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From: jgotobed@joe.lpl.arizona.edu (Joe Gotobed x4549)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Sneakers. WSJ article 9/28
Date: 29 Aug 92 21:08:36 GMT
Organization: Lunar & Planetary Laboratory, Tucson AZ.


Im sitting here reading the Wall Streek Journal & there's this
big review/article about the movie. It's rught next to a story
on B1 about Tandy making computers for couch potatoes (sp? :-)

Apparently the director; Phil Alden Robinson is on C$ & he's been
answering queries about the movie for a couple weeks. The article says
he's [also] a computer nerd... hmmm... what's that? Movie opens the
9th. Most of the story is about the unique promo (it *is* the WSJ)
effort underway. Password in newspapers to go play games at computer
stores. Press kits on diskettes etc... There is a suggestion though
that Universal isn`t real pleased w/Phil's candid comments on C$, one
quote has him agreeing the trailer "In my opinion it overemphasizes
action & loudness at the expense of one of the film's strengths,
namely, that it's smart... And I hated the music"

Another quote says he begged Universal not to put "From the director
of Field of Dreams" on the newspaper adds. "I begged them not to do
that as I find it misleading and too self-reverential even for me"

The trailer was put together before the movie was finished and contains
a couple of shots that didn't make the final cut :-)..... possibly some
fraudulant advert? They also had a full time computer programmer on the
set "to keep everyone in line". Now that's cute.

Well there's more in the story but little more about the Movie itself
so I'll stop w/that. But perhaps somebody on C$ could arrange to
get this newsgroup involved in the exchange? Expanding it beyond C$ would
appear to be in the interest of both Universal & C$.

I might just have to go see the movie too.

Cheers,
Joe
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From: bchurch@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Robert Church)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Marilyn/Otto Preminger Info Wanted
Date: 27 Aug 92 13:57:30 GMT
Organization: Ohio University School of Art. Athens

In article <14441@mindlink.bc.ca> Mike_Quigley@mindlink.bc.ca (Mike Quigley) writes:
>Does anyone have any info at all about Marilyn Monroe and/or the filming of
>River Of No Return in Banff and  Jasper in the summer of 1953? Reminiscences,

I was channel grazing with the sound off when I came across the scene of Marilyn
steering the raft. Watch this one with the sound off sometime and you'll 
understand the phrase 'subliminal seduction' :-).



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From: edsum02@venus.lerc.nasa.gov (Cassondra Pope)
Subject: Re: Film with the fe/malest cast
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Date: 31 Aug 1992 09:30 EDT  

In article <1992Aug28.175728.21628@eecs.nwu.edu>, kaufman@eecs.nwu.edu (Michael L. Kaufman) writes...
>charlie@uk.tele.nokia.fi (Charlie Brown) writes:
>>A (doubtless nonPC) tangent to the `film with the fewest actors'
>>question, is which films have the most predominantly male or female
>>casts. Obviously any one wo/man films are kinda unbeatable, but what
>>about films with reasonably large casts ? 
> 
>_The Great Escape_ goes well over two hours with no sign of a woman. The
>only one I can remember at all is an old woman that gets off a train
>in front of Big-X near the end.

ALIEN^3

Cass
From: jxxl@huxley.cs.nps.navy.mil (John Locke)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Film with the least actors
Date: 28 Aug 92 15:27:01 GMT
Reply-To: jxxl@cs.nps.navy.mil (John Locke)
Organization: Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey CA

epp@mala.bc.ca (Lorne Epp) writes:

> _Sleuth_ has only two.  There must be some movies out there that
> have only one.

Can't believe this observation has gone wanting, but one of the recent
Schwarznegger films had *no* actors in it.

John
From: ruthless@panix.com (Ruth Ditucci)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: hackers, bitg brother, action advertisement for compuserve
Keywords: computers, akroyd, redford, kingsley, industrial espionage
Date: 3 Sep 92 03:57:25 GMT
Organization: Panix, NYC

This is an upbeat, exciting, "must see" movie!  It's a bit exagerated
but it's suspenseful.  Akroyd has gained a few too many pounds.  Kingsley
is superb.  Portier kind of played himself... 

Everyone else is forgettable.  

Compuserve didn't even get an honorable mention...

SYNDICATED NEWS SERVICE
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From: nancyl@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (Nancy Lellenberg Bentrup)
Subject: Truly Madly Deeply
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 14:58:44 GMT

Just rented Truly Madly Deeply last night and really liked it.  Would be 
interested in comments from others who have seen it. thanks.

Xref: sparky rec.arts.movies:26532 alt.cult-movies:7345
From: masticol@cadenza.rutgers.edu (Steve Masticola)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,alt.cult-movies
Subject: Most Maddening Movie
Date: 2 Sep 92 14:05:11 GMT
Followup-To: rec.arts.movies
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


Here's a new topic: which movie made you the angriest? For whatever
reason.

In nomination:

"Time to Run," a propaganda film courtesy the Billy Graham crusade
that was somehow allowed into the theaters in the early seventies. If
the movie's just lousy, it's one thing, but if it's actively trying to
proselytize, it's another.

I had no idea what was going on when I went into the theater, and
didn't until the last ten minutes in the film, when there was an
ON-SCREEN solicitation to join the long-haired friends of Jesus in the
chartreuse microbus. 

I hate paying for commercials; it's against my religion.

- Steve "and I paid to see it too!" masticol@cs.rutgers.edu.


P.S. Graham's teeth are whiter than is naturally possible, and he
smiles with all the sincerity of a used-Yugo salesman.

P.P.S. I'm pro-choice and I vote. Usually several times each election.

P.P.P.S. Flames from the bible thumpers will be returned one character
at a time, after expansion with /usr/5bin/banner and with /etc/termcap
pre-and-post appended.
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From: garys@netcom.com (Gary Stollman)
Subject: Re: REVIEW: STAY TUNED
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 92 18:04:01 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Keywords: author=K.Johnson


You GOTTA be kidding me!!  You gave this absolute TURKEY a high score!!?? 
I wasted a free ticket coupon the other day to see this BOMB and walked
out after about 30 mins or so...I haven't seen a good movie in 8 months!!
I just guess Hollywierd has gone down the tubes!!  If it weren't for
Spielberg and Lucas, the studios would go out of business!!!


-- 
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From: HF.SKW@forsythe.stanford.edu (Susan Wandling)
Subject: Great Voices
Organization: Stanford University, California, USA
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 20:50:24 GMT

Well,   Orsen Welles

and Jean Hagen! (ha)
From: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: best shots wanted
Date: 1 Sep 92 19:47:16 EST
Reply-To: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
Distribution: rec
Organization: Channel 1 Communications

JP>The opening shot of "Betty Blue"

     Hear, hear!  Can't get much better than that.  :)
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From: kachun@astro.as.arizona.edu (Ka Chun Yu)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Least women in movie!
Date: 1 Sep 92 01:26:06 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

In article <Btv6pE.I28@fc.hp.com> munir@fc.hp.com (Munir Mallal) writes:
>JOSEPH ALOYSIUS MCVEIGH (jm0i@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu) wrote:
>: hafner@ifi.unizh.ch (Michel Hafner) writes:
>: >Which movie has the least women in its cast?
>: >
>
>Star Wars?

Princess Leia and Aunt Beru were the two speaking roles.  There were however
lots of women in the background in the Mos Eisley scenes.


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From: curtis@optima.UUCP (Curtis E. Dyreson)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: sex in movies
Date: 2 Sep 92 16:57:53 GMT
Distribution: usa

From article <1992Sep2.95028.26895@ms.uky.edu>, by fehr@ms.uky.edu (Jeff Davis):
> Well, yes. Let us not dissemble any longer. I wish there was less
> on-screen sex in the movies. 

We witness the mellowing of a self-described prude, from nudity/douchebagging 
causing "considerably harm" to "I wish there was less".

> Explicit sexual scenes break down
> the aesthetic distance which the movie should have established.

Perhaps you could elucidate as to why this is true.  Correct me 
if I'm wrong but nude (figure) portraits have been considered quite 
aesthetic for many generations.  It remains a tad unclear as to why 
explicit sexual scenes reduce any aesthetic distance. 

> Take a realtive modest sex scene in the movie LA Story where Steve
> Martin simply holds the (clothed) breast of Sara Jessica Parker. That is
> a real hand holding a real breast. For a moment we are not watching
> a character in a story, we are watching two human beings with
> families, longings, histories etc. 

We are?  Why not when they hold hands, kiss etc.?  Again, the conclusion
is assummed without argument.

> question this way: "Prude or puke.  Choose." I'd choose prude since, 
> even absent any moral issues, the tension makes for more focused, 
> craftier art. 

I finally saw _Basic_Instinct_ last night, the movie that spawned this 
thread.  IMHO, removing some of the explicit sex and violence shots 
would've made a much craftier psychological thriller on a par 
with _North_by_Northwest_ or _Vertigo_.  But I have an active imagination
and enjoy subtlety.  It did seem that some of the explicit scenes were 
included merely because they are part of the movie formula 
that sells these days (although I do think that some of the 
scenes were critical to the suspense).  Peter Reiher was also
quite correct that the advertisements for the movie did indicate
that it would be about sex and violence and it was!  As far as I 
could tell, noone in the audience was duped or coerced at gunpoint
into attending.  I have no doubt that a few years down the road 
the audience will weary of the current fashion of gratuitious 
violence and sex and some folks (though not Jeff) will once 
again start to complain about the unreality of a fade to black 
just before the big kiss.

> Jeff Davis <davis@keats.ca.uky.edu> Write when you get the chance. 

Curtis Dyreson
From: kaufman@eecs.nwu.edu (Michael L. Kaufman)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Film with the fe/malest cast
Date: 28 Aug 92 17:57:28 GMT
Article-I.D.: eecs.1992Aug28.175728.21628
Organization: EECS Department, Northwestern University

charlie@uk.tele.nokia.fi (Charlie Brown) writes:
>A (doubtless nonPC) tangent to the `film with the fewest actors'
>question, is which films have the most predominantly male or female
>casts. Obviously any one wo/man films are kinda unbeatable, but what
>about films with reasonably large casts ? 

_The Great Escape_ goes well over two hours with no sign of a woman. The
only one I can remember at all is an old woman that gets off a train
in front of Big-X near the end.

Michael


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                | lost in time - like tears in rain. Time to die.     Roy Batty 
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From: teshima@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (A. Lani Teshima)
Subject: Re: Most Embarassing Movie
Organization: University of Hawaii
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 05:56:44 GMT

In article <65083@cup.portal.com> Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser) writes:
>> What is the most embarassing movie you have ever seen?  
>
>Like I said.. perhaps I just didn't get it. It put me to sleep multiple
>times. The last film I can remember having walked out on was that Ron
>Howard film... what the hell was it called.. oh "Parenthood." I saw it
>at a double feature with Nat'l Lampoon's Xmas Vacation (which I actually
>enjoyed a lot.. thought it was the best of the 3 so far) but I started
>squriming in my seat a lot during Parenthood. It looked to me like
>Ron Howard was trying, and failing, to make a Woody Allen film. 


Slight spoiler ahead












Gee, I thought "Parenthood" was pretty good! The only part that was
reaaaal stupid was at the very end, when all those people had all
those babies. I mean, come on! I know it was supposed to be about the
cycle of life and all that, but not one of those couples believed in
birth control or zero population? That was a bit too sappy for me. But
other than that the rest of the movie was pretty good.




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From: bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu (Greg Bole)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Upcoming movies
Date: 26 Aug 92 01:38:22 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: HHMI/Human Genetics, Univ of Pa.

In article <25AUG199214295973@venus.lerc.nasa.gov>, 
edsum02@venus.lerc.nasa.gov (Cassondra Pope) writes:

>>But boy, there are some awsome looking films coming up!!!
>> 
>>_Bram Stoker's Dracula_
>>_A Few Good Men_
>>_1492_
>>_Last of the Mohicans_
>>_Jurrasic Park_
>>_Hoffa_
>>_Spiderman_?
>> 
>>....and plently of others!
>  HOW COULD YOU NOT EVEN MENTION MALCOLM X ??????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was sorta stuck on action/thrillers.  Musta slipped my mind.

But I am very excited about X!!!  One of my favorite directors once again 
teamed with one of my favorite actors.  We'll see how Spike can handle a 
period piece.  :^)

Greg Bole                                   "I am only a human being person!"
bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu                  Laura Dern in _Rambling Rose_
From: lazlo@triton.unm.edu (Lazlo Nibble)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: sex in movies
Date: 28 Aug 92 20:55:51 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Sporadic and incomplete

clee@ssdsun.asl.dl.nec.com (Christina Lee) writes:

> I don't thing having a woman bouncing up and down on a guy is called
> for. Nor is having a naked woman straddling a naked guy on a chair.  I
> think that is too explicit. 

If you think these scenes are too explicit for you, don't go to "R"-rated
movies.  You don't get to make those decisions for everyone else. 

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

"It's a party item, much like the TITANIC was."
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From: gre2@quads.uchicago.edu (erik michael gregersen)
Subject: Re: Best shots wanted
Reply-To: gre2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 19:19:52 GMT

In article <1992Aug27.151413.27061@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu> bchurch@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Robert Church) writes:
>In article <1992Aug25.195334.240@ncar.ucar.edu> wildcat@niwot.scd.ucar.edu (Wes Wildcat) writes:
>
>>The Terminator- After Arnie fries and reappears as the robot.
>
>For me, this *would* have been a great scene. Sorry to digress but I'm stilled
>ticked off at 20/20 for showing the scene before Terminator was released.
>
	Speaking of great shots from the terminator movies, my favorite shot
from T2 is the image of Arnold's foot crushing the roses.

Erik Gregersen.  Who, by the way, has not seen "F for Fake" and so completely
forgot about it when praising Orson Welles.
From: tjc@castle.ed.ac.uk (A J Cunningham)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Most ridiculous sex scene (in a movie - not real life)
Date: 1 Sep 92 11:50:22 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University Colouring Book Software

I have to nominate Geoff Goldblum banging Emma Thompson in "The Tall
Guy". A sex session that ends with demolishing an entire house. (Well,
nearly).
T

-- 
Tony Cunningham, Insignia Solutions. 				   tjc@ed.ac.uk

Yes, I carry a grudge. If someone pokes me in the eye, I'll poke both of
their eyes. larry@psl.nmsu.edu (Larry Cunningham)
From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Highlander (was Re: What makes a movie good)
Date: 26 Aug 92 22:36:12 GMT
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA

In article <colinm.714358318@cunews>, colinm@max.carleton.ca (Colin McFadyen) writes:
>   Just look at Connery's track record.
> 
>    James Bond is supposed to be an Englishman.

Go read _The Man With The Golden Gun_.  He was a Scot.

> The only immortal Scotch is a fine single malt!!!
> The word Scotch only applies to whiskey, not people.-- 
> Colin McFadyen -- Carleton U. Computing and Communications Services

Yes indeed.  (Don't let my last name fool you -- when I hike 
through forests, the urge to put on a kilt, and go engage in
border raids on Roman Britain becomes nearly irresistable).
-- 
Clayton E. Cramer {uunet,pyramid}!optilink!cramer  My opinions, all mine!
Alcohol prohibition didn't work; drug prohibition doesn't work; gun
prohibition won't work.
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From: synth@deepthought.unm.edu (Synth F. Oberheim)
Subject: Re: Buckaroo Banzai 
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 92 00:58:58 GMT
Organization: SynthMedia Productions Ltd: Now Appearing Nightly With DON HO


defon@yoyodine.edu writes:

defon> Does anybody out there know if a soundtrack was ever released
defon> for the film "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai"?

Not in this dimension.  The anal-retentive studio exec who wields exclusive
rights never allowed a soundtrack to be produced.  It's for the same reason
no sequel was ever made, either.


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From: sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Stelter)
Subject: Re: Most Embarassing Movie
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 15:40:10 GMT

gfritz@sage.cc.purdue.edu ("Happy Fun Ball") writes:

>In article <5041@news.duke.edu> esa@acpub.duke.edu (EMILY ANGERER) writes:
>>Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, although Cool World came pretty close.  I paid
>>full price for both.  Yuck.
>>
>>-Emily

>Well since you brought up _this_ one...  I think any of the Earnest movies
>easily rank under Pee-Wee.  I must admit that every time I think about that
>scene where Earnest has that turtle stuck to his nose (from Earnest Goes to
>Camp) I get a severe case of the chuckles.  Earnest Saves Christmas was (go
>figure) terrible, followed closely by Earnest Goes To Jail.

Yeah, but I'd pay real money to see "Ernest Needs a Kidney"!

:)

                              --Steve Stelter
                                sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
From: bd@fluent@dartmouth.EDU (Brice Dowaliby)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: GOOD Horror (was Re: TREMORS)
Date: 2 Sep 92 17:11:55 GMT
Reply-To: bd%fluent@dartmouth.EDU
Organization: Fluent Inc., Lebanon NH


hughes@dogwood.botany.uga.edu (Wayne Hughes) writes:

>Imagine, an intelligent
>sf/horror movie!  If you want to see such a thing, run out
>and rent _Tremors_ and encourage the director (Ron Underwood?)
>to make more of this stuff.  Does anyone know if he's made
>anything else?  My guide lists only this movie.  Is he still
>alive?  Does anyone know of any similarly intelligent movies
>of the genre?

IMHO, _The_Keep_ was one of the best.

-- 
   Brice Dowaliby, Fluent Inc., 10 Cavendish Court, Lebanon, NH  03766
                         bd%fluent@dartmouth.edu        
             I don't speak for them, they don't speak for me
From: Mike_Quigley@mindlink.bc.ca (Mike Quigley)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Best shots wanted
Date: 28 Aug 92 06:16:09 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world

I haven't seen Bound for Glory for a long time, but I remember one incredible
shot when David Carradine and this other guy are on top of a train. This shot
goes on and on (even though it turned out to be not as long as I expected when
I timed it later). I think they ended the shot when the train went into a
tunnel. There's also an interesting Steadicam shot in this film which follows
Carradine walking through a migrant workers' camp.

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From: leeper@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (mark.r.leeper)
Subject: Correction to RAIN MAN revisited
Organization: AT&T
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 15:20:22 GMT

Oliver Sacks spells his last name with a "k" not an "h".

			Mark Leeper
			...att!mtgzy!leeper
			(201)957-5619
From: bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu (Greg Bole)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Least women in movie!
Date: 31 Aug 92 22:17:55 GMT
Organization: HHMI/Human Genetics, Univ of Pa.

>In article <134925@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>, ed@wente.llnl.gov (Ed Suranyi) writes:

>>Which movie has the least women in its cast?
 
> Not sure if it's been mentioned yet, but Lawrence of Arabia had
> NO female speaking roles!

OK!  OK!  Yes this is a good movie.  One of the best ever in my book.
And yes it had very few women.

But PLEASE, PLEASE stop posting this same fact over and over.  I realize 
different people have differnt lag times on news readers...but this is getting
ridiculous!  Do we have to put in the FAQ: Does _Lawrence of Arabia_ have any
female roles?

*sigh*  Sorry...it's Monday, and I'm grumpy.

Greg Bole                                    "The ants in the grass, they
bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu                  were just doing their thing."
                                            Matt Dillon in _Drugstore Cowboy_
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