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From: ccoprdj@prism.gatech.EDU (Jorge Diaz)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Review: SLEEPWALKERS
Keywords: review, sleepwalkers, horror, phantom
Date: 14 Apr 92 15:00:56 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

In article <SBB.92Apr13024231@panix.com> sbb@panix.com (The Phantom) writes:

>The Phantom hardly knows where to start.  He supposes that he should
>begin by pointing out that SLEEPWALKERS is not still another in a long
>line of perfectly awful Stephen King adaptations, in part because
>Stephen King apparently wrote the original screenplay himself.  And in
>part because it is not, in fact, perfectly awful.  It's only
>imperfectly awful, which is certainly a step in the right direction,
>coming as SLEEPWALKERS does fast on the heels of THE LAWNMOWER MAN,
>yet another spiritless, insipid, King-inspired horror film in the
                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Listen up, Phantom.


THE LAWNMOWER MAN is not a spiritless, insipid, King-inspired ANYTHNG.
OK?  That movie has nothing in common with King's short story The
Lawnmower Man, except the title.

King's story is about a man who mows lawns naked, eats the grass, and
finally sacrifices the man who hired him to Pan.

Yeah, it's stupid, but it's certainly no worse than that movie.  Do you
just hate Stephen King, and *look* for excuses to slam him, no caring that
you sound like a fool?


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From: lazlo@triton.unm.edu (Lazlo Nibble)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Undubbed version of Mad Max
Date: 13 Apr 92 17:44:46 GMT
Organization: Living in a satellite fantasy, waiting for the night to end.

kevin@taronga.taronga.com (Kevin Brown) writes:

> Can the undubbed version be gotten in Australia?  Is it possible to get
> one from there in a VHS format that a standard VHS type VCR in the U.S.
> would understand? 

Yup, in fact I just had a friend in Oz buy me the tape a few weeks ago. 
The movie plays a lot better with the original voices but the sound is
pretty muddy and tough-to-understand in places . . . I'm not sure yet
whether this is a problem with the original or with the second-rate
transfer we had done (just played on and taped off a multiformat deck, as
opposed to the pro-quality digital job I'd like to have done on it).
Despite rumors to the contrary, I didn't notice any extra footage compared
to the US release, though the shot where Max runs the bikers off the
bridge looks like it's cut a little differently.

The Australian VHS version is on Roadshow Video and runs about $20
(Australian).  From there, you're on your own.  Please don't ask for
a dub off my copy . . . if I do it for one person I have to do it
for everybody and I don't have two decks anyway.

--
Lazlo (lazlo@triton.unm.edu)

"W-A-6-O-D-B, with . . . a question."
From: da1n+@andrew.cmu.edu (Daniel K. Appelquist)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Wim Wender's new film (some small spoilers)
Date: 8 Apr 92 22:42:11 GMT
Organization: Consulting, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Er... I forget the exact title.  :)  "'Till the End of the World" or
something very similar.

Anyway, this film was absolutely incredible.  I'm tempted to say that
it wasn't as good as Wender's last film ("Wings of Desire"), but the
two films are so totally different (excepting the female lead role)
that's it's really difficult to say...

What struck me about the film was that it was truly a science fiction
film.  Phillip K. Dick states that most of what's out there calling
itself science fiction is actually adventure or some other form, set
in the future or in a high-tech setting, not science fiction, at least
by his definition.  "Til the End of the World" was true science
fiction, based in the not too distant future, but centering around
very SF oriented themes (what are the ethical implications of being
able to see into people's dreams, for instance...)

One of the things I didn't like about the film was the often
distracting narration.  It did fit into the theme of the film as being
told by the writer, writing the story of the film, who is himself a
character in the film.  However, the narration often got in the way of
the movie itself, IMHO, telling me things I had already deduced or
things that were perhaps better left ambiguous...  This was a pretty
minor nit-pick.

Anybody else out there care to comment on this film?

Dan A.
                      
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From: rcfish1@pbhyb.PacBell.COM (Ronald C. Fisher)
Subject: Re: Dead Again: Plot conflicts (spoilers)
Reply-To: rcfish1@PacBell.COM (Craig Fisher)
Organization: Pacific * Bell
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 22:01:02 GMT

Followup-To: 
Distribution: usa
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
Keywords: 

Thanks for your explanation of the plot [ not repeated ] , but I still
don't get the opening scene in which the musician is being lead off to
die and stabs the attendant with the scissors.  He was never a killer,
why did he do that ?

( this movie was pretty well hashed over when it first came out...sorry
  to bring it up again...very interesting film though )
From: egnilges@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Ed Nilges)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Regarding Henry:Henry V vs Henry V: Shakespeare and Men's
Date: 9 Apr 92 22:44:27 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Princeton University
Originator: news@ernie.Princeton.EDU

In article <1992Apr9.162229.4877@Princeton.EDU> egnilges@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Ed Nilges) writes:
>
>The amount of awareness and attention that Shakespeare's classes

This is an error: it should read "the amount of awareness and attention
that Shakespeare's PLAYS ..."
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Script summary (Its Alive)
From: bill@mathnx.math.byu.edu (Bill Smith)
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 92 18:02:44 GMT
Organization: Brigham Young University -- Mathematics Department

Does anyone out there have a script or script summary for the movie "It's
Alive" that they would be willing to email me??  Also, I think there was a
sequel.  What was that about???  [I suppose it was twins ;-)]
-Bill

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From: wiersbe@pa881a.inland.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: New Predator II Question
Date: 15 Apr 92 15:49:57 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Inland Steel Company, East Chicago, IN
Nntp-Posting-User: veslocki

We can only speculate on who the father of her unborn child was.  The
only significance of her pregnancy in the movie was to show that the HUNTER
does not kill the HUNTED if the hunted is female; especially if she is
pregnant.  Did you ever notice that in Preditor II, no women were killed?
Remember the bimbo with the drug kingpins?  She went unharmed when the 
Preditor came to destroy them.

A good hunter does not want to depleat the source from which his prey comes.
By killing the pregnant police officer, the Preditor would litterally waste
future prey.  It also leaves material for the next sequel....

I hope this answers your question.
From: v129j6ed@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (We make money the ole fashioned way. We beat people for it.)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Penelope Ann Miller Question...
Date: 15 Apr 92 22:50:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41


I'm just curious. I have seen this girl as a blonde, brunette and a redhead.
What is the real color of her hair?

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From: stailey@hawkeye.comm.mot.com (Mike Stailey)
Subject: Re: Les Miserables movie??
Reply-To: stailey@hawkeye.comm.mot.com
Organization: Motorola Land Mobile Products Sector
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 17:40:46 GMT

(James Kaufman) writes:
 
* I heard that Les Miserables (the musical) is being filmed, and that it 
* will be released next summer, and that Bruce Beresford replaced Alan Parker
* as the director.  Does anyone know if there is any truth in that?  Does
* anyone know what the cast will be like?  I heard that Michael Crawford would
* play Jean Valjean, but that was a long time ago.


  I don't know if it is being filmed right now, but Alan Parker did turn
  down the job when it was offered to him.

  Anybody know anything about the proposed PHANTOM film with Michael Crawford?


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From: dgg@llcn2.jhuapl.edu (Dave Gawron)
Subject: Re: Buckaroo Banzai (was Darkman - Crap)
Organization: Johns Hopkins University
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 21:01:21 GMT

In <79wjttc@lynx.unm.edu> synth@deepthought.unm.edu (Synth F. Oberheim) writes:

>tfarmer@datamark.co.nz (Thomas Farmer) writes:

>>BTW, I saw The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth
>>Dimension which was superior to Darkman whil still being fairly comic
>>book like.
>>
>>BTW, is Buckaroo Banzai actually a comic book?

>If you mean `is BB based on a comic book?', the answer's no -- the comic
>books, the records, the Saturday morning radio show -- they're all
>fabricated allusions.  Part of what makes this film such a gem is how
>these subtle references feed the mystique of the characters' folk-hero
>status, embedded in the mass public's consciousness ...

>But FYI, a 2-issue comic adaptation of the film did get published *after*
>the film was released.  Good luck finding it ...

I've got the two issue series and found it without much effort.  Just go to
any good sized comic shop and ask if they have a copy.  That's how I bought
mine.  You'll find them eventually!  An alternative is to scan through bargin
bins (although this really taxes one's patience) where I've seen several
copies.

What I have had trouble finding is the single book edition of the two book
series.  Yes, that's right, there is a Buckaroo Banzai comic book which
combines the two book series.  It's slightly different and includes several
pages of pictures from the movie.  My friend has a copy and I'd like to get
one also.

Now, can anyone tell me where I can get other Buckaroo Banzai movie goodies?

-Dave-
From: stabosz@brahms.udel.edu (Rae Stabosz)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Taxi Driver
Date: 13 Apr 92 20:49:14 GMT
Organization: University of Delaware

In article <28796@brahms.udel.edu> conrad@brahms.udel.edu (Jon Conrad) writes:
>
>
>As for The Graduate, I remember seeing it when it was brand new.  (I was
>just the age it was aimed at, and I didn't like it at all.  It looks
>better to me now.)  I saw it a couple times, to make sure I wasn't
>missing anything, and each time I saw it with a group of friends, in a
>crowded college-town movie theater.  The folks who really *loved* the
>movie didn't notice the indeterminate ending!  Really!  They cheered
>Benjamin and Elaine getting away, and they regarded the painful final
>few minutes (as they realize they don't know each other, and have
>nothing to discuss or to do with their lives) as nonexistent end-title
>stuff.  Those who were seeing it for the second or third time were
>already reaching for their coats or standing up, so they wouldn't have
>to look at the last bit.  On occasion over the years, I've asked a
>diehard Graduate fan to tell me about the last scene of the movie.  They
>never even remember that the last scene (on the bus) is there.
>
>So I'm not so sure about your dichotomy of "endings then and now."
>Audiences, it seems, always have preferred something clean and decisive,
>and if it isn't there they'll imagine it is anyway.
>
>Jon Alan Conrad

*****

I have to put a word in here.  Amen to this! (Have you & I talked about
this, Jon?)  

I remember getting into a lot of arguments about The Graduate when it
came out, over the ending.  I was pissed off at the ending.  I wanted
a happy ending, Benjamin & Elaine happy & rescued from the hypocrisy
of the grownups.  (Nowadays, I want more of Mrs. Robinson, and now in
particular I am _furious_ at the last intimate shot we have of her,
when she's reduced to looking so old and haggard.  What a betrayal of
what I clearly see now is a vibrantly sexy older woman, :-)  :-) now
that I am old enough to be Benjamin's mother).  At any rate... I was
perplexed & bummed out by the ending on the bus.  Why build up to the
monumental rescue if you are going to undercut it?  But I complained
about this to friends & they said what are you talking about?  I said...
the ending, where they are staring blankly ahead... and The Sounds of
Silence comes in on the soundtrack.  They said, "Oh, no big deal, they
were just tired from all that running" or some such.

You're right, Jon.  People see what they want to see.



Rae
From: mikka@sssab.se (Mikael Karlsson)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Lets clear this T 101/800 thing up.
Date: 13 Apr 92 15:09:50 GMT
Organization: Scandinavian System Support AB
Posting-Front-End: Winix Conference v 92.04.07  1.20 (running under MS-Windows)

In article <1992Apr9.130250.1@mdcbbs.com>, rivero@mdcbbs.com writes:
>In article <4596@huxley.cs.nps.navy.mil>, jxxl@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil 
>(John Locke) writes:
>> Okay. Here's the skinny on Terminator III. Arnie will have to fend
>> off personal attacks from a Cyberdyne systems 800 series model 
>> 426-1112.
>> Watch out for it.
>> 
>   No, no, no! You've got it wrong. he fends off a Cyberdyne systems
>model 120-A2, the same type that appeared in the first "ALIEN" movie
>(the "twitchy" model).

Obvious question: What model is Bishop (the synthet... artificial person 
in Aliens)?

/Mikael
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Which movies have the best swordfights?
From: arang@desire.wright.edu
Date: 6 Apr 92 13:09:57 EST
Organization: Wright State University 

In article <2820@ub.d.umn.edu>, jbovitz@ub.d.umn.edu (Jeff Bovitz) writes:
> In article <1992Mar27.185229.3636@samba.oit.unc.edu> George.Harris@bbs.oit.unc.edu (George Harris) writes:
>>In article <kt1upsINNiuc@aludra.usc.edu> pauljone@usc.edu (Michael Jones) writes:
>>>
>>>I'd like some opinions on good swordfights in movies.  I'm specifically
>>>thinking of western (as in not asian) movies, although I'm open to others.
>>>
> 
> How about the swordfight in The Princess Bride?
> 
Two other great movie swordfights:  Return of the Jedi and Highlander.

You also might be interested to know that the sword choreography for all three
movies was done by one man...Bob Anderson.  He is listed as Sword Master in the
credits of each.

-Amy Rang
Wright State University
From: mikeq@saab.CNA.TEK.COM (Mike Quigley)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Oscars. Who were the space cadets?
Date: 6 Apr 92 17:39:41 GMT
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Redmond,  OR.

I watch the Oscars to see who had their head in the sugar
bowl before the show. This year, it looked like Jack Palance
and that long-winded director who had trouble getting
his words out. Last year, Kim Basinger, definitely.

Anyone notice any others?

Mike

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From: jmarlan@titan.nmt.edu (Jon Marlan)
Subject: Re: Father of the Bride - actress question
Organization: New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 92 17:00:59 GMT


In article <9395@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk> amcalind@cs.strath.ac.uk (Anthony McAlinden IE91) writes:
>
>Hi, I just saw "Father of the Bride" at the weekend, and wondered if the
>_extremely_ nice actress who played Steve Martin's daughter - the bride, in
>other words, has appeared in any other movies?
>
>I think her name was Kimberly Williams - but I could be wrong (if I'm right,
>she has no listing in the actress list)

You're right that her name is Kimberly Williams.  And, someone correct
me if I'm wrong, I believe that "Father of the Bride" was her first
film.  I also was told that she was working on a new film right now --
not sure what it's about, though.

>Any info appreciated.
>
>					Tony
>
>PS. I actually though "Father of the Bride" was a pretty good film - it was
>much better than I had expected - but I guess that Steve Martin's facial
>expressions can make a movie! "Cape Fear" is still my film of the year to 
>date, though!

Hope this helps.


Jon
From: KJOHNSSON@finabo.abo.fi (Kim-Erik Johnsson INF)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Jennifer Connelly
Date: 6 Apr 92 10:49:48 GMT
Organization: Abo Akademi University, Finland
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.20

In <56847@cup.portal.com> Harv@cup.portal.com writes:

> Ms. Connelly appear in a recent film called "The Hot Spot"
> with Don Johnson of Miami Vice fame... in this film she does
> some nude or topless scenes.

And that's the ony reason why I went to see it...nahh, just kidding :-)  (?)
Quite an amusing film, if you're in the right mood...

She also stars in Phenomena (Creepers), and if I'm not terribly mistaken I
would say that she's in Labyrinth too...



  nhn          Kim Johnsson, CS @ ]bo Akademi                 That
s(. .)s             Luostarinkatu 6 B 11                   thing down 
 K o J                  20700 Turku                       there is the
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From: thierry@curlie.UUCP (Thierry Lach   )
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Garbage chute blunder in Star Wars?
Date: 5 Apr 92 14:10:06 GMT
Organization: Not An Organization

moore7004@iscsvax.uni.edu writes:

> In article <ktmbc7INNfql@lisa.cs.widener.edu>, poulson@cs.widener.edu (Joshua
> > In article <1992Apr2.021233.3488@iscsvax.uni.edu> moore7004@iscsvax.uni.edu
> >>In article <74vtyg-@rpi.edu>, garrem@aix.rpi.edu (Matthew Olsen Garretson) 
> >>> In Star Wars, when Luke, Leia, Han, & Chewbacca are exchanging fire w/tro
> >>> Leia blasts a hole in the wall and yells "Into the garbage chute, flyboy!
> >> The question here is, how does Leia happen to
> >>know there's a garbage chute right there?  Do you suppose Vader took her on
> >>tour after he tortured her?
> > 
> > Leia did, after all, steal the plans for the Death Star and was rather
> > familiar with the whole structure.  During her spying she probably found
> > out a great deal.
> > 
> > Also, Imperial designs being what they are, they're probably similar to
> > the millions of other Imperial starships she's be on or around.  No one
> > can afford to ignore standards... :) :) :) :)
> > -- 
> > Joshua R. Poulson (NIC handle: JRP8)       [Joshua R. Poulson@cyber.Widener
> > Systems Programmer, Widener University     [poulson@cs.Widener.EDU]
> > "Try to be sensitive..." -- the Usenet Oracle Helpfile (send a mail
> > message with the subject "help" to oracle@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu)
> 
> Oh, NOW I get it: Leia *memorized* the plans, huh?  That's how she knew where
> the garbage chute was, huh?  Gee, wonder why they even needed R2-D2.  Leia
> coulda just fed 'em all the info.
> 
> And yeah, I guess the Death Star was pretty similar to all the *other* Imperi
> Death Stars they had at the time.  Don't suppose it was an entirely *new*
> structure or anything.
> 
> Scotto the Malicious

And maybe there was a sign that said "Garbage" that didn't get
picked up on the big screen...

Thierry Lach				UUCP: sharkey!sycom!curlie!thierry
My opinions are mine and mine alone.
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From: garrem@aix.rpi.edu (Matthew Olsen Garretson)
Subject: Hear my Song
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 18:27:49 GMT

Anyone see this one?  I enjoyed it a lot.  I have a question about it, though.

Who was the old band conductor for the final performance?  I guess he was
suppoed to be someone famous, but I can't figure out who.

Also, has anyone seen the soundtrack in stores in the US yet?

-- 
Matt Garretson                       :-)                          garrem@rpi.edu
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From: russest@ampex.com (Steve Russell)
Subject: Photo of minor: Re-establishing thread
Organization: Ampex Corporation, Redwood City CA
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 19:50:32 GMT

Vaguely remember hearing on the clock-radio this morning that the
Supreme Court tossed out the case against that guy in the mid-west (?)
who was set-up and eventually tempted to purchase kiddy porn from the
Post Office (under cover, of course).

Could this be true? Is there really justice in the highest court in the
land? Did the FBI and the Post Master of that little town in the middle
of no-where really spend two years or so trying to solicit this guy to
buy kiddy porn only to have their best layed plans come afoul of true
justice?

"Only the Shadow knows......."

-steve
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From: dnaraghi@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Dara Naraghi)
Subject: Re: Jennifer Connelly
Keywords: Jennifer Connelly, Walt Disney
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 14:35:28 GMT

In article <1992Apr3.213535.23560@cs.cornell.edu> parekhs@cs.cornell.edu (Sujay S. Parekh) writes:
>Hello, movie-lovers!! Those of you who have seen Rocketeer might
>remember the heroine Jennifer Connelly. One of my friends has an
>incredible crush on her, and I was wondering how to find out her
>address? Would Walt Disney studios tell me if I asked?

	I think the answer to that question is "Hell no!".  However, you
can always send her a fan letter in care of the Disney studio.

>Also, out of curiosity, has she appeared in other movies?

	I've seen her in two other movies, Career Opportunities and
The Hot Spot (she has a very short nude scene in this one).  I really
liked CO, even though it was kind of a goofy comedy.  The Hot Spot
kinda' sucked though, unless of course you watch it for reasons other
than the story :-)

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