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From: rsykes@AFIT.AF.MIL (Robert K. Sykes)
Subject: Puppet Master & other Full Moon Pictures
Organization: Air Force Institue of Technology, WPAFB OH
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 14:49:27 GMT

                   Full Moon Production Films
TITLE               GENRE     STARS                         
-------------------------------------------------------------
Bad Channels        Sci-fi    Charlie Spradling, Martha Quinn
                              Paul Hipp, Michael Huddleston 
Crash & Burn        Sci-fi    Megan Ward, Paul Ganus
Demonic Toys        Horror    Tracy Scoggins, Daniel Cerny,
                              Bentley Mitchum
Dollman             Sci-fi    Tim Thomerson, Kamela Lopez,
                              Jackie Earle Haley
Meridian:Kiss/Beast Mystery   Sherilyn Fenn, Malcolm Jamieson,
                              Charlie Spradling, Alex Daniels
Netherworld         Horror    Michael Bendetti, Holly Floria,
                              Anjanette Comer, David Bryan,
                              Edgar Winters
Pit & the Pendulum  Horror    Lance Henriksen, Oliver Reed,
  (remake)                    Jeffery Combs, Rona De Ricci
                              Jonathan Fuller
Puppet Master       Horror    Barbara Crampton
Puppet Master II    Horror    Charlie Spradling, Jeff Weston,     
                              Gregory Webb, Collin Bernsen,
                              Elizabeth Maclellan,
Puppet Master III   Horror    Guy Rolfe, Richard Lynch, 
                              Sarah Douglas, Ian Abercrombie
Seed People         Sci-fi    Sam Hennings, Andrea Roth,
                              Dane Witherspoon, Holly Fields
Shadowzone          Horror    Louise Fletcher
Subspecies          Horror    Michael Watson, Laura Tate, 
                              Anders Hove, Michelle McBride,
                              Angus Scrimm
Trancers II         Sci-fi    Tim Thomerson, Helen Hunt, 
                              Megan Ward, Jeffery Combs,
                              Martine Beswick, Richard Lynch,
                              Telma Hopkins, Barbara Crampton
                        Coming Soon 
TITLE               GENRE     STARS                         
------------------------------------------------------------
Arcade    (2-93)    Horror    Megan Ward, Peter Billingsley,
                              Seth Green, John Delancie
Bloodstone:         Horror    Anders Hove, Denice Marie Duff,
 Subspecies II(1-93)          Melanie Shatner, Kevin Blair
Doctor Mordrid(9-92)Sci-fi    Jeffery Combs, Yvette Nipar,
                              Jay Acovone, Brian Thompson
Trancers III (10-92)Sci-fi    Tim Thomerson, Helen Hunt,
                              Megan Ward, Telma Hopkins,
                              Andrew Robinson
Puppet Master III   Horror    (No word on this one yet)
Robot Wars  (10-92) Sci-fi    Barbara Crampton, Danny 
                              Kamekona, Don Michael Paul
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Subject: Re: Most ridiculous sex scene (in a movie - not real life)
From: csroc@dime.prime.com (Charles Sroczynski x4014 5-2)
Date: 4 Sep 92 14:59:04 GMT
Reply-To: csroc@dime.UUCP (Charles Sroczynski x4014 5-2)
 <1992Aug28.213552.10105@news.arc.nasa.gov> 
 <1992Aug30.132007.12372@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1992Aug31.225111.18780@ichips.intel.com>
Organization: Prime Computervision, Bedford MA

>The scene in "9-1/2 Weeks" where Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke have at
>it in an alley in a downpour.  Looks great, but the water had to be *cold*,
>not to mention disgustingly filthy.  

Cold is possible but not necessarily anything that would spoil
the eroticism.  I mean, if you're hot enough, some cold water
is not going to be enough to spoil the mood, unless it is 
shockingly cold.  It would not be very dirty( disgustingly filthy),
This is a storm, not a sanitary sewer draining, and the water
would be very similar to the rain water from the sky!
From: vanover@bcsaic.boeing.com (Jann VanOver)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Cast of Dracula
Date: 2 Sep 92 19:19:32 GMT
Organization: Boeing Computer Services AI Center, Seattle

bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu (Greg Bole) writes:
>hopkins@agora.rain.com (Scott Hopkins) 
> 
>> 	I was wondering if someone can post the cast of Bram Stoker's
>> Dracula, and if anybody knows, the characters they portray?  
 ...
>Lord Holmes: Cary Elwes
>   (_The Princess Bride_, _Glory_)
I believe that's Lord Holmwood (aka Arthur)
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From: avik@icase.edu (Avik Banerjee)
Subject: Re: sex in movies
Organization: ICASE/NASA Langley
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 18:02:39 GMT

> Take a broad example. Two characters are having an important conversation.
> Behind them you see an orgy visible through their neighbor's window. The orgy,
> and the neighbors, are irrelevant to the plot or the milieu of the film.
> Do you still get the full impact of the conversation? No, because you
> waste concentration trying to fathom the significance of the orgy.


thats taking it to extremes, in that case you could easily give the following
example as a counter arguement.

a soldier comes home from a war to his new bride knowing that he will have
to go into battle the next day and probably die. the couple spend the night
playing checkers and when he walks out the door the next day, they exchange a
warm handshake.

this is about as realistic as your example above.


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From: spencer@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (S. Spencer Sun)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Script Query: _The_Princess_Bride_
Date: 27 Aug 92 17:25:37 GMT
Reply-To: spencer@phoenix.princeton.edu (S. Spencer Sun)
Organization: Live Organ Transplants

In article <1992Aug26.172659.22065@leland.Stanford.EDU>, fafhrd@jessica.stanford.edu writes:
>In article <1992Aug25.231031.17357@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> ins894r@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Aaron Wigley [Wigs]) writes:
>>S. Spencer Sun (spencer@phoenix.Princeton.EDU) wrote:
>>: 
>>: :-)  but the whole scene is a gem... (even if it is bullshit
>>: swordfighting, which someone has said on this newsgroup before)
>
>	"Bullshit" swordfighting!?  As opposed to all those movies with "real
>swordfighting," I suppose... This is not meant as a flame, but it seems pretty
>weak to pick on Princess Bride for it's "lack of realism in swordplay."  What
>movies would you use an example of how "real" swordfighting looks?

Not taken as a flame... I should have made it more clear... I personally
was not picking on _PB_ as an example of unrealistic swordfighting.  I
meant to convey that someone in the past has said that it was
unrealistic.

Me, I'm 100% ignorant when it comes to swordfighting.  If they swish
their swords around and don't appear completely uncoordinated, then it
looks realistic to me :-)

So I just take others' word for it when it comes to this sort of thing.

>And to top it off, I thought Inigo's parries at the end there were great!
>No wasted motion, just the precise movement of the blade *just* far enough
>out to take the opponent's point out of line... or, not *quite* out of line,
>in Inigo's case :-), but it's the thought that counts (or something like that.)

"HELLO!  [Really irritated by this time]  MY NAME IS INIGO MONTOYA!  YOU
KILLED MY FATHER.  PREPARE TO DIE!"

"Stop *SAYING* that!"

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twofold.  First, the ruling class no longer cares for the proletariat.
Second, the proletariat no longer cares."  [J. G. Betancourt, "Johnny Zed"]
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From: coleman@leland.Stanford.EDU (Michele Coleman)
Subject: SWF ending (MAJOR SPOILER)
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 05:33:25 GMT


    When I saw _Single White Female_, it seemed to me at the very very
end the voiced-over narration was in Hedra's voice, not Allie's.
I thought the movie was trying to say that somehow Hedra survived and
killed Allie, then took her place, although this didn't seem at all
consistent with the previous scene.  
    Did anyone else think this?  Was it just me?
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From: reiher@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (Peter Reiher)
Subject: Re: Want name of two japanes movies.
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 20:59:09 GMT

In article <1992Aug27.062442.29105@latcs1.lat.oz.au> jd@latcs1.lat.oz.au (John Dimogotsis) writes:
>
>	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. 

>		The first movie involves a middle age samurai ("Toshiro Mifune"
>	I think) 

Can't help you with this one.

>		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! 

	As you suspected, the film's title is, indeed, "Hara Kiri".  At
	least, that's the title it was released under in the U.S.  It's
	a very good film, well worth seeking out and seeing again.

--
		Peter Reiher
		reiher@wells.cs.ucla.edu
From: gharris@jade.tufts.edu (George W. Harris)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Best shots wanted
Date: 26 Aug 92 16:00:12 GMT
Organization: Tufts University - Medford, MA
Originator: gharris@jade.tufts.edu


	Well, I don't know if this counts, since it's really two shots, but
the opening and closing shots of The Ox-Bow Incident, with Henry Fonda and
Harry Morgan coming into the town with a dog crossing in front of them, and
then as they're going out of town the dog crossing back behind them.

--
"If you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce, they taste more like
prunes than rhubarb does."              -Groucho Marx 

gharris@jade.tufts.edu          George Harris, Tufts Univ. Dept. of Mathematics
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From: Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies,alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: Most Embarassing Movie
Date: Tue,  1 Sep 92 22:43:05 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <1992Sep2.041301.9425@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>

>>If you can't believe Sean Connery would do HL II, check out that John
>>Boorman atrocity , "Zardoz". His dialogue in that is even worse, but
>>it does feature a lot of nudity and colorful, psychedelic effects.
>>
>>                        --Judex--
>
>Actually, I kinda liked Zardoz. Don't hate me, its just that I was in that kin
d
>of mood. It was three A.M. and I was watching "Night Owl Theatre", Fritz warne
d
>me that it was really bad, so I dug in with my Coke and prepared myself for 
>some good B-film action. Sort of like an acid trip, but with stranger 
>conections (hope nobady dislikes this spoiler) espesially the wizard of OZ 
>thing.
>
>Sean

Yikes... after having said earlier that I hated "Solaris" I'm now gonna
say that I LOVED "Zardoz". It's the film that first turned me on to the
weird vision of John Boorman. (I never understood what all the hoopla
over "Deliverance" was till I saw it for the first time just a few years
ago on cable, and I still think there's something pretty special about
his "Excalibur" too).

Zardoz isn't aging very well.. and you gotta admit that the concept
of Sean Connery running around in a red diaper with a long pigtail
is fairly off the wall, to say the least :-) and parts of it WERE
embarassing even during its first run in theaters, but other parts of it
are fond memories for me. It's a nicely self-contained little
universe. Some films have this atmosphere that draws you in, making you
believe that some (truly bizarre future existence) really could
exist in some space and time. 

For example, "Logan's Run" although it was really popular, never 
convinced me of its reality. The "long shots" of the models of the domed city
were pathetic and looked like tabletop models. The "sanctuary" segments
looked like they were filmed in a factory somewhere. Other highly
atmospheric pictures like "Bladerunner" and so many more I could name
give me the same kind of "you are there" feeling that Zardoz did, and
like Logan's Run didn't. I guess what I'm rambling about here is that
some films take me there, and I don't feel like I'm watching a bunch
of actors on a sound stage. 

Zardoz was so totally bizarre and its future vision so completely
alien to other films of its era, and some of its concepts of
mechanical things and its own sense of the past history of earth
and the way Connery reacted to all of it in a kind of fierce and
yet childlike way at the same time made it a memorable film for me. 

Flame away :)
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From: twpierce@amhux1.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce)
Subject: Re: Colorization- How? (was Re: Why I Like Colorization)
Organization: Amherst College, Amherst MA
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 13:25:15 GMT

In article <ahjy-zl@rpi.edu> garrem@aix.rpi.edu (Matthew Olsen Garretson) writes:

>Does anyone know how they do this in reasonable amounts of time? I would guess
>they don't have some "artists" sitting in front of workstations coloring one
>frame at a time. But on the other hand, how would they automate this? It would
>seem that some serious AI would be required to track a given area as it changed
>location from frame to frame, and at the same time adjust the colors for
>lighting changes & shadows...etc.  How does it work?

Apparently, they automatically assign a different color to each shade
of grey throughout the film.  I presume that they review the film a
few times to begin with to try some different combinations and see how
consistent they are, and check it afterward to patch up any
inconsistencies.  Undoubtedly the more "responsible" people in this
biz also go through it to fix shading and so on.

-- 
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\  / twpierce@amherst.edu      /  has in the gay community."
 \/ (BITnet: TWPIERCE@AMHERST) /   -- Clayton Cramer, August 1992
From: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: jurassic park casting
Date: 27 Aug 92 08:17:15 EST
Reply-To: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
Distribution: rec
Organization: Channel 1 Communications

DP>I just read that Sir Richard Attenborough has been cast as John
DP>Hammond, the businessman who builds Jurassic Park, in Steven
DP>Spielberg's movie.  Has anyone heard about who else has been cast in
DP>the movie?

     There's a huge glossy ad for "Jurassic Park" in "Variety" magazine.
     While these things never give real inside info on the movies they
     advertise, this one does list a few of the names in the cast:

     Sam Neill
     Laura Dern
     Jeff Goldblum
     and Richard Attenborough
     Samuel Jackson
     Bob Peck
     Martin Ferrero

     Music by John Williams (Big surprise, no?)
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From: lairdb@crash.cts.com (Laird P. Broadfield)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Blade Runner II
Date: 4 Sep 92 01:02:40 GMT
Distribution: rec.arts.movies

In <ataylor.715546283@uclagsm> ataylor@agsm.ucla.edu (Al Taylor) writes:

>I recently noticed that they are re-releasing a "Director's Cut" version
>to theatres in LA. Does anybody know if this is a different "Director's 
>Cut" version then the one that has been hitting the art houses this past 
>year and half ago? I 've already seen that one.

Indeed it is (or so says Alex Turan.)  Apparently the version that was 
playing last year "...was still missing parts of Vangelis's score, and
a small amount of footage, including a dream sequence which Scott considers
crucial to his cut."

Incidentally, last year's release "...set a house record and it's second 
weekend not only topped that by 13%, it made the Nuart the country's highest
grossing theater west of the Hudson."


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From: jcc@ensta.ensta.fr (Jean Christophe Collet)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Last of the mohicans (was Re: Upcoming movies)
Summary: short review
Date: 28 Aug 92 10:53:19 GMT
Organization: Ensta, Paris, France
NNTP-Posting-Host: ensta.ensta.fr

Well, "last of the mohicans" is showing in Paris since last wednesday.
I saw it on opening day. Here are my impressions.

Basically it's a good film : really great photography, very nice sceneries and
very good acting (specially for Daniel Day Lewis). In particular, battle scenes
are amazingly well done.
But (yes there is a but) it is nothing more than an adventure movie. Well
done but without anything original or innovative. Sometimes I was saying
apart me : "Hey, this looks like they have done Rambo with an 18th century
background...". See what I mean :-)

There is one thing that surprised me : I was half expecting some
'France bashing' stuff (Frenchies are supposed to be the bad guys in this
story, aren't they ?) and what do I discover : 'England bashing' (and
not vey subtle. I mean it's quite explicit!) while Frenchies (specially
the 'Marquis de Montcalme') are shown in more 'civilized' light. I wonder
if this is faithful to the book (I still have to read it).

I enjoyed it and recommend it, but it won't make it into Film history.
Now, I just *CAN'T* wait for Ridley Scott's 1492..

-- Jean-Christophe (aka "Jessie")
From: hist1261@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: WOODY ALLEN MOVIES
Date: 1 Sep 92 12:09:29 +1200
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

In article <1992Aug31.165356.29547@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>, cb366@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mark B. Bendiksen) writes:
> 
> G M Heinrich writes:
> 
>>I'm grateful for small mercies: at least this current sordid mess may get 
>>a few people watching the last few Allen movies - the last three have been
>>spectaculary underrated, misunderstood and plain dumped on by inflexible
> movie 
>>critics and goggle-eyed imbeciles like the gentleman following: 
> 
>>>Speaking of Allen, his upcoming movie is going to be 
>>>entitled _Husbands and Wives_, I think. Maybe it should be
>>>_Daddies and Daughters_....
> 
> I will admit that the comment you quote was silly and cheap.
> But it was no less dumb than other statements made in the
> ongoing Allen/Furrow thread. I do not consider myself a
> "goggle-eyed imbecile", however. I happen to be a big Woody
> Allen fan and agree with you that his last couple of films
> may have been misunderstood by the critics and the public.
> 
> If you have comments to make, fine. But to repeat a much
> quoted saying on this newsgroup, don't resort to 
> namecalling. You don't know me, and I don't know you.....
> 
> 
> 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

Without stooping to the name calling level, I wonder which three Allen films
Mr/Ms Heinrich is referring to.  I have not yet had the pleasure of "Shadows
& Fog" (let alone "Husbands & Wives"), but I thought "Alice" was just
terrible, Woody's nadir.  Having seen most of the Allen films that preceded it
(all bar "What's Up, Tiger Liley", "Love & Death" and "Interiors"), I feel
fairly qualified to judge the film (or at least put it in its autuerist
context).  By Mr Allen's own standards it was a failure (although it did,
ironically enough, get some positive reviews, notably one in "Time").

I would certainly agree that "Crimes and Misdemeanors" was a near masterpiece
(this, again, was reflected in good notices and even the odd Oscar nomination),
"New York Stories" was a fairly amusing one-joke short and "Another Woman"
was at the very least an honourable failure.  To group "Alice" in with one
or more of this group though is to do them a disservice - it lacked either
the depth or the wit and was sunk by a far too cavalier attitude toward
its fantastic devices (flying, invisibility, magic love potions).  "Alice"
was just bland, safe, and unquestioning.

Richard.

From: smorrow@hpmwtd.sr.hp.com (Steve Morrow)
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 01:05:42 GMT
Subject: Re: Most Embarassing Movie
Organization: HP Santa Rosa Site (NMD MTA MWTD)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies

My most embarrassing movie viewing moments would include watching:

    Whore, which touted itself as looking at life through a hookers
    eyes, but the script was cheesie, the acting lacked something, uh,
    oh, yeah, talent, and the stupid main whore kept looking and talking
    to the viewers, and frankly, I was embarrassed for her.

    Mr. Frost.  I can understand Kathy Baker wanting a major role and
    maybe expecting one next to Jeff Goldblum, but someones idea of a
    thriller/chiller turned into a yawner/sleeper; I was really
    disappointed and embarressed for Goldblum.  This movie should have
    been called Mr. Tossed, as in my cookies.
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From: andre@rurutu.wri.com (Andre Kuzniarek)
Subject: Re: Woody and Mia
Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 05:56:06 GMT

In article <1992Aug25.184918.12440@nic.umass.edu>  
jennyg@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Jenny Gutbezahl) writes:

> Now I don't know about what happened between Woody and the seven year
> old.  I hope to God the accusations are false.  But I sure would LOVE
> to see Dick & Pat.

Maybe Dick has had this "thing" for Pat for a while now. Wow, what a  
couple. Even better would be Rick Moranis as Cavett, and Phil Hartman from  
SNL as Buchanan, for the movie...with guest appearances by who else  
but--Woody and Mia (had to stick with the thread somehow!).

AK

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From: sboiarsk@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Sean L Boiarski)
Subject: Re: Most Embarassing Movie
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 04:22:34 GMT

I must protest, Campbell. Prospero's Books is my favorite Shakespeare
adaptation. Gielgud turns out an inspired performance, and the symbolism is
outstanding (the nudity, although not entirely appealing, is symbolic of the
magic, if they were nude, it was because they were spirits).
I saw an interview with Gielgud where he said that it was one of his favorite
works, and he was verry affraid he would die before its completion (after all
he is the only one left from that terrific era of Shakespearean actors-Larry
and co.) It may be that you have to know the Tempest before you love the movie,
or you have to detatch yourself from the classical renderings of the play.

Long live the memory of Edward Dever, Earl of Oxford, and composer of
"Shakespeare's" works.

Sean L. Boiarski