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From: lazlo@triton.unm.edu (Lazlo Nibble)
Subject: Re: evil dead III: army of darkness
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 93 09:17:42 GMT
Organization: Usenet Power Elite: Crush-The-Innocent-Newbies Strike Team

cam@athena.mit.edu (Daniel Cameron Daly) writes:

> Does anyone know when AoD is going to be coming out?

January 15th, unless it's been changed again in the past couple of weeks.

> I saw a preview for it before the Bodyguard, and it looks like it will be 
> pretty good/funny.

Ooo, ouch.  I'd really like to check out the trailer, but I'm sure as hell
not sitting through two hours of Kevin Costner with a bad haircut for the
priviledge.

--
Lazlo (lazlo@triton.unm.edu)
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From: reiher@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (Peter Reiher)
Subject: Re: the year ahead
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
Distribution: rec
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 17:26:53 GMT

I'm just adding a few titbits of information about some of the films
Eric Walker mentioned.

In article <1993Jan6.1489.36095@channel1> "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com> writes:
>UNIVERSAL.  
>     Mad Dog And Glory, starring Robert De Niro and Bill Murray [?!?]

	De Niro plays a rather meek accountant who saves gangster Murray's
	life and is rewarded with Murray's girlfriend.

>     Splitting Heirs, starring John Cleese, Eric Idle and Rick Moranis
	Idle also wrote the script for this.
>     Hard Target, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme
	This is the one directed by John Woo, the biggest name in Hong
	Kong action cinema.  (Critically, at least.  Jackie Chan is
	probably bigger box office.)  It will be very, very violent,
	and probably very inventive.  Lance Henriksen is the villain.
	The story concerns a nasty guy who gets his kicks hunting and
	killing homeless veterans, until he chooses the wrong homeless
	veteran . . .  (For Woo fans, there is a lengthy article about
	him and this film in last Sunday's LA Times Calendar section.
	It's well worth reading.)

>     And another Spielberg movie: "Schindler's List."
	This film has been on Spielberg's "wanna make" list for many
	years.  It's based on the true story of a minor industrialist
	in Nazi occupied central Europe who, at great risk to himself
	and for no personal gain, saved hundreds of Jews from the
	concentration camps.

>20TH CENTURY-FOX.  
>     Jack the Bear, starring Danny DeVito
	This one gives a new meaning to the phrase "troubled film".  It
	was supposed to come out over a year ago, and has been in editting
	almost continuously since then.  Depending on who you believe, it's
	either very hard to get it right, or a complete and irredeemable
	disaster.

>MGM.  
>     Son of the Pink Panther - summer 1993
	Stars Robert Begnini, an Italian comic who is very, very popular
	in that country, as the son of Inspector Clouseau.  Begnini is
	an extremely talented physical comedian.
>     Snake Eyes, starring Madonna
	Directed by Abel Ferraro, who's currently represented in theaters
	by "Bad Lieutenant".  This one is supposed to be very different
	from his other films, which are typically very violent movies about 
	vigilantes, criminals, and bad cops.  This one is about a director
	filming a two character marriage drama.

-- 
		Peter Reiher
		reiher@wells.cs.ucla.edu
From: dkumasaw@oracle.uucp (Darren Kumasawa)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: PEEVES at MOVIE THEATERS !
Date: 9 Jan 93 02:11:46 GMT
Organization: Oracle Corporation, Redwood Shores CA
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              at Oracle Corporation.  The opinions expressed are those
              of the user and not necessarily those of Oracle.

In article <1993Jan8.213647.21156@wam.umd.edu> yep@wam.umd.edu (HangNail) writes:
>
>DON'T PUT YOUR FEET ON THE CHAIRS!!!!
>1) it ruins the chairs and it would cost $$$$ to replace them.
>2) it's very rude for the person in back or front of you to see your ugly
>foot in the way of the picture or worse, to SMELL IT! *phew!*
>

I only put my feet on the chair in front of me when the seats are uncomfortable
(because they don't recline, have bad cushions, have not enough leg room, etc)
or I am sitting so close to the screen that I have to tilt my viewing angle
enough to comfortably watch the movie screen.  Both of these reasons are the
fault of the movie theater.

I've never had any problems with this practice adversely affecting other
patrons.  I am very considerate in this practice, and I know other people
are as well.

Darren
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From: spinaa@rpi.edu (Matt Garretson)
Subject: commercials (was Re: PEEVES at MOVIE THEATERS !)
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 23:00:43 GMT

In article <C0LpsJ.FEy@quadsys.com>, roland@quadsys.com (Roland Besserer) writes:
>Anyway, I only have one real complaint - and this is something I will
>complain about every time I encounter it - COMMERCIALS. It has pissed 
>me off so bad, that I have demanded my admission back and left the
>theatre after like the 4th damn commercial was shown. After all, I am
>not paying admission to be force commercials.

Here in Albany, NY, there is one theater that I frequent because it is the
only place to see foreign and other sparsely-distributed films. Quite
often, they have slide shows before the film starts, accompanied by some
music. Some of the slides are adverts for local restaurants or gift shops.
While I generally hate commercials in any situation, these do not bother
me because I know that the theater relies on support (read "$$") from
the advertisers to stay in business. And since the theater is well-run,
I have no trouble tolerating some commercials. I guess if they were as
obnoxious as TV ads I would have to start complaining, but luckily, they're
not (knock on wood).

Just another data point, as they say...
-Matt
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From: geturner@aer.com. (George Turner)
Subject: Re: Apocalypse Now (was Re: Coppola's DRACULA)
Organization: Atmospheric & Environmental Research, Inc.
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 15:32:27 GMT

>|> >michael mcdonald
>|> 
>|> Apocaypse Now certainly lacks the focus of the Godfather
 
Apocaypse Now is the most intensely focused movies of all times.  The subject
matter can be hazy though, as it is about a trip through the imagination.

>|> This movie popularized a scene of an American air attack
 
I don't think "popularized" is an especially apt description!

>|> and set it to the music of Wagner; one would suppose that the North
>|> Vietnamese, subject to Nixon's "mad bomber" attacks of Christmas 1972,
>|> would be less amused.  It could never decide, as a movie, whether it
>|> opposed the war in Vietnam or supported it as a crusade against "the
>|> horror!"  As such, it is disjointed.
>|> 

There is always a problem with showing the horror of violence.  If you do
it really well, it is beautiful cinema.  Apocalypse Now is not a neat,
linear story, and it should not be judged like a Star Wars matinee.  

Apocalypse Now is about the depths of the evil in men's minds.  If you 
doubt how much evil man can do, look at the horror that even we
(Americans) did in Vietnam.  I'm not implying that only bad peolple fought
in the war.  I'm saying that deep within everyone is the ability to do
evil things.  The Vietnam war is a perfect example.

Remember at the end of Full Metal Jacket, when all the American soldiers
started singing the "Mickey Mouse" theme song.  The soldiers in Vietnam
were just like you and me.
From: brad@optilink.COM (Brad Yearwood)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: PEEVES at MOVIE THEATERS !
Date: 9 Jan 93 04:18:01 GMT
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA

In article <1993Jan7.183616.4623@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, mgrimes@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Michael Grimes) writes:
> I thought of this topic when I was browsing through alt.peeves.
> 
> What are some of the things that drive you nuts when you go to see a movie at a
> theater?
> 
> 1: People who have to talk constantly, especially if they have to narrate the
> whole damn film to their stupid companions!

Worse: if they're just socializing on some topic having nothing at all to do
with the film.  Particularly if one or more of the people sound drunk.

> 7: People who have seen the film before and have to give away parts of the 
> plot.

This can sometimes (rarely) actually enhance the movie watching experience.
When I saw Wayne's World, a girl sitting behind me spoke nearly every punchline
and gag maybe 1500ms before it came out on screen.  The literal cheesiness of
this act, and the thought that someone had seen the film often enough to do
this, both added a lot to the experience.  It is difficult to imagine another
circumstance in which this would be true, though.

8: lip-smacking and foot-tapping

9: strange odors in the theater

10: strange odors on the patrons: $1.29/quart Attack of the Killer Rotten
    Raspberries From Hell / Evening in K-Mart / Eau de Urinal Cookie

11: cruddy sound systems with kazoo-cone speakers which render dialog
    unintelligible

12: expensive sound systems with the treble boosted so far that it crazes
    the enamel on your teeth

13: foreign-language pictures which have been dubbed, not subtitled

14: getting bumped on the back of the head by a smelly sneaker

15: people who smoke or who drop glass beer bottles (usually both)

Brad Yearwood   brad@optilink.com   {uunet, pyramid}!optilink!brad
Petaluma, CA
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From: pmoloney@maths.tcd.ie (Paul Moloney)
Subject: Re: PEEVES at MOVIE THEATERS !
Organization: Somewhere in the Twentieth Century
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:21:52 GMT

roland@quadsys.com (Roland Besserer) writes:

>Anyway, I only have one real complaint - and this is something I will
>complain about every time I encounter it - COMMERCIALS. It has pissed 
>me off so bad, that I have demanded my admission back and left the
>theatre after like the 4th damn commercial was shown. After all, I am
>not paying admission to be force commercials.

I honestly think it's silly to object cinemas showing commercials. From 
what I can gather, very few cinemas in the U.S. or the UK show 
commercials, which seems to ne to be related to the admission prices (I've
seen outrageous sums mentioned - $15 for a West End cinema, for instance).
Here in Ireland, we do get about 5 minutes of commercials before the
films (prices her range from $2 in the afternoon to $3 - 4 at night).

I don't mind the commercials. Half the time I arrive late enough to miss
them anyway, and then when I do, it gives me a chance to go to the toilet
or talk to people there or whatever. I think the economic benefits
outweigh the disadvantages any day.

P.
-- 
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james  Trinity College, Dublin     And isn't it a pity the city can't see?   vr
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From: spinaa@rpi.edu (Matt Garretson)
Subject: Re: The Crying Game
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Distribution: rec
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 18:14:01 GMT

In article <AKNOWLES.92Dec30160137@expert.expert.com> aknowles@expert.expert.com (Anne Knowles) writes:
>Has anyone else seen this movie?!? What a great movie and no one is
>posting about it. Highly recommended. It was wonderful.
>
>Anne

Yeah, it's a great movie. I'm glad critics and everyone else did a good job
of keeping mum about the plot details. I'm actually surprised some
special interest group didn't decide to piss everyone off and spoil the
movie for everyone.

BTW, is the Stephen Rea in the movie the same Stephen Rea who is now
on Broadway in "Someone to Watch Over Me"? If so, it would be sort
of ironic, wouldn't it?   :)
From: jsp@uts.amdahl.com (James Preston)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: "Moonraker" -- fact or fiction?
Date: 4 Jan 93 19:23:58 GMT
Reply-To: jsp@pls.amdahl.com
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

estrayer@netcom.com (Eric Strayer) writes:

}komarimf@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Mark 'Henry' Komarinski) writes:

}>spl@ivem.ucsd.edu (Steve Lamont) writes:

}>>In article <1992Dec28.103655.11722@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> dnadams@nyx.cs.du.edu (Dean Adams) writes:
}>>>Sorry... it's all moot, since Ian Fleming did not write "Moonraker".
}>>>They had already run out of his stories by that time... ...

}Sorry, but Moonraker was the third novel written in 1955. The story
}is actually kind of close to what the movie made of it, with the
}evil Drax and a rocket bent on earthly destruction. I don't believe
}there was a Doctor Goodhead in the book however.

}>>Actually, Fleming did (or at least his clone).  It was one of the
}>>original thirteen or so James Bond books.  Kingsley Amis (??) took
}>>over the series sometime in the 1970s with, I think, _License
}>>Renewed_.  I'm a little hazy on the exact dates and titles of the
}>>ersatz Bond books since I was well beyond puberty at the time. :->

}>That's John Gardner who re-started writing Bond novels in the early 80's.
}>Very good books also. :)

Kingsely Amis, however, did indeed write one Bond book called _Colonel
Sun_ before Gardner took up the reins.

}Correct. I think that so far all of the movies have been based
}on Flemming novels. Even Octopussy, but that was reaching 
}insofar as it was a short story (probably a prospectus for
}a novel) and the flick only used one paragraph from the story
}and made up the rest.

All of the movies up through _A View to a Kill_ (Roger Moore's last
outing) used Fleming *titles* (although they dropped the initial "From"
from this last one), although some were titles of short stories.  Most 
Fleming plots were completely thrown out long ago.  Fleming expressly 
forbade the movie producers from using the plot to the novel _The Spy 
Who Loved Me_, but strangely enough, the movie did include one scene 
that was lifted from one of the other books (the scene in which Bond
and the girl are dragged behind the boat).  Both Dalton movies used
original titles and plots (well, as "original" as any Bond movie plot
can be).

--James Preston
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Subject: Re: Movie Buffs  (was Re: Academy Awards)
From: thomas@datamark.co.nz (Thomas Beagle)
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 23:54:18 GMT
Organization: Datamark International Ltd.

In article <C0D2A2.5DF@ucunix.san.uc.edu> styrins@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Stephen Styring) writes:
>>
>I'm not sure I consider myself a "buff."  But, I do see two or 
>three a week.  A year ago, I got rid of my television.  It's 
>amazing how much time I have to do the things I really enjoy -- which 
>includes going to the movies. 

You got rid of your television? But what do you watch videos on?

I was more cunning - I got rid of my aerial. :-)


-- 
    Thomas Beagle | thomas@datamark.co.nz           Work: 64 4 233 8186
Datamark Intl Ltd | thomas@cavebbs.welly.gen.nz     Home: 64 4 499 3832
 Technical Writer | Yes, I do have long ears, a black nose, and a tail.
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From: dtschett@saims.skidmore.edu (donna tschetter)
Subject: Princess Bride Poster...
Organization: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 03:32:20 GMT



I have a French version of the Princess Bride Poster 47 x 63.  It is
folded in in brand new condition.

e-me for info.
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From: KCSCHIE@vm.cmp.ilstu.edu
Subject: Re: Siskel & Eberts Top 10 of 1992
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 93 10:32:19 EDT
Organization: Illinois State University

In article <1993Jan7.181838.25079@cs.ucla.edu>
reiher@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (Peter Reiher) writes:
 
>
>In article <rb02lcb@rpi.edu> buckmr@marcus.its.rpi.edu (Ron Buckmire) writes:
>>jkung@acs.ucalgary.ca (Jimmy Kung) writes:
>>
>>>Inevitably, this is going to have to be re-posted several times, so
>>>here's the first one.  :)
>>
>>I haven't even HEARD of ONE FALSE MOVE! [And I consider myself a serious
>>filmgoer!]
>
>"One False Move" is an independently made American film about a group of
>fugitives from LA who travel to a small town in Arkansas.  It was widely
>admired by American critics, and played for long runs in New York and
>LA.  I don't know how widely it was seen outside those areas.  I thought
>
 
The film was also on Pay-Per-View in cable systems that have the
Viewer's Choice program of PPV. It may still be on this month. I think
it is also available on video, but I don't know about LD.
 
Kyle C Schiebel
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From: spinaa@rpi.edu (Matt Garretson)
Subject: Re: Name This Obscure Old Movie
Keywords: A song...
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:12:00 GMT

In article <1993Jan12.173047.19683@infonode.ingr.com> dianne@dianne.b24a.ingr.com (Dianne Ferrans) writes:
>Saw a movie in the late 70's (but it was probably much older than that)
>that had a song:
>
>Sisters, sisters, there were never such devoted sisters
>many men have tried to split us up, but no one can!
>Lord, help the Mr. who comes between me and my sister
>and Lord, help the sister who comes between me and my man!

This was WHITE CHRISTMAS starring Bing Crosby & Danny Kaye. They hook up
with two women (I forget who they are) and hang out in a hotel in Vermont. They
toy with marriage and end up putting on a show at the hotel for a retired
general. It's a so-so remake of HOLIDAY INN. I think it dates from the late
40s. 

Sorry for the imcompleteness/inaccuracy; I'm sure someone can fill in the 
details.
From: bgonzal@math.rutgers.edu (Bil Gonzalez)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: PEEVES at MOVIE THEATERS !
Date: 8 Jan 93 19:15:12 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

(Joseph D. Barrus) writes:


>In article <1993Jan7.192016.6060@brtph560.bnr.ca> news@brtph560.bnr.ca (Usenet News) writes:
>>Michael Grimes (mgrimes@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu) wrote:
>>: Any others to share?

>- people that feel that they have to talk to the screen, like
>"Don't go near there, you know your gonna get killed"

Like they are at home watching "TV".  I once acually experienced this
during a Broadway performance of "42nd Street".  A woman stood up in
about the 6th row, right on the aisle, and started yelling at one of
the characters that she didn't like.  It took even the actors by surprise.

When I went to see "RH-Prince of Thieves" a few years ago, this one annoying
family talked through most of the movie as if they were in their living room.
At one point, one of the kids stood up, and they started yelling concession
stand orders to him.  Boy was the audience ticked at them.

Also, when I saw the Mel Gibson "Hamlet", the man in back of me insisted on
translating the ENTIRE film to his wife, into what I think was Polish.

Lastly, I once heard a little girl yell to her father that she had to use
the lavatory in the middle of an action scene.  Her father told her to
wait.  About two minutes later, she asked him,"Daddy, when is the commercial?"


B Gonzalez
bgonzal@math.rutgers.edu
From: jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Jim Mann)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: PEEVES at MOVIE THEATERS !
Date: 11 Jan 93 15:15:37 GMT
Reply-To: jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com
Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA
NNTP-Posting-Host: gondolin.pubs.stratus.com

In article <1993Jan8.213647.21156@wam.umd.edu> yep@wam.umd.edu  
(HangNail) writes:
> PEEVES:
> 1) WHY come in 1hr after the movie started and ask if you can see  
the last
> half of the film then stay after to see the beginning????????
> stoopid! stoopid!  it would well ruin the film for me!  and it  
REALLY pisses
> me off when they do this on a weekend when we get packed houses!  
*grrrr*

My father always did this when I was a kid.  I didn't like it
much either. However, back in those days, theatres did not
clear the auditorium between shows (except for rare sellouts).
Something I liked to do on occasion was sit through a film
twice. I'm peeved that I can't do that anymore, even when the
film is only getting 30 people in the audience.

> 3) people who say they can't find seats WHEN THEN ENTIRE FRONT  
SECTION IS
> EMPTY AND THEY DON'T WANT TO SIT NEXT TO ANYONE!!!!!!!!!! *grrrr*

Agreed, but this generally isn't a problem for me, because I like
the front.

> 4) people who complaining about how slow lines are moving when it  
really 
> takes them decades to decide what size popcorn they want to buy  
when they
> are being served *grrrrr*

Yep. You stand in line for 20 minutes. The person in front of
you gets there, also after twenty minutes, then takes 5
minutes making up his/her mind (?).  But then, I'm also annoyed
at similar behavior in supermarkets. (The clerk spends five 
minutes ringing someone up and announces the price. Only then does
the person decide to look for purse/wallet, see how much money
they have, etc.  I always have my wallet out, money ready, check
written out, etc.)


--
Jim Mann            
Stratus Computer   jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com  
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From: spencer@der.Princeton.EDU (S. Spencer Sun)
Subject: Re: PEEVES at MOVIE THEATERS!
Originator: news@nimaster
Reply-To: spencer@phoenix.princeton.edu (S. Spencer Sun)
Organization: Society for Promotion of Entropy in the Universe (SPEU)
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 21:01:43 GMT

In article <1993Jan9.185424.7546@daimi.aau.dk>, rorschak@daimi.aau.dk (Jesper Lauridsen) writes:
>bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu (Greg Bole) writes:
>
>>I *love* when there are 4 or more trailers before a feature!
>
>When you have seen the same bloody trailers 10 times in less than
>2 weeks you feel like killing someone.

I find the closing credits themes that can be a problem.  (That "Merry
Christmas" song on Home Alone 2 causes the entire staff to projectile
vomit every time it ends, and "Everything I Do" grew old fast with
Robin Hood...)

-----
sss / Princeton University Class of 1994 / Department of Computer Science
I'm nice... He's nice... and we're both f---ing lunatics.  Can I
come in please?  [_Flatliners_]

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From: alfa@b23a.b23a.ingr.com (Laura Walker)
Subject: Re: PEEVES at MOVIE THEATERS !
Organization: Intergraph
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 19:21:38 GMT

Get real.  The projectionist isn't out in the concession area, nor
usually are managers. 

All we're asking for is a bit of professionalism -- what these people get
paid for anyway.

Get off your high horse. There's no defense for impertinence.


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