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From: jkung@acs.ucalgary.ca (Jimmy Kung)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Stephen King Movies
Date: 12 Dec 1992 23:49:33 -0600
Organization: The University of Calgary, Alberta
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In article <1992Dec11.020330.12912@bsu-ucs> you write:

[...]

>> |> The Running man
>
>TRM was Stephen King?  Kinda out of his stly isn't it?  I'm surprised he'd
>bother, as much $$ he makes per horror story!  :)

(this should be in the FAQ...)

He wrote it with his pen-name, Richard Bachman.  It was written
before he became popular for horror novels.  TRM is pretty decent
pulp fiction (some even say cyberpunk, I don't) which only bears
a small resemblence to the movie, probably because Arnie had to
change to story to fit requisite action scenes. :)  I hope someday
someone actually follows the book faithfully, it would make quite
a good thriller/action movie, with maybe Harrison Ford in the
main character role.

>
>> |> The worst ones:
>> |>
>> |> Maximum Overdrive
>> |> Lawnmower man
>
>What was wrong with Maximum Overdrive and Lawnmower Man?  I saw MO and thought
>it was pretty cool (about 6 or 7 years ago, anyway), and Lawnmower Man looked
>pretty good and I heard alot of good things about it.  What gives?

They were all very superifical and never deal with anything other
than trying to frighten you.  (although LM bears no resemblence
at all with the short story)  I think that's the problem with
alot of SK films, it seems like the directors don't understand
the underlying subtext of his books, just what they need to put
into the movie to make money. (if that)

I read that they're making a sequel to The Lawnmower Man, BTW.
Personally I enjoyed the movie for pure entertainment purposes,
and nothing else.  The sequel sounds kinda lame though, it
doesn't even continue the story from where it leaves off, and
instead sounds more like a remake.  (who knows by the time they
actually start shooting though.)

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From: wung@eecom.gatech.edu (Peter Wung)
Subject: Re: most underated actress/actor
Reply-To: wung@eecom.gatech.edu
Organization: School of EE, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 02:15:57 GMT

In article Dr9@news.cso.uiuc.edu, sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Stelter) writes:
>|cbolton@csd475a.erim.org (Chris Bolton) writes:
>|
>|>  I've liked John Cusack in everything he's ever done (with the possible
>|>exception of Tape Heads which I don't remember).  He was good in all of these 
>|>movies:  The Grifters, Fat Man And Little Boy, Eight Men Out, and True Colors. 
>|>For a long time, he only seemed to get roles as a guy graduating high school.
>|>Say Anything was one of the best of those films, although I loved him in even 
>|>the less serious ones like The Sure Thing, One Crazy Summer, Hot Pursuit, 
>|>Better Off Dead, etc.  Haven't seen him in a while, anyone know what he's 
>|>going to do next?
>|
>|I recommend "Roadside Prophets," available in finer video stores nationwide,
>|to any John Cusack fans.
>|
>|
>|                               --Steve Stelter
>|                                 sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu


I like his siter Joan Cusack also, but she seems to be relegated to the 
supporting roles in star vehicles like My Blue Heaven and Working Girl.
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From: mdriscol@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Mollie M Driscol)
Subject: Re: most underated actress/actor
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 02:01:03 GMT

In article <BzDHxL.1Mw@cck.coventry.ac.uk> cei352@cck.coventry.ac.uk (The Freak
) writes:

>   And while we are on about dear ol' Whoopie can anyone tell me of her
>   unforgiveable actions of the past.?? Is it true she has had too many
>   abortions to mention,and she her life consisted of drugs,drugs,and more
>   drugs.?

Unforgiveable by whose standards?  and what does this have to do with
her acting?

Why so quick to jump on a black woman?  Why not jump on Warren Beatty
for being a slut and causing women to get abortions?  Or Nick Nolte
for doing incredible amounts of drugs?  I don't mean to say that there
is any reason to jump on actor's personal lives.  I just think it's
interesting who gets jumped on when we do jump on them.

mollie
mdriscol@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
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From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
Subject: Brief, oblique review of PETER'S FRIENDS
Organization: The John Fluke Mfg. Co.  /a.k.a. The Gizmonics Institute/
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 00:02:42 GMT

Not wanting to get into a full-blown review of the new British film starring
Hugh Laurie, Kenneth Branaugh, Emma Thompson and Peter Fry (I hope I have
these names right), I have only a few notes:

Oblique spoilers follow:


 *  About halfway through the film, I thought, "I hate those films that
    center around a group of friends with all sorts of problems, who resolve
    their problems neatly and tidely by the end of the film."  At the end of
    the film, I thought, "Gee, I wish all their problems had been resolved
    neatly and tidely at the end of the film."  My god, I *am* an American
    filmgoer.  (However, there are some problems with this ending.)

 *  As one of those "where are we now" films, it is as witty as to meet (and
    pass by a bit) the minimum requirements for such a film.  The
    characters, with the exception of the American wife of Branaugh's
    character, are pretty fully fleshed out -- it is variable. (It's odd to
    see Laurie in a film where he doesn't say "Whoops!" in a very loud voice.
    Not to mention having Fry around him and not doing Jeeves.)  Branaugh is
    competent, but not wonderful.

 *  One exception to the above statement:  Emma Thompson is *brilliant*.
    While other actors wait for their dialogue to fill in their character,
    Thompson manages to completely and totally describe the woman she's
    playing through body language.  Now there's your Best Actress nominee,
    kids -- forget Michelle Pfieffer.

 *  I find it interesting that scenes of social embarassment make me want to
    crawl underneath my theater seat; but Ahnold turning a camp of [fill in
    your generic force of nasties here] doesn't even slow my hand for
    popcorn.  PETER'S FRIENDS is not very real to me in some aspects, and
    very real to me in others.

Uhhh... you want to know whether to see it or not?  I got in free.  Well,
let's just say that if you haven't seen HOWARD'S END yet this year, go see
that instead.  However, if it's this or THE DISTINGUISHED GENTLEMAN (Our
Motto: You Don't Need To Be A Psychic To Know Where This Film Goes!), either
go see PETER'S FRIENDS, or go to a rendition of Handel's "Messiah".

                           "Human nature is so constructed that it gives
                            affection most readily to those who seem least to
                            demand it."
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From: jjdti@usho77.hou281.chevron.com (J.D.Tilander)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: most underated actress/actor
Date: 17 Dec 92 20:45:55 GMT
Organization: Chevron

In article <BzEyzB.8Dr@news.cso.uiuc.edu> mrjg8679@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael R James) writes:
>
>I would vote for John Tuturro.
>I rented Do the Right Thing and Barton Fink
>back-to-back (not intentionally) and I was very impressed
>by his perfomances in both movies.
>I think he was also in Miller's Crossing.
>Can anyone think of any other notable roles he's had?
>
>--
Michael, you're right on target on this one.  I saw Tuturro (sp?) as the 
boyfriend who gets dumped in Jungle Fever.  He made you feel his pain so
keenly, it was awesome.
-- 
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From: stame@emunix.emich.edu (Stewart Tame)
Subject: Re: Changing Directors
Organization: Eastern Michigan University
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 16:00:37 GMT

In article <1992Dec15.052729.12696@Virginia.EDU> cew2w@Virginia.EDU ("Chris Wrike") writes:
>	Since someone brought it up, let's think how films
>would have been changed if they had different directors.
>Imagine "Look Who's Talking" directed by David Lynch.  Given
>his fettish in previous films with unborn babies, it would seem
>a sure thing.

Imagine if David Lynch had directed Dick Tracy.  All those deformed crooks
. . . 

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From: conrad@brahms.udel.edu (Jon Conrad)
Subject: Re: Daniel Day Lewis, Anyone?
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 23:10:25 GMT

In article <BzF541.7F7@csulb.edu> mig@csulb.edu (Mig Gomez) writes:

>In article <1992Dec17.140744.14898@mlb.semi.harris.com> cbh@opus.mlb.semi.harris.com (Cherie Slasor) writes:

>>Is it true he's the son of a former British Poet Laureate?

>   Yes. Cecil Day-Lewis, if my memory serves me right. Someone
>   please correct me if I'm wrong.

You're essentially right.  Though the family name used not to have a
hyphen.  Father was Cecil Day Lewis, son was Daniel Day Lewis.  As he
became more and more of a movie star, he found that foreign audiences
(American ones especially) were not used to double surnames, and he'd be
addressed or referred to as "Mr. Lewis."  So he decided to add the
hyphen, and became Daniel Day-Lewis.  I believe this happened with My
Left Foot, maybe before.  But definitely after he'd made some movies.

Cecil Day Lewis, by the way, is probably best known for the mystery
novels he wrote under the name Nicholas Blake.  They're still available.

Jon Alan Conrad
From: miller@hpscit.sc.hp.com (Phil Miller)
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 17:51:04 GMT
Subject: Re: Gene Siskel and Saturday Night Fever
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Santa Clara, CA
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In rec.arts.movies, wung@puttgen.ee.gatech.edu (Peter Wung) writes:


> Siskel is such a fan that he now owns the suit that Travolta wore.
> Yes the white one.  He keeps it at home in an air conditioned
> closet.  he breaks it every once in a while and puts it on.  No, I
> did not imagine this, he admitted to it on Carson a few years ago.

 
Arrgh!!  Knowing this tidbit of trivia somehow will make my day
difficult to get through.
From: 01mbmccabe@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: comic books/movies
Date: 19 Dec 92 03:34:40 GMT
Distribution: rec
Organization: Ball State University, Muncie, In - Univ. Computing Svc's

>  M>  - Wes Craven has agreed to write and direct a "Dr. Strange"
>  M>    feature film.
> 
> More old info.  This dates back about four years.  The latest word is that
> Roman Coppola will be directing this movie.

I still can't imagine a very typical Dr. Strange storyline being done on film,
unless it were a cartoon.  Just w-a-a-a-y too far out.  Perhaps the Dr.
Morbius(?)/vampire storyline, but even that may be stretching it.  I'd love to
see it if it _were_ well done, though.

>  M>  - Entering pre-production by Neue Constantin is a live-action
>  M>    version of "The Fantastic Four."
> 
> Yet more old, old, old news.  Roger Corman, of all people, is about to make a
> FANTASTIC FOUR movie.  Very cheaply, of course.  I've heard the script is
> awful.

As in Roger Corman the buddy of Mel Brooks, co-star in many of Brooks'
movies???????

				-Matt
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From: jpenovic@encore.com (Jan Penovich)
Subject: Re: Most SHOCKING film in my childhood
Reply-To: jpenovic@encore.com
Organization: Encore Computer Corp., Fort Lauderdale FL
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 18:45:20 GMT

In article <1992Dec14.213046.1@eagle.wesleyan.edu>,
whan@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:
> The most shocking film of my childhood was a movie called "The Kingdom of the
> Spiders".  In it, a bunch of tarantulas take over a small town and wrap in
> webs.  This movies scared the shit out of me when I was young.  I wonder, has
> anyone else seen this gem of modern horror?
> 

  There was a movie about giant spiders (can't remember the
  name of the movie) that scared the hell out of me when I was
  a kid.  It was in the late 50s, probably around the same
  time as The Fly.

  There was an old movie I saw on TV that scared me. 
  It wasn't as horrific as some of the ones 
  mentioned in this thread, but years later even hearing the background
  music gave me the creeps.  It was called Donovan's Brain.

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From: duong@ial4.jsc.nasa.gov (Phong Duong)
Subject: Beverly Hill Cops III
Followup-To: rec.arts.movies
Organization: Lockheed Engr. & Science Co.
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 18:28:31 GMT

Hi,

Several months ago, someone posted an idea for Die Hard III whith the plot
evolving an amusement park and territorists.  Well, guess what I've heard
during an E. Murphy interview on TV the other day (Good Morning America, I
think). There WILL be a Beverly Hill Cops III movie with the main scenario
being an amusement park. E. Murphy himself stated that he'd like it to take
place in the Universal Studio [Florida].

Hmmm, makes me wonder...  Does this mean that the poster with the idea for
Die Hard III should consider calling Murphy up and ask for a piece of the
profit pie...?  8-)

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From: dat@thinkage.on.ca (David Adrien Tanguay)
Subject: Re: Best foreign films, by country
Organization: Thinkage, Ltd.
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 14:47:52 GMT

ecl@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (Evelyn C. Leeper) writes:
>In article <1992Dec9.210316.14365@vlsi.polymtl.ca> d40937@aiken (Jean
>Yves Desbiens) writes:
>> Subject: Re: Best foreign films, by country
>                    ^^^^^^^
>> Canada : ( 1 to 3 are by Denis Arcand the producer )
>  ^^^^^^
>> 1. Jesus de Montreal  
>> ...
>> Jean-Yves Desbiens                  | d40937@info.polymtl.ca
>> Etudiant en genie informatique      | 
>> Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal Can | To indeed be a god ...,
>                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>What is wrong with this picture?

Nothing. You just don't know the Canadian cinema scene very well. :-)
About the only place you find Canadian films in English Canada is in "art"
theatres that show all those "foreign" (often Quebec) subtitled films
and on TV (CBC, and First Choice, probably to fill a Canadian content quota).

I would add "The Outside Chance of Maximillian Glick", "Sonatine", and
"The True Nature of Bernadette" (English title, I forget the French)
to the list.
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From: d40937@aiken (Jean Yves Desbiens)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Tim Burton Movies HA!
Date: 14 Dec 92 18:57:12 GMT
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

IN following with that tread, I may add that all
his movies leave me cold inside when they finish. Its
like he was trying to proove how much different his
movies are than any others and that is about it.
That doesn't mean that they are good or that you will want
to see them again, you do not, seeing him applaud himself
with his daring "oeuvre d'art" once is quite enough for me.

As for his comparison with David Linch, this couldn't be
more true, Dune sucked the lifeblood out of me. But, at 
least Linch doesn't pretend to be anything else but
a lunatic, his movies truly express his deranged perception
of life. Tim Burton *tries* to paint strange worlds 
that are still appealing to the masses, creating
strange bastard films that should be put out of
their misery. Instead of riping off every idea that
ever surfaced and making them worse, he should stick 
to simple straight forward stories, convoluted
is not "in" Burty boy.

--
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From: panda@Micor.OCUnix.on.ca (Elizabeth Holden)
Subject: Re: Re : Top 5 vmovies
Organization: M.B. Cormier INC.
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 08:44:23 EST

I like this thread.  My top 5 movies (thinking hard, now!)

1. My Fair Lady
2. Dangerous Liaisons
3. Jane Eyre (the 1985 one with Timothy Dalton and Zelah Clarke)
4. Casablanca
5. The Russia House

I had to really stop myself from listing a bunch of musicals....

Namaste, 
Elizabeth


P.S.  Of course tomorrow I'll change my mind and decide what I *really* 
should have listed....


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From: k135745@cc.tut.fi (Kokkarinen Ilkka)
Subject: Re: Watchmen
Organization: Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Distribution: inet
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 09:18:25 GMT


>> 
>> My casting thoughts:
>> 
>> Comedian - Nicholson is almost too obvious
>> Doctor Manhattan - could he be animated?
>> Ozymandais - William Hurt with fake muscles
>> Laura Juspecyk (sp?) - not sure
>> Night Owl - probably not realistic, but John Goodman would LOOK perfect
>> Rorschach - no idea - Daniel Day-Lewis? he's done everything else...

Nicholson is obvious, yes, but I think that I'd cast Burt Reynolds as
Comedian. (I watched all BL Stryker episodes.)

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From: nhmas@gauss.med.harvard.edu (Mark Shneyder)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Movie Question - LORENZO'S OIL
Date: 18 Dec 92 18:43:17 GMT
Organization: HMS

In article <1992Dec16.221946.15547@cpqhou.compaq.com> dpruitt@cpqhou.UUCP (Daniel Pruitt) writes:
>
>I was surprised to find out that the movie is non-fiction.

How could it be fiction if it's based on a true story? By the way,the
trailers for Lorenzo's Oil look pretty powerful.
 
>Also while I'm here, I also recently saw SCENT OF A WOMAN.  Pacino is
>very good in his role, the young boy in the movie (forgot his name) did
>a good job, too.  The main complaint with this movie is that it is too
>long (2 hours 20+ minutes).  I don't fear long movies, one of my favs is
>GODFATHER PART II, but SCENT OF A WOMAN seemed to drag on a bit.

It wasn't long enough for me. Maybe because I'm a huge Paccino fan :-)
Also, I think that Scent is by far(by a few thousand miles) his best
work since Scarface. He's totally emerged into the role of the blind
character unlike in his last few works of Sea of Love and Fankie&Johnie
where he was adding a little of his own baggage to the characters.

I agree the actor who plays the young boy was very good and I'm sure will see
him again somewhere down the road...

-Mark
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From: ARL00SJB@UNCCVM.UNCC.EDU
Subject: Re: Movies you loved, but couldn't see more than once.
Organization: UNC Charlotte
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 20:51:33 GMT

Definitely _Apocalypse Now_.  One of the most powerful movies I ever saw,
but the whole thing was like a descent into a nightmare, with madness at
the bottom.  My boyfriend and I argued about that one for weeks, especially
when they sacrificed the cow - I said that scene was real.  They filmed in
the Phillipines, with no SPCA to forbid actually chopping up an animal
that way, so I was (and still am) convinced that the sacrifice was real.
I remember someone asked me if I "liked" that movie, and I couldn't give
her an answer she could relate to.
 
--Jean
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From: elambert@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Eber Lambert)
Subject: Re: Most SHOCKING film in my childhood
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 23:02:28 GMT


The one that got me for weeks was "Straight Jacket" with Joan Crawford
giving everybody the axe. 

Must have just been the black and white, living in the country for the
first time and being 9 years old that did it. Saw the movie a few years ago
and it was terrible.

Other than that it was "The Birds".

el
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Subject: Re: Most SHOCKING film in my childhood
From: whan@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Date: 14 Dec 92 21:30:46 EST
Organization: Wesleyan University

The most shocking film of my childhood was a movie called "The Kingdom of the
Spiders".  In it, a bunch of tarantulas take over a small town and wrap in
webs.  This movies scared the shit out of me when I was young.  I wonder, has
anyone else seen this gem of modern horror?

Winfield S. Han
WHAN@eagle.wesleyan.edu


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From: curtw@euler.jsc.nasa.gov (Curt Wiederhoeft)
Subject: Re: Jacobs Ladder
Organization: Lockheed Engineering & Sciences Co.
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 19:38:38 GMT

In article <62k27a=@rpi.edu>, cecchinr@gehrig.cs.rpi.edu (Ron Cecchini) writes:
> 
> In article <cass8806.516.724380403@elan.glassboro.edu> cass8806@elan.glassboro.edu (Kyle Cassidy) writes:
> >although it was somewhat predictable, i thought that was a fine film. i 
> >especially like the part where whats-her-name has sex with the deamon on the 
> >dance floor... :-)
> 
> Predictable?!  You must be the only person (at least, that I know)
> who thought this.  Most people needed to watch the movie about 5
> times before they had a gist of what was going on.

SPOILERS, HO!

I had no problem in figuring it out on my first viewing. There were
lots of clues throughout. As soon as it was apparent that Jacob didn't
have a huge abdominal scar during the ice bath scene, I had the solution.

Of course, having seen "Carnival of Souls" first didn't hurt either. :-)

Curt Wiederhoeft
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