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From: Gordon.S.Witter@dartmouth.edu (Gordon S. Witter)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: Fav films?
Date: 15 Oct 92 21:13:42 GMT
 <1992Oct13.145645.14695@news2.cis.umn.edu> 
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In article <SYNTH.92Oct15115436@deepthought.unm.edu>
synth@deepthought.unm.edu (Synth F. Oberheim) writes:

> Real Genius

You mean someone besides me actually likes this film.  Glad to see it. 
I get laughed at every time someone notices _Real Genius_ in my video
collection.  Great, great flick.  Chris Knight is my idol.

Oh, and so I at least add something meaningful to this thread, here's a
couple of others that are musts for any video library:

The Princess Bride      ** an absolute must! **
A Christmas Story       **      ditto!       **
A Clockwork Orange
Blue Velvet
The Grifters
Heathers
A Fish Called Wanda
Beetlejuice
Goodfellas
Bull Durham
Everything else directed by Rob Reiner


-dino

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Chris Knight:  "Fine, I'll gain wait."

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From: dean@pico.qpsx.oz.au (Dean Economou)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Gerard Depardieu
Date: 13 Oct 92 07:44:03 GMT
Organization: QPSX Communications LTD, Perth, Western Australia.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

My best shot at pronouncing Depardieu:

     Deh-pah-di-yer

Deh rhymes with "air", but should be said quickly.
Pah should be said quickly too.
Di is very quick with an almost silent "i"
Yer is again quick.

Finally, try to allide di-yer into almost one sound.

Hope this helps,
Dean.
From: gharris@jade.tufts.edu (George W. Harris)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: best movie titles
Date: 16 Oct 92 14:28:22 GMT
Organization: Tufts University - Medford, MA
Originator: gharris@jade.tufts.edu

In article <Bw6EnE.A4s@news.cso.uiuc.edu> sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Stelter) writes:
>k206027@smog.DKRZ-Hamburg.DE (ce) writes:
>
>>In article <719088951.17443@minster.york.ac.uk> pete@minster.york.ac.uk writes:
>>>gj@sansome.UUCP (Gerry Johnson) writes:
>>>: I want to know what people's favorite movie titles are. I mean those titles
>>>: that are so good you want to see the movie without even knowing what it's
>>>: about. Those titles that are like a line of poetry.
>>>
>>>Here's a few of my favourite titles:
>>>
>>>Surf Nazis Must Die
>>>Hell Comes To Frogtown
>>>The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-up Zombies
>>>Rat Pfink a'Boo Boo
>>>Eraserhead
>>>
>>I'll add a few of my own in a similar vein:
>
>>She Was A Hippy Vampire
>>Satan's Sadists
>>Eegah!
>>Wild Women of Wongo
>>They Saved Hitler's Brain
>>How Do You Stuff a Wild Bikini?
>>Mars Invades Puerto Rico
>
>Let's not forget:
>
>Barn of the Naked Dead
>Let's Stuff Susie in the Incinerator (not too sure about this one, but you
>get the idea)

	Or how about:

Bloodbath at the House of Death
Nice Girls Don't Explode

>                              --Steve Stelter
>                                sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
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George W. Harris                chance in the world, and stomped ever one 
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Tufts University                bug."   _The Devil's Dream_
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From: stigh@edb.tih.no (Stig Husby,o91a)
Subject: Re: best movie titles
Organization: T I H / T I S I P
Posting-Front-End: Winix Conference v 92.05.15  1.20 (running under MS-Windows)
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 15:06:06 GMT

These are titles that really makes me WANT to see the movie:

A monster in the closet
The return of the killer tomatoes


And all B-movies with the words 'from outer space' ...
  


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From: d-yang@cs.columbia.edu (David Yang)
Subject: Re: Under Siege
Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 14:43:18 GMT

In article <1992Oct8.233804.8601@rtfm.mlb.fl.us> luckey@rtfm.mlb.fl.us (Jon Luckey) writes:
>  Could Steven actually >be breaking new ground in this movie?

<spoiler warning>

A NY Times critic made the (tongue-in-cheek) comment that the scene where
Erika Eleniak wakes up, pops out of the cake and starts singing, only to
find that everyone in the room is dead, is "almost avant-garde".
From: donnell@mantaray.micro.umn.edu (Your Heinous)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Shooting in circles (was: the absolute worst movie of all time, ...)
Date: 14 Oct 92 20:17:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: news2.1992Oct14.201701.8325
Organization: none

In article <0096211E.67974220@abby.chem.ucla.edu> ben@abby.chem.ucla.edu writes:
>In article <seaverw.41.0@columbia.dsu.edu>, seaverw@columbia.dsu.edu (W. A. Seaver) writes:
>>>>  ____>______>_____
>>>> /                 \
>>>> |        #2       |
>>>> ^   #1 Table #3   v Camera goes round and round and round and round...
>>>> |        #4       | (possibly in the opposite direction)
>>>> \____<______<_____/
>>>>
>
>The absolutly worst (and , coincidentally funnyist) use of what I like to call
>the "Rotat-o-Cam" technique has got to be in 'Tough Guys Don't Dance'
>
>Scene:
>The Protagonist, Tim Madden (played brilliantly by Ryan O'Neal) is standing
>on a cap cod beach reading a letter from his Ex-wife (Madeline, played equally
>brilliantly by Isabella Rossilini) explaining how Tim's present wife is
>cheating on him with Mad.'s present hubby, 'Acting Chief of Police, Alvin
>Luther Regency' (played, you guessed it, brilliantly, by Wings Hauser).
>
>The last line of the letter (Voiced over by Ms. Rossilini) says:
>
>	"I don't think we should do anything... Unless you're prepared to KILL
>         them!"
>
>At this point, the camera begins rotating about Ryan O'Neals axis (i.e.,
>showing the beach rotating around him)  With HIS voice over repeating:
>
>	"Oh Man! Oh God! Oh Man! Oh God! Oh Man! Oh God! Oh MAN!"
>	--(Cut)--
>
>Hilarious.  
>A word of warning:  This movie is an unintetional comedy.  It's particularly
>funny if the viewer is at least slightly intoxicated.  (Put it this way;
>Ryan O'Neal gives, probably, the BEST performance in this film...)
>
>Executive Producet: Francis Ford Coppela, hisself.
>
>Enjoy,
>Ben
>hitz@cuhhca.hhmi.columbia.edu
>

For probably the first and last time, I have to agree with Pauline Kael
on this one: "The only actor who knows what he is doing, is Wings Hauser,
and what he is doing, is amazing"

Of course, Wings gives his all time greatest performance to date, in
"Vice Squad". Even Leonard Maltin likes Hauser in this one. You'll
never forget him as Ramrod, the sadistic, insane, pimp from hell!

					--Judex--
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From: machala@spdc.ti.com (Chuck Machala)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: the absolute worst movie of all time, so bad it's bad
Date: 15 Oct 92 18:21:26 GMT
Article-I.D.: delphi.machala.719173286
Organization: TI Semiconductor Process and Design Center

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

>In article <1992Oct14.043407.17469@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> Joseph.J.Marcheso.Jr.@dartmouth.edu (Joseph J. Marcheso Jr.) writes:
>>Well my friend just walked in and has just proclaimed the WORST movie
>>ever are you ready (drum roll)
>>
>>              THE YOG MONSTER FROM SPACE!!!
>>surprised?

>Not really. This was yet another childhood fave that I used to see on
>KCOP, ch. 13 in L.A.. Far too much fun to be considered all that bad.
>Try the korean "Yongary" sometime for a quick comparison. Or better yet
>, slap a copy of "The Giant Claw" in the old VCR sometime when your
>buddy is over.

YES! Tell me someone else has actually seen "The Giant Claw". If so you
_must_ agree it is the worst movie ever made. 
--

     Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get me.

Chuck Machala-Semiconductor Process and Design Center-Texas Instruments/Dallas
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
From: cma@titan.ucc.umass.edu (COLIN MA)
Subject: What's the plot of the Manchurian candidate?
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 23:54:07 GMT

There's a lot of talk about the Bush campaign comparing
Bill Clinton to the "Manchurian Candidate." (by innuendo).

Can somebody post the plot to this movie?

--------------
Colin
cma@titan.ucc.umass.edu
     
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From: mst@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (Markus Stumptner)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,rec.arts.sf.movies
Subject: Re: alt.bladerunner
Date: 11 Oct 92 18:46:40 GMT
Organization: DB and ES Subdivision, TU Vienna

From article <1416@ncrclm.ClemsonSC.NCR.COM>, by lsnow@ncrclm.ClemsonSC.NCR.COM (Linda Snow):
> I have been reading this group regularly for over 6 years and my conclusion
> is that Bladerunner is the most heavily dicussed movie of all time in this
> newsgroup.  The Is-Deckard-a-replicant thread NEVER goes away.  And now that
> we have the director's cut to hash over, the traffic is even heavier. 

This is a classic example of confusing cause and effect.  The current
discussion was *started* by release of the director's cut.  And the
reason why this thread specifically deals with the
Deckard-as-replicant question is exactly because the main difference
of the director's cut is that it brings that question up anew.  There
was a brief discussion on Blade Runner in June, and nothing in the
half year before that.  In general, I do agree that these discussions
do crop up regularly (about once or twice a year since I started
reading news in 1987), but so do the 2010 and Alien discussions, and
in my experience, for most of the year, there's nothing on this topic.

Sure, if a Blade Runner II will ever be released, you'll see another
discussion on Blade Runner, just as you see discussions on Highlander
topics when a Highlander sequel is released, and if there ever is a
director's cut on Abyss, we'll have new Abyss discussions, too.  So
what?  That's the purpose of rec.arts.sf.movies, after all.
-- 
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University of Technology Vienna                 vexpert!mst@relay.eu.net
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Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
From: Patrick Parker <pharmacy@epx.cis.umn.edu>
Subject: Re: WORST SEQUEL????
Reply-To: pharmacy@epx.cis.umn.edu
Organization: University of Minnesota
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 15:51:53 GMT

In article <5479@krafla.rhi.hi.is> karlth@rhi.hi.is (Karl Thoroddsen) writes:
>
>>So which movies do you guys consider the WORST SEQUEL to a hit movie???
>
>>i think       --ROBOCOP really sucked rocks
>>                 --ALIEN ^ 3 blew chunks
>>                 --PREATOR 2 was a real disappointment
>
>You can't beat Highlander 2.

Yep.. I'll put in 1,000 votes for Highlander 2.  It was without a doubt the
worst sequel as well as a horrible movie period.  I was astounded that Sean
Connery even did this dreadful flick.

But for sequels, let's not forget the string of Jaws repeats that followed up
the great original.  Oh, and Predator 2 also gets a huge nod.
From: mccreary@sword.eng.hou.compaq.com (Ed McCreary)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Wicked, Bad, Scary Movies. (Recommendations anyone?)
Date: 13 Oct 92 14:31:45 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Compaq Computer Corp.

In article <1992Oct12.223807.7160@news2.cis.umn.edu> pharmacy@epx.cis.umn.edu writes:
>In article <1992Oct11.030806.28695@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au>
>braca2@cspyr1.cs.adfa.oz.au (BRAY CHRISTOPHER) writes:
>>I put my vote for _The_Exorcist_III_, especially the night scene in the 
>>hospital where the nurse gets it.
>
>Hmm, never saw that one.  But there IS a deficiency of decent horror movies. 
>Everything now seems to be oriented towards the gore method, which doesn't
>scare me one bit.
>
>The better movies as far as tension would have to be for me Jaws (classic
>thriller), Alien, Reanimator (damn good), Evil Dead I (2 was more humor), The
>Thing (Carpenter's best), and I'm sure I'm missing some of the best ones.. but
>these come off the top of my head.
>
>Have there been ANY good flicks lately.. I don't think so.  Disappointing.
>

Actually, _The Exorcist III_ has very little gore in it.  There is some
at the end which was added by Blatty after the movie was finished
because the studio exec's decided it wasn't gory enough.  A shame.
 


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From: jes2x@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (John Sommerville)
Subject: Re: The Last of the Mohicans
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 13:09:23 GMT

In article <17490149@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> daq@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Doug Quarnstrom) writes:
>In rec.arts.movies, Rob_Simons@mindlink.bc.ca (Rob Simons) writes:
>> 
>> "The Last of the Mohicans", like Mann's other works, highly favours style over
>> substance.  Although visually pleasing, except for the "under the waterfall
>> scene" and the laughable slow motion segments, there is little else worth
>> praising.
>
>Really?  I am not usually sucked in by a loud soundtrack, but I
>thought that the scottish music by Dougie Mclaine was pretty
>damned evocative during the ending chase scene.  I liked it a lot.
>
>Did anyone else notice this?
>
>doug

I liked that music a whole lot as well.  That entire scene was pretty
powerful, although very music video-ish (well, that's Michael Mann's style
so it's to be expected).

The choreography (no, not dancing) was great for the fight scenes.  Looked
very realistic, IMHO.  Of course, I wasn't around in 1757, so who am I to
call it realistic.  :)

--
John Sommerville (jes2x@Virginia.Edu)     "I'll see you in the trees..."
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From: stigh@edb.tih.no (Stig Husby,o91a)
Subject: Re: Fav films?
Organization: T I H / T I S I P
Posting-Front-End: Winix Conference v 92.05.15  1.20 (running under MS-Windows)
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 11:56:25 GMT

THE absolute MUST is of course:

HARDWARE (Richard Stanley)

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From: bd@fluent@dartmouth.EDU (Brice Dowaliby)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Capricorn I and NASA coverup?
Date: 16 Oct 92 20:31:17 GMT
Reply-To: bd%fluent@dartmouth.EDU
Distribution: usa
Organization: Fluent Inc., Lebanon NH

In a very strange post on Oct. 8, 1992, 
mcelwre@cnsvax.uwec.edu (Robert E McElwaine) writes:

>The third generation Russian JUMBO COSMOSPHERE were first 
>deployed in April 1981, in parallel with the first U.S. 
>Space Shuttle mission.  They significantly interfered with 
>that MILITARY mission, in ways which were successfully covered 
>up by NASA using tecniques similar to those shown in the movie 
>"Capricorn I".

Now, my question is, what are these techniques (from the movie
Capricorn I)?
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From: jmarlan@titan.nmt.edu (Jon Marlan)
Subject: Re: Man in the Moon
Organization: New Mexico Tech
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 15:37:40 GMT

In article <1582@lfpd1.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> kdougan@lfpd1.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Kelly Dougan) writes:
>
>        I couldn't agree more.  I really like the young actress who played the
>little girl.  Incidently, I think she was in a made for TV movie Monday night
>called "Desperate Choice" or something like that.  Does anyone know her name
>and if she's played in any other movies?

The actress's name is Reese Witherspoon.  I believe "Man in the Moon" was
her first movie.  (Sorry, I didn't see the movie Monday night, so I can't 
help you out there.)  

Jon

>        Thanks!

You're welcome. 

>Mr. Kelly Dougan
>
From: Gordon.S.Witter@dartmouth.edu (Gordon S. Witter)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Wicked, Bad, Scary Movies. (Recommendations anyone?)
Date: 7 Oct 92 21:27:00 GMT
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Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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In article <ahom.92Oct073190@tnds.bellcore.com>
ahom@yingjow.tnds.bellcore.com (Allen Hom) writes:

> I nominate _The_Omen_ with Gregory Peck and Lee Remick.  I read the book
> and saw the movie, and both are equally frightening.

I second this one.  In fact, I'd recomend the entire trilogy.

By the way, was there a made-for-TV, or made-for-cable, part four?  I
thought I remembered seeing an advertisement for it in TV Guide.

-dino

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From: firestar@leland.Stanford.EDU (Lipton Ann Meredith)
Subject: Question about Baby Boom ...
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 92 17:15:59 GMT

I was rewatching Baby Boom recently and I was wondering:

remember that part where she goes into the store in Vermont to give the
storekeeper some of her baby food and asks for a few groceries?  She takes
a look at the kerosene, gets an idea, then asks for some rather sheepishly.
The store owner is surprised.

Now .. my question is:  What did she want the kerosene for?

Firestar

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From: gharris@jade.tufts.edu (George W. Harris)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Wicked, Bad, Scary Movies. (Recommendations anyone?)
Date: 7 Oct 92 18:25:19 GMT
Article-I.D.: jade.1992Oct7.182519.24162
Organization: Tufts University - Medford, MA
Originator: gharris@jade.tufts.edu


	The original _Night of the Living Dead_.  Still gives me the
shivering willies.  The characters are very real.

	_Rosemary's Baby_.  A study in paranoia.

	_Repulsion_.  Descent into madness.

	_Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer_.  Very disturbing.

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From: "james kewageshig" <james.kewageshig@canrem.com>
Subject: buying posters
Reply-To: "james kewageshig" <james.kewageshig@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: rec
Date: 10 Oct 92 00:15:06 EST

To: dtschett@scott.skidmore.edu 


DT>We have posters from 7 years back and new releases also.
DT>e-mail for list of over 300 posters in stock.
DT>$10 and up.
DT>Donna :>

Hi There,
Could you E-mail me your list please... also, do you have the
new Blade Runner DC poster??
THANKS
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From: schuck@fraser.sfu.ca (Bruce Jonathan Schuck)
Subject: Re: Under Siege
Reply-To: Bruce_Schuck@sfu.ca
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 21:11:00 GMT

ltw@titan.ucc.umass.edu (LEE T WARNER) writes:


>No, You can't kill everybody with your hands, but you can sure try.  

You can try, but I have even more trouble believing someone like
Seagal can kill *everyone* armed with an automatic weapon with his
hands. He's good....but not that good.

>It didn't have those prolonged and outrageous fist fights that I came to
>see.  Ok, your right about the Beam, that was a nice killing, but most
>of the other were boring.  

I don't know. I like the way Tommy Lee Jones got it. :)

>For instance, when Erika Elniak (SP?) kills 
>the  guy who is about to kill segal, it is anti-climatic.  The guy has been
>a villian throughout the whole film, and a simple bullet takes care of him.

I have to admit it wasn't a *big* surprise that she got to blow one
villian away. :)

>Where's the fun of that?  Finally, you don't need a plot to have good 
>villians.

Well....you need a good plot for them to be good. They have to have a
good reason for being villians.

>By the way, do you realizehow sadistic this conversation is?

Yes....but it is election time in the US and referendum time in
Canada and I'm feeling a little sadistic. :)