the guard's shoes
>walking on top of him.  Any comments?
>--
I guess to try and put some sort of explanation to this argument we need to 
analyze the internal makeup of the T1000.  It seems that some sort of 
internal memory storage is available to the T1000 but being a liquid metal 
the internal makeup can change drastically.  To illustrate you can't make 
your hard drive any other shape than it is.  This may mean that the 
internal memory chips or technology used must be on the atomic level 
because a liquid of anykind has no atomic order to it.  As opposed to a 
solid which has a lattice of somekind.  So if the unit touched the shoe of 
the guard.  Maybe some of the atomic particles making up the T1000 
travelled through the shoe and shocks and sampled the makeup of the guard.
Every nucleus of each cell in your body has a DNA which has all of the 
biological makeup of the person.  So if the technology was so advanced 
maybe the T1000 samples the DNA of the person.   This would lead to an 
argument that maybe the sampling has some sort of minimum time needed to 
complete the sample.

Any Comment?

Vince Suttmiller - NASA Lewis Research Center Cleveland, Ohio

"For the Benefit of Mankind"