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From: bd@fluent@dartmouth.EDU (Brice Dowaliby)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Highlander (was Re: What makes a movie good)
Date: 21 Aug 92 17:11:37 GMT
Reply-To: bd%fluent@dartmouth.EDU
Organization: Fluent Inc., Lebanon NH


cwelsh@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Craig Welsh  8823239) writes:

>Therefore, it makes perfect sense to Ridley Scott
>to cast Connery as an Egyptian playing a Spainard.

Putting on the flame suit (in case it's something obvious that I never 
heard about) what does Ridley Scott have to do with Highlander?
-- 
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                         bd%fluent@dartmouth.edu        
             I don't speak for them, they don't speak for me
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From: AH.PBL@forsythe.stanford.edu (Mark)
Subject: Re: rip-offs
Organization: Stanford University, California, USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 18:32:22 GMT

In article <1992Aug12.1489.25968@channel1>,
eric.walker@channel1.com (eric walker) writes:
>
>     With the success of "The Addams Family," guess what the latest trend
>     in Hollywood is right now?  Yep, that's right - movie re-makes of
>     classic TV shows.  Here's a list of some of the movies currently
>     in production:
>
>     The Beverly Hillbillies
>     Gilligan's Island (this series simply WILL NOT DIE, will it?!?)
>     Car 54, Where Are You? (this one's already finished, and sitting
>          around at Orion until they straighten things out)
>     F Troop

  Geez, this is sooooooo depressing.

  -- Mark
From: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: rip-offs
Date: 16 Aug 92 10:47:35 EST
Reply-To: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
Distribution: rec
Organization: Channel 1 Communications

MA>>     With the success of "The Addams Family," guess what the latest trend
MA>>     in Hollywood is right now?  Yep, that's right - movie re-makes of
MA>>     classic TV shows.  Here's a list of some of the movies currently
MA>>     in production:
MA>>
MA>  Geez, this is sooooooo depressing.

     Welcome to Hollywood in the 1990s, pal.  :(
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From: jsabel@hpmwtd.sr.hp.com
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 19:50:26 GMT
Subject: Re: What movie was this song in?
Organization: HP Santa Rosa Site (NMD MTA MWTD)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies

I believe the title of the song is "My Future's So Bright" and I know the
title of the band is Timbuk 3.  The song hails from their self titled first
album of 3 or 4 years ago.  Haven't a clue about any film connection.
From: assist@orion.oac.uci.edu (ASSIST Coordination Site)
Subject: Re: *GREAT MOVIE ACTORS*
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Keywords: male only (hunks vs. babes)
Date: 14 Aug 92 21:57:16 GMT
Distribution: usa

In article <20586@optima.cs.arizona.edu> margaret@cs.arizona.edu (Margaret Newman) writes:
>> >Armand Assante
>> >Kurt Russell
>> >Kevin Costner
>> >Sean Connery
>> >Paul Newman
>> >Peter Strauss
>> >Alec Baldwin
>> 
>> >I could go on and on, but this should do for a start.  Any other women
>> >out there who would like to add to the list?
>> 
>> >Kris
>> >kris@fs2.assist.uci.edu
>
>How could I forget good 'ol Uncle Paul?
>
>I have to add even a few more (see how bored I am?):
>
>Christian Slater
>Christopher Reeves (Somewhere in Time)
>Jon-Erik Hexum
>Dirk Benedict
>John J. York (the Jon-Erik lookalike)
>The guy that used to play Jimmy Lee on General Hospital -Steve Bond?
>
>Okay, I'm not adding anymore!  Let's see some other input.  If guys
>can go on about babes, we can go on about hunks.  Okay, don't flame
>me.  I say this all in good humor.
>
>margaret

>Oooh! I had forgotten about Steve Bond -- he sure was cute.  Also, there
>was another guy named Hutch on GH for awhile -- he was a doll!  I think
>think I've suddenly digressed from movie actors though!  So I should
>probably throw in one more gorgeous movie actor:

>        ** MICHAEL DOUGLAS **

>Kris
>(Are Margaret and I the only ones who are going to post?)

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Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Tuesday, 18 Aug 1992 22:11:42 CDT
From: <U18689@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Amadeus

  Does anyone know if they ever made a picture book of the movie "Amadeus"?
 I'm also looking for any posters, stills, props relating to this film.
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From: cb366@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mark B. Bendiksen)
Subject: Re: Do the Aliens come from EARTH?
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 14:30:29 GMT


_Alien3_ SPOILERS below:

Jeff Bytof writes:

>I haven't seen the movie Alien^3 yet, but read the book.  My wife
>says the movie is at a local theater for $1.50/ticket.  But please,
>tell me, is there any indication in the movie how Ripley was im-
>pregnated by the beast?  The book didn't seem clear on this point,
>and I THOUGHT I read every page.

One of the best parts of the movie (although that's not saying
much) is the opening credits, which is an intersting montage
showing vaguely what is happening on the shuttle which is 
carrying Ripley, Newt, the droid, and Michael Biehn's
character. During this sequence we get the hint that some
alien was aboard the shuttle and was the casue of the crash
on the penal colony. It's not clear until later, of course,
that it was during this time that the alien impregnated
Ripley.


Mark B. Bendiksen
cb366@freeet.cwru.edu
-- 
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 We'll just be bogus, too."-- Dr. Jeff Spicolli
From: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: branagh
Date: 13 Aug 92 21:21:04 EST
Reply-To: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
Distribution: rec
Organization: Channel 1 Communications

GD>I don't really know, but after Branagh last two efforts (Henry V, and
GD>Dead Again) I'm willing to give anything of his a shot.

     Besides "Friends," Branagh is beginning work on another film
     version of Shakespeare: "Much Ado About Nothing."  The cast
     includes:

     Branagh as Benedick
     Emma Thompson (again) as Beatrice
     Keanu Reeves as Don John
     Robert Sean Leonard as the soldier Claudio
     Denzel Washington as Don Pedro
     Kate Beckinsale as Hero
     And Michael Keaton as Dogberry.
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From: cb366@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mark B. Bendiksen)
Subject: Re: Pet Sematary II
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 17:23:05 GMT


Peter Reiher writes:

>This film, along with "The Lawnmower Man", has apparently really pissed
>Stephen King off.  As a result, expect him to be much more careful about
>>movie sales in the future than he has been in the past.  That's good news
for filmgoers, since it appears that you can only make a good Stephen
>King movie if your name is Rob Reiner or Brian De Palma.  (Or, arguably,
>Stanley Kubrick.)  Many people who had other names have burdened us with
>their attempts in the past.  Perhaps fewer of them will, in the future.

Don't forget David Cronenberg (_Dead Zone_), who has proved he
can make a great Stephen King movie...


Mark B. Bendiksen
cb366@freenet.cwru.edu
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 We'll just be bogus, too."-- Dr. Jeff Spicolli
From: aze@first.gmd.de (Andre' Zehl)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Is "Delicatessen" out in the US yet ?
Keywords: Delicatessen
Date: 20 Aug 92 13:17:32 GMT
Distribution: rec

Has anybody seen the the french movie Delicatessen (1991) ?
The directors are two young people from France an the plot
is about some weird peaple living in a butchers house sometimes
after a great catastrophy, maybe after World War II , maybe sometimes
in the future.

BTW: is the new Maki Kaurismaki "Zombie and the ghost train" to be 
seen in the states yet ?

Greetings
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	 			      crusoe@cs.tu-berlin.de [aze@first.gmd.de]
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From: trb@cbnews.cb.att.com (tom.balent)
Subject: Re: Best War Movies?
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 11:34:42 GMT

In article <1992Aug14.001816.12428@zip.eecs.umich.edu> bailey@emunix.emich.edu (Grand Moff Tarkin) writes:
>Even though it's not a war film but a revolution film,
>one cannot forget Dr. Zhivago for some of it's battle 
>scenes.

I recently read an article about David Lean and they were talking about
Dr. Z and they made mention of the fact that it was filmed in Spain.
Well there were a number of winter scenes, in particular there was
one scene where the revolters are attacking the army across a frozen
lake. What the article said they did was used sheets of metal for the 
ice (so it was "slippery") and tons of granite dust for the snow.


Xref: sparky rec.arts.movies:25478 rec.arts.sf.movies:6476
From: jamesyu@austin.ibm.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,rec.arts.sf.movies
Subject: Re: Possible Foundation movie?
Date: 20 Aug 92 14:47:07 GMT
Reply-To: jamesyu@sysdev.austin.ibm.com
Distribution: usa
Organization: IBM - Austin, Texas
Originator: jamesyu@sysdev.austin.ibm.com


In article <JASON.92Aug19163501@ab20.larc.nasa.gov>, jason@ab20.larc.nasa.gov (Jason Austin) writes:
> In article <1992Aug19.154857.13376@cco.caltech.edu> thogek@seismo.gps.caltech.edu (Thomas Kiefer) writes:
> -> This may mean nothing in the long run, but I just ran across this and I
> -> thought I'd toss it out onto the net for reactions.  Anybody know anything
> -> about this?
> ->
> -> The following is taken from ABORIGNAL SCIENCE FICTION's Fall 1992 issue,
> -> page 75:
> ->
> ->           "Reported in PUBLISHERS WEEKLY for June 1st: TriStar Pictures,
> ->      on behalf of Roven-Cavallo Entertainment, has purchased the rights
> ->      to Isaac Asimov's FOUNDATION trilogy.  The agreement states that the
> ->      company can produce one theatrical release using materials from
> ->      FOUNDATION, FOUNDATION AND EMPIRE, and SECOND FOUNDATION.  Also
> ->      included in the contract is an option on the additional movels
> ->      PRELUDE TO FOUNDATION, FOUNDATION'S EDGE, FOUNDATION AND EARTH, and
> ->      the forthcoming FORWARD THE FOUNDATION, plotted but only partially
> ->      written at the time of Dr. Asimov's recent passing.  The overall
> ->      agreement includes TV rights,  merchandising, video games, and a
> ->      possible sequel."
> ->
> -> Updates?  Thoughts?  Comments?  Reactions?
>
>       I think and attempt to pack the Foundation story into a few
> hours would end up like Dune.  I read Dune just before seeing the
> movie and was really disappointed at all the great moments that were
> brushed over or left out completely.  I think what would work would be
> to turn it into a long running mini-series.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!

Why is there this obsession to put books we love into movie or tv form?????
Foundation is not a typical action-filled book nor a typical sf book.  I
cannot imagine how it could possibly be put into a movie/series without being
horribly butchered ala Nightfall, Dune, Lord of the Rings.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!
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From: jjonsson@alexandria.lib.utah.edu
Subject: Re: Best War Movies?
Organization: Marriott Library, University of Utah
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 23:13:23 GMT

In article <1992Aug12.183807.19616@zip.eecs.umich.edu> bailey@emunix.emich.edu (Grand Moff Tarkin) writes:

>My favourites:


Paths of Glory, D. Stanley Kubrick, S. Kirk Douglas.

My favorite.


Jeff Jonsson
Marriott Library System Support, University of Utah.
==============================================================================
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-- the world." -Cliff Steele   --  "You talkin' to me?"
From: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: where the devil is 00
Date: 15 Aug 92 15:05:20 EST
Reply-To: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
Distribution: rec
Organization: Channel 1 Communications

PR>would sell him the rights.  Some company that claims to have another set
PR>of rights to the James Bond character has talked about a "young James
PR>Bond" TV series, possibly animated - Broccoli, in turn, talked about
PR>lawsuits, and I've heard nothing on that front since.

     The animated daily TV series "James Bond Jr." has been around for the
     past year or so now.  It is not worth checking out, as the stories
     are no different from your other generic "superhero" cartoons like
     "G.I. Joe" and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles."  Forget it.
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From: wwr@calmasd.prime.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Mia Sara
Date: 20 Aug 92 23:51:48 GMT
Organization: Computervision - A Division of Prime Computer

Mia Sara of Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and Legend fame.  Anyone know how I could
get in contact with her?

walt
From: das@voodoo.boeing.com (Deb Schwartz)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: ** ULTIMATE CLASSIC MOVIE BABES ** Who?
Date: 17 Aug 92 17:56:18 GMT
Organization: Boeing Graphics project, Bellevue WA

In article <66102@hydra.gatech.EDU> ccoprdj@prism.gatech.EDU (Jorge Diaz) writes:
 [No. Let's forget Jodie Foster. She is a reasonably good actor]
>
>She's an ACTOR???  Holy shit, that's news to me.
>Wait, or does PC now dictate that we call women actors so that it doesn't
>sound sexist (kinda like calling women in the the military sir)?
>
FYI:  I worked in live theater for a few years, and still know many theater
people.  All of the women I know hate to be called actresses and much prefer
to be called actors (and this predates the PC movement).  I don't know whether
this carries over to the movies or not.....

Debbie Schwartz // das@voodoo.boeing.com  // or uunet!bcstec!voodoo!das 
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From: lazlo@triton.unm.edu (Lazlo Nibble)
Subject: Re: Wayne's World Music Change
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 19:43:24 GMT
Organization: Sporadic and incomplete

ansok@stsci.edu (Gary Ansok) writes:

> Why do movie producers *still* not arrange for all the needed rights to
> the songs they use? 

In the case of _Wayne's World_ and "Stairway", I doubt the producers even
imagined that they'd *need* to arrange for permission to use four stinking
musical notes.

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From: sallylb@netcom.com (Sally Smith)
Subject: Re: Woody Allen / Mia Farrow
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 22:26:21 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Distribution: usa

In article <cjjyhfm@rpi.edu> garrem@aix.rpi.edu (Matthew Olsen Garretson) writes:

> Woody's friends say that to Soon-Yi, Allen was *not* a father figure,

And Mia's friends say he *was*. So who ya gonna believe?

>Either way, Woody should have known that this relationship would bring about
>total domestic and journalistic chaos. Maybe he didn't care(?). 

Well, it strikes me as tacky, to say the least.

Whatever the truth may be, I feel sorry for all the kids.

Sally

-- 
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I'm unemployed--these opinions *must* be mine!
"Don't investigate this too closely." -- Don Bellisario, re: "Quantum Leap"
From: ahummel@ems.cdc.com (H. Austin Hummel)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Re: ** ULTIMATE CLASSIC MOVIE BABES ** Who?
Date: 20 Aug 92 15:46:38 GMT
Reply-To: you@ems.cdc.com
Organization: Empros Systems International, a division of CDC

In article <3738@cvbnetPrime.COM>, csroc@dime.prime.com (Charles Sroczynski x4014 5-2) writes:
|> >>>No. Let's forget Jodie Foster. She is a reasonably good actor,
|> 
|> Let's not forgot we're talking "BABES" in this thread.
|> Jodie is a good actress, but unless you have a radically
|> different definition of "babes" than I do...you should not
|> mention here in the same breath as Virginia Masden, Kathy Moriority(Raging BULL)Marilyn Monroe, Michelle Pheiffer, etc.  Jodie is Not a Babe.

Boy! does he have a hangup on surface features, and blinders on all
aspects of women. All women are BABES, some are better then others.
From: bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu (Greg Bole)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Movies starring Claude Rains Wanted.
Date: 17 Aug 92 15:42:27 GMT
Organization: HHMI/Human Genetics, Univ of Pa.

In article <1992Aug14.004130.42718@watson.ibm.com>, yozzo@watson.ibm.com 
(Ralph Yozzo) writes:
 
> One of my favorite actor is Claude Rains and I'd like to see if there is
> any movies that he was in that I missed.
>  
> I've seen him in 
>   "Caesar and Cleopatra"
>   "Casablanca"
>   "Robin Hood" 
>   "The Phantom of the Opera"
>   "The Invisible Man"
> 
>  Did I miss any?

Sure...

_The Prince and the Pauper_ (1937) William Keighley
	Errol Flynn: Miles Hendon
	Claude Rains: Earl of Hertford
	Alan Hale: Captain of the Guard

_The Sea Hawk_ (1940) Michael Curtiz
	Errol Flynn: Captain Geoffrey Thorpe
	Claude Rains: Don Jose Alvarez de Cordoba
	Donald Crisp: Sir John Burleson
	Alan Hale: Carl Pitt

Greg Bole  bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu
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every Saxon in this shire can stand up free men and strike a blow for Richard
and England...From this night on I'll use every means in my power to fight you!
     Errol Flynn to Claude Rains in  _The Adventures of Robin Hood_
From: billb@crpmks.uucp (Bill Bochnik (Info Systems))
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Terminator
Date: 12 Aug 92 14:16:19 GMT
Reply-To: billb@crpmks.UUCP (Bill Bochnik (Info Systems))
Organization: Ciba-Geigy Corporation

In article <1992Aug11.033945.13421@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz> craddock@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Craddock) writes:
>fwilliam@lab5.smcm.edu (Frank Williams) writes:
>One flaw that i can think off is the fact that Reese and the Arnie from the
>second movie can not have ever met in the future.  Remember from the
>terminator
>Reese had to wait for the terminator to attempt to kill sarah so that
>he could identify it.  Now if he had already seen the terminators twin then
>why would he have to wait.  To a certain extent this is a flaw in T2 as well.
>--


Why is this a FLAW in the second movie.  I don't understand the reasoning...

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From: caspar@sci.kun.nl (Caspar Terheggen)
Subject: Re: fault in BACK to the FUTURE II
Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 15:44:29 GMT

In <Bt8G4u.GpM@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> uhschreg@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Ulrich Schreglmann) writes:

>Gee! Golly! Wow! You discovered an inconsistency??

>Because Doc and Marty needed the time machine. That's movie-logic: any-
>thing may happen as long as it fits the purpose to get the characters to
>do some action.

You could look at it this way.  The writers of the BTTF trilogy
clearly made an effort to `redefine' nature and physics (on a
higher level anyway, photos of people who aren't even there don't
make much sense, etc.) in a `consistent' way.  Not everything is
allowed and they set themselves some very strict rules.  But
because they allow time travel, their new reality *has* to collide
with our experience of reality the moment they start to mix cause
and effect (as in the situation with the old Biff returning to the
old future).  The nice thing (or one of the nice things) about BTTF
is that the *internal* consistency (i.e. with the `new reality')
is so good, that it actually makes sense to talk about flaws *given
the new physics*.  I believe that's what the originator of this
thread was doing.

Regards,
Caspar.
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From: rdd@cactus.org (Robert Dorsett)
Subject: Little Bill (Re: Eastwood's "Unforgiven")
Organization: Capital Area Central Texas UNIX Society, Austin, Tx
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 17:23:48 GMT

In article <1243@esl.ESL.COM> drm@esl.com writes:
>[minor plot spoilers ho]
>
>Hackman did a great job as Little Bill, the town sheriff.  He's not
>all that different from Munny in his killing days, except he's sober
>most of the time, does violence to protect the town instead of
>bust it up, has a higher IQ, and has more lucid moments. (The name
>"little bill" is a twist on William Munny's name?)  

Someone else asked why such a violent man let the cowboys loose.  Did anyone
note the expression of sudden fear on the whorehouse matron's face when she
said that the slashed-up girl had only giggled at the cowboy's little pecker,
then, immediately, said "But she didn't know any better, Little Bill"?  Could 
be that Little Bill has a little pecker, too, and let the cowboys go for 
doing what he could not, being Law and Order and all...  His *leniency* 
cuold be another attempt to "stick it to the women," and the matron's 
*realization* of that could have fuelled her desire for revenge...  (and,
indeed, Bill's violent responses to the bounty hunters, more "expressable"
frustration at being outmaneuvered by the woman).

Surely, the whole episode transcended the physical damage done to that one 
girl.

Just an idea. :-)



---
Robert Dorsett
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From: frankm@microsoft.com (Frank R.A.J. Maloney)
Subject: Re: THE HAIRDRESSER'S HUSBAND
Date: 20 Aug 92 14:38:43 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Windows/DOS Users Ed Group

In article <Bt6Jp2.2Kw@ibmpcug.co.uk> alanj@ibmpcug.co.uk (Alan Jay) writes:
>
>At last years London Film Festival Leconte was interviewed
>after the screening the fist qusetion from the audience was
>about the idea and origins of the swimming trunks with the 
>pom-poms [sorry cherrys :-) see below].  Leconte corrected 
>the questioner about them being pom-poms and told us that they
>were his trunks from his childhood...
>
>Great movie.
>

I loved the line in the voice-over (via subtitles) that although the
those wet wool trunks inflicted agony on the little boy, he ought to
thank his mother for making him aware of his testicles at an early
age.

-- 
Frank Richard Aloysius Jude Maloney
	"Well, I'm a little muddled." -- Glinda