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From: le01167@portal.lasc.lockheed.com (Ron Nadel (x2025))
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Woody Allen / Mia Farrow
Date: 26 Aug 92 15:11:43 GMT
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Organization: Lockheed Aeronautical Systems Co. - Rye Canyon
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In article <5980@huxley.cs.nps.navy.mil>, jxxl@cs.nps.navy.mil (John Locke) writes...
>sallylb@netcom.com (Sally Smith) writes:
> 
>> Whatever the truth may be, I feel sorry for all the kids.
> 
>I don't. I hate kids.
> 
>John (not running for president)

It's this sort of witty reparte' that does not belong in r.a.m.  You think 
you are movie buffs, but you are just tabloid tadpoles.  Did he or didn't 
he?  Is she or isn't she?  Besides sounding like hair colour commercials, 
these trenchant ruminations have nothing to do with movie discussion, go 
buy a fan magazine if you want this stuff.

Ron >8^\
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From: exukozi@exu.ericsson.se (Tom Koziatek)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: Most Embarassing Movie
Date: 1 Sep 92 13:17:34 GMT
Organization: Ericsson Network Systems

In article <1992Aug31.215528.29891@awdprime.austin.ibm.com> mlh@eddy.austin.ibm.com (Mike Haskell) writes:
>
> What is the most embarassing movie you have ever seen?  (What I mean by
> embarassing, is that you feel absolutely miniscule when the lights come
> up and you HAVE to walk out of the theater with every other bonehead
> who bought a ticket to this turkey).  Movies on video don't count as
> your stupidity is hidden by the walls of your house. :-)

Two choices:

1) The House at the End of the Street (part 2?) Around 1980ish

This was pathetic. Some people in a (abandoned?) house get killed off by
a couple, who at the end of the movie are shot by their kids, who are
playing with his shotgun. 

2) Frankenstein 3D (1984?)

The 3D effects were so hard to discern, you had to sit with your head cranked
around, peerring out the sides of the glasses. Got our money back after
15 minutes. (Along with 99% of the rest of the people. I think they just
canned the film that night, and played something else.
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From: gbradley@uks197.Berkeley.EDU (Gary Bradley)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Best shots wanted
Date: 28 Aug 92 15:21:48 GMT
Reply-To: gbradley@uks197.Berkeley.EDU (Gary Bradley)

In article <1992Aug27.212337.24647@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>,
cb366@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mark B. Bendiksen) writes:
|>
|>Danny DeVito's _War of the Roses_ is loaded with fantastic
|>shots. Just a few:
|>
|>- The closeup shot of the plate being thrown by Kathleen Turner
|>  like a frisbee at Michael Douglas.
|>- The closeup of Douglas guzzling Gatorade (with extra loud
|>  swallowing sounds thrown in) after a night of being locked
|>  in the sauna
|>- The setup to the first flashback as DeVito begins to tell
|>  the story of the Roses and looks out the window of his office
|>- The final shot showing the reflection of DeVito's client in
|>  the window as he leave the office.
|>
|>Many more in that great film.....
|>
|>
|>Mark B. Bendiksen
|>cb366@freenet.cwru.edu
|>-- 
|>"If we don't get some cool rules ourselves, pronto,
|> We'll just be bogus, too."-- Dr. Jeff Spicolli
         
 Agreed. There is another great shot where the camera pulls up over the
roof of their first house and down into the street behind. It's near the
beginning and it's snowing. Brilliant film all in!          
   
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From: braca2@cspyr1.cs.adfa.oz.au (BRAY CHRISTOPHER)
Subject: Edison Carter.
Organization: Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, Australia
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 02:37:55 GMT

I need to know what film, or *gasp* tv series this character appeared in,
and what they were like.  Actually I dont need to, I want to.

thanks

hook
From: csroc@dime.prime.com (Charles Sroczynski x4014 5-2)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Best shots wanted
Date: 27 Aug 92 18:55:37 GMT
Reply-To: csroc@dime.UUCP (Charles Sroczynski x4014 5-2)
Organization: Prime Computervision, Bedford MA

>3) RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK - The fight around the airplane, as it
>slowly rotates. The fire chasing around the plane in the background
>took some real timing.

Kind of shocked that you(or anyone else) would mention the timing
of this shot...there was no continuous action...and no timing in 
this,(nor in many of the Indy movie action shots).  These shots are
created by editing.  You never see the fighters, the girl, the plane,
and the gasoline fire at the same time in anything resembling a 
continuous fashion. By rights, the girl, Indy, and the Nazi should have
been killed by the explosion and fire about five minutes before they
escaped;  the timing was so far off that I feel it lost much of the 
suspense and realism that could have been here.
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From: kbos@carina.unm.edu (Kurt Bose "of Biscayzee")
Subject: Info on THE FIRM???
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 92 12:25:03 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

Just finished reading Grisham's novel _The Firm_ and was wondering about the
film version.  I know Cruise was supposed to star, but was any other casting
confirmed (assuming filming hasn't started...)?  Is a release date confirmed?
Etc...

-- 
Kurt Bose (as in Daisy, not Rose) - kbos@carina.unm.edu - I'm not the AntiChrist
I AM the AntiWoofer. - Junior Stathead{tm} - I'm a shutmouthed, selfless idiot!!
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From: sammy@anagld.analytics.com (Sam Blackburn)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: Most Embarassing Movie
Date: 2 Sep 92 01:15:27 GMT
Followup-To: rec.arts.movies
Organization: Computer Sciences Corporation - Systems Engineering Division

Well, I'd have to vote for "Eve Of Destruction"  OOPS, I take that back.
It had to be "Highlander 2".  If I can sit through that, I can handle anything.

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From: bd@fluent@dartmouth.EDU (Brice Dowaliby)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Showtime
Date: 26 Aug 92 16:49:07 GMT
Reply-To: bd%fluent@dartmouth.EDU
Distribution: usa
Organization: Fluent Inc., Lebanon NH

a0s5108@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Neal and Mara Priestly) write:

>I find that this is not the question being asked of *me* when this happenes.
>It is gernerally a case of someone being too lazy to look at THE TWO FOOT 
>CLOCK HANGING OVER MY HEAD.  I'm not kidding...the clock in our box office
>is twenty six inches across, but people still ask me what time is is. 

If you take a job working with the public, it's childish to
bitch about working with the public.

>I have taken to making a point of turning completely in place and checking
>the clock I bought for the express purpose of being HUGE AND NOTICABLE.

Oh, good.  Another rude person in a "service" industry.  Ecomists claim
that the U.S. economy is changing from a manufacturing economy to a 
service economy.  I hope they're wrong 'cause most service here sucks.
-- 
   Brice Dowaliby, Fluent Inc., 10 Cavendish Court, Lebanon, NH  03766
                         bd%fluent@dartmouth.edu        
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From: cb366@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mark B. Bendiksen)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: letterboxed VHS movies?
Date: 2 Sep 1992 19:22:07 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc5.ins.cwru.edu


Robert Chao writes:

>What movies are letterboxed on VHS? The only one I've seen around
>is Manhattan.

To the dismay of one who does not own a LaserDisc player, most
VHS movies are not letterboxed. I guess someday I'll have to
save my pennies and get one.

FYI, _The Color Purple_ is letterboxed in VHS format. Thanks
Steven!

I believe a recent rerelease of _Apocalpyse Now_ on VHS is
also letterboxed, but don't flame me if I'm wrong....


Mark B. Bendiksen
cb366@freenet.cwru.edu
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 We'll just be bogus, too."-- Dr. Jeff Spicolli
From: mmaxwell@ucsd.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Most Embarassing Movie
Date: 3 Sep 1992 14:19:16 GMT
Organization: UC San Diego
Distribution: usa
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In article <MICHAEL.92Sep2172950@paul.bu.edu> michael@paul.bu.edu (Michael
Chaplin) writes:
>In article <1992Sep2.144028.12817@hou.amoco.com> zklf0b@gs144.uucp (Fergason)
writes:
>
>
>  =Does anyone recall 'LaserBlast'?  boy find alien artifact, starts
>  =blasting things.  I don't know how it ended, because I left.  And this
>  =was a midnight movie at Aggiecon, where things like 'Attack of the
>  =Killer tomatos' is a normal movie.
>
>Wasn't that the one where the artifact is worn around his neck,
>it burrows into his body, and he begins to slowly transform
>into some sort of mutant with a HUGE laser rifle?
>If so, you didn't miss much.
>
(.sig deleted)

Actually i have kind of a soft spot in my heart for 'Laserblast', since
it was one of the first cult flicks that i ever saw (at the tender age
of 11 or so).  And you just can't beat that scene where the kid/mutant
blasts the 'Star Wars' billboard with the laser cannon (talk about your
editorial content!).
-------------------
Matt Maxwell
mmaxwell@ucsd.edu

"He took personality tests
 and stapled them to his lower lip" -- Stan Ridgway
From: levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Aliens (not Heathers)
Date: 27 Aug 1992 21:24:53 GMT
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zarthac@camelot.bradley.edu (Matthew Simmons) writes:

|	I justed watched the Aliens collectors edition LD for the umpteenth 
|time, and noticed something interesting:  When the magazines are collected
|before the first encounter with the Aliens (under the cooling towers), actually
|after, Vasquez takes the point.  Now this wouldn't seem so strange until you 
|remember that she only has ONE gun, the big one.... And she's pointing it like
|she's gonna use it... The viewer knows that she has ammo, but Apone doesn't and
|what do you think are the chances that ANY squad leader,etc... would let a 
|person with no ammo lead them into an extremely dangerous area?


Since *none* of them are supposed to have ammo at that point (except
for the flamethrowers), why shouldn't she lead?

	/JBL
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From: le01167@portal.lasc.lockheed.com (Ron Nadel (x2025))
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,rec.arts.sf.movies
Subject: Re: Possible Foundation movie?
Date: 25 Aug 92 20:31:48 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Lockheed Aeronautical Systems Co. - Rye Canyon
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Aug20.144707.150@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>, jamesyu@sysdev.austin.ibm.com writes...

> 
>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.
> 

Because, as Chauncey Gardner said so eloquently, _We like to watch_.

8^}
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From: bvickers@net3.ics.uci.edu (Brett J. Vickers)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,alt.tv.twin-peaks
Subject: Re: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (*MAJOR SPOILERS*)
Date: 4 Sep 92 18:39:44 GMT
Reply-To: bvickers@ics.uci.edu (Brett J. Vickers)
Organization: Univ. of Calif., Irvine, Info. & Computer Sci. Dept.

lazlo@triton.unm.edu (Lazlo Nibble) writes:
>I really hate to disappoint you, Steven, but you're *wrong*.  There's a
>still of the "angel-in-the-train-car" scene in the booklet of the soundtrack
>CD and it's definitely, unmistakably Laura.

You kidding?  That's not Laura.  I've got the same picture and I'm looking
at it right now.  No resemblance.

Furthermore, the angel in the car was played by another actress as
Steven noted.  Read the credits.

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From: stame@emunix.emich.edu (Stewart Tame)
Subject: Re: great voices
Organization: Eastern Michigan University
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 15:02:06 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.222234.1@gallua.gallaudet.edu> rlwilliams@gallua.gallaudet.edu writes:
>In a recent discussion of "field of dreams" I was struck by a memory ... I 
>think that movie may have the two best voices in all of Moviedom,
>
>James Earl Jones
>Burt Lancaster
>
>Other great voices... Jack Palance
>remember Clu Gulagar (badly spelled...)
>
>I also remember being in love with June Allison's voice when I was a kid...
>
>who else do you like?

Well, this has not much to do with movies since I don't think he (or even
just his voice) have appeared in any but . . . Ken Nordine.  Check out his
album _The Best of Word Jazz_ for some truly beautiful stuff . . . 

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From: otto@jybox.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Films with no females
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 08:00:22 EDT
Organization: Jyvaskyla Electronic Mailbox

<RXK110@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:

> John Carpenter's : THE THING was completely (and thankfully) devoid of women

Yes, I think the inflatable doll seen in some of the publicity shots finally
ended up on the cutting room floor ;-)

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From: gmark@cbnewse.cb.att.com (gilbert.m.stewart)
Subject: Re: Best shots wanted
Organization: AT&T
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 14:30:53 GMT

In article <25AUG199218382749@moose.cccs.umn.edu> rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu writes:
>In article <16334@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>, fisherjm@denali.cs.ucdavis.edu (John M. Fisher) writes:
>> 6) THE DEER HUNTER - The Russian Roulette scene was truly scary, and
>> provided a perfect metaphor for Vietnam.
>
>I've often wondered about this russian-roulette theme in "The Deer Hunter" --
>it pervades the whole movie.  Is this supposed to be taken at face value, or is
>there some deeper significance which is commonly accepted?  The reason why I
>think I may be missing something is because I don't know much about Vietnam
>(before my time, really).

Well, I took it to mean that he had been pushed to the point where he
cared less about his life than he wanted his torture to end.  It seemed
to happen suddenly and completely and showed that the mental effects of
the stress of battle outweighed the physical.

Or maybe he was just trying to do a Rambo.

GMS
From: jd@latcs1.lat.oz.au (John Dimogotsis)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Want name of two japanes movies.
Date: 27 Aug 92 06:24:42 GMT
Organization: Comp Sci, La Trobe Uni, Australia
Originator: jd@latcs2.lat.oz.au


	Hi there, I am looking for the title of 2 particular japanese movies,
	if anyone knows of these and would like to e-mail me the answers I 
	would appreciate this. 
		It has been a long time since I viewed these but I roughly
	remember the themes. If may recolection is not true please bear with
	me, the story may ring some bell.
		The first movie involves a middle age samurai ("Toshiro Mifune"
	I think) who's son-in-law and daughter findthemselves in some sort
	of strife most propably finnancial difficulty, in any event these two
	die in the hands of the "bad-guys" who are the authority in the village.
	So the Samurai takes the grandchild (baby propably girl) and attempts
	to flee the village, he would be dead too if he hadn't cut down half
	of the bad-guys. At the border with some other province he has a duel
	with a samurai guarding the gate in which he prevails, only to die in
	the closing scene from repeated gunshot wounds, this is a very powerful
	scene were he drags himself by his sword not giving up until he is dead
	The child is taken by some peasant women who is passing by.
		The second movie is in black-and-white (don't know the staring
	actor's name) but the theme is similar in that again the son of an
	roughly middle aged samurai has become very poor, so poor in fact
	that he sells his sword and replaces it with a wooden one. Because
	of his poverty he asks help from the local "lord" who dosen't 
	oblige and so the poor young samurai has to commit "sepuku" (hara-kiri)
	with the wooden sword! I don't remember what happens to the wife and/or
	children, but the father of the young man goes to the lord himself,
	quietly outraged by manner of the hara-kiri. After a long talk with
	the lord where he tells the story of his son (this is actualy how
	every thing is revealed in the movie that is through the storytelling
	of the young man's father and 'flshbacks'), the middle aged samurai
	does battle against the lord and all his retainers, all by himself,
	he kills many but can't kill all, so he makes his way to some "holy"
	place in the lord's house and he himself commits suicide before
	the lords men can have the satisfaction of killing him. (Actually
	something like hara-kiri might have been the title).
		As I said I saw these movies many years ago when I was still
	a boy so if any one could help me out I would be greatfull.
						John Dimogotsis.
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From: bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu (Greg Bole)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: Most Embarassing Movie
Date: 1 Sep 92 17:50:09 GMT
Followup-To: rec.arts.movies
Organization: HHMI/Human Genetics, Univ of Pa.

In article <1992Aug31.215528.29891@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>, 
mlh@eddy.austin.ibm.com (Mike Haskell) writes:
 
>  What is the most embarassing movie you have ever seen?  

The Spanish film _Labyrinth of Passion_: most revolting I've *ever* seen.

_Howard the Duck_: so sorry I paid to see this.

_Sleepwalkers_: it was free, but I was imbarrased to be in the theater.

Greg Bole                                    "The ants in the grass, they
bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu                  were just doing their thing."
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From: munir@fc.hp.com (Munir Mallal)
Subject: Re: Least women in movie!
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 20:10:25 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company
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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?
From: jm0i@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JOSEPH ALOYSIUS MCVEIGH)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Least women in movie!
Date: 1 Sep 92 17:01:48 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

hist1261@waikato.ac.nz writes:

>No, the answer to the question is fairly clear: "Platoon".  Unless you count
>the unseen ear of Chris' "Grandmaw" there are no women at all in this film.
>
>Richard

The town they destroyed was chock full of women.

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